Shut down the  concentration camps! Free all immigrant detainees! No ban, no wall, sactuary for all!

10:00 AM : Teach-In

12:00 Noon : Youth Speak Out and March from Krober Hall Plaza (Bancroft & College).

Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance:

Regional meeting of landless activists of the San Francisco Bay Area

National Speaking Tour: Steve Ellner.

Ellner has taught economic history in Venezuela since 1977. He is the author of numerous books and journal and magazine articles on Venezuelan history and politics. His most recent book: The Pink Tide Experiences: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings in 21st Century Latin America.

Campaign to end US and Canada Sanctions Against Venezuela.

Luxe Laundromat Free Laundry Events will offer free laundry to the community. If you or someone you know is in need please reach out to our page and leave your contact information. Anyone can come and help support by volunteering. The event will include live music,food and prizes.

Waffles & Zapatismo is a free space for learning about and discussing the history, ideas, values and practices of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, EZLN or Zapatistas. We serve waffles at the start of the class to those who want them.

What if we all realized food isn’t as scarce as we’ve been led to believe?

YOU are cordially invited to a FREE community potluck-style picnic where everyone is truly welcome! If the people of Oakland showed up to feed our neighbors with what we could, we would see that there is enough for EVERYONE!

Come enjoy the day with your neighbors! Offer rides to your unhoused neighbors! Bring a side dish if you can! Bring plates or cups! Bring your favorite dessert! Bring your friends! Bring your neighbors! Or just bring an appetite! Use this space to coordinate what’s already being brought!

Are you part of an organization, church, or restaurant that could provide meat or other entrees? Use this event page to coordinate! There are grills for public use in the park.

Lunch is served at 11:30!

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

Hardships imposed on the Venezuelan people by US-Canadian Sanctions.

As part of a campaign to educate the public and organize a stronger movement against ongoing – and ever increasing – US and Canadian sanctions and intervention on the Venezuelan people, the Alliance for Global Justice is organizing a national speaking tour by Dr. Steve Ellner, who has taught at several U.S. and Latin American Universities.

FREE – but hat will be passed for donations to NPML

About Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
A weekly discussion series inspired by our respect for the work of Karl Marx and our belief that his work will remain as important for the class struggles of the future as they have been for the past.

Thanks to a generous friend, we will enjoy pizza while gearing up for LWBM–Last Weekend Before Midterms! We’ll have a breakout is to discuss propositions, so bring your sample ballot!

We’ll have the latest information on what you can do to help with the elections. Join our monthly meeting for members and newcomers interested in opposing the administration’s agenda!

For more information about Indivisible East Bay, visit https://indivisibleeb.org

Ready to do more before the meeting? Give us a shout!

• Volunteer with IEB or find out how we work: andrea@indivisibleeb.org
• Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter
• IEB uses Slack, a chat system for talking about important issues, planning events, and team discussions. Want an invite to join Slack? Please drop us a line at info@indivisibleeb.org.

Tomorrow, Sun 10/28 at 2PM, the #HousingAndDignityVillage is hosting a Community BBQ + Potluck at Edes Ave & Elmhurst Ave! Join us in building community + solidarity b/t housed & unhoused folks and discussing communal, collaborative, caring solutions for houselessness epidemic pic.twitter.com/pIXM8TkXJa

— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) October 28, 2018

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

Striking to Survive records workers’ views of their ongoing strikes in Pearl River Delta.

There is also a new movement of idealistic party youth in China for who are looking to Marxism to align with workers’ own aspirations. They have been rounded up by the party-state machine.

What future comes from “handling contradictions among the people” according to the “thought of Mao” or now the “thought of Xi Jinping”?

What is Marx’s philosophy of liberation in distinction from the party-state? How does it speak to the new movements in China and to the world facing a rise of fascism?

Don’t miss this riveting report on the state of the world and what’s being done to back away from the nuclear brink.

A Slide Show & Talk by John Steinbach, Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area

Edging toward nuclear war, the world remains balanced precariously on the knife edge of nuclear annihilation.

Sponsored by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee.

Meeting at a new location – all are welcome! Help us further the continuing effort to establish a public bank!

We have been working on building support for the bank from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. You can help! Let your supervisor know that you’re their constituent, and you support creating a public bank for the East Bay. To find out which of the five districts you’re in, check out this district map or enter your address in this finder.

Here are the telephone numbers:

• District 1: (510) 272-6691    Scott Haggerty
• District 2: (510) 272-6692    Richard Valle
• District 3: (510) 272-6693    Wilma Chan
• District 4: (510) 272-6694    Nate Miley
• District 5: (510) 272-6695    Keith Carson

If you live in District 1 Dublin, Fremont, Sunol, Livermoree, and the County’s southeast we’d love for you tto join us in a yet-to-be-scheduled meeting with Supervisor Scott Haggerty. Please shoot us an email at contact@friendsofpublicbankofoakland.org.

Reaching out in Alameda County

Beyond the Board, we’re starting to reach out to potential allies throughout Alameda County. Please help scale up our outreach to encompass this huge area! We recommend two great resources to aid you in your efforts.

This fact-packed explainer from the Next System Project makes a great introduction to public banking.

And this short video from the Public Banking Institute, Banks and Superpowers, is another fine resource. It shows how banks actually create money from nothing when they make a loan. In deciding whom to lend to�builders of fossil-fuel pipelines or for-profit prisons, say�private banks wield tremenddous power to determine our future. In contrast, public banks use the money-creation superpower to lend for the public good, bringing us the world we want to see.

Los Angeles

Our comrades at Public Bank LA are working hard to pass Measure B, which would clear the way for LA to establish its own public bank. They’ve produced this excellent video explaining public banking from an Angelino point of view. And here’s an interview with Phoenix Goodman, co-founder of Public Bank LA.

The Yes on B campaign needs our financial support�you can donate <here.

Please share the videos and the donation page with everyone you know in LA!

Doughnut Economics discussion group

Our friends at Strike Debt Bay Area are starting a new group to talk about Doughnut Economics: 7 ways to think like a 21^st century economist, a book by the British economist Kate Raworth. The first meeting is at 4:00 on Saturday, November 10. Come to Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland. For more information, email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com.

What are the origins of the racial wealth gap and how can we leverage wealth to undermine, rather than support, the structures of white supremacy? SURJ’s Fundraising Committee will provide historical context, map the limitations of existing institutional financial support for racial justice, and engage participants to rethink their own access to wealth, networks, and other resources in an effort to develop a “reparations mindset.”

All proceeds go to support one or more of our partner organizations led by people of color.

Laney College’s Poor Peoples Campaign Teach-In Committee is hosting a teach-in. Data suggests that at least 14 percent of students at Peralta community colleges are homeless. The number of those who worry about housing stability each month is even higher. The teach-in will discuss: What’s the role of our government in meeting the basic needs of the people, such as housing?  Does voting make a difference?

The Teach-In is co-sponsored by the Poor Peoples Campaign Teach-In Committee, the Women’s Economic Agenda Project, Associated Students of Laney College (ASLC), and the Umoja-UBAKA Student Success Community at Laney.

The Poor Peoples Campaign Teach-In Committee at Laney is made up of faculty, students and community members.  The group holds teach-ins each semester on social and political issues affecting the Oakland community, including Peralta students, faculty and staff.

Required Readings

Additional details and readings will be added shortly.

Hello we are here to Save the Internet!

Join us every Tuesday in the Omni Commons mezzanine to help build a community-owned and -operated wireless mesh network in the East Bay!

Every Tuesday night, we meet to discuss on-going projects, technical bugs, community and media outreach, finances and budgeting, and upcoming events, such as node mounts, office hours, and workshops.  Newcomers are encouraged to come on the last Tuesdays of the month for general orientation, but are welcome at any meeting.

A wireless mesh network is a network where each computer acts as a relay to other computers, such that a network can stretch to cover entire cities.

Our goal is to create a wireless mesh network that is owned and operated by the community.

Want to help create an alternate means of digital communication that isn’t governed by for-profit internet service providers? Join us for the mesh hacknight! We need people of all backgrounds to help with everything from community involvement and grant writing to mounting antennas on buildings and developing software!

Learn more at https://peoplesopen.net and http://sudomesh.org/