PANEL DISCUSSION: Oakland Says No to Apartheid From South Africa to Palestine

⏰Sunday, March 29 | 3–5PM
📍First Unitarian Church: 685 14th St, Oakland

Join us for a panel discussion on the historic role that Oakland played in the global struggle against apartheid and imperialism. Hear about the legacy of local resistance against the South African apartheid regime, and how the movement lives on in the ongoing fight for a People’s Arms Embargo and divestment from Israel’s apartheid and colonial occupation.

Oakland has a proud legacy of resisting apartheid and systems of oppression, but today the Oakland Airport has been used to transfer of deadly cargo to Israel, sustaining the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza. From the 1984 dockworkers’ strike against South African cargo to today’s Oakland People’s Arms Embargo, join us to explore how our city refuses to be a pipeline for war and aggression.

When our families are under attack and costs are pushing people to the brink, silence is not an option. We will defend ourselves and our communities against this administration’s unjust and cruel acts of violence.

On March 28th, rise up, take to the streets, and say it loud: no thrones, no crowns, no kings. We’re not watching history happen—we’re making it. Join us for a March from Embarcadero Plaza to Civic Center Plaza, with a rally and resistance fair to follow.

More info here

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ICE is bringing its terror campaign to 14 airports across the country, and we're watching SFO closely.

No Bay Area airports are on the list to receive the additional ICE agents Trump is deploying during the partial government shutdown. But the aggressive detention of a woman at SFO this weekend signals a potential escalation of ICE activity at SFO. We are not looking away.

The airline industry helped fund this. They backed the "Big Beautiful Bill," handing ICE $75 billion to carry out this violence. And they did it while the immigrant workers who keep their flights moving are paid poverty wages.

Airlines profit from immigrant labor. They don't get to stay silent while that same labor force is terrorized.

Workers who make SFO fly deserve dignity. Not exploitation. Not deportation. Not fear.

On No Kings, stand with us.

Join Bay Resistance and SEIU-USWW for a car caravan at SFO International Airport

When our families are under attack and costs are pushing people to the brink, silence is not an option. We will defend ourselves and our communities against this administration’s unjust and cruel acts of violence.

On March 28th, rise up, take to the streets, and say it loud: no thrones, no crowns, no kings. We’re not watching history happen—we’re making it. Join us. Find your local action here.

We’ve long known that the system is collapsing.

And fascism is the “wrong answer to the right question” about how we’ll survive the present and coming catastrophes.

Fighting back against the horrific violence of the state in this period through rapid response, mutual aid efforts, ICE patrols, and other emergent formations is essential, but only part of the solution. We need to develop our collective thinking about how we coordinate and scale these efforts up into the transformative change we need long-term.

Join a community discussion on how we make the shift from communities in rapid response to ones that are resilient and permanently organized.

Register by visiting: bit.ly/rr2permorg

Learn how to verify and respond to potential ICE activity in Alameda County by training to become a ACILEP Volunteer Rapid Responder. RSVP here

On April 1, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara — a high-stakes case that could determine whether this fundamental constitutional right is protected.

Join @AsianLawCaucus, @MoveOn and partners nationwide on March 26 for an informative and engaging webinar and digital rally, about what’s at stake and how civil rights advocates and community members can take action together.

We’ll share key legal and advocacy updates and ways to raise community voice ahead of oral arguments, in anticipation of the ruling, and beyond.

📆 March 26, 10AM PT | 1PM ET
➡️ bit.ly/defendbirthright3-26

RSVP for the Zoom Link.

Members of Northern California War Tax Resistance who have been navigating tax refusal for decades will cover:

• Your Goals and Motivations

• Methods, Risks and Consequences

• Controlling Withholding with your W-4

• Employed vs. Independent Contractor/Self Employed

• Redirecting Resisted Taxes

• Community Building and Collective Action

• Questions and Answers

When ICE agents violently seized a mother and her young daughter at SFO on Sunday, several SF Police officers were on scene - standing guard for ICE. 

While some details of this terrible incident are still coming to light, one thing is clear. SFPD’s complicity in ICE’s abuses violates San Francisco’s Sanctuary Ordinance as well as SFPD’s own policies.

Join the FREE SF Coalition for a rally this Wednesday, March 25 at 12:00 pm in front of SFPD headquarters (1245 3rd Street, San Francisco) to:

• Demand that SFPD stop standing guard for ICE while it rips families apart

• Demand the truth about how deep SFPD’s collusion with ICE goes.  

RSVP here.

Press conference and rally to demand SFUSD take action to protect students from ICE. Stay to make public comment at SF board of education meeting.

Learn how to verify and respond to potential ICE activity in Alameda County by training to become a ACILEP Volunteer Rapid Responder. RSVP here

Join us for a powerful, all-day gathering designed to prepare our communities to develop civil disobedience strategies, keep ourselves and our neighbors safe, and build a mass movement to stop authoritarianism through strategic non-cooperation and collective action. Participants will get grounded in the non-cooperation framework, connect with others in their local area, and identify the concrete roles they can play—whether organizing, workplace outreach, neighborhood patrols, direct action, or corporate campaign work. RSVP here.

1094 Petaluma Blvd S, Petaluma

Near 12th St. BART, Oakland - RSVP for Address

Members of Northern California War Tax Resistance who have been navigating tax refusal for decades will cover:

• Your Goals and Motivations

• Methods, Risks and Consequences

• Controlling Withholding with your W-4

• Employed vs. Independent Contractor/Self Employed

• Redirecting Resisted Taxes

• Community Building and Collective Action

• Questions and Answers

Join the Bay Area Demo Legal Support Collaborative & the Prairieland Defense committee for a discussion on the recent federal verdict from Texas and its implications for anti-ICE organizing nationwide. The discussion will be accompanied by insights shared by local organizers with Adopt-A-Corner and court watch movements and report backs from mutual aid work in Minneapolis.

In person at Oakland Main Library

RSVP for a virtual link(case sensitive):

acab.link/s/SESSION_2

Thank you signing up to get involved with Bay Resistance!

Come learn about Bay Resistance and join us to build neighborhood organization to standup for our communities!

This orientation is for anyone who wants to be in a Bay Resistance neighborhood action pod or start a pod in your area.  Come learn our strategy, our structure, and how to get started organizing with us.

You will receive a zoom link via email once you register for the event.

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Join the Bay Area Tech Table (BATT) and Stop Cop City Bay Area partners for a community town hall and teach-in on the expansion of surveillance and militarized policing in the Bay Area. We will learn more about respective city fights against harmful surveillance technologies such as FLOCK and Shotspotter, their connection to the regional police training facilities from San Pablo to Mountain View, and how we can organize to fight back.

This townhall will include:

• Grounding Overview on surveillance tech, Cop City expansions, and ongoing threats in the current political moment

• Participatory Panel Discussion on recent wins, lessons learned, and upcoming opportunities in the ongoing struggle

• Regional Breakout Groups to build intersectional solidarity and identify opportunities for collaboration

Oscar Grant Youth Power Zone 1150 35th Ave, Oakland

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You're invited to Bay Resistance Silicon Valley's upcoming training focused on building a mass non-cooperation movement to stop fascism and defend our neighbors, including campaigns targeting corporations and organizing for a powerful May Day.

Come out even if you have attended previous Bay Resistance trainings! This training is the next step we need to put mass noncooperation into practice together for May Day and beyond. And if you have not attended any trainings before, this training is a great place to get started.

San Jose and the South Bay has a long history of organizing for immigrant rights, and protecting our communities. Now's the time for us to bring our power and resilience together! ✊

RSVP here.

This Quds Day, our communities unite in protest against the U.S.-Israeli expansion of the genocide in Gaza into an all-out regional war.

Every year on the last Friday of the Islamic Holy month of Ramadan, people around the globe pour into the streets to stand for justice in support of Palestinians and all oppressed people. Quds Day is a global day against imperialist and Zionist war and aggression — a day of solidarity and unity for Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and beyond — uplifting the peoples’ right to liberation, sovereignty, and self-determination.

Already, over a thousand people have been killed as a result of the U.S. and Israel warmongering in the region, while the genocide in Gaza and Israel’s terrorization of Palestinians all over Palestine continues. People of conscience won’t stand by while the U.S. and Israel seek to spread terror and claim more lives as Trump and the billionaires of the Epstein class cheer.

Join SAFE Center and partners for an upcoming Constitutional Observers Training designed to build skills on understanding First Amendment rights, documenting ICE activities, and connecting communities to trusted resources.

📅 March 12, 2026
📍 Teamsters Hall, 2727 Alhambra Ave., Martinez
🍽️ Dinner at 6:00 PM | Training at 6:30 PM

🔗 RSVP required here

As we join the peoples of the world mobilizing against militarism and fascism, AROC invites our community to come together to foster an understanding of this crisis, and to build the solidarity needed to overcome it.

Iftar starts at 7. Panel at 7:30

RSVP here

We gather as femmes from Third World and oppressed communities to say NO to ICE, NO to U.S. imperialism, NO to Zionism, and YES to our people, YES to our resistance, YES to our struggle and YES to collective liberation.

Oakland location TBD

Join the Bay Resistance Mountain View Action Pod for a forum and discussion on Immigrant Rights, featuring speakers from local immigrant rights non-profits including Papeles Para Todos & SIREN. Come learn what issues immigrants are facing in our community, how these groups are organizing in their defense, and how you can get involved!

ICE is taking people from the Elmwood County jail. So we’re showing up — and we need YOU there. The county has refused to act. Bring your crew. Bring your voice.

Last Thursday, Anthropic refused to let the Department of War sidestep its basic safety guidelines. A day later, OpenAI swooped in and agreed to let the Pentagon use its AI for killer robots and mass surveillance of American citizens.

​Protest this CORRUPT deal at OpenAI's front door. RSVP here. 

Unpack the nexus between Hindutva and Zionism and connect it to the local organizing happening today!

NOTE: RSVP is required due to limited space.

First Unitarian Church of San Jose, 160 N 3rd St., San Jose, CA 95112

Join the Alameda Labor Council and our affiliated unions as we inform shoppers about Home Depot’s and Target’s corporate support for ICE.

We’ll be out every Saturday in February, keeping the pressure on and sharing worker and community friendly alternatives. Solidarity in action. ✊

3838 Hollis St. Emeryville

While classrooms face layoffs and cuts to elementary music, Richmond district leadership is projecting $8 million over budget on consultants and $700k+ over on central office travel. That’s a choice—and our students deserve better choices.

We know what these cuts mean to our communities. We are fighting for fully staffed, stable schools, arts for every child, and budgets that put students first.