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8am – Rally at Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, 661 Washington Street (at 7th Street) in Oakland
9am – Support Comrades Awaiting Verdict in Department 109 (5th Floor)
The trial of the Berkeley 5 ended with the last two defendants taking the stand, as well as another witness for the defense, who had been at the protest in March. The prosecution’s case unraveled by the end of the day, and the prosecutor got increasingly vicious, which backfired and resulted in the judge dismissing the bogus weapons charge against one defendant.
The jury will begin deliberating Monday morning at 9am, and is expected back sometime after 10am. Please come out to support our antifascist comrades as we wait for the jury to deliver the verdict.
The Guardian published the following story about the case earlier this morning:
Let’s get organized against the housing market. Come through!
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We are a group of Bay Area tenants who are fed up with rising rents, evictions, and harassment at the hands of landlords. We are fed up with our neighbors having no option but to live unsheltered and at constant risk of police harassment. We want to stop landlords, developers, and cops from looting our communities.
A council is a group of tenants who work together to wield collective power against a shared landlord in order to improve their conditions. While, in general, councils may organize for more affordable, habitable, and safer housing, the issues that a council decides to organize around is ultimately dictated by its members. Councils can be powerful because they can directly apply their collective pressure on their landlord without the permission of city hall or other third parties.
TANC will help organize councils and bring them together as a network. While councils interface directly with their landlord, they can find support from other councils who rent from different landlords. We will assist in getting the word out to tenants and researching landlords. Neighbors will get to know each other during dinners, BBQs, and other events that TANC will support. We will compile complaints that are common across councils and aid in seeking their resolution. Councils will discuss and demand timely repairs, and support tenants threatened with eviction. Ultimately, the point is to reconfigure power dynamics of landlords and tenants in the Bay Area.
GET ON THE BUS TO PASS AB 931-Mobilization to Sacramento 6/19!
On Tuesday, June 19, AB 931 the Police Accountability and Community Protection Act, will be heard in committee for the first time! Please read below to RSVP and sign up for free travel and food.
We need to let the Legislature know that higher standards for police use of force is critical to save lives– they must pass AB 931 out of the Senate Public Safety Committee! AB 931 will make it more difficult for CA police to justify violent use of force against our communities. Show up to Sacramento on June 19 to pack the room and deliver a short ‘me too’ statement to the Senators to voice your support!
RSVP AND REGISTER HERE: www.bit.ly/RSVPJUNE19
**TRAVEL SUPPORT TO SACRAMENTO**
**NorCal: One charter bus will leave from Oakland on Tuesday, June 19 morning (Roughly 6am). NorCal bus will return on Tuesday, June 19.
*OAKLAND PICK UP LOCATION: Fruitvale BART,
3401 East 12th St, Oakland, CA 94601
Feel free to ask any questions here or on Twitter or Instagram: @YouthJusticeLA.
#NoCopOuts #ProtectThePeople #RightToLive
Hosted by White People 4 Black Lives / SURJ Affiliate Los Angeles, Anti Police Terror Project, more
Some activists reached out to us who are planning for an action, Tuesday, June 19, 1PM at ICE’s SF HQ. They’d like to remain anonymous, but asked us to publicize their call.
Please join in standing up to this moral horror of family separations and detention of immigrants and refugees at ICE’s SF headquarters, 630 Sansome, 1pm. #keepfamiliestogether #familiesbelongtogether
You can also share this on Twitter, https://mobile.twitter.com/treekisser/status/1008827830392647680
What to do:
1. Bring a bluetooth speaker or stereo
2. Use this link to play audio of kids in cages screaming for their parents:
https://www.facebook.com/propublica/videos/10156554134509445/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoncXfYBAVI
3. Play the audio through your bluetooth speaker
4. Let’s make ICE hear these kids!
This coming Tuesday, longtime socialist and labor activist Mike Parker will be joining East Bay DSA for a special event: a discussion of the rise and fall of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). June 19, 7pm, East Bay Community Space, Oakland pic.twitter.com/fPGhCfyfkQ
— East Bay DSA (@DSAEastBay) June 16, 2018
APTP meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
The Anti Police-Terror Project began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee. We are a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. Founding coalition members include the Black Power Network, Community Ready Corps, Workers World, and the Idriss Stelley Foundation.
Meet at the Light Rail parking lot on Curtner at 10:30 am on Friday. Bring your signs! We are inviting Resistance groups from the Bay Area to join us. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! RSVP so we know how many will be there. Thank you!
People around the country are rising up to demand an end to the Trump Administration’s cruel policy of family separation at the border. We’ve turned out for rallies – what’s the next step?
Join Bay Resistance, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Faith in Action, California Nurses Association, and other Bay Area social justice groups to learn about the background of human rights abuses at the border and the ongoing work of immigrant-led organizations. And brainstorm powerful actions we can take in the Bay Area and beyond!
Bring snacks and drinks to share if you can. Children welcome (there will be a kid-oriented space separate from the main meeting).
CAN’T MAKE THE MEETING BUT WANT TO BE INVOLVED? Send us a message with your email address and we’ll add you to a post-meeting message!
DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION WANT TO ENDORSE? Let us know!
Since September 2017, Feed the Hood has has galvanized over 1,000 community volunteers, distributed 18,000 lunches and hygiene kits, and served over 3,000 unhoused people across Oakland. We want to thank all of the volunteers who have participated in Feed the Hood! We appreciate your service to our unsheltered and we’d like to say “thank you” with a small celebration.
Join us at MLK Shoreline Park at the Kingfisher Picnic area for a chance to kick back and chill with others who have contributed to Feed the Hood. We will provide:
- hot dogs
- links
- veggie kabobs
- water
Please bring a dish or drink you’d like to share. There will be games — volleyball, jump house, dominos, cards and life-size jenga! Bring the entire family.
BUT THATS NOT IT! We will also use this opportunity to begin collecting hygiene kit supply donations for the Feed the Hood 6 on August 5, 2018 at West Oakland Youth Center. You can RSVP for Feed the Hood 6 at bit.ly/feedthehood6.
Please some of the following hygiene kit supplies to donate. List is as follows:
- socks
- bandaids
- feminine hygiene products
- soap
- lotion
- deodorant
- detergent
See you there!
TICKETS: http://bit.ly/2L51Mf7
– People Power Investor – $12 ADV / $20 DOOR
– Feeling Generous Investor – $50
The Housing Oakland Now! Collaborative is a group of housed and unhoused people in Oakland who have joined together to create immediate and long term permanent solutions to the housing and homeless crisis in The Town. We are changing the game and the narrative on homelessness, and we need your support. Please join our First Annual Homes For All Fundraiser
The fundraiser features a night of live performances from Mistah Fab, La Misa Negra, Equipto, Gina Madrid, X-Clan, Jennifer Johns, Gift of Gab of Blackalicious, Audiopharmacy, Alia Sharrief, Ras Ceylon, DJs: Platurn, Davey D, Smoke-1 & Teao Sence plus a very surprise guest.
Live painting by the legendary Eessu, and a host of community leaders in the trenches uniting to raise awareness on the homeless crisis and the urgency to provide shelter for all of Oakland’s unhoused.
Afro-Pilipino cuisine provided by Oakland’s Original Lumpia Lady
Platinum VIP Investors: We are asking that organizations, companies and private donors to join the host committee with a gracious donation of $5,000 or more. You, your organization or company will be listed as an awesome supporter of Housing Oakland Now! on all marketing and digital event material. We would love to extend two complimentary tickets to the event to your organization/company and access to the VIP room – the entire upstairs to have a birds eye view of the event, seating and complimentary dinner.
All proceeds will go towards the funding of efforts by grassroots organizations The Village and The East Oakland Collective (EOC) . Both organizations are on the ground and in the trenches every day working on behalf of our unhoused brothers and sisters. Your generous support will go towards building materials for The Village’s tiny home projects, for EOC to open the first tiny home shelter in Deep East Oakland, a campaign to change the narrative of homelessness in Oakland and more!
Hosted by:
GINA MADRID :: The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople :: EQUIPTO :: East Oakland Collective :: Ron Dellums Institute of Social Justice
PERFORMING LIVE
Mistah FAB
La Misa Negra
X-Clan Worldwide
The Gift of Gab of Blackalicious)
GINA MADRID
The Watershed – 415 (EQUIPTO, Brycon, Monk HTS, OSK)
Jennifer Johns
Alia Sharrief
Ras Ceylon
Audiopharmacy
and SURPRISE GUEST
DJs: DJ Platurn, Davey D Cook, Danny J Smoky, Teao Sense
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
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Movie: 7:30 PM
subMedia is a grassroots, independent media collective which aims to promote anarchist and anti-capitalist ideas and aid social struggles through the dissemination of radical films and videos.
In 2017 subMedia has launched Trouble, a monthly documentary series.
In the two episodes of “Trouble” sub.Media examines gentrification by taking closer look at how it is playing out
in Toronto, New Orleans, Istanbul, Montreal, the Bay Area and Berlin and to see how people in these cities are fighting
back on attacks on their communities by developers, real estate speculators and the tech industry.
Discussion will follow the film.
Free snacks and popcorn!
Join APEN, CEJA, Idle No More SF Bay, Jobs With Justice, North Bay Organizing Project, PODER, SEIU 1021, and 350.org with the support of the Peoples Climate Movement and over 50 other organizations on June 25 as we organize to build a bold, visionary action that demands real climate leadership to keep fossil fuels in the ground and move towards a just, equitable and resilient 100% renewable energy economy that rapidly expands economic opportunity, creates family sustaining jobs, and protects vulnerable communities, workers,and future generations. : Rise for Climate Jobs & Justice March on Saturday September 8th.
The whole world is coming to San Francisco for the Global Climate Summit from Sep 12-14.
Climate disruption is impacting all of our communities from jobs to justice and everything in between. And we want you, your organizations, friends, and family to rise up with the world on September 8th to demand real solutions.
You are invited to come to a meeting to build the movement leading up to the largest march for climate jobs & justice on the West Coast. There’s lots to do and your talents and gifts are welcomed!
Join your sisters and brothers as we look forward to creating a world of equity, justice, and a sustainable and safe future for the next seven generations to come. It’s up to us.
This will be a powerful day you won’t want to miss.
Join our second mass mobilization meeting in SF for Rise for Climate. In less than three months, thousands of people will be taking the streets of San Francisco demanding real climate leadership at the largest climate mobilization ever held on the West Coast － and we want you with us.
On September 8th, we will march in San Francisco, and at hundreds of actions around the country and the world to demand real climate leadership on the local level.
If you joined Tuesday night’s US Rise National Call, you already know there are over 100 actions already planned and more being added every day. San Francisco is going to be the focal point and it’s up to us to set the tone for this day of action.
California has the potential to make history – we can push Governor Brown to center racial and economic justice, phase out fossil fuels and set a global benchmark for climate action, but it will take movements working hard these next few months to make it happen.
APEN, CEJA, Idle No More SF Bay, Jobs With Justice, North Bay Organizing Project, PODER, SEIU 1021, 350.org and over 50 other organizations will be discussing and building people power around the September 8th Global Day of Action.
This will be your opportunity to bring your talents, gifts, and joy to our movement and demand local leaders support a just transition away from fossil fuels toward 100% renewable energy for all.
RSVP now to let us know you’re coming.
Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay.
We fight against “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” spy drones, facial recognition, police body cameras and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones, to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government.
We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.
Oakland Privacy originally came together in 2013 to fight against the Domain Awareness Center, Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OP was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network.
Our major projects currently include local legislation to regulate state surveillance (we got the strongest surveillance regulation ordinance in the country passed in Oakland!), opposing Urban Shield (now gone!) and pushing back against ICE with local legislation.
If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy email listserv, coming to a meeting, or have questions, send an email to:
Check out our website: http://oaklandprivacy.org/ Follow us on twitter: @oaklandprivacy
Check out our sister site DeportICE.
“WATCHING YOU WATCHING US”
Oakland Privacy works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment. Oakland Privacy drove the passage of surveillance regulation and transparency ordinances in Oakland and Berkeley and is kicking off new processes in Richmond and Alameda County. To help slow down the encroaching police state all over the Bay Area, join us at the Omni.
Let’s get organized against the housing market. Come through!
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We are a group of Bay Area tenants who are fed up with rising rents, evictions, and harassment at the hands of landlords. We are fed up with our neighbors having no option but to live unsheltered and at constant risk of police harassment. We want to stop landlords, developers, and cops from looting our communities.
A council is a group of tenants who work together to wield collective power against a shared landlord in order to improve their conditions. While, in general, councils may organize for more affordable, habitable, and safer housing, the issues that a council decides to organize around is ultimately dictated by its members. Councils can be powerful because they can directly apply their collective pressure on their landlord without the permission of city hall or other third parties.
TANC will help organize councils and bring them together as a network. While councils interface directly with their landlord, they can find support from other councils who rent from different landlords. We will assist in getting the word out to tenants and researching landlords. Neighbors will get to know each other during dinners, BBQs, and other events that TANC will support. We will compile complaints that are common across councils and aid in seeking their resolution. Councils will discuss and demand timely repairs, and support tenants threatened with eviction. Ultimately, the point is to reconfigure power dynamics of landlords and tenants in the Bay Area.
UPDATE: Tuesday’s action begins at 7:00AM. Vigil until 7:00PM. Press conference/rally at 12NOON with members of the Richmond City Council and representatives of local organizations. All organizations endorsing the action are invited to participate.
Individuals drIving to the action are encouraged to stop by the Richmond BART Station (east side) to help shuttle. Van shuttle begins at approximately 8:30AM and will continue throughout the day, twice an hour. Bring sunscreen, water, snacks and signs.
We are absolutely committed to non-violence. Legal Hotline # is 415-909-4NLG (415-909-4654).
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The only ICE facility in the Bay Area is located within the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, CA and operated by the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office. On any given day, approximately 200 (adult) immigrants are detained there. Contra Costa County Sheriff John Livingston refuses to permit local organizations and elected officials to inspect the facility.
One of his deputies was recently arrested and charged with sexual assault against two inmates. We are working with Richmond-based community organizations, labor unions and immigrant rights groups to protest Trump’s cruel immigration policies as well as the racial disparities in our justice system that contribute to mass incarceration of people of color, particularly African-Americans.
Please join us this Tuesday, all day, as we stand against ICE and Trump’s racist policies. JOIN US!
We’re working on a shuttle to/from Richmond BART. AC Transit #71 also runs from BART to the jail about every 30 minutes.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1876329952…