A-Infos (en) US, BRRN, Black Rose Bay Area Hosts Organizing Events Across California (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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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