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DESCRIPTION:Come through on Friday, June 24 to learn how to support the state-wide 
 mobilization against Urban Shield on Sept. 9 in Pleasanton, CA! This is the 
 second of three Town Halls that Stop Urban Shield is holding, and we 
 encourage all social justice organizations and individuals in Berkeley and 
 surrounding neighborhoods to attend. \n\nCo-hosted by the Stop Urban Shield 
 coalition, Berkeley Copwatch and Anti Police-Terror Project, we'll be 
 facilitating an interactive forum to understand what exactly Urban Shield 
 is, its tactics to repress our communities through increased militarization 
 of police and emergency medical services, and its place within the global 
 context of policing and imperialism. As we always must, we'll be 
 highlighting the voices and deep insights of those who have lost loved ones 
 to police violence and lifting up the ways our communities are building 
 resilience against militarization. \n\nIn 2014, communities united to kick 
 Urban Shield out of Oakland.\n\nIn 2015, we converged on the Sheriff's 
 office in downtown Oakland to let them know that Urban Shield is not 
 welcome in Alameda County.\n\nAnd In 2016, we're taking it state-wide and 
 putting Urban Shield on notice that we don't want them in California or 
 anywhere else for that matter.\n\nABOUT URBAN SHIELD:\n\nUrban Shield is a 
 weapons expo and war-like police training that brings together law 
 enforcement agencies from across the country and world to learn how to 
 better repress, criminalize, and militarize our communities.\n\nUrban 
 Shield is a key player in creating militarized emergency response systems 
 that make police the first responders to everything from climate disasters 
 to uprisings. But as we saw during Hurricane Katrina, when “public 
 safety” relies on armed emergency management, communities of color -- and 
 particularly Black communities -- become an “emergency” that need to be 
 controlled and managed with a military response.\n\nCOME JOIN US at this 
 Town Hall to learn how WE can shrink Urban Shield -- and policing as a 
 whole -- out of existence.\n\nAccess: Entrance and bathrooms are wheel 
 chair accessible.\n\nCOALITION WEBSITE: www.stopurbanshield.org\nTOWN HALL 
 EVENT on FB: www.facebook.com/events/509531092580225/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/15/18787606.php
SUMMARY:Stop Urban Shield Town Hall
LOCATION:East Bay Media Center\n1939 Addison St, Berkeley, California 94704\n(Near 
 intersection of Addison and Milvia)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/15/18787606.php
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