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Retirement Party for Oil Platform Esther @ One Ferry Building
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Nov 7 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

This coming Friday, November 7th, the California State Lands Commission will take historic action to fully decommission offshore oil and gas infrastructure before the end of its productive life!

This sets a bold and exciting example of how to effectively respond to the climate crisis and hold oil corporations responsible for paying to clean up their mess.

Before the State Lands hearing, all are invited to attend a “retirement party” for oil platform Esther.  After over 60 years of oil spill risks, this decrepit and dangerous platform off Seal Beach in Orange County will finally be brought down.  This leaves just two remaining offshore platforms.  Let’s celebrate a new chapter!  We’ll have cupcakes, karaoke, a “well wishes” guest book to share your message for Esther, and more!

RSVP HERE.

WHERE: We’ll be set up to the left of the main entrance near Mishka Dog Boutique (in the Ferry Building).

WHEN: Friday, November 7th

  • 9am: Retirement party
  • 10am: Hearing begins, stick around for testimony if you’d like!

WHAT TO BRING: Any marine-life themed materials, stop offshore drilling signs.

Hosted by the Center for Biological Diversity, Oil & Gas Action Network, 350 Bay Area, and Sunflower Alliance.

There will also be an informal evening celebration at 5pm at 7th West in Oakland. Let’s celebrate the great election results and some other big wins in our battle against Big Oil, including:

🏆 the cities of Richmond and Oakland passing resolutions supporting the Make Polluters Pay Climate Superfund,
🏆  Santa Barbara county voting to phase out oil drilling, and denying the transfer of a pipeline permit from Exxon to Sable, which would restart 3 offshore rigs and a pipeline that have sat idle for ten years since the disastrous oil spill,
🏆  renewable energy outpacing fossil fuel development globally, and at lower cost,
🏆 and more!

Feel free to invite friends!

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Film Screening: Amal (Hope) @ SF Conservatory of Music
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Nov 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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Nov
9
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Free Chinese Medicine Clinic @ Clinton Park
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Nov 9 all-day

 

 

 

“Come join us for a medicinal day at Clinton park (655 International Blvd) in Oakland November 9th 9-5pm. Free ancestral medicine offerings from cafe collective students. No sign-up required. Options for masked providers, outdoor treatments, and masks provided. Vietnamese interpretation available.”

Come join us for a medicinal day at @clinton_park_oakland (655 International Blvd) in Oakland November 9th 9-5pm. Free ancestral medicine offerings from qtviet cafe collective students. No sign-up required. Options for masked providers, outdoor treatments, and masks provided. Vietnamese interpretation available. Culmination gathering of teachings and learnings in large thanks to @bca_clinic and the Navajo Healing Project. & thank you to Clinton Community for giving us the space to gather. Flyer by: @eatbanhmi

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Haiti Today Through an Anti-Imperialist Lens @ Online
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Nov 9 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm


Speaker: Pierre Labossiere, with an introduction by Marilyn Langlois

To Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87388824824?pwd=QTWNvr8cGeGo1ZDW7x9Y8W0sDaNxRc.1

Meeting ID: 873 8882 4824

Our guest, Pierre Labossiere, will provide an update on the current situation in Haiti. He will explain who the players are and debunk media narratives about the nature of so-called “gangs” in Haiti that have been covertly supported by imperialist and outside forces tied to the “Core Group” and their Haitian collaborators. The self-appointed “Core Group,” with representatives from the US, France, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Spain, EU and OAS, is de facto governing Haiti at present.

Pierre Labossiere is Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee (HAC) and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF) established in the Bay Area in 1991 and 2004 respectively. Working with Haiti’s grassroots movement that is engaged in the struggle for justice and democracy, HAC and HERF provide information regarding conditions on the ground, assist refugees and support community-based initiatives and institutions working for the liberation and the rebuilding of Haiti.

Marilyn Langlois is a long time Haiti solidarity activist who has been with the Haiti Action Committee for over 20 years and has traveled to Haiti 4 times. She is also on the Board of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, and brings the voice of Haiti to the Board of Taskforce on the Americas.

NOTE: Our past programs have been recorded, and placed on YouTube. For a listing of our past programs, see the “Icss Marxist” channel on YouTube, and at icssmarx.org.

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
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Nov 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to:

occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

 

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we tend to meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months from November to early March after Daylights Savings Time.)

On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over six years, since October 2011! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally. Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.

At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.

General Assembly Standard Agenda

Welcome & Introductions
Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
Announcements
(Optional) Discussion Topic

Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.

Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area

San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv

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 Who wins in a war with Iran? @ Online
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Nov 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Green Sunday:  Who wins in a war with Iran?
By the time you read this, we may already be at war with Iran. That is how imminent most analysts think it is. If so, my talk will be quite different from what I intend at this writing, because I am among a small minority who believe it will not happen, and not out of wishful thinking, but rather cold analysis. 
In either case, my analysis is framed around Iran’s place in the Axis of Resistance, its military and strategic capability, its culture, US intelligence assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of war, the influence of Israel on US and NATO policy, and other considerations.
Paul Larudee is a former Ford Foundation project supervisor and Fulbright-Hays lecturer in Lebanon, and US government advisor to Saudi Arabia.  He has been on the faculty of San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco, St. Mary’s College in Moraga and Haigazian College in Beirut.  He was with the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine and co-founded the movement to break the Israeli naval siege of Gaza.  He was aboard the boats that successfully entered Gaza in 2008 and the 2010 Flotilla attacked by Israel.  He was shot by an Israeli soldier in 2002.  He co-founded the Global March to Jerusalem, the Free Palestine Movement and the Syria Solidarity Movement.  He was one of six US observers of the Syrian presidential elections in June, 2014.  He is CFO of the Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees, a 501(c)(3) corporation that sponsors human rights and humanitarian aid projects in West Asia, Latin America and other regions. He publishes on Substack and Dissident Voice, and occasionally other publications.
 
Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 7:00 pm. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.
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Green Sunday: Who wins in a war with Iran? @ Online
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Nov 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85449203697
Meeting ID: 854 4920 3697
By the time you read this, we may already be at war with Iran. That is how imminent most analysts think it is. If so, my talk will be quite different from what I intend at this writing, because I am among a small minority who believe it will not happen, and not out of wishful thinking, but rather cold analysis. 
In either case, my analysis is framed around Iran’s place in the Axis of Resistance, its military and strategic capability, its culture, US intelligence assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of war, the influence of Israel on US and NATO policy, and other considerations.
Paul Larudee is a former Ford Foundation project supervisor and Fulbright-Hays lecturer in Lebanon, and US government advisor to Saudi Arabia.  He has been on the faculty of San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco, St. Mary’s College in Moraga and Haigazian College in Beirut.  He was with the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine and co-founded the movement to break the Israeli naval siege of Gaza.  He was aboard the boats that successfully entered Gaza in 2008 and the 2010 Flotilla attacked by Israel.  He was shot by an Israeli soldier in 2002.  He co-founded the Global March to Jerusalem, the Free Palestine Movement and the Syria Solidarity Movement.  He was one of six US observers of the Syrian presidential elections in June, 2014.  He is CFO of the Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees, a 501(c)(3) corporation that sponsors human rights and humanitarian aid projects in West Asia, Latin America and other regions. He publishes on Substack and Dissident Voice, and occasionally other publications.
 
Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 7:00 pm. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.