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#Socialmedia is in the news. Corporate masters are wreaking havoc on our connective issue. What to do? Join us on 11-17 for workshops and discussions on strategies for reclaiming the digital square. Panels start at 8am PST. Come for one or stay for a few. https://t.co/VOh28BGxlQ pic.twitter.com/1UFGRAN0cE
— Media Alliance (@twrling) November 4, 2022
This week, a federal judge sided with political groups and blocked President Biden’s debt cancellation plan. This is not the end. The Biden administration has appealed the decision and advocates are fighting to protect borrowers.
That is why we’re hosting an EMERGENCY TOWN HALL online to explain the status of debt cancellation, where we go from here, and how to get involved!
Student Debt Cancellation: Where We Stand and What is Next
We know this is a very confusing, frustrating, and uncertain time for you all. We understand, hear, and empathize with you. But, we need your voice and strength now more than ever.
It took millions of Americans pushing for debt cancellation to get to this point. It will take us coming together to protect it. If you want to learn about the newest updates and how to get involved, click here to RSVP for Thursday’s town hall.
Can’t make it? You can take action right now.
Together, our movement cannot be defeated!
Dear Singers,
Let’s sing on the picket line!
WHERE:
UC Berkeley Campus
We may move into Sproul Plaza if the sidewalk at Bancroft & Tele isn’t accommodating.
WHY
University of California student workers are striking for livable wages and conditions. They’re demanding free transit, disability justice, childcare support, and more.
Our songs can help them win!
WHO
Occupella, you and anyone you want to invite.
We’ll bring some songsheets, you can print one out or view on your phone here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ODB7ZsjgHhYhYwWeNj8Ws4S5y8-0qme67I8mgdAORTY/edit
Looking forward to singing with you on Friday!
You can check this web calendar for any updates�if the strike settles or picket line iis called off, we’ll cancel on the calendar.
See you Friday 3PM at the Campanile! Solidarity forever! #FairUCNow pic.twitter.com/CV6QpoaHNL
— Berkeley Tenants Union #CancelRent #FairUCNow (@BerkeleyTenants) November 18, 2022
In line with the tradition of Marxism-Leninism, this presentation argues that the elements constitutive of objectively revolutionary conditions are all present in the U.S.; what is missing for a successful revolutionary movement is the subjective factor. The presenter will argue that the purity fetish which predominates the outlook of modern American communism has presented a fundamental fetter for the development of the subjective factor in the American working masses; the development of a consistent dialectical materialist worldview, it will be argued, is the precondition for the advancement of the subjective conditions.
Speaker Bio:
Carlos L. Garrido is a Cuban American PhD student and instructor in philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (with an M.A. in philosophy from the same institution). His research focuses include Marxism, Hegel, early 19th century American socialism, and socialism with Chinese characteristics. He is an editor in Midwestern Marx Institute for Marxist Theory and Political Analysis and in the Journal of American Socialist Studies. His popular writings have appeared in dozens of socialist magazines in various languages. As a political analyst with a focus on Latin America (esp. Cuba), he has appeared in dozens of radio and video interviews around the world. He also edited and introduced Marxism and the Dialectical Materialist Worldview: An Anthology of Classical Marxist Texts on Dialectical Materialism (Midwestern Marx Publishing Press, 2022).
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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
Reposting this call from undergrads in support of the strike. Monday 11/21, shut down the UC! A day of autonomous blockades and occupations on all 10 UC campuses. #StrikeMeansStrike #BlockadeTheUC pic.twitter.com/LktyaBeeUJ
— UC Davis #CopsOffCampus (@UCDavis_COC) November 19, 2022
With the latest extension of the moratorium due to pending legal actions, we have been granted an additional 6-months to organize for mass cancellation/s- INTEREST FREE (for many)!! Let’s discuss the ways we are going to use this season to reallocate our time and energies towards building and supporting communities in all the ways we know how [including STRIKING!!
Please feel free to join/share the November meeting of the Bay Area Debtors’ Union to continue building our collective awareness and power.
Join Bay Area Debtors’ Union meeting:
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A new study from Student Borrower Protection Center –> New Analysis Illustrates Massive Benefits of Student Debt Cancellation Across Borrowers’ Lives (no sh*t, but thanks for bringing the DATA to the page SBPC ❤)
Big News….
Sweet vs Cardona Settlement
Judge rules to erase the student loans of 200K borrowers who say they were ripped off by Cory Turner – NPR
Opportunities for Action with 📢🎤📣San Francisco Rising (SFR) 📢🎤📣
Join Bay Area Debtors’ Union meeting:
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with care,
Tiffany K.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Friends of the Public Bank East Bay is a completely volunteer-run, nonprofit organizing to create and build community support for the first public bank in California’s history! If you’re committed to economic justice and interested in helping us build new financial systems by the people for the people, we look forward to having you join us!
HOW WE OPERATE:
We have five committees working together to create a Public Bank in the East Bay:
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Advocacy builds relationships with community groups and city governments.
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Communications assists other committees with content creation and promotion.
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Fundraising develops our organization’s budget and raises funds for our business plan.
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Membership brings on new members and volunteers and organizes educational events.
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Strategy & Planning is responsible for operations and the execution of PBEB’s business plan.
Email us with your interests and we’ll help you find a way to get plugged in!
Public Bank East Bay expects to open by 2023, and will be a transformative institution that keeps our money local, allowing local governments to divest from Wall Street and reinvest its profits back into our community. Public Bank East Bay’s initial loan policies will support affordable housing development, provide support for small businesses (especially for marginalized entrepreneurs), finance the renovation and electrification of existing buildings, and help cities and counties refinance their municipal debt.
Next Thursday! Join me at 2 Star Market to volunteer & feed our community! Grateful for Farrouq and 2 Star leadership for their annual holiday festival! pic.twitter.com/J6VyMwgxiQ
— Janani Ramachandran (@Janani4Oakland) November 18, 2022
SPECIAL SESSION JUST ADDED
The Biggest Academic Workers Strike in California History!
A huge, unprecedented strike of academic workers started on November 14th, hitting all ten University of California campuses like a ton of bricks. The 48,000 striking workers perform the majority of the teaching and research at UC, yet the pay and benefits for these workers, members of the United Auto Workers union, is way too low especially for high-cost-of-living areas like Berkeley, California.
The UC Regents, who run the university and represent the most powerful business interests in the state, have so far refused to bargain over wages.
Come to an special session of Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library to hear the latest about this historic academic workers strike.
Speaker: Dave Welsh is a writer, musician, retired letter carrier, Labor Council delegate, member of Veterans For Peace, and lifelong fighter for people’s power. Whether it was the civil rights movement in Mississippi, support for the Black Panther Party, solidarity with the grassroots movement in Haiti, or breaking the blockade of Cuba at the border with the Pastors for Peace caravans, or holding down Oscar Grant Plaza with Occupy Oakland or the ongoing fight to jail killer cops � he’s been a part of it.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 811 3335 0622
Passcode: ICSS2717rs
Dial by your location
+1 669 444 9171 US
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
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
Oil companies are exploiting a global crisis to jack up prices at the gas pump and rake in massive profits while driving a cost of living crisis for Californians. They blame California’s environmental protections, but we know it’s polluter greed sending prices sky high, plain and simple.
This Monday will be a day of action (organized by Last Chance Alliance) across the state to enact a windfall profits cap proposal that will be voted in the CA legislature in the week of December 5th. In the Bay Area, activists will gather at the Chevron station at 5500 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland at 4:00pm to encourage Governor Newsom’s support of the tax and to shift the narrative around gas prices to one that frames big oil greed as the problem.
If you’re free, come join us at 4pm on Monday to hold signs and make our voices heard. Support the action on social media with hashtags
#PolluterGreed #TheyProfitWePay and #PollutersPayUp and tag @LastChance_CA, @CAGovernor and @GavinNewsom.
No Dirty Deal: Make the Call
In September, activists stood up to Senator Manchin and Senator Schumer and defeated a dirty side deal that would undermine one of our bedrock environmental laws, fast-track fossil fuels, and sacrifice fence-line communities Unfortunately, during the final weeks of this Congress, lawmakers are now poised to revive the dirty deal. Can you take a few minutes to call your congressperson to say this dirty deal has go to die?
Call 917-791-2257 to be connected to your member of Congress.
Suggested script:
“Hi, my name is ____, & I’m from ____. I’m deeply concerned about the Energy Independence and Security Act and any legislation that would fast-track fossil fuel projects and undermine the public’s ability to give input on new energy projects. As your constituent I’m calling to demand that you publicly oppose this dirty deal and do all you can to stop it from being attached to must-pass legislation and passing!”
With Love and Rage and Action,
Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area
https://www.xrsfbay.org
COVID-19 testing is available at Allen Temple! Our drive-thru testing site is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 4pm! Testing is quick, easy & free! Results available in 3 days. Appointments recommended; make yours at https://t.co/G3MPStVccj pic.twitter.com/OwdThvrBIT
— Allen Temple Baptist Church (@allentemplebc) November 21, 2022
COVID-19 testing is available at Allen Temple! Our drive-thru testing site is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 4pm! Testing is quick, easy & free! Results available in 3 days. Appointments recommended; make yours at https://t.co/G3MPStVccj pic.twitter.com/OwdThvrBIT
— Allen Temple Baptist Church (@allentemplebc) November 21, 2022
5:00PM March to the School board meeting at La Escuelita (1050 2nd Ave)
Denise Huffstutler, a former Parker instructional coach who spoke out against the closure of that school, received a letter of reprimand for failing to return her keys at the end of the year despite reporting them as missing, which has led to an ongoing investigation and a record in her file. June Nelson, Paloma Collier, and Craig Gordon were all fired and blacklisted from employment with OUSD for their involvement in the Parker occupation, a 125-day direct action protesting school closures, and for other political and union activities.
OUSD’s actions violate a February 2022 letter from Chief Governance Officer Josh Daniels to Moses Omolade and André San-Chez, then engaged in a 20+ day hunger strike to protest school closures. Daniels’s letter states that “OUSD will not retaliate against any OUSD employee involved in protesting school closures […] or supporting those who are involved in such protests.”
COVID-19 testing is available at Allen Temple! Our drive-thru testing site is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 4pm! Testing is quick, easy & free! Results available in 3 days. Appointments recommended; make yours at https://t.co/G3MPStVccj pic.twitter.com/OwdThvrBIT
— Allen Temple Baptist Church (@allentemplebc) November 21, 2022
Join a statewide day of rallies to save rooftop solar in California!
So many of us resisted the Public Utilities Commission’s proposed attack on rooftop solar that they backed down—a little. But their new proposal would still make it much harder for people who don’t currently have solar to get it.
The revised proposal eliminates the planned fee that rooftop solar owners would have to pay for connection to the grid. But new solar owners would still have to pay a $15/month “electrification charge.”
And, like the previous proposal, the new one would drastically cut the rates paid to rooftop solar owners for electricity they sell back to the grid—by an average of about 75% for homeowners, and even more for churches, schools, and small businesses. This would eliminate the financial benefits of going solar. And it would take people many years to recover the amount they invested in the solar panels, making that investment impossible for many homeowners and small businesses.
These changes would not affect current solar panel owners, but apply to new solar users starting April 2023. When changes like these have been implemented elsewhere in the US, solar adoptions have dropped by a lot.
The CPUC will vote on this proposal December 15. Join a rally telling them not to stop rooftop solar from growing!
WHERE
San Francisco, Bakersfield, Chico, Fresno, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Stockton
Exact locations to be announced
More info/sign up here
More info:
See a replay of a Solar Rights Alliance webinar about the proposed changes and learn how to reach out to Newsom and the PUC here.
Check out the explanations and responses to this latest proposal from environmental organizations:
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85817209915
Agenda Packet: https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Privacy-Commission-Agenda-Packet-12-1-22.pdf
4. Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance: OPD – US Marshals Services (USMS), Alcohol Tobacco Firearms (ATF)
a. Review and take possible action on the draft memoranda of understanding with federal partners (MOU)
5. Surveillance Technology Ordinance: DOT – Mobile Parking Payment Proposal
a. Informational Report by CSU Law Clinic – no action will be taken at this meeting