Please join Berkeley Outreach Coalition and other groups as we gain knowledge about harm reduction, how to use Narcan, and creating protocols for addressing overdoses.
Berkeley NEED, Berkeley Copwatch, and The Berkeley Outreach Coalition invite you to attend a free workshop
Harm Reduction, Narcan, and How to Create an Overdose Policy for Your Organization
As many of you know, Berkeley has experienced a number of lethal overdoses recently and to answer this threat posed to our community members we invite you attend this free workshop. It will presented by Punks With Lunch Outreach Coordinator and long time Harm Reduction volunteer Katie O’Bryant. Based on her years of experience, she will be discussing the use of Fentynal test strips, how and when to use Narcan, and the best practices for creating an overdose policy for your organization.
We will be holding this workshop in a socially distance responsible manner, outside in the back yard of the Grassroots house. However, if the weather doesn’t cooperate with us we may have to move inside. Therefore, we ask all participants to please bring face masks.
This workshop is for any activists, social workers, and residents of Curbside Communities that would benefit from this knowledge. So please send this flyer to any orgs or individuals you wish to.
WHERE: The Grassroots House, 2022 Blake St. Berkeley Ca. 94704 WHEN: 7 PM, Wednesday, June 30, 2021
If you have any questions, please email Jathan Gurr at jathangurr@yahoo.com and please put the word “Workshop” in the title of your e- mail. The Grassroots house is disability accessible.
Come celebrate the 52nd anniversary of People’s Park!
Acts who will be performing include: Easydoesiiit Afterthought Hali Hammer Driftwood Dave Luna the Blooma Anonsounds Jordan Huez Wayfairy Freddie Chammeili Sarchasm Axe
Double mask, protect your community!
Speakers and performers include: Roosevelt Stevens, Aidan Hill, Soul, Jimbo, and others.
Thanks to East Bay Food Not Bombs, Copwatch, The Suitcase Clinic, The Berkeley Outreach Coalition, Where Do We Go- Berkeley, The United Front Against Displacement, Consider the Homeless, The Long Haul, and Defenders of People’s Park.
Bring proof of vaccine or negative COVID test for a free button!
See @peoplesparkberkeley on Instagram for more details.
End the UC’s displacement, gentrification, and violence!
Protect community, protect history, protect People’s Park and 1921 Walnut Street!
The University of California, Gov. Newsom and their billionaire cronies is trying to evict tenants of 1921 Walnut Street, a rent-controlled building, and destroy affordable housing in Berkeley, California to create student dorms. The UC is also trying to destroy People’s Park, an open space, center for arts and culture, mutual aid, and poor people in the East Bay.
“I think I found myself here because every place else, you could feel the energy of people pushing you away,” Dowdey says. “This is the only place I felt like I was accepted.” (Dowdey) – (Source: kalw.org)
Join us to learn more about what has been happening to the People’s Park, its residents, and what rose the UC Berkeley administration is playing in this whole scenario. This online event would be a great opportunity for anyone who wants to learn more about this issue, has any questions, or wants to take action.
Art classes will be led by Rosey, a founder and longtime resident of People’s Park. The classes are free and we’ll provide a basic supply kit (including pencils, charcoal, paper, a drawing board, erasers, and potentially some other goodies) to anyone who can’t afford or access their own supplies, no questions asked. We’ll meet every Thursday afternoon at the Park from 2–4pm, which includes a 30 minute lecture section where we’ll observe and learn techniques, a 30 minute lab section where we’ll practice specific techniques, and an hour-long workshop section where we’ll practice putting all our skills together. You can attend every class to gradually develop your art skills, or just drop in when you feel like it!
We welcome people of any age, skill level, ability, race, and gender. Come out and join the People’s Park community! <3
All classes will be outdoors and social-distanced. We ask all participants to double mask and avoid sharing supplies. The first class will be Thursday 03/11.
February 26, 2021, 07:00 to 08:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
UC Berkeley’s plan to build a 17-story high rise on People’s Park, which would destroy the historic and cultural legacy and an irreplaceable natural environment, has brought together writers, historians, students and park activists to oppose this ill-considered project.
This Zoom event, hosted by the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group, will present the historic background of the park, give details on the effort to recognize its national landmark status, and share plans for revitalizing this invaluable public open space.
The goal of this meeting is to develop strategies for taking our message to the broader Berkeley community, as well as the mayor, city council, UC Berkeley, state legislature and regents.
Presenters to include:
Tom Dalzell – author of The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969
Steve Wasserman – Participant and Activist during 1969
Max Ventura – People’s Park Committee
Aidan Hill – Former Berkeley Mayoral Candidate/UCB Student
Details:
Length of event: hour and a half
Introductory remarks and moderator – Harvey Smith
Each presentation 8 minutes with 4 minutes of submitted questions
Group discussion following and additional questions from viewers
Closing remarks – Harvey Smith
Topic: People’s Park
Date: February 26, 2021, 07:00 to 08:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 827 7345 3022 Passcode: 680198 One tap mobile +16699006833,,82773453022#,,,,680198#US (San Jose) +12532158782,,82773453022#,,,,680198#US (Tacoma)
An update and appeal to Berkeley and the University of California, Berkeley
The precious People’s Park, open space and community gathering place, is at imminent risk of destruction in January 2021. A huge part of the park has been shut down with chain link fence and survellience lights at night. The perpetrators of the chain link fence attack, connected with opportunistic profiteers from the University, developers, construction industry, and others, are clearly using the inclement weather and pandemic situation to attack the precious open space and gathering place of People’s Park with the least amount of pushback from the many users of the park. Numerous houseless people are camped in or beside the park during the pandemic and stormy wet winter weather, with numerous outside organizations and individuals helping park people to get by in decency, given the dire situation.
I remember years ago, my dear friend C and I visited the park in a winter rain. She was a medical student at the time, and we were really enjoying the open space, a relief for our stressed times. It was around the time I grew a bed of astounding 13-foot tall corn in the West side community garden beds of People’s Park. We climbed the great low branches and enjoyed the brisk air and wet colors. It was like today when I visited People’s Park, lush white Cala lilies happily growing into the cool showers.
To think that this park, the historical People’s Park, this vibrant community gathering place, People’s Park, the collective treasure chest of memories of people with vision, People Park, to think that this park could be reduced or damaged or eliminated by the University and it’s cohorts in development, construction and real estate, breaks our hearts. We’ve worked hard to garden, to tend the trees, to fill the air with music, dance and art, history and community, in this public space. To lose this green space would be a tragic loss, caused by destructive profiteering forces.
The pathological, toxic roads and numerous parked cars are an indicator of how deluded our society has become. People spend so much time on computer or television screens, partly because the environment outside their own doors is so absurdly destroyed to make way for cars and parking spots, and not for people. We want to go to a park to escape the visual and noise pollution of cars everywhere, a public gathering place where we could enjoy gardens, music, sports, a picnic in the sun. How can it be that Berkeley might lose another park, People’s Park?
I hope all parties involved in any development consider the social value of the special open space in People’s Park, a real direct tangible value to people in the neighborhood, throughout town, and for students, a value that brings people together from all walks of life, and work to protect that open space, the open public culture, and the history. There are several other effective solutions for building student housing, affordable housing, or other structures in many parts of Berkeley, so let us protect this precious remaining open space.
— Greg Jalbert, January 27, 2021
Rally to Save People’s Park
Friday, 3 PM, January 29, 2021
Stand in solidarity with our unhoused neighbors in preventing displacement. Fences are being built to prevent people from using People’s Park.
Instagram: @peoplesparkberkeley Tag photos with #peoplesparkberkeley Text SAVETHEPARK to 81257
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Photos of People’s Park areas enclosed by chain link fence, January 27, 2021. Stop the theft of People’s Park open community green space!
Chain link fence at People’s Park, South East corner, January 27, 2021Chain link fence at People’s Park, North side, January 27, 2021Chain link fence at People’s Park, looking North East, January 27, 2021Save People’s Park: Protect this precious Berkeley open space from developer profiteering
The Regents of the University of California FINANCE AND CAPITAL STRATEGIES COMMITTEE March 18, 2020 Centennial Ballroom A&B, Luskin Conference Center, Los Angeles Campus Consent Agenda: A. Preliminary Plans Funding, PEOPLE’S PARK HOUSING, Berkeley Campus …
* IMPORTANT: UPDATE MARCH 2020 REGENTS MEETING WILL BE HELD ENTIRELY AS A TELECONFERENCE – TO REDUCE RISKS RELATED TO CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)*
Meetings of The Regents of the University of California and its committees are scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, March 17-19, 2020, by teleconference. Please note that all times indicated and the order of business are approximate and subject to change.
