Calendar
Update: Eviction action by City was called off today after people showed up. But:
#oakmtg We have received information the city WILL return tomorrow to evict. We anticipate more force, more aggression from the government, more cops.
If you can be here before 8am, please do. Historically they don’t come before 8am, but we are in new territory here.
— Jesse A.J. Smith 4 Oakland Mayor (@OakSmith2018) October 24, 2018
#Oakland! Unhoused activist Nino Parker, who lives here, is asking for as many people as possible to come down by 9am on 10/24 to help the fight. PLEASE come to offer support, supplies, documentation, & assistance.@CatsCommentary @EOakCollective @BlakeDontCrack @johnajonesIII https://t.co/546uEiQYvr
— jcat (@jcatjcatjcat) October 20, 2018
Update: Eviction action by City was called off today after people showed up. But:
#oakmtg We have received information the city WILL return tomorrow to evict. We anticipate more force, more aggression from the government, more cops.
If you can be here before 8am, please do. Historically they don’t come before 8am, but we are in new territory here.
— Jesse A.J. Smith 4 Oakland Mayor (@OakSmith2018) October 24, 2018
#Oakland! Unhoused activist Nino Parker, who lives here, is asking for as many people as possible to come down by 9am on 10/24 to help the fight. PLEASE come to offer support, supplies, documentation, & assistance.@CatsCommentary @EOakCollective @BlakeDontCrack @johnajonesIII https://t.co/546uEiQYvr
— jcat (@jcatjcatjcat) October 20, 2018
Carroll Fife
Oakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment(ACCE)
Black Lives Matter
Carole Joffe
Prof of Ob/Gyn at UCSF; Pro-Choice Activist
Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in the East Bay DSA Labor Committee, and learn how you can get involved!
http://www.eastbaydsa.org
Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform. Imagine if Facebook or Twitter was run by its users, could be extended by anyone, offered cryptographic security, and required no centralized infrastructure!
Come by and learn more about SSB, ask questions, get set up on one of the several client programs, and be free from oppressive centralized social networks.
Read more at https://www.scuttlebutt.nz
Join us for a night of readings with Voice of Witness, a non-profit human rights organization in the Mission who publishes oral histories of human rights abuses. With a new book releasing this October with Haymarket Books, 6 x 10 —Voices from Solitary. This will be an event with author Mateo Hoke and a few of the narrators from the book centered around experience and mass incarceration throughout the US and beyond.
Press Release Below:
“Six by Ten is a deeply moving and profoundly unsettling wake-up call for all citizens. The use of solitary confinement is deeply immoral and we must insist that it be banned in all of our nation’s prisons. Immediately.”
—Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Blood
in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
This compelling collection of stories told by people directly impacted by solitary confinement is the first book in a new partnership between Voice of Witness and Haymarket Books.
Each chapter presents an individual’s story and shows how Americans across the country and all walks of life find themselves held in solitary for years or even decades. In addition to fourteen evocative firsthand accounts, the book also includes essays and analysis on how solitary became such a prominent feature of the
US prison system today.
Narrators include:
Brian Nelson, who was taken by the Illinois Department of Corrections from solitary cell to solitary cell in prisons across the state for more than seven years in the 1980s and ‘90s as part of
an unofficial program that came to be known as “the Circuit.”
Mohammed Ali, who grew up in the Bay Area after his family immigrated to the United States from Fiji. Growing up romanticizing gang life, he escalated through youth detention, jails, and prisons before landing in solitary in a private immigration detention facility in Arizona.
Candie Hailey, a young mother accused of a notorious crime, waits for her day in court while detained in one of America’s largest jails on Rikers Island in New York City. She is held in solitary
confinement for more than two years before she is finally acquitted of all charges and released from jail.
Heather Chapman, who is fighting for the life of her son, Nikko. He was diagnosed as bipolar at a young age and spent time in youth institutions in Florida before being sent to solitary as a teenager.
Sonya Calico, who was sent to solitary in a men’s jail in Texas, supposedly for her own protection, and whose story helped inspire change for other trans people facing incarceration in Dallas.
Shut down the concentration camps! Free all immigrant detainees! No ban, no wall, sactuary for all!
10:00 AM : Teach-In
12:00 Noon : Youth Speak Out and March from Krober Hall Plaza (Bancroft & College).
Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance:
Regional meeting of landless activists of the San Francisco Bay Area
National Speaking Tour: Steve Ellner.
Ellner has taught economic history in Venezuela since 1977. He is the author of numerous books and journal and magazine articles on Venezuelan history and politics. His most recent book: The Pink Tide Experiences: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings in 21st Century Latin America.
Campaign to end US and Canada Sanctions Against Venezuela.
Luxe Laundromat Free Laundry Events will offer free laundry to the community. If you or someone you know is in need please reach out to our page and leave your contact information. Anyone can come and help support by volunteering. The event will include live music,food and prizes.
Waffles & Zapatismo is a free space for learning about and discussing the history, ideas, values and practices of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, EZLN or Zapatistas. We serve waffles at the start of the class to those who want them.
What if we all realized food isn’t as scarce as we’ve been led to believe?
YOU are cordially invited to a FREE community potluck-style picnic where everyone is truly welcome! If the people of Oakland showed up to feed our neighbors with what we could, we would see that there is enough for EVERYONE!
Come enjoy the day with your neighbors! Offer rides to your unhoused neighbors! Bring a side dish if you can! Bring plates or cups! Bring your favorite dessert! Bring your friends! Bring your neighbors! Or just bring an appetite! Use this space to coordinate what’s already being brought!
Are you part of an organization, church, or restaurant that could provide meat or other entrees? Use this event page to coordinate! There are grills for public use in the park.
Lunch is served at 11:30!
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
Hardships imposed on the Venezuelan people by US-Canadian Sanctions.
As part of a campaign to educate the public and organize a stronger movement against ongoing – and ever increasing – US and Canadian sanctions and intervention on the Venezuelan people, the Alliance for Global Justice is organizing a national speaking tour by Dr. Steve Ellner, who has taught at several U.S. and Latin American Universities.
FREE – but hat will be passed for donations to NPML
About Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
A weekly discussion series inspired by our respect for the work of Karl Marx and our belief that his work will remain as important for the class struggles of the future as they have been for the past.
Thanks to a generous friend, we will enjoy pizza while gearing up for LWBM–Last Weekend Before Midterms! We’ll have a breakout is to discuss propositions, so bring your sample ballot!
We’ll have the latest information on what you can do to help with the elections. Join our monthly meeting for members and newcomers interested in opposing the administration’s agenda!
For more information about Indivisible East Bay, visit https://indivisibleeb.org
Ready to do more before the meeting? Give us a shout!
- Volunteer with IEB or find out how we work: andrea@indivisibleeb.org
- Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter
- IEB uses Slack, a chat system for talking about important issues, planning events, and team discussions. Want an invite to join Slack? Please drop us a line at info@indivisibleeb.org.
Tomorrow, Sun 10/28 at 2PM, the #HousingAndDignityVillage is hosting a Community BBQ + Potluck at Edes Ave & Elmhurst Ave! Join us in building community + solidarity b/t housed & unhoused folks and discussing communal, collaborative, caring solutions for houselessness epidemic pic.twitter.com/pIXM8TkXJa
— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) October 28, 2018
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
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Movie: 7:30 PM
Striking to Survive records workers’ views of their ongoing strikes in Pearl River Delta.
There is also a new movement of idealistic party youth in China for who are looking to Marxism to align with workers’ own aspirations. They have been rounded up by the party-state machine.
What future comes from “handling contradictions among the people” according to the “thought of Mao” or now the “thought of Xi Jinping”?
What is Marx’s philosophy of liberation in distinction from the party-state? How does it speak to the new movements in China and to the world facing a rise of fascism?
Don’t miss this riveting report on the state of the world and what’s being done to back away from the nuclear brink.
A Slide Show & Talk by John Steinbach, Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area
Edging toward nuclear war, the world remains balanced precariously on the knife edge of nuclear annihilation.
Sponsored by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee.