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Oakland’s civilian oversight of the Oakland Police Department is under direct attack, and it is not accidental.
Right now, the Oakland Police Officers Association and their astroturf allies, backed by Bay Area tech billionaires, are actively working to dismantle independent oversight of OPD. Even worse, Oakland City Council leadership is allowing it to happen.
Unpaid community volunteers on the Oakland Police Commission do the hard, thankless work of holding OPD accountable to the people. Since September 2025, City Council President Kevin Jenkins, at the urging of OPOA President Hu Nguyen, has led an unprecedented and potentially illegal effort to obstruct the charter mandated selection process.
Police Commissioners Omar Farmer and Chair Roberto Garcia-Acosta:
• Passed multiple background checks
• Participated in livestreamed public interviews
• Were approved in THREE separate votes by the independent Selection Panel
That should have ended the process.
Instead, police pandering Councilmembers are attempting to block their reappointments while fast tracking Mayoral appointees chosen behind closed doors.
Let us be clear.
This is not democracy.
This is not transparency.
This is pay to play politics.
Oakland voters demanded independent civilian oversight of the Oakland Police Department. What we are witnessing now is a coordinated effort to gut that oversight and return power to police unions and corporate interests.
We cannot allow this to stand.
We need you to take action immediately.
TELL OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL:
• Respect the will of Oakland voters
• Maintain the independence of the Oakland Police Commission
• Re appoint Omar Farmer and Roberto Garcia Acosta
PUBLIC ACTION DETAILS:
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
3:30 PM
In person: Oakland City Hall, 3rd Floor
Attend online: bit.ly/oakland-cc120
Send a letter right now:
bit.ly/Restore-OPC
Scan QR code to also send a letter.
Accountability is not optional.
Oversight is non negotiable.
Oakland is watching.
In solidarity,
Cat Brooks and the APTP Crew
www.antipoliceterrorproject.
In Minneapolis right now, the working people have responded to the atrocities committed in their city by making a plan. This Friday, January 23rd, there will be no business as usual in Minneapolis—no school, no work, no shopping. The call for a general strike has been taken up by many major unions, including the educators. This is the type of bold, coordinated action that unions across the country and right here in San Francisco must strive for.”
We stand in unbreakable solidarity with Minnesota, where 3,000 ICE agents are waging a violent, state-sanctioned occupation. It is a coordinated, top-down assault designed to break our communities and test our resistance. We refuse to let it operate with impunity.
STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH MINNESOTA
What’s happening in Minnesota will shape all of our futures. That’s why we are mobilizing here in the Bay Area in direct solidarity. Join us Friday, 1/23 at 4pm outside the Target on 4th & Mission in San Francisco as we march on ICE profiteers. If we push the corporate pillars whose silence or collaboration enables the occupation of Minnesota, we can end ICE terror and topple corporate support for the MAGA regime.
THE OAKLAND GREENS invite you to the January 2026 FREE Dinner & a Movie Community Discussion Night, featuring Civil War (2024).
Dinner begins at 6:30 PM
Movie starts at 7:00 PM
These free community events are hosted in partnership with It’s Your Move Games,
Civil War is a 2024 dystopian action thriller written and directed by Alex Garland, starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman. Set during a civil war across the United States between a despotic federal government and secessionist movements, the film follows a group of war journalists traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C., to interview the President before rebel forces reach the capital.
This screening is part of The Oakland Greens 2026 Free Dinner & a Movie Discussion Series and will be followed by a community discussion.
Walk-ins welcome.
More information: www.theoaklandgreens.org
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We are devastated by the ICE murders, ICE violence, and the separation of over 3,000 families in Minnesota. In solidarity with Minnesota, and to protect our own community, we are organizing in the Bay to build a mass movement to stop these attacks once and for all.
As all eyes turn to the Bay for the Super Bowl in Santa Clara next week, we recognize this is a critical moment to bolster our community preparedness and reject MAGA’s white nationalist visions. On Thursday, January 29th, from 5:30-6:30 pm, join us for a Mass Call to Stand with Minnesota and Prepare for the Super Bowl.
RSVP here.
The heightened national spotlight, combined with escalating threats against our immigrant communities, demands that we strengthen our rapid response networks and expand neighborhood foot patrols. We will use this moment not just for visibility, but to build tangible, lasting power. The world is watching, let’s show them what organized, community-led safety truly looks like.
Spanish-speaking and immigrant communities are a vital part of the Bay Area’s cultural heartbeat. Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, performed entirely in Spanish, is a declaration of unity and cultural resistance amidst escalating ICE attacks.
While Bay Bunny performs, we will march outside and stand up for our communities. Join the call to learn how to take action leading up to the Super Bowl against corporate colluders with ICE and how to join street patrols to defend your neighbors.
On Saturday, January 31st, from 12-1:30 pm or Monday, February 2nd, from 6-7:30 pm, sign up to become a trained legal observer with the Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network.
Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, has made threats against the Bay Area in response to Bad Bunny’s selection for the Super Bowl halftime show. Across the Bay Area, communities are staying vigilant and getting prepared. We must respond with power, not panic.
Join us. Get ready,
Bay Resistance
Speaker: Dr. Sharat G. Lin
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The conflict and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has overshadowed developments in the West Bank. Yet the situations in the two occupied territories are inextricably linked to the convulsions of Israeli politics, the shifts in global geopolitics, and additionally manifested in the West Bank in the actions of the Israeli settler movement fully supported by the Israeli State. We take a look at how this has been impacting Palestinians on the ground, and their resistance to it.
Dr. Sharat G. Lin is a political economist with the San Jose Peace & Justice Center, Human Agenda, and the Initiative for Equality. He writes and lectures on the Middle East and labor migration, and has been involved in the region for decades ever since he attended medical school at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He lived through the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War, the Gulf oil boom, and the start of the Arab Spring.
1. Call to Order, determination of quorum
2. Open Forum/Public Comment on Non-Agenda matters
3. Information Item: a. Report from Public Works regarding OPD request for video footage.
4. Action Items:
a. Annual Reports 1. Shotspotter Annual Report (OPD)
b. Use Policies 1. Spotspotter – Gunshot Location Detection System (OPD) DGO I-20 2. GPS Tracker – Vehicle GPS Tracking Device (OPD) I-33 3. Responsive Easy Charging Products with Dynamic Signals – Evenergi LLC (OPW)
The Attack on Black Studies
Doors open at 1:30 p.m.
Please register in advance at
https://bit.ly/SSS-
to receive your personal link to participate in this event online
At this forum we will cover the history of Black studies and the origins of Black History Month. Our speakers will also discuss how faculty and students at schools and universities are resisting the Trump administration’s blatant efforts to banish African Americans from U.S. history and culture, and how this attack is just the latest demonstration of racism in this country.
Dr. James Garrett – President, Global Community Advancement Centers; co-founder of the modern Black Student Union Movement, Black/Ethnic Studies Programs, and the Modern Black Arts Movement
Rekia Jibrin – Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in Education at UC Santa Cruz
Gerald Sanders – Co-Founder of the Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality; member of the Peace and Freedom Party and Democratic Socialists of America
*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.
Please help us celebrate our return to the Starry Plough by ordering food and/or drinks.
Please arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentations.
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.
For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org>
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome!
For our February, 2026 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first three chapters of A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit (Amazon) (Alibris). For our March meeting we will finish the book.
The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster’s grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Our first book was Doughnut Economics, and our most recent books were What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis, The Age of Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals. For the rest of our reading list see here.
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Green Sunday: Why is there Constant War in West Asia?
West Asia has experienced conflict, invasion and upheaval for the last eight decades. Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya and Syria have all been attacked, destabilized and occupied. In the last year, Israel and the US attacked Yemen and Iran with the threat of more attacks in near future.
Rick Sterling will discuss the major factors driving these events, the current situation and prospects for the future.
Rick Sterling is an independent journalist writing for Antiwar, Global Research, LA Progressive, ConsortiumNews and other publications. He has travelled extensively in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. He is a contributing author of the book “JFK and RFK’s Secret Battle Against Zionist Extremism”.
Sunday, February 8th, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm Via Zoom: please see the access info below.
(Note: This 1:00 pm starting time is only for February’s special Green Sunday event — March’s Green Sunday will start at 5:00 pm).
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.
Tickets available in person on day of show.
The fascist Trump regime has sent troops to American cities to suppress widespread public opposition to cruel ICE kidnappings, deportations and cold-blooded murder. He’s sent military to attack Venezuela and threatens to send soldiers to oppress more countries and people.
Will soldiers carry out illegitimate, unconstitutional and immoral orders of this regime? Or will they refuse?
Sir! No Sir!, takes you inside the rebellion that spread among the US military in Vietnam. This was a big part of forcing the US to end that war. This history lesson has largely been erased from public memory.
Register here for the February 21 XRUS Open House
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I don’t know how to do this, but I’m going to keep doing it anyway.
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Speaker: Amit Singh
Based on personal experiences during his two to three weeks stay in China with his partner and child, the speaker will put forward observations, stories and interesting encounters. The speaker will try to highlight contradictions in Chinese society, capital and state, and would focus upon the present state of the Chinese economy, education, health and other parameters. The talk will also dwell upon how to characterize China. Should China be characterized as capitalist/state-capitalist or market socialist (socialism with Chinese characteristics) or semi-peripheral or imperialist or semi-colonial or oppressed or oppressor? Should the emergence of China as a competitor of the US in many areas be seen as a great anti-imperialist development? Or, can it be argued that Chinese capitalist development will lead to inter-imperialist conflicts and wars throughout the world? How much power do the Chinese working class assert in China? Should the present Chinese model be followed by other countries? The speaker will also touch upon the state of productive forces, science and technology in China, and will also assess the Chinese military capabilities. During the whole talk, the speaker will aim to compare Chinese, Indian and the US development with the help of figures, tables and other visuals.
Dr. Amit Singh finished his Masters and PhD in Mechanics from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where he had been involved with anti-war and labor organizing efforts at Minneapolis. Currently, he is a faculty at IIT Bombay, India, where he is involved in the struggles around working class-caste issues including resistance against attack on freedom of expression, on academic freedom and attack on national minorities.
https://www.me.iitb.ac.in/
An immersive archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the environment.
Want to chart the degraded trajectory of the U.S. power elite even further? Then grab a ticket to the mind-melting mash-up film HELLO DANKNESS, which takes surrealistic satirical aim at our present political calamity. Together, these films form a double-header charting the precipitous decline of the AmeriKKKan ruling class
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Speaker: Roger Harris
On February 12, the imperialist newspaper Financial Times published the results of a poll claiming that 72% of respondents felt Venezuela was ‘moving in a positive direction’ after the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3rd. They also claimed that US-supported Maria Corina Machado enjoys commanding popularity over interim President Delcy Rodriguez, even though President Trump has admitted that Machado doesn’t have enough support or respect within Venezuela to lead the country.
The poll was commissioned by a senior adviser with the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and was conducted by a USAID-aligned non-profit organization.
Roger Harris, a Venezuela solidarity activist and independent journalist, has just returned from Venezuela and will update us on current developments in Venezuela since January 3rd, as well as resistance to the US attack within Venezuela.
Roger Harris is on the board of the Task Force on the Americas and the secretariat of the US Peace Council. He is active in the Sanctions Kill campaign and the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. He is a founding member of the Venezuela Solidarity Network. His writings may be regularly found at Counterpunch, LA Progressive, Antiwar.com, and the Orinoco Tribune.
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome!
For our February, 2026 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first three chapters of A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit (Amazon) (Alibris). For our March meeting we will finish the book.
The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster’s grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Our first book was Doughnut Economics, and our most recent books were What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis, The Age of Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals. For the rest of our reading list see here.