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FEATURED SURJ EVENT - NEXT WEEK! Tuesday, April 10 • 7:00 - 9:00 pm Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex Taina Vargas-Edmond & Dorsey Nunn in a Live Taping of the Podcast, Speak Out with Tim Wise Taina Vargas-Edmond, Executive Director of Initiate Justice and Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None will be in conversation with author and educator Tim Wise at this live taping of his national podcast. As leaders at the forefront of policy and advocacy work on behalf of incarcerated Californians, the formerly-incarcerated, and their families, Taina and Dorsey will look at recent victories against the prison industrial complex and look ahead to new challenges. Advance tickets sliding scale $5 - $25. No one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds go to LSPC/AUON and Initiate Justice. Location: 1st Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison, Oakland FEATURED SURJ EVENT - NEXT WEEK!
Tuesday, April 10 • 7:00 - 9:00 pm Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex Taina Vargas-Edmond & Dorsey Nunn in a Live Taping of the Podcast, Speak Out with Tim Wise, Taina Vargas-Edmond, Executive Director of Initiate Justice and Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None will be in conversation with author and educator Tim Wise at this live taping of his national podcast. As leaders at the forefront of policy and advocacy work on behalf of incarcerated Californians, the formerly-incarcerated, and their families, Taina and Dorsey will look at recent victories against the prison industrial complex and look ahead to new challenges. Advance tickets sliding scale $5 - $25. No one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds go to LSPC/AUON and Initiate Justice. Location: 1st Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison, Oakland Monday, April 2 • 3:30 pm Demand DA O'Malley Charge Mateu with the Murder of Sahleem Tindle Sahleem Tindle was murdered by BART Police Officer Joseph Mateu on January 3, 2018. He is now back on the job, after only a two week leave. Join with Sahleem's family to demand that DA Nancy O'Malley do her job and charge and prosecute Mateu for murder. Location: Courthouse, 1225 Fallon St. Oakland Wednesday April 4 • 2:30 - 4:30 pm Canvas for Berkeley to Withdraw from Urban Shield this Year! Stop Urban Shield had a big win last week when the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to end Urban Shield, the largest militarized SWAT team training in the country, in 2019. Now, join us to pull Berkeley out in 2018! We'll be asking businesses to put up signs and residents to send postcards to the Berkeley City Council. Berkeley residents can also sign this petition. Location: Meet at the corner of San Pablo & Dwight, Berkeley Wednesday, April 4 • 3:00 - 5:30 pm National Day of Action! Stephon Clark Will Get Justice! Black Lives Matter Sacramento, the Anti Police-Terror Project, and the Justice Network are marking the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination by demanding justice for Stephon Clark, age 22, who was killed by Sacramento police on March 18. Stephon was in his own backyard, where he lived with his grandparents, and leaves behind two sons, ages 3 and 1. Come to Sacramento if you can and sign this Color of Change petition to demand justice for Stephon Clark. Location: Sacramento District Attorney's Office, 901 G St. Sacramento 95814 Thursday, April 5 • 6:30 - 8:30 pm Restore the Vote: Overturning Voter Suppression Workshop This free SURJ workshop, co-sponsored by Berkeley City Council member Cheryl Davila, will dive into the history of voter suppression and mass incarceration from slavery, through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, into the present day of New Jim Crow. Learn about The Voting Restoration and Democracy Act of 2018, a ballot initiative that will restore the right to vote to more than 162,000 incarcerated folks and those on parole in California. This effort is led by Initiate Justice. Free but please RSVP. Location: The Covenant, 2622 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley Saturday, April 7 • 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Joining Forces Against Policing and Jails in San Francisco A Half Day Summit Against the Prison Industrial Complex This Summit will bring together organizations and community activists working to stop the violence of the prison industrial complex. Interactive workshops, trainings, and panel discussions will focus on topics like jail construction, gang injunctions, justice for community members murdered by police, tasers, bail reform, increased policing on our streets, and more. The goal is to strengthen work to address the impacts of imprisonment, policing, surveillance, courts, and prosecution in San Francisco. Location: Mission Center, City College of SF, 1125 Valencia St. San Francisco Wednesday, April 11, 2018 • 7:15 - 8:45 pm Film Screening of The Long Shadow When filmmaker and investigative journalist Frances Causey, a daughter of the South, set out to explore the continuing racial divisions in the U.S., what she discovered was that the politics of slavery didn't end with the Civil War. In an astonishingly candid look at the United States' original sin, The Long Shadow traces slavery's history from America's founding up through its insidious ties to racism today. See the trailer. Sponsored by Resistance Action East Bay (an Indivisible affiliate) and KPFA, SURJ members will be part of a post-screening discussion, collecting donations and plugging people into our work. Tickets: $15, students $10. Purchase online or at the door. Location: The Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave. Oakland Saturday, April 14 • 1:00 - 3:30 pm Black Liberation Across Geographies Hear three community leaders share about their work and how we can actively support projects building Black Liberation in Appalachia (Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Co-Executive Director of Highlander Center), Haiti (Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of Haiti Action Committee) and the Bay Area (Kamau Walton, Communications Associate at the TGIJP and local leader in movements to abolish imprisonment and policing). Sponsored by Catalyst Project. Sliding scale donation of $0-$15 suggested. Location: Oakstop, 1721 Broadway, Oakland Tuesday, April 17 • 6:00 - 9:00 pm Kayla’s Birthday Celebration at Provo Park This year marks the five year anniversary of Kayla Moore’s death at the hands of Berkeley police, so the community is throwing Kayla a great big party to keep her memory alive! There will be food, music and art in celebration of her life. Note: There will be an art build for this event on Sun. April 15 • 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. Location: Provo Park, 1901 Allston Way, Berkeley Wednesday April 25, 2018 • 6:45 - 9:00 pm Introduction to SURJ Meeting Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities including new pathways for entering the work, including Study and Action groups as well as committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. Featured Speaker: Sandra Johnson from All of Us or None, a organization fighting for the rights of formerly- and currently-incarcerated people and their families, and a project of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. Please RSVP. Location: Sierra Club, 2101 Webster St. 13th Floor, Oakland Monday, April 30 • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Quest For Democracy Day 2018 Every Spring, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None organizes a large-scale statewide lobby day for formerly-incarcerated people, family members with incarcerated loved ones, and allied community activists. Quest for Democracy Day supports pending legislation that affects people impacted by incarceration and this year, SURJ is being asked to lobby alongside LSPC/AUON members coming from all over California. The day will include a training workshop on sponsored bills and effective legislative advocacy. Then Action Teams will visit each legislator’s office to advocate in person, followed by a rally on the Capitol steps that lifts up the voices and leadership of those most affected by the prison industrial complex. Join us! More details here where you can also RSVP. You can make a DONATION here to support this massive statewide mobilization. Location: State Capitol, N Street at 12th, Sacramento Tuesday, May 1 • 3:00 - 6:00 pm Oakland May Day: March for Immigrant and Worker Rights Join us to march for migrant and worker justice! This annual march for International Workers’ Day is sponsored by Oakland Sin Fronteras and endorsed by Anakbayan East Bay, Anti-Police Terror Project, California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance, Critical Resistance, Mujeres Unidas Y Activas, VietUnity East Bay, Xicano Moratorium Coalition, and SURJ, among others. Location: Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza, 14th and Broadway, Oakland Campaign to Restore Voting Rights to People in State Prisons and On Parole SURJ is supporting the work of Initiate Justice and their Voting Restoration and Democracy Act (VRDA) campaign. The VRDA would restore the right to vote to approximately 160,000 people in state prisons and on parole in California. Sign up to help gather signatures, make a donation to support this critical work, and come to a workshop and training. Read the 2-page talking points and signature-gathering instructions here. Join the SURJ - Faith National Campaign Invitation to Prophetic Imagination: Community Safety for All SURJ - Faith is organizing a national campaign that asks faith/spiritual communities to examine our relationship to policing and police violence. This campaign is an act of accountability to people of color who are asking white people to join them in imagining and taking action toward a world without policing, and is also aligned with the Vision for Black Lives. Learn more about the campaign. There are also resources and information that people can share with their faith communities. Stop ICE and Deportations! Defend Immigrants! As ICE continues to terrorize immigrant communities through raids, it’s important to remain on alert. Here’s how: • Add these rapid response hotline numbers to your phone: 510-241-4011 (Alameda County) and 415-200-1548 (San Francisco). • Here are 5 ways to respond with power, not panic from the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance. • Share Know Your Rights information like this from the ACLU. • Sign up to receive Bay Resistance action alerts by texting RESIST to 41411. • Find more resources at the SURJ website. SURJ Bay Area Chapter - Join us! Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. Learn more at www.surjbayarea.org. SURJ Bay Area is one of 150 chapters and affiliates nationwide. Learn about SURJ National and our mission, vision, and values HERE. Want to support our work? You can make a donation for SURJ's organizing and educational efforts with over half of what we raise going to Black and people of color-led partner organizations. Make a one-time donation or become a monthly sustainer HERE. Contributions are tax-deductible. Follow SURJ Bay Area on Social Media: Facebook • Twitter • Instagram Comments are closed.
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