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11:00 am Abolition of Policing @ Omni Commons
Abolition of Policing @ Omni Commons
Sep 17 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Want to learn how to work toward eliminating the cops? Want to hear how we challenge the notion that policing keeps us safe? CR Oakland regularly offers this workshop that looks at the role and history of policing in the U.S., the way it has impacted various communities, and how people have resisted and challenged its inherent violence. This workshop also goes over how we can reduce our reliance on policing by highlighting the various ways that building up community strength and practices lead to true safety that does not … Continued
11:00 am Know Your Options: Chronic Illness Workshop
Know Your Options: Chronic Illness Workshop
Sep 17 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Know Your Options: Chronic Illness Workshop @ Oakland | California | United States
The space is accessible with no stairs and has an accessible bathroom. Please come scent free to accommodate those with chemical sensitivities. This Saturday, Critical Resistance Oakland and the Oakland Power Projects will be hosting an important workshop, “Know Your Options: Chronic Illness.” It is designed to increase people’s understanding of how policing, imprisonment, and gentrification drive health inequalities manifest as chronic illnesses and to empower people who live with them to access the care they need with minimal contact with law enforcement. The workshop ends with the problem of … Continued
12:00 pm OccupySF 5th Anniversary Picnic and Open Mic @ Sue Bierman Park
OccupySF 5th Anniversary Picnic and Open Mic @ Sue Bierman Park
Sep 17 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
OccupySF 5th Anniversary picnic and open mic. Bring your own food. Bring your own drink. Bring instruments. Bring megaphone. Bring sings and banners!61471
12:00 pm Rally Against the TPP @ Vallejo Ferry Terminal
Rally Against the TPP @ Vallejo Ferry Terminal
Sep 17 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Rally Against the TPP @ Vallejo Ferry Terminal | Vallejo | California | United States
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1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition @ Siegel & Yee, 3rd floor (across 14th, back, and diagonally left from City Hall)
Oakland Justice Coalition @ Siegel & Yee, 3rd floor (across 14th, back, and diagonally left from City Hall)
Sep 17 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
 This will be the last meeting of the Oakland Justice Coalition before the elections on November 8. The meeting will focus on the work we must do to elect our candidates to the Oakland City Council and Board of Education. After a long process of creating our organization, establishing a platform, and interviewing prospective candidates, we have created a great slate to work for progressive change in Oakland: City Council District 3: NONI SESSION City Council District 7: NEHANDA IMARA School Board District 1: DON MACLEAY School Board District 3: … Continued
2:00 pm Film: Remember the International Hotel. Alameda Renters Coalition. @ t. Buena Vista United Methodist Church
Film: Remember the International Hotel. Alameda Renters Coalition. @ t. Buena Vista United Methodist Church
Sep 17 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join Alameda Renters Coalition and Filipino Advocates for Justice for an intimate screening of “The Fall of the I-Hotel” documentary, as well as special showings of two short videos produced by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project about the signature drive to put M1 on the ballot. In 1977, tenants at San Francisco’s International Hotel — mostly Filipino elders — fought a mass eviction. Students, activists, poets, and politicians joined their cause, and while the residents were eventually forced out by sheriff’s deputies, the campaign helped catalyze the Filipino-American community and the … Continued
4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baugette
Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baugette
Sep 17 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Backup location if Paris Baugette has no seating: Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, outside of City Hall. Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s projects! organizing … Continued