The Howard Zinn Book Fair is an annual celebration of people’s history, past, present and future. We gather together authors, zinesters, bloggers and publishers for a day of readings, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future. In the spirit of the late historian Howard Zinn we recognize the stories of the ways that everyday people have risen to propose a world beyond empires big and small. The Howard Zinn Book Fair is a non-sectarian left event that welcomes a wide variety of political traditions left traditions.
Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing eco-campaigns and plans for the future. Newcomers and old friends welcome — we need your participation and your voice. Come early to hang out and share a potluck lunch.
Potluck lunch: 12:30 PM
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
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
_At the moment that elected officials are entering the Capitol for the
first day of the legislative session, we will convene to testify and
demand that the Legislature address the needs of the people and the
planet._
_The Northern California Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for
Moral Revival will be joined by the Campaign to End Child Poverty in
California and the Lifting Children Out of Poverty Task Force for the
press conference._
* PRESS CONFERENCE AND RALLY AT 10AM- 10:45AM featuring speakers from
Northern California (North Steps)
* PUBLIC HEARING FOLLOWS INSIDE THE CAPITOL AT 11: 00AM-12:30PM.
Testimony will lift the voices of the poor and disenfranchised, along
with faith and community leaders.
Join Northern Californians (Redding, Chico, Davis, Sacramento,
Stockton, Fresno, Merced, Auburn, San Francisco, Marysville, and Oakland
and other areas) to share testimony and demand that our elected
officials act to fight systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation,
the war economy/militarism and our nation’s distorted moral narrative.
TO RSVP AND REGISTER PLEASE VISIT:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northern-california-poor-peoples-campaigns-rally-public-hearing-tickets-51914542795Page
Co-Sponsored by the Landless People’s Alliance and the United Front Against Displacement
Residents living in over 15 RVs in West Oakland, many of whom have lived and worked in the surrounding community for decades, saw their vehicles impounded in mass by the police on October 23rd. Join us in demanding the return of these vehicles and the property inside them. Residents have been living on the street there ever since losing the vehicles, and several have been without their identification papers that remain in the impounded vehicles. We are also demanding the provision of restroom facilities for the residents of West Oakland in the vicinity of Raimondi Park, several of whom have been camped out there ever since the towings happened.
Several protests have been held at City Hall over this incident. Michael Hunt, a representative of the mayor, told -suffering residents that the vehicles should never have been towed. The hold-up in getting the vehicles released is the need for forms from the Oakland Police Department, which is currently under scrutiny because of aggressive towing practices. The vehicles were towed at ODP’s request by Auto Plus Towing, a company covered in a recent expose on corrupt towing practices in Oakland “The East Bay’s Tow Hustle. “ https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-east-bays-tow-hustle/Content?oid=22699510
Given minutes to leave their RVs and vans, residents tried to grab what they could before the vehicles were towed. Like refugees fleeing for safety, the RV owners were forced to throw possessions out of their doors and windows onto piles on the sidewalk. Many did not have time to secure key material.
You can find a video made on the day of the tow here : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qBIz8vory3g
Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.
Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186
The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a
grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality.
In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and mobilize people against police and state repression. Sisters and brothers! The Oscar Grant Committee invites you to join us in this vital struggle.
We meet on the 1st Monday of each month
You can join our discussion list by sending a blank (doesn’t even need a subject) email to
oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
Join @CaDebtJustice next Tuesday December 4 and speak directly to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors about the impact of court & reentry fees on your life and your community #DebtFreeJustice
National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association present a discussion on strategies for moving towards a post-capitalist health-care system.
Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.
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/
The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople
The city of Oakland posted eviction notices to #HousingAndDignityVillage an hour ago. Please come visit us between now and then so you can see Oakland’s only clean and sober homeless encampment for women and families. Oakland only homeless encampment that provides services and resources to the housed and unhoused in our surrounding neighborhood.
We are not criminals. We are not illegal. We are Human beings asserting our right to exist, our right to Housing, our right to sanctuary.
We are not damaging this neighborhood or endangering it’s most vulnerable. We are doing something the city doesn’t do: providing services and taking care of the most vulnerable who have been in brookfield for generations.
Be very clear there is only one reason the city is shutting us down: cuz we are activists, ousd teachers, homeless advocates, outspoken workers who are homeless. We are getting shut down to shut us up.
All they could do is criminalize us and try to shut us up.
They forget we multiply and get louder.
Please come this Wednesday 8:30 a.m. December 5th to witness the city of Oakland engage in cruel and unusual punishment by removing families with children’s, ousd teacher, workers, artists and people with disabilities who formed a Sanctuary for ourselves throw us onto the streets
Help celebrate the launch of a new people-powered economy with a HUGE party. The Sustainable Economies Law Center will be celebrating the debut of two groundbreaking cooperatives: the People Power Solar Cooperative and the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative. These will engage everyday people – like YOU – to co-own, develop, and steward our community’s critical assets: permanently renewable energy and affordable real estate.
Come hear about the tireless work building energy democracy through People Power Solar Cooperative, with the assistance of a team of dedicated and visionary attorneys.
Enjoy a night of food, drinks, and a special program unveiling the cooperatives. It’s going to be a blast. Come have a good time and support a great cause.
Get your tickets here! Each ticket includes free dinner (featuring Sariwa Kitchen) and free drinks.
Join us as we lift up our community members who have lived and died on our streets.
Welcome by SMC’s new Executive Director Sharon Cornu
Opening Remarks by Pastor Monica J. Cross, First Christian Church of Oakland
Guest speaker: David Modersbach, Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless
Homelessness is not a crime. It is a symptom of systemic poverty demanding diverse grassroots solutions.
Martin v. Boise – WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAY!
RSVP to Janny Castillo
jcastillo@stmaryscenter.org
510 923-9600 x 234
www.stmaryscenter.org
@AROCBayArea @mdbarba @kintarasu @AmalKPIX
— Tariq Eid (@cityboy_tariq) December 6, 2018
Join us for a press conference at 11am Thursday, December 6 in front of San Francisco City Hall: Eid family and attorney, Dan Siegel, will be announcing the filing of federal lawsuit against @SFPD for the murder of 21 year old Palestinian Muslim, Jehad Eid. @APTPaction https://t.co/JwDsW5OAnr
— AROC (@AROCBayArea) December 6, 2018
3 anti-fascist activists are facing serious charges from the June 26, 2016 Nazi shutdown in #Sacramento. Come have their backs and show up to support them at their pre-trial hearing on Thursday 12/6 @ 1:30pm. See Antifa Sacramento’s event for more info: https://t.co/XaabtP6fXZ pic.twitter.com/660r23qX1q
— Berkeley Antifa (@berkeleyantifa) December 1, 2018
Three antifascist activists are facing serious charges for defending our city against neo-Nazis two and a half years ago. We’re calling on our community to come out to their pretrial hearing and show support for these brave individuals. It’s up to us to make it clear that we stand with them!
We will be meeting at the courthouse and attending their court appearance. Come in casual, formal, or semi-formal attire and be prepared to go through a metal detector. Avoid arriving or leaving alone, and leave the area as soon as the court appearance is over. This is a critical way to show your solidarity and be a presence for activists being unfairly targeted by the state.
About the court case:
On June 26th, 2016, members of the neo-Nazi gang the Golden State Skinheads attempted to rally at the State Capitol here in Sacramento. Hundreds of counter-protesters mobilized and successfully shut down the Nazi rally. After the rally was canceled, the neo-Nazis attacked demonstrators with knives and clubs, stabbing and critically injuring several. Since then, one neo-Nazi has been arrested and three anti-racist activists are facing charges. After several cancellations and continuations, this is the final court date before our comrades are put on trial. So far, our community has come out to each court date to support them. This is their most important court appearance until the trial, so it’s urgent that we show up in numbers and make our support known!
Agenda:
4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DOT – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy – review and take possible action
5. 5:35pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OFD – Discuss with staff existing equipment capabilities, report and policy drafting sequence
6. 5:50pm: Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – Discuss with OPD annual reporting metrics
7. 6:20pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Body Worn Camera Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy – review and take possible action
Celebrate 25 years of Zapatismo by watching a love story that takes you to the heart of the Zapatista resistance.
The Chiapas Support Committee presents:
CORAZÓN DEL TIEMPO | HEART OF TIME
BENEFIT SCREENING
For the Zapatista Middle School Project
Corazón del Tiempo (Heart of Time) is a film about love in the time of Zapatista Resistance. When Sonia, a Zapatista civilian supporter, falls in love with Julio, an insurgente (rebel soldier), a problem arises because she is already engaged to Miguel, a young community leader. The film shows how the community deals with this romantic dilemma. 90 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles. Film starts at 7:30pm.
Tamales, Aguas Frescas, and Zapatista crafts available for purchase.
Zapatista artesanía (crafts) make great holiday gifts!
All proceeds benefit the Zapatista Middle School Project –
https://chiapas-support.org/2018/10/31/donate-to-decolonize-education-for-indigenous-zapatista-children/)
The Omni strives to be a low/no-scent space. We request that out of respect for people with environmental illnesses, that attendees please not wear fragrance or scented products. This includes clothing that has been laundered with fragranced detergent or softening products. We appreciate your efforts to make this event accessible to those with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. As the Omni is an old building, there may be dust and mold, although no mold has been visibly detected in the ballroom. More info on the Omni’s low-scent policy here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Accessibility
The Omni Ballroom is wheelchair accessible through the corner entrance and then via wheelchair lift and swinging double doors. Please note that this wheelchair lift is NOT user-operated. You will need another person to help you get up and down. The entrance hall bathroom is wheelchair accessible.
Food and beverage details (ingredients) to be announced.
For more information contact the Chiapas Support Committee
enapoyo1994@yahoo.com or visit www.chiapas-support.org
No Coal in Oakland invites all interested community members to join us.
There will be updates on legal developments in court and in the city (including Oakland’s recent termination of Phil Tagami’s lease on the West Gateway), the status of the Bank of Montreal campaign, other ideas about how to further our campaign to assure coal is never shipped through the bulk commodities terminal proposed for construction on the West Gateway site, and the formation of a regional No Coal coalition including Richmond and Vallejo.
Meeting of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ Ad Hoc Committee on Urban Area Security Initiative, charged with reconstituting and rethinking Urban Shield.
The committee was established by the Board of Supervisors in March 2018 in response to sustained community concerns about Urban Shield, which is funded in part by UASI grants from the Department of Homeland Security, and coordinated by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.
The Board of Supervisors decided in March, 2018 that 2018 would be the last year the county would approve Urban Shield, as currently constituted, and asked the Ad Hoc Committee to make recommendations to the Board on the UASI-funded emergency preparedness training and exercise in 2019 and beyond.
The agenda will include a presentation and Q/A with county emergency preparedness officials (from ACSO, Public Health, and Social Services); a discussion of criteria for weighing recommendations; and a presentation about community-based emergency preparedness initiatives.
Agendas and materials for each meeting are posted at http://www.acgov.org/board/calendarcom.htm