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9:30 am 24th Monthly Interfaith Prayers for Victims and Survivors of Violence @ Bahai Center
24th Monthly Interfaith Prayers for Victims and Survivors of Violence @ Bahai Center
Apr 12 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to survivors and victims of violence and police terror in Oakland. We are organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing. In April, it will be two years since we started holding these prayer meetings at the Baha’i Center. Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us. We will serve a simple breakfast.58453
10:00 am Berkeley Arts Festival: Osha’s Not an Exhibition
Berkeley Arts Festival: Osha’s Not an Exhibition
Apr 12 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Osha Neumann will be making large black and white, brush and ink drawings on newsprint and maybe newspaper, maybe other stuff. Maybe some will have color. Osha will pin them to the wall, still wet and dripping. You get to take whatever you like. All this, in honor of the publication of his book, Doodling on the Titanic: the Making of Art in the World on the Brink, which will be available for sale, though there will be no obligation to buy.  58569
5:00 pm Green Sunday: How militarism and war mess up everything else @ Niebyl-Proctor library
Green Sunday: How militarism and war mess up everything else @ Niebyl-Proctor library
Apr 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
* Take a quiz on military spending (you’ll be shocked!) * Discuss the connection between militarism and climate * Explore the increasing militarism of local policing * Learn about the Global Day Against Military Spending (Wedn, Apr 15/Tax Day) Panelists: Barry Hermanson, SF Green, long time opponent of military spending, former candidate for Congress, exploring a run for SF Mayor in Nov 2015 Susan Schacher, Oakland Green, active with the Bay Area New Priorities Campaign Barry’s website: http://www.notmypriorities.org/ Global Day Against Military Spending (April 15): http://demilitarize.org/ Bay Area New Prorities … Continued
7:00 pm Palestinian Noviolent Activist Iyad Burnat Speaks. @ Uptown Body and Fender
Palestinian Noviolent Activist Iyad Burnat Speaks. @ Uptown Body and Fender
Apr 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Palestinian Noviolent Activist Iyad Burnat Speaks. @ Uptown Body and Fender | Oakland | California | United States
Iyad Burnat is the coordinator for the popular committee in Bil’in, Palestine, a small farming village 7 miles west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. For ten years Iyad and the Popular Committee have organized the people to Bil’in to participate in weekly non-violent demonstrations against the confiscation of their land, destruction of their olive trees, and Israel’s illegal Separation Wall and settlements. This past summer Iyad’s 15-year-old teenage son was shot in the leg by the Israeli military, severing a nerve and requiring ongoing medical care. This spring, … Continued
6:30 pm Occupy Forum: BAAQMD Do Your Job @ Global Exchange, at 16th St. BART
Occupy Forum: BAAQMD Do Your Job @ Global Exchange, at 16th St. BART
Apr 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
OccupyForum presents Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! BAAQMD Do Your Job: Our Regulatory Agencies are letting us down bigtime California is the third largest oil refining state in the US. The Bay Area’s five refineries process 778,000 barrels of oil per day!  Refineries produce a wide variety of pollutants, including greenhouse gasses that cause climate change and toxic chemicals that sicken the people living near the refineries. The Bay Area Air … Continued
11:30 am #ShutItDownA14 at UC Berkeley @ Sproul Plaza
#ShutItDownA14 at UC Berkeley @ Sproul Plaza
Apr 14 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
HS student in #Oakland challenging you to #ShutDownA14 https://t.co/KAock7PZwy #WalterScott @mrdaveyd @Carl_Dix pic.twitter.com/3c1Nx2YK7P— Revolution Club (@RevClub_bay) April 11, 2015 58556
6:00 am STAND UP FOR $15 SAN FRANCISCO @ McDonald's
STAND UP FOR $15 SAN FRANCISCO @ McDonald's
Apr 15 @ 6:00 am – 7:30 am
STAND UP FOR $15 JOIN THE LARGEST LOW-WAGE WORKER PROTESTS IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY.  ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE’RE TAKING TO THE STREETS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!  WE’RE FED UP WITH PEOPLE BEING FORCED TO SURVICE ON POVERTY WAGES, WHILE BEING EXPLOITED BY COMPANIES RAKING IN BILLIONS.  58582
9:30 am STAND UP FOR $15 OAKLAND @ McDonald's
STAND UP FOR $15 OAKLAND @ McDonald's
Apr 15 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
STAND UP FOR $15 JOIN THE LARGEST LOW-WAGE WORKER PROTESTS IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY.  ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE’RE TAKING TO THE STREETS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!  WE’RE FED UP WITH PEOPLE BEING FORCED TO SURVICE ON POVERTY WAGES, WHILE BEING EXPLOITED BY COMPANIES RAKING IN BILLIONS.  58583
1:00 pm Fight for Fifteen: Oakland to Berkeley. @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Fight for Fifteen: Oakland to Berkeley. @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Apr 15 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Fight for Fifteen: Oakland to Berkeley. @ Oscar Grant Plaza | Oakland | California | United States
Join the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly and march to Berkeley for the giant FF15 assembly there. It’s forecast to be a perfect day for a march:  75F and partly sunny! The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly is holding the Oakland action leading up to the National Fight for $15 Rally and March noted below. Please join us at OGP (Frank Ogawa Plaza) for the Rally at 1:00pm followed by the March to UC Berkeley where we will join forces with Bay Area families, workers, people of faith, students, artists, leaders, and community … Continued
7:30 pm Film Evening: Four Horseman of the Banking Cartel @ Humanist Hall
Film Evening: Four Horseman of the Banking Cartel @ Humanist Hall
Apr 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments & social hour at 6:30 pm, followed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by optional discussion after the film. FOUR HORSEMAN OF THE BANKING CARTEL by PressTV based on books by Dean Henderson For this film, see YouTube Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street58572
7:00 pm BENEFIT FOR AK PRESS: Boots Riley and Dave Zirin: Hip Hop, Sports, & Struggle Under The New Jim Crow. @ Oakland Peace Center
BENEFIT FOR AK PRESS: Boots Riley and Dave Zirin: Hip Hop, Sports, & Struggle Under The New Jim Crow. @ Oakland Peace Center
Apr 16 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Join Boots Riley and Dave Zirin in a discussion about the role of mass culture in building resistance against racism and mass incarceration today. ALL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT AK PRESS to support recovery from the fire which devastated their Oakland building. (Details here http://bit.ly/19BBYDV) Tickets on sale next week or available at the door. Sponsored by: Haymarket Books, SoleSpace, Howard Zinn Book Fair and The Center for Sport & Social Justice @ Cal State East Bay Facebook event. 58540
6:00 pm Round table discussion: Black and Brown Resisting State Violence, Commemorating Palestinian Prisoners Day. @ Uptown Body and Fender, Across from Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural
Round table discussion: Black and Brown Resisting State Violence, Commemorating Palestinian Prisoners Day. @ Uptown Body and Fender, Across from Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural
Apr 17 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Round table discussion:  Black and Brown Resisting State Violence, Commemorating Palestinian Prisoners Day. @ Uptown Body and Fender, Across from Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural | Oakland | California | United States
FRIDAY, APRIL 3rd 5:30-9pm: Art exhibit opening FRIDAY, APRIL 17th 6-9pm: Round table discussion Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), Art Forces, Eastside Arts Alliance and Critical Resistance present an art exhibit and discussion, Re-Visions: Black and Brown Resisting State Violence, Commemorating Palestinian Prisoners Day. ART EXHIBIT: Friday April 3rd, Oakland First Friday, 5:30-9pm ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: Friday April 17th, Palestinian Prisoners Day, 6-9pm SPEAKERS: Rachel Herzing Sagnicthe Salazar, Xicana Moratorium Rabab Abdulhadi, AMED, Ethnic Studies, SFSU Kiwi Illafonte, Mass Bass, San Quentin ROOTS program Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Moderated by: Maisha Quint, Eastside Arts Alliance … Continued
8:00 am 2015 Refinery Healing Walks
2015 Refinery Healing Walks
Apr 18 @ 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
2015 Refinery Healing Walks @ Pittsburg | California | United States
2015 Refinery Healing Walks Idle No More SF Bay and citizens from front-line refinery communities invite you to attend one of a series of four walks, one each month from April through July. The second annual Connect the Dots: Refinery Corridor Healing Walks begins with a Walk from Pittsburg to Martinez. The Walks bring attention and awareness to the environmental and health impacts of the five refineries along the Northeast San Francisco Bay. They are led by Native American elders and others in prayer, with those walking behind in conversation. … Continued
5:00 pm Richmond Town Hall Meeting on Crude By Rail @ To be announced
Richmond Town Hall Meeting on Crude By Rail @ To be announced
Apr 18 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
There will presentations about the history of dangerous Crude By Rail, the threat from the Kinder Morgan operation in Richmond and strategies to fight for our rights to safety. For more information contact: Andrés Soto, CBE Richmond Organizer at 510.282.5363 or at andres@cbecal.org 58270
2:00 pm People’s Park Anniversary Concert @ Starry Plough
People’s Park Anniversary Concert @ Starry Plough
Apr 18 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
@crustyrustyMAD 2:00 YukonHannibal 2:15 Hali Hammer&Friends 2:45 The Harbingers 3:15Carol Denney 3:45Clyde Leland 4:15 Cracker Family Circus— Russell Bates (@crustyrustyMAD) April 13, 2015 58573