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Speaker Meeting - April 27, 2022

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LINK TO MEETING ZOOM RECORDING

 

AGENDA (Notes below)

1:30 Opening Welcome

Agenda Headlines and Action Alerts

1:50 Featured Speakers

Faye Wilson Kennedy (Sacramento) and Nell Myhand (Oakland) are quad leaders of the California Poor People's Campaign. They will share parts of a program they presented to the PPC's Policy Working Group on the intersection of race, disability, and other impacted groups with the climate emergency, including indigenous peoples contingent of the PPC.  We will also hear ways to join the Poor People's March on Washington.

Q&A and Discussion to follow

2:50 Angeles Gottheil of IDevData.org and Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance will discuss efforts in Oakland to reclaim long vacant land for deep green rent-free housing communities and the campaign to buy back Coyote Bush, an abandoned lot she and others have stewarded with community gardens, rent free tiny homes and a neighborhood mutual aid network.  

They built tiny houses on an abandoned lot. Then it was sold ... 

3pm BREAK

Campaign Updates and Requests for Endorsements SEE MORE DETAILS BELOW

Time for $20 - LTSS4All Coalition with SEIU 2015  - Hannah Karpilow

Essential Caregivers Campaign - Nancy Stevens

Cap Insulin Now - Call your senators

Affordable Insulin Now!    

Call your Senators on the Capitol Switchboard at 1-202-224-3121

ask them to support and vote YES on Senate Bill S3700

the House bill already passed earlier this month. 

Upcoming Meetings & Other Announcements

ADJOURN 3:30 PM -  Continue social time to 4pm

RSVP to receive the zoom link and reminders. 

 

For now all public meetings are on zoom, but we are experimenting with in board and voting member meetings in person. 

Get in touch with any questions, call Betsy or Raines at 510-842-6224 voice or text

MORE INFO and LINKS for April

Save the Planet by Ending White Supremacy -  Sierra Club Director of  Organizational Transformation says we can't afford "disposable places, or disposable people"

 

What Does Climate Justice in California Look Like? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20042022/california-climate-justice/

Looks like California can’t reach its climate targets without prioritizing equity. 

 

Affordable Insulin Now Act  -- Call to Cap the Cost of Insulin -  endorsed by National Council of Gray Panther Networks 

Call your Senators on the Capitol Switchboard at 1-202-224-3121

ask them to support and vote YES on Senate Bill S3700

the House bill already passed earlier this month. 

 

Talking Points: * The prescription price of insulin has doubled in just four years.  

*No one should have to choose between getting insulin and putting food on the table. 

 

* S. 3700 would cap insurance co-pays at $35/month, and make this life saving drug, more affordable to many more people with diabetes. 

 

* Vote YES on S. 3700, the Affordable Insulin Now Act.  Make your voice heard!

 

Call your Senators on the Capitol Switchboard: Call our US Senators Feinstein and Padlile at the Capitol Switchboard 1-202-224-3121.

 

https://www.facebook.com/NationalCouncilofGrayPanthersNetworks

 

UPCOMING

 

May speaker meeting tentatively - Mental Health and Community-oriented Policing  featuring Paul Kealah Blake, long-time mental health outreach and advocate, and member of the Berkeley Homeless Commission. Updates on Affordable Housing debates 

 

June Speaker Meeting, moderated with Daveed Mandell, on Coalitions for Transit Justice, Paratransit, AC Transit Board elections and more. 

 

Ongoing reports from the National Council of Gray Panthers, Senior Housing Subcommittee. 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:  MAY IS EAST BAY AFFORDABLE HOUSING MONTH with many events organized by East Bay Housing Organization (EBGP is a member). 

MAY 4 IS EBHO'S Kickoff event! 🎉 This year, you can join the event by gathering in person OR online. At our in-person gathering, we'll share food and drink and jam to music from DJ Wild Man. The event programming will showcase the amazing events scheduled throughout our East Bay Affordable Housing Month and honor this year's Affordable Housing Month Honorees. We want to see you! RSVP for the online gathering or get your tickets for the in-person gathering today.

 

 

 

NOTES

Angeles was disconnected for the first 10 minutes

Carol Crooks

  • SB 3700
  • Insulin price cap
  • prescription price of insulin has doubled in the past 4 years. People are cutting back because they can't afford it.
  • Bill would cap copays at $35/month
  • CALL switchboard 202-224-3121
  • 202-224-3121 Capitol Switchboard - please call in support of Senate bill 3700 to p[ut a $35 cap on insulin foprr those on Medicare
  • AB 1816 Reentry Housing and Workforce Program and AB 1961 Statewide Affordable Housing Database.

Long-Term Support Services (LTSS) campaign

  • SEIU 2015 is a leader
  • $20/hour is the goal by Jan. 1 2025
  • In-person get-together on Friday May 6 from 1p - 3p at Snow Park 19th/Harrison
  • Judy
    • I testified befor Assembly Human Services for AB1941 that would give SSI recipients a $600 grant whenever there is a budget surplus.

Nell Myhand, Poor Peoples Campaign - featured speaker

 

 

CHAT

 

13:39:47 From Hannah to Betsy Morris(Direct Message):

I’m happy to give an update on the contract and announce the gathering. I have to leave at 3

13:40:25 From Raines to Everyone:

Residents United Network: https://www.housingca.org/our-work/run/

13:40:45 From Raines to Everyone:

SB3700 insulin price cap in California

13:41:49 From Raines to Everyone:

All over US, actually

13:42:12 From Raines to Everyone:

202-224-3121 switchboard

13:42:25 From Judy Jackson to Everyone:

AB 1816 Reentry Housing and Workforce Program and AB 1961 Statewide Affordable Housing Database.

13:44:02 From Carol Crooks - Team Justice - she/her to Everyone:

202-224-3121 Capitol Switchboard - please call in support of Senate bill 3700 to p[ut a $35 cap on insulin foprr those on Medicare

13:44:55 From Betsy Morris to Hannah(Direct Message):

Long Term Supports  and Services for All Coalition.  ltss4all Hannah Karpilow is our GP liaison

13:47:08 From Judy Jackson to Everyone:

Living wage for CA is $27/hr

13:47:50 From Helen Abel to Everyone:

Thanks Judy. $7 an hour is ridiculous.

13:49:12 From Judy Jackson to Everyone:

Alameda and LA counties are the first to try for $20

13:50:06 From Carol Crooks - Team Justice - she/her to Everyone:

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/about/jubilee-platform/

13:50:39 From Hannah to Everyone:

In-person get-together on Friday May 6 from 1p - 3p at Snow Park 19th/Harrison

13:52:46 From Judy Jackson to Everyone:

I testified befor Assembly Human Services for AB1941 that would give SSI recipients a $600 grant whenever there is a budget surplus.

13:54:43 From IF to Everyone:

IF = Isis Feral

13:58:53 From Betsy Morris to Everyone:

Nell Myhand, 1 or 4 co-leaders of California Poor People’s Campaign

14:00:40 From Betsy Morris to Everyone:

https://www.reimaginerpe.org/19-1/arnold

14:01:04 From Betsy Morris to Everyone:

Ms Nell before the PPC!

14:07:52 From Betsy Morris to Raines(Direct Message):

can you text helen a link?

14:25:01 From Angeles Gottheil to Everyone:

There used to be salmon in sausal creek, swimming through Oakland. We can restore that!

14:27:28 From First Church Berkeley to Everyone:

Amen Angeles🙌 Yes We can restore the salmon in sausal creek

14:29:55 From CA PPC Tech to Everyone:

RSVP for May 16 LA Tour stop https://actionnetwork.org/events/june-18th-mobilization-tour-comes-to-california/

14:31:08 From CA PPC Tech to Everyone:

Help CA PPC as a volunteer - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebvuRdxhLQi4x2qGdmjo1MuCxLRy0NPGZ_uvLrsbsb9DAvZw/viewform?usp=sf_link

14:35:44 From Margot Smith to Everyone:

The sound it going in and out

14:36:15 From Betsy Morris to Everyone:

Nell is the sound cuts on the original video?

14:38:20 From Helen Abel to Everyone:

Thanks everyone. I need to go. Will listen to the recording for the rest of the meeting.

14:38:39 From CA PPC Tech to Everyone:

Not sure.

14:38:50 From CA PPC Tech to Everyone:

Is the sound ok now?

14:39:34 From Raines to Everyone:

Sounding good here now

14:39:37 From Betsy Morris to Everyone:

Shannon Rivers is a member of the Akimel O'otham (River People), he was born and raised on the Gila River Indian Community located in southwest Arizona . See another video clip here: 

Shannon Rivers- Indigenous People's Rights, the ... - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com › watch

5:36

Shannon Rivers of the Akimel O'otham tribe talks about the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Declaration of the ...

YouTube · The NOWMAN Show on The Arroyo Channel · Jul 31, 2018

14:41:57 From First Church Berkeley to Everyone:

I am loving all the history and information Thank you!

14:43:00 From Betsy Morris to Everyone:

Faye Wilson Kennedy, co-chair of CA PPC,  Spotlight: Faye Wilson Kennedy - Social Justice PolitiCorpshttps://www.socialjusticesac.org › post › spotlight-faye-...

Jan 21, 2021 — I engage in social justice organizing to call out and try dismantling white supremacy in Sacramento, in California and at the international ...

14:43:50 From Betsy Morris to Nell Myhand (she/her) Ohlone land aka Oakland(Direct Message):

SOME OF us have visual impairment

14:45:53 From Betsy Morris to Nell Myhand (she/her) Ohlone land aka Oakland(Direct Message):

so you might repeat some of the material from Faye

14:50:50 From Nell Myhand (she/her) Ohlone land aka Oakland to Everyone:

THIRD RECONSTRUCTION RESOLUTION https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/438/cosponsors?r=1&s=6&q={%22search%22:[%22HRes+438%22],%22cosponsor-state%22:%22California%22}&searchResultViewType=expanded

14:54:22 From Nell Myhand (she/her) Ohlone land aka Oakland to Everyone:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TVVQ_T1Pc9zCGVyllpqH0UZWV5lUUo_SvXZ4TtE-wHs/edit

14:56:44 From Eryn Blackwelder to Everyone:

Thank you all for letting me listen in! I’ve learned so much and will be joining you all again. Have a great day!

14:58:15 From Margot Smith to Everyone:

Housing costs are lower in Mississippi

15:00:47 From chimey lee to Everyone:

FNX channel 60.5 here in Bay Area is good source of history Indigenous peoples of America-chimey

15:02:02 From Hannah to Everyone:

I am going to try real hard to be at the LA action. I am going to be in LA then anyway

15:02:09 From Margot Smith to Everyone:

Would love to, but I’m too old and decrepit

15:02:40 From Hannah to Everyone:

So sorry I have to go now. Will try to catch Angeles on the recording

15:02:52 From Raines to Everyone:

Enjoying our speakers? Support gray panthers with your contributions: https://www.eastbaygraypanthers.org/donate

15:02:59 From chimey lee to Everyone:

I was born in DC in the 40's but too old to go now too-chimey

15:03:36 From Raines to Everyone:

Counting down….. 2 minutes on break. Stretch, everyone!

15:09:07 From Robert Magarian to Everyone:

What we need is more public housing.

15:10:01 From Margot Smith to Betsy Morris(Direct Message):

Is Raines ill? Hope he is ok…all the best.

15:16:38 From helen to Everyone:

Wow, I love what your doing!!!!!

15:16:44 From Betsy Morris to Margot Smith(Direct Message):

Thanks Margot, he’s fine, just decided to do alaundry.

15:18:04 From chimey lee to Everyone:

Where are these lots and tiny homes? In what area of Oakland??-thanks

15:23:56 From Angeles Gottheil to Everyone:

36footcoop.wordpress.com

15:25:30 From IF to Everyone:

How do we get in touch with you, Angeles?

15:25:49 From Betsy Morris to Everyone:

[email protected]

15:26:18 From IF to Everyone:

Thanks, Betsy.

15:30:09 From Margot Smith to Everyone:

Thanks for a great program, must go. Many thanks.

15:35:51 From IF to Everyone:

Thank you, Angeles, and all! I'll be in touch....

15:36:21 From Angeles Gottheil to Everyone:

Thank you all!

15:36:35 From Angeles Gottheil to Everyone:

Yes please email or call me or text me 714-469-1497

15:38:58 From Angeles Gottheil to Everyone:

save coyote bush collective garden - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WvYBZ9-cQhxp8MUJNLsVm1gnCuiWF9GWYRQaH77lkcw/edit?usp=sharing

15:44:44 From helen to Everyone:

Hi Angeles!  I absolutely love what you do.

15:50:35 From Pam White to Everyone:

This has been fantastic! So much info that needs to be continued.

15:50:49 From helen to Everyone:

Helen Walsh email: [email protected]

15:55:54 From Nancy Stevens to Everyone:

[email protected]

15:58:32 From Pam White to Everyone:

I would love to get more info on the BART meetings and housing

15:58:53 From Betsy Morris to Everyone:

let’s talk Pam.

15:59:31 From Pam White to Everyone:

Ballots are coming out from Alameda County by May 9th.  Please vote.

16:00:44 From helen to Everyone:

Here you go Pam info about the cooridor projects and planning:  https://bartberkeleyelcerritocap.participate.online/  there are a few more meetings and would be good if you go.

16:01:05 From IF to Everyone:

Much appreciation to all of you, especially for the hopeful inspiration from Angeles. I'll have to sign off shortly for another meeting.

16:01:42 From Betsy Morris to Everyone:

Iris -  can you introduce yourself or come again! 4th wednesdays

16:03:41 From IF to Everyone:

I don't have a fast internet connection and can barely make Zoom work, so I'm limited to introducing myself in the chat. But I'll be back for another meeting when I'm able. Isis

16:06:22 From Pam White to Everyone:

GREAT! I have meet with LWVBAE Presdient!

16:06:29 From Pam White to Everyone:

Love this.  Thank you

16:07:50 From Nancy Stevens to Everyone:

This is great info! I regret not being here from the beginning. Thank you!!!

16:10:39 From Angeles Gottheil to Everyone:

This is where I will post the meeting notes - https://www.eastbaygraypanthers.org/generalmeetings

16:11:14 From Angeles Gottheil to Everyone:

save coyote bush collective garden - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WvYBZ9-cQhxp8MUJNLsVm1gnCuiWF9GWYRQaH77lkcw/edit?usp=sharing

16:19:58 From maria sol to Everyone:

How does one suggest something for conversation???

16:20:27 From Angeles Gottheil to Everyone:

Go for it Maria sol!

16:20:44 From Angeles Gottheil to Everyone:

you can suggest here, or wherever

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Speaker Meeting - January 26, 2022

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East Bay Gray Panthers

General Meeting

January 26, 2022

 

Start time: 13:30

 

Attending:

Betsy Morris

Judy Jackson

Raines Cohen

Angeles Gottheil

Pamela Price (guest speaker)

Carol Crooks

Robert Magarian

Daveed Mandel

Cheral

Nancy Stevens

Nancy Scott

Marcia Kimmell

Rivka Polatnick

Adrianne Aron

Sylvia Chapman

Michael Ruchlis

Norma JF Harrison

Chappellhome

Maria Sol

Helen Walsh

Tiombe Kambon

Tony Chapelle

Ms. Richie Smith

Michai Freeman

Arlene Hip

Carole Marasovic

Pamela Price (guest speaker)

 

What does D.A. do?

  • D.A. is elected and does not report to A.G., county supervisors, or any other body
    40%+ of employee's in Alameda county court system worked at DA office - big link between offices
    From beginning to end the D.A. is at the center of the decisions that get made in our criminal justice system
  • What types of crimes are going to be prioritized?
  • Are we going to have alternative courts and restorative justice opportunities?
  • D.A. also advocates at the state level, supporting or opposing legislation

 

 

Grand jury of Alameda County

  • Anyone can file a claim
  • Main role is to monitor the behavior of county officials, misuse of funds, etc.
  • Staffed by D.A. office or county council

 

 

211 system - Helen Walsh

  • Is the D.A. going to address accessibility of information in this age of the digital divide?
  • Pamela - create interdisciplinary commissions to bring together people from the community to talk about the specific issues that we can work on in Alameda County

 

 

What can D.A. do to create access to land and housing?

  • Pamela - Tell police to not destroy people's property or evict people from the places where they find sanctuary
  • We have all this vacant land in Oakland - we are not going to incarcerate people because they are unhoused
  • Overcome and cut through bureaucratic obstacles
  • Safe vehicle parking (Betsy)

 

 

Nancy Stevens - calling in from a nursing facility where she gets the constant medical care that she needs 

  • What power does D.A. have to address staffing shortages at nursing facilities?
  • Pamela - D.A. has the mandate to regulate these facilities in compliance with the law
  • There is an opportunity for D.A. to put the resources that are available into the enforcement of the law
  • CANHR.ORG
  • essentialcaregiverscoalition.org

 

Probate court - NAACP, Berkeley chapter member

  • Nancy O'Malley started to bring forward grand jury but stalled
    Need to hold grand jury to determine if there is mistreatment of Black/POC community in probate court
    It's peoples bread and butter and no one currently wants to "cut off their bread"
    Pamela - thinks he covered it very well
  • Mr. Powell had to pay 750K to save his home
    South Berkeley member
  • Lives near the Here/There camp site
  • Member of Friends of Adeline
  • Carol Morosovic (bad connection, couldn't take notes)
  • Michai Freeman (bad connection, couldn't take notes)

 

Bernadette

  • Regarding safety for people living in their vehicles- they're being stalked by police and residents and ticketed regularly
    D.A. does have power to influence how people living in their vehicles are treated
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