Meet at Oscar Grant Plaza at 14th Avenue & Broadway in Oakland to picket banks that have invested in the DAPL pipeline.
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We feel we should coalesce and concentrate on our most urgent effort of building the movement to FREE MUMIA NOW, during the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, while groups all over the country are gathering to celebrate that anniversary. In this way all our groups will benefit, and we’ll feel our collective power that will help us win all of our demands in the future. Remember Mumia is a great journalist, who’s been fighting for all of us for the 35 years he’s been behind bars.
Locally, we are building for a rally and march from Oscar Grant Plaza to the Oakland Police Station, on December 9, 4:00 PM. Let’s join together and make this HUGE!
(Backup location if Paris Baguette has no seating: Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, 14th & Broadway, outside of City Hall.)
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.
If you are new to Strike Debt and want to come early , meet one or two of us and get a briefing on our projects before we dive into our agenda, email us at strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com .
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.
Join the Permaculture Action Network & Rising Appalachia Music for a Bay Area Permaculture Action Day! This special Thanksgiving action day will be taking place at City of Dreams urban farm in San Francisco on Sunday, November 27th following Rising Appalachia’s show at the Great American Music Hall on Saturday the 26th.
Projects include:
– Terracing & Irrigation Install
– Mural Painting and Repair
– Fruit Tree Planting
– Building Beds & Removing Brush
– Outdoor Classroom & Kitchen Build
– Compost System Install
Music & Performance:
– Members of Rising Appalachia Music
– J Brave of the Luminaries
– Jasmine Fuego & the Pop Up Band
– Tatu Vision
– Lydia Violet Music
– Members of Thrive East Bay Choir
– more TBA
– Cypher hosted by: Jada Imani
Contests:
– Freestyle
– Dance-Off
Workshops/Panels:
– Yoga
– Panel of Elders
– More TBA
Please bring:
– Water
– Garden tools
– Dish or snacks to add to Pot Luck meals (rice & beans provided)
– Paint for murals
– Working clothes + Layers (prepare for typical fall Bay weather)
– Stories + Songs to share
About City of Dreams:
City of Dreams is committed to supporting youth living in San Francisco low-income public housing in building a bright future through mentorship and youth leadership development. They have a beautiful established garden and a youth-led garden program operating out of the Oakdale Community Center.
Tickets to Great American show: http://www.risingappalachia.
(Permaculture Action Day itself is free, as always)
Please click “Going” on the Facebook event page, invite your friends, and post the link! https://www.facebook.com/
Write to us at ‘ Contact (at) PermacultureAction.org ‘ if you want to contribute or get involved.
We will gather to discuss organizing a General Strike in Oakland on #J20 and or during the Trump presidency. We will have a general discussion about what that would look like then break out into several committees to organize media, outreach, logistics, etc.
The conversation will center working class black and brown voices but everyone is welcome to speak and share their thoughts and skills!
November 27th – 12PM – Telegraph and Broadway – Latham Square (The site of the last General Strike of 1946 in Oakland CA) #j20 #disruptj20
No Inauguration! General Strike Against Trump! #NoInauguration #DisruptJ20 #ShutItDown #GeneralStrike #J20 #LathamSquare #Oakland
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/675206962654366/
Bay Area LGBTQ Town Hall Meeting and Strategy Session in response to the incoming Trump administration’s agenda and threats to our community.
This facilitated Town Hall meeting will focus on needed strategic community organizing and solidarity, and will feature speakers providing updates on the likely impact of Trump’s agenda on LGBTQ lives in the areas of law, legislation, healthcare, immigration and the growing sanctuary movement.
Organized by the ad-hoc Bay Area Queer Anti-Fascist Network. Find us at: https://www.facebook.com/
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 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 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (In prior years we have agreed to meet at 4:00 PM during summer hours, that is, once Daylight Savings Time goes back into effect).
On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 2 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over five 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
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
If you’re devastated by the outcome of the 2016 election, or you’ve been shocked by the normalization of hate speech and intolerance by a master manipulator of mainstream media, you’ll want to ATTEND this march against hatred and bigotry on December 10th in downtown San Francisco.
The Bay Area needs to flex its collective muscle to reflect our level of disgust towards the incoming president. We aren’t just going to “get over it.”
THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
Each day’s news brings a “new normal” — a higher level of coarseness; casual and open racism; insults targeting entire religions; and an intolerance of diversity that’s impacting our social fabric. We cannot let a Trump regime take power without conveying our extreme dissatisfaction with his character; his divisive rhetoric; his cabinet picks; his anti-LGBT stance; his misogyny; or his willingness to allow intolerance to grow and be rewarded amongst his supporters. We cannot accept this reality as normal, BECAUSE IT’S NOT NORMAL.
Join us on December 10th: UNITED AGAINST HATE.
Share our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1229170823796239/
Donate to the logistics of the event: https://www.gofundme.com/antitrump-demonstration
F I E L D T R I P
for the Amor for Alex Memorial
Bring banners and your Amor for Alex T-shirts. Wear red and black in honor of Alex Nieto. Let’s join each other at one of our oldest varrios on Cortland Street!
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The only way to the front lines is forward.
If you are upset about Trump or the Dakota pipeline, you can and should let your voice be heard. But if you want action, an action that leads to creation, then follow us to the front lines, and it is not in a far off distant land; it is here in our city of San Francisco.
Join us this Monday, November 28 at 6:00 p.m. for the “All Hands Meeting for the Alex Nieto Memorial!” at the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center on 515 Cortland Avenue, Alex Nieto’s varrio. For all you OG Veteranos and Veteranas, you know that Cortland is one of our oldest varrios, one of the first places in San Francisco’s Mission/Outer Mission that was gentrified starting back in the 90’s. It was such a loco colorful beautiful hood until they tricked residents into gentrification and kicked them out. Now mostly wealthy white folks live there – lawyers and technology executives. In 2011 they literally erased the varrio history by destroying the Cortland library’s 1983 Native American and cholo mural.
https://todobododown.wordpress.com/all-hands-meeting-for/
This time we must stand together. History cannot and will not be erased. It is up to you, I literally mean YOU, to make this Alex Nieto memorial reality. Not only is it what the Nietos desire and deserve after being swindled by a mostly white jury out of a just verdict in the civil trial, but also it is what we need as medicine for our community.
We proved Alex’s murder. Check the evidence yourself. I would love to hear any reasonable arguments about how Officer Schiff could, after being counseled by his police officer father, on the night he shot at Alex Nieto, go from saying he looked into Alex’s “angry” eyes and saw his forehead “scrunch” up to being proved a liar two years later in open court Alex had on a baseball hat and sunglasses on, so it would have been impossible for Officer Schiff to have seen Alex’s eyes or forehead. I would love to hear any explanation of how Alex Nieto’s wrist bone was found in his pocket if, as the officers state, he always had his hands out and pointing a taser. Because there is no reasonable explanation, we must conclude Alex Nieto was unlawfully killed, and this is a severe injustice and tragedy for his family and community. Yet we are thankful for whirlwinds, for they have helped shape who we are: Amor for Alex.
We need mass attendance at this meeting because there may be some who want to erase racism: from the caller, who admitted Alex was doing nothing improper but described him as a “foreigner”, to the dog owner who threatened Alex and spewed obscene racial slurs against him, to the police who profiled him and shot at him fifty nine (59) times. There may be some who want to ignore the corruption of San Francisco: from the district attorney that refused to file criminal charges against the officers, to the collusion between San Francisco and Taser International, the company that gained a two million dollar contract with the city, after manipulating the time stamps on Alex Nieto’s taser so that it would match up nicely with the fabricated police narrative.
We sing NO to erasure. We shout NO to corruption. With the joining now of 3,000 others who have signed the petition and at least four San Francisco supervisors, we demand an ordinance (law) for a memorial tribute to Alex Nieto on Bernal Heights. We imagine community members hiking up to that mountain and praying like he did, looking out over the view of San Francisco and being reminded and reminded of his unlawful death AND our community resilience. We want students of all ages to travel up to that hill for field trips and stand at that memorial site and learn about the history and creativity of our community; they will write thousands of critical educational essays. We want families to pilgrimage hands together and love each other at the place where Alex breathed his last breath. Lovers will make an offering and share a kiss, the way we used to do it up on that mountain in the old days. We want this place to be a place of peace, of inspiration and amor.
We need you there. Your family needs you there. Your community needs you there. Your unborn grandchildren need you there: “All Hands Meeting for the Alex Nieto Memorial!” Monday, November 28, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center. Wear red and black in honor of Alex. Join the Facebook event page here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1156504267790999/?notif_t=plan_user_associated¬if_id=1478981259825422
Amor for Alex Nieto: March 4, 1986 to March 21, 2014
Against the violence and injustice of 59 bullets, family and community rose to defend honor and promote positive spirit.
Benjamin Bac Sierra, M.A., J.D.
We invite you to join this call for the community to come together in front of Oakland City Hall on November 29th at 5 pm to express support for the City Council’s strong stand and to help build the movement to defend our neighbors.”
Media Advisory, Community Organizations Call on California Legislators and Governor Jerry Brown to Make California a Sanctuary State
In light of Trump’s very real threats against immigrants, many people are calling for cities that have sanctuary resolutions or ordinances in place (that prevent local officials from reporting undocumented residents to ICE) to recommit to those policies (and, of course, for cities that don’t have such a resolution to pass one).
In her letter to the East Bay Express last week, Mayor Schaaf reaffirmed Oakland’s stance:
“…. [O]ur government will continue to protect all its residents and defend our progressive values. We’ll proudly stand as a sanctuary city — protecting our residents from what we deem unjust federal immigration laws — fight all forms of bigotry and advance our commitment to equity even more passionately.”
At its next meeting on November 29th, the Oakland City Council will consider a resolution expressing recommitment as a sanctuary city. The Council must also commit to work toward California standing up to Trump’s threats to cut federal funding by declaring itself a sanctuary state. This is crucial because a lot of the potential cuts to federal funding could fall most heavily on the working people of Oakland and California’s other cities.
In the face of deportations, harassment, and growing threats of violence, the immigrant, Muslim, Latino and other targeted communities, including all People of Color, LGBTQ, women and people with disabilities are experiencing stress and fear not seen since the days of Jim Crow. Children are having difficulty in school as parents seek to reassure them.
California is in a unique position in its ability to honor its diversity and protect its residents from the harm that may come under the new regime which seeks to disempower whole categories of people. A statewide resolve to not give in to the pressure on sanctuary cities would have a much better likelihood of preventing the threatened cuts and protecting Oaklanders and all California residents.
We invite you to join this call for the community to come together in front of Oakland City Hall on November 29th at 5:00 to express support for the City Council’s strong stand and to help build the movement to defend our neighbors.
For more information and to get involved-please contact Jose Dorado of the Latino Task Force, josedorado48@gmail.com, 510-326-4810 or Sharon Rose, Co-chair, Block by Block Organizing Network, sharonroseESL@gmil.com, 510-915-6894, or Pamela Drake, Local Politics Coordinator, Wellstone Democratic Club, pamelaadrake@gmail.com, 510-593-3721.
[list of signers of the call – in formation – organizations for identification purposes]
Jose Artiga, Executive Director, SHARE Foundation
Rev. Debra Avery, First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
Josie Camacho, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Alameda Labor Council
Keith Carson, Alameda County Supervisor
Jose Cartagena, National Network of Salvadorans in the Exterior
Oscar Chacon, Executive Director, Alainza de las Americas
Jose Dorado, Latino Task Force
Pamela Drake, Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
Deborah Lee, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Jean Quan, former Mayor, Oakland
Sharon Rose, Block by Block Organizing Network
Tulio Serrano, Committee of Central American Refugees
Angela Sanbrano, La Red Mexicana
Hey IWOCers and supporters, We’re having our next meeting on Tuesday.
We’ll be reporting on the work ongoing at the national level as well as the local level. Plus we will be sorting through all that we have in motion for future work, outreach, inreach, mutual political education, and more.
Come plug in and shape what’s in the works!
The ASG tonight at 8pm.https://t.co/UA5L6mTVGD
For the readings.— Long Haul Infoshop (@Longhaulinfo) November 29, 2016
Idle No More SF Bay is organizing this Wednesday morning action. I hope many of you can come. If you are willing to be a monitor, read guidelines attached and email inmsolidaritysf@gmail.com
Hi powerful women allies,
(and all allies in support!)
We ask for you all to come together once again for all our relations at Standing Rock
As we have seen this week with the horrible violence by law enforcement, a backwards move by the U.S.A
rmy Corps of Engineers announcing a plan to evict the Oceti Sakowin camp (from Treaty lands) rather than the DAPL permits, and the DAPL’s announcement that it plans to drill under the Missouri River soon, it is urgent that we act now and that we act quickly. Another way to stop this project (and others threatening the land, air, water, nonhuman relatives) is to stop their financing – which is why we are targeting the banks. It is so urgent that we are planning this action for NEXT week! Please help us get a strong turnout of our communities divesting DAPL.
What we are asking:
Please join us and help spread the word about our next indigenous-led NODAPL BAY AREA WIDE solidarity action. Please REPLY and let us know if your group will be joining us on Wednesday, and how.
What is to happen:
Prayer Walk to several banking institutions funding the DAPL
For more information, see:
FB page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1834348963450855/
Website: https://www.farewellsfargo.com/
Flyers: Attached as documents. (Picture graphics at: https://www.farewellsfargo.com/new-page-1/)
The morning will begin with prayers for the water led by the women of Idle No More SF Bay. A teach-in will be conducted on why everyone needs to divest from the financial institutions funding the Dakota Access Pipeline. This will be followed by a prayer walk to several banking institutions funding the DAPL. Educational hand-outs will be available to pass out.
If you have any questions you can email us at inmsolidaritysf@gmail.com or call any of the women in Idle No More SF Bay (or 925-435-7934). Those of you whose phone contacts we have, we will be calling you to loop you in.
Thank you,
Idle No More SF Bay
One of the folks arrested in Oakland the night after the election is facing heavy charges and would love community support!
Please join him with his family on Wednesday Nov. 30th at 9am at Rene Davidson Courthouse (entrence is on 12th Street, at Oak). Department 7!
JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner
Theme this week is: “REFUGEES…”
Feel free to bring your own signage, photos, flyers, …Additional signs and flyers provided.
Stand (or sit) with us and the huge PEACE banner.
Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the surveillance state, against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, including the Alameda and San Francisco County Boards of Supervisors, the BART Board of Directors, and by the Oakland and Berkeley City Councils.
We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, ALPRs, requirements for “backdoors” to your cellphone and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments.
OPWG originally came together to fight against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network; its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts further restrictions on the now Port-restricted DAC, and made Oakland’s new Privacy Advisory Commission to the City Council happen. We were also the lead in having Alameda County pass the most comprehensive privacy and usage policy in the country for deployment of “Stingray” technology (cell phone interceptors).
We have presented our work at the recent RightsCon in San Francisco and at Left Forum and HOPE in New York City.
If you would like to attend our meeting and would like a quick introduction to what we’re doing before we dive right into the thick of our agenda, send email to contact@oaklandprivacy.org and one of us will show up twenty minutes early to give you some background on our work.
Stop by and learn how you can help guard our right not to be spied on by the government.
If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:
oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net
or send a request to contact@oaklandprivacy.org
For more information on the DAC check out
Wells Fargo has almost half a billion dollars invested directly in DAPL. Join us in demanding that they withdraw their funding immediately.
We will congregate at the steps of Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley at 8am, and march to the Wells Fargo on Shattuck. Wear blue, if you can. Please organize yourselves into affinity groups beforehand and bring signs. Know your rights. Come prepared to protest peacefully. See here for more information on affinity group formation and utility: https://libcom.org/files/
On November 20th 2016 the police violently attacked peaceful water protectors at Standing Rock. Police used tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper spray, concussion grenades, and sprayed them with water cannons in subfreezing conditions. One ally and activist, Sophia Wilansky, may face the amputation of her arm.
In response a coalition of groups at Standing Rock are calling for a week of action starting on November 25th that will culminate in a Global Day of Action on December 1st.
The main targets are financiers of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the police departments that have been brought in from across the Midwest to brutalize water protectors.
The financial footing of the Dakota Access Pipeline is in jeopardy if they do not complete the project by January 1st. If this deadline is missed, a majority of the stakeholders with contracts to ship oil through the pipeline will be able to renegotiate or cancel their contracts. This could be devastating to Energy Transfer Partners and the other pipeline companies behind DAPL.
With its vulnerabilities exposed, our solidarity efforts are needed now more than ever.
Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month at 7pm! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom