BAY-Peace visits Casa de Paz
Sunday, Feb. 26th 12-4 pm
You are invited to join the BAY-Peace Youth Action Team this Sunday when we visit our friends Pancho and Adelaja at
the Casa de Paz nonviolence community. 1978 36th Ave, Oakland @ Foothill
We will help out in their garden, enjoy a meal together, meditate and share our thoughts and inspiration. Bring your poetry!
Call for more details: 510-863-1737.
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Every Friday, 7:30-9:30 pm:
BAY-Peace Lyrical Circles
—Creative Writing Group
You are invited to join Youth Action Team members and friends on Fridays, 7:30-9:30 pm, to write in community. Share a meal as well as encouragement and inspiration for your creative expression. Scheduled almost every Friday, so please check with Abe Velazquez for more details: 510-863-1737.
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PAST EVENTS:
BAY-Peace Circle of Allies Gathering
Sunday, Feb. 5th 1 -3 pm at the office.
We will be sharing some poetry, letting folks know a little bit about the high school classes our Youth Action Team is starting to teach at Emiliano Zapata Street Academy and ARISE, reviewing our updated mission statement, and giving a sneak preview of the Forum Theatre work that Abe is now teaching us.
Call for more details: 510-863-1737.
Check out the video of the Nov. 5th Wells Fargo Action:
Rally at Occupy Oakland and
March to Well's Fargo Detention Center
Saturday, November 5, 10am
Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza
Join the 67 Sueños Rally and Direct Action to protest Wells Fargo's investments in Immigrant Detention Centers. 67 Sueños is a collective of undocumented youth and allies that refused to be passive about the violence done to our community.
The most marginalized people within the 99% are fed up and we are calling for an occupation of Well's Fargo Detention Center in Downtown Oakland just a few yards away from the Occupy Oakland Camp.
Well's Fargo Detention Center (AKA Bank) has been investing Billions of dollars investing in Immigrant Detention Centers (AKA Concentration Camps) and at the same time they invest aggressively in anti-immigrant lobbying to pass laws like Arizona's SB 1070 which fill those camps with undocumented profit.
Come check out our workshop on October 29th!
Windows and Mirrors:
Reflections on the War in Afghanistan
Saturday, October 29th, 4-7:30 pm
Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California
1433 Madison St, Oakland
Between 14th & 15th Streets
Near the Oakland Main Library
A few blocks from the 12th Street BART station
or the Lake Merritt BART station
Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan is a powerful exhibit of forty-five murals exploring the experiences of Afghan civilians, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. BAY-Peace will join with 67 Sueños and other youth based organizations to offer an afternoon of workshops that connect with the exhibit. Please join us!
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Gang Injunction Struggle:
Public Safety Committee—Tuesday, October 25th at 5 pm, Oakland City Hall!
BAY-Peace is working with the Stop the Injunctions Coalition to fight the criminalization of Oakland youth and the militarization of our communities.
Join us in telling the Oakland City Council
- NO to gang injunctions!
- NO to daytime & nighttime youth curfews!
- NO to loitering ordinances!
As a result of our strong presence at City Hall on the 14th, the Gang Injunctions, Loitering and Curfew issues have been sent back to the Public Safety Committee for furnther disucssion.
On October 25th, the Public Safety Committee will be reviewing information on the ineffective & wasteful policing tactics of gang injunctions, curfews & loitering ordinances. We will not allow elected officials or governing bodies to disregard our concerns and continue to pass laws, ordinances, and resolutions to be implemented in our communities without an inclusive and representative community decision-making process..
BAY-Peace Videos
Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project on the topic of "What does Peace mean to you, and how do we get there?"
Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project!
Here is a video that we made a couple years ago, in collaboration with proj-ectPRO:JECT to promote our Youth Manifesto Campaign, followed by links to some others we've got posted on other sites.
Two summers ago, members of the Youth Action Team worked with youth from The Factory to create "The List" which we use in high schools to introduce the right of students to opt out of the JAMRS military recruting database. The video has been featured in several film festivals with great acclaim!
Our video "No We Can't—$1 Trillion and Counting," made in cooperation with the American Friends Service Committee, placed third in a national youth video contest titled "If I Had a Trillion Dollars" which is now in it's second year. It highlights the education, health care and housing problems that could be solved if the US stopped spending $1 Trillion a year on war.
Several years ago, when the Youth Action Team was part of Alternatives to War through Education, we collaborated with Art in Action to create a series of digital stories called "Young People United Against Militarism and Violence."
