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The California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) and Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) are co-sponsoring an important webinar about the potentially negative cumulative health concerns of hydrogen infrastructure, and the environmental justice solutions.

While the state of California plans to expand its use of hydrogen as fuel, each stage of its life cycle—production, delivery, storage, and end use—presents a unique risk to environmental justice communities.  CEJA and CBE will deconstruct the greenwashing of hydrogen and its impacts, which include air pollution, pipe embrittlement, and gas line leaks and explosions.   Join this webinar to learn more about how you can demand transparent participation in the state’s energy infrastructure.  It’s not too late to create a truly equitable clean energy future for all Californians.

This event will happen in both English and Spanish.  Please reach with any questions to Mia Lopez-Zubiri at mia@ceja.org .

{PARTNER POST} JOIN US FOR A DAY OF GIVING! Alameda County Community Connect invites you to our Homeless Resource and Job Fair! Open to all – no registration needed!
🗓️Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024
⏰Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
📍Location: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum pic.twitter.com/W59OxXEXTE

— Roots Community Health (@RootsEmpowers) July 17, 2024

“Climate and Biodiversity” is the next topic in the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force’s fifth series of summits, this series focusing on “Climate, Colonization, and Rights for Humans and Nature.”

Online. Register here

Program:

9:00 AM

Land Acknowledgement

9:10 AM

Welcome

• Cheryl Davila, Founder, CEMTF & Former Councilmember, City of Berkeley

Speakers:

9:15 AM

Advancing Social Justice in Marginalized Communities & Among University Students

• Leonida Odongo, Founding Director, Haki Nawiri Afrika

9:40 AM

The Importance of Microbial Diversity in California Estuarine Ecosystems

• Karis Polfer, Steering Committee Member, CEMTF

10: 05 AM

From the Grassroots to the Global – Biodiversity Conservation beyond Protected Acres

• Liz Chamberlin, Director of Innovation, Point Blue

10:30 AM

Connected California: Helping People and Wildlife Coexist and Thrive

• Neal Sharma, Senior Manager, California Wildlife Program, Wildlife Conservation Network

10:55 AM Break

11:00 AM

Biodiversity Conservation Using Science, Policy, and Law

• Tiffany Yap, Senior Scientist, Urban Wildlands Program, Center for Biological Diversity

11:25 AM

Bioblitz!

• Martha Arlette Cerda, Naturalist, Tilden Nature Area, East Bay Regional Park District

11:35 AM

Q & A

11:50 AM

Announcements & Closing

• Cheryl Davila

Website: https://cemtf.org

Earlier this year the Anti Police-Terror Project proudly launched The People’s Clinic with scheduling options every 1st and 3rd Friday at The People’s House in West Oakland. We created The People’s Clinic as an abolitionist healing space for communities affected by police terror and state violence, frontline organizers, and our West Oakland neighbors. We offer free services for community like acupuncture, herbal consultations, massage, healing tools library, monthly workshops, and more.

Our Healing Justice framework invites community to envision and manifest a life beyond the violence we survive everyday. Without healing there is no justice. Sign up today to join us for free healing services this Friday!

Save the Date for the @GlobalComEduArt 8th Annual Immigrants' Rights Forum, featuring inspirational guest speakers, cultural performances, art exhibitions, and community dialogue.

Saturday, July 20, 2024 | 2 PM – 7 PM
4689 Telegraph Ave., Oakland

RSVP: https://t.co/yPwBwQwxAf pic.twitter.com/I3Jtw1h1YG

— Supervisor Keith Carson (@Keith_Carson) June 18, 2024

Speaker: Richard Becker

Join Zoom Meeting
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Our speaker will discuss the new edition of his book, Palestine, Israel, and U.S. Empire. This is  an essential book for the current moment, providing a sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine, updated following the events of October 7, 2023.

Taking an anti-Zionist perspective on the history of Palestine and Israel, Becker traces the movements of resistance from the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the founding of Israel and its role as a watchdog for US interests, and on to present day conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution. This narrative is firmly rooted in the politics of Palestinian liberation. Here is a necessary contribution to the heroic efforts of the Palestinian people to achieve justice in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. This book contains a complete index and a timeline of developments in the history of Palestine.

Our speaker, Richard Becker, is a founder of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and Western Region Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism). He is author of numerous books, including Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire,  The Myth of Democracy, and The Rule of the Banks.​

NOTE: This will be our first meeting after the attempted assassination of Trump, so our speaker may also discuss its political significance. Folks may want to prepare themselves by reading:

PSL Statement � The attempteed assassination of Trump and its political fallout. Party for Socialism and Liberation July 15, 2024

PSL Statement – The attempted assassination of Trump and its political fallout

Vallejo community vigil tomorrow at 5. Come pray for our city with us! pic.twitter.com/JRd16IUpiC

— Melissa Nold, Esq. (@savage_esquire) July 26, 2024

We are delighted to invite you to the California Progressive Alliance 2024 Convention!

This will be our first in-person convention back since the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are excited to announce that for the first time ever, the CPA convention will take place in Southern California at the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College! This year’s theme is Movement Building & Organizing Sustainable Power in California. As with past conventions, we will come together to develop, build and strengthen avenues in political and social spaces that help us work for a better future for ourselves and for the next Seven Generations.

Earlier this year, we worked hard to announce a series of candidate endorsements. Our endorsements spanned different parties because we choose to recognize that many people are doing their part to move us in the right direction, and different people utilize different avenues. For some people, that looks like trying to bring the Democratic Party to the left, or at least try to prevent it from doing further damage. For others, it looks like running as a member of the Green Party or the Peace and Freedom Party. Still others choose other routes to build political power.

At CPA, we are not in the business of telling people where to engage in their struggle for our collective liberation. Instead, when people run for office and claim to uphold progressive ideals, we ask: Is this candidate corporate free? Do they support single payer healthcare, climate policies, and labor rights? Do they connect to and represent their community? These are the ideals that have always guided the California Progressive Alliance. It is with these ideals in mind that we announce the California Progressive Alliance 2024 Convention.

We are excited to bring you a full day program that will include speakers, special guests, pertinent topics, panels, 8 separate breakout workshops (choose 2), the presentation of the 2024 Gayle McLaughlin Award, breakfast and lunch (included in the cost of the ticket), music, movement building, and just spending time with new people and old friends building community.

General Admission: $40 Student Admission: $20

Limited Hardship Waivers available!

Speaker: Kenneth Hammond

Socialists in the Euro-American left have never really understood the dialectics of the Chinese Revolution from the formation of the People’s Republic, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, to the present. Just what is going on with the Communist Party of China (CPC)? Our speaker will help us better understand the dynamics of modern China.​

Our speaker, Kenneth Hammond, is a professor in East Asian Studies & Global History at New Mexico State University. He earned his PhD in History and East Asian Studies and was active in the student movement at Kent State Univeristy. He is also the author of From Yao to Mao: 5000 years of Chinese History and other books. Ken has lived and still teaches regularly in China​

Join Zoom Meeting

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National Day of Mourning: Justice for Sonya Massey & Alexander Antonio Lopez

On July 6, a 36-year-old Black woman, Sonya Massey, called 911 to report a suspected intruder at her home. Her first words when she opened her front door to them were “don’t hurt me.” Instead of protecting her, Springfield, Illinois police shot and murdered her inside of her own home. The sheriff who killed her, Sean Grayson, was on duty in his 6th policing job of his career after being disciplined in five previous police departments.

Sonya is more than a victim of the police state. She was a mother, a sister, a daughter and a loving community member. We say her name as we continue to rebuke the paradigm that dying at the hands of the state is an unpreventable leading cause of death for our people.

Join us on Sunday for a vigil, healing ceremony and community gathering. There will be speakers, performers, healing justice practitioners and an open community mic.

As we join in this national day of mourning, we also want to honor the life of Alexander Antonio Lopez who was murdered right in our backyard by SFPD just last weekend.

Antonio was killed in the Tenderloin, in an area where homeless folks are frequently swept. As the state cracks down on people sleeping in the streets with nowhere to go, we call out this murder as part of the state’s efforts to disappear our people in the name of maintaining the illusion that the status quo of white supremacy and violence works for us all. It never has and it never will. We rebuke it in the name of our divine humanity.

Sonya Massey should still be alive. Alexander Antonio Lopez should still be alive. We continue to fight for a better world in their names.

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!

​Special Workshop Presentation and Explorations: XR in Art

​What fine arts are doing with virtual reality / augmented reality and XR in general, and how can we make exhibits and virtual reality Art at SudoRoom and Beyond? We’ll be looking especially closely at the Venice Biennial Immersive and the Cannes XR Virtual Festival.

​Also, how can you mix virtual reality with hardware? We have seen projects where people 3D print mountains or sculptures of maps.

​Project Ideas

​If we force you to watch a presentation, you’d better believe we’ll offer a workshop:

• ​Could we print a 3D printed map of Oakland or even make it out of paper machine and do light projection animations on it without having to use a headset?
• ​If we do have a VisionPro or Quest, could we use that to look at a 3D object?
• ​How can we make #webxr exhibits of our wonderful space and show off our projects? we already. have some throw-up explorations here https://fancy-charming-physician.glitch.me/

​Hardware Hacking Tuesdays are better than ever! Plus Fix-It Clinic!

​Each Tuesday we welcome all to bring their hardware (and software and firmware) projects to Omni Commons, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, about 7:30pm until ∞ …whomever’s left standing!

​We are inside the Omni Commons at 48th and Shattuck, see the link at the end of this text to call in in case the doors are locked!

​○ Projects: can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to light projection art, to people building their own microchip boards! We provide the space, tools and peer learning – you bring your project and enthusiasm!

​○ Group Sewing: Learn to do simple mending or get help with technical fabric and textile projects. In addition to regular machines our Sewing Lab features heavy-duty industrial sewing machines and sergers. Our in house sewing guru CC has worked for Academy or Art College, Tesla, SuitX, and Zipline and has vast sewing machine repair and maintenance experience; bring your own machine to tune up for tip-top operation and sew alongside others.

​○ General Repair: Fix it Clinic’s weekly Oakland residency: bring your broken, non-functioning things – electronic gadgets, appliances, computers, toys, sewing machines, fabric items, etc.– for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair. We’ll provide workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to help you disassemble and troubleshoot your item. First-time repairers and “Fixing Families” are heartily invited.

• ​Learn more at https://www.fixitclinic.org/ or https://sudoroom.org/wiki/FixitClinic

​Join us every Tuesday evening for a trifecta of awesomeness; you can also jump in  virtually via our zoom-like video conference at this link: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles

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​https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2024-07-30/

Richmond Town Hall Meeting: “Climate and Community Health”

Our Richmond ACCE Chapter is proud to invite you for a very special Richmond Clean Energy and Healthy Homes Town Hall Meeting: “Climate & Community Health”. We will be joined by our special guest Dr. Bret Andrews, former Associate Chief of Neurology at Kaiser Permanente Oakland, who will lead a discussion about how climate change is impacting the health of our community!

Together we can build a future where our appliances do not give our children asthma, where local industries do not impact air and environmental quality, where we can all breathe healthy and clear air. Join us and be part of the movement!

The Wachowskis’ neo-noir dystopian political thriller sci-fi classic feels more relevant today than ever. Though it concerns the underground rebellion against Nordic supremacy and neo-fascist totalitarianism in an alternate futuristic Britain, it sure seems a lot like 2024 America.

In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of “V”, plots to overthrow the tyrannical government – with the help of a young woman.

Agenda Items:

3. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPW – Report On OPD Request For Video Footage From
Illegal Dumping Cameras
a. Review and take possible action

4. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPW – Illegal Dumping Camera Program Proposed Use Policy
Amendments
a. Review and take possible action

5. Assembly Bill 645 – DOT – Automated Speed Camera Implementation Impact Statement and
Proposed Use Policy
a. Review 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

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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.

To observe the meeting via Zoom, go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85817209915

Earlier this year the Anti Police-Terror Project proudly launched The People’s Clinic with scheduling options every 1st and 3rd Friday at The People’s House in West Oakland. We created The People’s Clinic as an abolitionist healing space for communities affected by police terror and state violence, frontline organizers, and our West Oakland neighbors. We offer free services for community like acupuncture, herbal consultations, massage, healing tools library, monthly workshops, and more.

Our Healing Justice framework invites community to envision and manifest a life beyond the violence we survive everyday. Without healing there is no justice. Sign up today to join us for free healing services this Friday!

SAN FRANCISCO EMERGENCY ACTION: US OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST! STOP FUELING REGIONAL WAR!

Join us in protest as we pass 300 days of continued Zionist violence and atrocities against the Palestinian people. Israel, with full backing from the United States, has continued its genocide against Palestinians with total impunity. With continued escalations in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and Iraq, the Zionist occupation has made clear how desperate it is to spark a regional war before putting an end to the genocide of Palestinians.

We call on our community to mobilize and demand that the US stop fueling regional war with the Zionist entity: Hands off Gaza, hands off Lebanon, and hands off the Middle East—US out of the Middle East! US out of everywhere! For our martyrs. For our prisoners. For Gaza. For the struggle towards a better world!