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Come share vigil for Peace in Gaza and Palestine
We have flags and large signs
Media outlets are reporting that UC Berkeley intends to attack People’s
Park in the first week of January 2024
(https://www.sfgate.com/news/
Yes, 16 months after UC’s failed attempt in August of 2022 to fence and
destroy the Park, they have regrouped and now they are ready to go back
on the offensive.
We won’t let them destroy it!
Park defenders are preparing to protect People’s Park once again, as we
have successfully done for the past 54 years. While there are still some
issues winding their way through the courts, the situation has changed
since 2022. State politicians such as Buffy Wicks, Nancy Skinner and
Gov. Gavin Newsom have worked to change the law to enable UC Berkeley to
ignore environmental law and finish their conquest of People’s Park.
The university will rely on hordes of riot police to do their dirty
work. Do not be afraid! Come join us! When it comes to the Park, the
people have always prevailed — but we can’t do it without you.
Now is the time to prepare and get ready to mobilize. Get supplies
together in preparation for a late-night, or early morning, resistance.
Tell your friends about the Park and encourage them to join you.
Get connected in the following ways:
1. Text SAVETHEPARK to 41372 — and share this number! If possible,
disable your phone’s “Do Not Disturb” for the first week of January to
ensure you get nighttime alerts.
2. For further updates, text “@pplspark6” to 81010
3. Come out to the Park to meet people and get prepared.
Text SAVETHEPARK to 41372 & share widely. If possible, disable yr phone’s “do not disturb” for the 1st week of January to get nighttime alerts.
🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧
Heads up, Park defenders.
Emergency meet-up today (12/31) at noon at People's Park. Cop invasion expected Tues. 1/2 at 5:00 a.m. Come organize park defense. Meet great people. This is a vital last bit of green space, where ppl are allowed to just exist. 1/2
— ~🦥~ (@becauseberkeley) December 31, 2023
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
Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.
Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186
The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a
grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality.
In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and mobilize people against police and state repression. Sisters and brothers! The Oscar Grant Committee invites you to join us in this vital struggle.
We meet on the 1st Monday of each month
You can join our discussion list by sending a blank (doesn’t even need a subject) email to
oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
People’s Park Rapi: SHOW UP: we’re taking over Telegraph, starting at the corner with Haste, until we get our park back! Come anytime;Rally at 11am; live updates via Instagram @peoplesparkberkele
Cops entered the park last night around midnight. They used bulldozers and cut trees down. Several people were arrested.
1. Call to Order, determination of quorum
2. Review and approval of the draft December 7 meeting minutes
3. Open Forum/Public Comment for non-agenda items
4. Federal Task Force Ordinance – OPD – Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
a. Review draft MOU and take possible action
Each person wishing to speak on items must fill out a speaker’s card. Persons addressing the Privacy Advisory Commission shall state their names and the organization they are representing, if any.
Members of the public can view the meeting live on KTOP or on the City’s website at https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/ktop-tv-10.
Comment in advance. To send your comment directly to the Privacy Commission and staff BEFORE the meeting starts, please send your comment, along with your full name and agenda item number you are commenting on, to Felicia Verdin at fverdin@oaklandca.gov. Please note that eComment submissions close one (1) hour before posted meeting time. All submitted public comment will be provided to the Privacy Commission prior to the meeting.
Media outlets are reporting that UC Berkeley intends to attack People’s
Park in the first week of January 2024
(https://www.sfgate.com/news/
Yes, 16 months after UC’s failed attempt in August of 2022 to fence and
destroy the Park, they have regrouped and now they are ready to go back
on the offensive.
We won’t let them destroy it!
Park defenders are preparing to protect People’s Park once again, as we
have successfully done for the past 54 years. While there are still some
issues winding their way through the courts, the situation has changed
since 2022. State politicians such as Buffy Wicks, Nancy Skinner and
Gov. Gavin Newsom have worked to change the law to enable UC Berkeley to
ignore environmental law and finish their conquest of People’s Park.
The university will rely on hordes of riot police to do their dirty
work. Do not be afraid! Come join us! When it comes to the Park, the
people have always prevailed — but we can’t do it without you.
Now is the time to prepare and get ready to mobilize. Get supplies
together in preparation for a late-night, or early morning, resistance.
Tell your friends about the Park and encourage them to join you.
Get connected in the following ways:
1. Text SAVETHEPARK to 41372 — and share this number! If possible,
disable your phone’s “Do Not Disturb” for the first week of January to
ensure you get nighttime alerts.
2. For further updates, text “@pplspark6” to 81010
3. Come out to the Park to meet people and get prepared.
Please register in advance at
https://bit.ly/MiddleEast-24-01-06
to receive your personal link to participate in this event online
The Israeli Government responded to the October 7 attack by Hamas with collective punishment of Palestinians in Gaza. The slaughter and destruction continues as the war expands in the region. American activists protesting Israel’s escalation and its support by the U.S. government are subjected to accusations of anti-semitism and repression of dissent.
Join our panelists to discuss the roots of the conflict and current developments in the Middle East and in the U.S.
Steven Zunes – Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, directed the program in Middle Eastern Studies
Lujain Al-Saleh – Arab Resource and Organizing Committee
[TBA] – representative from Jewish Voice for Peace
*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.
An open discussion will follow the presentations.
We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.
This event is sponsored by the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party,
the Alameda County Green Party and Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change.
The New Parkway is now hosting Drag Queen Story Time—Come for the hair, the glitter, the glamour, and the stories!
Drag Queen Story Time was created to be enjoyed by everyone; whether you’re a kiddo yourself or a kiddo at heart, this event is for you!
In order to allow seats for everyone, we are requiring one ticket per person over 1 year of age. Seating will still be limited, so please come prepared to share space with other groups and be generous with your story queen; they are only charging a nominal fee for this event!
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
OTU’s Mission
The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf.
Monthly Meetings
The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 pm on the second Monday evening of each month. Our monthly meetings are held in the Community Room of the Madison Park Apartments, 100 – 9th Street (at Oak Street, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station). To enter, gently knock on the window of the room to the right of the main entrance to the building. At the meetings, first we focus on general issues affecting renters city-wide and then second we offer advice to renters regarding their individual concerns.
If you have an issue, a question, or need advice about a tenant/landlord issue, please call us at (510) 704-5276. Leave a message with your name and phone number and someone will get back to you.
SF Vote for Ceasefire Resolution! Join us to continue to demonstrate overwhelming support for #ceasefire. Monday, January 8 @ 9am Rules Committee Meeting and Tuesday, January 9 @ 1pm Full Board meeting and vote. Email Board of Supervisors: https://t.co/PEvWrq1bqu #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/7LnE5Jfj98
— AROC #FreePalestine (@AROCBayArea) January 5, 2024
If you’re joining virtually, you will receive a Zoom videoconference link.
Register: https://secure.ngpvan.com/tiKLTg2ck0iLJ4ABglXAWA2
Speakers:
There’s going to be an Oakland Port Shut Down in Solidarity with Palestine this Saturday 1/13. 5am
Please spread the word with Bay Area people. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/WJhqE44UFB
— Only Ceasefire Fans 🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@lesuperburp) January 9, 2024
Media outlets are reporting that UC Berkeley intends to attack People’s
Park in the first week of January 2024
(https://www.sfgate.com/news/
Yes, 16 months after UC’s failed attempt in August of 2022 to fence and
destroy the Park, they have regrouped and now they are ready to go back
on the offensive.
We won’t let them destroy it!
Park defenders are preparing to protect People’s Park once again, as we
have successfully done for the past 54 years. While there are still some
issues winding their way through the courts, the situation has changed
since 2022. State politicians such as Buffy Wicks, Nancy Skinner and
Gov. Gavin Newsom have worked to change the law to enable UC Berkeley to
ignore environmental law and finish their conquest of People’s Park.
The university will rely on hordes of riot police to do their dirty
work. Do not be afraid! Come join us! When it comes to the Park, the
people have always prevailed — but we can’t do it without you.
Now is the time to prepare and get ready to mobilize. Get supplies
together in preparation for a late-night, or early morning, resistance.
Tell your friends about the Park and encourage them to join you.
Get connected in the following ways:
1. Text SAVETHEPARK to 41372 — and share this number! If possible,
disable your phone’s “Do Not Disturb” for the first week of January to
ensure you get nighttime alerts.
2. For further updates, text “@pplspark6” to 81010
3. Come out to the Park to meet people and get prepared.
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
For our December meeting we are reading the first half (through chapter 2) of The Feminist Subversion of the Economy. (Common Notions Press, Amazon). For our January, 2024 meeting we will read the remainder.
The political response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pressures on the global capitalist economies has, once again, imposed the priority of markets over life. Add to this the climate crisis and, undoubtedly, the task of sustaining life continues to be privatized, made invisible, and feminized.We must ask: what does a dignified life look like, especially one that transforms the gendered labor divisions and a racialized, exploitative feminized care economy that falls mainly on the shoulders of women—from the household to the wider effects of the capitalist economy on social reproduction.
At the same time, these questions are intimately connected with considerations of our environment. The Feminist Subversion of the Economy makes the conection between patriarchy, capitalism, and ecological crisis—and rallies women, the LGBTQ+ community, and movements worldwide to center gender and social reproduction in a vision for a just ecology and economy.
Public intellectual, academic, and activist Amaia Pérez Orozco offers a vision beyond the myths of development (unlimited growth), wealth (accumulation of capital), and work (limited to waged labor) and, at the same time, accounts for the tasks, networks, and economic subjects that, materially and daily, guarantee that life keeps going.
Newly translated and updated in collaboration with Liz Mason-Desse, who has won a PEN translation award for her work on feminist economics, The Feminist Subversion of the Economy shows the urgent need to radically and democratically discuss what we mean by a dignified life and how we can organize to sustain life collectively.
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, Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America, End Times, and Jackson Rising Redux.
Speaker: Immanuel Ness
For more than a century, a trend within Western Marxism has been to retreat from endorsing actually existing socialist projects such as the Soviet Union and retheorizing their significance in relation to capitalism. In this context, these scholars have begun to, in effect, reject imperialism as a driving force of capitalism, while obscuring the central regressive role of the US in particular.
Such re-theorization downplays the historical significance of actually existing socialism and especially socialist projects in the Global South, often by reframing them as part of global capitalism or global modernity. Recent versions of Western Marxism often conflate capitalism and modernity. The presentation explores the source of Western Marxism’s antagonism to socialism, especially socialism in the Global South. Our speaker contends that a new shift occurred in the 1980s and 1990s as Western Marxists began to focus on global capitalism and globalization.
Our speaker, Immanuel Ness, is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College (CUNY) and a visiting professor of sociology at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. A trade union organizer in the US and labor activist in the Global South, Immanuel Ness is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Labor and Society. He is chair of the New York Peace Council and of the International Committee of the PSC/CUNY, a labor union representing faculty at CUNY. He recently returned from a US Peace Council delegation to meet with the Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament.
His many books, academic articles, chapters, and edited volumes handbooks focus on US imperialism, labor movements, and international migration.
His latest book is Migration as Economic Imperialism (Polity 2023), which focuses on Western financial imperialism and the oppression of the Global South.
His other books include Sanctions as War (Brill 2022) , Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto 2016), and the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (2014/2021).
ZOOM LINK
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1