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Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile!
Fortune Restaurant
940 Webster, Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 18, 2017 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 8:50pm PST
Statement on OPD shooting of white supremacist terror suspect Jesse Enjaian
Compared with their protocol for profiling, harassing - and occasionally murdering - Black and Brown civilians in Oakland, the Oakland Police Department’s shooting of white supremacist gunman Jesse Enjaian illustrates the depth of officers’ conscious and unconscious biases and unwavering ability to humanize a white suspect to a fault, even after the person has demonstrated a clear capability for violence and disregard for human life....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 8:48pm PST
San Francisco Hotline in Case of ICE Raids
San Francisco, in case of ICE raids call new hotline: 415-200-1548. Legal and community defense in Spanish, Arabic and Chinese....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 8:02pm PST
Riseup moves to encrypted email in response to legal requests
After exhausting our legal options, Riseup recently chose to comply with two sealed warrants from the FBI, rather than facing contempt of court (which would have resulted in jail time for Riseup birds and/or termination of the Riseup organization). The first concerned the public contact address for an international DDoS extortion ring. The second concerned an account using ransomware to extort money from people....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 7:44pm PST
This Week in Palestine, February 17, 2017 (audio/mpeg 9.0MB)
Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 11, to the 17, 2017....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 7:32pm PST
Proposed budget cuts threaten millions of HUD subsidized low-income renters
In the Bay Area according to HUD, the Oakland Housing Authority has 13,422 federally subsidized housing units in it’s section 8 inventory, and 2,122 units in it’s low rent inventory, formerly known as public housing units....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 7:14pm PST
Sanctuary for All March In Fresno (video/mp4 25.3MB)
About 500 people participated in the Sanctuary for All march in downtown Fresno on Saturday, February 18. Below is a 20 second time lapse video of the event....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 4:16pm PST
Community Support for Black Lives Matter in Capitola
Several dozen activists gathered at two corners of the 41st Ave. and Capitola Road intersection in support of reversing police violence. I was there s a HUFF activist and Free Radio Santa Cruz reporter....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 3:31pm PST
Race, Class and American Populism
Oakland Public Library—Main Branch
125 14th Street, Bradley C. Walters Community Room (downstairs)
(Between Oak & Madison, 8 minute walk from Lake Merritt BART)
*The Oakland Public Library does not advocate or endorse the viewpoints of meetings or meeting room users....
Event Date: Sun, Mar 5, 2017 2:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 1:28pm PST
US Labor Against the War program and fundraiser
4089 25th Street (between Noe and Sanchez)...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 5, 2017 2:30pm PST
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 6:53am PST
Trump Administration's Plan to Use 100,000 National Guard Troops as Deportation Force
The AP revealed an detailed plan written by the Trump administration to use the National Guard in 11 southwestern states as a deportation force to kidnap and forcibly remove as many people as possible from the country. The states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana were included in the plan. Trump craves his very own Operation Wetback. Team Trump denies that they intended to carry out the plan and call the document a d...
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 12:22am PST
Not My President Day in San José
San Jose City Hall
200 East Santa Clara Street
San Jose, CA 95113...
Event Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 11:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 11:03pm PST
Not My President Rally in Morgan Hill
ICE
220 Vineyard Court
Morgan Hill, CA 95037...
Event Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 11:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 10:47pm PST
Fordham Retaliates Against Student for Protesting SJP Ban
February 16, 2017 - Fordham University has issued a disciplinary charge against a student trying to start a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group on campus, demanding a closed-door hearing with the dean who denied the group club status. The student, senior Sapphira Lurie, was charged with violating the school’s “Demonstration Policy” for organizing a January 23rd rally protesting Fordham’s decision to ban SJP from the school. Her hearing is scheduled for February 22nd....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 8:00pm PST
Palo Alto Radical Left Reading Group
The Prolific Oven
550 Waverly Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2017 7:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 2:09pm PST
Municipal Ordinance Provides Force of Law Protection For Immigrants
City Electeds Must Act Now...
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 11:25am PST
The Commemoration of the 6th Anniversary of Fukushima Meltdown---- "Kindle A Light on The
Berkeley Public Central Library, at Community Room on 3rd floor
2090 Kittredge St ( at Shattuck), Berkeley...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 12, 2017 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 11:07am PST
Congress Moves Slowly on Bipartisan Puerto Rico Recommendations
Congress has not acted on recommendations made by its Puerto Rico task force it implemented last year....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 9:18am PST
Movement to End the New Jim Crow: Reimagining Justice
First Congregational Church, 2501 Harrison St., Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2017 7:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 7:12am PST
Spanish Squatting Discussion
Long Haul Infoshop, 3124 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley....
Event Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 6:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2017 8:29pm PST