brass liberation orchestra

Events

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(Last updated: 9 August 2010)

Past Actions

A list of some past events that BLO played at (Also see links page for links to many of the organizations and groups that we have worked with).

Aug 29, 2010 Opera Piccola Fundraiser: Support arts education in Oakland public schools
Jun 20, 2010 Picket of Israeli ships at the Port of Oakland
Jun 19, 2010 Pride at work protest at Alcatraz Cruises
Jun 17, 2010 Queers protest Israeli Consulate's Sponsorship of LGBT Film Festival
Jun 12, 2010 once more into the Castlewood Country Club
May 24, 2010 No on Prop 16 rally
May 23, 2010 Mahala Live! Voice of Roma with Rumen Shopov & members of the Brass Liberation Orchestra
May 10, 2010 anti sit/lie action at SF city hall
May 9, 2010 Worker's hunger strike at Castlewood Country Club
May 8, 2010 Don't get caught in a Bad Hotel flashmob action
Apr 29, 2010 Oakland Education Association Teachers Strike
Apr 28, 2010 Rally against San Francisco's proposed Sit-Lie Ordinance
Apr 27, 2010 Bank Accountability Action at Wells Fargo shareholder's meeting
Apr 24, 2010 Band Member Wedding
Apr 24, 2010 with Voice of Roma contingent in Apple Blossom Parade
Apr 23, 2010 F___ Castlewood Country Club, Stop trying to starve out your workers
Apr 19, 2010 Rally for SF8
Apr 17, 2010 March in Haight-Ashburry to oppose Sit/Lie Ordinance
Apr 10, 2010 Seranade for Teacher's Union March Enroute to Sacramento
Apr 8, 2010 Oscar Grant Direct Action at Embarcadero Bart
Apr 4, 2010 Homes Not Jail March
Mar 27, 2010 Day of action against the proposed SF anti-Sit/Lie ordinance
Mar 19, 2010 Support OAK 100 Talent Show
Mar 12, 2010 Anarchist Cafe
Mar 5, 2010 Emergency action in support of locked-out workers at Castlewood Country Club
Mar 4, 2010 Statewide day of action to defend our schools march with UESF
Feb 25, 2010 Haiti Fundraiser - Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Workers
Feb 25, 2010 Emergency action in support of locked-out workers at Castlewood Country Club
Feb 22, 2010 Ralley to support JR, defendant from Oscar Grant protests
Feb 14, 2010 Mad Love benefit for the Icarus Project
Feb 5, 2010 Busking for Hati
Feb 5, 2010 Columbia Park Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year Event
Jan 24, 2010 Busking to raise $ for health programs in Hati
Jan 23, 2010 Bay Area Coaliton on Our Reproductive Rights March
Jan 20, 2010 Western Regional Advocacy Project March
Jan 5, 2010 Local 2 hotel worker march

2009

Dec 31, 2009 New year's eve romp in the Mission
Dec 12, 2009 Ann Braden anti-racist training graduation
Dec 7, 2009 Support rally for JR, journalist arrested in Oscar Grant protests
Nov 30, 2009 Kid's Climate Justice Parade
Nov 29, 2009 with Voice of Roma @ Amnesia Bar
Nov 19, 2009 Unite/HERE 2850 Oakland Labor March
Nov 13, 2009 March for Domestic Worker Rights with Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Oct 28, 2009 Direct Action to Win Single Payer Health Care
Oct 22, 2009 Homes Not Jails Benefit @ Sub-MIsson Art Space
Oct 22, 2009 National day of protest to Stop Police Brutality
Oct 15, 2009 Ralley for Single Payer Healthcare at Obama Appearence
Oct 8, 2009 Bringin' the Love Fundraiser for the B.L.O. with Charming Hostess and Loco Bloco
Oct 4, 2009 UNITE HERE Local 2850 Picket at the Oakland Coliseum
Sep 25, 2009 Pro-health care flash-mob protest at Whole Foods
Sep 24, 2009 UC Berkley student/staff walkout against budget cuts
Sep 20, 2009 Bacchanal de Afrique Fundraiser/Party for KPFA's Africa Today
Sep 10, 2009 Coalition on Homelessness Street Sheet Benefit Party
Sep 7, 2009 Local 2 Labor Day March
Jul 31, 2009 ACORN anti-forclosure action in W. Oakland
Jul 30, 2009 San Francisco Songbird Festival @ El Rio
Jul 25, 2009 One Fam Bike 4 Life
Jun 28, 2009 Busking after SF Pride festival
Jun 18, 2009 Local 2 Hotel Picket
Jun 17, 2009 Playing at Bayview farmer's market
Jun 10, 2009 Real Deal or No Deal: March for Budget Justice in San Francisco
Jun 8, 2009 Rally for SF 8 at SF county jail
May 26, 2009 Rally for Oscar Grant's pre-trial hearing
May 12, 2009 Silver Tsunami Protest of budget cuts affecting the Elderly
May 2, 2009 Pride at Work benefit @ El Rio
May 1, 2009 San Francisco Mayday Imigrant Rights march
Apr 25, 2009 Apple Blossom Parade in Sebastapol with Voice of Roma
Apr 17, 2009 Ferment Change Spring Music Festival
Apr 3, 2009 Celebration of international Romani day, organized by Voice of Roma
Apr 2, 2009 Mission district budget cuts protest march
Mar 25, 2009 Local 2850 hotel workers rally @ Concord Holiday Inn
Mar 24, 2009 Kick-off for march to repeal Prop 8
Mar 15, 2009 SeBRASStopol Brass Band Blow Out
Mar 13, 2009 Anarchist Cafe
Mar 13, 2009 Berkeley Teachers Union Rally
Mar 6, 2009 Busking at Oakland Art Murmur
Feb 24, 2009 Local 2 hotel worker's march
Feb 12, 2009 Oakland Education Association rally against cuts
Feb 6, 2009 Performace collaboration with La Melodia, Loco Bloco, D-Fuse, and Columbia Park Boys & Girls Club
Feb 3, 2009 SF Teachers' Union (USSF) protest of education budget cuts
Jan 24, 2009 Counter-demo for anti-choice march
Jan 14, 2009 Justice for Oscar Grant March organized by CAPE
Jan 13, 2009 Rally with Coalition to Save Public Health
Jan 5, 2009 San Francisco Gaza/Palestine solidarity march

2008

Dec 31, 2008 New Year's Eve romp through the mission
Dec 14, 2008 at Amnesia bar
Dec 6, 2008 Fundraiser party for PathfinderPress
Nov 7, 2008 Benefit for arts program @ SF LGBT community Center
Oct 31, 2008 March and Rally against ICE Raids
Oct 26, 2008 Musical Flyering for Prop B
Oct 22, 2008 Benefit for Alemany Farm put on by Party Corps
Oct 13, 2008 Honk!+ in Providence RI
Oct 10, 2008 HONK! Festival
Oct 4, 2008 Oakland Black Cowboy Parade
Oct 1, 2008 Rally to Support "People's Plan" for SF development
Sep 25, 2008 Emergency protest against the Minutmen SF
Sep 14, 2008 @ Amnesia Bar with Japonize Elephants
Sep 7, 2008 Parade for Hornucopia Festival
Aug 29, 2008 No Business As Usual - Katrina Anniversary Action
Jul 26, 2008 Pride at work's Genderful Gala to protest HRC's selling out Trans folk
Jul 22, 2008 March for Good Jobs and Clean Air at the Port of Oakland
Jul 19, 2008 Anti-ICE taqueria workers benefit BBQ
Jul 18, 2008 Playing for AFSCME UC Berkeley Strike Picket
Jul 17, 2008 @ the rickshaw stop with Mucca Pazza
Jun 21, 2008 "Worst of SF" anti-gentrificaiton action
Jun 21, 2008 Bike Music Festival
Jun 20, 2008 Dreaming Outside the Walls: Music Benefit for Palestinian Youth in the Arts
Jun 7, 2008 Hella Heart NOLA Benefit show
May 31, 2008 Anne Braden Anti-Racism Workshop
May 31, 2008 Renters Rise Up! A Party With a Purpose (No on 98)
May 14, 2008 Oakland Teachers Union (OEA) Rally Against education cuts
May 1, 2008 Oakland Immigrant Rights May Day March
Apr 26, 2008 Fundraiser for Break the Silence Mural and Arts Project
Apr 26, 2008 with Voice of Roma at Sebastapol Apple Blossom Parade
Apr 12, 2008 Fundraising Party for Pride at Work
Apr 11, 2008 Latin American Alliance for Immigrants Rights benefit
Apr 9, 2008 ACLU Youth Rights Conference
Apr 1, 2008 Rally for Critical Resistance
Mar 28, 2008 Pre-show music for Amor Cubano play
Mar 21, 2008 Anarchist Cafe
Mar 19, 2008 Direct Action Against the War in Downtown SF
Mar 15, 2008 Protest and direct action at Chevron's Richmond refinery
Mar 8, 2008 Homes not Bombs: A benefit for the SF Community Land Trust and Direct Action to Stop the War
Mar 7, 2008 Benefit for Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra's Trip to HonkFestWest
Mar 3, 2008 Sex Worker Rights March with SWOP
Feb 27, 2008 UC Berkeley support of Katrina refugees
Feb 23, 2008 Benefit show for immigration-related legal expenses
Feb 19, 2008 UNITE HERE rally at Alameda County Jail
Jan 26, 2008 TIGRA Western Union boycott
Jan 19, 2008 Roe v Wade rally

2007

Dec 28, 2007 La Plebe & friends at La Pena
Dec 14, 2007 New Orleans Solidarity Rally
Nov 16, 2007 Balazo Re-Opening !
Nov 10, 2007 Busking on the Embarcadero to support St. James Infirmary
Nov 1, 2007 No Borders Cafe de los Muertos
Oct 27, 2007 SF Anti-war march
Oct 5, 2007 Return of HONK! Festival (Somerville , Mass)
Sep 27, 2007 EBASE fundraising dinner
Sep 23, 2007 Berkeley Honda Strike Victory Picnic
Sep 22, 2007 Busking in Dolores Park to support St. James Infirmary
Sep 12, 2007 March 4th, Loyds, and BLO at Lobot Gallery
Aug 25, 2007 BMAGIC backpack party
Jun 27, 2007 US Social Forum Opening March (Atlanta, GA)
Jun 24, 2007 Drag Busking in the Castro after SF Gay Pride Parade
Jun 23, 2007 Womyn's Liberation Orchestra plays for SF Dyke March
Jun 13, 2007 w/ La Plebe @ Bottom of The Hill
Jun 8, 2007 Bernal Dwellings Headstart Preschool Party
May 27, 2007 SF Carnival Street Party
May 19, 2007 Feria Familiar Inmigrante
May 13, 2007 Benefit Show for Balazo
May 12, 2007 Busking for Balazo
May 12, 2007 Coleman Rally for the Next Generation SF
May 5, 2007 MONSTERpalooza!: Monster Cable Co. Boycot
May 3, 2007 Emergency Action against the Woodfin Hotel
May 1, 2007 Mayday!
Apr 28, 2007 Playing with Voice of Roma in the Apple Blossom Parade, Sebastopol
Apr 21, 2007 Busking in N. Beach for BALAZO
Apr 10, 2007 Rally and march For Justice for Woodfin Hotel Workers
Apr 7, 2007 Anti-ICE Street Fair
Mar 19, 2007 Anti-war die-in downtown SF
Mar 18, 2007 Iraq war 4th anniversary ANSWER protest, SF
Mar 18, 2007 "Musical Daisy Chain" BLO joins other bands to play on MUNI, SF
March 2, 2007 Immigrant rights / Anti-ICE rally and march with BAIRC from 16th and Mission to Federal Building, SF
Feb 27, 2007 Fundraiser for San Francisco Community Land Trust, SF
Feb 20, 2007 Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras) show at Makeout Room & Cafe Revolution, SF
Feb 17, 2007 Memorial service for Tillie Olsen, First Congregational Church, Oakland
Feb 3, 2007 Mandela Food Co-op block party, West Oakland
Feb 1, 2007 BLO's 5th Year Birthday Bash, Balazo, SF
Jan 20, 2007 Skye's birthday, SF
Jan 14, 2007 Ferry workers support rally, SF
Jan 13, 2007 Shut down Guantanamo rally, SF
Jan 1, 2007 New Year's Extravaganza, Mission, BART, Oakland

2006

Dec 11, 2006 UNITE-HERE Local 2850 Claremont Hotel Worker's Victory Party, Albany
Dec 15, 2006 Bernal Dwellings Head Start Pre-School, SF
Dec 9, 2006 Angela's Birthday, Balazo, SF
Dec 9, 2006 War R esisters support march, SF
Dec 9, 2006 Ferry workers support rally, SF
Dec 8, 2006 Carlos' Birthday, Sunrise Cafe, SF
Dec 4, 2006 Demonstration against AIPAC, Oakland
Nov 20, 2006 Oaxaca Uprising Solidarity Action, Mexican consulate, SF
Nov 13, 2006 Rally for Woodfin Hotel Workers, Emeryville
Nov 2, 2006 Dia de los Muertos, Mission, SF
Oct 30, 2006 Roving Halloween party, Mission, SF
Oct 21, 2006 Modern Times Bookstore Anniversary, SF
Oct 6-10, 2006 HONK Festival of activist street bands, Sommerville, MA
Sep 30, 2006 NLG Benefit, Berkeley
Sep 28, 2006 EBASE fundraiser, Oakland
Sep 24, 2006 Jesse's going-away party, SF
Sep 16, 2006 New Orleans Benefit Show with Loco Bloco and La Plebe, Balazo, SF
Sep 4, 2006 Alameda County Labor Rally, Oakland
Sep 4, 2006 Immigrant Rights March, SF
Aug 12, 2006 Lebanon March, SF City Hall
May 28, 2006 BLO marches in Oye Nike's Carneval Contingent, SF
May 6, 2006 Dress and Kala's Handfasting Party, outer space
May 5, 2006 Cinco de Mayo Show, Balazo Gallery, SF
May 1, 2006 May Day, General Strike and March for Immigrants Rights, SF
April 23, 2006 Immigrants Rights March, SF
April 21, 2006 Cesar Chavez and Earth Day Party, Cesar Chavez Elementary School, SF
April 21, 2006 Dance Down the Lockdown, Benefit for Critical Resistance and PARC, SF
April 10, 2006 Immigrants Rights March, SF
March 25, 2006 Immigrant Rights Rally, Support for Hunger Strike, Federal Bldg, SF
March 20, 2006 Anti-War Action (Act Against Torture), Downtown SF
March 3, 2006 Benefit Party, Balazo Gallery, SF
Feb 25, 2006 Immigrants Rights Rally, Fruitvale, Oakland
Jan 21, 2006 Community Picket at Berkeley Honda

2005

Nov 13, 2005 Presentation by organizer from Queer Beograd (Belgrade, Serbia), Sunrise Cafe, SF
Nov 2, 2005 Dia de los Muertos procession, SF
Oct 29, 2005 Immigrant Rights protest against racist "Minutemen," Sacramento
Oct 26, 2005 SEIU United Healthcare Workers picket at California Pacific Medical Center, SF
Oct 16, 2005 Poor People's March, SF
Sept 24, 2005 Anti-War March (ANSWER), SF
Aug 24, 2005 15th Anniversary of the San Fancisco Day Labor Program and dedication of new Worker Center, SF
May 29, 2005 Carnaval in SF
May 21, 2005 Beechwood School International Food Fair & Party, Menlo Park
May 19, 2005 Concert and Presentation with 4th grade class at East Bay Conservation Corp Charter Elementary School, Oakland
May 14, 2005 Multi-Cultural Family Picnic - Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School, SF
May 1, 2005 May Day Celebration & Grand Opening of CounterPULSE, SF
Apr 3, 2005 Critical Resistance Fund Raiser, SF
Mar 26, 2005 Benefit for a friend's medical expenses, Oakland
Mar 19, 2005 Anti-War March, SF
Mar 18, 2005 Radical Performance Fest, SF
Mar 16, 2005 Celebration of the Life of Rachel Corrie, Berkeley
Jan 26, 2005 March & Rally against proposed Oakland curfew organized by Critical Resistance, Oakland
Jan 22, 2005 Pro-Choice March, SF
Jan 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Protest March, SF
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2004

Dec 18, 2004 Picket at Claremont Hotel in support of UNITE-HERE Local 2850, Oakland
Nov 20, 2004 UNITE-HERE Local 2 pickets supporting locked-out hotel workers, SF
Nov 13, 2004 Rally with Justice in Palestine Coalition, "Targets of Empire", SF
Nov 2, 2004 Dia de Los Muertos Procession with Oya Nike Botanica/Cultural Center, SF
Oct 22, 2004 UNITE-HERE Local 2 pickets supporting locked-out hotel workers, SF
Oct 17, 2004 Bernal Heights "Fiesta on the Hill," SF
May 30, 2004 Carnaval with Pocos Locos of Loco Bloco, SF
May 1, 2004 Multi-cultural family picnic at Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School, SF
Mar 28, 2004 Cesar Chavez Day Parade, SF
Mar 20, 2004 Anti-War March, SF
Mar 7, 2004 Picket at Safeway with UFCW, Oakland
Feb 22, 2004 Picket at Safeway with UFCW, SF
Jan 17, 2004 Dr. Martin Luther King Labor Heritage Festival, Burlingame
march 20, 2003

2003

Oct 26, 2003 Communist vs. Anarchist soccer match, Berkeley
Oct 25, 2003 March Against Occupation, SF
Oct 22, 2003 National Day Against Police Brutality, SF
Oct 4, 2003 Food Not Bombs Serving / No on Prop 54, SF
Sep 28, 2003 March Against Occupation, SF
Sep 14, 2003 Communist vs. Anarchist soccer match, Berkeley
Sep 13, 2003 Flyering against WTO, Ferry Building Farmer’s Market, SF
Sep 11, 2003 Circles of Peace, SF
Sep 9, 2003 Solidarity with Anti-WTO Protests in Cancun, Mexico / March and Direct Action at Chevron Refinery, Richmond
Aug 15, 2003 Demonstration with outdoor screening of anti-war documentaries at Fox TV, Oakland
Aug 10, 2003 March and Protest at Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore
Jul 19, 2003 Protest at Bohemian Grove, Monte Rio
Jun 22, 2003 March & Direct Action at USDA / WTO Agriculture Minister’s Meeting, Sacramento
Jun ?, 2003 Shut down of Oakland Docks to protest war profiteering , Oakland
Jun 5, 2003 Direct Action at Bechtel HQ, SF
May 29, 2003 Rally against media consolidation at Clear Channel and FCC offices, SF
May 25, 2003 Carnaval block party in the Mission District, SF
May 2, 2003 Protest George W. Bush visit at United Technologies, Santa Clara
May 1, 2003 MAY DAY Support for Hotel workers at the Claremont with HERE Local 2850, Oakland
Apr 27, 2003 Concert at Mission Cultural Center with community poets and musicians, SF
Apr 26, 2003 Benefit for New College group going to Ecuador, SF
Apr 22, 2003 Direct Action at Lockheed-Martin, Sunnyvale
Apr 12, 2003 March Against War on Iraq, SF
Apr 7, 2003 Direct Action at the Oakland Docks to protest war profiteering, Oakland
Apr 5, 2003 March Against War on Iraq, Oakland 
Mar 27, 2003 Anarchist Cafe, SF
Mar 20-21, 2003

Direct Actions as US launches war in Iraq (BLO goes to jail with 2500 others!), SF

Mar 3, 2003 Lysistrata Project, Oakland
Mar 1, 2003 “Rock Out Against War” street performance, SF
Feb 25, 2003 Taco Bell boycott in support of Florida's Coalition of Imokalee Farm Workers, SF
Feb 15, 2003 March Against War on Iraq, SF
Feb 14, 2003 Direct Action to shut down Pacific Stock Exchange, SF
Jan 18, 2003 March Against War on Iraq, SF
Jan 17, 2003 Art opening, Mission Cultural Center, SF
blo at Cesar Chavez parade

2002

Oct 28, 2002 Bay Area Social Forum, SF
Oct 26, 2002 No War on Iraq March, ANSWER, SF
Sep 28, 2002 Palestine Solidarity March, SF
Sep 14, 2002 No War on Iraq March, ANSWER, SF
Sep 7, 2002 March for Racial Justice to the RJ911 Concert in Golden Gate Park, SF
Jun 6, 2002 March Against War (Not In Our Name), Berkeley
Apr 20, 2002 March Against War, ANSWER, SF
Mar 24, 2002 Cesar Chavez Day March, SF
Mar 8, 2002 Taco Bell Boycott March with the Coalition of Imokalee Workers, Mission Street, SF