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Nov
23
Mon
Writing to Prisoners @ 3rd Floor Conference Room
Nov 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

As part of our monthly Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHHS) folks will be writing cards to prisoners. Although this is short notice, we invite you to join us. We’ll be writing cards from 7pm til around 9-9:30pm, so come for as short or as long a time as you’re able.

The 3rd floor Conference Room is on the left side of the corridor as you exit left out of the elevator, a few doors down (near the bathrooms).

Please note that the front door downstairs at 1904 Franklin is typically locked by 7pm.  We will try to have someone at the door, but if you find the door locked, you can text Kim at 415-756-2896 to come down and let you in.

If you can, please bring snacks to share.

Earlier in the day on November 23rd, from 12noon to 2pm at 14th and Broadway (Oakland), people will be out with banners, handing out information and talking with passersby about ending solitary confinement and ending the sleep deprivation torture that has been ongoing in CA solitary units for over 110 days! If you can take some lunch time to join us, please do.

Check out togethertoendsolitary.org or togethertoendsolitary.org/events/ for actions on Nov 23rd in other parts of California and the country.  Also, if you are planning an action for Monday, Nov 23rd against solitary confinement, please submit the details to that site.

Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement and Together to End Solitary actions on the 23rd of each month for the 23 or more hours every day that a person is kept in their solitary confinement cell.

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Nov
24
Tue
Film Screening: Standing Silent Nation @ Omni Commons
Nov 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm

Standing Silent Nation (2006), Directed by Suree Towfighnia. From the hemp fields of Pine Ridge to the US Federal Court of Appeals, this one-hour documentary  tracks one family’s effort to create economic independence for themselves, their reservation, and their future generations.

When the Oglala Sioux tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, marijuana, Alex White Plume and his family glimpsed a brighter future. They never dreamed they would find themselves swept up in a struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights, and common sense.

The hemp plant is like a new buffalo for the Lakota: a resource whose many uses (from food to fuel to fiber) could enrich their sovereign nation. For three years, Alex White Plume and his family planted industrial hemp. But each year, their harvest was disrupted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which claims that hemp is marijuana despite the absence of marijuana’s psychoactive properties.

Happy Thanksgiving from the US government…

Doors open at 6pm, film screens at 6:30. Come give thanks for free popcorn??

~ Sponsored by Liberated Lens ~

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Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall
Nov 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage.
Living-wage

The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers.

Our work together encompasses:

(1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers,
(2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and
(3) Efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life.

We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.

Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:00 PM at the SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall, 436 14th Street #200, Oakland, CA

Please love and support one another ~ We have a duty to fight ~ We have a duty to win!

olwa.org

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1568668586707336/

Since 1978

 

 living_wage

 

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Nov
25
Wed
Interfaith Service and Rally in Support of the Black Friday 14 @ Wiley Manual Courthouse
Nov 25 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

The pressure is on for District Attorney Nancy O’Malley to drop the charges against the Black Friday 14, but we can’t let up now.

This gathering, part of a campaign that began with the Fight for $15/Labor action on November 10, brings together people of faith, faith communities, and people of conscience across the spectrum to ask the district attorney “Which side are you on?” and to call on her to end the selective prosecution of these Black activists. (The white activists who committed civil disobedience during the same period have not been charged.)

Join us for rousing music, drumming, speakers, prayer, rituals, celebration of our freedom fighters, and more.

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Dance Disruption by at Sprouts in Defense of the Gill Tract @ Sprouts Walnut Creek
Nov 25 @ 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm

The developers have annouced that in less than ONE WEEK they’ll break ground on the historic Gill Tract! Bring the ruckus! Bring the noise! No business as usual until Sprouts pulls out of plans to develop on our Gill Tract farmland.

We’ll meet at the Walnut Creek store on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, one of the nation’s busiest grocery shopping days, and we’ll make sure that everyone knows to Boycott Sprouts! We’ll have a Dance Disruption lead by Jasmine Fuego, and beautiful examples of what a REAL farmer’s market looks like and means to farmers and our community. Please come for part if not all of this critical action!

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Nov
26
Thu
Share your Thanksgiving Meal With the Homeless @ Old Berkeley City Hall
Nov 26 @ 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Many homeless people are gathered in protest at Old Berkeley City Hall this week demanding human services and opposing the anti-homeless ordinances about to be passed by the Berkeley City Council.

On Thanksgiving Day, save a dish or two from your Thanksgiving feast and bring it down to Old City Hall! Of course it will be appreciated on Friday and over the weekend too!

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Nov
27
Fri
Oakland Black Friday Walmart Action 2015 @ Walmart Oakland
Nov 27 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am

Please join workers and community members as we continue to challenge Walmart for $15 and Full Time. You can find more information on the national actions at www.protests.blackfriday. See you on Black Friday.

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Funeral of Richard Perkins @ First Morning Star Baptist Church
Nov 27 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Funeral of Richard Perkins, killed by Oakland police

The mother of Richard, Ada Perkins Henderson,extends an invitation to all supporters to attend the funeral of her son. Richard was killed by the Oakland Police on Sunday, Nov. 15.

Richard was shot 16 times by 4 police officers.

More Info.

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16th Annual Shellmound Protest/Emeryville
Nov 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Plz join us for the 16th anniversary of our annual protest. In 1999, the City of Emerryville built the Mall that now sits on the corner of Shellmound St and Ohlone Way. This space was once a Ohlone village site and it was one of the largest Shellmounds in the Bay Area. The sacred Shellmound once stood over 60ft high and 350 ft in diameter and it was considered the largest funerary complex of the Ohlone people. When the mall was built, we petitioned the city council and asked them not to destroy our sacred sites, but the developers and the businesses ignored our voices. Although, the mall was built, our resistance is alive and it has never died. Hence, every year, on the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year, we’ve organized an educational protest to remind everyone that Ohlone peoples are alive in the Bay Area and we aim to educate the public on why and how the desecration of Ohlone sacred sites hurts Ohlones and everyone living here in the Bay Area. We also ask people to not shop at this mall.

Bring friends,food to share, appropriate and thoughtful signs and plz bring your positive attitudes. The ceremony at the protest will include spoken word, sacred songs and dances. Plz contact organizers beforehand if you have an offering you would like to share.

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Occupy the Sidewalks: Stop the war on the poor @ In Front of Macy's
Nov 27 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE HOMELESS IS ORGANIZING

Occupy the Sidewalks

DON’T STAND FOR SIT LIE

Stop the war on the poor

Section 168 of the San Francisco Police Code, makes it unlawful, with certain exceptions, to sit or lie on a public sidewalk, or on an object placed on a public sidewalk, between 7AM and 11PM.

(4) participating in or attending a parade, festival, performance, rally, demonstration, meeting or similar event conducted on a sidewalk under and in compliance with a street use or other applicable permit;

Protesting the law allows you to sit. The constitution guarantees you’re right to peaceably assemble in the commons. Remove their ability to prosecute and persecute the homeless. The commons belong to all!

The sidewalks of San Francisco have been a battleground if you are homeless. Sit lie is used to shuffle the poor out of sight. We take the shopping district on black Friday.

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Solidarity Rally With the Resistance in Chicago and Minneapolis @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Nov 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Join us for a speakout and rally against the recent white supremacist shootings against #4thPrecinctShutDown and #BlackLivesMatter demonstrators in North Minneapolis and in solidarity with the ongoing protests in Chicago in the wake of Laquan MacDonald horrific murder by police in 2014. From the growing white nationalism of Trump’s campaign to the now over 1,000 people shot down by law enforcement in 2015 alone, such systemic white supremacy has ushered in a new phase of the black liberation struggle. Now is the time to take sides and get organized.

Big ups to our comrades in Berkeley and East Oakland who have walked out of school and stood firm in the face of police terror.

Bring signs, banners, and noise makers!

Various community speakers will address the crowd as well as guests calling in from Minneapolis and Chicago!

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Nov
28
Sat
Occupy Forum @ PUERTO ALLEGRE
Nov 28 @ 6:17 am – 7:17 am

 

Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!

Occupyforum Night Out…

Reassessing and Recommitting

To Your Activism in Dire Times

We are coming to the end of another year of our activism, which invites us to reassess and hopefully recommit. This year has seen a surge of resistance: Black Lives Matter, anti-incarceration, climate justice and environmental justice locally and globally, immigration activism, anti-gentrification and protection of those victimized by it, Indigenous leadership, peace activism — way too much to list. At OccupyForum, we’ve been hearing from activists in all these battles and are an active part of this Movement.

But in our own circles, we take time out to express our frustration, anger and fear that what we see in the world is just too much. We have been to workshops and read books about taking care of ourselves when we are dealing with the world’s trauma, and getting help staying sane. The topic tonight, instead, is how to stay inspired (not just functioning!). How do we keep our work strong and focused when we are feeling afraid, defeated, and hopeless about our progress as a Movement?

 “Much of life is sad, and there’s nothing to be done about it. (All my activist friends are more than a little disappointed in the complacency of a populous who still refuse to join us in the streets, even as our corporate masters destroy the planet.) Sometimes we ignore happiness and healing when it’s dangled in front of us… There is one, and only one solution, but people are too scared to embrace it. Suffering, when you’re used to it, can feel safe. That solution is: come together, right now, over us.”  — Peter

 “I personally need to make sure I name the whole spectrum of my feelings in order to redouble efforts in the face of the madness. I’m so angry about what’s going on with black lives in this country I don’t know what to do. We protest and it flies back up in our face. We are living in an insane asylum in Amerikkka…. but it doesn’t mean we can afford to give up. Gandhi says you have to keep tipping the scales drop by drop.” – Ruthie

This Forum is for YOU. Please come to share your own feelings in the face of insanity, and tell us what advice you have for the rest of us to help focus the rage and despair into productive activism.

We have a little extra $ to help pay for food if you’re broke!

Don’t let cost keep you away!

 

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Burn Pie Not Oil – Alameda March for the Planet @ Crab Cove Visitor Center
Nov 28 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Family friendly bike ride and rally for a renewable energy economy

Locally: We ask city government, business leaders, and everyone to commit to smart resource use (reduce, reuse, recycle, rot), safe bike and pedestrian routes, and a swift transition to clean energy (solar, wind, geothermal)

Globally: This event is part of the Global Climate March asking world leaders who meet in Paris on November 30th to commit to 100% clean energy as part of the next global climate deal

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Nov
29
Sun
Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons
Nov 29 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

The Community Democracy Project is your connection to direct democracy in Oakland! Convened out of Occupy Oakland in Fall 2011, we’re gathering steam on a campaign to bring the people back in touch with the city’s resources through participatory budgeting.

Picture this: Across Oakland, Neighborhood Assemblies are regularly
held in every community. People come together to tackle the important issues of their neighborhoods and of the city. At these assemblies, people don’t just have discussions–they learn from one another, from city staff, and they make fundamental decisions about how the city should run. They decide the city budget.

Democratic, community budgeting is a powerful step toward building strong communities, real democracy, and economic justice–and it’s being done all over the world.

The budget of the City Oakland totals more than $1 billion per year. Although part of the budget must be used for specific purposes, still over half of the budget–over $500 billion per year–consists of general purpose funds paid by the taxes, fees, and fines of the people of Oakland. The Mayor and the City Council decide the city budget, with minimal input from the community.

Working together, we will not only get a seat at the table–we will REBUILD the table itself. Participatory democracy is real democracy–join us to say: Local People, Local Resources, Local Power!

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Organizational Meeting: Help plan Leap Day Action Night @ Longhaul
Nov 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Discussion / brainstorm of ideas for Leap Day Action Night 2016 in the Bay Area (February 29, 2016).

Leap Day — February 29, 2016 — is an extra day that gives us a chance to look at how we spend most of our days and wonder if we can’t do a little better? If the answer is “yes”, Leap Day can be an arbitrary but overdue moment to create decentralized, militant and yet creative and hilarious uprisings against the various oppressive systems that vex us.

Systems of inequality, racism, police violence and environmental destruction are vulnerable, but they won’t collapse on their own. They need our help. Everyone is standing around waiting for something to happen or just focused on the latest outrage. We need to take the initiative and throw the first punch every once in a while.

The call for decentralized revolt on Leap Day 2016 is open-ended in terms of tactics, goals and strategy. Leap day can be a laboratory to articulate our vision for the future in dynamic, emotionally resonant, new ways. Leap Day Action night aims to break down the artificial separation between “activism” and living our lives full of enjoyment and freedom.

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No GA November 29th
Nov 29 @ 10:44 pm – 11:44 pm

Folks last week figured they would be scattered around for the Holidaze. But we’ll be meeting at 1 PM next week on the 6th for a potluck!

NooGA

 

 

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Nov
30
Mon
EMERGENCY PROTEST Against Treatment of Prisoners in Solitary Confinement @ CA Department of Corrections, Rides from MacArthur BART at 8:00 AM
Nov 30 @ 8:00 am – 2:00 pm

We are mobilizing an EMERGENCY PROTEST. This is serious.

People in solitary confinement have been loudly awakened by guards every 30 minutes 24/7 since the night of August 2nd, almost 4 months! Please participate in an emergency protest in Sacramento to stop these every 30 minute so-called “security/welfare checks” being done in the Pelican Bay SHU and other solitary units in CA prisons. Sleep deprivation is torture, and that is what these loud, intrusive checks are causing. For people in solitary cells 23-24 hours a day, the noise and disruption every 30 minutes is unavoidable, endless torture. They are experiencing severe stress, weight loss, dizziness, nausea, headaches, eye problems, stomach and bowel problems, faintness, depression, and sped-up heart rates. They cannot concentrate, exercise, read, do legal work, or anything that helps them survive, and they can’t sleep!

An emergency demo is warranted. 119 days and nights of torment!
Please help make this a powerful convergence in front of the California Department of Corrections in Sacramento.

Protest at 1515 S St, Sacramento, CA 95811 from 10am to 2pm. Rideshares will leave from MacArthur BART in Oakland at 8am. To offer or find rides from Oakland or other CA locales, please call Verbena at 510.426.5322 or email phssreachingout@gmail.com

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Court Support for César Aguirre! @ Rene Davidson Courthouse
Nov 30 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am

Come out and show solidarity with our comrade who is finally getting an evidentiary hearing! After two years of fighting for it, this hearing will finally be held to show that César did not get a fair trial because the DA and OPD illegally withheld lots of favorable evidence from the defense. This is a case from Occupy and it would be great to have a big show of solidarity and support for this comrade from everyone! Please come out and spread the word!

Please note that this court date is expected to maybe be a 2 day thing, so it is likely court support will be needed on 11/30 AND 12/1!

CHECK THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE FOR UPDATED INFO, POSTPONEMENTS OR CANCELLATIONS

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Court support for César Aguirre ! @ René C. Davidson Courthouse, #250, Dept 10
Nov 30 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Court support for César Aguirre !
Please come out and support this comrade! This court date is likely to last for 2 days, so court support is likely to be needed on both 11/30 and 12/1! Dept. 10
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Music at the Homeless Occupation at Berkeley’s Old City Hall steps @ Old Berkeley City Hall
Nov 30 @ 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Kickin it on the eve of the Tues. Dec. 1st city council meeting…

Music by Dave (Redd) Welsh on Hammond organ, Dwan on drums, plus sax, congas, and the people’s choir…  music, songs and sing-along in solidarity with the homeless, now Occupying the grounds of Old City Hall in protest of anti-homeless legislation and in support of services and housing for those without a place to call their own.

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