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Gill Tract Defense National Call-In Day
@ everywhere
Gill Tract Defense National Call-In Day
@ everywhere
Apr 27 all-day
Tell Sprouts “Farmers Market” hands off the Gill Tract and help defend the farm no matter where you live! Call and connect with Sprouts on social media! Let’s tell Sprouts with one voice: HANDS OFF THE GILL TRACT! Customer Service Line: 1-888-577-7688 Press 2 for a live person Call or email the executives in charge: Ted Frumkin, Chief Development Officer: 602-682-1556 tedfrumkin@sprouts.com Elizabeth Hoxworth, Regional Director of Real Estate: 818-489-3379 elizabethhoxworth@sprouts.com Facebook: Sprouts Farmers Market Each store location also has an auto generated page on FB that the company doesn’t … Continued
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Natl Day of Action: SHUT IT DOWN FOR FREDDIE GREY
@ Everywhere
Natl Day of Action: SHUT IT DOWN FOR FREDDIE GREY
@ Everywhere
May 1 all-day
Natl Day of Action: SHUT IT DOWN FOR FREDDIE GREY ON MAY DAY – FRI, MAY 1! AN URGENT CALL FROM BALTIMORE Issued by the BALTIMORE PEOPLES POWER ASSEMBLY National call to mobilize in cities across the U.S. and around the world for: BLACK LIVES MATTER MAY DAY, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015 Every eight hours a police or vigilante murder occurs in the U.S against a person of color especially the youth! We demand: SHUT IT DOWN FOR FREDDIE GREY ON MAY DAY – FRIDAY, MAY 1ST! TURN UP & STAND WITH THE … Continued
Oakland Spring Rising – 40 Farms in 40 Days – May 1st 2015
Oakland Spring Rising – 40 Farms in 40 Days – May 1st 2015
May 1 all-day
 Oakland Spring Rising All Food is Medicine ~ All Water is Sacred 40 Farms in 40 Days beginning May 1st, 2015 Mission: The Mission of Oakland Spring Rising is to support existing community groups and new urban farmers to grow as much nutritious food in an urban setting as possible. Goals: To grow 100 pounds of healthy, organic produce for 400,000 people per year using available vacant land in Oakland. In order to achieve this, Oakland Spring Rising was formed to be a hub for material & knowledge transfer between … Continued
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Occupy The Farm: Community Farm Birthday Party!
@ Gill Tract
10:30 am
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library: Kshama Sawant’s Victory in Seattle
@ Niebyl-Proctor Library
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library: Kshama Sawant’s Victory in Seattle
@ Niebyl-Proctor Library
Apr 26 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
How the Socialist Alternative candidate Kshama Sawant won 96,000 votes in Seattle Speakers from Socialist Alternative will tell us how councilor Kshama Sawant was popularly elected to the Seattle City Council in November 2013. This was the first time in a hundred years that a socialist had won a mass election in Seattle. We used this victory to promote the movement for the $15/hr minimum wage. Seattle’s April 2014 law established the highest minimum wage in the US at the time and legitimized $15 as a winnable demand. The fight … Continued
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People’s Park 46th Anniversary Celebration
@ People's Park
People’s Park 46th Anniversary Celebration
@ People's Park
Apr 26 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
noon-1 :Annual Native American drumming and blessing 1 pm – Soul/Katy Stuck 1:15- Dennis D Banjoman 1:30- Khadejha Valeré 1:45- Occupella 2pm- Andrea Prichett and Friends 2:45- Speakers etc. 3:00 – The Shelley Doty X-Tet 3:45- Speakers etc. 4:00- Beeswax 4:45- Speakers etc. 5:00- The Funky Nixons 5:45- Closing speakers, etc.58638
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A Discussion with Firebrand Anarchists
@ La Commune Cafe & Books at the Omni Collective
A Discussion with Firebrand Anarchists
@ La Commune Cafe & Books at the Omni Collective
Apr 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
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MayDay ShutItDown Action Organizing Assembly
@ Latham Square
MayDay ShutItDown Action Organizing Assembly
@ Latham Square
Apr 26 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
At the Assembly we will discuss and organize pickets and shutdowns for May Day, May 1, in affinity and working groups.58590
2:00 pm
UJAAMA -“FROM THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF TANZANIA’S SOCIALIST VILLAGES TO TODAY’S BLACK JACOBINS IN HAITI”
@ ST. PAUL AME CHURCH
UJAAMA -“FROM THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF TANZANIA’S SOCIALIST VILLAGES TO TODAY’S BLACK JACOBINS IN HAITI”
@ ST. PAUL AME CHURCH
Apr 26 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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Selma James & Danny Glover UJAMAA: The Hidden Story of Tanzania’s Socialist Villages
@ St. Paul AME Church
Selma James & Danny Glover UJAMAA: The Hidden Story of Tanzania’s Socialist Villages
@ St. Paul AME Church
Apr 26 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
 The Hidden Story of Tanzania’s Socialist Villages – to Today’s Black Jacobins in Haiti, featuring Selma James and Danny Glover. Pierre Labossiere of Haiti Action Committee Book co-editor Nina Lopez Pacifica Radio’s Margaret Prescod St Paul AME Church 2024 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley sponsored by Marcus Books, co-sponsored by KPFA Contact Name Mary Email Address sf [at] allwomencount.net Phone Number 510.652.2344 58610
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Richmond: A Forum on Police Community Relations.
@ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Richmond: A Forum on Police Community Relations.
@ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Apr 26 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
A Forum on Police Community Relations On September 14, 2014 Richard “Pedie” Perez was shot and killed by Richmond Police Officer Wallace Jensen. The 24 year -old Pedie was intoxicated and resisting arrest, but according to attorney John Burris who is representing the Perez family, he was not threatening. Police and eyewitnesses give different accounts. The District Attorney refused to indict Jensen calling it a case of justifiable homicide. The RPD internal investigation is ongoing, but Officer Jensen has been returned to active duty. The Oscar Grant Committee has interviewed … Continued
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My Name is Rachel Corrie
@ La Pena Cultural Center
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Defend Knowland Park: Scouting and Native Plant Walk
@ Knowland Park
Defend Knowland Park: Scouting and Native Plant Walk
@ Knowland Park
Apr 27 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
 We will be overview/scouting of the Zoo’s cruel, gentrifying, and neo-colonial “California Trail” Development Plans as well as identifying native plants and trees that are to be cut down unless we stop them. A Rideshare is being organized, stay tuned! You can take the 46L from Coliseum Bart or the North Oakland MacArthur 57 bus to a Foothill Square and by picked up there. 58660
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Freddie Gray Solidarity Action From Baltimore to Oakland!!!
@ Oakland Federal Building
Freddie Gray Solidarity Action From Baltimore to Oakland!!!
@ Oakland Federal Building
Apr 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Oakland will be holding a solidarity action with the community of Baltimore, that will start at the Ron V. Dellums Federal Building at 1301 Clay St. and march to the Port of Oakland. Oakland demands that all officers involved in Freddie Gray’s murder be charged with 1st Degree murder immediately. Freddie Gray was murdered from a severed spine caused by Baltimore PD on April 12th, 2015, after being arrested for having a switch blade. Six officers have been suspended with pay pending an investigation. The … Continued
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Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Meeting
@ 5th floor
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Meeting
@ 5th floor
Apr 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Get involved with the fight against solitary confinement. Become a human rights pen pal: Contact cws@igc.org58414
6:30 pm
Occupy Forum: SDS, Rebels With a Cause: A Film by Helen Garvy
@ Global Exchange
Occupy Forum: SDS, Rebels With a Cause: A Film by Helen Garvy
@ Global Exchange
Apr 27 @ 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! Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Rebels With a Cause: A Film by Helen Garvy Descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society started in 1905, SDS held its first meeting in 1960. Its political manifesto, the Port Huron Statement drafted by Tom Hayden, criticized the political system of the United States for failing to achieve international peace. It critiqued Cold War foreign policy, the … Continued
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Special Hearing on Encounters With Richmond Police: Richmond Human Rights Commission.
@ Richmond City Hall
Special Hearing on Encounters With Richmond Police: Richmond Human Rights Commission.
@ Richmond City Hall
Apr 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
The Human Rights Commission will hold a special mtg. to hear testimony/stories from those with encounters with the Richmond PD. The HRC is a sympathetic group. This meeting was requested by George Galvis and others in response the the recent shooting of Leno Gonzales by Richmond PD. For more info. contact George Galvis with “Communities for Restorative Youth Justice”. Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice | Newsletter All are invited to attend this HRC mtg. on April 27th.58456
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Court Support for 2 Arrestees from BartFriday
Court Support for 2 Arrestees from BartFriday
Apr 28 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Abby and Evan will have a pre-trial hearing on the charges against them for participating in the BART shutdown on Bart Friday, part of a #BlackLivesMatter weekend of action. Come stand in solidarity with them! Facebook page: Come support Antoinette and Evan, arrested unjustly at the BART Friday action in January. BART police and SF Sheriffs targeted these two brave individuals while they were in custody. Particularly severe pain and trauma was caused to Antoinette, whose cane was stolen by BART PD, and despite repeated requests for mobility assistance, she … Continued
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Earth Day Rally for San Francisco’s Clean Energy Future!
@ SF City Hall Plaza
Earth Day Rally for San Francisco’s Clean Energy Future!
@ SF City Hall Plaza
Apr 28 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Join us to celebrate Earth Day and San Francisco’s #cleanenergy future by rallying to tell city leaders we need to step up our game on climate action and launch #CleanPowerSF this year! (After talking about it since 2004.) We’ll hear from community leaders, organizers, students, and residents about why launching CleanPower in 2015 is critical to the city taking meaningful climate action — then we’ll head into City Hall to tell policymakers in their 1:30 meeting that SF cannot wait any longer: we need a clean energy program for our … Continued
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Oakland Livable Wage Assembly Meeting
@ SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 2nd floor
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly Meeting
@ SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 2nd floor
Apr 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
 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. 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 wages and quality of work life. At this meeting we will review our actions on 4/15 – shutting down the McDonald’s in West Oakland, the … Continued
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NLG Training: Meeting People Where They are At
NLG Training: Meeting People Where They are At
Apr 29 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Training 8 Meeting People Where They’re At This training will teach participants how to be conscious of the experiences and conditions incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people face, in order to improve participants’ advocacy. Trainers will focus on methods to increase mindfulness and improve relationship building and advocacy skills during phone calls, correspondence, visits, and other support activities. Examples will be drawn from experiences at CDCR Women’s facilities.RSVP & Survey: Please complete to shape venue, content, and number of copies for the series. Email List Sign up for announcements here http://eepurl.com/7WwfL Materials, … Continued
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Politics of Debt Book Group
@ Omni Collective, basement
Politics of Debt Book Group
@ Omni Collective, basement
Apr 29 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
There’s (or soon will be) a new world-wide lending institution in town. What affect will it have on the global economy? On the IMF and World Bank? On US control of the world’s monetary system? We’re discussing the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank being pushed by China and how it effects American hegemony over the worldwide banking system. A few articles we’ll be reading. More may be coming. Hudson on the Real News Net: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13470 William Engdahl (a reference in Ellen Brown’s works): http://journal-neo.org/2015/04/10/aiib-brics-development-bank-and-an-emerging-world/ Another similar one: http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/u-s-hegemony-and-dollar-threatened-by-new-chinese-bank/ New York Times … Continued
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Make May Day banners and Picket Signs
@ Omni Commons
Make May Day banners and Picket Signs
@ Omni Commons
Apr 30 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Come make May Day banners and Picket Signs with us at the Omni to the May Day #SHUTITDOWN activities in Oakland! Can’t paint? You can support us by bringing paint, brushes, fabric, flag poles, ect. You will also be able to pick up May Day flyers for last minute distribution!58707
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Enough is Enough: Stop Gentrification Protest
Enough is Enough: Stop Gentrification Protest
May 1 @ 7:30 am – 9:00 am
 May Day is the traditional holiday of the working class, the oppressed, and the rebellious. It is a day to celebrate our collective power against exploitation, capitalism, and control. This Friday, May 1st, 2015, we want to start the day off the right way. Oakland is seeing an unprecedented wave of gentrification creeping in from every direction. The rich have begun colonizing North Oakland, West Oakland, and Downtown. Their tech buses, their pricey cafes, and their luxury apartments have begun to appear with alarming frequency. This May Day, we will … Continued
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Port Shutdown March: Labor Against Police Terror.
@ Port of Oakland, APL gate near berth 62
Port Shutdown March: Labor Against Police Terror.
@ Port of Oakland, APL gate near berth 62
May 1 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
 Facebook event. Local 10, outraged by the recent escalation in police brutality throughout the US that has resulted in the needless killing of innocent and unarmed minorities, has called for unions and workers to join our march from the port to Oakland City Hall. WHERE: Port of Oakland, take Adeline St. to portside of overpass. Rides should be available from the West Oakland BART (see bottom). The labor force has played an integral part in social justice movements throughout United States history and beyond. ILWU, Local 10 in particular, has … Continued
1:30 pm
International Workers Day Regional Festival and March – San Francisco
@ Civic Center Plaza
International Workers Day Regional Festival and March – San Francisco
@ Civic Center Plaza
May 1 @ 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm
 nternational Workers Day Regional Festival and March 1:30-3:30 Festival @ Civic Center Plaza 3:30 Regional March to 24th and Mission 5:00-5:30 Closing program @ 24th and Mission More info, RSVP. 58671
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Eyes on the Movement: Images from Bay Area Activist Photographers
@ Studio Grand
Eyes on the Movement: Images from Bay Area Activist Photographers
@ Studio Grand
May 1 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Silicon Valley De-Bug’s Class Conscious Photographers and Studio Grand present the opening night of: Eyes on the Movement: Images from Bay Area Activist Photographers Powered by working class people and captured by photographers embedded in these struggles. Photography, music, cultural performances, and refreshments. Special digital slideshow photo exhibit from that day’s May 1st marches. Photographers include Brooke Anderson, David Bacon, Jenny Cain, Charisse Domingo, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Isabel Gonzalez, Najib Joe Hakim, Jean Leasiolagi, Abraham Menor, Antonio Nava, Karen Ng, Ronald Orlando, Leopoldo Pena, Daniel Zapien.58698
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Anti-Capitalist March
@ Latham Square
Anti-Capitalist March
@ Latham Square
May 1 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Oakland2Baltimore: We Got Your Back
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
8:00 pm
State of Emergency 3: Panel Discussion and Concert, with Fred Hampton Jr.
State of Emergency 3: Panel Discussion and Concert, with Fred Hampton Jr.
May 1 @ 8:00 pm – 11:45 pm
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Teach-In: The Spirit of Viet Nam is Stronger than U.S. Bombs
@ MetWest High School
Teach-In: The Spirit of Viet Nam is Stronger than U.S. Bombs
@ MetWest High School
May 2 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
The war in Viet Nam was one of the most important historical events of the 20th century. It brings to light the heroic struggle of Vietnamese people against foreign aggression, particularly the United States of America. The Viet Nam Victory Coalition (VNVC), formed in 2014, is hosting a Community Event: “The Spirit of Viet Nam is Stronger than U.S. Bombs” – a day-full of cultural, educational & powerful sharing to mark the 40th anniversary of the US military’s forced departure from Viet Nam and international struggle for self-determination. PLEASE REGISTER … Continued
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National Day of Action: Oakland Rally! #FreddieGray Oakland2Baltimore #blackspring
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
National Day of Action: Oakland Rally! #FreddieGray Oakland2Baltimore #blackspring
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
May 2 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Rally in solidarity with Baltimore and the fight for justice for Freddie Gray. All across the country on Saturday May 2nd folks will be in the streets to demand that the war on black folks must end! Come get in the streets! #blackspring #freddiegray Facebook RSVP.58720
5:30 pm
May Day: the Real Story of Radicalism and the American Working Class
@ Women's Building
May Day: the Real Story of Radicalism and the American Working Class
@ Women's Building
May 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Come to a meeting about what we learn from the real history of May Day, the Marxist traditions of working class organizing in America and discuss what we need to do today to continue the fight. Followed by a social/fundraiser for the Socialism 2015 conference. www.socialismconference.org58703
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