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Drop the Charges: National Call-in day to Boston Mayor Walsh and DA Conley.
Drop the Charges: National Call-in day to Boston Mayor Walsh and DA Conley.
Jan 30 – Jan 31 all-day
Deliver a message to Boston’s Mayor and the District Attorney on January 30 to: “DROP THE OUTRAGEOUS ANTI-UNION FRAME-UP CHARGES AGAINST BOSTON SCHOOL BUS DRIVER STEVE KIRSCHBAUM and REHIRE THE 4 FIRED UNION LEADERS!” Facebook event. This Friday is National Call-in day to Boston Mayor Martin Walsh and District Attorney Daniel Conley. Team Solidarity – the voice of Boston’s school bus drivers – is asking supporters to call Suffolk County DA Daniel Conley at 617-619-4000 or fax him at 617-619-4210. Tell him to drop the frame-up felony charges against USW … Continued
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Book Launch: A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
@ La Commune Cafe (Omni Collective)
Book Launch: A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
@ La Commune Cafe (Omni Collective)
Jan 25 @ 10:00 pm – Jan 26 @ 12:00 am
A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice is an anthology of stories, analysis, and reflections from global movements fighting the tar sands and oil extraction using a wide variety of strategies and approaches. It features writing by Indigenous organizers from across the continent, analysts, and campaigners, as well as 350.org staff and board members, including a forward by Naomi Klein and Bill Mckibben. What: The multimedia book launch will include a discussion on solidarity, extraction, and Indigenous sovereignty and climate change, with panel of frontline activists fighting … Continued
11:00 pm
Open Circle Against Police Militarization, State Violence and Racism
@ OMNI Collective
Open Circle Against Police Militarization, State Violence and Racism
@ OMNI Collective
Jan 25 @ 11:00 pm – Jan 26 @ 3:00 am
Our 4th open circle to connect and organize toward the end of police militarization, state violence and systemic racism. RSVP and invite folks to the Facebook event This open circle will continue the dialogue and planning around support, goals, and long-term strategy in addressing the long-standing issues of the extremely disproportionate degrees of police brutality and killings of black people and people of color, systematic racism, state violence, militarization of police, and more that have been brought to the forefront once again due to the recent surge of such atrocities. Let’s … Continued
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Carl Dix & Sunsara Taylor: We Need a Revolution and a Revolution is Possible!
@ Revolution Books
Carl Dix & Sunsara Taylor: We Need a Revolution and a Revolution is Possible!
@ Revolution Books
Jan 26 @ 2:00 am – 4:30 am
We Need a Revolution and a Revolution is Possible! Come hear Carl Dix & Sunsara Taylor speak on why. They will take questions. Sunsara Taylor is a writer for Revolution Newspaper, an initiator of Stop Patriarchy, and sits on the Advisory Board of World Can’t Wait. She has written on the rise of theocracy, wars and repression in the U.S., police murder and mass incarceration, and more. She has led in building resistance to these crimes as part of building the movement for revolution to put an end to all … Continued
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Movie Screening: Fruitvale Station
@ Longhaul, 2 blocks from Ashby BART
Movie Screening: Fruitvale Station
@ Longhaul, 2 blocks from Ashby BART
Jan 26 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
Free Movie: Fruitvale Station (Drama 2013) explores the killing of Oscar Grant by a white BART policeman 57901
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Court Support: CANCELLED. Powell St Kettle Arraignments SF
@ San Francisco Superior Court
Court Support: CANCELLED. Powell St Kettle Arraignments SF
@ San Francisco Superior Court
Jan 26 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Always check Antirepression website and facebook for last minute changes. Good news! As of today, word is out that the SF court appearances are not scheduled. No need to come out for court support in SF 01/26 – 01/28!57932
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Occupy Forum: Surviving Climate Chaos: Reframing the Climate Question
@ Unitarian Universalist Center, MLK Room
Occupy Forum: Surviving Climate Chaos: Reframing the Climate Question
@ Unitarian Universalist Center, MLK Room
Jan 27 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am
a special presentation on climate change with author and environmentalist Mark Hertsgaard Surviving Climate Chaos: Reframing the Climate Question “Over the next 50 years, climate change will transform our world in ways we have only begun to imagine. Humans have changed the weather on the planet, and the battle to prevent climate chaos has become the race to survive it. Climate change worsens already existing conflicts over water supplies, energy sources, weather-induced migration — and it undermines the very ecosystems that make life possible. Besides striving to lower the global … Continued
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Surviving Climate Chaos: a talk by Mark Heertsgaard
@ First Unitarian Universalist Center
Surviving Climate Chaos: a talk by Mark Heertsgaard
@ First Unitarian Universalist Center
Jan 27 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am
 Over the next 50 years, climate change will transform our world in ways we have only begun to imagine. Herstgaard will address how these changing conditions especially affect peoples living around the equator and in low-lying countries as the oceans rise. What does this mean for them? What will it mean for us? How can we begin to prepare for these inevitable mass migrations? Mark Hertsgaard has spoken and written about global warming for more than 20 years. An environmental correspondent for NPR, The Nation, the New Yorker and other media organizations, Hertsgaard travels … Continued
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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly.
@ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly.
@ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Jan 27 @ 2:30 am – 3:30 am
 Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons. THE POSTAL SERVICE WANTED TO SELL THE POST OFFICE TO HUDSON-MCDONALD DEVELOPMENT GROUP. HUDSON-MCDONALD BACKED OUT OF THE DEAL IN EARLY DECEMBER. THE CITY OF BERKELEY SUED THE POST OFFICE TO STOP THE SALE. A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER WAS IN PLACE UNTIL DECEMBER 17th, BUT WAS LIFTED BY THE JUDGE WHEN HUDSON WITHDREW. Get an overview … Continued
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Cops, Class, and Race: How Police Protect the 1%
@ Oakland Peace Center
Cops, Class, and Race: How Police Protect the 1%
@ Oakland Peace Center
Jan 27 @ 3:00 am – 4:30 am
 As communities around the nation have taken to the streets in the ongoing movement against police brutality the question of the police and their role in society has taken on new importance. With the police killing a Black person every 28 hours a movement is emerging that challenges the idea of who they protect and who they serve. The very origins of their institution is saturated in racism and violence. From their beginning as a force to quell strikes, urban riots, and the threat of slave insurrection they have always … Continued
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Santa Cruz: TANKS, NO THANKS! GIVE BACK THE BEARCAT!
@ Santa Cruz City Council
Santa Cruz: TANKS, NO THANKS! GIVE BACK THE BEARCAT!
@ Santa Cruz City Council
Jan 28 @ 12:30 am – 2:30 am
 TANKS, NO THANKS GIVE BACK THE BEARCAT ARMORED MILITARY VEHICLE (Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck) Let city council know how you feel SAY NO TO THE MILITARIZATION OF THE POLICE Organized by SCRAM ! ( Santa Cruz Resistance Against Militarization !) 57952
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Extra OccupyForum: SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON
@ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART
Extra OccupyForum: SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON
@ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART
Jan 28 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am
Extra Occupy Forum OccupyForum hosts Harvey “No Nukes” Wasserman and allies SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON JOIN US in the accelerating campaign to shut California’s last nukes: the two reactors at Diablo Canyon, near San Luis Obispo. Citizen activism has closed the reactors at Humboldt, Rancho Seco and San Onofre, and stopped proposed projects at Bakersfield, Bodega and elsewhere. We believe we can force this deadly, dangerous and disastrous plant shut if you will join with us. PG&E’s Diablo is two 1200+ megawatt monsters surrounded by earthquake faults, in a tsunami zone, out of compliance with clean … Continued
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Oakland Livable Wage Assembly.
@ SEIU Local 1000, 2nd floor
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly.
@ SEIU Local 1000, 2nd floor
Jan 28 @ 2:30 am – 4:00 am
 The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 1433 Webster Street, 2nd Floor in downtown Oakland. These assembly meetings occur from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Our work together encompasses: (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent and care workers; (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve … Continued
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Privacy Lab – a meetup for privacy minded people in San Francisco
@ Mozzilla offices, details available on registration
Privacy Lab – a meetup for privacy minded people in San Francisco
@ Mozzilla offices, details available on registration
Jan 28 @ 11:00 pm – Jan 29 @ 1:00 am
Register here. This is a meeting for privacy minded people in San Francisco. January 28th is International Data Privacy Day, a fitting time to host the first in what we hope will be an ongoing series of Privacy Lab Meetups in the Bay Area. At this meeting our speaker will be Cooper Quintin from the EFF, who will present “A State of the Union for Privacy and Consumer Protection and Wishlist for 2015”. His presentation will be preceded by 30 minutes of socializing as people arrive, and then followed by about an hour for … Continued
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All out to stop the Privatization of OUSD
@ Escuelita Elementary School
All out to stop the Privatization of OUSD
@ Escuelita Elementary School
Jan 29 @ 12:30 am – 2:30 am
On Wednesday OUSD will be discussing proposals to privatize Fremont HS, Castlemont HS, McClymonds HS, Frick MS and Brookfield Elementary and make it easier for charter schools to recruit public school families. This is tied to changes the district is pushing to the teacher union contract that will make these turnarounds easier to implement. OEA is fighting for the resources needed to create stable schools and bottom-up school transformation! Let’s show up unified as teachers, students, parents and community members to shut down the Superintendent Wilson’s proposals to continue the … Continued
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U.S. Board Calls Public Meeting on Chevron Refinery Accident & Fire
U.S. Board Calls Public Meeting on Chevron Refinery Accident & Fire
Jan 29 @ 2:00 am – 4:30 am
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) will convene a public meeting on January 28, 2015, starting a 6:00 p.m. at the 450 Civic Center Plaza, Richmond, CA, 94804. Next Wednesday, January 28, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) will hold a public meeting, to present the third and final investigation report and safety recommendations from the August 6, 2012, crude unit fire that occurred at the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, CA. That fire endangered 19 workers and sent more than 15,000 residents to the hospital for medical attention. … Continued
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Commorative J28 March
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Commorative J28 March
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Jan 29 @ 3:00 am – 6:00 am
FTP march J28 7pm OGP 14th and Broadway. 400 got arrested so 400 turn up.— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 20, 2015 #OaklandProtest #FTP #J28 march 1/28/15 #OGP 407 people for arrested that night.. 400 and 7… So that's how many… http://t.co/pE1G3dXbcF— FilmingInFerguson (@BellaEiko) January 20, 2015 57917
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Corporate Coloniality and the Demotion of Capitalism
@ OMNI Collective
Corporate Coloniality and the Demotion of Capitalism
@ OMNI Collective
Jan 29 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
The first of eight meetings is January 28th. This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control. 57909
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Radical Women Meetup San Francisco
Radical Women Meetup San Francisco
Jan 29 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
Event for radical women in San Francisco,: discussion about the importance of women of color being involved and given a voice. 57863
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Court Support: New Year’s Even kettle arrests.
@ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107
Court Support: New Year’s Even kettle arrests.
@ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107
Jan 29 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
 The folks in this kettle rang in the New Year with arrests. Let’s show them 2015 will be full of solidarity! Come out to Wiley Manuel on both Thursday, 01/29 and Friday, 01/30 at 9am in Department 107 for their arraignments! Always check Antirepression website and facebook for last minute changes. 57968
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KPFA Fundraiser Film Screening: THE THROWAWAYS
@ International House
KPFA Fundraiser Film Screening: THE THROWAWAYS
@ International House
Jan 30 @ 2:00 am – 6:00 am
6:00 pm and 8:00 pm screenings KPFA Radio 94.1FM and International House, UC Berkeley, present: THE THROWAWAYS An award winning documentary film With Bhawin Suchak (Director/Producer) & Ira McKinley (ex-felon & homeless filmmaker) Tickets: 800-838-3006 or at independent bookstores, student discount at door, KPFA benefit The Throwaways is a timely and provocative look at the impact of mass incarceration and police brutality on black men in America. Told through the eyes of homeless ex-felon Ira McKinley, the film documents his struggle to bring positive changes to his community in inner-city … Continued
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A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice.
@ The Green Arcade
A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice.
@ The Green Arcade
Jan 30 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
Come hear about the struggles of many people and organizations to fight the huge corporations and governments behind the tar sands projects as Joshua Kahn Russell, editor of A Line in The Tar Sands: Struggles For Environmental Justice, reads from the book and discusses the latest progress in the effort to stop this giant carbon bomb. More details below….. it’s happening at The Green Arcade (maybe San Francisco’s coolest book store and one that supports critical thinking about, well, everything) at 1680 Market Street @ Gough – 7pm, this Thursday … Continued
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Court Support: New Year’s Even kettle arrests.
@ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107
Court Support: New Year’s Even kettle arrests.
@ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107
Jan 30 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am
The folks in this kettle rang in the New Year with arrests. Let’s show them 2015 will be full of solidarity! Come out to Wiley Manuel on both Thursday, 01/29 and Friday, 01/30 at 9am in Department 107 for their arraignments! Always check Antirepression website and facebook for last minute changes. 57968
3:00 am
Film Screening: The Throwaways. Discussion Re Police Terror and Related Activism.
@ OMNI Collective
Film Screening: The Throwaways. Discussion Re Police Terror and Related Activism.
@ OMNI Collective
Jan 31 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
Screening of ‘The Throwaways’ w/ discussion around police terrorism and related activism. Note: Time is uncertain. Not listed in the original posting on the #BlackLivesMatter calendar, and not currently on the Omni calendar. 57864
3:30 am
Long time occupier Kyle is having benefit show to raise funds for cancer treatment
@ Amnesia
Long time occupier Kyle is having benefit show to raise funds for cancer treatment
@ Amnesia
Jan 31 @ 3:30 am – 5:30 am
Long time occupier Kyle is having benefit show to raise funds for cancer treatment tomorrow night https://t.co/EbXGK41c2c Amnesia, SF 7:30pm— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 30, 2015 ALL $ FROM THE DOOR & some proceeds from the bar as well will be donated to Kyle to help him fight cancer. 58016
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Continue Work on the Berkeley Post Office Community Garden.
@ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Continue Work on the Berkeley Post Office Community Garden.
@ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Jan 31 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
 The planting was a few weeks ago. The gardening work continues. Join us! More information on the Berkeley Post Office Defense against the sale and privatization here. Pictures and videos of the soil preparation and planting here. 57902
8:00 pm
Security/Privacy/Surveillance Workshop for Activists
@ Liberating Ourselves Locally
Security/Privacy/Surveillance Workshop for Activists
@ Liberating Ourselves Locally
Jan 31 @ 8:00 pm – Feb 1 @ 1:00 am
LOL will be hosting a free Security and Privacy Workshop which will include practical sessions on phone security apps, operational security, risk assessment, and other tools you can use to enhance your safety and privacy across your devices. Facebook event & RSVP.57991
8:00 pm
Anti-Eviction Protest.
@ Harvey Milk Plaza
Anti-Eviction Protest.
@ Harvey Milk Plaza
Jan 31 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Come protest landlord/speculator Ann Kihagi-Swain to get her to stop pushing out tenants in over 10 buildings, with harassment, fake notices, and multiple Owner Move Ins. Lease violations evictions for minor things are way up in SF, especially from new building owners. Landlord Ann Kihagi-Swain is one of the worst; using multiple names she bought up over 10 buildings this last summer and fall. Soon after buying the buildings she has giving most tenants 3 day notices: for everything from shoes in the hallway, to illegal roommates for partners who … Continued
8:00 pm
Global Day Against Torture
@ Everywhere
Global Day Against Torture
@ Everywhere
Jan 31 @ 8:00 pm – Feb 1 @ 7:45 am
Facebook page. In late November the Senate Report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of Torture was released. This report has since been swept under the rug and nearly forgotten. The Mainstream media, the government and a complicit American public are prepared to forget about the Senate Report on CIA torture AND WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN! Join organizations and individuals from across the political spectrum for protests, rallies, and gatherings on Saturday January 31st to make sure America and the US government do not go unchallenged. WAKE UP THE … Continued
10:00 pm
A careful & close analysis of the Haitian Revolution: How does it connect to today?
@ Niebyl Proctor Library
A careful & close analysis of the Haitian Revolution: How does it connect to today?
@ Niebyl Proctor Library
Jan 31 @ 10:00 pm – Feb 1 @ 12:00 am
A careful & close analysis of the Haitian Revolution (the world’s first nation of Africans to overthrow slavery)! How does it connect to today? ********************************* HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE STUDY GROUP We invite you to be apart of our monthly study group. We use films, texts, and speakers to explore Haiti’s history, current political situation, and make connections to parallel struggles throughout the U.S. and around the world. Come to this month’s meeting! Facebook event. The (Ongoing) Haitian Revolution January 1st marked the 211th anniversary of Haiti’s independence. Join us as … Continued
10:00 pm
NLG Training on Prison Visitation.
NLG Training on Prison Visitation.
Jan 31 @ 10:00 pm – Feb 1 @ 12:00 am
Learn how to visit people incarcerated in California prisons. Participants will leave knowing how to request and conduct legal visits and social/family visits, and access support that exists for people traveling to prisons. Please RSVP & complete this poll so we can customize the training: http://tinyurl.com/Walls-Pre-Training-Survey For upcoming trainings in the series, and Materials from previous training, click here http://caitlinkellyhenry.com/support/ This training series will focus on practical skills development for loved ones, activists, legal workers, and lawyers to understand the nitty gritty methods and best practices for supporting people on the inside. Facebook … Continued
1:00 am
Action for Worker Justice in Berkeley! Restaurant Workers Rising!
@ HS Lordships Restaurant
Action for Worker Justice in Berkeley! Restaurant Workers Rising!
@ HS Lordships Restaurant
Feb 1 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
Join us for our upcoming action to demand worker justice at HS Lordships! As workers all across the U.S. and Bay Area are standing up to demand living wages and fair working conditions, restaurant workers in Berkeley are also defending their right to respectful treatment and healthcare in order to live dignified lives. At HS Lordships, workers have been without a contract for more than four years. At the restaurant, servers make $10 an hour and pay more than $500 per month for family insurance. The company is now proposing … Continued
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From NYC to Ferguson to Oakland, Imani Henry Talks on Nationwide Fight Against Police Terror
@ Alan Blueford Center for Justice
From NYC to Ferguson to Oakland, Imani Henry Talks on Nationwide Fight Against Police Terror
@ Alan Blueford Center for Justice
Feb 1 @ 2:30 am – 4:30 am
Imani Keith Henry is a longtime activist in the anti-police brutality, anti-war and LGBTQ movements in the US. He is an organizer with The Peoples Power Assembly, which helped to coordinate emergency day of/day after actions in NYC and nationally in response to the Ferguson grand jury decision. Imani has travelled to Ferguson, MO twice and most recently took part in a 36-person civil disobedience action on December 4th in response to the Garner grand jury decision. He is also the founder of The Equality for Flatbush Project (E4F), which does … Continued
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