Join Oil and Gas Action Network for an electrifying block party/action against Wells Fargo, one of the top four US banks funding the climate crisis.
Before Wells Fargo releases their quarterly earnings report, we’ll party in a high-energy day with talented musicians, dancers, street theater, and more. Dance, sing, and help harness the power of community to escalate resistance to profit-driven climate destruction.
Host Contact: info@oilgasaction.org
After nearly 30 years of continuous publication, we have lost our funding. Street Spirit ceased publication on July 1, but we will not give up! Our newspaper is an invaluable source of East Bay news, and a vital resource for the people who sell it. Come party with us to support our effort to relaunch.
Tickets: We are selling tickets on a sliding scale of $5 to $500. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds, so come even if you can’t pay and you’ll be invited in!
Learn: Alexis Madrigal will moderate a panel about East Bay homelessness, Street Spirit, and what our community stands to lose without it. Guests on the panel will include Street Spirit Editor Alastair Boone, Talya Husbands-Hankin of Oakland’s Love and Justice in the Streets, and Street Spirit vendors.
Dance: Music by Shruggs
Eat: Food by Hausa Vegan
Hang: Let’s get to know each other! Street Spirit has no future without the community of people who read and support it. Meet and chat with the amazing journalists, advocates, vendors, artists, and East Bay residents who lift us up.
*Flyer by Sucharitha Yelimeli*
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 Capitalism, 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.
Imagine a future of community policing, police commissions with real authority, and registered Green Party police chiefs. What would a Green Party police force look like? Demilitarized officers, biodiesel-fueled vehicles, and hemp weapons? How would you create a police force with Green Party values? Well, the irregular cast with special guests will discuss the possibilities with you and theorize on how to make an entirely new police system a reality.
Join us – virtual doors open at 6 PM (witth the best pre-show music diversity). The discussion begins at 6:30 PM PST on ZOOM.
Organized by the Oakland Greens:
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
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.
Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night
Virtual: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
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.
Troy’s book examines a piece of critical and understudied Latin American social movement and anarchist history involving the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU). Militants the FAU were involved shop floor struggles, neighborhood organizing, and armed guerrilla warfare–alongside the Tupamaros–against the US backed dictatorship which took power in Uruguay starting in 1973.
This event will feature readings from the book, a broader contextual discussion about revolutionary social movements in Latin America during the period, and lessons for revolutionaries today.
RSVP on Facebook by clicking this link!
We will be discussing the basics of capitalism. It is highly recommended to read the required readings as this night school will be geared more toward discussion.
Required Readings:
Recommended Readings TBD
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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!
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Some stuff people have been working on:
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Activists in the Bay Area have long felt incredibly lucky to have David Solnit creating the art that has brought life and energy to our actions for decades. Now we have the privilege of seeing him and another environmental artist, Emily Robinson, in an online discussion of Creative Activism: Using Art to Protect Our Planet.
In this month’s episode of Food & Water Watch’s Livable Future series, David and Emily will discuss how their art calls attention to the most pressing issues of our day and asks all of us to think creatively about what we can do to make a positive impact in the fight to protect the health of our planet
Register to join us
Accessibility: ASL and Live Closed Captioning available.
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.
Info/registration here
The Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force presents the first in its new series of summits on Climate, Social Justice, and the Rights of Nature. This first event, Climate and H2O, will explore climate and justice issues relating to water.
Speakers include:
Corrina Gould, Tribal Chair, Confederate Villages of Lisjan, co-founder Sogorea Te Land Trust: Salmon, H2O, and Ceremony
Ellen Plane, environmental scientist, Resilient Landscapes Program, San Francisco Estuary Institute: Sea Level Rise, Groundwater Rise, and Adaptation for the San Francisco Bay Shoreline
Aundi Mevoli, Field Investigator and Policy Advocate, and Julia Dowell, Field Investigator and Community Advocate, San Francisco Baykeeper: Toxic Sites Creating Toxic Futures
Hayley Currier, Policy Manager, San Francisco Save the Bay: Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Resilience
Kija Rivers, Policy Advocate, Community Water Center: Drinking Water and Climate Change
Cheryl Sudduth, Elected: President, Board of Directors, West County Wastewater District: Environmental Justice in a Time of Unjust Justices (decisions)
ALL 100% FREE!!!!
DO you want to PRINT something?
This is a chance to print FAST AND DIRTY on a thin paper suitable for wheatpasting. We will not be doing complex multi-color, multi-page, or tight-registration Riso prints.
We are trying to use up our TEAL and PURPLE ink! Just come by, and you can use supplies to collage, use our Letraset transfer lettering to create old-school headlines, and draw whatever the hell you want.
For more details about free printing @ this event, please visit the website!
Donations deeply appreciated but in no way required!
No Coal in Oakland Community Rally
For years, developer Phil Tagami has been pushing to build a massive coal terminal in West Oakland. In 2016, Oakland City Council voted unanimously to ban coal and, after defending a federal lawsuit, the city is now fighting in state court to end the threat of an Oakland coal terminal for good.
No Coal in Oakland, Interfaith Council of Alameda County, and Care 4 Community Action are cosponsoring a community rally against coal on July 22. Come to share our determination that toxic coal shall not pass through our West Oakland neighborhoods on its way from Utah to overseas markets. There will be food and music, beautiful new banners, yard signs to put up all over town, and updates on the trial in Hayward.
Our scheduled speaker has requested a later date, so we will have a round table discussion of the coming U.S. elections, considering what posistion U.S. leftists should take. We are looking forward to an informed and information discussion. Bring your opinions and be prepared to defend them!
Our Zoom room will be opened up as usual at 10:15 am for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will begin at 10:30 am and will end at 12:30pm.\
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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
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.
Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night
Virtual: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
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.
