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THE PEOPLES MARCH – the Fifth Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy
THE PEOPLES MARCH – the Fifth Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy
Jan 21 all-day
 THE PEOPLES MARCH – the Fifth Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy….A mass mobilization. The Peoples March – Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy We will hold Oscar Grant Plaza from sunrise to sunset. The schedule is still evolving, and includes an entire day of events, remembrance, building, and organizing. There will be hourly rituals, including the sounding of a gong and lighting or torches to call our attention to the ways our community is harmed by violence. The tentative schedule is below: 7:20 am – 7:45 am – Sunrise Ceremony … Continued
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Oakland Permaculture Action Day w/ Lead to Life
Oakland Permaculture Action Day w/ Lead to Life
Jan 20 @ 10:00 am – 5:30 pm
In honor of the annual “Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy” weekend 2019: Lead to Life & Permaculture Action Network invite you to the Sogorea Te Land Trust and Planting Justice Nursery in East Oakland for a Permaculture Action Day on Sunday, January 20th! This is a free, family-friendly event filled with ecologically regenerative hands-on projects, workshops & skill-shares, music, and a community meal. This is the sister event to this past April’s Lead to Life series in Atlanta, Georgia, where 50 guns were melted down into 50 shovels to plant 50 … Continued
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The international communist movement and the world working class, Chinese Views.
@ Niebyl Proctor Library
The international communist movement and the world working class, Chinese Views.
@ Niebyl Proctor Library
Jan 20 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
“Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library” We are hosting a delegation of comrades from the Chinese Communist Party, all faculty members of Central China Normal University in Wuhan, one of the top ten Universities in China. They are visiting the Bay Area to get to know the problems of U.S. society and politics better. They will also speak at our forum. The delegation includes: 1. Tang Min, professor, president of School of Politics and International Studies, CCNU, a famous Chinese expert in the research of Chinese rural governance, national problems. … Continued
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An Introduction to the Radical Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
@ East Bay Community Space
An Introduction to the Radical Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
@ East Bay Community Space
Jan 20 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
In this introductory training, we will discuss some of Dr. King’s more influential writings and his lasting connection to modern movements. This community-based conversation will cover the Six Principles of Kingian Nonviolence, Dr. King’s Six Step strategy for developing a nonviolent campaign, and an in-depth read of “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.” Please join Cynthia Gutierrez and Mica Stumpf of Women’s March Oakland in a highly interactive exploration of the values and philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.65509
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Raymond Douglas Chong Documentary Film and Book Event
@ Asian Cultural Center
Raymond Douglas Chong Documentary Film and Book Event
@ Asian Cultural Center
Jan 20 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 OACC and Eastwind Books of Berkeley welcome Dr. Raymond Chong Dr. Raymond Douglas Chong presents his Documentary Film: My Odyssey – Between Two Worlds and Book – Chop Suey and Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea: Chinese and Japanese Restaurants in the United States Raymond Douglas Chong’s journey in search of his family roots in Kaiping, Guangdong, China leads to his ancestral village where he interviews villagers and uncovers its peasant history. With remarkable footprints, Chong traces his family’s five generation migrations to America. Following great-great-great and great-great grandfathers who … Continued
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Reclaim Radical King Weekend: A Guns to Shovels Ceremony
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Reclaim Radical King Weekend: A Guns to Shovels Ceremony
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Jan 21 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
“I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that [they] will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “A Christmas Sermon on Peace” In partnership with the Robby Poblete Foundation and United Playaz, Lead to Life invites you to join us for a live metal alchemy ceremony to transform guns into shovels, and to call in the … Continued
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POSTPONED: Ending Urban Shield “As It Is Currently Constituted” – Final Task Force Meeting
@ Alameda County Administration Bldg
POSTPONED: Ending Urban Shield “As It Is Currently Constituted” – Final Task Force Meeting
@ Alameda County Administration Bldg
Jan 23 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am
POSTPONED: “Because the consultants did not finish a draft of the UASI Ad hoc Committee report, tomorrow’s meeting has been postponed until next week. Probably to Jan. 30, 3 – 5 pm (pending confirmation of committee members).” Thursday’s 1/10/19 meeting was not the final task force meeting after all. They will meet again on Monday January 14 from 3 to 8pm and then again on January 22 from 9-11am. As of 1/14, the Task Force completed its votes on recommendations. This meeting on the 23rd will be pro forma to … Continued
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Leadership Training for Tenant and Community Organizing
@ South Berkeley Senior Center
Leadership Training for Tenant and Community Organizing
@ South Berkeley Senior Center
Jan 23 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
TIME FOR TENANT AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING Fed up with rising rents? Already displaced? Working together makes the difference! Featured Speaker: Vanessa Riles is Interfaith and Community Organizer for East Bay Housing Organizations. She will talk about the spring Community Leadership Academy and her earlier experiences as a leader and community organizer of the Oakland Justice/East 12th Coalition. They won a 2-year campaign, turned around city policies in 2017, and saved public land for local affordable housing instead of subsidizing a for-profit developer. Talk, Q&A,and discussion are followed by social time … Continued
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Restorative Justice Roundtable
@ First Congregational Church of Oakland
Restorative Justice Roundtable
@ First Congregational Church of Oakland
Jan 23 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
This presentation is for anyone interested in learning more about how Restorative Justice can change the criminal justice system and stop the school to prison pipeline. Join in the discussion to create deeper Restorative Practices on a state, county and local level. RSVP to gamaliel.genesisca@gmail.com65460
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Privacy Lab
@ UC Hastings Alumni Reception Center
Privacy Lab
@ UC Hastings Alumni Reception Center
Jan 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
January 2019 Privacy Lab – Data Privacy Compliance Under the Law: Addressing corporate compliance with evolving US/Int’l. privacy laws. Bios: The Hastings Intellectual Property Association (HIPA) will host the January Privacy Lab. HIPA is a UC Hastings student organization with the mission to promote and foster the study and practice of intellectual property law for all past, current, and future Hastings students. HIPA recognizes the increasing importance of privacy law and seeks to educate students and the extended legal community on it’s importance through partnership with the Privacy Lab and … Continued
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ALAMEDA COUNTY CLEAN SLATE CLINIC
@ Public Defender's Office
ALAMEDA COUNTY CLEAN SLATE CLINIC
@ Public Defender's Office
Jan 24 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am
JOINT WALK‐IN CLINICS with Public Defender and EBCLC *Please bring your statewide CA DOJ RAP sheet if you have it or we can give information at clinic* We may be able to help with: Dismissal of Conviction – PC 1203.4 Felony Reduction / Prop 47 and 64 Relief Early Termination of Probation Certificate of Rehabilitation Sealing Arrest Record – Factual Innocence Juvenile Record Sealing Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants and Survivors of Human Trafficking Employment denials due to criminal background reports Occupational … Continued
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Diversity film ‘100 Years; One woman’s Fight for Justice’
@ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse at Frank Havens School
Diversity film ‘100 Years; One woman’s Fight for Justice’
@ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse at Frank Havens School
Jan 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
ALSO 1/27/19 @ 12:30 pm @ 474 24th Street, Oakland When Elouise Cobell, a Blackfeet warrior from Montana, started asking questions about missing money from government-managed Indian Trust accounts, she never imagined that one day she would be taking on the U.S. government. But what she discovered as the Treasurer of her tribe was a trail of fraud and corruption leading all the way from Montana to Washington DC. 100 Years is the story of her 30-year fight for justice for 300,000 Native Americans whose mineral- rich lands were grossly … Continued
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‘The Judge,’ Film Screening
@ Berkeley City College
‘The Judge,’ Film Screening
@ Berkeley City College
Jan 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
When she was a young lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih walked into the office of Palestine’s Chief Justice and announced she wanted to join the bench. He laughed at her. But just a few years later, Kholoud became the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a (Islamic law) courts. WINNER of the Best Bay Area Documentary Feature at the 2018 San Francisco Film Festival, Official Selection of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival – also featured on PBS Independent Lens. Directed by Erika Cohn. “[Judge Kholoud] emerges as … Continued
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No Coal in Richmond Canvasser Training
@ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
No Coal in Richmond Canvasser Training
@ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Jan 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
 A critical part of the campaign to end coal exports from Richmond is reaching out to coal-dust–impacted Richmond residents. Going door-to-door is one of the best ways to get the word out to affected neighborhoods. No Coal in Richmond is holding a training session to increase your comfort with canvassing and staffing tables at events. We want to reach residents in several neighborhoods, so lots of volunteers are needed! You’ll find out residents’ concerns, share information about the health impacts of toxic coal dust, and obtain signatures on a petition … Continued
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A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain
@ Internet Archives
6:30 pm
The Yellow Vest Movement: A Report Back From France
@ Berkeley City College, Rm 55
The Yellow Vest Movement: A Report Back From France
@ Berkeley City College, Rm 55
Jan 25 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets all over France in what began as a protest against a fuel-tax increase but has spread into a movement against the overall worsening economic conditions in the country. Join us for a presentation and discussion with French activists about this current movement and where it could lead.65541
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Film Showing: The Young Karl Marx
@ Revolution Books
Film Showing: The Young Karl Marx
@ Revolution Books
Jan 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
This film that will give you a whole new understanding of the birth and the development of communist revolution. It focuses on five years from 1843 to 1848 and tells the story of the 26-year-old Karl Marx along with Frederick Engels, Jenny Marx, and Mary Burns and their fight to bring a scientific understanding to the revolutionary movement of the times.65515
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Free Screenings of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ at Grand Lake
@ Grand Lake Theater
Free Screenings of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ at Grand Lake
@ Grand Lake Theater
Jan 26 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am
The owner of the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland has added two free morning screenings of “The Manchurian Candidate” this weekend, citing escalating Russia collusion allegations against President Trump. Grand Lake owner Allen Michaan has been open about his left-leaning political stances in the past, often expressing them in giant letters on the theater’s marquee — on Thanksgiving he crafted an anti-Trump message that ended “JAIL TO THE CHIEF!!” Michaan said he set up the screenings, at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 26-27, “in honor of the cascading revelations regarding our treasonous president.” … Continued
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Brazilian Socialist Leaders in Conversation
@ Niebyl Proctor Library
Brazilian Socialist Leaders in Conversation
@ Niebyl Proctor Library
Jan 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Brazilian Socialist Leaders in Conversation: Left Movement-Building and the Global Education Strike Wave Meet four visiting leaders and federal congresspeople from Brazil’s Party of Socialism and Liberation (PSOL) to discuss their experience building a mass working-class movement in Brazil. A rank-and-file teacher leader from the Oakland Education Association will join in conversation about movement-building lessons for the possible Oakland teachers’ strike. Recent elections in Brazil brought a far-right leader to the presidency, but at the same time the democratic socialist party PSOL won inspiring gains across the country. The party … Continued
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Kevin Cooper Special Report
@ CBS Television
Kevin Cooper Special Report
@ CBS Television
Jan 26 @ 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm
CBS News will be airing a special two-hour episode of 48 Hours on Kevin Cooper’s innocence case this Saturday, January 26, from 9:00 to 11:00 PM ET/PT. In May of last year, Nicholas Kristof published an explosive column in the New York Times, reviewing the evidence and concluding that it points to people other than Kevin. You can still read it here if you missed it. The 48 Hours episode will include interviews with Kristof, Kevin’s attorney Norman Hile, and DPF Board Director Thomas R. Parker, a retired FBI agent … Continued
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