Wednesday 12/2 Coffee not Cops at “We Want Names! Who Killed Alex Nieto?” 8am

Station 40 and Coffee Not Cops will be serving up coffee bright and early @ 8am-10am
Location: Federal Courts Building 450 Golden Gate Ave

Here is more info on the event:

What about Justice 4 Alex Nieto?

8 MONTHS LATER AND STILL…

· NO NAMES OF OFFICERS INVOLVED
—–4 shooters
—–8-10 officers present during shooting
—–20 officers who secured homicide scene

—–The City Attorney continues to shield ALL officers’ identities, and on the first court date (11/19/2014) asked the names of all officers involved to be kept under a “protective order.”

Wed. Dec. 3rd is the deadline for the City Attorney to provide arguments and evidence as to the why Mag. Judge Cousins should keep the names of the 34 officers out of the public eye.

Mag. Judge Cousins needs to DO THE RIGHT THING! And break the police code of silence, and end the City’s policy of obscurity regarding the killing of Alex Nieto.

8 MONTHS LATER AND STILL…

· NO ORIGINAL 911 CALL recording, not even a transcript

· NO POLICE REPORTS

· NO WITNESS STATEMENTS

· NO PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM MAYOR ED LEE. He is ultimately responsible for SFPD and the City Attorney.

· NO NEWS ON A CRIMINAL INDICTMENT BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY GASCÓN

WE WANT NAMES! WE WANT NAMES!

We believe the City Government is protecting a cover-up. We members of the communities affected by the killing of Alex Nieto demand complete transparency. Without transparency, no accountability is possible.

FEDERAL BLDG (450 Golden Gate)
WED. DEC. 3rd, 2014 (8-10AM)

More info at: http://justice4alexnieto.org/2014/11/26/call-to-community-action-we-want-names/

Sun 3/30 Coffee Not Cops 11am

Sunday March 30
11:00 AM
16th Street BART Plaza

Taking inspiration from our homies at Food Not Bombs, and as a way to make an intervention in the conversation on “cleaning up the plaza” in a low key and social way, Coffee Not Cops shares free coffee, pastries, and literature for everyone kicking it in the plaza (except the police, of course).

We want to keep the plaza as a place — a commons — for hanging out for all the folks who’ve called it their home for years. For us that means carving out a section of the plaza that is unwelcoming to the cops, who have recently made a point to occupy the area morning, noon, and night. We want to shine a light on the fact that the police presence in the plaza is for the benefit of the new gentrifiers and actually not for the safety of those of us who have hung out an lived on this corner for years.

We plan to continue doing Coffee Not Cops every other Sunday at 11 a.m. Join us with your literature, banners, music, art, food, conversation, and/or other contributions to expanding and reclaiming our neighborhood commons. And don’t forget! Food Not Bombs serves every Thursday at 16th and Mission plaza. If you want to help cook, drop by Station 40 at 5pm.

Below is the text to the flyer we hand out to folks in the plaza during Coffee Not Cops:

Coffee Not Cops stands with our neighbors against the eviction epidemic, the new condo developments, police brutality and harassment, and the tech culture that is draining the social and political spirit of our beloved city.

When we serve coffee, many folks in the plaza are confused. “Isn’t it good the cops are here? It actually IS unsafe in the plaza.” We can’t argue that 16th and Mission is a safe place, but we do argue that the reason the cops are finally concerned is because this is slated to be ground zero for a huge puke-worthy condo. All the folks who have lived through the roughness of this corner — survived shoot outs, witnessed and suffered from pimp violence, those who’ve struggled with drug addiction and those who’ve sat here week after week handing out clean needles and harm reduction material — are facing another imminent threat: eviction and/or jail. Let’s say crime stops on 16th and Mission. Do we really think it will be Latino families, working class people, and young people of color who will be around to enjoy this supposed lack of crime? The “cleaned up” plaza is a future designed for all them new tech yuppies, and scared ass rich people who’ve never walked down the same streets as brown folks or homeless people. SFPD claims they’re here for “the community’s safety,” but we know what community they’re talking about.

We serve coffee in the plaza because we want the folks who have hung out and lived in the plaza for years to come back and not be intimidated by the police. See, for many, cops are the ones who are unsafe. Even the supposedly progressive, lgbt friendly San Francisco police are notorious for beat downs and shootings of poor people in general. They especially target black men and people with mental health problems. We don’t want cops to feel like they can come to our plaza and intimidate and harass our neighbors for the benefit of white and rich people with out some push back!

https://defendthebayarea.org/

Sat 3/29 The Art of Resistance: Anti-Gentrification Screen-Printing Workshop 10am-2:30

Saturday March 29
10am-2:30pm
3030B 16th Street

Mission Street artists Yo Soy 132 Bay Area along with Patrick Piazza, a longtime member of the SF Print Collective, will not only demonstrate screen-printing methods, they’ll also teach us how to do-it-ourselves. Then we’ll all dive in to screen print lots of anti-gentrification posters for decorating and defending our city.

All materials will be provided, so just bring yourself and your friends, and make street art.

Donations welcome, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

No experience necessary!
All welcome!
Leave with lots of posters!

https://defendthebayarea.org/

 

***NOTE TIME CHANGE***

We changed the time so we can then head to the community march, “Justice for Alejandro Nieto! Jail Killer Cops!” starting at 3 p.m. from the Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St. near 25th St.

https://defendthebayarea.org/event/justice-for-alex-nieto-march/

Tuesday 3/25 I’m a Fucking Panther: Radical Organizing in Today’s Sweden 6:30

In February 2011, inspired by the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, a group of young people of color in Gothenburg, Sweden, organized themselves and formed the Panthers for the Restoration of the Suburbs. Gothenburg is one of the most segregated cities in Europe when it comes to ethnicity, creating ghetto-like suburbs far from the city center. Swedish filmmaker Leo Palmestål, who has participated in Panther events, will discuss the Swedish situation and how the Panthers (or in Swedish, Pantrarna) have responded; he’ll also show his documentary, directed with Anders Rundberg and Jennifer Jerez, I’m a Fucking Panther (http://youtu.be/fDIjffXhhFg). Emory Douglas, minister of culture for the Black Panthers, will join Leo in this conversation.

The last couple of years Sweden have suffered from reductions in the welfare system, causing increasing poverty and social vulnerability. As a result, criminal gangs have grown stronger and shootings that end in deaths have become almost everyday occurrences in many suburbs. The Panthers, a group of young people of color in one of these suburbs, refuse to stand by and watch while the world around them collapses. They demand participation in the decisions taken by politicians and officials in order to create a shift in power—that is, more power to the people.

Their actions have ranged from storming politicians’ meetings to demand that they open up a long-closed youth center to arranging soccer tournaments and summer camps to engage youths in positive activities. Just like the Black Panther Party, the Swedish Panthers use social programs to get young people involved in the democratic processes and become politically aware. The group’s aim is to help youths turn away from crime and demand their rights. And the Panthers do this while chanting “All Power to the People!”

For an interview by Gabriel Kuhn with Panther members Homa Badpa, Yassin Ben Salah, and Murat Solmaz, see http://www.alpineanarchist.org/r_pantrarna.html.

Leo Palmestål studied filmmaking at the University of Gothenburg, worked as an editor for music videos, including Madonna’s Music video, and has made several short films and two documentaries about the Panthers. For more info about the film, see http://imafuckingpanther.wordpress.com/english/

3/23 Carework: From Crisis to Common A talk and discussion with Silvia Federici 7pm

Lack of time, resources, and communal support is responsible for an unprecedented reproduction crisis that is affecting all aspects of our lives. In her presentation, Federici discusses its causes, its social effects, and the struggle we must make to “commonize” care work.

Federici is a longtime feminist activist, teacher, and writer. She is an emerita professor at Hofstra University, and has authored many essays on feminist theory, women’s history, political philosophy, and education. Her published books include: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation; Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its Others (editor); and Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles against Structural Adjustment in African Universities (coeditor).

Copies of her latest book, Revolution at Point Zero (PM Press, 2012), will be available at the talk, or can be purchased online at https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=420.

As usual, we will try to have tea and snacks, see ya’ll then!

2/22-3/22 Month Long Fundraiser Drive!

Our homies in Brooklyn need your dollars to keep their amazing space going strong!

This month-long fundraising drive is looking to raise $1,000 a month which will sustain us for practically the entirety of The Base’s 3 year lease. We are looking for 25 people to donate $20 a month. And 50 people to donate $10 a month.

How to Donate:

1. Go to this address:
https://www.wepay.com/donations/thebasedrive

2. Select the dollar amount you would like a new window will open.

3. Under the ‘Recurring’ option at the bottom, select ‘Donate $XX’, then click the drop down window to select ‘Monthly’

4. Click ‘Next’ to enter payment information

About The Base:
The Base is a sociopolitical space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, committed to the dissemination of revolutionary left ideas and organizing.

thebasebk@gmail.com
thebasebk.org

Calendar of the Month’s events:

February 22nd, 6-10pm: Open House at The Base
March 1st, 7pm: Library Grand Opening Party
March 8th, 10pm: DJ Night at Brass Bottle
March 15th, 8:30pm: Political Satire with Simon Critchley and Jarrod Shanahan

History:
Six months ago we opened The Base with some modest and some ambitious intentions. We wanted to create a venue where young people and the broader populace can engage with anarchist and revolutionary ideas and organizing models in a respectful and open way. We also wanted to create a model and platform where revolutionary modes of organizing can spread beyond the space and interact with the city/country/world in new ways.

Every week now we have talks, several workshops, film screenings, organizing projects and are developing one of the best revolutionary libraries in the city.

Everything we do here is free and built on mutual aid and our firm belief in the projects that are developing.

So now at this point we’re asking for supporters, politicos, occupiers, comrades, and friends who have been using the space, growing with us, and interested in liberatory politics to contribute to our recurring donation drive and become sustainers of The Base.

We are specifically looking for 25 people to donate $20 a month. And secondly, 50 people to donate $10 a month. That will give us $1000 a month and will be adequate for practically the entirety of the spaces 3 year lease.

So for the next month, we’re asking for your help with a small recurring donation and help sharing this fundraiser on social media outlets and other avenues.

During this fundraiser month, please join us for talks, parties, and an open house to celebrate what’s happened so far and glancing toward the future of what may be possible.

Thanks friends! In solidarity we’ll keeping marching until we reach a borderless, stateless world where the beauty of cooperation and solidarity prevail.

Thank you so much for your support and for becoming a sustainer of the Base!

2/28 Reportback From Zapatista Little School 7pm

A panel of alumni from the Zapatista Little School who traveled to Mexico as part of a delegation from Oakland will be talking about their experiences with the Zapatistas.

The Little School is a recent initiative by the Zapatistas to invite thousands of participants from around the world to come to the Zapatista territories, stay in the homes of Zapatista families, work alongside the Zapatistas, and study the Zapatista approach to autonomy.

We stayed in communities across the breadth of the Zapatista territory, from the mountains to the jungle, and will be discussing the different circumstances we encountered in different places, as well as the lessons we learned from our time in the Little School.

We will also be discussing some of our experiences with other autonomous projects that we visited in Mexico, outside the Little School and Chiapas. There will be a slideshow with some pictures from our journey, as well as time for a Q&A with members of the panel.

All are welcome, there will be snacks and tea!

See you then!

1/22-2/5 Weekly Herb Series 6pm-8pm

Starting this Wednesday we will be hosting 3 herb classes for free!

Wednesdays from 6-8pm

Each class is by topic with time for questions at the end. Any and all experience levels are encouraged to come!

Jan 22 – Digestive System A brief explanation of the anatomy and physiology of the digestive system will be followed by descriptions of some ailments that are common to it, and herbal and nutritional strategies for dealing with them. Get to the bottom of that belly-ache!

Jan 29- Head to Toe Ailments We will discuss some miscellaneous common ailments and herbal relief for them. Pink eye, cuts, ear aches, bruises, sprains, yeast infections, athlete’s foot, canker sores, and rashes are some possibilities. Feel free to come with your own inquiries.

Feb 5 – Medicine Making We will go through the process of making an herbal oil and salve. If you have a salve you want to make, bring a small jar, some plant material, and some olive oil. Otherwise, bring a pen and paper. We will go through the whole process together.

1/8 Contested Spaces: Anarchist Spaces in Dialogue and Solidarity 7pm

In the spirit of building solidaristic relationships between anarchist social centers, collectives, and event spaces, we will host a special panel and social hour at Station 40 on January 8 at 7 pm.

We’ve invited members of The Holdout (Oakland, theholdout.org), Outtaline (Emeryville), and The Base (Brooklyn, NY, thebasebk.org) to join us in a conversation about the activities we have been organizing in our spaces, and the political motivations that form what these activities look like. We also hope to touch on the impact of our spaces. After a short panel discussion, everyone is welcomed and encouraged to kick it! We’ll have food, tea, and games.

This event is open to the public, but those involved other collectives are especially encouraged to come and hang out with old and new comrades.

8/7 Book Release and Talk for Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency 7pm

About the book:

Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency (AK Press, 2013); Edited by Kristian Williams, Lara Messersmith-Glavin & Will Munger.

Counterinsurgency has existed as the state’s implicit strategy for a generation, and increasingly this strategy is becoming explicit. In this chilling collection of sociological and political essays, fifteen writers examine the application of domestic counterinsurgency tactics within the United States, and seek to equip the left with a more nuanced understanding of state repression – and how to fight back.

More info: http://www.akpress.org/life-during-wartime.html

Speakers Bios:

Kristian Williams is a member of the Committee Against Political Repression, in Portland, Oregon. He is also the author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Soft Skull, 2004; South End, 2007), American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination (South End, 2006), and Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy (Microcosm, 2012). In 2009 he received a grant from the Institute for Anarchist Studies to support his research on Oscar Wilde’s anarchism.

Kevin Van Meter is a member of the Team Colors Collective and has just relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to complete his doctorate in Geography.  Van Meter, with Team Colors, co-edited the collection Uses of a Whirlwind (AK Press, 2010) and co-authored Winds from below (Team Colors/Eberhardt Press, 2010). Van Meters’ collaborative and single-authored work has appeared in various radical publications.