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Substantive Agenda Items: 3. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Biometric Crime Lab Annual Report (to be heard with item below) a. Review and take possible action 4. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD Biometric Crime Lab proposed amendments to Use Policy (to be heard with item above) a. Review and take possible action 5. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Memorandum (substitute annual report) regarding Automated License Plate Readers, Cell-Site Simulator, Mobile Fingerprint ID a. Review and take possible action 6. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Remote Audio Telecommunications … Continued

May 3rd nationwide online and in select theaters in NYC, DC, LA, SF, Portland, Seattle, Boston. Come out and see us for in-person Q&A’s after the screenings with Stephanie Kelton, myself, other film protagonists and very special guests, TBA! Check out our exclusive announcement with Deadline! We are partnering with Giant Pictures and Kanopy for educational distribution where we will be available to Universities for classrooms and public libraries nationwide! And watch and share our NEW Official Trailer! We are also honored to have a special NYC premiere screening at … Continued

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Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1 Speaker: Peter Fay American labor is deindustrialized, deunionized, fragmented, and pauperized. Its debased condition is a prisoner of its form: that of a commodity, forever cheapening, like any other. Bereft of political leadership, labor instinctively reacts in populist protest at its own demise, rejecting neoliberalism and the “new world order”. In response, the ruling class shames it as “deplorable”, “far-right”, and “Putin’s puppets”. In a world devoid of class identity, American culture proffers individual identity as the new religion, as the new “sigh of the oppressed … Continued

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Beloved Community, Tomorrow Oakland City Council will vote on a resolution Honoring the Life of Alan Dwayne Blueford, who was murdered by Oakland Police Department 12 years ago today on May 6, 2012 at the age of only 18-years-old. His mother, and our sister in struggle, Jeralynn Blueford, is calling on us to show up in support. We are asking you to show up tomorrow, Tuesday, May 7 at city hall to help this family, forever-impacted by OPD’s terror, continue to fight for Alan and his legacy. WHAT: Support Oakland … Continued

Why do we allow a private corporation with a history of convictions for manslaughter to keep making huge profits from selling us electricity?  Reclaim Our Power has developed an exciting proposal to make a Just Transition from PG&E to Golden State Energy, a nonprofit public-benefit utility. On May 7, Richmond City Council will hold a hearing on a resolution endorsing this proposal. You can support this transition by showing up and speaking out at the hearing.  Your organization can help by signing onto this letter of support. Please view the agenda for instructions about submitting public … Continued

Hardware Hacking Tuesdays are better than ever! Plus Fix-It Clinic! Each Tuesday we welcome all to bring their hardware (and software and firmware) projects to Omni Commons, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, about 7:30pm until ∞ …whomever’s left standing! We are inside the Omni Commons at 48th and Shattuck, see the link at the end of this text to call in in case the doors are locked! ○ Projects: can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to … Continued

A self-guided online tour of the Superfund-qualified Zeneca toxic-waste site in Richmond will share the site’s history of contamination, and the dangers it poses to the community. For over a century, the Stauffer Chemical Company manufactured herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, and sulfuric acid at the 86-acre site, dumping hazardous waste onsite and filling in the Bay.  Many Richmond residents living nearby don’t know its history, nor are they aware that it was never fully cleaned up. The site on Richmond’s southeast shoreline has been leaking highly contaminated water and vapors for … Continued

Hardware Hacking Tuesdays are better than ever! Plus Fix-It Clinic! Each Tuesday we welcome all to bring their hardware (and software and firmware) projects to Omni Commons, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, about 7:30pm until ∞ …whomever’s left standing! We are inside the Omni Commons at 48th and Shattuck, see the link at the end of this text to call in in case the doors are locked! ○ Projects: can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to … Continued

RSVP here We will cover our mission + vision, how we get stuff done, and our ongoing projects. You will leave with our handbook, other literature, and next steps to get involved! Share Share Forward Upcoming Copwatch Committee Meetings Communications Committee meeting: Thursday 5/16 at 5 PM Casework Committee training + meeting: Tuesday 5/28 at 6 PM Wanna join a committee? Come to orientation! 77814

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Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. For our May meeting we will be reading The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Giridharadas  (Amazon, Penguin) An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist “Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real … Continued

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Hardware Hacking Tuesdays are better than ever! Plus Fix-It Clinic! Each Tuesday we welcome all to bring their hardware (and software and firmware) projects to Omni Commons, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, about 7:30pm until ∞ …whomever’s left standing! We are inside the Omni Commons at 48th and Shattuck, see the link at the end of this text to call in in case the doors are locked! ○ Projects: can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to … Continued

Hardware Hacking Tuesdays are better than ever! Plus Fix-It Clinic! Each Tuesday we welcome all to bring their hardware (and software and firmware) projects to Omni Commons, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, about 7:30pm until ∞ …whomever’s left standing! We are inside the Omni Commons at 48th and Shattuck, see the link at the end of this text to call in in case the doors are locked! ○ Projects: can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to … Continued