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Marathon Shutdown: No Just Transition @ Online

Jun 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

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UC Berkeley Labor Center will host an online conversation about their new report, Fossil Fuel Layoff, which details what happened to Marathon workers in Martinez after the refinery shut down last year—a case study of the reasons why planning and funding for just transition are essential.

The report shows that, on the whole, workers from the shuttered Marathon Refinery ended up with lower pay and worse working conditions. About a quarter are unemployed. Workers who found jobs faced an average pay cut of 24%. And the industry where the largest percentage of former Marathon workers (28%) found new jobs was—the oil and gas industry.

Speakers:

Virginia Parks
Report co-author, professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, and faculty director of the UCI Labor Center.

Tracy Scott
President of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 5, which represented workers laid off at the facility.

Josh Sonnenfeld
California Economic Development Specialist, BlueGreen Alliance

MODERATOR

Jessie Hammerling
Co-director of the Green Economy Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center

The report, Fossil fuel layoff: The economic and employment effects of a refinery closure on workers in the Bay Area, lists recommendations to support displaced workers:

Extended cash payments to maintain pre-layoff income levels
Financial support to cover the 24% average gap in workers’ pre-layoff wages and their post-layoff wages
Bridge-to-retirement funding that provides full retirement benefits to workers eligible for early retirement within one year following layoff
Third-party certifications to define and verify the skills of refinery workers, and facilitate more efficient and accurate skill matching between jobs and workers in the labor market
Targeted, individualized job search assistance that focuses on a broad scope of strategies for identifying good job opportunities, and preparing for and applying for those jobs
Targeted, short-term training for a specific set of occupations and industries, with income support for workers during training
Short-term, stand-alone training modules to enable workers to maintain certifications they had earned on-the-job at the refinery, such as CPR and HAZMAT training certifications

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Invest in Oaklanders, not OPD @ Oakland City Hall

Jun 14 @ 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm

APTP Event flyer that says “Tell City Council: Invest in Oaklanders, Not More Policing” with event details that read “Oakland City Council Meeting / Oakland City Hall / Wednesday, June 14 at 4pm” image in graphic shows a crowd at a March or rally holding signs

In person at Oakland City Hall or online at bit.ly/oakmtg-0614

Make sure to fill out a speaker card in person or email to cityclerk@oaklandca.gov to request making comment on item 2 via Zoom. You can also send letters to the Mayor & city council today demanding a budget that invests in Oaklanders, not more police:

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Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online

Jun 14 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.

Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay and nationwide.

We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing.

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.

Check out some of what we worked on in 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.

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. We helped fight and helped win the fight against Urban Shield.

Our major projects currently include local legislation to regulate state surveillance (we got the strongest surveillance regulation ordinance in the country passed in Oakland!), supporting and opposing state legislation as appropriate, battling mass surveillance in the form of facial recognition and other analytics, mass aerial surveillance, ubiquitous license plate readers, and pushing back against ICE.

On September 12th, 2019 we were presented with a Barlow Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for our work, and on March 16th, 2021 s James Madison Freedom of Information Award by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.

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

“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 various municipalities around the Bay. To help slow down the encroaching police and surveillance state all over the Bay Area, join us at the Omni.

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Debt Collective: Student Debt Update Call @ Online

Jun 15 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

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Homies Empowerment Town Nights @ Arroyo Park

Jun 16 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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Juneteenth Oakland @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater

Jun 17 @ 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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Defining & realizing a Green education @ Online

Jun 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

This year, the Oakland Greens will review various components of a Green educational system and, most importantly, how those opportunities could be funded. In general, we believe the best way to effect cultural change is to create an educational system that is fundamentally different from what is currently offered.

The 2023 season is our fourth year of action in what has been called a fresh feel for local alternative community politics.

Become producers of the systems within your community, not just consumers.

As usual, we’ll begin with the most diverse, pre-show music event within the social justice community:

Please register on Eventbrite, here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fourth-annual-education-conference-defining-realizing-a-green-education-tickets-522183443737?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

PLANET PEOPLE PEACE
before profit!

http://www.GP.org

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Indian Telecom’s Spectacular Rise and the Nature of Monopoly Capital in India.

Jun 18 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

The Indian state has hitched the wagon of the country’s development to the engine of the nation’s big capital, perhaps like no other time in the India’s history. Big private capital today not only occupies the commanding heights of the Indian economy, but its propaganda dominates the imagination of the ruling elite and even that of the popular classes. The pinnacle of this development is epitomized by the stupendous growth and reach of the Indian telecom sector. The ruling elite rests their case of claiming ultimate success by citing the ubiquitous presence of cell phones in almost every hand in India, which are promoted with some of the cheapest device and connectivity rates in the world. What lies behind this success? In this talk, our speaker will unpack the success of the telecom industry in India, and through the telecom example, examine the nature of the Indian big capital and the role of the Indian state.

Our speaker is Rahul Varman. He is in the faculty in the department of Management at The Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India. He has organized and works with the contract workers on the campus, which number around 2,500. These are the most exploited and oppressed of the Indian working classes and come from remote far off areas of the country.

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Juneteenth Remembering Celebration – Main Event

Jun 18 @ 11:00 am – 7:00 pm

Press Release from the Berkeley Juneteenth Association: 36th Annual Berkeley Juneteenth Festival Remembers the Hope and Promise of Emancipation

The Berkeley Juneteenth Festival is proud to return for its 36th year with the inclusion of JUNETEENTH WEEK, from June 11-18, 2023, which will expand festival day informational spaces to workshops and open houses by community partners who support social equity programs. All community events are free and open to the public.

Beginning on Sunday, June 11 there will be an interfaith Prayer Service hosted by Pastor Mike at the McGee Avenue Baptist church. City-wide, the community will come together at their place of worship to pray for peace, protection for our children, community healing, equal justice under the law, and to remember the hope and the promise of emancipation. This all-denominational and community-inclusive event will also be repeated on Sunday, June 18.

From Monday, June 12, through Sunday, June 18, participating organizations will include the African American Holistic Resource Center, Ecology Center, Conscious Voices, East Bay Community Law Center, Doug Harris Media, Batters Up/Guns Down, and the office of Vice Mayor Ben Bartlett.

“We aim for each event to be motivational and restorative for our community,” said Delores Nochi Cooper, founding Board member and lead organizer of the Berkeley Juneteenth Festival, “Every year, families, small business owners, religious organizations, politicians and artists come together to make the Berkeley Juneteenth Festival a truly special occasion. We are thrilled to facilitate a space for community reflection, healing, and joy.”

Juneteenth-in-Berkeley began as a vehicle to promote community pride and bring together South Berkeley businesses and residents in the celebration of a major African American cultural event, culminating in the first annual Festival in 1987. With the establishment of Berkeley Juneteenth Cultural Celebrations in 2014, the organization began producing Black History Month celebrations during the month of February. Berkeley Juneteenth is committed to educating future generations about the history and accomplishments of African Americans, creating programming which highlights our music and culture, and acknowledging people and events that have brought us as a community and a nation a mighty long way.

For a full schedule, including locations and services offered, please go to JUNETEENTH WEEK.

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Jun 18 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

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Burning Forests as a Climate Solution? No Way!

Jun 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online. Register here.

Help stop a climate and environmental justice disaster being market as renewable energy (on the theory that burning wood is fine because growing trees will absorb the released CO2).

A company called Golden State Natural Resources is proposing to build two massive wood pellet mills in California. They would:
* log in national forests and on private land (billing this as a “forest resiliency” measure)
* break the wood up into pellets in facilities that would pollute neighboring communities
* transport the pellets by rail or truck across the state (risking fires and explosions and emitting greenhouse gases)
* store the pellets at the port in Stockton
* then ship these wood pellets overseas to destinations in Asia, South America or Europe, to be burned in converted coal-fired power plants
— causing just as much local pollution as coal
— immediately releasing an amount of CO2 that it will take growing trees decades to absorb (time we don’t have)

The company is requesting financing for this disaster from the Golden State Financing Authority, a public entity set up to “provide affordable housing and contribute to the social and economic well-being of California residents.”

Golden State Natural Resources will host a virtual public meeting “for the public to learn about the proposed project and submit feedback on the scope of the Environmental Impact Report.” This is an opportunity for a big show of public opposition!

Please RSVP to Jason Pfeifle at jpfeifle@biologicaldiversity.org if you can make it.

The public workshop notice with more background is here.

The organizers will provide talking points and other resources before the hearing.

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Hardware Hacking Tuesdays – SudoRoom @ Omni Commons

Jun 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Hardware hack night – each Tuesday, we welcome sudoers new and old to bring their hardware projects to the space, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, 7pm til… whomever’s left standing!

You can also jump in virtually via https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles !

Some stuff people have been working on:

Pimping out cool bicycles with lights for the East Bay Bike Party
the dancing robot arm
stable diffusion watercolor painting IRL

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350 Bay Area Climate Justice Awards @ Online

Jun 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Join 350 Bay Area and 350 Bay Area Action for their fourth annual Climate Justice Awards event “honoring leaders who have been working at the many intersections of climate justice,” who will share stories of their work and their wins. We are delighted at their picks, and have had the extreme pleasure and honor of working with several of the honorees. Ian Cohen and Alexi Lindeman are stalwarts of the No Drilling in Contra Costa campaign, having organized over 300 Contra Costa high school students for an Antioch march last Spring in support of a fossil-free future and an end to oil and gas drilling. Mayor Devin Murphy has been a sustainability champion in the City of Pinole, and his many accomplishments include getting his city to pass a No Drilling in Contra Costa solidarity resolution. See you at the awards ceremony!

Leading the Fight for Climate Justice and Liberation
* Arieann Harrison, founder, Marie Harrison Community Foundation, Bayview/Hunters Point
* Alexi Lindeman and Ian Cohen, Sustainable Leaders in Action

Centering Migrant and Labor Justice
Maria Salinas with Max Bell Alper, North Bay Jobs with Justice

Celebrating Major Wins for Environmental Justice
Kobi Nasek, VISION Coalition

This Year’s Elected Honoree
Devin Murphy, Mayor of Pinole

Admission: free to $100.
Register here

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Debt Collective: Student Debt Update Call @ Online

Jun 22 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

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AVENGE BANKO! Defend Trans Lives! @ The Bell

Jun 23 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

We refuse to let the memory of our friend and neighbor Banko Brown fade away. The injustice of their death at the hands of private security still hovers over the city. Meanwhile, the core causes of this tragedy have yet to be addressed.

In recent weeks, fellow comrades have taken direct action across the city, declaring war on the capitalist police state that fuels violence against the poor, vulnerable and unhoused all over the Bay.

Mayor London Breed deserves to feel the displeasure and agitation of the masses in the face of this violence. So does DA Brooke Jenkins. So does every pig, corporate executive and privileged person who judges from their home, claiming that “theft” and “drugs” are destroying SF.

Ironic, considering the only thing destroying SF is the callous hand of capitalist liberalism, propped up by people who defend a wage-stealing corporate retailer over the needs of struggling people.

We refuse to march down this path toward oblivion, paved with the blood of Banko and so many other working-class people who have been oppressed by police and security forces across the city.

Instead, JOIN US on FRIDAY, JUNE 23rd as we raise our fists and voices for a revolution in thought and action.

We can do better. We MUST do better. AVENGE BANKO! DEFEND TRANS LIVES!

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Pride Solidarity March – Santa Rosa @ Julliard Park

Jun 24 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

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Healing Portal at the Peoples’ House

Jun 24 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Listening Session: Privacy and Policing @ Lighthouse Masjid

Jun 24 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond @ Online

Jun 24 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

For our June and July meetings we are reading Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond.

For our June meeting we’ll be reading the first five chapters.
For the July meeting we will finish the book.

The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?

In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow.

Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.

Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth, Revenge Cap italism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, Less is More, Cannibal Capitalism, and Debt, the First 5000 Years.

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Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library: Haiti: An Anti-imperialist Perspective. @ Online

Jun 25 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

The US is spearheading an effort to reinvade and reoccupy Haiti, according to our speaker who last visited the island republic last month. Danny Shaw will report on the different ingredients in the neocolonial hybrid war in Port-au-Prince; the guns, the so-called gangs, and the neocolonial state. He has been working with the Haitian left both in Haiti and in the diaspora since 1998 and speaks Kreyòl.

Our speaker, Danny Shaw, teaches Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender at the City University of New York. He holds a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University. He has worked and organized in seventy different countries, opening his spirit to countless testimonies about the inhumanity of the international economic system. He works with RT Intentional, TeleSUR, and is a senior research fellow with the Council on Hemispheric Relations.

Danny is also a retired Golden Gloves boxer, fighting twice in Madison Square Garden for the NYC heavyweight championship. He teaches boxing, yoga and nutrition and works as a Sober Coach, keeping young people out of the military and prison industrial complex. He is the father of two young Life Warriors and mentors many through the nutritional, ideological, social and emotional landmines that surround us. He is the author of six books and numerous articles. He recently posted an article on Haiti in Truthout.

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About OccupyOakland.org

This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly met in-person weekly (with a rare skip) since October 10th, 2011 up until the pandemic, at which point we went to bi-weekly Zoom meetings. We do checkins, go over the activist events of the past meeting interval, and have general discussions on politics and revolution.

For many years, until the pandemic, we put on a Feed the People event monthly at Oscar Grant Plaza, where all were welcome to come and partake of a freshly cooked, savory meal, before our GA.

If you would like to participate while the pandemic is still amidst, send an email to occupyoakland-request@lists.riseup.net. Check the calendar or this text to see if we have resumed in-person meetings.