Do you have questions about immigration policy, immigrant rights, and advocacy efforts? Come connect, converse, listen, learn, and brainstorm a better future together. The world cafe format allows audience members to ask questions, delve into discussion, and discover what they can do to make a difference. Refreshments will be provided.

Free and open to the public, this event includes a screening of first-hand stories of immigrant detention and deportation, with the aim of providing insight and information on how to build solidarity networks and enhance the role of artistic expression in advocating for social justice and advancing political change.

Humanizing Deportation is an an ongoing project and bilingual online archive of digital stories (short testimonial videos) documenting a diverse range of personal experiences related to deportation that give a human face to the complex consequences of mass involuntary displacement.

http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu/en

Supported by the Mellon Initiative in Comparative Border Studies at UC Davis, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, Freedom for Immigrants, UC Humanities Research Institute, UC Mexico Initiative, UC MEXUS, UCD Global Affairs, CONACYT, and UC Davis Office of the Provost.

Today 12/10, we’re meeting at @CalOrganize Oakland office (@ 2501 International) at 6 pm for an open strategy meeting about Shady Schaaf’s eviction regime+more. Come w a friend ready to make your voice heard!

*An earlier tweet calling this an action was misinformed. Sorry!!*

— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) December 10, 2018

You led the way, knocking 18,000 doors, making 7,300 phone calls, sending thousands of texts, and spreading an important political message across the East Bay that the working class is ready to fight back against bought elections and corporate politics. We can’t thank you enough for your leadership, your hard work, and your commitment to building a campaign that went far beyond what any of us thought it could be.

This coming Monday, the Electoral Campaigns Committee is going to be convening a big debrief meeting to talk about what we did, what went well, where we can improve, and what’s coming next! We’d love to have you be a part of this conversation as we learn together and look toward the future.

Please feel free to reach out to any of us if you have questions. All are welcome, whether you are an East Bay DSA member or not and even if you were not part of the campaign but would like to do electoral work in the future.

OTU’s Mission

The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf.

Monthly Meetings

The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 pm on the second Monday evening of each month. Our monthly meetings are held in the Community Room of the Madison Park Apartments, 100 – 9th Street (at Oak Street, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station). To enter, gently knock on the window of the room to the right of the main entrance to the building. At the meetings, first we focus on general issues affecting renters city-wide and then second we offer advice to renters regarding their individual concerns.

If you have an issue, a question, or need advice about a tenant/landlord issue, please call us at (510) 704-5276. Leave a message with your name and phone number and someone will get back to you.

Sunrisers across the West Coast will show up at Representative Pelosi’s office in San Francisco with candles (electric) to memorialize the 85 people burned in the most recent fires, and carrying items that represent what they are fighting to protect from the climate crisis. Speakers will share stories of why they are in this fight and why a Green New Deal is our only hope to protect the communities we come from and hold dear from the fires increasing in frequency and severity at an alarming rate. In California people are already experiencing climate change; climate change is here in the form of drought-induced infernos across the state. We are calling on our leaders to take action in alignment with what science and justice demand. Join us.

If you are in CA or on the West Coast and interested in attending this powerful action remembering lives already lost and staking a claim to a right for our generation not to be left to burn in the years to come, please register for the action here.

Mon. Dec. 10th 6-9pm – Action training ***required in order to attend the action***
Tues. Dec. 11th 8:15am – ACTION DAY

The last day of Congress is Dec. 13th, which means we have just a few days to push the agenda on climate change and build support for a Select Committee on a Green New Deal. There will be opportunities for civil disobedience

Join us in San Francisco on Dec. 11th to demand Congress make a real plan to address climate change.

The time for transformative climate action is NOW. Entire towns are burning to the ground. Fossil fuels are poisoning our communities and our planet.

There’s no time to waste, and we’re calling on Representative Pelosi to STEP UP to create a Select Committee for a Green New Deal. One day after Sunrise leaders take action in DC, we are gathering at Representative Pelosi’s office in San Francisco to share stories of why we are fighting climate change and why a Green New Deal is we policy we need to protect the communities we come from and hold dear.

FILL OUT THE REGISTRATION FORM HERE –> http://www.bit.ly/cagnd

The last day of Congress is Dec. 13th, which means we have just a few days to push the agenda on climate change and build support for a Select Committee on a Green New Deal.

In California, people are already experiencing climate change, most recently in the form of drought-induced infernos across the state, which are increasing in frequency and severity at an alarming rate. We are calling on our leaders to take action in alignment with what science and justice demand.

If you are in CA or on the West Coast and interested in attending this powerful action remembering lives already lost and staking a claim to a right for our generation not to be left to burn in the years to come, please register for the action here: http://www.bit.ly/cagnd

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*SCHEDULE*

Sat. Dec. 8th 10am-1:30pm – Action prep work party

Mon. Dec. 10th 6-9pm – Action training ***highly encouraged (required for high riskers) in order to attend the action***

Tues. Dec. 11th 9:30am – ACTION DAY

I’d like to cordially invite you to my teach-in on December 11th about how converting businesses to worker cooperatives benefits owners, workers, and communities. My coworker, Ricardo Nuñez, and I will provide an overview of benefits, models, and stories of businesses converting to cooperatives. We’ll also share some of the legal steps and business considerations owners and employees should know before moving forward. RSVP here!

We’ll be hosting this conversation on December 11th from 5:00pm-6:30pm at Alchemy Collective Cafe (1741 Alcatraz Ave, Berkeley), just a short walk from the Ashby BART station. Space is limited so please RSVP here  

Charlotte Tsui

Staff Attorney

http://www.theselc.org/

Eastlake United for Justice

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/

Those Women Productions presents a staged reading of Unquestioned Integrity: The Hill-Thomas Hearings by Mame Hunt, a docudrama adapted from the 1991 hearing transcripts, with a new epilogue added after the #MeToo events of October 2017. Directed by Erin Merritt. Net proceeds from this performance go to the Women’s Law Program: https://www.womenslaw.org/ “Because knowledge is power.”

Everyone welcome regardless of ability to pay.

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:

contact@oaklandprivacy.org

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.

If you haven’t already saved the date, our 5th Annual People’s March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy is on January 21, 2019 and we need your help to make it a reality.

Join us for a planning meeting next week to make this mass mobilization come true!

Near the 10th anniversary of the murder of Oscar Grant, Anti Police-Terror Project calls our comrades to come together in solidarity against police-terror and the corporate development in the Bay Area that is prioritized over affordable housing for the people.

RSVP today to let us know you can join us for the planning meeting.
RSVP
Hope to see you there!
APTP
Anti Police-Terror Project is not a non-profit.
We are a community group powered by people like you.

JOINT WALK‐IN CLINICS with Public Defender and EBCLC

*Please bring your statewide CA DOJ RAP sheet
if you have it or we can give information at clinic*

We may be able to help with:
 Dismissal of Conviction – PC 1203.4
 Felony Reduction / Prop 47 and 64 Relief
 Early Termination of Probation
 Certificate of Rehabilitation
 Sealing Arrest Record – Factual Innocence
 Juvenile Record Sealing
 Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants and
Survivors of Human Trafficking
 Employment denials due to criminal background
reports
 Occupational Licensing Denials(DSS, Security
Guard)
 Voting Rights, Jury Service Rights

THIS THURSDAY 📢 Speak out at a @sfbos hearing on the public bank task force. Then come to @DSA_SF HQ to learn about the movement!

No big deal…The only thing at stake is $9 billion of capital for affordable housing, green energy, low interest student loans, & businesses. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/prryWfiWBK

— SF Public Bank (@sfpublicbank) December 10, 2018

Energy data used to be boring. The utility read your meter 12 times a year, and no one cared much about seeing your utility bill history. Nowadays, things are very different. As the $10+ trillion energy transition to renewables ramps up to fight climate change, private energy data access is a critical requirement to deploy and manage distributed energy resources like solar, battery storage, electric vehicles, demand response, and energy efficiency. Also, to make things harder, smart meters are second only to smart phones in how much they know about your day-to-day life. They know when you’re home, when you’re at work, when you’re sleeping, when you’re watching TV, when you’re taking a shower, when you’re having sex. So how do we make the switch to a carbon-free future without compromising energy data privacy? What will the future of energy data privacy look like?

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Bio:

Daniel Roesler is the co-founder and CEO of UtilityAPI, a utility data

service that automates interactions with utilities. UtilityAPI is an

early adopter of the U.S. Department of Energy DataGuard Voluntary

Code of Conduct, which outlines best practices for handling private

energy data. Daniel is on the board of the Green Button Alliance,

which manages the international standard around personal utility data

access, and is technical contributor to the Customer Data Access

Committee at the California Public Utilities Commission, which comes

up with the next generation of regulations around utility data access

in California. In his spare time, Daniel maintains several open source

privacy and security projects.

Tickets are limited to 40 people. Feel free to contact us if you have any trouble getting a ticket.

You are encouraged to read this relevant article on the legal status of smart meters before Daniel’s talk: https://www.lawfareblog.com/public-utilitys-recording-home-energy-consumption-every-15-minutes-search-seventh-circuit-rules

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.

More information.

Agendas and materials for each meeting are posted at http://www.acgov.org/board/calendarcom.htm

Come and support Rebecca Kaplan’s motion to send the “Stop and Search” policy regarding folks on parole or probation back to the Police Commission. Item 7.37 on tomorrow’s City Council agenda – meeting starts at 11 AM.

We must make sure that the policy is effective at stopping racial profiling and requires police officers to have ‘reasonable suspicion’ as a basis for pulling someone over and conducting a search. Enough is enough!!

88% of Oaklanders voted for the Police Commission so now OPD is trying to sneak around to do their dirty work of criminalizing most of us, especially our black and brown youth- come and tell them to listen to the will of the people who VOTED.

Make your own signs on 8 ½ x11 paper

Fill out a speaker card for the agenda item(s) you wish to address. You may elect to cede your time to others.
https://solar.oaklandnet.com/Speaker/form

(If you are unable to attend please call (you can email but due to the time frame it is more likely your message will be noted if you call)

Mayor Libby schaff:
510-238-3141
LSchaaf@oaklandnet.com
Officeofthemayor@oaklandnet com
Asst to city admin Joe deVries
510-238-3083
Jdevries@oaklandnet.com
JDeVries@oaklandca.gov

Council rep Rebecca Kaplan
510-238-7008
Atlarge@oaklandnet.com

Councilmember Dan Kalb D1
Phone: (510) 238-7001
Fax: (510) 238-6910

Lynette Gibson Council Member D3
Email Address: lmcelhaney@oaklandca.gov
Phone Number: 510-238-7003

Legislation and Policy
If you are interested in interfacing with Councilmember McElhaney on a policy-related matter before the Oakland City Council, please contact her policy team:

Alex Marqusee, Policy Analyst
Email: AMarqusee@oaklandnet.com
Phone: (510) 238-7031

Zachary Wald, Chief of Staff
Email: ZWald@oaklandnet.com
Phone: (510) 238-7032

Councilmember Noel Gallo D5
Ngallo@oaklandnet.com
510-238-7005

Interfaith Prayer & Ceremony

• We will gather on the sidewalk near the entrance to the building.
• 630 Sansome St. is about a 10 minute walk from Embarcadero or from Montgomery BART Stations.
• We will be welcoming Alexey Kharis recently freed from ICE detention thanks to your help, letters and support!

Also speaking will be members of the Cambodian community to share about the URGENCY of stopping deportations of Cambodian community members with an ICE deportation flight scheduled for this Monday!

Come stand with us outside the ICE building in downtown San Francisco to show solidarity and support to the many people who are required to go there for their ICE check-ins or who are held there in a transitional cell or attending their immigration court hearings.

Come and join us as we offer multi-faith prayers for reunification of families everywhere, for the redemption of human dignity of all, and for the termination of ICE and their inhumane prisons and tactics.

We will be taking up an offering of gift cards and Clipper cards for newly arrived immigrants if you would like to contribute. Suggestionis gift cards from Smart & Final, Foodmax, Target, CVS and Safeway.