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SUMMARY:Unmasking ICE Part 2: Digital Defense / Desenmascarando a ICE Parte 2: Defensa Digital
DESCRIPTION:From travel bans to skyrocketing detentions and deportations\, our immigrant communities are under attack. Yet\, everyday people are rising up to defend their loved ones and neighbors. \nTogether\, we’ll learn how ICE is using high-tech surveillance against us\, how our devices and online activities can impact our privacy and security\, and how to manage and reduce our risk. This training will cover practices and tools to protect your devices\, private data\, accounts\, and communications. \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Political Education\, Bay Resistance\, Movement Generation and 18 Million Rising \nDesde prohibiciones de viaje hasta detenciones y deportaciones masivas\, nuestras comunidades inmigrantes están bajo ataque. Sin embargo\, la gente común se está movilizando para defender a sus seres queridos y vecinos. \nJuntos\, aprenderemos cómo ICE está utilizando la vigilancia de alta tecnología en nuestra contra\, cómo nuestros dispositivos y actividades en línea pueden afectar nuestra privacidad y seguridad\, y cómo gestionar y reducir los riesgos. Esta capacitación cubrirá prácticas y herramientas para proteger sus dispositivos\, datos privados\, cuentas y comunicaciones. \nCopatrocinado por: el Centro de Educación Política\, Bay Resistance\, Movement Generation y 18 Million Rising.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/unmasking-ice-part-2-digital-defense-desenmascarando-a-ice-parte-2-defensa-digital/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251203T183000
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SUMMARY:Unmasking ICE: What Kind of Paramilitary Force is the Trump Regime Building?
DESCRIPTION:  \nICE has been at the forefront of the Trump regime’s efforts to kidnap and abuse immigrants\, silence dissent\, and invade “Blue” cities. With a massive increase in funding to ICE\, public spectacles of violent raids\, and racist demagoguery coming from ICE and administration officials\, social movements must reckon with a sobering question:  \nWhat kind of paramilitary force is the Trump regime building and to what end? \nIn this political education and training session\, we’ll analyze changes to ICE infrastructure and practices and what they mean for our efforts to stop US authoritarian rule. We’ll also discuss how ICE works closely with tech companies to surveil and enforce its violent program and what we can do to defend ourselves and our communities. \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Political Education\, Bay Resistance\, Movement Generation and 18 Million Rising \nRegister Here: https://bit.ly/unmaskingice  \n \nDesenmascarando a ICE: ¿Qué tipo de fuerza paramilitar está desarrollando el régimen de Trump?\nEl Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) ha estado al frente de los esfuerzos del régimen de Trump para secuestrar y maltratar a las personas inmigrantes\, silenciar la disidencia e invadir las ciudades del «bando azul» (demócratas). Con el aumento masivo de la financiación destinada a ICE\, los espectáculos públicos de redadas violentas y la demagogia racista procedente de ICE y de los funcionarios de la administración\, los movimientos sociales deben plantearse una pregunta preocupante: \n¿Qué tipo de fuerza paramilitar está desarrollando el régimen de Trump y con qué fin? \nEn esta sesión de educación y formación política\, analizaremos los cambios en la infraestructura y las prácticas de ICE y lo que significan para nuestros esfuerzos por detener el régimen autoritario del gobierno estadounidense. También abordaremos cómo ICE colabora estrechamente con empresas tecnológicas para vigilar y ejecutar su violento programa\, y qué podemos hacer para defendernos a nosotres mismes y a nuestras comunidades. \nCopatrocinado por: el Centro de Educación Política\, Bay Resistance\, Movement Generation y 18 Million Rising. \nRegístrate aquí: https://bit.ly/unmaskingice 
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/unmasking-ice-what-kind-of-paramilitary-force-is-the-trump-regime-building/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Fighting Fascism: Alliances\, Coalitions and United Fronts that Defeat MAGA with Bill Fletcher Jr.
DESCRIPTION:How do we organize against authoritarian rule and fascism in the US? Center for Political Education is hosting a multi-part series to sharpen our shared understanding of how social movements in the US organize against fascist repression and violence. This series is intended to ground those newly activated by our current political crises in the history and theory of long-term working-class resistance to fascism\, while providing more experienced organizers with a unifying frame for the fight across sectors of the left. \nIn our third session\, we’re honored to host veteran activist\, labor organizer\, and political strategist Bill Fletcher Jr. for a discussion on the importance of political alliances\, coalitions and united fronts in the fight against fascism. We’ll discuss what these political formations entail\, how they’ve been historically deployed\, and the opportunities and challenges we must face head on in developing these structures to defeat MAGA today. \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4sDJxl6rRayorAWxu1rmNw
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/fighting-fascism-alliances-coalitions-and-united-fronts-that-defeat-maga-with-bill-fletcher-jr/
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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:CPE is hosting a three-part series on tech capital and the administrative coup of the US government. Hostile Takeover: Tech Capital and the Coup of the US Government will feature a series of conversations among subject matter experts\, strategists\, and organizers trying to make sense of how and why the forces of capital—led by billionaire tech barons—are so determined to seize the administrative state and what its evisceration means for working-class communities in the near and long-term. \nIn our second conversation in the series\, Part 2: Endgames and Ideologies\, we’ll identify the roots of far right ideologies among tech capital; how those ideological currents engage with those among the MAGA coalition; and whether and how the endgames of tech capital align or come into tension with the broader far right projects. \nRegister here: https://bit.ly/hostilecoup \n 
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/4585/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220628T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220628T200000
DTSTAMP:20220628T222020Z
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SUMMARY:June 28 6-8p PT | Coal\, Cages\, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia
DESCRIPTION:About the Writing to Abolition Series\nFollowing the Floyd rebellions of 2020\, we saw ideas about the abolition of policing and imprisonment reach new levels of attention. Leading up to and following Summer 2020\, writing about prison industrial complex abolition helped shape the ongoing conversations about how we think about safety and addressing harm.  Join CPE for a series of events featuring new books on prison industrial complex abolition that help us consider the case for abolition and how we can put these politics in action.  All events will be held online. \nJune 28 (6-8pm PT) | Coal\, Cages\, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia with Judah Schept and Amelia Kirby\nCoal\, Cages\, Crisis examines schemes to use prison construction as an economic driver in a region marred by extraction\, environmental injustice\, and structural deprivation.  Schept will be in conversation with prison abolition activist\, Amelia Kirby about the current state of imprisonment in Appalachia and the movement to eliminate imprisonment in the region. \nJudah Schept is the author of Coal\, Cages\, Crisis and is is an Associate Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University.  He is also the author of Progressive Punishment: Job Loss\, Jail Growth\, and the Neoliberal Politics of Carceral Expansion (New York University Press\, 2015). \nAmelia Kirby is a Kentucky-based activist and media maker.  Kirby’s film\, Up the Ridge traces the emergence of supermax prisons in the region and how it related to the region’s coal economy.  Kirby is also the founder of “Calls from Home\,” a weekly radio show through which people send messages to loved ones imprisoned in Kentucky and Virginia. \nREGISTER: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qJTL7-MbTQOz9LL1fHHg4A
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/june-28-6-8pt-writing-to-abolition-coals-cages-crisis-the-rise-of-the-prison-economy-in-central-appalachia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T170000
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SUMMARY:Challenging the New Normal
DESCRIPTION:Challenging the New Normal\nWednesday\, February 24\n5:00-7:00 pm (PT) \nRegister Here for Zoom Link  \n\n2020 was marked by mass deaths\, pivotal elections\, climate chaos\, a historic wave of Black-led uprisings against police violence\, coup d’etats\, labor strikes\, and a resurgent right. Colliding with preexisting economic and climate crises\, the global pandemic ushered in a “new normal” for a Left that rejected these conditions as intolerable. What lessons from the chaotic year can we draw to transform the current political terrain? \nJoin Center for Political Education for a conversation with movement leaders to interrogate the new normal and learn how social justice movements are adapting to the shifting terrain. \nSpeakers Include:  \n\nAmna Akbar\, movement lawyer and professor of law at Ohio State University\nCindy Wiesner\, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance\nIsaac Ontiveros\, National Nurses United\nVanessa Moses\, Causa Justa/ Just Causa\n\n\nAccessibility Information:\nLive captioning and Spanish interpretation will be available. To request additional accessibility supports\, please email us by Sunday\, January 10.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/challenging-the-new-normal/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210114T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210114T190000
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SUMMARY:Teach-In on "A Vision for a Feminist Peace"
DESCRIPTION:Teach-In on “A Vision for a Feminist Peace”\nThursday\, January 14\n5:00-7:00 pm (PT) \nRegister Here for Zoom Link  \n\nJoin the Anti-War Working Group (a project of Center for Political Education) for a teach-in on the Feminist Peace Initiative’s “A Vision for a Feminist Peace”.  Authors and signatories of the document will discuss the framework and offer concrete steps for building a vibrant\, feminist\, and multi-racial anti-militarist movement.  \nSpeakers include:  \n\nJanene Yazzie\, Sixth World Solutions\nLinda Burnham\, writer and political analyst\nNadine Naber\, University of Illinois\, Chicago and Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS)\nSunyoung Yang\, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance\n\nThe coming period offers opportunities to drive bold policies that create collective safety domestically and abroad. “A Vision for a Feminist Peace: Building a Movement-Driven Foreign Policy” offers an internationalist\, feminist framework that proposes a way forward to peace and self-determination. Join the Anti-War Working Group to learn more about how to put this important document to work. \nMovements for social justice made some substantial gains last year. However\, they are getting ready to fight for even more of what communities of color and working-class people need to thrive including shifting political priorities away from systems of domination\, militarism\, and coercion and toward solidarity\, collective care\, and rightful relationships with the land. \nAccessibility Information:\nLive captioning and Spanish interpretation will be available. To request additional accessibility supports\, please email us by Sunday\, January 10.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/teach-in-on-a-vision-for-a-feminist-peace/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210110T160000
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Hillbilly
DESCRIPTION:Book Release Party: Hy Thurman’s Revolutionary Hillbilly\nSunday\, January 10 \n2pm (PT)\nTickets available here \nTicket holders will receive Zoom Information via email the week of the event. This event is free\, but donations for the Northern Alabama School for Organizers will be greatly appreciated. \nJoin Center for Political Education and the Highlander Research and Education Center to celebrate the release of Hy Thurman’s Revolutionary Hillbilly: Notes from the Struggle on the Edge of the Rainbow (Regent Press\, 2020).  \nSince he was a teenager\, Hy Thurman has been an inspirational grassroots organizer\, dedicating himself to improving the lives of marginalized and oppressed people and leading them into action to take control of their daily lives. A southern white migrant who settled into Chicago’s Uptown community\, in 1967 at the age of 17\, he became a community organizer and co-founder of the Young Patriot Organization\, a group of displaced southern white youth. He also was a co-founder of an interracial coalition called the original Rainbow Coalition\, made up of the Young Lords Organization\, Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party for self-Defense and the Young Patriot Organization. These groups\, created survival programs such as free health clinics\, breakfast for school children\, free legal services and police brutality patrols and fought urban renewal that was displacing them from their homes. Each group fought for self-determination for their communities. \nHy currently resides in Alabama and is founder\, president and Instructor of the North Alabama School for Organizers. \nContact Books to the Barricades for information about accessibility.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/revolutionary-hillbilly/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201212T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201212T160000
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SUMMARY:People Get Ready 3
DESCRIPTION:Join Center for Political Education and Haymarket Books for aone-day symposium on Saturday\, December 12th from 1 PM to 7 PM EST for conversations about building power following the Trump presidency.\n\n***Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference sessions the day before the event. This event will also be recorded and will have live captions\, ASL interpretation and Spanish interpretation available.\n—————————————————-\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSessions and speakers:\nOpening plenary featuring Alicia Garza\, with a special performance by Kiwi Illafonte\nSession 1: What’s Left?: Building Power after the Elections with:\nAsh-Lee Woodard Henderson\,\nJustin Charles\,\nOllie Vargas\nmoderated by Ejeris Dixon\nSession 2: If the Kids Are United: Building Power against the Far Right\, with Tarso Ramos\nSession 3: Build it on up: Tools for the Fight with:\nSabiha Basrai\nThe Red Nation\nMarisol Ocampo\n\nMore speakers coming soon . . .\n—————————————————-\nWhile this event is freely to attend\, we ask that those who are able make a donation in support of this program to do so.\n\n\n\n—————————\nÚnete con Center for Political Education y Haymarket Books para una conversación sobre cómo derrotar a la derecha\, fortalecer a la Izquierda\, y construir poder.\n—————————————————-\n**Regístrate al evento a través de Eventbrite para recibir un enlace a las sesiones de videoconferencia el día anterior. El evento será grabado y habrá servicio de subtitulado en inglés en vivo\, interpretación ASL\, e interpretación simultánea en español.\n—————————————————-\nSesiones y Participantes:\nPlenaria de Apertura con Alicia Garza\, con una presentación musical especial por Kiwi Illafonte\nSesión 1: Construir Poder después de las Elecciones\, participantes incluyen a\nAsh-Lee Woodard Henderson\nJustin Charles\nOllie Vargas\nEjeris Dixon\n\nSesión 2: Construir Poder en Contra de la Extrema Derecha\, con Tarso Ramos\nSesión 3: Herramientas para la Lucha\, participantes incluyen a\nSabiha Basrai\nThe Red Nation\nMarisol Ocampo\nMás participantes se anunciaran pronto…\n—————————————————-\nMientras este evento es gratuito\, pedimos que elles que tengan capacidad económica hagan una donación solidaria en apoyo a este importante trabajo organizativo y de programación.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/people-get-ready-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T140000
DTSTAMP:20200916T172629Z
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SUMMARY:What Is Security Culture?
DESCRIPTION:Join Vision Change Win Consulting and Center for Political Education for “What is Security Culture?” A kickoff for Vision Change Win’s National Community Safety and Security School.\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, September 17th\, 2020\, 3-5pm EDT (12-2om PDT)\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\nHear movement leaders discuss community safety strategies spanning more than four decades. Learn simple safety strategies to make implementing security culture as a living movement principle in your group or community. Leave with more information about how to get support on safety concerns your community faces.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nASL interpretation will be provided.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/what-is-security-culture/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T183000
DTSTAMP:20200530T225200Z
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SUMMARY:Abolition and COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:Join Center for Political Education\, The Red Nation\, and the Arab Resource & Organizing Center for a series of critical conversations on settler colonialism\, US imperialism\, and decolonization. The COVID-19 pandemic is global\, and so our response to it must also be global. Friday Night Forums feature anti-imperialist perspectives and lessons on organizing from around the world\, with a focus on decolonizing Turtle Island. \nFriday\, May 29\, at 5pm PDT\, join us for a forum exploring how the politics of abolition help us learn lessons for international solidarity during COVID-19 featuring: \nRuthie Wilson Gilmore\, CUNY Graduate Center\nEmilie Rakete\, People against Prisons Aotearoa\nMohamed Shehk\, Critical Resistance\nIntroduced by Nicolás Cruz\, The Red Nation \nModerated by Rachel Herzing \nRegister Here  \nFor information about accessibility\, contact The Red Nation.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/abolition-and-covid-19/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200515T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200515T183000
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SUMMARY:Palestine and the Blockade on Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Join Center for Political Education\, The Red Nation\, and the Arab Resource & Organizing Center for a series of critical conversations on settler colonialism\, US imperialism\, and decolonization. The COVID-19 pandemic is global\, and so our response to it must also be global. Friday Night Forums feature anti-imperialist perspectives and lessons on organizing from around the world\, with a focus on decolonizing Turtle Island. \nFriday\, May 15\, at 5pm PDT\, join us for a forum  on the blockade against Gaza and lessons for international solidarity featuring: \nOsama Tanous\, Palestinian-based pediatrician and Masters student in public health\nNoura Erakat\, human rights attorney and assistant professor at Rutgers University\nZiad Abbas\, executive director of Middle East Children’s Alliance \nModerated by Lara Kiswani \nRegister Here  \nFor information about accessibility\, contact The Red Nation.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/palestine-and-the-blockade-on-gaza/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T173000
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SUMMARY:Grounds for Healing\, Rooted in Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\n4pm\nRegister Here \nHow do Black landworkers relate to anti-imperialism\, self-determination and healthy futures during the global pandemic? Join Center for Political Education and Movement Generation for a webinar during which Black landworkers will discuss the intersections of land\, resistance\, and well-being. \nSpeakers include:\nJoy Moore\, food security activist\nWanda Stewart of Common Vision\nLeslie Bennett of Pine House Edible Gardens\nMalaika Parker of Hummingbird Urban Farming Collective \nModerated by Deseree Fontenot of Movement Generation \nPlease contact center-at-politicaleducation.org to request accessibility supports for this webinar.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/grounds-for-healing-rooted-in-resistance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T183000
DTSTAMP:20200428T182707Z
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SUMMARY:Organizing Workers
DESCRIPTION:Join Center for Political Education\, The Red Nation\, and the Arab Resource & Organizing Center for a series of critical conversations on settler colonialism\, US imperialism\, and decolonization. The COVID-19 pandemic is global\, and so our response to it must also be global. Friday Night Forums feature anti-imperialist perspectives and lessons on organizing from around the world\, with an eye toward decolonizing Turtle Island. \nFriday\, May 1\, at 5pm PDT\, 6pm MST\, join us for a May Day forum on Organizing Workers featuring: \nKali Akuno\, Cooperation Jackson\nZenei Cortez\, National Nurses United\nVijay Prashad\, Tricontinental Insitute for Social Research \nModerated by Rachel Herzing \nRegister Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3gpIfsZaR_CPe9GkvYaVCw \nTo learn more about accessibility\, please contact The Red Nation
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/organizing-workers/
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="CPE":MAILTO:center@politicaleducation.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T183000
DTSTAMP:20200422T181246Z
CREATED:20200422T181246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200422T181246Z
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SUMMARY:COVID-19 in Indian Country
DESCRIPTION:Center for Political Education is excited to join in partnership with The Red Nation and the Arab Resource & Organizing Center to host a series of critical conversations on settler colonialism\, US imperialism\, and decolonization. The COVID-19 pandemic is global\, and so our response to it must also be global. Friday Night Forums feature anti-imperialist perspectives and lessons on organizing from around the world\, with an eye toward decolonizing Turtle Island. \nFriday\, April 22\, at 5pm PDT\, 6pm MST\, join us for a forum on COVID-19 in Indian Country\, including updates from the Navajo Nation. Moderated by Melanie Yazzie\, of The Red Nation. \nRegister Here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C74K6LBFRX6J_W9fIHI6uA \n \nTo learn more about accessibility\, please contact The Red Nation
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/covid-19-in-indian-country/
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="CPE":MAILTO:center@politicaleducation.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200402T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200402T190000
DTSTAMP:20200330T212940Z
CREATED:20200324T192537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200330T212940Z
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SUMMARY:Boosting People Power: Bay Area Organizers Respond to COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:Boosting People Power: \nBay Area Organizers Respond to COVID-19 Thursday\, April 2\n5-7pm (PST) \nClick Here to Register for Zoom Link \n  \nJoin Center for Political Education for an online forum on how Bay Area-based organizations are building power during the current economic and public health crisis. \nFeatured speakers include: \n\nMichelle Gutierrez-Vo\, RN\,  Board Member\, California Nurses Association\nJoyce Lam\, political director\, Chinese Progressive Association\nVanessa Moses\, executive director of Causa Justa :: Just Cause\nDiana Block\, member of California Coalition for Women Prisoners\nJessica Lehman\, executive director of Senior Disability Action\n\nAs COVID-19 courses around the globe\, the rising death toll and mounting economic crisis lay bare capitalism’s utter inability to keep us safe. As healthcare workers\, farm workers\, delivery drivers\, grocery workers\, and public service workers risk their lives to ensure our collective wellbeing\, the Trump administration continues to bail out Wall Street\, obstruct the provision of basic medical necessities\, and refuse the necessary social supports to keep people safe. Meanwhile\, the people of countries such as Iran\, Cuba\, and Venezuela are suffering under US-imposed economic sanctions that have been steadily eroding their economies and negatively impacting the provision of medical care. \nSocial movements are also confronting these crises. As shelter-in-place orders roll out across the US\, organizers are figuring out creative ways of practicing physical distancing while caring for our communities\, building power\, forging new alliances\, and pushing for bold demands with the possibility to expand the boundaries of what’s politically possible. \nJoin us for a moderated conversation with local organizers to learn more about: \n\nhow Bay Area movements are responding to the pandemic\nhow to organize creatively under the conditions of physical and social distancing\nsome concrete ways of supporting campaigns pushing forward transformative demands\nhow local movements are engaging with the current electoral cycle to make change at all levels of governance\nhow to be in meaningful solidarity with the working-class and communities of color across the world\, especially those most impacted by U.S. imperialism.\n\nIf you have questions or specific accessibility needs\, please email us directly at center-at-politicaleducation.org
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/boosting-people-power-bay-area-organizers-respond-to-covid-19/
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="CPE":MAILTO:center@politicaleducation.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T210000
DTSTAMP:20200131T193940Z
CREATED:20200131T193455Z
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SUMMARY:Building a Movement to Stop the War: an Emergency Teach In
DESCRIPTION:Join Center for Political Education for an emergency teach-in against US war and militarism.\nWednesday\, February 5\, 6:30pm\nIslamic Cultural Center of Northern California  \n1433 Madison St.\nOakland\, CA 94612\nFeatured speakers include*:\nYousef Baker (Iraqi Transnational Collective)\nClare Bayard (Catalyst Project)\nLara Kiswani (Arab Resource and Organizing Center)\nChris Lymbertos (Arab Resource and Organizing Center)\nRhonda Ramiro (BAYAN USA) \nAs the Trump regime unveils its shameful “Middle East Peace Plan”\, tensions with the people of Iran remain high\, millions are in the streets of Iraq demanding immediate US withdrawal\, and the situation in Yemen continues to deteriorate.  Globally\, US militarism continues to destabilize life from Bolivia and Venezuela\, to Haiti\, Sudan and the Philippines. Across the planet and here in the Bay Area\, movements are taking up the vital task of building unity against these threats to life and are building a vision for a society built on peace\, solidarity\, and democracy. \nJoin us February 5 to learn about: \n\nThe global context for the current escalation with Iran\nKey insights from anti-war organizing 2001-2008\nHow US intervention and militarism affects movements for social justice\nWhat you can do to take action against US war-making\n\n* affiliations listed for identification purposes only \n 
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/building-a-movement-to-stop-the-war-an-emergency-teach-in/
LOCATION:Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (1433 Madison St.\, Oakland)\, 1433 Madison St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T203000
DTSTAMP:20191205T234122Z
CREATED:20191121T002255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T234122Z
UID:3535-1576258200-1576269000@politicaleducation.org
SUMMARY:CANCELED! Movement Lessons from the Battle of Seattle
DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELED \nWe canceled this event so as to conflict with the Dec 4th event at 518 Valencia hosted by Shaping San Francisco\, also on the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Seattle (as they were originally scheduled on the same night). There are tens of thousands of stories about Seattle and many lessons to draw.\nVisit https://www.shutdownwto20.org/ for a powerful collection of these stories\, courtesy of the Shutdown WTO Organizers’ History Project.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/movement-lessons-from-the-battle-of-seattle/
LOCATION:CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20191204T211527Z
CREATED:20191203T203211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191204T211527Z
UID:3556-1576177200-1576184400@politicaleducation.org
SUMMARY:Radical Futures\, United Fronts: Global Women's Resistance against State Violence and Repression
DESCRIPTION:Join GABRIELA Oakland and Center for Political Education on Thursday\, December 12th\, from 7-9pm\, for “Radical Futures\, United Fronts: Global Women’s Resistance Against State Violence & Repression.” This panel discussion will bridge individual struggles against ongoing and escalating policing\, militarization\, and repression at home and around the globe. Panelists will speak to the political fights against rising authoritarianism and repression in Palestine\, the Philippines\, Venezuela\, and our own backyards in Oakland to shed light onto the strength of our movements and the tacit threats it poses to the ruling class. \nWith state violence\, repression\, and fascism on the rise\, this panel will explore questions such as:\n• What are the distinct and shared manifestations of authoritarianism and escalating repression that we face? What are the particular experiences of women and children in these struggles?\n• How are we addressing targeted attacks against human rights defenders\, organizers\, and activists? How might solidarity across our movements strengthen these efforts of collective care and safety?\n• What radical futures do we envision? How might we challenge the criminalization of political opposition and dissent while envisioning such futures?\n• How might the practice of naming our shared enemy and uplifting our united front work propel us further forward into action? \nFeaturing the following speakers: \n\nLara Kiswani\, Executive Director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)\nDesiree Mims\, Black Organizing Project\nCarolina Morales\, Venezuelan Activist\nIrma Shauf-Bajar\, Chair of GABRIELA USA\nModerator: Claire Valderama-Wallace\, Community Health Nursing Faculty at CSUEB & External Educational Development Chair of GABRIELA Oakland\n\nFor more information and accessibility information\, follow this link.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/radical-futures-united-fronts-global-womens-resistance-against-state-violence-and-repression/
LOCATION:East Side Arts Alliance\, 2277 International Blvd.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94606\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T210000
DTSTAMP:20191105T200645Z
CREATED:20191105T193950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191105T200645Z
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SUMMARY:Putting History in Domestic Workers' Hands
DESCRIPTION:CPE is excited to host a presentation of an important movement tool born of a collaborative project begun in 2014 between leaders of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and scholars at Smith College.  Together\, they developed a digital timeline designed to put history into the hands of domestic workers. \nCome see excerpts of the timeline and join a conversation about: \n\n\nCreating popular education tools using digital technologies\nTransforming representations of domestic workers\nCreating effective activist-academic partnerships\nHistory as a tool for political education\n\nSpeakers:\n\nMonique Tú Nguyen (executive director\, Matahari Women Workers Center)\nLisa Moore (senior field director\, National Domestic Workers Alliance)\nDiana Sierra Becerra (postdoctoral fellow in Digital Humanities and Popular Political Education\, Smith College)\nJennifer Guglielmo (associate professor of History\, Smith College)\nMichelle Joffroy (associate professor of Spanish & Portuguese\, Smith College)\n\nModerator: Linda Burnham\n  \nAccessibility information:\n518 Valencia St. is an ADA accessible venue.\nWe will attempt to provide a low-scent environment and will designate fragrance-free seating.\nTo request childcare\, language interpretation\, CART transcription or to meet other accessibility needs\, please contact center@politicaleducation.org by November 8.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/putting-history-in-domestic-workers-hands/
LOCATION:Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics\, 518 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="CPE":MAILTO:center@politicaleducation.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T210000
DTSTAMP:20191105T201944Z
CREATED:20191105T200346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191105T201944Z
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SUMMARY:Left Strategy and the 2020 Elections
DESCRIPTION:Join Center for Political Education for a roundtable discussion on left strategy and the 2020 elections. \nTuesday\, Nov. 12\, 2019\n7-9pm\n518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA 94110 \nWe are a year out from the Presidential election\, and discussions about how (or whether) to engage in the electoral arena have moved to the top of the agenda for many Left forces in the United States. Mass organizations engaged in electoral work such as the Democratic Socialists of America\, Our Revolution\, and the Working Families Party have been growing in membership and influence while sparking debate over their strategic decisions. We are also seeing a rise in progressive candidates running for – and winning – elected office at local and state levels with the support of grassroots organizations led by working people and communities of color. \nThese developments raise questions such as:\n*What opportunities does next year’s election open up for left forces?\n*How are organizers on the left building power for the working-class and people of color?\n*What actions could social movements take in this election cycle to emerge from the elections even stronger?\n*What concerns do left organizers have about engaging in the electoral arena? \nTo help us tackle these questions\, each guest speaker will give their assessment of the current political landscape and make a case for the kind of left strategy needed to shift the balance of forces beyond 2020. \nConfirmed speakers include: \n\nKayla Reed (Electoral Justice Project)\nEmily Lee (SF Rising Action Fund)\nDonna Willmott (Catalyst Project)\nTed Fertik (Working Families Party)\n\n***\nAccessibility Information:\n518 Valencia St. is an ADA accessible venue.\nWe will attempt to provide a low-scent environment and will designate fragrance-free seating.\nTo request childcare\, language interpretation\, CART transcription or to meet other accessibility needs\, please contact center@politicaleducation.org by Nov. 5
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/left-strategy-and-the-2020-elections/
LOCATION:Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics\, 518 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="CPE":MAILTO:center@politicaleducation.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T143000
DTSTAMP:20191027T150852Z
CREATED:20191001T215419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191027T150852Z
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SUMMARY:Decade of Fire
DESCRIPTION:Join Center for Political Education\, and Causa Justa::Just Cause at The New Parkway Theater for a special screening of Decade of Fire.\n\n\n \n\n\nDate: Sunday\, Oct 27\n\n\nVenue: The New Parkway\n\n\nAddress: 474 24th St\, Oakland\, CA 94612\n\n\nStart Time: 12:30 PM\n\n\n \n\n\nThroughout the 1970’s\, fires consumed the South Bronx. Black and Puerto Rican residents were blamed for the devastation even as they battled daily to save their neighborhoods. In Decade Of Fire\, Bronx-born Vivian Vázquez Irizarry pursues the truth surrounding the fires – uncovering policies of racism and neglect that still shape our cities\, and offering hope to communities on the brink today.\n\n\n \n\n\nAdmission is sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. \n\n\n \n\n\nAccessibility Information: \n\n\n• New Parkway Theater is ADA Accessible. \n\n\n• We cannot guarantee a scent-free space. \n\n\n• To request language interpretation or other access needs\, please contact: center-at-politicaleducation.org by October 11th.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/decade-of-fire/
LOCATION:New Parkway Theater\, 474 24th St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190718T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190718T210000
DTSTAMP:20190524T001133Z
CREATED:20190524T001043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190524T001133Z
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SUMMARY:Unraveling the Right
DESCRIPTION:Join CPE this summer for a four-session class: UNRAVELING THE RIGHT.\nThe sessions will cover: \n\nThe right’s ideas and goals\, the particular forms authoritarianism takes in the U.S.\, the left’s conceptual and practical tool-box for understanding and defeating the far right.\nHistorical lessons from past experience fighting fascism and the right\nThe international picture: contemporary fights against racist nationalist projects across the globe.\nThe current U.S. landscape\, strategies for building a winning anti-right coalition and the particular responsibilities of activists in the Bay Area.\n\nThis class will be led by CPE co-director Rachel Herzing and Revolution in the Air author Max Elbaum\, and will feature guest speakers with expertise on some of the issues highlighted above. \nApply Today!\nSpace in Unraveling the Right will be limited. If you’re interested in the participating\, please take a moment to fill out this application form thoroughly by July 1\, so we can get a sense of who you are and why you are interested in taking this class. While everyone should feel free to apply for this class\, preference will be given to members of people of color-led organizations and working class and people of color communities.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/unraveling-the-right/
LOCATION:Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics\, 518 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="CPE":MAILTO:center@politicaleducation.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190618T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190618T210000
DTSTAMP:20190606T210908Z
CREATED:20190524T000149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190606T210908Z
UID:3390-1560884400-1560891600@politicaleducation.org
SUMMARY:All Our Trials: Prisons\, Policing\, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
DESCRIPTION:During the 1970s\, grassroots women activists in and outside of prison forged a radical politics against gender violence and imprisonment. All Our Trials: Prisons\, Policing\, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence (University of Illinois Press\, 2019) explores the work of these activists who placed criminalized women\, and the types of violence they confronted\, at the heart of their organizing. \nJoin Bay Area organizers and activists in conversation with author\, Emily Thuma\, for an event that puts Thuma’s new book\, All Our Trials\, Prisons\, Policing\, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence in dialogue with contemporary campaigns against imprisonment and policing. \nEmily Thuma will be joined by:\nDiana Block\, California Coalition for Women Prisoners\nRachel Herzing\, Center for Political Education \n 
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/all-our-trials-prisons-policing-and-the-feminist-fight-to-end-violence/
LOCATION:Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics\, 518 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="CPE":MAILTO:center@politicaleducation.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T210000
DTSTAMP:20190502T181640Z
CREATED:20190430T183207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T181640Z
UID:3372-1558638000-1558645200@politicaleducation.org
SUMMARY:¡Venceremos! 50 Years of Solidarity with Cuba
DESCRIPTION:Center for Political Education is joining forces with the Venceremos Brigade Bay Area Organizing Committee to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Venceremos Brigade and its role in building Left movements in the Bay Area and across the U.S. \nHear from brigadistas from a range of delegations discuss the role that the Venceremos Brigade played in their political development and why Venceremos Brigade’s are as important today as they were 50 years ago. \nSpeakers include:\n• Phil Hutchings (2nd contingent)\n• Linda Burnham (4th & 5th contingents)\n• Melba Maldonado (12th contingent)\n• Jason Ferreira (25th-30th contingent) \nWe will be collecting donations to support people going on the 50th Anniversary Brigade to Cuba this summer. No one turned away for lack of funds.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/venceremos-50-years-of-solidarity-with-cuba/
LOCATION:Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics\, 518 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="CPE":MAILTO:center@politicaleducation.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190503T210000
DTSTAMP:20190502T181808Z
CREATED:20190430T182348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T181808Z
UID:3359-1556906400-1556917200@politicaleducation.org
SUMMARY:Defend Highlander\, Defend Our Movements!
DESCRIPTION:Join Center for Political Education\, Freedom Archives\, and Reem’s for a happy hour fundraiser at Reem’s California honoring the Highlander Research and Education Center. On March 29\, an arson attack destroyed the main office building at the Highlander Center and with it\, some of the archives stored there. On May 3\, we will raise funds to support rebuilding and continued programming at this beloved and revered movement resource and honor the crucial role in left movement building that the organization has played for nearly a century. \nDJ Baagi will be providing the tunes\, happy hour pricing on wine and beer all night\, and Reem’s food will be available for purchase.  A percentage of all sales will be donated to the Highlander Center. \nTo learn more about the fire and about Highlander Center’s pivotal role in movement building\, check out this recent article by Robin D.G. Kelley and Makani Themba. \n 
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/defend-highlander-defend-our-movements/
LOCATION:Reem’s\, 3301 E. 12th St.\, Suite 133\, Oakland\, California\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="CPE":MAILTO:center@politicaleducation.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T210000
DTSTAMP:20190207T011910Z
CREATED:20190207T011603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190207T011910Z
UID:3325-1549998000-1550005200@politicaleducation.org
SUMMARY:RESISTING THE COUP IN VENEZUELA: Emergency Teach-In
DESCRIPTION:Join Center for Political Education for a discussion about the US-backed coup attempt in Venezuela\, the history of intervention in the region\, and discussion about what groups in the Bay Area can do to respond to this crisis.\n\n\nTuesday\, February 12\, 2019\n\n\n7-9pm\nEric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics\n\n\n518 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\n\n\n\n*accessibility information provided below*\n\n\nOn January 23rd\, Juan Guaidó\, the relatively unknown head of Venezuela’s National Assembly from the right-wing Popular Will party\, declared himself acting president and rejected President Nicolas Maduro’s swearing-in to a second term. President Trump and a coalition of regional allies in Latin America\, anchored by right-wing governments in Brazil and Colombia\, immediately recognized Guaidó as the country’s new president. It is now apparent that Guaidó had been plotting this take-over with forces in the US\,\, Colombia and Brazil. The US government has announced billions of dollars in new sanctions against the country’s state-owned oil company PDVSA aimed at crippling Venezuela’s economy\, while cynically offering to provide humanitarian aid\, and has appointed notorious cold warrior Elliott Abrams as the US special envoy responsible for “restoring democracy in Venezuela”. \n\n\nVenezuela is undoubtedly experiencing an unprecedented political and economic crisis. The response from much of the Left within the United States has largely been one of confusion and silence. Now is the time to come together\, break the silence\, and take action to resist the coup.\n\n\nThis conversation will be led by: \n\n\n” Carolina Morales\, queer Venezuelan organizer \n\n\n” Roberto Lovato\, a writer and journalist based at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.\n\n\nAccessibility Information:\n\n\n” 518 Valencia is a wheelchair accessible space.\n\n\n” We will do our best to provide a reduced scent space and will designate a fragance-free seating area. Please support our efforts to support the participation of community members with chemical sensitivities by coming to the event as low- or no-scent as you are able. \n\n\n” This event will be recorded and available for viewing remotely.\n\n\n” To request language interpretation\, CART transcription\, or other access needs\, please contact center-at-politicaleducation.org
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/resisting-the-coup-in-venezuela-emergency-teach-in/
LOCATION:Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics\, 518 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190120T180000
DTSTAMP:20190116T194034Z
CREATED:20181211T205015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190116T194034Z
UID:3199-1547985600-1548007200@politicaleducation.org
SUMMARY:People Get Ready II is Back On!
DESCRIPTION:Center for Political Education is excited to announce that we have rescheduled the People Get Ready 2 conference for January 20–same place\, same time\, same powerful opportunity to seize the time and push our movements forward! \nPeople Get Ready 2\, a one day conference organized by Center for Political Education\, will offer discussions directly assessing the current political terrain while engaging local\, national\, and international struggles around militarism\, worker-organizing\, and displacement that shape our world and struggles to come. \nWe are excited to welcome back most of our speakers and panelists and will drop a detailed program ASAP. In the meantime\, please save the date and help us spread the word about People Get Ready 2. And if you haven’t already pre-registered\, you can do so by clicking here. \nConference Program (subject to change) \nPART 1–UNDERSTANDING THE TERRAIN \nopening session: 12-1pm\, Dwinelle 155 \n\n\nMaisha Quint\, Center for Political Education – Emcee \n\n\nWelcome to the Land Ruth Orta (Bay Miwok\, Plains Miwok) \n\n\nKeynote: Rachel Herzing\, Center for Political Education \n\n\n  \nPART 1 BREAKOUT SESSIONS 1;15-2:45pm\n \n\n\nHard Work: New Battles\, New Organizing in the Workplace and Beyond\, Dwinelle 215 \n\n\nYulisa Elenes\, UNITE HERE local 2850 \n\n\nLourdes Martinez\, Mujeres Unidas y Activas \n\n\nSaba Waheed\, UCLA Labor Center \n\n\nModerator—Kung Feng\, Jobs with Justice\, SF \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpanning the Globe: Internationalist Solidarity vs. US Militarism\, Dwinelle 219 \n\n\nEllen Choy—Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans \n\n\nLara Kiswani\, Arab Resource and Organizing Center \n\n\nWalter Turner\, Africa Today (KPFA) \n\n\nModerator—Jaron Browne\, Grassroots Global Justice \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTaking Stock: Analyzing the Political Terrain after the Midterms\, Dwinelle 155 \n\n\nMax Elbaum Organizing Upgrade \n\n\nTony Samara Urban Habitat/Right to the City \n\n\nLinda Evans\, North Bay Organizing Project \n\n\nNikki Fortunato Bas\, Oakland City Councilperson-Elect \n\n\nModerator—Rachel Herzing\, Center for Political Education \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLand: The Basis of Freedom\, Justice\, and Equality\, Dwinelle 209 \n\n\nRoxanne Dunbar Ortiz\, writer and historian \n\n\nCathi Tactaquin National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights \n\n\nEdgar Xochitl and Alondra Aragon\, PODER/Urban Campesinexs \n\n\nModerator—Jason Ferreira\, Center for Political Education \n\n\n\n\nWho’s Got the Power? How to Assess the Balance of Forces (workshop)\, Dwinelle 223 \n\n\n\n\nRebecca Gordon\, University of San Francisco \n\n\n\n\n  \nReclaiming MLK’s Radical Legacy: A workshop with Third World Resistance \n\n\nLeslie Tran\, Viet Unity \n\n\nDiyala Shihadih\, Palestinian Youth Movement \n\n\n  \nLUNCH 2:45-3:15 \n  \nPART 2– MOVING FORWARD \nPart 2 opening session: 3:15-4:15pm\, Dwinelle 155 \n\n\nFrancesca Fiorentini\, Newsbroke (AJ+) – Emcee \n\n\nPoem: Donté Clark \n\n\nKeynote: Maria Poblet\, LeftRoots \n\n\nPART 2 BREAKOUT SESSIONS 4:30-6:00pm\n \n\n\nFighting to Win: Cultivating a Successful Left Strategy\, Dwinelle 215 \n\n\nBrace Belden Democratic Socialists of America\, SF \n\n\nFrancesca Fiorentini\, Newsbroke (AJ+) \n\n\nPierre Laboissiere\, Haiti Action Committee \n\n\nMaria Zamudio\, LeftRoots \n\n\nModerator—Isaac Ontiveros\, Center for Political Education \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgainst Displacement: Freedom to Stay\, Freedom to Move\, Freedom to Return\, Dwinelle 223 \n\n\nVanessa Moses\, Causa Justa :: Just Cause \n\n\nLeila Sayed-Taha\, Arab Organizing and Resource Center \n\nFred Sherburn-Zimmer\, Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco\n\nModerator – Elsadig Elsheik\, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society\, UC Berkeley \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo Pasarán: Strategies to Defeat Fascism and the Authoritarian Right\, Dwinelle 155 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeghan Whelan—Gabriela Oakland \n\n\nDivya Sundar\, Alliance of South Asians Taking Action \n\n\nBruno Tucunduva Ruvario\, International Socialist Organization \n\n\nTur-ha Ak\, Community Ready Corps \n\n\nModerator—Pablo Salazar \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeep and Wide: Building Alliances with Teeth\, Dwinelle 209 \n\n\nNy Nourn\, California Coalition for Women Prisoners and Survived and Punished \n\n\nMohamed Shehk\, Stop Urban Shield Coalition \n\n\nVivian Huang\, Asian Pacific Environmental Network \n\nClaude Marks\, Freedom Archives\n\nModerator—Greg Hom \n\n\n\n\n\n\nToward 2020: Community Power at the Ballot Box and on the Streets\, (workshop) Dwinelle 219 \n\n\nCalvin Cheung-Miaw– Left Inside/Outside Project \n\n\nEmily Lee—SF Rising Action Fund \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPEOPLE GET READY 2 is endorsed by:\n\n\nAlliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA)\, Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)\, Ambedkar King Study Circle\, Asians 4 Black Lives\, Bay Resistance\, Bay Rising\, California Coalition for Women Prisoners\, Catalyst Project\, Causa Justa :: Just Cause\, Chinese Progressive Association\, Northern Calif. Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism\, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice\, Critical Resistance\, Dignidad Rebelde\, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy\, Eastside Arts Alliance\, End Solitary Santa Cruz County\, Freedom Archives\, Freedom Road Socialist Organization\, GABRIELA–SF\, generative somatics\, Haiti Action Committee\, Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans\, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network\, Jobs with Justice San Francisco\, Labor and Community Studies–City College of San Francisco\, LeftRoots\, Movement Generation\, National Lawyers Guild SF\, National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR)\, Organizing Upgrade\, Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)\, PODER (SF)\, Race and Resistance Studies\, Survived and Punished\, Teachers 4 Social Justice\, Underground Scholars Initiative\, VietUnity\n\n 
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/people-get-ready-ii/
LOCATION:Dwinelle Hall\, UC Berkeley
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SUMMARY:Spirit of '68 Track at the 2018 Howard Zinn Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Join The Center for Political Education’s track of sessions at the 2018 Howard Zinn Book Fair. Our four sessions focus on the Spirit of ‘68\, and will explore the impacts and legacies of people’s movements during 1968\, a year of worldwide revolution.  All sessions in the track will be held at City College of San Francisco\, Mission Campus (1125 Valencia St.)in Room 154. \n10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Who’s Got the Power?\nPaul Ortiz\, author\, An African American and Latinx History of the United States\nVanessa Moses\, Causa Justa :: Just Cause\nAlex Tom\, Chinese Progressive Association \n12:30 PM – 2:00 PM From the Factory Floor to the Welfare Line\nLane Windham\, author\,  Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide\nAsha Du Monthier\, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy\nJennifer Alejo\, Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) \n2:15 PM – 3:45 PM Imagining the World—Ideology and the Battle for Ideas\nDavid Austin\, editor\, Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\nwith local speakers:\nJason Ferreira\, Race and Resistance Studies\, SFSU\nSabiha Basrai\, Design Action Collective\nElena Serrano\, Eastside Arts Alliance \n4:00 PM – 5:15 PM The Long War—Militarism\, Insurrection\, and Counter-insurgency\nNikhil Pal Singh\, author\, Race and America’s Long War\nNick Estes\, author\, Our History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and the Struggle for Native Liberation(forthcoming) \n\nLara Kiswani\, Arab Resource & Organizing Center\n\nClare Bayard\, Catalyst Project \nACCESSIBILITY: Organizers of the Howard Zinn Book Fair will be able to provide the best information regarding access for this event: zinnbookfair@gmail.com \nThe Howard Zinn Book Fair is an annual celebration of people’s history\, past\, present and future. We gather together authors\, zinesters\, bloggers and publishers for a day of readings\, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future. In the spirit of the late historian Howard Zinn we recognize the stories of the ways that everyday people have risen to propose a world beyond empires big and small. The Howard Zinn Book Fair is a non-sectarian left event that welcomes a wide variety of political traditions left traditions.
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/spirit-of-68-track-at-the-2018-howard-zinn-book-fair/
LOCATION:1125 Valencia St.\, 1125 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Organizing in the Gone City
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Dick Walker on his latest book\,  Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity  in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nJoin LeftRoots and the The Center for Political Education for an\nevening with radical geographer Dick Walker. He will be joined by on-the-ground organizers against gentrification\, displacement\, and exploitation by the tech industry in the Bay Area\, including: \n• Vanessa Moses\, of Causa Justa Just Cause\n• Alex Tom\, of Chinese Progressive Association\n• Divya Sundar\, of ASATA – Alliance of South Asians Taking Action \nThe San Francisco Bay Area is a jewel in the crown of capitalism—the tech capital of the world and a gusher of wealth from the Silicon Gold Rush. The Bay boasts of being the Left Coast\, home of green cities\, and the best place for workers in the USA. So\, what could be wrong? \nJoin us to examine the dark side of this success: overheated\, exploding inequality\, and severe environmental damage—and how Pictures of a Gone City can help us build power and win in these changing and challenging times. \nDick Walker is one of those rare scholars who helps us understand the world in order to change it. A professor emeritus of geography at UC Berkeley\, he has long been a resource for Bay Area activists seeking to understand where we live and work\, its local dynamics and global context. Pictures of a Gone City—sweeping in scope and exquisitely detailed—examines the political economy and class structure of the region; displacement\, internal migration and the growth of its cities; and its history of environmental and political organizing. \nWheelchair accessible. \nFor more information\, email bayareacc@leftroots.net or center@politicaleducation.org
URL:https://politicaleducation.org/event/organizing-in-the-gone-city/
LOCATION:Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (1433 Madison St.\, Oakland)\, 1433 Madison St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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