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Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.
(THE JANUARY 17TH MEETING, 2024 WAS MOVED TO JANUARY 24TH)
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, 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 stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.
Check out some of what we worked on in 2022, 2021, 2020 and 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 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, and 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 s 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:
Check out our website: http://oaklandprivacy.org/
Follow us on twitter: @oaklandprivacy, and/or on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@oaklandprivacy
Via Zoom: To receive the Zoom info, please register on the LaborFest website, here: https://laborfest.net/event/the-fight-to-save-peoples-park/
The ongoing battle to prevent the development by UC of People’s Park in Berkeley continues. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and an important Court of Appeal victory was won. However, UC appealed the court decision to the State Supreme Court and simultaneously subverted the court victory by getting the legislature to pass a bill to undermine it. Construction is halted until the court issues its decision. Organizing strategies are still being pursued to protect the park from destruction by a huge student housing project and the paving over with hardscape, despite the need for open space in the densest part of Berkeley. This Zoom panel will also talk about how privatization is pushing the monetization of the public assets of the University and how this process has become a national trend.
Speakers:
Harvey Smith � Peoplle’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group
Charles Wollenberg � former Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Hiistory, Berkeley City College
Joe Liesner � Foodd Not Bombs
Speaker, Jose Luis Granados Ceja
General elections were held in Mexico on June 2, 2024. Claudia Sheinbaum, a member of the left-wing political party Morena, won a majority with over 60% of the vote. She is the first woman and the first person of Jewish descent to be elected president of Mexico.
The presentation will focus on the role that public policies favoring the interests of the working class played in the landslide victory for Morena and its allies that resulted in the election of Mexico’s first woman president and supermajority in Congress. The presentation will also look at what we can expect from Sheinbaum’s government. What does she mean when she talks about building the “second floor” of Mexico’s Fourth Transformation?
Finally, we will discuss, given the rout of the country’s opposition and their marginalization from public life, where we might expect opposition to come from and what anti-imperialist activists can do to resist US interference.
José Luis Granados Ceja is an anti-imperialist journalist and political analyst based in Mexico City, with 20 years of experience covering social movements, democracy, elections, and human rights. He is a staff writer with Venezuelanalysis, covering regional and international issues, and is the host of their podcast. He also serves as editor of the Mexico Solidarity Media website and writes a monthly opinion column for the Mexico Solidarity Project Bulletin. Together with Kurt Hackbarth, he co-hosts the Soberanía podcast, which provides English-language analysis of politics in Mexico.
See our speaker’s article in The Nation: “Claudia Sheinbaum’s Election in Mexico Shows How the Left Can Win. Sheinbaum’s landslide victory is thanks to her commitment to continue policies that put the interests of the working class first. (June 21, 2024)
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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:
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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
It’s not too late, if we act fast enough now! Even as emissions increase and treaties collapse, we can still stop these twin existential crises from becoming catastrophic. We already have all the solutions we need to stop burning fossil fuels and to abolish nuclear weapons once and for all.
How can environmentalists and peace activists work together to overcome propaganda, problematic “solutions,” and political agendas that threaten our very survival? Author Timmon Wallis will share new insights and fresh strategies. The corporate profiteers who corrupt our legislators are surprisingly vulnerable to legal threats from the Nuclear Ban Treaty and from the global movement for a Fossil Fuel Treaty.
Timmon Wallis, PhD is the National Coordinator of the Warheads to Windmills Coalition. He has spent his life teaching, writing, directing organizations, and campaigning on peace and environmental issues in colleges, war zones, and with governments around the world. With his colleagues at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, he shares the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Vicki Elson, MA is the Creative Director of NuclearBan.US, which facilitates the Warheads to Windmills Coalition. After a long career in childbirth education and labor support, she has shifted her focus to supporting human well-being with total nuclear abolition and converting the resources wasted on WMD’s to science-based climate solutions.
(Followed by County Council business meeting at 7:00. All are welcome to attend)
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Meeting ID: 880 8334 2274
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Details
- our main source of truth is the morning math page for this event: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Morning_math/Circles_with_Swift
We’ll be going over radians, circles, and some basics over mate on a relaxing, no pressure morning math session!
This session is for adults, people ages 18 and over!
### Links
- Trigonometry in Rust – https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/science/mathematics/trigonometry.html
- Trigonometry in Swift – game programming trig (kodeco)
- Take a look at the Swift Numerics project – https://github.com/apple/swift-numerics
DID YOU KNOW?
The city spends almost $1,500 per hour
evicting folks living on the streets?
Affordable” housing in Oakland is for “low
income” folks who make $84,600 per year
and “extrememly low income” are folks
who make $32,700?
The City of Oakland’s blueprint to end
homelessness (the PATH Plan) has zero
units of permanent extrememly
affordable housing?
Let’s talk about what has worked and
what hasn’t worked in the City of
Oakland’s homeless industrial complex.
Its the last day that city council will be meeting.
The point of the speak out will be to hold space for unhoused folks and advocates to talk about what has worked/ what has not worked in the city’s homeless industrial complex, as well share real solutions to end homelessness.
Some of the group will be joining the city council meeting to speak in the Homeless State of Emergency. programming in front of city hall will continue for folks who do not want to go to city hall.
we hope you can make it out.
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 .
Zoom webinar – PLEASE REGISTER HERE
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
Volunteer Organizing Committees
ADVOCACY
builds relationships with community groups, financial institutions and city governments.
COMMUNICATIONS
assists other committees with content creation and promotion.
FUNDRAISING
develops our organization’s budget and raises funds for our business plan.
ACADEMY
plans trainings for Board members and others.
{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!
Our Clinic draws upon the revolutionary history of the Young Lords and seeks to honor the legacy of Dr. Mutulu Shakur. Ancestral medicine is one of the greatest strengths that our movement has to combat state violence, and it is a central value of APTP to utilize healing justice as a strategy for the longevity of organized resistance.
APTP Healing Justice Team
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., OaklandRSVP: https://t.co/yPwBwQwxAf pic.twitter.com/I3Jtw1h1YG
— Supervisor Keith Carson (@Keith_Carson) June 18, 2024
WAS DEMOCRACY JUST A DREAM?
The American Dream. It used to mean a job, a house, a car, a spouse, 2.5 kids, and a .4 dog. But what does it mean now? For Gabriel Pearce, a Black man tired of liberal failures, on the day after the presidential election it means victory! Giving up on progressivism wasn’t easy, but casting his vote for a Conservative who promises to be grateful could mean a dream come true. However, for his daughter Paine – a teacher at a university caught between protesting students and threats to funding – it’s a nightmare! Or was the lost election just a dream? Or will A.I. catch fire, like Paine’s boyfriend Oliver sees in his nightmares? Do androids dream of electronic voting? Can we create the utopia of justice activist student Emma hopes for, or is the present just a dream within a dream within a dream? But whether you’re asleep or Woke what some see as nightmares others see as… American Dreams.
Written by Michael Gene Sullivan
Music & Lyrics by Daniel Savio
Directed by Velina Brown
Music Direction by Dred Scott
AMERICAN DREAMS features a four-person cast that includes veteran SF Mime Troupe collective members:
Andre Amarotico* (Oliver, Harold); Michael Gene Sullivan* (Gabriel Pearse, Chancellor Quisling);
and features Lizzie Calogero* (Meliae Higgins, Emma); and Mikki Johnson (Paine Pearse).
Speaker: Richard Becker
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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
WAS DEMOCRACY JUST A DREAM?
The American Dream. It used to mean a job, a house, a car, a spouse, 2.5 kids, and a .4 dog. But what does it mean now? For Gabriel Pearce, a Black man tired of liberal failures, on the day after the presidential election it means victory! Giving up on progressivism wasn’t easy, but casting his vote for a Conservative who promises to be grateful could mean a dream come true. However, for his daughter Paine – a teacher at a university caught between protesting students and threats to funding – it’s a nightmare! Or was the lost election just a dream? Or will A.I. catch fire, like Paine’s boyfriend Oliver sees in his nightmares? Do androids dream of electronic voting? Can we create the utopia of justice activist student Emma hopes for, or is the present just a dream within a dream within a dream? But whether you’re asleep or Woke what some see as nightmares others see as… American Dreams.
Written by Michael Gene Sullivan
Music & Lyrics by Daniel Savio
Directed by Velina Brown
Music Direction by Dred Scott
AMERICAN DREAMS features a four-person cast that includes veteran SF Mime Troupe collective members:
Andre Amarotico* (Oliver, Harold); Michael Gene Sullivan* (Gabriel Pearse, Chancellor Quisling);
and features Lizzie Calogero* (Meliae Higgins, Emma); and Mikki Johnson (Paine Pearse).
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
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
Volunteer Organizing Committees
ADVOCACY
builds relationships with community groups, financial institutions and city governments.
COMMUNICATIONS
assists other committees with content creation and promotion.
FUNDRAISING
develops our organization’s budget and raises funds for our business plan.
ACADEMY
plans trainings for Board members and others.
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