50 years ago tonight, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders (with bill kreutzmann) at the pauley ballroom in #berkeley, a benefit for the black panther-founded community center in #oakland. MC’d by legendary blank panther artist emory douglas, with the panther-affiliated acts messiah & the intercommunal youth band. tape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB9lwpoX1mk [1/2]
50 years ago tonight, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley, the 1st taped gig of ’74, though they’re already a few deep. martin fierro is a full-time sax/flute player & billy kreutzmann drums on most of the gigs in early part of the year. the dead might have time off, but garcia & drummer stay locked. tape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFAr_Uny5hY [1/2]
My kind of guerrillas!
When your city or transit agency can't get it together to give you a bench at a stop, this sends a loud message.
“Activists vow to keep installing guerrilla benches at East Bay bus stops #Berkeley replaced one DIY bench with a city-approved one, but a pair of activists have since added at least four more wood benches in Berkeley and #Oakland "
It’s the end of an era for Rigel Robinson, one of the most inspiring young electeds in the East Bay. I can’t believe he’s being driven out of politics by stalking and threats.
Sure looks like UC PD has used the generous % of the UC budget they get to create fascist club patches like other cops...
Remember that one of the most frequent things disabled people hear about why our public university isn't accessible 33 years post-ADA is "it's too expensive".
But shipping containers, gift cards for drivers' cars UC towed, cop OT, ammo, and club patches are "affordable".
The destruction of People's Park in #Berkeley, the eviction of the Camp Nenookaasi encampment in #Minneapolis, the bulldozing of Black Lives Matter Memorial Garden in #Seattle, and attacks on refugee families in #NewYork - all are being carried out by Democrats following a wave of misinformation surrounding encampments and "retail crime."
Both parties offer no solutions to the crisis of housing, the exploding cost of living, and the need to care for the most vulnerable in a society rocked by massive inequality and soaring corporate profits.
Today's attacks show why we must build power from below and our capacity to create an active material force based on mutual aid, community defense, and our ability to resist attacks by the State.
I am honored to be presenting my work on #FindingtheRightWords in UCLA's Americanist Research Colloquium. I wrote this #memoir w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's. He became ill when I was a #graduate student in the #Berkeley#English dept. so speaking about this to grad students (& faculty) in the English dept.@ #UCLA is especially meaningful. I'll share what I know now about #dementia & #grief & what I wish I knew then.
Direct action has held off the destruction of the historic autonomous People's Park in so-called Berkeley, California for a year. Now, documents show that the city is once again planning to fence off the area from the public - this time with barbed wire and double stacked shipping containers.
'UC Berkeley intends to re-fence People’s Park with double-stacked cargo containers and barbed wire...developers submitted sidewalk permits to the city as the cargo containers are expected to impede public right of way.
While developers are not permitted to break ground on the project in the meantime, they are allowed to install fencing around the park.
Park defenders and advocates held an overnight vigil this week in anticipation of a perimeter fence, but as of press time, nothing has been erected."
Call asking for defenders of People's Park in #Berkeley to gather to stop the installation of another perimeter fence around the autonomous park. Activists anticipating a heavy police presence.
“But on Sunday, Mingwei Samuel hauled a self-built bench onto the trailer of his cargo e-bike, rode 4.6 miles to downtown Berkeley and tied it to the Line 12 and 79 bus stop on Martin Luther King Jr. Way near the University Ave. intersection, across the street from Trader Joe’s.”
The folks at Muttville are seeing unprecedented rates of senior dogs being euthanized at other shelters, and they’re responding with a huge push to take in and find homes for 100 of those adorable mutts.