Calendar
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 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. 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 four years! 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
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.
We are at very unique moment in our struggle. The public discourse is filled with talk about ending mass incarceration by elected officials, academics, correctional officials, and funders. We are organizing this conference to specifically strengthen the voices of formerly incarcerated people and our families and to ensure that our ideas are included in the discourse. As the Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & Families Movement, we have made real progress since our first meeting in Selma in 2011. As a movement, we need the opportunity to collectively discuss the progress that we have made. We also need the opportunity and space to determine where we should be going during the next Presidential Administration. In the past year, we have conducted several regional meetings where we presented expert panels of formerly incarcerated people and our family members. This National Conference will be an opportunity to explore our best practices and see what is being done across the country. We strongly encourage you join us for networking, sharing of resources, tabling and organizing opportunities, and we guarantee that you will meet some of the most interesting activists and people from our community.
We are also encouraging service providers, allies, foundations, and government officials to attend: this is a space in which formerly incarcerated people will be speaking in our own voices, sharing the wisdom and practical knowledge we’ve gained as activists and organizers over many years following incarceration, and discussing how best we can restore our rights and fully rejoin our communities.
Formerly Incarcerated People have elected to collectively and heavily invest in the conference. We have reserved the Oakland Airport Hilton Hotel and we have set aside resources to provided scholarship support to formerly incarcerated people and their families. We must once again pose the critical question we first raised at Selma when organizing the next conference: “Will You Be There?”
FICPFM is a group of national organiziations comprised of & led by formerly incarcerated people dedicated to ending mass incarceration, restoring our rights, & removing the barriers to employment, housing, & education.
Music, speakers, drummers, art and more, followed by
a short procession to the Livermore Lab gates where
those who choose will peacefully risk arrest
On the 71st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we invite all who seek peace and justice to gather at the location where scientists are developing new nuclear weapons for the U.S. arsenal. Each new weapon involves “upgraded” features able to cause unimaginable devastation anywhere on Earth. Livermore Lab’s budget reveals that 86% of its funding is for nuclear weapons.
Stand with Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors), Pacific Islanders and others harmed by nuclear technology. Speakers include the Honorable Tony deBrum (Marshall Islands) and Rev. Nobuaki Hanaoka (Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor). This event is part of the global “Chain Reaction: Breaking Free from Nuclear Weapons.”
Come to the Livermore nuclear weapons laboratory’s northwest corner, at Vasco & Patterson Pass Roads, in Livermore. There will be parking set up at the rally site and vanpools from the Dublin-Pleasanton BART station (you must call 925-443-7148 in advance to reserve a seat).
The Take Back Oakland Coalition (which APTP has initiated) is challenging the tri-county DA’s to prosecute the cops involved in the Bay Area-wide predatory policing scandal of statutory rape, commercial sexual exploitation, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Letters were delivered yesterday to DA’s Nancy O’Malley (Alameda), Mark Peterson (Contra Costa), and George Gascon (San Francisco). The letters demanded a signed agreement by Tuesday am to a specific list of demands around investigating and prosecuting these cops.
We are planning simultaneous actions at 10:30 am to pick up these signed agreements from the DA’s offices. We could use a lot of people, as we need coverage of the three locations.
Here’s the list:
Nancy O’Malley 1225 Fallon St, Oakland
George Gascon 850 Bryant St, SF
Mark Peterson 100 37th St, Richmond
Come out and support the work of Critical Resistance Oakland!
We are excited to talk with you about the work we are doing around the SF and Alameda Jail Fights, Stop Urban Shield, and the Oakland Power Projects, as well as:
-Building alternatives to the cops in Oakland.
-Abolishing solitary confinement in California.
-Helping people on the inside organize for self-determination.
-And slowly chipping away at the prison-industrial complex.
Have a drink with us and learn more about what we do and how you can help us build our vision of abolition.
The space is on the ground floor with no stairs and no steps to the restrooms. We recommend that folks come scent-free to allow accessibility to people with chemical sensitivities, though this is a public bar so we can’t guarantee a scent-free zone. Please call us at 510-444-0484 if you have other accessibility concerns!
Please note that all tabs must be closed by 8pm in order to qualify for the benefit. And be sure to check out upcoming events:
End Police Militarization: Stop Urban Shield Webinar
Thursday, August 4th, 12-1pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/1077578638990092/
Oakland Power Projects Workshop: Know Your Options in Chronic Health
Thursday, August 25th, 6:30-9pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/121405968291882/
Story of the homeless recyclers in Dogtown, an Oakland neighborhood decimated by unemployment and gentrification. A Journey through a landscape of love and loss, devotion and addition, prejudice and poverty within the threat of a recycling center slated for closure.
Free snacks and popcorn.
The Jail Fight continues
Here is a tentative agenda:
- Check in
- Report back on Decarceration Plan working meeting
- Review commitments and set deadlines
- Discuss new Health care provider and our strategy
- Meeting with sheriff or Chan to learn more about new contract?
- Media Strategy
- Video (follow up Leigh and Micky)
- Outreach/organizing
- Collect stories for decarceration doc
- Oakland Power Project, Mario Woods Coalition
- Establish facilitator, and location of next weeks meeting
This is Michael Moore’s latest and most hilarious film yet.
Prepare to be liberated and laugh as well at this special free screening of this provocative and subversive comedy/documentary which confronts the most pressing issues facing America today and finds the solutions. Just when we need it most the Academy Award-winning director comes up with his best ever film-so rich we encourage folks to see it again! A truly enjoyable, patriotic and thoughtful film that is not to be missed.
Sponsored by the BFUU Social Justice Cmte as part of our Conscientious Projector series.
Free to the public. No one turned away.
Wheelchair accessible.
The SF Unitarian-Universalist Center will show films on the environment every Friday this month. .
The next film, Aug 12, “Unacceptable Levels” tells the story of the inadequate federal measures to keep toxics out of our environment. A speaker from the EPA will help make sense of the situation and the new law recently passed.
In “Evolution of Organic,” showing Aug. 19, the story of the organic agriculture movement is told by those who built it – and looks ahead to the next generation of growers.
In “Bill Nye’s Global Meltdown” showing Aug 26, Nye goes to a psychoanalyst’s couch to struggle with his emotions about global warming and what to do about it.
Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it.
- organizing for public banking
- advocating for Postal banking
- helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk
- Tiny Homes for the homeless.
- Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contract
- student debt resistance
- Promoting the concept of Basic Income
- fighting modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitive ticketing and fining schemes
- Presenting debt-related topics at forums and workshops
- Bring your own debt-related project!
If you are new to Strike Debt and want to come early and meet one or two of us before the formal meeting starts, email us at strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com .
Strike Debt – Principles of Solidarity
Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it.
We also oppose debt because it is an instrument of exploitation and political domination. Debt is used to discipline us, deepen existing inequalities, and reinforce racial, gendered, and other social hierarchies. Every Strike Debt action is designed to weaken the institutions that seek to divide us and benefit from our division. As an alternative to this predatory system, Strike Debt advocates a just and sustainable economy, based on mutual aid, common goods, and public affluence.
Strike Debt is committed to the principles and tactics of political autonomy, direct democracy, direct action, creative openness, a culture of solidarity, and commitment to anti-oppressive language and conduct. We struggle for a world without racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of oppression.
Strike Debt holds that we are all debtors, whether or not we have personal loan agreements. Through the manipulation of sovereign and municipal debt, the costs of speculator-driven crises are passed on to all of us. Though different kinds of debt can affect the same household, they are all interconnected, and so all household debtors have a common interest in resisting.
Strike Debt engages in public education about the debt-system to counteract the self-serving myth that finance is too complicated for laypersons to understand. In particular, it urges direct action as a way of stopping the damage caused by the creditor class and their enablers among elected government officials. Direct action empowers those who participate in challenging the debt-system.
Strike Debt holds that we owe the financial institutions nothing, whereas, to our friends, families and communities, we owe everything. In pursuing a long-term strategy for national organizing around this principle, we pledge international solidarity with the growing global movement against debt and austerity.
Can we destroy nukes before they destroy us?
You’re invited to hear
HELEN CALDICOTT
ADMISSION FREE
Dr. Helen Caldicott, M.D., the world’s foremost anti-nuclear activist, will lecture in the Main SF Public Library’s Koret Auditorium She will also answer questions. The event is free of charge.
Among critical issues to be discussed are Russian and-American preparations for nuclear war on each other. “Thousands of nuclear weapons remain continuously on hair-trigger alert” and any international disturbance could set off a “conflagration and nuclear winter,” ending most human life. That is the climax of “The New Nuclear Danger” (one of three Caldicott books that may be available before and after the talk).
Her appearance is co-sponsored by the library’s Business, Science and Technology Department and a new Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament. The latter allies 13 pro-peace groups, including AFSC and the War and Law League, which initiated the event as its biennial meeting and organized the coalition.
The listing so far is Le fomo, Slave Unit, Future Twin, Old Pal, Diagonal Mints, and Josh The Navigator.
Location: Clark Kerr Campus, Berkeley, CA.
Maria Moore, sister to Kayla, will speak on a panel at the Veterans For Peace National Convention: “Standing at the Intersection: Wars Abroad and Struggles for Justice Here At Home.”
Usually when people think of violence and economic and social justice struggles in the United States they do not think about about wars abroad. However, racism, militarization and patriarchal domination are some of the forces responsible for the violence and victimization we see both at home and abroad. Join our panel as we discuss the militarization of the police, military sexual trauma and domestic rape culture and the intersection of the movement for Black lives and the struggle for Palestinian rights.
This panel will be moderated by Michael McPhearson, Executive Director of Veterans For Peace. Panelists include Suhad Khatib, Maria Moore and Monique Salhab.
For more information visit: http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/
“Campaign finance reform is the most important issue facing us today, because it impacts all the others.” —Bernie Sanders.
Corporations_Are_Not_People: Come to a presentation and discussion with David Cobb of Move to Amend, on the movement for a Constitutional amendment stating that corporations aren’t people and money isn’t speech; plus this fall’s ballot measure opposing Citizens United. And updates on our campaigns. We need your participation and your voice!
12:30 pm, Potluck lunch
1 – 3 pm, Talk followed by campaign updates
– a ten-minute walk from the Richmond BART station.
- We wanted to invite you to a BBQ this Sunday 8/14 from 1 to 4pm to honor the life and legacy of Uncle Ernest Thorton, former homeowner of 835 Page Street in Berkeley, and show our support for the countless other families who are experiencing the loss of their homes. We’ll be at Uncle Ernest’s house at 835 Page Street in Berkeley. There will be free food and music as well as children’s activities, so bring the family!
- You can RSVP for this event here. Please invite your friends and family!
- We do this to hold space and bring attention to the legal sanction of Black displacement and the plunder of Black homes in the Bay Area and across the country. In this case, and many others, probate court is used as a means to seize the assets, property, and basic inheritance of Black families. The redlining, institutional housing discrimination, and predatory lending practices that have made it so hard for Black families to preserve wealth and stability are being systematically reinforced by the court system. But we continue to resist.
- We need your support in stopping the sale of this home and preserving it for Uncle Ernest’s family, and on Sunday, we’ll do it together in a spirit of fun and community. “An injustice anywhere is a threat to injustice everywhere.” We hope to see you this Sunday.
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 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. 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 four years! 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
Berners, Greens, Leftists, Progressives, and Socialists, Let’s grow & unify the political revolution! What should we do now? THE GREEN PARTY of Alameda County invites you to come TALK ABOUT IT on Sunday 8/14, 5 pm (sharp) to 7 pm, in North Oakland. Speakers include Laura Wells, David Cobb, Tom Gallagher, Wyatt Ratliff, Pat DeTemple and Isra Allison
See full description: https://
Veterans For Peace is hosting a concert and public awareness event in honor of the innocent victims of gun violence. From the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida to the countless young black men and women lost at the hands of police, our communities are at war. This concert is a vital step forward in our mission to educate people about the true costs of war and bring about peace at home and abroad.
Confirmed performers are:
Jeff Turner
Mike Rufo & No Exit
Emily Yates
Miles Megaciph
Pat Scanlon
Jim Toler
Peter Tracy
and the
VFP Chorus.
Outraged and healing political music from multiple artists, spanning genres and regions of our country coming together to raise awareness and spread peace. VFP brings Hip-hop to the famous Freight and Salvage stage for the first time!
General Admission is $20. Buy your tickets in advance for this sure to sell out event at vfp8-14.brownpapertickets.com or any of three Bay area Pegasus Bookstores. Freight and Salvage has a 440 person capacity. All Ages Welcomed.
Register For the convention online:
http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/register.htm