Calendar

Feed The People!

The last Sunday of every month attendees of the OO GA get together a little earlier than usual, at 2 PM (3 PM during DST) to share some food with each other and the community.  There should be a table, utensils/plates, meat and veggie entrees and whatnot, courtesy of the Kitchen Committee (such at he is), so just bring yourself, or something to share as well if you’d like.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 PM at the Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway in the amphitheater. 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. During the warmer months we meet at 4 PM at the plaza.

The OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for more than 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. 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

1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
3. Announcements
4. (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)
Occupy Oakland Kitchen Committee: (kitchen@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

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

Landlord Harasses, Bullies and Serves Illegal Notices on Oakland Tenants in a Global Pandemic and Eviction Moratorium

In the Middle of the Covid19 Pandemic and a state and county-wide Eviction Moratorium – A Landlord Harasses, Bullies and Serves Illegal Notices on Oakland Tenants.

“Raj Properties has given several tenants 3 day notices and threatened to tow cars from tenants legal parking spots, its why we launched a rent strike,” said long-time tenant and Oakland resident Momi P.

Please -Join Zoom Press Conference with this link on April 27th at 3pm PST
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9432352233

Meeting ID: 943 235 2233

While people locally and globally struggles with a shelter in place mandate — and the massive loss of work, abusive landlords like Raj Properties continue to operate as though there are no laws and protections in place for tenants.

Since March of 2020 The County of Alameda and the State of California have eviction moratoriums in place to protect tenants just like the 37 units at 3080 Richmond

Background on the Tenants of 3080 Richmond, Oakland

Raj properties are guilty of illegal harassment of these tenants, and with this struggle 3080 Richmond joins other working class, Black and Brown tenants across Oakland who have faced harassment from landlords who refuse to follow the laws put in place to protect tenants, said Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia, formerly homeless, legal advocate and co-founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE and Homefulness- a homeless peoples. “These tenants are sheroes and heroes, ” Lisa Tiny concluded.

The tenants have officially decided to transform this abuse into a rent strike, joining another group of tenants and Moms4Housing in refusing to accept the abuse and harassment of predatory, capitalist greed for profit over their human and civil rights as tenants in the State of California

Statement from the Tenants
RAJ PROPERTIES, our landlord, is being especially vicious during this time. We need your support to help stop the harassment from Raj properties. The city of Oakland has passed a rent moratorium, yet Raj Properties is ignoring it! They are using scare tactics to intimidate those who cannot afford it. They are violating the moratorium by putting “3-day notice” of evictions, threats to tow cars, and even increasing monthly rents. Tenants are having to borrow money from family, take out loans, go without food, etc. because Raj has no respect for its tenants and clearly functions unethically.

The tenants are asking for support from politicians and community to stand with them in this rent strike and for all landlords to stop harassing tenants in this time of Covid19

Tenants at 3080 Richmond and their advocates, other homeless and formerly homeless advocates at POOR Magazine/Homefulness and other organizations plan to hold a Zoom Press Conference on Monday, April 27 @ 3pm- and then plan a follow-up action on MayDay- they are asking for widespread support and organizations and individuals to sign on- If you are willing or able to co-sponsor or help please email poormag@gmail.com

Please -Join Zoom Press Conference with this link on April 27th at 3pm PST
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9432352233

Meeting ID: 943 235 2233

POOR Magazine is a poor and indigenous people-led movement creating media , education, art, advocacy and solutions for low and no-income and homeless youth , adults and elders locally and globally.

Mass strikes have played a central role in the history of left movements, and they have long captured the imagination of socialists and other radicals. Mass strikes represent the explosion of class struggle outside of a single workplace or industry, bringing the working classes of entire cities or countries into revolt against the prevailing order. Such occurrences can act as the catalyst for significant pro-worker reforms, or even lead to revolution.

Recent movements against austerity in France and Chile show that mass strikes are far from a thing of the past. And with the coronavirus causing a global social and economic crisis, along with sparking an upsurge in labor militancy, it’s not hard to imagine similar events breaking out in the U.S. or across the world.

Join East Bay DSA’s Socialist Night School for a discussion of the history and theory of mass strikes, with a focus on drawing lessons for the current crisis.

Readings:
“General Strikes, Mass Strikes,” Kim Moody
Excerpts from “Depression Decade,” Strike!, Jeremy Brecher
“The Great Minneapolis Strikes,” The History of American Trotskyism, James P. Cannon
“Even in a Pandemic, Workers Can Fight Back,” Nick French

Zoom link for meeting: https://dsausa.zoom.us/j/307978083

OAKLAND CA-  On Friday, April 24, officers with the Oakland Police Dept profiled, detained, and arrested two volunteers of The Village in Oakland as they were arriving to the East Oakland Collective’s parking lot for a meeting. 

The two groups, the two volunteers who endured the police terror, and other witnesses are filing a complaint with the Oakland Police Commission demanding a full investigation of the incident and all OPD personnel involved, and an accounting of what resources were involved in the operation. They are calling on Mayor Libby Schaff to commandeer the 1,500 unused hotel rooms in Oakland immediately and pass them on Oakland members of the statewide #NoVacancyCa campaign for management. 

Aiyahanna Johnson and Leon “Aki” Young, both themselves unhoused, had been distributing pet food, drinking water, and essential harm reduction items such as masks and hand sanitizers to encampments all over Oakland as volunteers with The Village. They had just left a hotel in Deep East Oakland where The Village purchased four hotel rooms to Shelter In Place unhoused Oaklanders, including Young.

“Cops are not essential service. Outreach and harm reduction are essential. We are essential workers on the frontlines. We were serving our fellow unhoused Oakland residents before Covid19, during Covid19, and we will be here after Covid19,” said Johnson. “We want attention to be brought on how the Oakland Police Department (OPD), and the local government continues to terrorize Black and unhoused leaders.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tlm-online-presents-sex-workers-and-the-covid-19-crisis-tickets-102931502896

As with many industries, San Francisco’s shelter-in-place order
decimated the sex work industry.

Due to lack of support from the government, workers face the difficult
choice of sheltering-in-place and losing income or having to work and
risk exposure to COVID-19. Beyond the impacts on other industries, sex
workers are further marginalized by stigma, explicit exclusion from
federal relief efforts, and criminalization.

For sex workers and other workers in informal economies, governmental
relief has been insufficient to meet need–but as with all workers, sex
workers need economic relief so they can shelter in place and help all
of San Francisco stay home.

Join the Tenderloin Museum for a digital panel in which sex workers and
community organizers from the Rad Mission Neighbors, US PROStitutes
Collective, and St. James Infirmary speak out on the urgent need for the
decriminalization of sex work and how organizing around sex workers’
needs makes the city safer for all its residents. Moderated by local
historian and activist Ivy Anderson, participants will learn about local
legislative measures aimed at ensuring the support and safety of sex
workers–and how to join the mutual aid effort to provide emergency aid
to sex workers now.

Free | Suggested donation of $10
All donations will go directly to vulnerable members of the community.
The event is limited to 500 attendees.
Zoom link will be sent on the day of the event to those who register.
Source:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tlm-online-presents-sex-workers-and-the-covid-19-crisis-tickets-102931502896

RSVP: https://www.surjbayarea.org/events/virtual-intro-to-surj?fbclid=IwAR33ZdvaFJfGq4KKG7pNgsDsuOmtRI1ylGF6Ax9sk-NjXtDgHTZgoSBm_cY

Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Join us at our first virtual Intro to SURJ meeting and 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.

You will hear about SURJ’s pathways for engaging in the work, including Study & Action, committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We’ll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.

We’ll have a speaker from the Anti Police-Terror Project, a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color.

ACCESS
The Intro meeting will be held virtually over Zoom. Please be sure to check-in to our zoom room between 6:30 and 6:50 so we can begin promptly at 7pm. It will take a few minutes to check-in. Participants will receive instructions for joining the event a few days beforehand.

GENERAL STRIKE on Friday, May 1st, 2020. We are encouraging everyone through the U.S. and the world to join us in engaging #NoWork #NoShopping #NoRent #NoMortgage #NoEviction #NoDebt #NoSchool #NoPrison #NoDetention actions.

Join us from 10-11 AM for a rally with the ILWU at the Oakland Port. At 11 AM we leave for a car & bike caravan up Broadway to demand:
1. RELEASE ALL PRISONERS (Oakland Jail @ 11)
2. EQUITABLE EDUCATION FOR ALL (OUSD HQ @ 11:30)
3. POWER & RESOURCES TO THE PEOPLE (City Hall @ 12)
4. FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL (Kaiser @ 1)

Let’s send Trump, Wall Street, and the capitalists a clear message: #WeWontDieForWallSt
#PeopleAndPlanetOverProfits

The COVID-19 pandemic has starkly revealed the inequalities and injustices that daily plague the world.

The triple crisis of viral plague, systemic economic breakdown, and the failure and/or unwillingness of governments to provide necessary protections, especially for the poor and those subjected to white supremacy, ethnocentrism, xenophobia, and misogyny has thrown us into A FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES.

In order to avoid the needless deaths of millions of people and keep corporations and authoritarian governments from stealing our collective future, working and oppressed peoples need to stand together in solidarity using mutual aid, cooperation, and joint action. Together WE CAN BUILD A NEW WORLD, a better world, a world that puts people and the planet over profits.

Collective Action is the Key.

Determined mass direct action alongside a coordinated campaign can transform the institutions of governance and upend the power of the banks and the multinational corporations to address the immediate needs of workers and peoples throughout the world.
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Our lives are being threatened every day as we and others have to fight for PPE and safe working conditions, in particular due to COVID-19. The Coronavirus pandemic is absolutely exposing how important it is for the Working Class everywhere to collectively demand Safe Working Condition and Fair wages.

On May 1 working people around the world are joining together to show workers power.

Without workers there is no production and profits for the billionaires. This pandemic is particularly affecting Black and Brown communities at a much higher rate.

On going systematic discrimination and the lack of housing and healthcare for all that has plagued this country fear many years is the reason this is happening.

Our unions and organizations need to stand as one to demand truth and cooperation from our Government and Employers to effectively combat this global pandemic.

We must defend all the working people here in Oakland, the US and around the world. The billionaires from Bezos at Amazon, to Fisher who owns the A’s only care about profits and not the lives of workers nor the community.

Bring your banners and posters for your cars and bicycles. We will be practicing safe Social Distancing provisions (6ft apart and face coverings) for everyone’s protection to demand:

1) Fight For PPE For All Workers On the Front Lines-No Safety No Work.

2) National Healthcare For All/End Private Healthcare System.

3) Stop All Evictions and Foreclosures On Our Homes.

4) Full Funding For Cal/OSHA and Criminal Prosecution of Bosses Who Violate Labor Health Protections during this Pandemic.

5) Full Funding For All Working People & Our Families to Survive This Pandemic.

From: Alameda Labor Council

May 1st “Rally” at 2:00pm at CHO

* “Rally” Keeping a safe distance from each other on May 1, 2020.
* 2:00 pm in front of the Children’s Hospital Oakland. 747 52nd St.
* We deserve to be treated with respect and to be kept safe by our
employer during this pandemic.
* If nurses and all health care workers aren’t safe, no one is safe.
Not our patients, our loved ones or our communities.
* The right to full contract protection is fundamental to our ability
to give our patients the care they all deserve!
* Proper PPE for all patient care.
* Fair treatment up to the Bay Area Standard.
* UCSF must recognize that Oakland deserves parity with SF.

LIVESTREAM! How to use Social Media to Drive Environmental Change – Climate Change

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream-how-to-use-social-media-to-drive-environmental-change–tickets-93000512035

In response COVID-19, the Ecology Center is joining in the community efforts to keep everyone safe and healthy “How to us Social Media to Drive Environmental Change” will now be offered as an interactive livestream presentation!

In the second of her three Livestream workshop series, Jessica Jane Robinson will share,
in-depth, the second part of her United Nations 68th Civil Society Conference presentation, “Why Zero Waste,” that she presented on August 28th, 2019. She will explain how she has leveraged 9 out of 17 United Nations Sustainable Development goals to address the global emergency of climate change.

Afterward, the workshop will learn how to quantify personal sustainable daily actions and create personal environmental goals on Jessica’s free non-profit carbon calculator website.

As the former Vice President and Board Director of the Northern California Recycling Association since 2013, Ms. Robinson will cover issues of climate change, the trashing of the planet, current environmental disasters, and how zero waste practices can be a robust tool community can leverage to make a difference today. Jessica will share social media and branding tools she has leveraged to make a difference within the City of Alameda, Bay Area and beyond.

ABOUT: Jessica Jane Robinson

Jessica Jane Robinson works with businesses, community organizations, school districts, and individuals on engagement projects that help achieve zero waste and climate protection goals. She is a former Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project Climate Leader and her rank by the organization is in the top 50 and top 1% for presenting 110 times to over 27,000 audience members from 2012-2019.

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

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 1^st 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