Calendar
Join us for our April all-members meeting at Drake’s Dealership. Current and new members welcome!
Stick around afterward for a drink and a bite. RESISTANCE IS THE NEW BRUNCH.
• Group meeting: 9:30 – 10:30
• Breakouts 10:30 – 11
• Socializing and resisting 11 – ??
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. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months, once Daylight Savings Time springs forward we tend to assemble at 4 PM).
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
- 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
Tomorrow (Sunday 4/30) at 5:00 PM in Vallejo at 545 Magazine St. pic.twitter.com/PljvQSIwT5
— dr. hoopoe (@thehoopoe) April 29, 2017
A Gloriously Outspoken Evening with
VIJAY PRASHAD
Hosted by DENNIS J. BERNSTEIN
WHEELCHAIR ACCESS
advance tickets: $12: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2904804:: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, $15 door, KPFA benefit kpfa.org/events
Vijay Prashad’s recent book, The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution, is a fast-paced and timely book and the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to the chaos in Turkey. Mixing thrilling anecdotes from street-level reporting that give readers a sense of what is at stake with a bird’s-eye view of the geopolitics of the region and the globe, Prashad guides us through the dramatic changes in players, politics, and economics in the Middle East over the last five years. “The Arab Spring was defeated neither in the byways of Tahrir Square nor in the souk of Aleppo,” he explains. “It was defeated roundly in the palaces of Riyadh and Ankara as well as in Washington, DC and Paris.”
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, journalist, commentator and a Marxist intellectual. He is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College. In 2013-2014, he was the Edward Said Chair at the American University of Beirut. Prashad is the author of seventeen books.
Born in India, Prashad studied in the United States and has become a prominent scholar and journalist, taking on what he describes as a Marxist point of view when examining world affairs. As such, Prashad acquired a reputation as a harsh critic of American foreign policy, of Israel and its actions toward the Palestinians, and of Hindu nationalism.
Dennis J Bernstein is a widely published journalist and host of the award-winning investigative news report, Flashpoints, syndicated on Pacifica radio.
The film follows the cross-country bicycle trip of two brothers as they ride recycled bicycles through the American South for over two years, seeking radical locality amid rampant globalization.
Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening.
CANCELLED IN THIS FORM. See here the altered Women’s Bloc May Day event.
The Women’s Bloc at the Oakland General Strike! We’ll be ON STRIKE May 1st. We take aim not only at Trump’s sexism and racism. We also aim to bring an end to neoliberal policies that deprive us of dignity and life. The days of our collective domination and exploitation, of our being relegated to the backseat of society, must come to an end. On May 1, we will inaugurate a new militant feminism for the 99%
Trump and those who govern alongside him tell us that an emergency terrorist/immigrant situation has arrived. But we are here to tell him and all those in DC that they are mistaken. Their attack on muslims and people of color has no justification outside of their own twisted racist views. Their actions have brought chaos to communities, and have destroyed the lives of many.
We are here to tell Trump and all of those in DC this: that we intend to bring about the real emergency situation. The real emergency is born when we, finding solidarity between us, come together and fight for true equality and dignity for ourselves and our communities. It is an emergency not for us, but for them, because we are finally realizing the power of togetherness. The May 1 Women’s Block and Strike is a step in this direction. We will demonstrate our power as women, trans, and queers. We will do this by withholding our labor, waged and non-paid, on May 1 and by ensuring that business as usual cannot continue. We intend to demonstrate how little can get done without us, and how our energies can be wielded towards a new feminism of the 99%. Together, we can forge the power needed to make a new society.
On May Day we are holding a Community rally to hold Sheriff Ahern Accountable to make Sanctuary real!
What Does Sanctuary Look Like?
Tell Sherrif Ahern what Sanctuary Looks Like:
NO collaboration with ICE!
NO jail expansion!
NO militarization of our communities!
#NoBanNoWalNoRaids
#SanctuaryForAll
#ThisSanctuaryFightsBack
JOIN US as East Bay hotel workers walk off the job to join the national May Day strike against Donald Trump and his administration’s attacks on immigrant workers.
We will gather at 1:30 at the site of a proposed hotel on Mandela Parkway and Yerba Buena Ave, where a developer is proposing to build a new hotel and has refused to make a commitment not to retaliate against workers who organize for rights on the job.
The site is less than a mile from the former Woodfin Suites hotel, where ten years ago the owner called in ICE in the midst of a worker organizing campaign for a living wage, causing many of those workers to lose their jobs.
By breaking a Trump piñata and tearing down a symbolic wall, we will send a message to Trump and to all employers, including hotel owners and developers, that we won’t allow that to happen again. Following the action, we will head to Fruitvale Plaza to join the main May Day march.
What: Feed-in March to May Day, Picket Line, Symbolic Wall, and Donald Trump Piñata, “Miss Housekeeper” sashes
When: 1:30pm Picket Line, 4pm May Day march on Monday, May 1, 2017
Who: UNITE HERE Hotel Workers on Strike, Community Allies
Invisible Labor bloc & cacerolazo! Bring pots & pans
Global Women’s Strike Bay Area and US PROStitutes Collective will be marching at the May 1 March for Immigrant and Labor Rights called by Oakland Sin Fronteras. We will be meeting up at 2:30 pm at 12th St and 38th Ave. We are marching in an Invisible Labor Bloc called by the Oakland Women’s Strike Organizing Collective under two banners, Resources for Caregivers not for Walls and Feminism of the 99%.
On Mayday, we will march to make visible the caring work that is integral to reproducing society every day. Caregiving, cleaning, cooking, emotional labor, sex work. These and other forms of caring work are often made invisible, because they are not valued.
We will form ourselves as a group of “invisible laborers”. We will take pots and pans, the implements of domestic labor, and make noise with them. We will march through residential areas of Fruitvale, to bring the protest to domestic workers, children, disabled people, and others in their homes and to invite anyone who is able to join us.
Please bring your pots and pans, and look for us! We will get back in time for the march, and likely do a second “cacerolazo” (pots and pans banging march) during the rally at the park.
Oakland May Day: March for Immigrant and Worker Rights & General Strike
CALL TO ACTION
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Visit our website to add your organizations name to the lsit of endorsers.
Save the date and get ready! We’ll be marching again on May 1st, 2017.
This year and every year we fight for migrant and worker justice!
Meet at Fruitvale Plaza at 3pm on May 1st
March to San Antonio Park
March Route – Find us along the way!
From the Fruitvale Plaza
– Go West on International Ave to 22nd ave
– Right on 22nd Ave
– Left on foothill Blvd.
– Arrive at San Antonio Park
#daywithoutanimmigrant #daywithoutaworker #ShutItDownMay#HuelgaMay1 #ResistenciaMay1
Endorsed by:
La Voz de l@s trabajadores/ Workers’ Voice
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Xicana Moratorium Coalition
Migrante Northern California
Restaurant Opportunities Center Bay Area
Socialist Organizer
GABRIELA San Francisco
Undergraduate Workers Union (UWU)
Asian Educators Alliance
The Our Power Richmond Coalition
BoomShake Music
VietUnity – Bay Area
Ella Baker Center ofr Human Rights
Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project
Climate Workers
SEIU USWW
Jobs with Justice SF
Workers World Party
Anti Police-Terror Project
Transition Express Inc
Solidarity-Bay Area
Sunflower Alliance
UNITE HERE Local 2850
Planting Justice
Local Clean Energy Alliance
Justice Council of the First Unitarian Church of Oakland
North Oakland Resistance
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action
Berkeley Federation of Teachers
Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace & Justice
Peoples Climate Movement-Bay Area
Friends of the Earth
Catalyst Project
Oakland May Day: March for Immigrant and Worker Rights & General Strike
CALL TO ACTION
Call to Action
Save the date and get ready! We’ll be marching again on May 1st, 2017.
This year and every year we fight for migrant and worker justice!
Meet at Fruitvale Plaza at 3pm on May 1st
March to San Antonio Park
#daywithoutanimmigrant #daywithoutaworker #ShutItDownMay #HuelgaMay1 #ResistenciaMay1
A vigil and reading of Moore’s poetry will be held in tribute to Kayla Moore and all Trans victims of police violence. #Justice4KaylaMoore
We welcome participants to read poetry, offer remembrances, and voice support for Trans POC.
Presented in collaboration with Justice for Kayla Moore + Copwatch Berkeley
Sponsored by Southern Exposure
WHAT: TOWN HALL @THE CORNERS: MOMENTUM!!! HEALTHCARE, IMMIGRANT RIGHTS, CLIMATE & MORE!!!
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Since inauguration, 100 days ago, the #ResistTrumpTuesdays movement, started by our friends at Working Families Party, has brought out tens of thousands of people – and has members of Congress shaking in their boots. This resistance has led to significant victories, from defeating round one of Trumpcare to pushing Democrats to hold strong and filibuster extreme Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. In every corner of the country, week after week, we are meeting face to face with our elected officials, making it clear to Republicans and Democrats alike that collaboration with the Trump administration comes at a steep political price.
With Republicans trying once again to repeal the Affordable Care Act, will you keep up the pressure and attend an event at your elected official’s local office?
Will you join the event as a part of #ResistTrumpTuesdays?
YES, I’LL BE THERE!
Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump’s agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation’s pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?
CALL TO ACTION
JOIN OFPC AT CITY HALL TUESDAY, MAY 2nd at 5:30pm in efforts to urge Mayor Schaaf keeps her word!
On Friday, we learned that the Mayor is proposing to use Measure HH funds to fill a gap in the general Oakland budget. WE CANNOT LET THIS HAPPEN! Check out these articles by the East Bay Express and @SFGate on Mayor Libby Schaaf’s proposed plan.
http://www.sfgate.com/
We expect to receive an oral report about the Mayor’s budget proposal at the Tuesday, May 2nd City Council Meeting, commencing at 5:30pm in the Council Chambers, 3rd floor.
OFPC stands behind Oakland’s community efforts to use these funds to increase healthy options throughout the neighborhoods that need it most!
Background
In 2016, Oakland Food Policy Council worked with collaborators on helping pass the recent Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax or Measure HH.
In November 2016, Oakland voters passed Measure HH, a one cent per ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverage distribution in the city of Oakland to bring in approximately, 8 -9 Millions dollars in revenue to supports efforts to improve health and nutrition for youth and our community.
Journalist Anabel Hernandez presents her new book, What Really Happened in Iguala.
On September 26, 2014, Mexican police and military forces attacked and disappeared 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college in Iguala, Guerrero. Faced with such events, no country can go forward without knowing the truth to which the victims the society have a right. The events in Iguala force us to reflect on what is occurring in Mexico: they show crudely the degradation of state forces who are supposed to carry out justice and protect. At the same time, they show the society’s deepest fears – and also its hopes.
In What Really Happened in Iguala (La Verdadera Noche de Iguala), Hernandez traverses the labyrinth of the Ayotzinapa case, its traps, it darkness and light. The reader sees the streets where the events took place, the bullet casings, and sandals left on the ground; hears the voices of the Ayotzinapa students; visits the places where torture was applied to manufacture guilt, as well as the offices of high-level officials who carried out the cover-up.
Anabel Hernandez is among the most important investigative journalists in Mexico and the winner of numerous national and international journalism awards. She was a Fellow in the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley in 2014-2016. She has reported for The Guardian, Le Monde, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Reforma, Proceso, Univision and Telemundo. She is the author of The Presidential Family (2005, co-authored with Areli Quintero), Party Over in Los Pinos (2006), The President’s Accomplices (2008), Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers (2010), and Mexico in Flames: Calderon’s Legacy (2012).
On May 3, we will also show the 26-minute documentary, Where the Guns Go: U.S. Policy and Human Rights in Mexico. Through testimony of victims, activists and journalists, the film exposes the U.S. role in violence in Mexico affecting so much Mexican communities and migrants seeking refuge.
For 22 years East Bay Food Not bombs has been providing free foods to the public in People’s Park and various locations in Oakland, AND bringing food to protests and encampments. Our message: you’re not poor and homeless because you suck, it’s because a sick society prioritizes war and greed over basic human needs.
We can’t keep this up without your help.
Come to our monthly meeting first Wednesday of the month.
Taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie
Edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner
directed by: Jonathan Kane
performed by: Charlotte Hemmings
The critically acclaimed NY production of “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” comes to San Francisco for a limited run.
“My Name Is Rachel Corrie” is a one-woman play composed from Rachel’s own journals, letters and e-mails – creating a portrait of a messy, articulate, Salvador Dali – loving chain smoker (with a passion for the music of Pat Benatar), who left her home and school in Olympia, Washington, to work as an activist in the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the three sold-out London runs since its Royal Court premier, the piece has been surrounded by both controversy and impassioned proponents, and has raised an unprecedented call to support political work and the difficult discourse it creates.
Scheduled Post ShowTalk Backs
Saturday April 29 – actor Charlotte Hemmings and director Jonathan Kane
Wednesday May 3rd – Rachel’s parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie
Thursday May 4th – Rachel’s parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie
3. 5:10pm: Open Forum
4. 5:15pm: Staff update on Surveillance Equipment Ordinance proposal to Public Safety Committee
5. 5:20pm: Discussion and possible action on Non-Cooperation with Registry Ordinance
6. 5:40pm: Presentation by Electronic Frontier Foundation – Analysis of Oakland Police Department’s
use of Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR), and overview of ALPR use by law enforcement
7. 6:00pm: Review and discussion of Oakland Police Department’s Automated License Plate Reader
policy. No action will be taken on this item at this meeting
Anti Lab is a kind of clubhouse for creative resistance, a meeting place for people who want to transform their frustration with the current political climate into action. Anti Lab’s calendar features everything from a tenants’ rights workshop presented by the East Bay Community Law Center to weekly screen-printing hours and a trans photo booth. All for free.
It will be open every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday 11am-8pm (ish). With workshops/events on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, plus Saturday afternoons.
In the mood for resistance? Read our profile on Anti Lab & join them tonight at 6pm for Hot Fresh Dissent: https://t.co/1vZpSDX7xJ
— East Bay Express (@EastBayExpress) May 4, 2017