OAKLAND, CA
▪ Street Action
Gather at at 10:00am with many banners, placards with photos of people in long-term solitary confinement, and informational handouts at the huge intersection outside the First Congregational Church. The Church is supportive of our efforts to end solitary confinement. Their service begins at 10:30am and they might allow PHSS to speak, during the service, about the importance of ending torture, solitary confinement.
END LONG TERM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT !!
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Aug
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Wed
#BayArea tomorrow go 2 @TheNewParkway Karma Cinema in Uptown Oakland. 20% proceeds will go 2 Critical Resistance! Every Wednesday in August.
— Critical Resistance (@C_Resistance) August 11, 2015
Here’s what’s playing and at what times.
Every Wednesday, you pay what you want for your movie ticket. At the end of the month, we donate 20% of all Karma Cinema ticket sales to our monthly Karma Cinema partner, a local organization that benefits Oakland communities.
Karma Cinema is an example of our efforts to make going to the movies accessible for people of all means, as well as giving an opportunity for those who can afford to give back to do so.
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Aug 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join Animal Defense League – San Francisco and No New Animal Lab in an evening of support for political prisoners and hear from organizers about the global grassroots campaign to stop Skanska USA from building an underground animal laboratory at University of Washington.
In addition to learning how to get involved locally with No New Animal Lab, we will be taking donations for Nicole and Joseph’s court support.
Nicole and Joseph are local community members currently being indicted under alleged conspiracy to violate the AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act). For more information about how to support Nicole and Joseph, visit:
SupportNicoleAndJoseph.com.
This is a free event and supplies for writing letters will be provided.
To learn more about the No New Animal Lab campaign, visit NoNewAnimalLab.com
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The Anti-Police Terrorism Project is a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee that in coalition with other organizations like the Alan Blueford Center for Justice, Workers World and Healthy Hoodz is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country.
We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition.
We meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month at Eastside Arts Alliance at 7:30 pm.
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Aug 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
San Francisco, CA – In response to the oil industry effort to lobby Congress to lift the decades-old ban on shipping crude oil abroad, environmental justice, community, faith and environmental groups are uniting to launch a national campaign to uphold the congressional ban.
The campaign will kick off Thursday, August 20, 2015 with protests in San Francisco, Houston and Chicago. The San Francisco event will take place at 11 am at the Federal Building, 7th and Mission Streets. An even larger protest is planned for September 8th at 12 noon at the Federal Building.
In July, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee – chhaired by Senator Murkowski of Alaska – approved the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 that includes a dangerous measure to lift the decades-old crude oil export ban. H.R. 702 would amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to repeal authority to restrict the export of: (1) coal, petroleum products, natural gas, or petrochemical feedstocks; and (2) supplies of materials or equipment necessary to maintain or further exploration, production, refining, or transportation of energy supplies, or for the construction or maintenance of energy facilities within the United States.
Exporting crude oil – and other fossil fuels – to foreign countries will encourage even more fracking and tar sands mining, causing increased health, environmental and climate problems in the US and abroad. Major protests have also taken place in the Bay Area and nationally against the increase in rail transport of toxic and explosive crude oil through communities and sensitive ecosystems.
At the same time Bay Area groups are joining this national effort to keep the ban on crude oil exports in place, they are also working to prevent a controversial plan to import coal from Utah for export out of a proposed terminal in West Oakland.
“We must stop Congress from caving in to Big Oil and the fossil fuel industries that profit off of the health of people, the environment and the planet,” said Bradley Angel, Executive Director of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. “We need clean, renewable energy instead of dirty fossil fuels that need to stay in the ground.”
“Exporting US oil for refining will put more lives in danger and contribute more CO2 emissions to the environment which will increase the negative impacts of climate change due to a serious lack of regulation and oversight in other countries. The best storage for crude is underground,” said Hilton Kelley of the Community In-power Development Association based in Port Arthur, Texas, coordinator of this national effort.
2nd Protest Wednesday, September 8th at Federal Building SF at noon.
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Aug 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
.@CatsCommentary announced press conference for #RichardLinyard who died during OPD chase. Noon, Aug 20th, City Hall. pic.twitter.com/Ybs256N7sy
— Dave Id (@DaveId) August 15, 2015
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Aug 20 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join us Thursday August 20th from 4-7 pm at the UC Gill Tract Community Farm, for an afternoon of knowledge sharing with Professor Miguel Altieri. Learn about the key agroecological principles for the design and management of productive and resilient urban farms. Stick around after the work shop for healthy food, food wine, and better conversation. Come meet and learn with other urban farmers from the Bay Area!
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/urbanagroeco?fref=ts
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Attend a planning meeting for the NorCal Mass Climate Mobilization, November 21st, the biggest Bay Area Climate demonstration of the year. The Mobilization is a lead-up event for the the Paris COP21 UN climate talks. By joining one of our planning committees you will have the opportunity to network with climate justice groups in our region. Learn more about the goals of the Mobilization at the event’s website.
Rides back to BART available. Ask about when you arrive. Invite your friends to help with this.
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Fri
“Each year officially since 1979 we have used the month of August to focus on the oppressive treatment of our brothers and sisters disappeared inside the state run gulags and concentration camps America calls prisons. It is during this time that we concentrate our efforts to free our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, and all other captive family and friends who have been held in isolation for decade after decade beyond their original sentence. Many of these individuals are held in the sensory deprivation and mind control units called Security Housing Units (S.H.U. Program), without even the most basic of human rights.” – BAOC
…THE ROOTS OF BLACK AUGUST
Black August originated in the concentration camps (prisons) of California in 1979 and its’ roots come from the history of resistance by Black/New African/African brothers in those prisons. It’s original purpose is to honor and commemorate the lives and deaths of several fallen Freedom Fighters, amongst them were Jonathan Jackson, George Jackson, W.L. Nolan, James McClain, William Christmas and Khatari Gaulden; to bring education and awareness to family members, friends, associates and communites about the conditions for the Black/New Afrikan prisoners held within those concentration camps (in particular in California) and to educate our people about and honor the history and actions of continued resistance of Black/New Afrikan/Afrikan peoples to oppression, colonization and slavery in the U.S. and throughout the Diaspora, with particular emphasis on freedom fighters and historical acts of resistance.”
Excerpts taken from “BLACK AUGUST: THE TRUE HISTORY, CULTURE AND PRACTICE” By Mama Ayanna Mashama
In the spirit of solidarity with those who have and continue to struggle for justice from behind walls of the concentration camps of amerikkka, The Black August Organizing Commitee, MXGM Oakland andQilombo Oakland will be hosting a Black August conference from August 21st-23rd noon-10pm or (later each day) at Qilombo and Afrika Town Community Garden in West Oakland, CA. The conference will have political speakers, cultural solidarity performances and workshops around resisting the Prison Industrial Complex and promoting Women’s health.
Day 1 Will have Keynote speakers and a dialogue about Black August History and Resistance today
Day 2 Will have Cultural Solidarity performances promoting Black August Resistance and promoting Women’s health
Day 3 We will have Political Workshops relevant to Black August Resistance and promoting Women’s Health.
“They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.”
George Jackson
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Aug 21 @ 12:00 pm – Aug 23 @ 8:00 pm
We are resisting a development that would cut down 400+ trees including a 600 year old Oak tree, put a fancy ass restaurant along with 60 other buildings on top of the most beautiful park in Oakland. Then they would cage a bunch of beautiful animals on it gentrifying the working class neighborhood. Please join us for a weekend of fun and Direct Action to stop the Oakland Zoo! For more info about the campaign go to: http://www.defendknowlandpark.org
There will be a shuttle available stopping at Coliseum Bart and Foothill Square but If you can offer a ride or need a ride from Coliseum Bart or the 57 Bus, Oakland , Berkeley or SF please sign up here: http://www.groupcarpool.com/t/u687ix
Bands playing on Friday from Noon – 9 PM!
Star Amerasu – https://soundcloud.com/staramerasu
Dawn Riding – http://www.dawnriding.bandcamp.com
Rock and Roll Breakfast – noisey post punk
DeadFriends – Psychedelic sludgy stuff…
Rock and Roll Breakfast – Post punk –
Walle – Hardcore Punk from Tijuana – https://walle.bandcamp.com/
Moxiebeat – https://moxiebeat.bandcamp.com/
Saturday workshops!:
Workshop/discussion proposals:
Direct Action 101
Cat and Mouse
Knowland Park Defence.
Plant Walk
Scouting
Intersectionality and Deep Ecology
Sunday – Monday: Direct Action!
If you would like to propose a band or a workshop you can FB message or email us at defendknowlandpark.org
It is a donation based event so if you want to help our campaign send donations to: http://www.rally.org/defendknowlandpark and/or give us donations in person. This will help cover food, water, bathrooms, the generator, etc.
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Defend Knowland Park! Direct Action and Call-in against Chain Link Fence and Supply Inc.
http://www.facebook.com/events/953130058065883/
Chain Link Fencing and Supply Inc. (a non-union company) has started to construct a mile-long perimeter fence around the proposed development. We can find no approved building permit for this construction so this fence may be “illegal”. No permit is posted on-site and there has been no response about the fencing from the City building permit staff. Therefore, it is within our “legal” right to take direct action and stop fencing from going up .
Please Join us, Monday – August 17th at Knowland Park to demand their permit to work or if you cannot make it call and email their office repeatedly to jam their lines and respectfully demand information regarding their Work Permit for fencing construction at Knowland Park.
The park was deeded to be protected forever for privatization and not it’s our duty to uphold that deed and Defend Knowland Park
Monday – August 17th – 11 AM – Knowland Park entrance at the end of Edgemont way near Edgemont and Malcolm ave. – Oakland, CA
If you can offer a ride or need a ride from Coliseum Bart or the 57 Bus, Oakland , Berkeley or SF please sign up here: http://www.groupcarpool.com/t/gb9ejt
Chain Link Fence and Supply Inc. – 2040 Research Dr, Livermore, CA 94550 – (925) 606-8167 – INFO [at] FENCESUPPLY.ORG – OPEN M-F 8AM-4PM
http://defendknowlandpark.org/2015/08/15/d…
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Aug
22
Sat
A festival dedicated to showcasing alternatives to our climate and economic crises. Activities include a bike-powered concert, urban farming demonstrations, preventive health screenings, farmer’s market, and more.
Entrance to the Richmond Greenway at Ohio Avenue and 16th Street.
Free and open to all.
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Aug 22 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Help block the proposal to transport coal by rail through Oakland for export overseas. Join an educational and planning meeting for residents of District 4, but all Oakland residents are welcome.
This meeting is particularly relevant to residents of that area but this project could affect all East Bay residents, and all are welcome.
You will learn what the Coal Free Oakland campaign has been doing and how you can help convince the City Council to ban coal in our city.
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Aug 22 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt!
Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects!
- student debt resistance
- organizing for public banking.
- advocating for Postal banking.
- ongoing study group
- helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk
- our famous Strike Debt radio program
- staging Debtors’ Assemblies
- Restaging our recent presentation on money and debt at the US Social Forum
- Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts
- saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs
- and much more!
Strike Debt Bay Area is an offshoot of Occupy Oakland and Strike Debt, itself an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.
Strike Debt – Principles of Solidarity
Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it.
We also oppose debt because it is an instrument of exploitation and political domination. Debt is used to discipline us, deepen existing inequalities, and reinforce racial, gendered, and other social hierarchies. Every Strike Debt action is designed to weaken the institutions that seek to divide us and benefit from our division. As an alternative to this predatory system, Strike Debt advocates a just and sustainable economy, based on mutual aid, common goods, and public affluence.
Strike Debt is committed to the principles and tactics of political autonomy, direct democracy, direct action, creative openness, a culture of solidarity, and commitment to anti-oppressive language and conduct. We struggle for a world without racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of oppression.
Strike Debt holds that we are all debtors, whether or not we have personal loan agreements. Through the manipulation of sovereign and municipal debt, the costs of speculator-driven crises are passed on to all of us. Though different kinds of debt can affect the same household, they are all interconnected, and so all household debtors have a common interest in resisting.
Strike Debt engages in public education about the debt-system to counteract the self-serving myth that finance is too complicated for laypersons to understand. In particular, it urges direct action as a way of stopping the damage caused by the creditor class and their enablers among elected government officials. Direct action empowers those who participate in challenging the debt-system.
Strike Debt holds that we owe the financial institutions nothing, whereas, to our friends, families and communities, we owe everything. In pursuing a long-term strategy for national organizing around this principle, we pledge international solidarity with the growing global movement against debt and austerity.
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Aug
23
Sun
Aug 23 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Aug. 23rd Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary
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Aug 23 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
A great time to meet a lot of people, and get them excited about 15 Now and the upcoming Berkeley city council meeting on a higher minimum wage.
So come join if you’re around, and get ready to clipboard like crazy
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Aug 23 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
This Sunday 1-5pm @ Henry J Kaiser Center, share your vision for the E12th St parcel. #E12thWishList #SaveE12th pic.twitter.com/qLiVON0GTz
— krok (@kiernanrok) August 21, 2015
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On the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month Occupy Oakland meets at the Omni Commons (4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland) basement at 2:00 PM sharp so folks can also attend the Open Circle at the Omni a little later at 3:45 PM. A potluck lunch normally precedes the Open Circle and postcedes GA at roughly 3 PM.
On the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre at 14th Street & Broadway, often on the steps of City Hall. 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
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for more than three years! 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)
Occupy Oakland Kitchen Committee: (kitchen@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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Aug
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There meeting tomorrow night. #SaveE12th pic.twitter.com/bRlxUxMeFB
— Bay Solidarity (@BaySolidarity) August 23, 2015
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Aug 24 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
OccupyForum presentsAll Power to the People:
The Black Panther Party and Beyond
A documentary film by Lee Lou Lee on racism,
the Panthers, and the Indigenous Peoples’ Movement
All Power to the People! examines problems of race, poverty, dissent, and the universal conflict of the haves versus the have nots. U.S. government documents, rare news clips, and interviews with both ex-activists and former FBI/CIA officers provide deep insight into the bloody conflict between political dissent and governmental authority in the U.S. of the 60s and 70s.Working as a TV cameraman during the 1992 L.A. riots, Lee Lew-Lee became curious about the history of American race relations and the Black Panther Party (founded in Oakland in 1967). His research led to All Power to the People. The film combines archival footage with interviews — from ex-CIA officer Philip Agee, journalist/filmmaker Gordon Parks, and former FBI Special Agent Wesley Swearingen — to various Panthers and political radicals. The film covers slavery, civil-rights activists and assassinations in the ’60s, and it explores methods used by police, the FBI, and the CIA to divide and destroy the key figures in the Black Panther Party. The film extends beyond the Panther history to more recent times, covering Reagan-Era events, privacy threats from new technologies, and the failure of the War Against Drugs.
Globally acclaimed as being the most accurate depiction of the goals, aspirations, and ultimate repression of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, All Power to the People! is a gripping, timeless news documentary.
Time will be allotted for Q&A, discussion and announcements.
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