Woodfin Workers FIRED!!!
We are deeply distraught to announce that the Woodfin Suites Hotel in
Emeryville fired 11 workers in apparent retaliation for blowing the
whistle on the hotel's violation of Emeryville's living wage
ordinance. These firings are a malicious attack not just on
hard-working housekeepers and their families, but also on our
community's values of immigrant workers' rights, democracy, and
justice.
We are writing to ask you to stand beside Woodfin workers as they
fight for reinstatement. The firings come after 7 months of intense,
sustained protests by workers, residents, faith leaders, and immigrant
rights advocates. But as the chant goes, "The Woodfin ain't seen
nothin' yet." We will not abandon the workers and will demand
accountability from the Woodfin and the city council. We ask you to
join us in sending a strong and immediate message to the hotel that
the terminations are unethical, and to the city that they must hold
the Woodfin responsible and defend the workers' jobs.
Here's what you can do to help:
1. Attend two upcoming emergency response actions:
* Tomorrow, Saturday, April 28th at 9 AM. Join us for a rally
during our regular 7-11 AM pickets to send an immediate message to the
Woodfin that the community is behind the workers.
* Thursday, May 3rd at 5 PM. Join us for a critically important
rally to demand reinstatement of all fired Woodfin workers.
Both actions will take place at the Woodfin Suites Hotel located at
5800 Shellmound in Emeryville.
2. Email the Emeryville City Council. The firings violate the City of
Emeryville's urgency ordinance, which prohibits hotels from firing
workers until the city has had 90 days to investigate worker
complaints. To send a message to the Emeryville City Council to tell
them to immediately deny the Woodfin an operating permit until the
hotel reinstates workers and pays them back wages go to
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/EBASE/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11219.
3. Donate to the Living Wage Hardship fund. To make a donation to
support fired workers and their families go to:
http://www.workingeastbay.org/article.php?id=204.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Immigrant Workers Organize!
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2pm - 5pm
Corazon del Pueblo
4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland
IMMIGRANT WORKERS ORGANIZE
Bosses use ICE and the threat of deportation to intimidate workers and
deny them their rights. Come exercise strategies to defend ourselves from
La Migra. This workshop will look at using the law and ways to act beyond
the law.
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This event will be a participatory workshop for immigrant workers, non-immigrant co-workers, worker advocates, union stewards, and other labor organizers who wish to formulate strategies to resist ICE raids and other anti-immigrant scenarios occurring in the workplace.
We'll discuss different case scenarios (drawn from actual experiences) and create responses. Scenarios include not only ICE raids but situations in which bosses/clients have used immigration status (legal or illegal) as a way to exploit immigrant workers. The examples of scenarios range from losses in wages, sexual abuse, no-match letters, wrongful eviction, and other forms of discrimination, intimidation, exploitation and violence.
Our outreach is specifically to immigrants employed in the domestic service industry, sex work industry, garment industry, hospitality industry, and restaurant industry. These are industries where the majority of workers are immigrant women of color and transwomen.
Goals of the event include:
* accurately discuss the specifics of case scenarios (based on experiential 1st person accounts)
* familiarize ourselves with, and emotionally prepare to confront, the current practices of the ICE and other agents of the State
* understand the Law in terms of how it can be used, the limitations based on documentation status, and how to move beyond the law
* identify processes of criminalization, coercion, exploitation, divisiveness, particularly who is targeted/harmed vs. who benefits.
* create a space to acknowledge each other and our collective power
* strengthen worker solidarity by redefining "work", formal and informal,and it's value.
* privilege the voices of immigrant women of color and transwomen and maintain a transnational feminist perspective.
* coordinate interventions with union reps, coworkers, family, neighbors and advocates
* determine ways to resist and fight back with dignity and self-determination
This workshop will honor particularly the work experiences of immigrant women of color and transwomen. Respect the space.
Translation and childcare provided.
Corazon del Pueblo
4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland
IMMIGRANT WORKERS ORGANIZE
Bosses use ICE and the threat of deportation to intimidate workers and
deny them their rights. Come exercise strategies to defend ourselves from
La Migra. This workshop will look at using the law and ways to act beyond
the law.
-------------
This event will be a participatory workshop for immigrant workers, non-immigrant co-workers, worker advocates, union stewards, and other labor organizers who wish to formulate strategies to resist ICE raids and other anti-immigrant scenarios occurring in the workplace.
We'll discuss different case scenarios (drawn from actual experiences) and create responses. Scenarios include not only ICE raids but situations in which bosses/clients have used immigration status (legal or illegal) as a way to exploit immigrant workers. The examples of scenarios range from losses in wages, sexual abuse, no-match letters, wrongful eviction, and other forms of discrimination, intimidation, exploitation and violence.
Our outreach is specifically to immigrants employed in the domestic service industry, sex work industry, garment industry, hospitality industry, and restaurant industry. These are industries where the majority of workers are immigrant women of color and transwomen.
Goals of the event include:
* accurately discuss the specifics of case scenarios (based on experiential 1st person accounts)
* familiarize ourselves with, and emotionally prepare to confront, the current practices of the ICE and other agents of the State
* understand the Law in terms of how it can be used, the limitations based on documentation status, and how to move beyond the law
* identify processes of criminalization, coercion, exploitation, divisiveness, particularly who is targeted/harmed vs. who benefits.
* create a space to acknowledge each other and our collective power
* strengthen worker solidarity by redefining "work", formal and informal,and it's value.
* privilege the voices of immigrant women of color and transwomen and maintain a transnational feminist perspective.
* coordinate interventions with union reps, coworkers, family, neighbors and advocates
* determine ways to resist and fight back with dignity and self-determination
This workshop will honor particularly the work experiences of immigrant women of color and transwomen. Respect the space.
Translation and childcare provided.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Decolonization and Autonomous Solutions More Details
Here's more details on the next event, this Saturday. For the full calendar click here.
Decolonization and Autonomous Solutions
An open dialogue by and for indigenous people, immigrants and other people of color; Let's strengthen autonomous solutions towards decolonization. An afternoon discussion hosted by Estacion Libre Oakland and Days in April Collective.
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2pm - 5pm
at Corazon del Pueblo at
4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland
Featuring:
*Speakers from Estacion Libre-Oakland chapter
*Morning Star Gali; Intertribal Friendship House
*Harjap Grewal; No One Is Illegal (Vancouver, Canada)
*Speakers from Colectiva Zapatista Ramona
*Lara Kiswani; Organizer for self-determination in Palestine
Some of the questions we'll be focusing on are:
-How are we moving towards autonomous solutions?
-What more can we be doing?/Want to be doing?
-What does/would autonomy look like? (is autonomy land? is autonomy structures?)
-As different immigrant/multi-racial communities, what are our contexts towards building autonomy?
-What are some of the common networks and struggles?
-How do we undermine each other?
-What are some unaddressed problems and issues?
-What challenges arise when we attempt to create autonomous spaces while at the same time working to create popular movements?
-How do we define autonomy (economic, cultural, political, individual, community)?
-What is our immediate goal in creating autonomous spaces and is our longterm work limited to these goals?
Decolonization and Autonomous Solutions
An open dialogue by and for indigenous people, immigrants and other people of color; Let's strengthen autonomous solutions towards decolonization. An afternoon discussion hosted by Estacion Libre Oakland and Days in April Collective.
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2pm - 5pm
at Corazon del Pueblo at
4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland
Featuring:
*Speakers from Estacion Libre-Oakland chapter
*Morning Star Gali; Intertribal Friendship House
*Harjap Grewal; No One Is Illegal (Vancouver, Canada)
*Speakers from Colectiva Zapatista Ramona
*Lara Kiswani; Organizer for self-determination in Palestine
Some of the questions we'll be focusing on are:
-How are we moving towards autonomous solutions?
-What more can we be doing?/Want to be doing?
-What does/would autonomy look like? (is autonomy land? is autonomy structures?)
-As different immigrant/multi-racial communities, what are our contexts towards building autonomy?
-What are some of the common networks and struggles?
-How do we undermine each other?
-What are some unaddressed problems and issues?
-What challenges arise when we attempt to create autonomous spaces while at the same time working to create popular movements?
-How do we define autonomy (economic, cultural, political, individual, community)?
-What is our immediate goal in creating autonomous spaces and is our longterm work limited to these goals?
Ships in the Night
Ships in the Night is a queer dance party that happens every 3rd Thursday and benefits different projects/organizations in the bay--
Thursday, April 19th, 2007 will benefit the Days in April Collective-- specifically to help us pay for the posters we got printed (Eberhardt Press in PDX is amazing by the way) and interpretation headsets we rented.
the Gangway
841 Larkin
between O'Farrell & Geary in SF
Thursday April 19th:
DJs Durt, C-Face, Adan
$3.00-5.00
10pm
see you there,
b. nogood
Thursday, April 19th, 2007 will benefit the Days in April Collective-- specifically to help us pay for the posters we got printed (Eberhardt Press in PDX is amazing by the way) and interpretation headsets we rented.
the Gangway
841 Larkin
between O'Farrell & Geary in SF
Thursday April 19th:
DJs Durt, C-Face, Adan
$3.00-5.00
10pm
see you there,
b. nogood
Sunday, April 15, 2007
No Pig Logic
Yesterday approximately 50 prison abolitionists, media workers, queer liberationists, anti-assimilationists, healthcare providers, and community organizers gathered to talk candidly and publicly about ending criminalization on all its fronts. Parts of it may be broadcast over the radio, I'll give yall a headsup here when that happens.
No pictures this time! But we politicked, made new friends, and shared stories. We all left with a clearer understanding of how we challenge criminalization in our day to day, and what might be our next strategies/actions to kick it up a notch and confront it. It was an exciting afternoon for me-- especially to meet all of the new faces.
Next Saturday is the Decolonization and Autonomous Solutions event in East Oakland-- More details here as it comes out.
For now what we know is:
DECOLONIZATION AND AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS
An open dialogue by and for indigenous people, immigrants and other people of color; Let’s strengthen autonomous solutions towards decolonization. SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2pm - 5pm at Corazon del Pueblo at 4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland
Hope to meet you there,
b. nogood
No pictures this time! But we politicked, made new friends, and shared stories. We all left with a clearer understanding of how we challenge criminalization in our day to day, and what might be our next strategies/actions to kick it up a notch and confront it. It was an exciting afternoon for me-- especially to meet all of the new faces.
Next Saturday is the Decolonization and Autonomous Solutions event in East Oakland-- More details here as it comes out.
For now what we know is:
DECOLONIZATION AND AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS
An open dialogue by and for indigenous people, immigrants and other people of color; Let’s strengthen autonomous solutions towards decolonization. SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2pm - 5pm at Corazon del Pueblo at 4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland
Hope to meet you there,
b. nogood
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
No Pig Logic. More Details!
Latest details on the No More Pig Logic event including info on the speakers. The flyer is here. Pass the word if you can and see you there!
b. nogood
Days In April Presents:
No More Pig Logic: Abolishing Criminalization and Building Solidarity.
Saturday. April 14th. 2007.
2pm. La Raza Centro Legal. (2nd Floor Auditorium).
474 Valencia St. at 16th St.
Wheelchair Accessible | Childcare Provided | Spanish/English Interpretation
Join us for a participatory discussion to break down criminalization and the ways it impacts people of color, queers, and immigrants. We'll brainstorm strategies to end criminalization and hear about on-going work on the ground in the Bay Area. This will be a space dedicated to building solidarity and abolishing pig logic. Everyone welcome.
Featuring:
Nat Smith from Critical Resistance Oakland.
"Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe." www.criticalresistance.org
Patricia Hemphill from Committee for the Defense of Human Rights.
The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights is the organization spearheading support for the San Francisco 8 (8 Ex-Black Panthers arrested on January 23rd, 2007). www.freethesf8.org
Lily from Arab American Legal Services.
"The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee-San Francisco Chapter is part of a national, grassroots civil rights organization that aims to build, nurture, and empower the Arab-American Community." www.adcsf.org
Guillermina from Deporten a la Migra Coalition.
Deporten a la Migra is an immigrant led anti-imperialist coalition that’s composed of many grassroots groups in the Bay Area. They are active in organizing demonstrations, teach-ins and weekly street outreach about ICE raids, detention centers, and deportations. www.liberationink.com
RSVP to daysinaprilcollective@gmail.com
daysinapril.blogspot.com | 415.452.5256
b. nogood
Days In April Presents:
No More Pig Logic: Abolishing Criminalization and Building Solidarity.
Saturday. April 14th. 2007.
2pm. La Raza Centro Legal. (2nd Floor Auditorium).
474 Valencia St. at 16th St.
Wheelchair Accessible | Childcare Provided | Spanish/English Interpretation
Join us for a participatory discussion to break down criminalization and the ways it impacts people of color, queers, and immigrants. We'll brainstorm strategies to end criminalization and hear about on-going work on the ground in the Bay Area. This will be a space dedicated to building solidarity and abolishing pig logic. Everyone welcome.
Featuring:
Nat Smith from Critical Resistance Oakland.
"Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe." www.criticalresistance.org
Patricia Hemphill from Committee for the Defense of Human Rights.
The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights is the organization spearheading support for the San Francisco 8 (8 Ex-Black Panthers arrested on January 23rd, 2007). www.freethesf8.org
Lily from Arab American Legal Services.
"The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee-San Francisco Chapter is part of a national, grassroots civil rights organization that aims to build, nurture, and empower the Arab-American Community." www.adcsf.org
Guillermina from Deporten a la Migra Coalition.
Deporten a la Migra is an immigrant led anti-imperialist coalition that’s composed of many grassroots groups in the Bay Area. They are active in organizing demonstrations, teach-ins and weekly street outreach about ICE raids, detention centers, and deportations. www.liberationink.com
RSVP to daysinaprilcollective@gmail.com
daysinapril.blogspot.com | 415.452.5256
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Film Tonight on Cambodian Migrations!
Tuesday. April 10th. 6pm.
SF Main Public Library. Koret Auditorium.
100 Larkin St. (near Civic Center BART)
Free.
Sentenced Home is a film about Cambodian immigrants to the US-- it's just come out and it's screening it for free tonight. More info here. Hope you can make it--
b. nogood
SF Main Public Library. Koret Auditorium.
100 Larkin St. (near Civic Center BART)
Free.
Sentenced Home is a film about Cambodian immigrants to the US-- it's just come out and it's screening it for free tonight. More info here. Hope you can make it--
b. nogood
Flyer for No Pig Logic Event
Here's the flyer for you to print and distribute-- two flyers should fit on one sheet of 8.5x11. pass the word if you can! see you there!b. nogood.
Days In April Presents:
No More Pig Logic: Abolishing Criminalization and Building Solidarity.
Saturday. April 14th. 2007.
2-5pm. La Raza Centro Legal.
474 Valencia St. at 16th St.
Featuring Speakers from:
Critical Resistance Oakland,
Arab American Legal Services,
Committee for the Defense of Human Rights,
& Women's Collective of the SF Day Laborer's Program.
Join us for a participatory discussion to break down criminalization and the ways it impacts people of color, queers, and immigrants. A space dedicated to buidling solidarity and abolishing pig logic.
Childcare and Spanish/English Interpretation.
Monday, April 9, 2007
Festival Kicks Off Days In April
Thx to all yall who came out to the festival in the Fruitvale district of East Oakland. Kids smashed symbols of oppression, the Brass Liberation Orchestra played all my jams, and everyone got to play some football. Pictures of the ruckus here.
See yall at the Woodfin workers march and at our next event: "No More Pig Logic"-- posters up tomorrow.
soon,
b. nogood
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Days In April. Towards Autonomous Solutions.
April is the cruelest month...
T. S. Eliot
For more information about the Days in April collective see the contacts to the right. But the quick jist is we're a mostly poc crew, mostly in our 20s, mostly queer, working with lots of other people/orgs/projects to set up some events in the bay to help build momentum towards Mayday. Here's a calendar including events by other people/orgs/projects we think are vital and amazing. Ultimately we're experimenting ways to build the road to autonomy and self-determination for all of our communities.
soon,
b. nogood
and the days in april collective
Days in April
*Immigrant Rights Calendar*
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND CONVERSATIONS
Join the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition for a night of conversation, art, music and performance on immigrant rights on the context of social and economic justice. THURSDAY, APRIL 5. Time and location TBA. Organized by National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition. Contact diana@nnirr.org or evelyn@immigrantrights.org
COMMUNITY FEAST AND CELEBRATION
The Intertribal Friendship House will host a Community Feast and Celebration to express appreciation to the community for its prompt mobilization and grassroots fund-raising to help "save the legacy" of this historical, urban Native landmark. FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 7pm at the Intertribal Friendship House, 523 International Blvd, Oakland. Organized by the Intertribal Friendship House.
FESTIVAL DEL INMIGRANTE
Join us in the park to enjoy music, theatre and resources for immigrants like legal and community organizations. SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 10-2pm at Josie de La Cruz Park, 1637 Fruitvale Ave, E. Oakland
MARCH FOR JUSTICE WITH WOODFIN WORKERS
Show the Woodfin hotel bosses and other Emeryville businesses that we will stand with the housekeepers and against racism and immigration raids. Organized by EBASE. TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 5pm, at Emeryville City Hall (Park St. at Hollis), Emeryville.
NO MORE PIG LOGIC: CRIMINALIZATION AND SOLIDARITY
A participatory discussion on the opportunities and challenges in building a people of color movement in the United States. Forge solidarity and break down criminalization and the different ways it impacts people of color, queers and immigrants. SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2-5pm at La Raza Centro Legal, 474 Valencia St. (near 16th St) Suite 295, San Francisco
WHAT IS DIRECT ACTION
Come explore organizing tactics in a basic workshop of direct action. This is a space to break down strategies, decision-making roles and more. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1pm - 3pm at City College of San Francisco, 50 Phelan Ave, Student Union Rm 104 at the Multicultural Resource Center.
DECOLONIZATION AND AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS
An open dialogue by and for indigenous people, immigrants and other people of color; Let’s strengthen autonomous solutions towards decolonization. SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2pm - 5pm at Corazon del Pueblo at 4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland
IMMIGRANT WORKERS ORGANIZE
Bosses use ICE and the threat of deportation to intimidate workers and deny them their rights. Come exercise strategies to defend ourselves from La Migra. This workshop will look at using the law and ways to act beyond the law. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2pm - 5pm“ at Corazon del Pueblo at 4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland
EL GRAN PARO AMERICANO II
No to Borders! No to White Supremacy! No to Genocide! No to Neoliberalism! For Dignity! For Self-Determination! For Autonomy! TUESDAY, MAY 1. In your streets!
DIA EVENT PARTICIPANTS include: Arab American Legal Services, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, Deporte a la Migra, Estacion Libre-Oakland, No One is Illegal-Vancouver, Priority Africa Network, International Institute of the East Bay, Dulce, Women's Collective of the San Francisco Day Labor Project, Critical Resistance-Oakland.
ENDORSED BY: International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 6
T. S. Eliot
For more information about the Days in April collective see the contacts to the right. But the quick jist is we're a mostly poc crew, mostly in our 20s, mostly queer, working with lots of other people/orgs/projects to set up some events in the bay to help build momentum towards Mayday. Here's a calendar including events by other people/orgs/projects we think are vital and amazing. Ultimately we're experimenting ways to build the road to autonomy and self-determination for all of our communities.
soon,
b. nogood
and the days in april collective
Days in April
*Immigrant Rights Calendar*
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND CONVERSATIONS
Join the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition for a night of conversation, art, music and performance on immigrant rights on the context of social and economic justice. THURSDAY, APRIL 5. Time and location TBA. Organized by National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition. Contact diana@nnirr.org or evelyn@immigrantrights.org
COMMUNITY FEAST AND CELEBRATION
The Intertribal Friendship House will host a Community Feast and Celebration to express appreciation to the community for its prompt mobilization and grassroots fund-raising to help "save the legacy" of this historical, urban Native landmark. FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 7pm at the Intertribal Friendship House, 523 International Blvd, Oakland. Organized by the Intertribal Friendship House.
FESTIVAL DEL INMIGRANTE
Join us in the park to enjoy music, theatre and resources for immigrants like legal and community organizations. SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 10-2pm at Josie de La Cruz Park, 1637 Fruitvale Ave, E. Oakland
MARCH FOR JUSTICE WITH WOODFIN WORKERS
Show the Woodfin hotel bosses and other Emeryville businesses that we will stand with the housekeepers and against racism and immigration raids. Organized by EBASE. TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 5pm, at Emeryville City Hall (Park St. at Hollis), Emeryville.
NO MORE PIG LOGIC: CRIMINALIZATION AND SOLIDARITY
A participatory discussion on the opportunities and challenges in building a people of color movement in the United States. Forge solidarity and break down criminalization and the different ways it impacts people of color, queers and immigrants. SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2-5pm at La Raza Centro Legal, 474 Valencia St. (near 16th St) Suite 295, San Francisco
WHAT IS DIRECT ACTION
Come explore organizing tactics in a basic workshop of direct action. This is a space to break down strategies, decision-making roles and more. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1pm - 3pm at City College of San Francisco, 50 Phelan Ave, Student Union Rm 104 at the Multicultural Resource Center.
DECOLONIZATION AND AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS
An open dialogue by and for indigenous people, immigrants and other people of color; Let’s strengthen autonomous solutions towards decolonization. SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2pm - 5pm at Corazon del Pueblo at 4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland
IMMIGRANT WORKERS ORGANIZE
Bosses use ICE and the threat of deportation to intimidate workers and deny them their rights. Come exercise strategies to defend ourselves from La Migra. This workshop will look at using the law and ways to act beyond the law. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2pm - 5pm“ at Corazon del Pueblo at 4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland
EL GRAN PARO AMERICANO II
No to Borders! No to White Supremacy! No to Genocide! No to Neoliberalism! For Dignity! For Self-Determination! For Autonomy! TUESDAY, MAY 1. In your streets!
DIA EVENT PARTICIPANTS include: Arab American Legal Services, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, Deporte a la Migra, Estacion Libre-Oakland, No One is Illegal-Vancouver, Priority Africa Network, International Institute of the East Bay, Dulce, Women's Collective of the San Francisco Day Labor Project, Critical Resistance-Oakland.
ENDORSED BY: International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 6
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