Hands off Venezuela, Support the Venezuelan Embassy Protectors Collective. Welcome Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese.
In April-May, 2019, Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective (EPC) members, at the request of the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro, defended the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. for 37 days. Citing U.S. and international law (the Geneva Convention), they rejected the Trump administration’s imperial “appointment” of coup leader Juan Guaido to the Venezuelan presidency. The EPC members inside were cut off from receiving food, electricity and water. EPC members who tried to deliver food were physically assaulted. All EPC members were subjected to loud noises, strobe lights, harassment, threats and intimidation.
On May 16, federal agents raided the embassy and arrested the four remaining EPC members, who are now faced with felony charges, to wit, “interfering with U.S. government operations.” Government attorneys have demanded that the protectors pay $100,000 fines and serve one year in prison. Join us in demanding that all charges be dropped. Meet courageous defenders Kevin and Margaret.
Our democracy is in grave danger, and Congress needs to hear from the people before they return to DC after their undeserved recess. Wear RED to reclaim the #ColorOfLove from hate-mongers. #ImpeachNow
Our speakers and acts will focus on bravery in the age of Trump.
1. Lea Jones, producer of Hang On, Ruthie! will be traveling from Oregon to perform his hit original in support of Justice RBG. We’re looking for individual singers or a local choral group willing to show up in black robes and lace collars to accompany them for the interactive parts. Please email vigilfordemocracy1@gmail.com if you’re interested.
2. Dr. Amy S. Morgenstern, known as the Feminist Devil, will highlight the story of whistleblowers like the current Ukraine one, and Reality Winner. Reality is an Air Force veteran who first alerted us to Russian election interference in 2017, and is serving 63 months in prison for it.
3. Regina Fletcher, the comedian who does Regina Monologues, will be speaking on the topic of the first amendment, and about Justice Ginsburg as well.
#ImpeachNow
After this event, if you want to be inspired some more, please head over to St. Paul’s Towers in Oakland to a lecture by Pennie Opal Plant, an indigenous grandmother. It’s titled “Let Us Save The World Together”!!
2-4PM, 100 Bay Pl, Oakland
DON’T FORGET!!!
TOMORROW’s General Meeting has changed locations!It will now be at:
Oakland Peace Center
111 Fairmount Ave, OakThis meeting can’t happen without you. Sign up to volunteer with this form! https://t.co/moayPpXOTi
— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) October 12, 2019
The October Voting General Meeting will include Electoral Endorsement debate, and the full agenda can be found here.
East Bay DSA’s bimonthly general meetings (GMs) include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more.
Volunteering at the GM is lively, easy, and low-commitment, and hugely benefits the meetings and thus our internal democracy. If you intend to come and would like to volunteer, let us know here. Use this form, too, if you have child supervision or accessibility needs, including the need for an ASL interpreter.
With our new regular schedule, member-submitted resolutions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please email them to resolutions@eastbaydsa.org. The submissions deadline for each meeting is three weeks before the meeting.
General meetings are run by the Meetings Committee. For questions or comments, or if you are interested in joining the committee, write us at meetings@eastbaydsa.org!
Accessibility Information:
The Omni Commons ballroom is wheelchair-accessible via a lift and has wheelchair-accessible restrooms, and we provide child supervision and wireless microphones with runners. It is also accessible by BART (1/2 mile walk from MacArthur Station) and by AC Transit bus lines 18, 88, and 12. See more information on Omni accessibility here [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Accessibility].
When: October 13, 2019, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: Omni Commons 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA, 94609
Join the annual gathering of East Bay Peace Action to hear Pennie Opal Plant, indigenous grandmother, founder of Idle No More SF Bay, and signer of the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty.
Her keynote address, “Let us Save the World Together,” will connect our work for the environment, climate, justice, and peace.
There will also be a program and EBPA board elections.
Light refreshments. Wheelchair accessible.
More info here
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
Join APTP in sharing hot food, drinks, and solidarity with folks visiting loved ones at and getting released from Santa Rita Jail!
Let us know you’ll be there by sending us a text at (510) 686-3284.
Prisons function to repress, warehouse and extract labor from primarily those of us who are Black or poor. We believe that solidarity is a weapon of resistance, and that we must respond to the basic needs of our community while also confronting state terror.
In honor of Dujuan Armstrong Jr. who entered Santa Rita Jail for a weekend sentence and never came home, APTP is providing material support and direct care to folks at Santa Rita Jail as a small but meaningful way to address the harm caused by incarceration in our community. We do not positively engage with the racist pigs who work at the jail, as they are willing agents of the state that criminalizes and incarcerates us.
We’d love to see you there! Meet APTP outside of the Lake Merritt BART Station at 4pm – we’ll drive out to the jail together from there. All are welcome, no experience required.
The ecosystem, the political system and the economy are all in crisis, yet the 99% seems powerless to influence the ruling class which continues on a path toward disaster. The panel will address some of the following questions:
Migrant rights groups & activist organizations united to #DisarmICE
🚨10/14: Save the Date🚨
The tech industry is complicit in enabling ICE atrocities & we will be marching through San Francisco to put them on notice!
Our #TourofShame will begin at 2PM in Rincon Park & will be stopping at #Salesforce #Google & #Amazon before ending at ICE HQ! pic.twitter.com/fj8iQQBbkW
— CCCC Bay Area (@CloseTheCampsBA) October 1, 2019
Join the Coalition to Close the Concentraton Camps’ National Day of Action and tell multi-billion dollar corporations to stop profiteering from the oppression of immigrant communities.
There is a growing crisis at our border. The Trump administration is ripping kids away from families and holding more and more migrants every day in concentration camps – without adequate food or water and in unsanitary conditions. People are quite literally dying.
Meanwhile, San Francisco, supposedly a sanctuary city, throws out the welcome mat for corporations that profit from the deportation state. Corporations in SF have hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and ICE, the agencies directly responsible for terrorizing immigrant communities.
CLOSE THE CAMPS NOW!
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.
In March of 2018, Berkeley became the 2nd municipality in California to pass a sweeping surveillance transparency ordinance. In October of 2019, Berkeley has become the first city to serially violate this new law – over and over and over again. Join Oakland Privacy, SEIU, and others at a press conference and rally to lay out the long series of failures and demand an end to them. Between biometric time clocks for employees, Homeland Security spying on protests, advanced analytics in parks, and mission creep on license plate readers, the City has shown reckless disregard for transparency and consent and it needs to stop.
Hosted by Oakland Privacy
America’s leading scholar of high strangeness, Erik Davis celebrates release of High Weirdness, a study of the new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the 1970s counterculture writings of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality. But how did their writings reflect and shape the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America? Davis and R.U. Sirius discuss these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences.
Bringing sustainable energy, low carbon emissions, and green jobs to low-income people is the passion of Zach Franklin of Bay Area nonprofits Grid Alternatives and Rising Sun Center for Opportunity. Join us for stories of struggle and success that illuminate why these efforts matter — for workers, volunteers, and all of us affected by global warming.
Free Bay Currents talks on Bay Area natural history and environmental issues, with emphasis on positive solutions, are at St. Alban’s Parish Hall, 1501 Washington (at Curtis, one block north of Solano), Albany.
Refreshments 7 PM, talks 7:30 PM.
Howie Hawkins, candidate for the Green Party Nomination for President, will speak on
“What an Ecosocialist Green New Deal Would Look Like.”
Luis Gongora Pat, a Mayan indigenous man, was murdered by San Francisco police officers on April 7, 2016 on Shotwell near 19th Street in the Mission. His murder came in the wake of other homicides by police of Black and Brown communities members. His family pursued every legal avenue available, including a civil case which was settled in January 2019. Three and a half years later, the story of this brutal murder is at risk of being buried because the primary family eyewitnesses never got their day in court. But their story must be told.
Two primary eyewitnesses–Christine Pepin and S. Smith Patrick–will present their foregone testimony in an open setting, getting the facts onto a public record even if they couldn’t provide it in court. Adante Pointer, the family civil rights lawyers, will attend to support the narrative with facts on the record. In connection with the San Francisco Public Library One City One Book program .
Rebels around the world have taken to the streets to demand climate action. Today and tomorrow, the Bay Area will join the global rebellion.
Join us in calling for Net-Zero Carbon Emissions in California by 2025. This is the message we’re bringing into the streets as part of the Global Climate Rebellion.
This week’s events:
Join us this evening as we kick off Wednesday’s actions with guerrilla projections from the San Francisco Projection Department. We’ll be singing songs of rebellion and projecting our message onto the SF State Building. Meet by the State Building at McAllister & Van Ness in San Francisco. We hope to see you there!
We’ll be on the streets with art, music, theatre, and direct action on October 16th to call on our state government to enact Extinction Rebellion’s Demand #2: Zero Carbon Emissions by 2025. Actions will be taking place around midday. We hope you’ll join us!
Wednesday, October 16 | UN Plaza, Civic Center in San Francisco
We’ll be on the streets around Civic Center, San Francisco on October 16th for Die-In for Life, to call on our state government to enact Extinction Rebellion’s Demand #2: Zero Carbon Emissions by 2025. We start at 7:00am with swarming; groups of rebels will block the streets for a few minutes at a time to spread the message about climate action. Watch our video to see how it’s done! Join the Red Rebels, a Playful Parade of Animals and other activists! We’ll start swarming at 7:00am, with on-site training at Civic Center and new groups heading out on the hour. t
At noon, we will stage a die-in at UN Plaza and then march to the State Building to die-in once more; arrive no later than 11:30 to participate. While these are not arrestable actions, numbers are everything. Please show up if you can – find the Climate Anxiety tent by the Library at Larkin, and see below for information about upcoming trainings! Got questions about participating? Email us.
The Wednesday action will be launched the evening before with a gathering and projections by the San Francisco Projection Project at McAllister & Van Ness Avenue, SF at 8:00pm on October 15. (See previous projection here.) All rebels are invited to gather to learn songs of the rebellion and pose for a group photo.
We hope you’ll join us!
Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center, will discuss what would replace prisons, how people who cause harm could be dealt with in the absence of incarceration, and why abolition would make everyone safer and our society more just.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Read more about this lecture at https://gradlectures.berkeley.edu/lecture/prison-abolition-mule
The Bancroft hotel is wheelchair accessible.
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Paul Butler is the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a legal analyst on MSNBC. He frequently consults on issues of race and criminal justice. His work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and The ABC, CBS and NBC Evening News. Butler lectures regularly for the American Bar Association and the NAACP, and at colleges, law schools, and community organizations throughout the United States.
Professor Butler is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. He holds an honorary Doctor of Law Degree from City University of New York. Butler served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where his specialty was public corruption. His prosecutions included a United States Senator, three FBI agents, and several law enforcement officials. He currently serves on the District of Columbia Code Revision Commission as an appointee of the D.C. City Council. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2003.
Butler’s most recent book Chokehold: Policing Black Men, published in July 2017, was named one of the 50 best non-fiction books of 2017 by The Washington Post. The New York Times described Chokehold as the best book on criminal justice reform since The New Jim Crow. It was a finalist for the 2018 NAACP Image Award for best non-fiction.
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ABOUT THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL LECTURES
In 1944, the Jefferson Memorial Fund was established by the will of Elizabeth Bonestell in her name and the name of her husband, Cutler L. Bonestell, for the study and promotion of a loyal and enlightened adherence by young people to the basic principles of American democracy as embodied
in the Constitution. The fund supports an annual series of lectures on topics concerned with Jefferson or his times, with the development of the American governmental system, or with civil liberties and the Jeffersonian tradition.
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This lecture is also part of UC Berkeley’s commemorative events spotlighting African American history after the passage of the 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act.
Learn more at https://400years.berkeley.edu.
Gather to discuss ways to support the Where Do We Go? encampment in Berkeley at I-80 & University and thereabouts. It seems like we might be able to offer more material support to the campers and political support for their demands if we coordinate a bit more closely. Just come if you can. Bring folks who you think can help us. This is not really about large, comprehensive political strategy. We are trying to focus in on this particular situation.
Hope to see you there. Bring people who are immediately impacted or who are interested in directly helping this situation.
Some things to consider at this meeting:
* Dealing with sanitation needs of trash and bathrooms etc.
* Help during raids (emergency response network)
* Material support (tents, winter gear)
* Pressing the demands (Art, civil disobediance, legal support, press coverage and messaging)
* Setting up for a longer struggle (sponsorship? GoFundme?)
* Next steps