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Oakland already said NO to Flock. After hours of powerful community testimony, residents made it clear: we will not accept mass surveillance in our city.
But now, Councilmembers Charlene Wang, Kevin Jenkins, and Ken Houston are attempting to override the will of the people—pushing the Flock surveillance contract forward despite its defeat. This is an outrageous overreach and a direct threat to Oakland’s sanctuary and privacy protections.
We need every single person who cares about civil rights, privacy, and democracy to show up and take a stand.
SHOW UP TOMORROW — THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20
10:30 AM | Rules & Legislation Committee
Room 3 | Oakland City Hall
Let’s make it impossible to ignore the people’s voice. Pack the room. Demand that City Council Get the Flock Out of Oakland.
If you cannot attend in person, you can still take action:
- Email the Rules Committee and City Clerk to register your opposition.
- Use our toolkit for sample emails, talking points, and details: bit.ly/NoFlock-Oakland
or scan the QR code on the flyer.
Oakland said no once. Now we have to say it louder.
In solidarity,
Cat Brooks and the APTP Crew
www.antipoliceterrorproject.
Stand with Grandma Addie Kitchen, the grandmother of Steven Taylor, who was killed by San Leandro police officer Jason Fletcher during a mental health crisis.
This week, newly appointed District Attorney Ursula Jones-Dickson informed the family that she would be filing a motion to dismiss all charges against Fletcher — while the presiding judge who has overseen this case for four years is on vacation.
That judge just denied the defense’s motion to dismiss on November 14, stating on the record that this case must go to trial and be decided by a jury. Instead of respecting that ruling, DA Jones-Dickson went judge-shopping, selecting a different judge to push through a dismissal.
This is a betrayal of the Taylor family, of justice, and of the people of Alameda County. We will not be silent while another DA shields law enforcement from accountability.
Join us in court to demand transparency, accountability, and justice for Steven Taylor.
After being rejected twice — by the Privacy Advisory Commission and the Public Safety Committee — OPD’s $2.25 million FLOCK mass surveillance contract is back on the agenda through a backdoor, undemocratic process.
On Wednesday, with less than 24 hours’ notice, Council President Kevin Jenkins, Councilmembers Rowena Brown, and Janani Ramachandran voted in the Rules Committee to send the FLOCK contract to the full City Council for a vote on December 16. Councilmember Ken Houston even thanked Jenkins for “bringing it back,” making it clear this was a coordinated effort to bypass the democratic process and ignore the people’s will.
This comes after more than 4,000 Oaklanders sent emails and over 40 organizations — including ACLU NorCal, SEIU-USWW, and Trabajadores Unidos Workers United — called on the Council to reject FLOCK’s expansion.
This is a betrayal of public trust and a direct attack on Oakland’s most vulnerable communities. A city that calls itself a sanctuary cannot partner with a surveillance company that shares data with ICE and the Trump administration.
Join us Tuesday, December 16 at 1:00 PM to stand against this outrageous move and demand real community safety, not mass surveillance.
The people of Alameda County deserve leaders who will stand for justice — not secrecy, not police power, and not corruption.
Until justice is won, we’re not done.
In solidarity and resistance,
Cat Brooks & the Anti Police-Terror Project Crew
www.antipoliceterrorproject.
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Across the country, ICE agents are escalating violence against immigrant workers in Home Depot stores and parking lots. These enforcement operations are chaotic, traumatic, and sometimes deadly.
Just last week in Oregon, agents forcibly abducted a man inside a Home Depot as onlookers called them cowards. In August, in Monrovia, CA, Carlos Roberto Montoya – a Guatemalan day laborer – was killed while fleeing an ICE operation at a Home Depot store.
These attacks are happening on Home Depot property, under Home Depot’s watch, and with Home Depot’s silence. The company has taken no public steps to condemn these raids or to demand that the government stop carrying out enforcement actions at its stores. Home Depot Co-Founder Bernie Marcus amassed billions from an industry built on immigrant labor – only to funnel millions into Trump’s xenophobbic campaigns.
In Oakland, day laborers face the threat of ICE while Home Depot refuses to provide them with a safe place to seek work, banning them from parking lots and denying them basic dignity and respect.
Home Depot has ignored the harm for far too long. We will not. As ICE escalates its attacks, we are escalating our response.
From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, people nationwide said, “We Ain’t Buying it,” withheld their dollars, and took aim at Home Depot and other key corporate targets for collaborating with ICE and the MAGA agenda.
This Super Saturday – the final major shopping day before the holidays – we’re keeping the pressure on and gathering near Oakland Home Depot on 12/20 from 10:00am � 12:30pm to say, EEnough is enough. RSVP for more info on location details.
Join us to demand that Home Depot immediately:
- Publicly condemn ICE raids.
- Stop cooperating with ICE – close stores and parking lots to ICCE agents.
- Negotiate with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network to protect workers and customers from attacks.
- Help detained victims and support their families.
- Release security video and other footage of enforcement actions at Home Depot stores
Through its silence and inaction, Home Depot has become ICE’s passive partner. Every raid on its properties deepens fear in our communities.
Stand with us to reject ICE terror and demand real protections – not corporate silence.
Explosions have been reported across Caracas, Venezuela as an apparent U.S. bombing campaign has begun targeting the country. This war is not about drug trafficking, it is not about democracy — it is about stealing Venezuela’s oil and dominating Latin America. It is an outrageous escalation in a campaign of murder in international waters and piracy targeting civilian ships trading with Venezuela.
We need to take to the streets and say no to another endless war! The people of this country do not want another war! A U.S. war would cause death and destruction for the people of Venezuela. The war machine consumes an unimaginable amount of our tax dollars while working families struggle to make ends meet. In an all-out war with Venezuela, it will be working class young people who are sent to kill and die, not the children of executives at ExxonMobil and LockheedMartin. The people need to take to the streets and say not to Trump’s war on Venezuela!
This is not ceremony. This is collective action. We will be in the streets reclaiming Dr. King’s radical legacy and launching two weeks of people-led action against state violence, mass incarceration, displacement, and fascism at every level.
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.
Israel and the United States have struck Iran. In the last hour, large clouds of smoke could be seen billowing from areas in central Tehran. The site of impact in the downtown area appeared to be in close proximity to Iranian government buildings. A US official confirmed that the United States is participating in the strikes, and that the US is coordinating with Israel in launching the attack.
The United States and its proxy military base of Israel are openly and brazenly attacking a sovereign nation’s capital. They are doing so in an attempt to ignite a regional war that would multiply the suffering of the Iranian people and the people of the wider region. The US and Israel continue to demonstrate that the real threats to the Middle East are Zionism and imperialism.
This escalation would not be possible without the military cargo being sent from the US to the Zionist entity. The only way to curb US imperialism worldwide is through a people’s arms embargo.
From the belly of the beast, we say: Hands off Iran, hands off our region! Arms embargo now!
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Dr. Roger Bales, PhD, environmental engineer and climate scientist
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Kathleen Dowd, CNM, NP, MSN, nurse midwife and maternal-health leader
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Dr. Nina Hasen, PhD, Vice President of HIV and TB Programs at Population Services International
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Fred Lipschultz, PhD, senior climate scientist and expert in global warming research
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Devorah Lyn, co-chair of the Jewish Earth Alliance, mobilizing the Jewish community on climate change and ecological stewardship
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Dr. Ernest Moy, MD, MPH, previous Executive Director of the VHA Office of Health Equity
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Dr. Greg Spooner, PhD, physicist and nonviolent activist in climate justice movements
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Dr. Sharon Goldfarb, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, clinician-scientist, nurse practitioner, and public health advocate
On Saturday, March 14, we’re coming together for a Mass Training to prepare to shut it down on May Day: No Work. No School. No Shopping.
This is bigger than organizing towards a single day of action. This is about building a mass non-cooperation movement to confront fascism and defend our communities.
We are watching an authoritarian project consolidate power in real time. Billionaire oligarchs hoarding wealth. Corporations collaborating with repression. Immigrants targeted. Dissent criminalized. Rights and public goods stripped. This is how fascism advances: by dividing working people, concentrating power, and normalizing cruelty.
But history teaches us something else: fascism is not inevitable. It is defeated when ordinary people come together and refuse to comply.
Mass non-cooperation looks like working people withholding our dollars and our labor.
It looks like students walking out.
It looks like knowing your rights to call out sick if you fear retaliation for striking.
It looks like communities standing together so tightly that attacks on one of us are met with collective resistance from all of us.
And it requires practice. Preparation. Strategy. Skills. Courage. Coordination for mass power to reach mass disruption.
That’s why we’re inviting you to join us on Saturday, March 14th, from 9-3 pm at Mission High School in San Francisco for the Bay Resistance Mass Noncooperation Training. We’ll cover:
- How to build mass participation for May Day
- How to take on corporations enabling ICE, including Palantir, Home Depot, and Target
- Skills to strengthen campaigns, escalate actions, and expand our organizing
- How to organize your neighbors to stand together against ICE attacks
- How to build a united, sustained movement capable of stopping these attacks for good
This May Day, we will demonstrate our collective power against the greed of billionaires and the politicians they bankroll who are waging wars on working people. But that kind of power doesn’t appear overnight. We build it together.
Whether you’ve been to several Bay Resistance trainings or this would be your first, this is the next step. If you’re experienced, come deepen your skills and help scale this movement. If you’re new, this is your entry point.
Come build the muscle we need for sustained mass action to defend our communities, defend elections, and defend each other. RSVP HERE
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1-3 PM El Sobrante – NO KINGS Indivisible West CoCo County at San Pablo Dam Road & Appian
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Local elected reps, music, chants, laughers, & fun!
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10 AM – Rally @ Fernandez Park, Pinole
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Hear from Supervisor John Gioia from the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors, Councilmember Alex Walker-Griffin from Hercules, and Councilmember Devin Murphy from Pinole, as well as local poets and organizers. We’ll gather at Fernandez Park and then march to our Peaceful Protest site.
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The rally is limited to 99 people.
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11:00 am – 12:30 pm – Peaceful Protest at San Pablo Ave and Tennent Ave.
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This event will happen rain or shine!
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12:30 – 2:30 pm – BYO Picnic in Community at Fernandez Park
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Bring a musical instrument and a blanket for a picnic in the park afterwards
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We’ll have kids craft activities, tabling resources for the community, and a community art making activity
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4:30 – 5:30 pm – Visibility Brigade at California St. I-80 Overcrossing, Rodeo
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Build Community Power Through MH First Training
Join us in strengthening our collective ability to keep each other safe and make a lasting impact in our communities.
The next Mental Health First Community Crisis Response Training will take place on Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29 from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM via Zoom.
Register here: bit.ly/mhfirst-training0328
This virtual training is designed to equip community members with the skills needed to respond to mental health crises, support those in distress, and connect people to healing justice resources within our neighborhoods.
MH First is grounded in the belief that our communities can care for one another without relying on law enforcement. Through peer support, de escalation, and non punitive, life affirming interventions, we work to interrupt and eliminate the role of police in mental health crisis response.
We are committed to decriminalizing emotional and psychological crises, reducing stigma around mental health, substance use, and domestic violence, and addressing their root causes including white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism.
We take care of us.
We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
ALWAYS CHECK HERE for the most up-to-date info: https://tinyurl.com/NK3-Oakland-Event-Info
What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading from small towns to city centers and across every community determined to defend democracy. Our peaceful movement is bigger than ever. As gatherings continue to grow, maintaining safety remains essential, and working with a Fire Watch Company in New Orleans is a smart way to help keep events secure and well-monitored.
When our families are under attack and costs are pushing people to the brink, silence is not an option. We will defend ourselves and our communities against this administration’s unjust and cruel acts of violence.
On March 28th, rise up, take to the streets, and say it loud: no thrones, no crowns, no kings. We’re not watching history happen—we’re making it. Join us.
A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.
We’ll set up our blue canopy at that corner with an Occupella sign hanging from it.
We will have QR codes with lyrics to songs we can sing, but if you want to print it out ahead of time, go to https://docs.google.com/
Marcie will have a QR code on site and lead us to sing along with the Mighty Marching Chorus when they pass by.
See you Saturday! Invite your friends! Share our location so folks don’t go to the original location. – Thanks, Love and Peace, Hali
Build Community Power Through MH First Training
Join us in strengthening our collective ability to keep each other safe and make a lasting impact in our communities.
The next Mental Health First Community Crisis Response Training will take place on Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29 from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM via Zoom.
Register here: bit.ly/mhfirst-training0328
This virtual training is designed to equip community members with the skills needed to respond to mental health crises, support those in distress, and connect people to healing justice resources within our neighborhoods.
MH First is grounded in the belief that our communities can care for one another without relying on law enforcement. Through peer support, de escalation, and non punitive, life affirming interventions, we work to interrupt and eliminate the role of police in mental health crisis response.
We are committed to decriminalizing emotional and psychological crises, reducing stigma around mental health, substance use, and domestic violence, and addressing their root causes including white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism.
We take care of us.
ICE is actively acquiring warehouses and eyeing shuttered prisons across the country to convert into immigrant detention centers. FCI Dublin, the closed federal prison 20 miles southeast of Oakland, is at risk of being converted. If ICE took it over, it would become the only ICE detention facility in the entire Bay Area, putting our neighbors, families, and community members at increased risk.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors will vote on a resolution to oppose FCI Dublin being converted and reopened as an ICE detention center or any other kind of correctional facility. Co-sponsored by Supervisors David Haubert and Elisa Marquez, this resolution is a direct roadblock against ICE expansion in our community, and your presence can help it pass.
(In-person AND online. Both count)
Here’s how to take action:
1. SHOW UP. Attend in person or join online at 1pm on Tuesday, April 7. Your physical presence sends a powerful message to the Board.
2. SPEAK UP. Public comment is one of the most impactful things you can do. See our toolkit for step-by-step guidelines on how to comment in person or online.
3. CAN’T MAKE IT? Submit written comments by EMAIL by Monday, April 6 at 3:00 PM. Comments received by this deadline will be distributed directly to all Board members. Submit a comment here. Check the toolkit for the updated agenda item number and talking points.
4. SIGN UP HERE WITH THE ICE OUT OF DUBLIN COALITION to let us know you are participating. It takes 30 seconds and helps us coordinate a strong showing.