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January 2025 Speaker Meeting
Legislative/Organizing Priorities for the Trump era:
EBGP Speaker Meeting January 22 2025
what are YOUR priorities in 2025?
1:30 Welcome and Introductions to New Members and First-Timers. Music by Hali Hammer.
1:40 - FEATURED SPEAKERS - We kickoff 2025 with 2 experienced insiders' view of the California political landscape with a focus on why and how seniors and adults with disabilities may be affected and ways we can speak up.
HENE KELLY. Hene (right) is a vice president of the California Alliance of Retired Americans (CARA) serving as Legislative Director. She also serves on the American Federation of Teachers Retirement Committee and the San Francisco Labor Council. Hene Kelly is a vocal leader of demonstrations for Social Security, Medicare for All, labor and social justice issues, she's been called "the tennis shoe granny with a BULLHORN!" More about Hene.
ROB ENGLAND - please welcome CARA's NEW Executive Director! Rob (left) is long-time union activist, member and former Legislative Director of the Communications Workers of America, and the Central Labor Council of Kern, Inyo and Modoc Counties. Rob Medicare, pensions, Citizens United/corporate money in politics, and issues facing immigrant workers in California. See CARA's Legislative Agenda.
Plenty of Time for Q&A
2:45 PM Updates on current EBGP activities
Including:
- Tenants Rights and Social Housing Priorities with California Housing Now!
- Berkeley Safety and Disaster Plan and Environmental Justice Plan Project - Public Workshop Feb 1
- Coalition building with Ashby Village's Elder Action Network
Member Check-Ins; Priority Interests for Issues and Activities
- Announcements and Upcoming Activities - links via chat or on Gray Panthers calendar :
- Support for Public Toilets
- Chris Kindness Award
- People's Life Fund GRANT APPLICATIONS open
- Medical Aid in Dying
- Measure FF support letter
We formally adjourn at 3:30 but discussion keeps going until 4pm
Recordings and transcript will be below.
Chat Notes:13:39:16 From Caitlyn Duffy to Everyone:Great music video, Hali!13:46:57 From Raines Cohen, EBGP Board to Everyone:Tenants Together: https://www.tenantstogether.org13:48:33 From Raines Cohen, EBGP Board to Everyone:LTSS for all coalition:https://actionnetwork.org/forms/california-needs-universal-long-term-services-and-supports?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=direct_link13:49:41 From Hali Hammer to Everyone:I Will Survive video:13:57:31 From Raines Cohen, EBGP Board to Betsy Morris, Co-Convenor (direct message):Send this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85884943363?pwd=aW9yZkRpNE44SjNpZVBDbm9CQXdKQT09#success13:59:46 From Raines Cohen, EBGP Board to Everyone:If you have questions please type them in the chat or hold on for after Hene speaks. Thanks!14:02:36 From Hali Hammer to Everyone:l'll be back after the other meeting...14:14:49 From Betsy Morris, Co-Convenor to Everyone:for new participants, This is Hene Kelly from San Francisco CAT, legislative chair of CARA for california alliance of retired Americans.14:27:03 From Caitlyn Duffy to Everyone:How do you join the lobbying effort both at the state and national level?14:28:31 From Raines Cohen, EBGP Board to Everyone:CARA virtual lobby day: May 7 (we will add to panthers calendar)14:29:42 From Raines Cohen, EBGP Board to Everyone:A question submitted with an RSVP: Priority . . . matter of national security . . . Note: the 4th amendment is routinely violated at every airport & for absolutely NO excuse whatsoever . . .are you at all concernedCitizen?14:33:39 From Arlene Hipp to Everyone:And privatization of many of our resources14:34:09 From Rob England, CARA to Everyone:Please register for our Forum this Friday on the National Legislative Focus https://bit.ly/Fight2ProtectBenefits14:34:38 From Arlene Hipp to Everyone:Thank you.14:35:16 From Arlene Hipp to Everyone:Also, the reduction of social service budget and benefits14:35:24 From maria sol, EBGP Board to Everyone:Legislating "law..."...Then "enforcement..."...???And...Real Suggestion (Question...)...Collaborate/Seek Exposure/Support (...) fromRalph Nader...(???)
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October 2024 Speaker Meeting:Elections
FOCUS ON ELECTIONS - State and Local Ballot Measures
Plus Annual Member Meeting for Board Elections
PROGRAM
1:30 Welcome and Introductions to New Members and First-Timers
1:40 CARA Video on 5 top Ballot Measure priorities for Seniors and Housing Justice
Discussion and Q&A with guest speakers
- Jodi Reid, former ED, California Alliance of Retired Americans
- Kei Yamamoto - Senior Policy Engagement Manager, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
- Sani Seti, SF Rising
2:30 Review Local and County Ballot Measures, Berkeley & Oakland
- Julia Cato, Berkeley Tenants Union on BB and CC
- Other Member Priorities
3:10 PM - ANNUAL BOARD ELECTIONS (2 - year terms)
* Nominations from the Board and the Floor *- Current Board Members: Carol Crooks, Betsy Morris, Raines Cohen, Robert Magarian
- New Candidates: "Miss Cecilia" Cunningham (Oakland) and Kristy Martin (Berkeley)
* VotingANNOUNCEMENTS
NO 4th Wednesday speaker meetings in November or December - check your emails for other EBGP Gray Panther events
Save the date: Dec. 9 at Richmond Civic Auditorium - Alameda and Contra Costa County joint Potluck of CARA chapters
Adjourn
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Raines Cohen published September 2024 Speaker Meeting: Jan BenDor on fighting voter suppression in Events 2024-09-27 11:32:15 -0700
September 2024 Speaker Meeting: Jan BenDor on fighting voter suppression
Hear from a longtime activist and national Gray Panthers leader
Our Featured speaker at our September speaker meeting was Jan BenDor, a long time activist and state voting rights activist Sociologist; union activist, social worker, videographer. She is treasurer of the National Council of Gray Panther Networks and chair of its housing and nursing home subcommittees. Our co-conveners Betsy Morris and Carol Crooks have had the privilege of working with her as part of their board service.Plus we'll have updates on Panther and partner activities and opportunities, near and wide, in-person and virtual, as the election season looms before us.RSVP on this page to get the Zoom link. We look forward to seeing you there! Spread the word.
Jan BenDor, longtime Gray Panther activist and statewide coordinator of the Michigan Election Reform Alliance. A women's rights activist based in the Ann Arbor area of Michigan. Known as the "Founding Mother of the Rape Crisis Center movement in Michigan," she was named to the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1991.
Her latest video, released in 2017, is a film series: Looting Detroit: The Movie.Full recording of this meeting:
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Raines Cohen published July 2024: Gene Slater - Freedom to Discriminate in Events 2024-07-24 18:58:10 -0700
July 2024 Speaker Meeting:Gene Slater - Freedom to Discrimate
Freedom to Discriminate author Gene Slater - July Speaker Meeting
We met July 24 to hear from Gene Slater, author of Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspire to Segregate Housing and Divide America
We dove into the documented history of the National and California Associations of REALTORS. REALTOR(r) is a registered trademark of a small but powerful group of real estate agents who have, since 1902, have conspired to drive up home prices with covert and overt tactics that continue driving our housing and homelessness crises.
Despite a belated public apology in 2021 for racist and illegal undermining of Fair Housing laws, California REALTORs continue to pour millions into public elections to limit renter protections and extract more profit from housing prices by restricting choices.
How does this tie in to Gray Panther efforts to limit damage from high wealth hedge funds and other "private equity" funds buying into affordable housing and nursing homes? After a short break, we will discuss ways to raise these issues and more.
Gene discussed his insights into the conflicting definitions of freedom created by REALTOR disinformation campaigns.
Gene Slater has 40 years experience in housing justice through housing finance. His firm, CSG Advisors, is one of the nation’s leading advisors to governmental agencies at all levels. He has designed policies and programs more than $70 billion of financing for first-time home buyers, low-income renters, mixed-income apartments, neighborhood revitalization, and improved public housing in cities, small towns, and suburbs in all parts of the US for the past 40 years. In 2020, he began speaking publicly on the history of housing segregation in the US, publishing his book in 2021 with Heydey Press. Since 2022, he has been working with Congress on policies to limit the impacts of private equity pension funds and hedge funds in local housing markets. He currently works and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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April Speaker meeting:Climate Emergency
APRIL 24, 2024 on Zoom 1:30 to 3:30 - All Welcome!
EARTH - WATER - CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Meeting video is below
1:30 Welcomes and Introductions
Featured Panel of Speakers followed by Q&A and Discussion
- Bonnie Borucki, Transition Berkeley - Butterflies, Bees, Gardens and more
- Cheryl Davila, former Berkeley Councilmember, and founder of Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force (CEMTF)
- Helen Ojha, CEO, Sumatics - Rising Tides and Toxics at the Bay's Edge
Q&A, and discusssion
3PM Gray Panther Reports and Action Alerts, Community Announcements as time permits
3:30 ADJOURN
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Public Speaker Meetings are regular gatherings on the Fourth Wednesday of most months, mostly on Zoom
Gray Panthers East Bay has small in-person SOCIAL TIME once a month.
Call Co-Convenor Carol Crooks 510-712-4668 for more details(long video below includes Cheryl speaking on this topic, on behalf of the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force)
(short video from Bonnie Borucki of Transition Berkeley, making an appeal a few years ago)
Chat Transcript:
01:12:26 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: East Bay Housing Organizations: https://www.ebho.org/01:13:15 Nancy Stevens: Reacted to "East Bay Housing Org…" with 👍01:13:17 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: Affordable Housing Month in the East Bay: https://ebho.org/our-work/affordable-housing-month/01:13:25 Nancy Stevens: Reacted to "Affordable Housing M…" with ❤️01:14:15 Nancy Stevens: This is an incredible group!01:14:52 Cheryl Davila Former Councilmember, Founder CEMTF: May is also Mental Health Month!01:17:34 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: Transition Berkeley: https://www.transitionberkeley.org01:21:06 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: Sogorea Te Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org01:22:29 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: Bee City: https://beecityusa.org01:22:53 Norma J F Harrison: you know we01:23:03 Norma J F Harrison: we're not seeing slides01:25:24 Cheryl Davila Former Councilmember, Founder CEMTF: George Florence Park on 10th Street too!01:25:32 Norma J F Harrison: This is beautiful - the basis of our survival - and continuing enjoyment of Earth01:25:52 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: UC Gill Tract Community Farm: https://www.gilltractfarm.org01:26:28 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: Peralta Community Garden, an Ecology Center project: https://ecologycenter.org/directory/directory-entries/peralta-community-garden/01:26:36 Nancy Stevens: Reacted to "This is beautiful - …" with ❤️01:28:00 Norma J F Harrison: I have to leave for the doctor in 15 mins. Please save the whole chat for me.01:29:06 Betsy Morris, EBGP co-convenor: [email protected]01:29:15 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: Transition Berkeley https://www.TransitionBerkeley.org/01:29:56 Norma J F Harrison: I re-sent the original sign-on message - the succeeding ones became complicating - sign -on to this meeting01:33:21 Norma J F Harrison: If anyone in range of your presentation is able to try to overcome the leaf 'curling' on my newly leafing 'apricot[ tree - I've dosed it with that 'copper' pesticide but the curling is continuing - please contact me normaha01:33:42 Betsy Morris, EBGP co-convenor: Joy Moore master gardner started that garden!01:34:22 Norma J F Harrison: [email protected] 510 847 030901:34:50 Betsy Morris, EBGP co-convenor: MARIA YOURE NEXT01:36:20 Nancy Stevens: Berkeley Buy Nothing Facebook community group should be very interested in your work01:37:45 maria sol: Please Teach aboutSOIL HEALTH Too!!!(W/out That NothingWill Grow!!!)01:39:14 Norma J F Harrison: I have a PBS disc 'Sympony of Soil' - a huge beauty - - for your use see info above01:40:59 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force (CEMTF): https://www.cemtf.org01:42:01 Nancy Stevens: Powerhouse!!01:42:08 Nancy Stevens: 👏👏👏01:49:07 Bonnie Borucki: Thank you Cheryl for this important work and for pointing out the recordings on the website.01:57:29 Bonnie Borucki: The speaker you were trying to think of was Yuka Nagashima from Food Shift01:57:31 Cheryl Davila, Former Councilmember, Founder CEMTF: CEMTF.org/ Mobilize Berkeley/ Voices Against Violence/ Berkeley Equity Summit Alliance/ Network of Elected Officials & Staff (NEOS)/ Interfaith Council of Alameda County/ Friends of Adeline/ KPFA Local Station Board01:58:48 Bonnie Borucki: Foodshift.net01:58:59 Cheryl Davila, Former Councilmember, Founder CEMTF: [email protected]02:06:11 Cheryl Davila, Former Councilmember, Founder CEMTF: Thank you Bonnie! I'm so bad with names....02:06:30 Nancy Stevens: Congratulations Ms Cecilia!02:07:36 Cheryl Davila, Former Councilmember, Founder CEMTF: Ms. Cecilia...congrats!02:09:14 Nancy Stevens: 💐 🌼 🌹 🌸 🌺 🪻 🌷02:23:50 Betsy Morris, EBGP co-convenor: Like Pacific Steel.02:31:11 Cheryl Davila, Former Councilmember, Founder CEMTF: CEMTF.org, join us July,19th for Climate & Biodiversity 9A-Noon02:32:28 Nancy Stevens: Reacted to "CEMTF.org, join us J…" with 👍02:42:42 Bonnie Borucki: Thank you Helen, have you given this presentation to local city councils?02:44:36 maria sol: I have Doctors Appt...Gotta Go...THANKS!!!🌈🌟❤️02:46:15 Nancy Stevens: Wishing you all an incredible event collaborating with ILR! Awsomeness!02:46:57 Nancy Stevens: Wish I could be there with you all, but I’ll be with you in the spirit of Enough is Enough!02:48:30 Nancy Stevens: There is $10 million in current funding given by fed to DOR to ILRC, $5000 per person and $7000 for transitioning out of nursing homes! Spread the word!02:48:33 Bonnie Boruki: Where is the best place to get this flyer or link to share?02:49:45 Nancy Stevens: That money doesn’t have enough people to help get that money out, so in 7 months if it’s not granted to individuals, it will go right back to govt when that program expires!!02:50:49 Helen Ojha: Replying to "Thank you Helen, hav..."Hi Bonnie — I have just put this together for Jovanka Beckles and her team.02:56:09 Nancy Stevens: Nancy Stevens. AB 207502:56:47 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: CANHR on AB 2075: https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanhrlegislation.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F03%2FAB-2075_CANHR_fact_sheet.pdf&urp=gmail_link02:57:41 Nancy Stevens: https://www.ab2075.com/02:58:34 Bonnie Boruki: Reacted to "CANHR on AB 2075: ht…" with ❤️02:59:16 Nancy Stevens: Reacted to "CANHR on AB 2075: ht…" with 🙌02:59:29 Nancy Stevens: Reacted to "CANHR on AB 2075: ht…" with ❤️03:01:21 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: Donate to Gray Panthers of Berkeley and the East Bay at https://www.EastBayGrayPanthers.org/03:01:33 Nancy Stevens: Replying to "Nancy Stevens. AB 20…"Thanks everyone! Looking forward to rallying together with the Gray Panthers03:02:41 Cheryl Davila, Former Councilmember, Founder CEMTF: ENSURE safe passage fo the US Boats to Gaza https://bit.ly/FreedomFlotilla202403:03:04 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: RSVP for the EBGP social in person in west berkeley (near the old Homemade Cafe), second Wednesday of May: https://www.eastbaygraypanthers.org/members_in_person_social_2024050803:03:11 Nancy Stevens: I want to hang out with you, and say hi at your get together. You all are such a cool bunch!03:04:02 Raines (Aging In Community) In Berkeley, CA: May speaker meeting May 25 features our own Betsy on Social Housing, lesson from Europe. Beat the rush and RSVP today: https://www.eastbaygraypanthers.org/speaker_meeting_2024052203:05:08 Bonnie Boruki: Thanks Betsy and Raines. What a great meeting. I will see you soon and hope to promote your next meeting. Bye
- Bonnie Borucki, Transition Berkeley - Butterflies, Bees, Gardens and more
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Enough is Enough press conference
Gray Panthers of Berkeley is a proud part of this coalition and encouraged members to join us in person Thursday April 25 at the Ed Roberts Campus (atop Ashby BART) to support our partners and speak out on this issue. See EBGP co-convenor Betsy Morris's statement at the event and sign on to support it.
Press Release
Press Conference Thursday, April 25th @ 2:00 p.m. at the Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA
Berkeley Coalition Advocates Demand Urgent Action
Inaccessible Homeless Shelters Fail Disabled, Seniors, and People with Mental Health Disabilities
Berkeley, California, April, 2024 — As a coalition of concerned citizens, community leaders, and advocates for social and disability justice, we raise our voices to address the dire situation faced by disabled and chronically ill people, seniors, and people with mental health disabilities experiencing homelessness in Berkeley and the Bay Area. The lack of accessible housing shelters in our local and regional areas, including Pathways STAIR Center in Berkeley, is a grave injustice to unhoused people with disabilities that, for too long, have been ignored.
The Crisis: A System Failing Our Most Vulnerable
Homelessness is a crisis affecting our entire community, but it disproportionately impacts Black and Brown people with physical or cognitive disabilities. These vulnerable individuals face immense challenges in securing safe shelter due to outdated and inaccessible facilities. The current state of our shelter system needs change. We call for the end to:
- Inaccessible Shelters: Most shelters lack appropriate space or accommodations for people with disabilities—if they have them at all. The layout and structure of these buildings often have inaccessible bathrooms and living spaces, People with mobility impairments are especially impacted. It has been reported people with disabilities have to relieve themselves outside or remain in their own waste due to inaccessible bathroom facilities. For instance, the Pathway STAIRS Shelter in Berkeley, the City of Berkeley acknowledges, has 98 ADA violations.
- Criminalization of Homelessness: Making it a crime for unhoused individuals to sleep in public places when there's insufficient accessible shelter space is inhumane. Many have nowhere else to go due to overcrowded or inaccessible shelters5.
- Health Impacts: Denied access to shelters, people with disabilities often resort to dangerous locations like sidewalks or under bridges. Shelter staff may lack proper training to assist them effectively.
Our Call to Action
We demand immediate action to rectify this crisis:
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Accessibility Survey: Local and regional authorities must conduct a comprehensive accessibility survey of all shelters. The survey should assess physical accessibility, accommodations for various disabilities, and adherence to ADA and 504 guidelines. We demand that a cross-disability coalition of people with disabilities with lived experience vet non-conforming facilities for safety and ease of use. The lack of access to accessible bathrooms has forced many out during inclement weather and resulted in others being trapped in bed in their own waste. This condition is inhumane and displays willfully indifference to the basic needs of unhoused people with disabilities needing to use shelters.
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Retrofitting and Upgrades: Funds need to be allocated to retrofit existing shelters and build new ones with universal design principles. This includes ramps, wider doorways, accessible bathrooms, and sensory-friendly spaces.
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Training and Sensitization: Shelter staff must receive training on disability awareness, communication, and best practices for assisting disabled individuals.
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Collaboration and Advocacy: We call upon the City of Berkeley, Coordinated Care Entry Centers, and Alameda County officials to meet with us to address and end inaccessible shelters. Our coalition consists of advocates, tradespersons, community-based organizations, and persons with disabilities who have experienced homelessness. Our perspective is essential and valuable—nothing about us without us.
Join Us At Our Press Conference
We aren’t going anywhere! We ask all compassionate individuals to join us in creating accessible, safe shelters where everyone, regardless of ability, has a warm place to rest their head. Join community advocates on Thursday, April 25th at 2:00 p.m. at the Ed Roberts Campus, at 3075 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA, 94703 in asserting enough is enough!
Contact: Pathway STAIRS Coalition and Michai Freeman, Systems Change Advocate at The Center for Independent Living
Email: [email protected] Phone: (510) 330-5625
About Us: The Berkeley Coalition for Shelter Accessibility is a grassroots organization committed to advocating for accessible and dignified shelter options for all.
1: Shelterforce: Why Aren't Homeless Shelters Accommodating People Who Have Disabilities? 5: Justice Department Files Brief to Address the Criminalization of Homelessness
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Raines Cohen published Betsy’s statement in Enough is Enough press conference 2024-04-25 14:02:00 -0700
EBGP co-chair Betsy Morris statement at Enough is Enough press conference
Statement from Betsy Morris, Convenor of Berkeley East Bay Gray Panthers, elected with a new board in 2016.
Gray Panthers of Berkeley-East Bay started in 1975, as part of a national network of chapters that fought for Social Security and brought Medi-care and Medic-Aide greatly reducing the national numbers of seniors in dire poverty decades ago.
Berkeley Gray Panthers created the first street clinic for older adults modeled after Black Panther Clinics. Over Sixty Clinic on Sacramento honor us as founders and mentors. We advocated long and hard for senior affordable housing in Berkeley through the 1990s. Many long-time members lived and still live in Redwood Gardens, Harriet Tubman Terrace, and Strawberry Creek Lodge. So, Gray Panthers stand on the broad shoulders of many short but powerful women and men.
You might think that we the past 7 years through phone calls, visits, and research we have found a new scourge of rising rents, displacement, and discrimination, driving seniors, disabled and not, into their vehicles if they are lucky, and onto the streets. While tens and hundreds of millions from federal, state, and local funds have gone to agencies serving the homelessness, and for senior services, we have found out first-hand the large gaping holes across what we thought was a safety net here in Berkeley.
I personally answer GP phone calls, and seniors or family members are still calling us hoping we have safe accessible shelter beds, a safe place to park, or access to permanent housing, some sort of immediate house share rentals or permanent housing they can afford.
Sometimes we can send them to legal services, but mainly for the last year we warn them about those gaps, limited hours of public services, cutbacks in this or that nonprofit.
The main people we have learned from, are the people with first-hand experience with these services, and we’ve been inspired by the self-help and mutual care camps.
I’d be glad to discuss any of the below paths.
Thank you
join me and sign below to support this.
With the Center for Independent Living, Gray Panthers call for greater transparency from, service agencies and contractors, recognizing that the reasons for months and years of obstruction or delay should be used to educate the public.
We call for specific ADA adaptations where possible, but also, urgent expansion of shelters capable of warmly and safely accommodating people with disabilities, health disorders, women, and families of all ages.
We call for a change in worldview – the unhoused and homeless are our neighbors, economic refugees from an implacable real estate industry protected from displacement.
We call for Berkeley, the Continuum of Care, and HUD, to support an independent office of transparency, accountability, evaluation, and strategic planning with repreesentatives from the community with lived experience.
And we demand that multiple publicly owned state and local sites be leased to self-help camps, vehicle residents, and cooperative housing and their choice of qualified allies to do what cities and off-site private contractors have not – to provide more choices.
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January 2024 Speaker Meeting:D.A. Recall
The January East Bay Gray Panthers Speaker Meeting!
Purely virtual - from your home via Zoom
TOPIC: Alameda County D.A. - what does the office do for seniors and what would a recall mean?
1:30 Welcome and slide show:
2023 Gray Panthers in pictures
Featured Speaker: Who wants to recall District Attorney Pamela Price and Why?
Our newly elected DA is now the target of a smear campaign. Rivka Polanchick, retired political science professor Berkeley City College and San Jose State is a member of the East Bay Wellstone Club’s Berkeley Racial and Criminal Justice Committee
Stop the State Utility Tax in 2024! We’ll talk about what’s happening, why, who is affected, and what we can do about it.
Updates: Rent Board/2024 Renters Convention and the People Powered – Matt Lewis, BTU member, East Bay Democratic Socialists of America
and more action updates from members and the community.
Click RSVP for zoom link and a reminder email of time + location of hybrid meetings.
Upcoming Events TBA
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Call 510-842-6224
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Speaker Meetings are regular gatherings on the Fourth Wednesday of most months. We focus on special topics with guest speakers as well as highlighting Gray Panther and partner activities
For many Berkeley events of interest, see Kelly Hammargren's Activist Diary in the Berkeley Daily Planet, at https://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/ - click Current Issue for the latest updates.
Currently the Monthly Meeting and Board Meetings are by zoom or phone-in but we are scheduling occasional outdoor and safe in-person gatherings in 2024!
Get in touch with any questions: 510-842-6224 voice or text
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