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We the People: Nationwide Protest. Oakland and Berkeley. @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Mar 4 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Nationwide “We the People” protests. Locally, there are protests at Oakland City Hall (Oscar Grant Plaza, Broadway &14th) starting at 5:30 pm and at Berkeley City Hall (2180 Milvia) starting at 6:00 pm. Here are links to a little more info about the Oakland event: https://www.mobilize.us/lightfordemocracy/event/759932/ and about the Berkeley event: https://www.mobilize.us/lightfordemocracy/event/759839/

Under the headline, “Light for Our Democracy”, they’re urging that, “At a time when democracy is under threat, we’re asking you – and folks across the country – to come together to defend it.”

See you in front of City Hall tomorrow!

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Public Bank of the East Bay General Organizing Meeting @ Online

Mar 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

The Friends of Public Bank East Bay host general organizing meetings every Wednesday at 6pm via zoom

If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch.

We can match your interests and skill set to our needs!

Public Bank East Bay hopes to open by 2025, as a transformative institution that keeps our money local, allowing local governments to divest from Wall Street and reinvest its profits back into our community. Public Bank East Bay’s initial loan policies will support affordable housing development, provide support for small businesses (especially for marginalized entrepreneurs), finance the renovation and electrification of existing buildings, and help cities and counties refinance their municipal debt.

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Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall

Mar 6 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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.

Relevant Agenda:

4. Federal Task Force Ordinance – OPD – Annual Reports: Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); Secret Service; United States Marshall Service (USMS);
Federal Bureau of Investigation Violent Crimes – Safe Streets (FBI); Federal Bureau of Investigation
Child Exploitation (FBI)

5. Privacy Advisory Commission – Annual Election of Chair/Vice-Chair
a. Vote on nominee(s) for chair and vice-chair positions

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Nationwide Protests @ Everywhere

Mar 7 all-day

https://twitter.com/HeatherThomasAF/status/1894468347636715742

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Protect people under ICE surveillance @ Online

Mar 7 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am

As we suspected, the number of arrests of individuals under some form of ICE surveillance (via formal check-ins with ICE and/or through the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program/ISAP) has significantly increased since the start of the Trump Administration. CJE has connected with dozens of groups across the country about how these arrests have been carried out and have identified a few patterns that ICE appears to be following – most notably the use of ruse tactics to trick people and then arrest them. We are continuing to track these arrests so please reach out directly if you have information that would help our efforts.

We’ve updated the resource we released back in January “When ICE is Watching: Know Your Fight, Protect Your People”, which provides information to people under ICE surveillance about the risks for arrest and detention, with the information that we’ve been able to collect so far about these arrests. The resource is now available in English, Spanish, French, Wolof, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, Cebuano, Farsi, and Pashto. You can find the folder with all the resources here: https://bit.ly/knowyourfight. Please continue to share it widely!

Additionally, if your organization is working with people under any kind of ICE surveillance we want to invite you to join us for a community conversation on Friday, March 7th at 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET. At this meeting, we will briefly review the resource, discuss how these arrests have been conducted, and any connections that might exist between them. We want groups to discuss what they’re witnessing and how they’re supporting community members under ICE surveillance. You must register here to participate.

If you can’t make the meeting, but want to be in touch with us, please fill out this link.

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Stand Up for Science @ Civic Center Plaza

Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join a STAND UP FOR SCIENCE rally in San Francisco or Sacramento (and nationwide) to defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress.

Organizers are calling on policymakers, institutions, and the scientific community to uphold the integrity of science, protect its accessibility, and ensure its benefits serve all people. Stand Up for Science proposes the following policy actions:

1. Secure and Expand Scientific Funding

Publicly funded science drives innovation, strengthens the economy, and improves lives. We demand:

Restoration of Federal Research Funding: Reinstate federal funding for scientific research across all disciplines to FY-2024 levels and commit a 20% increase in federal scientific funding over the next three years followed by annual increases indexed to inflation to ensure sustained scientific advancement.
Reinstatement of Wrongfully Dismissed Federal Employees: Rehire all unlawfully terminated scientists and administrators at federal agencies (including NSF, NIH, CDC, EPA, NOAA, NPS, NWS, FWS, and FDA) with full back pay and benefits.
Removal of the 15% cap on indirect funding for NIH-funded grants and reinstatement of indirect funding policies as they existed prior to January 1, 2025.

2. End Censorship and Political Interference in Science

Science thrives on open inquiry and evidence-based decision-making. We demand:

An End to Government Censorship: Prohibit all forms of political censorship in scientific research, including restrictions on the topics of scientific research that are eligible for federal funding.
Restoration of Public Access to Scientific Information: Restore all scientific data, reports, and resources on federal websites to pre-January 31^st, 2025 status, ensuring full public access to primary scientific sources.
Protection of Research Independence: Mandate legal safeguards against political interference to preserve the integrity of federal research and communication.
A Commitment to Freedom of Scientific Expression: Protect scientists’ rights to communicate their findings freely, without fear of retaliation or suppression.

3. Defend Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Science

Science is strongest when it includes everyone. Attacks on DEIA initiatives are attacks on science itself. We demand:

Preservation of Equitable Access to STEM: Maintain and expand federal programs that broaden participation in STEM training and careers.
Protection for Minoritized Scientists: Enforce anti-discrimination protections for minoritized scientists to ensure equitable participation and impact.
Reinstatement of DEIA Initiatives: Restore all DEIA programs within federal agencies to pre-January 1, 2025 status, ensuring continued progress toward equity.

Science is for everyone. Science keeps us safe, and enables us to live longer, healthier lives. Stand Up for Science calls on leaders at every level, regardless of political affiliation, to champion and protect scientific research, education, and communication—for the progress, prosperity, and well-being of all.

WHEN

Saturday, March 7, 1-3 PM San Francisco
Saturday, March 7, 12-4 PM Sacramento

WHERE

San Francisco – Civic Center Plaza
335 McAllister St.

REGISTER HERE for SF

California State Capitol – West Side Mall
1010 L. St.

REGISTER HERE FOR SACRAMENTO

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International Women’s Day – Oakland, SF @ Fruitvale

Mar 8 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

International Women’s Day Actions, March 8 2025

Find more International Women’s Day events

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Oakland:

Location: Avenida de La Fuente, Fruitvale, Oakland / Huchiun Territory

San Francisco

Date: Saturday, March 8, 2025

Time: 10am-12:30pm

Location: Union Square, 18 Geary St. San Francisco, CA, 94108

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Labor Exploitation in the Era of the Neoliberal Policy Regime @ Online

Mar 9 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Speaker: Jack Rasmus

To Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1

Professor Rasmus provides a distinction between primary and secondary exploitation from Marx. Primary exploitation is at the workplace, while secondary exploitation is beyond the workplace. Secondary exploitation can include deferred wage payments, like pensions, interest on household debt, price gouging and other ways of clawing back wage payments. These two forms of exploitation have intensified under neo-liberal capitalism, increasing the rate of surplus value.

Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author and producer of the numerous books, including The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Bush (2019), Central Bankers at the End of Their Rope? (2017), and forthcoming The Twilight of American Imperialism (October 2025).

Jack is the host of the weekly radio show, Alternative Visions, on the Progressive Radio Network, and a journalist writing on economic, political and labor issues for various magazines, including European Financial Review, World Financial Review, World Review of Political Economy, ‘Z‘ magazine, and others. Before his current roles as author, journalist and radio host, Jack was an economist and market analyst for several global companies, and for more than a decade, a local union president, vice-president, contract negotiator, and organizer for several labor unions, including the UAW, CWA, SEIU, and HERE. Jack’s website is www.kyklosproductions.com where his published articles, radio-tv interviews, plays and book reviews are available for download. He blogs at jackrasmus.com, where weekly commentaries on US and global economic matters are available. His twitter handle is @drjackrasmus.

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Mar 9 @ 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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Green Sunday: International Women’s Day, Reflections and Origins: Struggles for Equality, Class Solidarity, and Socialism

Mar 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88083342274

Laura Wells will open with reflections on what the words related to Women’s History Month even mean: feminist, female, woman. There are no easy answers in these times. The question is, how do we — women and all — proceed toward building the big movement that’s needed to move with strength and power toward the world we want?

Marsha Feinland will address how the history of women’s struggles for their rights at the workplace and at the ballot box is intertwined with the history of socialist movements in the United States and worldwide. This talk will cover some of the early union organizing of and by women, and how women’s activity converged and diverged with the often male-dominated general movements for workers’ rights and for socialism.

Marsha Feinland is a long time member of the Peace and Freedom Party of California. She has run for public offices from Berkeley School Board to U.S. Senate and one time for President of the United States. In 1994 she was elected to the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board, helping to replace a landlord-controlled board with one that pledged to protect tenants.

Marsha is a retired teacher and a former teachers’ union activist, receiving a Ca. Teachers’ Association WHO award in 2002 for her representation of fellow teachers at the site and for organizing district-wide teacher actions around contract negotiations. She was active in the Abortion Rights movement, and helped to defend clinics when they were threatened by “Operation Rescue.”

She is currently volunteers as a facilitator on school field trips at the Oakland Museum of California and with the Golden Gate Bird Alliance’s eco-education program.

Laura Wells has been active with the Green Party of California since the party began in 1992. Beginning in 2002 she ran as a candidate for public office, primarily state Controller, and for Governor in 2010, with the platform of public banking and “tax the rich.” She has often campaigned alongside Marsha Feinland and they worked together on the 2022 Left Unity Slate composed of candidates from both the Green Party and the Peace and Freedom Party. As an aside, they also both enjoy bird-watching and learning to Lindy Hop swing dance.

Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 7:00 pm, after a 30-minute break. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.

Meeting ID: 880 8334 2274

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Meeting ID: 880 8334 2274

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/k39IUnw59

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Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the Global Fight for Democracy. @ Online & City Lights Book Store

Mar 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Join EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Eva Galperin, in conversation with Ron Deibert of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, to discuss Rons latest book: Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the Global Fight for Democracy.

EFF in Conversation with Ron Deibert
This event is free and all are welcome to join!

Chasing Shadows provides a front-row seat to a dark underworld of digital espionage, dark PR, and subversion. The book provides a gripping account of how the Citizen Lab, the world’s foremost digital watchdog, has uncovered dozens of cyber espionage cases and protects people in countries around the world. Called “essential reading” by Margaret Atwood, it’s a chilling reminder of the invisible invasions happening on smartphones and computers around the world.

We encourage you to join us live for this discussion, however it will be available via livestream on zoom. Register online for access to the zoom event.

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Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room

Mar 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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.

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We Are CA Teach In: Trump’s “Billionaires First” Budget Plan and How We Fight Back @ Online

Mar 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

We’re inviting you to an urgent We Are California movement meeting Tuesday, March 11th at 6:30 PM to share important updates about the Trump Administration’s plan to use the federal budget to attack our communities, and share upcoming actions you can take to block these efforts.

Both the House and Senate will be working on budget proposals that would take away health care, food assistance, and child care from working families, while massively defunding our schools. If successful, these funding cuts will harm over 15 million seniors, children and families in California. They want to use these staggering cuts to give billionaires and big corporations massive tax breaks, and use them to increase funding for ICE and CBP’s attacks on immigrants. But their razor-thin legislative margins give us an opportunity to delay and defang their plans. This next month will be a critical moment to stop this urgent threat. We need to tell the House and Senate to get their Hands Off Our Healthcare!

Please join our movement meeting that will go into more detail on what’s at stake for California, both statewide and locally, and to get involved in this fight.

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Public Bank of the East Bay General Organizing Meeting @ Online

Mar 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

The Friends of Public Bank East Bay host general organizing meetings every Wednesday at 6pm via zoom

If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch.

We can match your interests and skill set to our needs!

Public Bank East Bay hopes to open by 2025, as a transformative institution that keeps our money local, allowing local governments to divest from Wall Street and reinvest its profits back into our community. Public Bank East Bay’s initial loan policies will support affordable housing development, provide support for small businesses (especially for marginalized entrepreneurs), finance the renovation and electrification of existing buildings, and help cities and counties refinance their municipal debt.

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Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Online

Mar 12 @ 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 privacy, surveillance regulation of both corporations and the state, and government transparency, around the Bay and nationwide.

We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment and online tracking, 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 pursue lawsuits as necessary to protect our rights. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.

Check out some of what we worked on in 2024, with links back through 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 in 2018 we 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, online tracking and ID requirements, street surveillance, and fighting to ensure local governments adhere to State privacy and transparency regulations.

On September 12th, 2019 we were presented with a Barlow Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for our work, and on March 16th, 2021 the 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, and/or on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@oaklandprivacy, and/or at Bluesky at @oaklandprivacy.bsky.social

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Nationwide Protests @ Everywhere

Mar 14 all-day

https://twitter.com/HeatherThomasAF/status/1894468347636715742

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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Techno-Feudalism – What Killed Capitalism @ Online

Mar 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

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

For our March, 2025 meeting we will be reading the first four chapters of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis (Penguin Random House, Amazon). For our April meeting, we will be finishing the book.

Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. The perfect Christmas gift for the political visionaries in your life.

In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world’s feudal overlords – replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power.

But as Varoufakis also reveals, technofeudalism contains new opportunities to thwart and overturn it, bringing into focus more clearly than ever the revolution we need to escape our digital prison.

Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included (in chronological order) 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, Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America, End Times, Jackson Rising Redux , The Feminist Subversion of the Economy, How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems that Shape our World, Wealth Supremacy, The Persuaders, The Path to a Livable Future, Solidarity, Mutual Aid, Breaking Together
and Making Sense of Chaos.

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Nicaragua and Grassroots Organization @ Online

Mar 16 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Nicaragua and Grassroots Organization

Speaker: Sarah Woodard

To Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1

Sarah Junkin Woodard comes to us from Nicaragua, representing the work of the Jubilee House Community, a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit she helped form in 1979. Working with and on behalf of the poor in North Carolina for the first decade, the last 30 years have been spent in Nicaragua, with the project name of the Center for Development in Central America.

The JHC-CDCA continues to respond to local needs, seeking resources to help the poor accomplish what they see as their priorities, particularly in the areas of sustainable economic development, organic agriculture, health care, and education. The JHC-CDCA is supported by grassroots donations, making it uniquely flexible in responding to climate crises, able to adjust service ministries as needs change. This Spring, Sarah’s focus is to update supporters on the JHC-CDCA’s work in Nicaragua as well to educate those in the global north on the amazing realities developing within a southern neighbor where both the social and political will are focused on helping the majority of the population, the poorest of the poor. Sarah travels with a powerpoint presentation providing Q&A opportunities.

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Purim for Palestine

Mar 16 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Mar 16 @ 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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March 2025 Mar 2025

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.