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Concert and Show.
Honoring the lives of all those killed by police brutality
35 year angel-versary of Lil Milagro Ramirez
Building unity amongst the oppressed
We convoke her spirit of resistance as we recite her poetry and give honor to her life. “Lover of peace, I want to struggle for her desperately, because since the beginning, I have dreamt of peace.” -Awakening
A lawyer by profession, and a guerrilla fighter by compassion, Lil was characterized for her intellect and courage. She was part of a group of writers for whom aesthetic renewal and social revolution went hand in hand. A daughter of educators, Lil played the guitar and piano, wrote poetry, practiced yoga and was a vegetarian. Disenchanted by the broken legal system, she decided not to practice law for she saw it as an instrument of oppression by the ruling political class.
Lil Milagro entered the People’s Revolutionary Army in 1972, but due to ideological differences, she broke with the organization in 1975, after the assassination of fellow poet and lover Roque Dalton. After founding the political-military National Resistance Movement (RN), she was kidnapped one morning in August 1976 by the National Guard. Tortured for three years, Lil was kept shackled, blindfolded and held completely naked. Allowed to eat four corn tortillas and about 25 grams of beans per day with five grams of cheese once a week, she died in this state of captivity. On the anniversary of her death, we convoke her spirit of resistance as we recite her poetry and give honor to her life and all those killed due to police brutality.
We will then continue with a community event at the Eastside Cultural Center from 8-1030p.
This Week's Titles:
Nothing Directed by Vincenzo Natali, 2003 90 min, (Comedy, Fantasy) MirrorMask Directed by Dave McKean, 2005 101 min, (Adventure, Drama, Family)
Film Nights are held in the basement of Omni and start at 7pm; the theater dims no later than 7:15, so don’t be late!
BYO; Drinks, snacks, pillows, cushions, beanbags, etc.
Suggested Donation for popcorn and tea: $2
More Information:
You can submit your screening requests to the lottery fish bowl at any time during a Film Night.
All genres and eras are welcome; as are shows, shorts and documentaries!
Once there is a formidable collection of titles (compiled from various sources), that list will replace the lottery, and you’ll be able to see the line-up ahead of time! (Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to request films).
- First Fridays of the month: Light-Hearted Titles – e.g. Comedy, Drama, Family
- Second Fridays: Dark, Intense Titles – e.g. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Thriller
- Third Fridays: Educational & Historical Titles – e.g. Documentary, Period, Biographical
- Fourth Fridays: Indie Week – Festival Favorites, Shorts, Independent Project Screenings (Screen your video projects here!)
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2nd Annual Gaza Solidarity 5K Walk/Run (San Francisco)
Proceeds from the Gaza 5K Walk/Run will benefit UNRWA’s psycho-social support program for children in Gaza suffering from psychological trauma and PTSD due to the devastating crisis of July-August 2014 and the prolonged blockade. Many of these already vulnerable children have now lived through three traumatic rounds of violence, witnessing death, destruction, and displacement. It’s estimated that 375,000 children in Gaza now require immediate counseling.
These children need our support now, and that’s why your participation is so critical. Whether you participate as a sponsor, runner, walker, or cheerleader, we want to see you there!
By participating, you will directly support UNRWA’s psycho-social support program to provide these children with critically needed counseling services, offering them a safe space to express their emotions and fears, and the opportunity to work with trained counselors to learn valuable coping skills.
Lace up your running or walking shoes, bring your friends, your family, and even your pets and we’ll see you October 18th!
GET SOCIAL
Join the conversation on social media by using #Gaza5K in your posts and tweets! Read our tips: https://unrwausa.org/gaza5K-spread-the-word
UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees, is the primary provider of healthcare, education, and other basic social services to 5.3 million Palestine refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. UNRWA has been the largest humanitarian operation in the region since its inception in 1950, and continues to help Palestine refugees achieve their full potential in human development. In Gaza, UNRWA provides assistance and protection for over 1.2 million registered refugees. This includes mental health counseling for 50,000 refugees every year, and in 2014, individual counseling for an additional 12,600 refugee children to help them cope with the trauma of bombings and blockade in 2014. American Friends of UNRWA (UNRWA USA) is the US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports the work of UNRWA in the United States with fundraising, education, and advocacy work. All donations to UNRWA USA are tax-deductible.
The Fight Against Privatization Of Education & Public Services Conference:
Stop Union Busting, Outsourcing, Workplace Bullying
For A National Campaign To Defend Public Services and Public Education
A massive coordinated attacks is taking place through privatization and deregulation to destroy public services and public education throughout the country and internationally. This conference will look at the history of this attack, who is doing it including through the use of technology, how they are doing it and how we can organize, educate and uniting all public workers and the communities to fight back and win.
Conference Issues
> Overview and history deregulation, charters, Ideology of privatization of public services and civil society, racism, Post Office, Education, Transit Workers, City Workers, State Workers, Federal privatization military, attack pensions, concession bargaining, non-profits NGOs
> Role of Governor Brown and politicians In California along with Obama and Education Secretary Arnie Duncan
> Role of unions in education, transit, public services
> International role of privatization Greece, Ukraine, Argentina, Korea, Japan, South Africa, Russia, El Salvador
> Strategy and Agenda For National Campaign Against Privatization, Education workers strike statewide, Campaign against Vergara decision and more segregation of education.
> The Struggle In Ferguson, Racism and Lessons of the struggle to protect education and public services
> Media Channel, Program for the fight back and regional and national rallies against privatization and privatizers
Initial Speakers:
Brenda Barros SEIU 1021, George Wright AFT 1493 retired, Rick Baum AFT 2121 Lecturer, Bob Price AFT 2121 CCSF, Dorian Maxwell TWU 250 Former Member, Anand Vaidya, Associate Professor CSUSJ, Sean Gillis IFPTE Local 21 Political Director Oakland Unit M
Agenda
> 10:00AM Areas of privatization and the affect on labor and the communities
> 12: 30 Lunch & Video “Crenshaw” About The Reconstitution Of LAUSD Crenshaw High School
> 1:15 PM Ferguson, Militarization, Role of Democrats and Unions/Non Profits
> 200 PM International Role of Privatization-Lessons From Around The US & The World
> 3:00 PM Strategies and Action Program To Fight Privatization locally, regionally & internationally
> 4:00 PM Conference Closes
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED OR POSTPONED. STAY TUNED.
On Behalf of the Serrano Family, we are asking our beloved Community, to join in solidarity, to demand justice for Yanira Serrano, who was mercilessly gunned down , June 3, 2014, in front her family, by San Mateo County Sheriff.
Please come and support our effort to STOP BUSINESS AS USUAL, during the Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival. Let’s remind the city, county, state and the nation, that while this is a time when most families are enjoying the happy joy and harvest of the season; the Serrano family will not be celebrating this love & bounty because of senseless police brutality.
TRANSPORTATION:
FOR THOSE OF YOU, WHO HAVE ACCESS TO CARS AND VANS, OR HAVE THE RESOURCES TO RENT VEHICLES, LET’S ORGANIZE CARPOOLING OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOLKS IN SF BAY AREA, EAST BAY, NORTH BAY, SOUTH BAY, STOCKTON, SANTA ROSA, AUBURN, ETC. ♥
Please check out Yanira’s story on the Facebook page… And LIKE Justice 4 Yanira Serrano:
Come get connect with SDBA’s many projects:- organizing for public banking in Oakland
- saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs
- working with the City of Richmond and other municipalities for eminent domain seizure of underwater mortgages from the banksters
- ongoing study group
- distribution of Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual
- student debt resistance
- helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization
- our famous Strike Debt radio program
- and much more!
WE DID IT! AFTER 14 MONTHS OF WORK, THE ZONING OVERLAY ORDINANCE PASSED ON SEPTEMBER 30th. It will take effect on October 30th.
Read more about our victory here.
Nonetheless the Postal Service still has the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!
And the Postal Service outsourced Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work.
We’re still fighting against both!
Come help us plan our next steps.
On July 29th, at our invite, Ralph Nader spoke on the steps of the Berkeley Post Office against privatization and corporatism. Watch and listen to his talk here.
We began the “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard. The campaign has been adopted by a large number of national and local unions, including teachers’ unions and the AFL-CIO.
For almost four months the Berkeley Staples has been ‘occupied’ 24/7 by an intrepid band of San Francisco occupiers with solidarity and support from BPOD members distributing literature and convincing people not to shop at Staples. They’re still there! Come hang out with them outside Staples at Durant & Shattuck.
We have joined with other activists in Berkeley to put a ballot initiative, Measure R, on the ballot to cement the rezoning of the Berkeley Post Office and other areas in the Historic District to prevent privatization, and also to insure a better Downtown Berkeley. (The City Council could undo what they just wrought at any time; a ballot initiative become law can only be undone by another vote of the people).
Come help us plan our next steps.
BPOD is an offshoot of Strike Debt Bay Area, which itself is an offshoot of Occupy Oakland and a chapter of the national Strike Debt movement, which is an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.
Pt. 2 (of 3) of Jasper Bernes’ seminar “Value, Capitalism, Communism”‘ will investigate the question of what value is in capitalism, and what types of non-capitalist societies would either preserve or abolish it. We will engage with the most speculative of communist and anarchist writings — those that begin to imagine modes and mediums of social coordination and reproduction beyond capitalism.
Some texts we might read:
Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program Grundrisse, selections on critique of Proudhonian labor money Dauve, Eclipse and Re-emergence (new introduction addresses this directly) Spufford, Red Plenty GIK, Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution (council communist program, critiqued by Dauve) Kropotkin, Conquest of Bread
Sponsored by the Bay Area Public School
Occupy Forum F I E L D T R I P
VANDANA SHIVA
The Rights of Mother Earth
Vandana Shiva is an internationally esteemed Indian environmental and anti-globalization activist. Trained as a physicist, she received an Integrated M.Sc.Honours Degree in Particle Physics from the University of Punjab prior to earning a PhD in the Philosophy of Science at the University of Western Ontario. In 1987 she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, which led to the creation of Navdanya, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seed, and the promotion of organic farming and fair trade. For the past two decades Navdanya has worked with local communities and organizations.
Vandana Shiva has steadily fought for change in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food, intellectual property rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, bioethics, genetic engineering, all fields in which she has contributed both intellectually and through grassroots campaigns.
Join KPFA and Global Exchange for an evening with renowned environmental activist and anti-globalization author, Dr. Vandana Shiva.
Shiva will speak on the Rights of Nature – a global movement working to establish legal standing for the environment in law. From promoting food sovereignty in India, to challenging global corporations destroying local economies, to authoring more than 20 advocacy books, Dr. Shiva consistently speaks on the critical issues of our time, with a vision for a better future.
OccupyForum has tickets for Occupy @ $12.00 each:
contact andy g.:� candymansf@yahoo.com
Hosted by Carleen Pickard of Global Exchange
$15 advance tickets
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/864925
brownpapertickets.com :: 800-838-3006
or Pegasus (3 sites) Moe’s, Walden Pond, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway’s Books
SF: Modern Times, $20 door Benefits KPFA, GX & Navdanya
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON RIGHTS OF NATURE:
http://therightsofnature.org/rights-of-nature-tribunal/
http://therightsofnature.org/rights-of-nature-tribunal/
http://therightsofnature.org/2014-ron-conference/
Tenants Rights Tuesday is here again in Oakland. Come to City Hall at 5:00pm, Tuesday, 10/21, for a rally and to help push through the Tenant Protection Ordinance at its first hearing in front of the full council!
The Gritty, Moral Solution to the Housing Crisis with David Giesen
Part of Sustainable Economies Legal Center’s “Rethinking Home” Teach-in Series
Fixing the housing crunch isn’t easy, but there is a permaculture solution. Dave Giesen, economist and playwright, makes the case for socializing the rent of land in a hands-on, interactive seminar that identifies the value of what real estate agents mean by “location, location, location” as the lynch-pin in a holistic, sustainable economy.
We’ll also welcome Ben Grieff, Campaign Director for Evolve Prop 13, to discuss the California Prop 13 reform campaign as an example of Geogist social philosophy in practice.
Join us for this lively, provocative, and practical conversation, asking: “Is there one good reason one human being should pay another for merely occupying land itself?”
19th Annual Nation Day to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation.
Press Conference & Rally 1:00 PM.
March beginning 2:00 – 2:30 PM.
A video from the Alan Blueford Center for Justice regarding October 22nd.
– Consistently use our hashtags #Oct22 and #o22 in all tweets
-Trending hashtags, that are also important to add to our tweets as much as possible are: #Ferguson #FergusonOctober #BlackLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter
-Follow, tweet at, and retweet things from Carl Dix (@Carl_Dix), SMIN (@StopMassIncNet), and NYCRevClub (@NYCRevClub)
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More than a conference
LNE Oakland is designed to be different from any event you’ve attended before. Drawing inspiration from hackathons, conferences, networking events, festivals, and jams, the result is a unique event that has components of each. More than a conference, this is a convergence.
We have an exciting lineup of speakers, but you’ll do more than listen to talks. You’ll meet and collaborate with other participants and launch project ideas. You’ll learn about New Economy initiatives here in the Bay Area, and draw connections between them while connecting with each other.
Be part of the first of an annual event that will introduce you to new ideas and new people, and leave you inspired to co-create a new economic reality in the Bay Area and beyond.
Meeting of the City of Oakland’s “Privacy and Data Retention Ad Hoc Advisory Committee” – open to the public.
When:
2nd & 4th Thursdays
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Where:
Council Chambers
Oakland City Hall
14th & Broadway
Read the announcement from the City of Oakland City Administrator’s Weekly Report (April 25, 2014):
This committee was created by City Council action during the discussions earlier in the year about the Port Domain Awareness Center (DAC). The goal of the DAC is to improve readiness to prevent, respond to and recover from major emergencies in the Oakland region and ensure better multi-agency coordination across the larger San Francisco Bay Area. The goal of the Privacy and Data Retention Policy is to ensure there are safeguards to protect against potential misuse of the data or violations of individuals’ privacy rights and civil liberties. The meeting is open to the public. For questions about the Ad Hoc Committee, please contact Joe DeVries, Assistant to the City
We need to show up to these meetings and pressure the City to adopt a privacy policy that makes privacy a priority, not only “security” or administrative convenience.
Join Strike Debt Bay Area at the Living the New Economy Conference’s social / party, where we’ll have a table, discuss debt and the new economy, and our radio team, Mike and Cassie, will be live on-stage performing one of the Strike Debt Radio segments.
An organizer of the Ferguson project: a Canfield Watchmen named David Whitt will be here and able to report from ground zero. Jacob Crawford from WeCopwatch went out and helped train and raise funds to help them buy over 100 video cameras already.
It is gonna be powerful footage and conversation.
Join Ferguson MO Copwatcher David Whitt, Berkeley Copwatch, and Jacob Crawford of WeCopwatch for a report back on the recent Police attacks in Ferguson, as well as the formation of The Canfield Watchmen, a newly formed Copwatch group in the neighborhood where Mike Brown was killed.
Event includes video presentations of The State of Emergency, as well as Canfield Copwatch efforts.
This presentation is for the people so no on turned away, but consider donating to help build and sustain our stipend for Copwatch efforts in Ferguson.
WeCopwatch T-shirts are also available for donations
These Streets Are Watching (Copwatch DVD)
Speakers include
David Whitt – The Canfield Watcmen
Jacob Crawford – WeCopwatch
Andrea Pritchett – Berkeley Copwatch (two people)
Alex Salazar – Former LAPD Cop turned whistleblower
Members of SF Mission Copwatch and people doing Copwatch projects in Oakland
The Internets Own Boy Written and Directed by Brian Knappenberger, 2014 105 min, (Documentary, Biography, Crime ) Hackers Directed by Iain Softley, 1995 107 min, (Action, Comedy, Crime)
Film Nights are held in the basement of Omni and start at 7pm; the theater dims no later than 7:15, so don’t be late!
BYO; Drinks, snacks, pillows, cushions, beanbags, etc.
Come help us mobilize!
See this article for detailed information and background links on the sale.