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Indigenous and Environmental Activists Call for Removal of McKinley Statue in Arcata At the Arcata City Council meeting on Wed., Feb. 21, the Pacific Alliance for Indigenous and Environmental Action (PAIEA) affiliates will add their voices to those calling for the removal of the statue of President McKinley from the Arcata Plaza, as well as the plaque mentioning “Indian troubles”. After a walk and rally, they will converge on the Arcata City Council meeting Wednesday (Feb. 21) night....
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2018 10:58am PST
Buffalo Soldiers Honored at American Heritage Day at Mount Vernon Memorial Park. 
We are the 10th Cavalry, Company G of Northern California a Buffalo Soldier a living history group. Established in Sacramento in 1992. We re-create a Buffalo Soldier Company during the Indian Wars Period the years from 1866 to 1891. The year our unit concentrates on is 1874. Buffalo Soldiers were members of the US Army and wore the same uniforms as the rest of the U.S. Army. They were initially given left over uniforms and equipment from the Civil War. That was the regulation uniform when t...
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2018 11:28pm PST
Urgent! The Beach Flats Garden Needs Your Help 
Dear Beach Flats Garden supporter: The City Parks Department needs to hear from you regarding the Parks Master Plan. Public comment is due by February 20. Send comments to: ndowning@cityofsantacruz.com...
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2018 10:56pm PST
Black Solidarity Week in Oakland: February 17-24 
Community READY Corps, an Oakland-based organization dedicated to the upliftment and empowerment of Black people, has called for a week of solidarity in the Black community in the City of Oakland from February 17 - 24, 2018....
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2018 8:39pm PST
Right-Wing Zionist Group Calls on Berkeley to Investigate City Council Member Over Support for Palestinian Rights 
February 15, 2018 - The right-wing Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has demanded that the City of Berkeley, California investigate City Council Member Cheryl Davila, arguing erroneously that Davila violated the law by supporting boycotts for Palestinian rights....
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2018 9:47pm PST
Israeli Official Distorts CA Law To Stop Sister City Proposal 
February 12, 2018 - The Israeli deputy consul general erroneously told the City of Alameda, California that establishing a sister city relationship with a Palestinian village would run afoul of state law. This is the latest effort by the Israeli state and its proxy organizations in the U.S. to distort local civil rights laws to chill advocacy on behalf of Palestinians....
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2018 9:21pm PST
Slavery and Freedom Celebrating the 170th Anniversary of the California Gold Rush 
Early morning on January 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered gold in the mill race of Sutter's Mill along the American River, Coloma, California. Enslaved and Free, people of Pan African ancestry were part of the migration to the Gold Mining District. Throughout the vast region of Alta California, people of African ancestry held high level positions in the Mexican Republic. This 170th Anniversary Year of the California Gold Rush it is time to share "hidden figures" from our California Pan ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2018 9:52pm PST
NAACP Presentation at Greater Purpose Community Church 
NAACP Presentation at Greater Purpose Community Church in Santa Cruz, CA....
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2018 10:23am PST
AFSCME 3299 Worker Protesting for Labor Contract Slammed by UC Berkeley Police (video/mp4 10.7MB) On February 1, at a peaceful labor protest honoring the 50th Anniversary of low-wage African American workers and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr organized by AFSCME Local 3299, the University of California deployed police tactics more befitting of the Jim Crow South--unjustly assaulting a 51 year-old African American UC Berkeley employee named David Cole. A video of the assault was captured and posted to Facebook. The person posting it added the inscription, "What a sick feeling"....
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2018 11:52pm PST
Rally Against Racial Injustice at UC 
California Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Wed, Feb 7, 2018 11:30am PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2018 11:25pm PST
Rosa Parks Day in California 
The California Department of Education, Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resource Division, will need to revise what is being taught throughout the State of California, as we share the 18th Annual, Rosa Parks Day in California with the world....
Posted: Sat, Feb 3, 2018 7:26pm PST
Petition: Don't Evict Aunti Frances! 
Aunti Frances is a beloved Black disabled activist, elder, Black Panther and community leader who has lived in North Oakland/South Berkeley her entire life. She now faces a no-fault eviction at the hands of Natalia Morphy and Morphy’s parents, who are exploiting a notorious loophole in Oakland renter protections for their own personal gain....
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2018 6:50pm PST
Miskitu Kingdom Files Opening Brief in U.S. 9th Circuit Court 
San Francisco, January 29th, 2018 – The Matriarch of the Miskitu Kingdom of Central America filed her opening brief with the United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week in case No. 17-17156 regarding the previous decision in the United States District Court of Judge Jon S. Tigar that involves a complaint against the Republic of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista Party, Rosario Murillo, and the United States corporation, Infinity Energy Resources....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2018 1:35pm PST
No FBI Targeting of Black Activists as "Black identity Extremists!" 
7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 18, 2018 4:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2018 4:33pm PST
Shut Down Oakland Whole Foods in Support of Anti-Racism 
230 Bay Pl, Oakland, CA 94612 Whole Foods Store: Oakland...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 24, 2018 3:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2018 3:50pm PST
One Year Later, Charges Finally Dropped Against Bay Area Inauguration Day Protesters 
Chief Assistant DA Shannon Woo announced the formal dismissal of charges against 11 activists, known as the J20 Resisters, who participated in protests on last year's Inauguration Day. DA George Gascón has faced harsh criticism for squandering resources in pursuit of this case....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2018 10:47pm PST
'Soledad Brother' John Clutchette Granted Parole; Don't Let Gov. Jerry Brown Reverse It! 
This new interview with SULC Law Professor Angela A. Allen-Bell is being released to kickstart a public campaign to contact California Governor Jerry Brown asking him to affirm the granting of parole and not reverse the parole board's decision. Please take action for 'Soledad Brother' John Clutchette!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2018 9:38pm PST
Response to the threats of Northern California ICE Raids 
On January 17, 2018 there were reports that U.S. immigration officials are preparing to arrest more than 1,500 undocumented people in Northern California....
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2018 8:28pm PST
Oakland Deports ICE 
On the day Homeland Security announced planning for a major immigration raid in the Bay Area in response to sanctuary city laws......
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2018 8:15pm PST
Reclaim MLK 2018: Morning Wake-Up Call at Rockridge BART 
For the fourth year in a row, the Anti Police-Terror Project called for 96 hours of action to reclaim Martin Luther King Jr's radical legacy in the Bay Area, declaring, "We will not comply" with the Trump and Schaaf regimes. The focus for Day One was State-Sponsored Violence. Kicking off the weekend on Friday, January 12, Standing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) held a rally at Rockridge BART in Oakland, distributing a thousand fliers on reclaiming Dr. King's radical legacy, urging commuters t...
Posted: Wed, Jan 17, 2018 10:31pm PST
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