Sisters in Solidarity Women's Day Event
2023-03-11 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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Housing Research Meeting
2023-03-14 17:30 - 18:30
Come Join us for our Faith in Action East Bay Research Meeting around housing with California Senator Aisha Wahab’s Policy Analyst. We will be inquiring about AB460 the Fair Chance Housing Bill and other key pieces of legislation relevant to addressing the housing crisis in California and the East Bay.
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How to Overcome Toxic Polarization Lunch & Learn
2023-03-16 12:00 - 15:00
Calling all faith leaders and congregants! Join author and professor Peter Coleman and The One America Movement to learn insights from leading research on polarization. Discover how deeply divided societies can and do change, as well as how our faith can make a difference in bridging those divides. Learn the science, actions, skills, and competencies to navigate these times most effectively, as well as what to look for in groups and organizations in your community that are already working to make our United States more functional again.
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Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-03-17 18:00 - 19:30, 2023-04-21 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-05-19 18:00 - 20:00
Location: At Thy Word Church ~ 8915 International Blvd

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Richmond Peace Walk
2023-03-17 18:30 - 20:00, 2023-04-21 18:30 - 19:30, 2023-05-19 18:30 - 20:00

Housing Forum: Know Your Rights
2023-03-18 10:00 - 11:30
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Housing: Trainer Training
2023-03-23 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-03-30 14:00 - 15:00
Do you work with Alameda County tenants who are concerned about the end of the moratorium or other tenant issues? Centro Legal’s Tenants’ Rights team is offering an online train the
trainer presentation available in English and Spanish on either March 23rd or 30th at 2:00PM for all tenant-facing and interested County and City staff and partner organizations!
Join us to best serve the tenant community with the most up-to- date tenants’ rights information! You can participate on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85471177219

¿Trabaja con inquilinos del condado de Alameda que están preocupados por el fin de la moratoria? Centro Legal está ofreciendo una presentación en línea disponible en inglés y español el 23 o el 30 de marzo a las 2:00PM para todo el personal del condado, las ciudades, y organizaciones asociadas.
¡Únase a nosotros para servir mejor a la comunidad de inquilinos con la información más actualizada sobre los derechos de los inquilinos! Puedes participar por Zoom al https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85471177219

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-03-24 18:00 - 19:30
Location: St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church ~ 1500 34th Ave, Oakland

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-03-31 18:00 - 19:30
Location: St. Benedicts 2245 82nd Avenue, Oakland

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Demonstration at St. Rita Jail: Care Not Deaths
2023-04-01 13:00 - 15:00
We are demonstrating for Care Not Deaths to stop the deaths at Santa Rita Jail – including four more lives lost in January and February this year.
Please join us in a protest to stand with the Care First, Jails Last Community Coalition on April 1, at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin (5325 Broder Blvd), starting at 1:00 pm.
Please complete the form (linked here and below) to get specific information about exactly where to meet, and what we’ll be doing. We will send those details to everyone who responds to the poll.
Since the Board of Supervisors’ passage of the Care First, Jails Last Resolution in 2021, we’ve been building power to end the county’s reliance on the criminal legal system to meet the needs of residents with mental health and substance use needs. Collectively, we do this by advocating for divestment from Alameda County’s criminal legal apparatus and reinvestment of this money into an upstream, community-based, life-affirming continuum of care. We don’t want to see individuals’ crises addressed inside the county jail.
Yet in just the first two months of 2023, under the care of the newly elected Sheriff, four people incarcerated at Santa Rita Jail lost their lives: Stephen Lofton on January 17; Elizabeth Laurel on February 13; Charles Johnson on February 4; and Candice “Cody” Van Buren on February 28. Cody Van Buren’s death is at least the 66th in Santa Rita Jail since 2014, according to KTVU. Seven other people at Santa Rita experienced fentanyl overdoses in February.
At this moment, Alameda County is going from bad to worse, and we are raising our voices next Saturday, April 1st. While 48% of the county’s discretionary budget is allocated to the Sheriff’s office in the name of “public safety,” our communities are becoming increasingly more unsafe due to the widening of criminalization nets, a lack of deeply affordable housing, and an underfunding of upstream, community-based, and voluntary mental and behavioral health services. The most vulnerable among us are Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples, our unhoused neighbors, and those experiencing serious mental illness. There is no justifiable reason for the continued overfunding of the county’s carceral institutions when these resources are being used to deepen racial disparities and destabilize our care systems. It is abundantly clear: jails do not make us safer. Our loved ones and neighbors should not be pushed through the criminal legal system for lack of mental health services in the community.
Link to form: https://formsgle/HecLF1XCRSa4Gpw57
Please join us on Saturday, April 1 at Santa Rita Jail to call out these injustices and for Care First. For more information, you can email John Lindsay-Poland at JLindsay-Poland@afsc.org

Townhall: End Youth Incarceration
2023-04-05 15:00 - 18:00

Sheriff's Community Input Meeting
2023-04-12 17:00 - 19:00
Input session to gather feedback and input for newly elected Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez’s Office
Online Community Meeting for Unincorporated Areas: Next Wednesday, April 12, 5-7pm we will hold an online community meeting for folks who live or work in unincorporated areas or areas served by the Sheriff’s Office (i.e. Ashland, Castro Valley, Cherryland, Fairview, San Lorenzo, Sunol, Hayward Acres, Unincorporated Areas of Livermore, City of Dublin). Register to attend here: English Speakers, Spanish Speakers

Listening Session for Small Landlords
2023-04-12 18:30 - 19:30

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-04-14 18:00 - 20:00
Location: First Mount Sinai, 1970 86th Avenue, Oakland

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Community Fair
2023-04-16 13:00 - 16:00

PICO California Home is Sacred Action Day
2023-04-20 10:00 - 15:00
State Capitol Park – West Steps, 1315 10th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

We will gather with hundreds of people from the PICO California Network on Thursday, April 20th, 2023 in Sacramento, as we act on our collective vision for a California that prioritizes people, creating a moral economy where everyone can thrive.

Together we will:

Inspire and learn from one another about the work we are doing across the state
Hold a public action with key state officials
Flood the State Capitol with research actions on our Home is Sacred legislative platform
Build and deepen our relationships with our legislators and their staff
Deepen our power credential as a statewide network committed to transforming systems to improve the lives of our families.

Together to act with our collective voice.

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-04-28 18:00 - 20:00
Location: St. Patrick’s Church ~ 1023 Peralta Street, Oakland

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

St. Augustine's Earth Month Celebration
2023-04-29 10:00 - 14:00

Community Townhall on MACRO
2023-04-29 11:00 - 12:00

Housing Meeting with Senator Aisha Wahab
2023-05-03 13:00 - 14:00
Join us as we meet with Senator Aisha Wahab who represents CA Sen District 10 in a discussion around the housing crisis and the legislation coming from Sacramento that concerns all of our communities.

Date: May 3rd
Time: 1pm

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Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-05-12 18:00 - 20:00
Location: First Mount Sinai ~ 1970 86th Avenue

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Reimagining Beloved Community
2023-05-20 10:30 - 12:00 | Faith in Action East Bay, 8400 Enterprise Way, Oakland, CA, 94621, United States
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The recent years have been charged with political, racial, socio-economic tensions. Now with the 2024 presidential campaign ahead and our democracy under assault, we must be proactive in nurturing the shared values and bonds of our communities. Join a conversation on what it means to reimagine the Beloved Community for the nation in this new era. Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners and author of A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community, will lead a panel of local faith leaders: Rev. Leslie Takahashi, Pastor Michael Wallace, Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller.
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Rev. Adam Russell Taylor is president of Sojourners and author of A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community. Taylor previously led the Faith Initiative at the World Bank Group, served as the vice president in charge of Advocacy at World Vision U.S., and co-founded Global Justice. He was selected for the 2009/2010 class of White House Fellows. Taylor is a graduate of Emory University, the Harvard U. Kennedy School of Government, and the Proctor School of Theology. Taylor is on the Independent Sector Board and serves in ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church.
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Leslie Takahashi serves as lead minister at the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church in Walnut Creek, CA and has served as faculty at both the Unitarian Unviersalist theological schools. She has led within Unitarian Universalism in the areas of anti-oppression, justice and trauma integration. Prior to entering the ministry, she worked professionally in the area of leadership development, sustainable economic development and education policy and was the Assistant Vice President for Policy for the North Carolina Community College System. She is the co-author, with Chip Roush and Leon Spencer, of The Arc of The Universe is Long: Anti-racism and the Unitarian Universalist Association (Skinner House 2008)and a contributor to a number of professional publications and meditation collections. Her children, Garner and Liam–and now grandson, OT, offer on-going inspiration.

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Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller is the Lead Organizer for the California Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC-CA), where she builds the network of congregations who are harnessing their statewide voice for justice as Jews. Previously, she served Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco from 2004 to 2017. Rabbi Saxe-Taller is passionate about bringing the spiritual, creative and justice-seeking elements of Judaism together, as they are meant to be.
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Pastor Michael Wallace is the Board Co-Chair and Faith in Action East Bay and Senior Pastor-Teacher at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church.

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Meeting with the Mayor on Illegal Dumping
2023-05-22 13:00 - 13:30
Join us on Monday, May 22nd at 1 pm to meet with Oakland’s Mayor, Sheng Thao, to speak and discuss the ongoing Illegal Dumping crisis negatively affecting communities in the City of Oakland. This meeting will be held on Zoom
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItfu-oqj4uHNQ-ZvWaRXtfeKCMRSyGB8dU
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Únase a nosotros el lunes 22 de mayo a la 1 pm para reunirse con la alcaldeza de Oakland, Sheng Thao, para hablar y analizar la crisis actual de vertidos ilegales que afecta negativamente a las comunidades de la ciudad de Oakland. La reunion sera por zoom.

Regístrese con anticipación para esta reunión:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItfu-oqj4uHNQ-ZvWaRXtfeKCMRSyGB8dUDespués de registrarse, recibirá un correo electrónico de confirmación con información sobre cómo unirse a la reunión.

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-05-26 18:00 - 20:00
Location: St. Columba Church ~ 6401 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Leadership Development Training
2023-05-31 18:30 - 19:30
