Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
For our June and July meetings we are readingPoverty 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.
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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Join Moms 4 Housing and Community Ready Corps TOMORROW for a press conference in support of Leslie Lewis, a Black elder who is working to save his family home. Mr. Lewis is now a tenant in the home he was born in after his family lost ownership of the property through a predatory foreclosure. The new owner is showing the home to prospective buyers, despite Mr. Lewis’ desire to re-purchase the house himself.
Sign and share the petition to save the Lewis family home, and come stand with Mr. Lewis this Sunday at 271 Fitzpatrick Road at 3PMfor a press conference calling on the landlord to negotiate the sale of the home with its rightful owner. Moms 4 Housing and Community Ready Corps are leading this effort, and Care 4 Community Action is rallying our neighbors to come out and support because housing is a human right!
Leslie Lewis prunes a rose bush in the back yard of the family home he is fighting to save.
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Occupy Oakland General Assembly
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
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:
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.
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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The Oakland Greens Free Movie & Discussion: Harlem Nights
@ Online
In the waning days of Prohibition, Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor) and his adopted son, Quick (Eddie Murphy), run a speakeasy called Club Sugar Ray. When gangster Bugsy Calhoune (Michael Lerner) learns that Sugar Ray’s place is pulling in more money than his own establishment, the Pitty Pat Club, he pays corrupt cop Phil Cantone (Danny Aiello) to close Club Sugar Ray down.
The Oakland Greens Free Movie discussion series is a virtual community building event held on ZOOM. Discuss lighting, script writing, cinematography, and the interesting question, “Could certain films — and would certain films — be made today?”.
New York Liberation School documents how a public university and city were transformed by such writers and organizers as Toni Cade Bambara, Samuel Delany, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Assata Shakur. Through archives, interviews, publications, and movement waves, we chronicle what occurs when people commit to radically reconfiguring an urban learning institution instead of abandoning it as a lost cause. This dialogue will invite NYLS readers to discuss the book’s themes and proposals for revolutionary change in our lifetime.
In 2016, PROMESA law was signed by President Obama to restructure Puerto Rico’s debt. A Federal Oversight Management Board (FOMB) of unelected Wall Street bankers was imposed to control all finances on the islands and renegotiate the debt. Austerity, privatization, hurricanes, earthquakes and a pandemic added to the Puerto Rican crisis. The University of Puerto Rico, as a social project and also as a site of political resistance, has been one of the main targets of the FOMB who has insisted on dismantling it and cutting its budget in half. We will explore the intersectionality between colonialism, debt and the neoliberal education agenda in Puerto Rico and the strategies of resistance from within and beyond the University of Puerto Rico.
The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never coded before!). And if you’re an intermediate programmer looking for a challenge, we can help you find problems to work on. No computer? No problem: we can provide one for the night. Coders of all abilities are welcome! All coding languages are welcome! Bringing a WNB friend is highly recommended. Coding is more fun with friends! Join in person if you’re in Oakland or online anywhere else in the world!
The idea is also to be a safe space for WNB in the tech world, besides promoting empowerment, also to provide emotional support for those facing challenges in a work environment, tech job search or anything else related.
Your host: Juliana A. (pronouns she/her) is originally from Brazil, has been living in the US for 10 years, and has been working as a software engineer since 2020, after finishing a software engineering bootcamp for women/nb people only. She has worked with Ruby on Rails, Python, SQL, JavaScript, React, Typescript.
If you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can’t get in, call 510-844-0014 or 510-740-5758.
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Event will be indoors
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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!
Before we tell you more how we are innovating and shaping policy, take a moment to RSVP to our upcoming webinar on 6/28 where we will share results from our soon-to-be-released report Hidden Hazards: The Impact of Climate Change on Incarcerated People in California Prisons that sheds light on the intersections between the crises of climate disaster and incarceration. RSVP now Learn More about Hidden Hazards
From the RISE Act (SB 483, Allen) to the Racial Justice Act 4 All (AB 256, Kalra), you know that the Ella Baker Center – along with our many co-sponsors and partners – has numerous state policy wins. These wins provide dignity and opportunity for communities that have historically been left out of policy considerations, like Black and Brown communities, and people with low or no income.
We know that our work must continue to be on the leading edge and continue to be informed those who are most impacted by prisons and policing. That’s why we have started the Emergent Policy Project.
The Emergent Policy Project is a “pop-up” think tank that will convene policymakers and movement partners with current and formerly incarcerated people, and systems-impacted community members to address a specific problem through policy innovation. Our plan is to strengthen movement strategies between established policy actors with experience in the legislature, movement organizations who advance the conditions for change, and people who have been historically excluded from policy decision-making but have unique vision and expertise.
The first brain-child of the Emergent Policy Project � thhe Hidden Hazards report � is set to go live on Wednesday, June 21. Spurred by the fact that climate disasters have the greatest impact on vulnerable populations, the Ella Baker Center, students from the Public Policy Master’s Program at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, and inside organizers examined the intersections of climate change, environmental justice, and the carceral system. Our report will detail why and how our state must do more to protect incarcerated Californians from climate hazards. Check your email and our social channels on June 21 for the exciting launch of this first-of-its-kind report.
As diversity, equity and inclusion efforts play a central and increasingly embattled role in the strategy and resources of higher education, reparation is rarely offered as a pathway for transforming higher education. Together,through engaging with the text Reparative Universities, we will work together to come to terms with diversity and what its failures tell us about the colonial logics of higher education and think together about how reparative actions may intervene to unsettle entrenched ways of knowing and being within universities.
Google’s Chrome browser needs to stop preventing us from opting out globally from websites that are tracking our every online move. Chrome Privacy now! At this webinar, we’ll organize to pressure Google to provide the universal opt-out on Chrome, refine a demand letter to the company, and plan for a visit to Google to deliver our demand letter.
Google claims to be a privacy-conscious company. But the lack of a global privacy control in their Chrome browser contradicts those value statements. Google makes efforts to protect online spying by “cleaning up” tracking, instead of letting Chrome users decide for themselves if they want to globally opt out of all third party trackers in their browser.
That should be OUR decision.
Join us in demanding that Google honor its commitment to user privacy.
Here is how you can help:
Circulate our demand letter to listservs and colleagues passionate about privacy.
Join our webinar to refine and update the demand letter and organize a delegation visit to Google’s headquarters.
SEIU Local 1000 represents the largest group of California state employees. That includes nearly 1700 members and represented workers in San Francisco county specifically. The statewide member lead bargaining team’s main economic proposal in collective bargaining to our boss the State is a 30% General Salary Increase and full coverage of health care premiums for all represented workers.
We are reaching the final moments of negotiating time as the contract expires on June 30th. We call on all labor allies San Francisco Labor Council affiliates to join us for this Wednesday June 29th, 1:00 pm San Francisco Civic Center Plaza march.
SEIU Local 1000 is not backing down and intends to fight. Recently, State Senator Scott Wiener declared himself an ally for state employees. SEIU Local 1000 needs him to show up now for our fight for higher wages, and better benefits and work life conditions.
Join us, June 29th from 1pm – 2pm and march with us for a better State, and for a better future.
For justice, for solidarity!
John Torok, VP-Chief Steward
SEIU Local 1000 DLC 743 (San Francisco)
Ken Lustenberger, Shop Steward
SEIU Local 1000 DLC 743 (San Francisco)
In an insane society how can we help those struggling with actual mental illness? And who is driving the country insane? The social worker drowning in the bureaucracy needed to help their unhoused client? The news anchor, who feeds anxiety with “breaking news” of daily atrocities and political scapegoating rather than the real “Who, What, Where and Why?”
We will meet them and more in our new comedy musical aptly titled: BREAKDOWN – A New Musical. Sometimes it’s not all just happening in your mind.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical is written by: Michael Gene Sullivan & Marie Cartier Director: Michael Gene Sullivan Music & Lyrics Daniel Savio Music Director: Daniel Savio The show runs 80 min. – no intermission.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical features a five-person cast that includes veteran SF Mime Troupe collective member: Andre Amarotico (Mr. Stereós); who is joined by Jamella Cross (Marcia Stone); Alicia M. P. Nelson (Saidia); Jed Pasario (Felix); and Kina Kantor (Yume). And SFMT Band: Breakfast (Keyboard, Guitar, Sax); Guinevere Q (Bass); and Jason Young (Drums, Percussion).
Bios: https://www.sfmt.org/press-bios All actors and the stage manager appear through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. To arrange an interview with writers, actors, or anyone from the SF Mime Troupe Collective, please call or e-mail publicist Lawrence Helman at 415-336-8220 heytheresells@gmail.com
Tech credits for BREAKDOWN – A New Musical include: Scenic Designer: Carlos Aceves; Costume Designer: Keiko Shimosato Carreiro; Props: Lena Seagrave; Choreographer: AeJay Mitchell; Sound Designer / Engineer: Taylor Gonzalez; Sound A2: Miguel Wacher; Sound A2: Solstiz Ibarra-Camp; Poster Design: Pablo Mica; Prod. Stage Manager: Karen Runk; Booking Coordinator: Junelle Taguas-Utumoengalu & Andre Amarotico; Tour Manager: Maxine Tower; Publicity: Lawrence Helman; Photography: DavidAllenStudio.com.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical plays July 1 – Sept. 4, 2023 Opening: Sat. / Sun. July 1, 2 – Cedar Rose Park – Berkeley Opening: Mon. July 4, – Dolores Park – San Francisco Running throughout the Bay Area in SF, Marin (Mill Valley), Ukiah (Mendocino), Cotati (Sonoma), East Bay, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and Davis July 1 – Sept. 4, 2023.
All shows are FREE and open to the public unless otherwise listed. Ticketed performance: Z Space: Aug. 24, 2023 (Thurs.). Some shows will require RSVPs: Davis HS, Richard Brunelle Performance Hall: Aug. 3 (Thurs.); SFMT Studio Back Lawn in SF: Aug 16 (Sun.). For a complete schedule and more information, visit http://www.sfmt.org or call 415-285-1717.
In an insane society how can we help those struggling with actual mental illness? And who is driving the country insane? The social worker drowning in the bureaucracy needed to help their unhoused client? The news anchor, who feeds anxiety with “breaking news” of daily atrocities and political scapegoating rather than the real “Who, What, Where and Why?”
We will meet them and more in our new comedy musical aptly titled: BREAKDOWN – A New Musical. Sometimes it’s not all just happening in your mind.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical is written by: Michael Gene Sullivan & Marie Cartier Director: Michael Gene Sullivan Music & Lyrics Daniel Savio Music Director: Daniel Savio The show runs 80 min. – no intermission.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical features a five-person cast that includes veteran SF Mime Troupe collective member: Andre Amarotico (Mr. Stereós); who is joined by Jamella Cross (Marcia Stone); Alicia M. P. Nelson (Saidia); Jed Pasario (Felix); and Kina Kantor (Yume). And SFMT Band: Breakfast (Keyboard, Guitar, Sax); Guinevere Q (Bass); and Jason Young (Drums, Percussion).
Bios: https://www.sfmt.org/press-bios All actors and the stage manager appear through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. To arrange an interview with writers, actors, or anyone from the SF Mime Troupe Collective, please call or e-mail publicist Lawrence Helman at 415-336-8220 heytheresells@gmail.com
Tech credits for BREAKDOWN – A New Musical include: Scenic Designer: Carlos Aceves; Costume Designer: Keiko Shimosato Carreiro; Props: Lena Seagrave; Choreographer: AeJay Mitchell; Sound Designer / Engineer: Taylor Gonzalez; Sound A2: Miguel Wacher; Sound A2: Solstiz Ibarra-Camp; Poster Design: Pablo Mica; Prod. Stage Manager: Karen Runk; Booking Coordinator: Junelle Taguas-Utumoengalu & Andre Amarotico; Tour Manager: Maxine Tower; Publicity: Lawrence Helman; Photography: DavidAllenStudio.com.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical plays July 1 – Sept. 4, 2023 Opening: Sat. / Sun. July 1, 2 – Cedar Rose Park – Berkeley Opening: Mon. July 4, – Dolores Park – San Francisco Running throughout the Bay Area in SF, Marin (Mill Valley), Ukiah (Mendocino), Cotati (Sonoma), East Bay, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and Davis July 1 – Sept. 4, 2023.
All shows are FREE and open to the public unless otherwise listed. Ticketed performance: Z Space: Aug. 24, 2023 (Thurs.). Some shows will require RSVPs: Davis HS, Richard Brunelle Performance Hall: Aug. 3 (Thurs.); SFMT Studio Back Lawn in SF: Aug 16 (Sun.). For a complete schedule and more information, visit http://www.sfmt.org or call 415-285-1717.
