This is a brief report on a series of public events put on by the
California Bay Area Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra in May and June of
2025. You can find the Bay Area Local on their Instagram page:
@blackrosebayarea. ---- by Black Rose/Rosa Negra - Bay Area Local ----
Throughout May and June, members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra's Bay Area
Local planned and executed organizing events in California's three most
populous metro areas: Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and
Sacramento. In total, nearly 200 people attended these gatherings across
the state.
At each stop, BRRN members offered an analysis of the current moment-one
marked by a series of interlocking crises-following up with examples
from our own organizing efforts that point the way forward. We detailed
how BRRN members are applying the Federation's general strategy to
intervene and build power in the sites where we are rooted: our
workplaces, our schools, our neighborhoods, and our homes.
BRRN members present on a winning campaign during an event in the SF Bay
Area
This included case studies from members who have successfully organized
with coworkers to bring their unions into the fight for Palestinian
liberation; members who have pushed their tenant union to develop a
strategy to confront ICE raids in their neighborhoods; and members who
led efforts to organize the unorganized through a new, independent, and
militant labor union in the service sector.
But far from just being a showcase of endeavors undertaken by BRRN
members, these events aimed to arm attendees with some of the tools
necessary to begin organizing themselves. While impossible to pack all
of the information from a dedicated organizer training into these
two-hour events, we were able to emphasize the foundation of all
organizing: relationships. For this reason we thought it crucial to
include an interactive introduction to organizing conversations.
Meeting strangers can be an awkward experience, doubly so if your task
is to roleplay with them. But we found consistently that the minor
social discomfort gave way to important lessons and often, new
connections between attendees. According to feedback we received from
some attendees, these practice conversations gave them the confidence to
start thinking of themselves as organizers and to get involved with the
mass organizations in attendance.
Across these events we found that people are hungry to build up
structures that would empower them to push back against their problems
and indignities - but they often didn't know where to start.
This is why every event ended with representatives from local mass
organizations inviting attendees to get rooted and start organizing to
from below through their campaigns and projects. These organizations
included:
In Los Angeles
Los Angeles Tenants Union
Anarchist Black Cross - Los Angeles
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
In the SF Bay Area
Tenants and Neighborhood Councils
East Bay Workplace Organizing Committee
Healthcare Workers for Palestine - Bay Area
Bay Area Labor for Palestine
Industrial Workers of the World - Bay Area
In Sacramento
Sacramento Valley Tenants Union
Healthcare Workers for Palestine - Sacramento
NorCal Resist
Industrial Workers of the World - Sacramento
To emphasize the critical role that relationship building plays in
movement building, each gathering was followed by an informal happy hour
at a nearby bar where attendees kept the energy high and discussed their
takeaways from the event.
Organizing event in Los Angeles
We'll end this report on the same note we tried to leave attendees with:
the moment we face is a dire one-from the cost of living crisis, to US
facilitated genocide in Palestine, to ICE attacks on our families and
neighbors. If we want to do something about it, to confront the crises
that are piling up around us, we have to get organized and exert our
collective power where we have the most leverage: our workplaces,
neighborhoods, homes, and schools.
https://www.blackrosefed.org/california-events-2025/
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California Bay Area Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra in May and June of
2025. You can find the Bay Area Local on their Instagram page:
@blackrosebayarea. ---- by Black Rose/Rosa Negra - Bay Area Local ----
Throughout May and June, members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra's Bay Area
Local planned and executed organizing events in California's three most
populous metro areas: Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and
Sacramento. In total, nearly 200 people attended these gatherings across
the state.
At each stop, BRRN members offered an analysis of the current moment-one
marked by a series of interlocking crises-following up with examples
from our own organizing efforts that point the way forward. We detailed
how BRRN members are applying the Federation's general strategy to
intervene and build power in the sites where we are rooted: our
workplaces, our schools, our neighborhoods, and our homes.
BRRN members present on a winning campaign during an event in the SF Bay
Area
This included case studies from members who have successfully organized
with coworkers to bring their unions into the fight for Palestinian
liberation; members who have pushed their tenant union to develop a
strategy to confront ICE raids in their neighborhoods; and members who
led efforts to organize the unorganized through a new, independent, and
militant labor union in the service sector.
But far from just being a showcase of endeavors undertaken by BRRN
members, these events aimed to arm attendees with some of the tools
necessary to begin organizing themselves. While impossible to pack all
of the information from a dedicated organizer training into these
two-hour events, we were able to emphasize the foundation of all
organizing: relationships. For this reason we thought it crucial to
include an interactive introduction to organizing conversations.
Meeting strangers can be an awkward experience, doubly so if your task
is to roleplay with them. But we found consistently that the minor
social discomfort gave way to important lessons and often, new
connections between attendees. According to feedback we received from
some attendees, these practice conversations gave them the confidence to
start thinking of themselves as organizers and to get involved with the
mass organizations in attendance.
Across these events we found that people are hungry to build up
structures that would empower them to push back against their problems
and indignities - but they often didn't know where to start.
This is why every event ended with representatives from local mass
organizations inviting attendees to get rooted and start organizing to
from below through their campaigns and projects. These organizations
included:
In Los Angeles
Los Angeles Tenants Union
Anarchist Black Cross - Los Angeles
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
In the SF Bay Area
Tenants and Neighborhood Councils
East Bay Workplace Organizing Committee
Healthcare Workers for Palestine - Bay Area
Bay Area Labor for Palestine
Industrial Workers of the World - Bay Area
In Sacramento
Sacramento Valley Tenants Union
Healthcare Workers for Palestine - Sacramento
NorCal Resist
Industrial Workers of the World - Sacramento
To emphasize the critical role that relationship building plays in
movement building, each gathering was followed by an informal happy hour
at a nearby bar where attendees kept the energy high and discussed their
takeaways from the event.
Organizing event in Los Angeles
We'll end this report on the same note we tried to leave attendees with:
the moment we face is a dire one-from the cost of living crisis, to US
facilitated genocide in Palestine, to ICE attacks on our families and
neighbors. If we want to do something about it, to confront the crises
that are piling up around us, we have to get organized and exert our
collective power where we have the most leverage: our workplaces,
neighborhoods, homes, and schools.
https://www.blackrosefed.org/california-events-2025/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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