Building Resilience, Building Community Power Saturday, December 3, 2011 10am – 4pm Tassafaronga Recreation Center 975 – 85th Avenue Even as the 1% profiting from pollution and environmental racism here in Oakland and around the world, they continue to propose false solutions to climate change designed to make more profits instead of improve the health Read More »
The Funders Network on Transforming the Global Economy has just released a dynamic 9-minute film, documenting recent grassroots climate justice organizing. Centering around efforts to overturn California’s historic global warming legislation, the film highlights how community organizations and networks throughout the state played a crucial role in mobilizing the vote in immigrant and low income Read More »
Saturday, Dec. 3, SF Join tenant and homeowner groups together with Causa Justa:: Just Cause, Occupy SF, SF Tenants’ Union and a host of others on Saturday, Dec. 3 in San Francisco. We gather and rally in four neighborhoods in San Francisco who have experienced high rates of evictions for profit, and highlight the local struggles Read More »
Monday, Dec. 12 @ West Coast Ports A coalition of Occupy movements on the West Coast – including Oakland, LA, San Diego, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Vancouver – are planning a coordinated blockade of West Coast Ports on Dec 12th to shut down the 1% on the waterfront! The West Coast Ports will be blockaded Read More »
Thursday Nov 17th, a peaceful protestor was turned over to ICE for possible deportation. Pancho Ramos was arrested while meditating during the eviction of Occupy Oakland on Monday. Due to the S-Comm (misnamed Secure Communities) program, Pancho was caught in this dragnet that unfairly sweeps up community members for detention and deportation. As Pancho’s case Read More »