Join us for our August General Meeting of East Bay DSA!
The meeting will be conducted via Zoom — please register and find the call-in info below!
Here is the agenda for this meeting
This month, we will be voting on a resolution regarding our chapter’s electoral strategy.
This resolution revamps our chapter’s process for considering electoral endorsements and is modeled off of the NYC-DSA endorsement process. It has two main features. (1) In order to increase member participation in electoral endorsements, the resolution adds a dedicated candidate forum where members can hear from interested candidates, ask questions, and debate outside the time constraints of a General Meeting. (2) The resolution gives the Electoral and Steering Committees the ability to democratically decide which of the candidates seeking endorsement are put to the general membership for consideration.
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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
TUESDAY, AUG 17: Join us for "Fighting for Freedom From the Inside: Celebrating the Advocacy of Jailhouse Lawyers," a riveting celebration of the legacy of jailhouse lawyers, who fight for freedom from inside the prison-industrial complex. Info & RSVP at https://t.co/NfW09cxRun pic.twitter.com/WX6WVP5GLx
— The CCR (@theCCR) August 11, 2021
Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.
Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation 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 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 pushing back against ICE.
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
Oakland Privacy works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment. Oakland Privacy drove the passage of surveillance regulation and transparency ordinances in Oakland and Berkeley and is kicking off new processes in various municipalities around the Bay. To help slow down the encroaching police and surveillance state all over the Bay Area, join us at the Omni.
We’ll talk about the fight to get CHP out of Oakland and justice for Erik Salgado, the Free Nicole Bratton campaign, MH First, MACRO, and more…
We’ll talk about the fight to get CHP out of Oakland and justice for Erik Salgado, the Free Nicole Bratton campaign, trouble with Oakland’s Head Start program (which is one of the surest ways to actually improve public safety), updates on MACRO implementation, the upcoming one-year anniversary of MHFirst Oakland, and more!
WHERE: Zoom � Register to join us at bit.ly/aptp-mtg0818
ACCESSIBILITY: ASL interpretation and closed captioning will be available
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APTP General Membership meetings are held the third Wednesday of every month at 7pm.
Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.
Join CODEPINK and friends at Nancy Pelosi’s house to do an “Emergency Intervention” for Pelosi, and a Bake Sale for the Women and Children of Afghanistan.
Our intervention is an attempt to help Speaker Pelosi with her apparent addiction to funding war and weapons manufacturers instead of the needs of her constituents, the country and the world. As Speaker and a leader of the Democrats, she has the power to decide what the federal budget will fund. Over half of the budget goes to the military. Militarism is literally killing the planet. We need the money she gives the Pentagon, Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, etc. for healthcare for all, green jobs, education, affordable housing and so many other things that will support our people and the planet. We don’t understand why Pelosi prioritizes the military over the people. Is she addicted to war? We need to do an emergency intervention immediately to prevent further loss of life and destruction of the planet.
Bake Sale for Afghanistan
The bake sale will feature homemade organic apple pie and cupcakes. We’ve spent trillions on the tragic war in Afghanistan. Maybe we can raise some $ for the people who having been living with the terror of drone strikes and U.S. military occupation for 20 years.
At 4pm, after our action, we are invited to join the Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion and others in painting a street mural at Delores Park in SF to ask Pelosi to support a Green New Deal.
What: #SealtheDeal Mural Action
Join our ally Sunrise Bay Area on a national day of action as thousands of people call on their Members of Congress to seal the deal and pass the biggest and boldest climate and care infrastructure bill in history. We can fund climate solutions, grow the care economy, fight inequality, and create green jobs. We will be painting a large mural at Dolores Park, � sending a message to Speaker Pelosi that we demand bold action now!
Covid-19 Protocol: This event will be outdoors. However, with the Delta Variant cases on the rise, we are asking participants to wear masks and practice social distancing. Please stay home if you are feeling il
RSVP here: https://smvmt.us/sba-sealthedeal
Join the Sunrise Movement and the California Green New Deal Coalition on this national day of action, as thousands of people call on members of Congress to #SealtheDeal: pass the biggest and boldest climate and care infrastructure bill in history.
We have to keep up the pressure so Speaker Pelosi and our other Democratic Party representatives won’t compromise away the measures we so desperately need. We must fund climate solutions, grow the care economy, fight inequality, and create green jobs.
Participants will be painting a large mural at Dolores Park, sending a message to Speaker Pelosi that we demand bold action now!
Are you hungry for deeper dialogue about the climate crisis and building community around solutions? We are too.
A group of us at California Doughnut Economics Coalition are reading All We Can Save — it’s a book club! The book club helps us build on our doughnut economics foundation, further connect the (social & ecological) dots, and think more like a 21st-century economist. We want to extend the invite to all.
About Book Club: A unique opportunity to read and share some information and inspirational conversation on important issues. The book club is an unbiased and safe forum that opens our minds to ideas and information for a more in-depth look at our world, our community, and hopefully ourselves.
Each month, we will discuss essays from each section:
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How it relates to Doughnut Economics: The book club helps us to further connect the dots and think more like a 21st-century economist.
Do you want to learn more about the Green New Deal? Do you want to help your community create a resilient response to climate change? We’re happy to offer an event focused on the Green New Deal and how it impacts us all. Our free, virtual conversation will explore the dangers of climate change and how legislation like this will help.
The workshop is presented by Grandmothers for a Green New Deal, a group of elder women working to educate us all about the GND and getting climate solutions enacted on a local, state and federal level.
Register here
Our current gas-car-based transportation system accounts for about half our greenhouse gas emissions and worsens all our inequities. Join experts and activists to hear about ways to strengthen transit, make it easy to walk or bike, and replace gas cars with EVs everyone can afford.
Picture a privileged person ensconced in a costly car that glides between privileged destinations, passing GHGs and toxins over the homes of the less advantaged, who drive clunkers or line up for buses that cost too much and too often don’t arrive. And join the discussion about how to change that picture!
This is the third installment in the second series of summits on United Actions for an Environmentally Just and Regenerative Future, hosted by the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Forcel
Schedule for this summit:
9: Land acknowledgement/welcome Cheryl Davila & Amos White, CEMTF
9:15: Assemblymember Phil Ting: How can we accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles?
9:30: Dan Sperling, Director of Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis and member of California Air Resources Board
9:45- 10:45: Panel: Encouraging Transit, Walking, Biking
* Facilitator: Yusra Arub, UC Berkeley Urban Studies student
* Speakers:
* Chirag Rabari–Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Plan Bay Area Implementation Team
* Jovanka Beckles–AC Transit Board member
* Jenn Guitart–California Bicycle Coalition
* Peter Miller–San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance, AFL-CIO
10:45 – 11:45: Panel: Electrification of Transportation
* Facilitator: Elena Engel, 350 Bay Area Transportation Team
* Speakers:
* Carleen Cullen–Drive Clean Bay Area
* Lily Cohen–No New Gas Campaign
* Brian Beveridge–West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
* [speaker on EV charging TBD]
11:45 – 12:00: Toolkit for Transportation Actions by Cities/Counties
* Jack Lucero Fleck, CEMTF steering committee & 350 Bay Area Transportation Team
Closing remarks–Cheryl Davila
Make calls together on Zoom to get killer cops off our streets!
While police officers continue to harm our community members without any accountability, California is only 1 out of 4 states that has no law to decertify cops that put our communities in danger.
Join us, Michelle and Ashley Monterrosa (sisters of Sean Monterrosa, who was killed by Vallejo PD in the wake of the George Floyd uprisings), and the Let Us Live coalition to demand change from Bay Area legislators!
WHAT: SB2 Lunch Power Hour
WHEN: Friday, August 20, 2021 from 12 to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Zoom : bit.ly/sb2powerhour0820
Register to join us!
Police officers engaging in anti-Black racism and abuse of their power creates unsafe communities. California has an obligation to ensure their badges are PERMANENTLY taken away when they commit serious misconduct, removing them from our streets and ensuring they can do no more harm.
Share this to get the word out. We want to get these dangerous cops off of our streets ASAP!
In solidarity,
Anti Police-Terror Project
Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.
Each viewing will include approximately one hour of documentary screening plus discussion or some words from folks involved in the creation of the documentary.
We would love to see you there!
August 20 – Double Feature night of films: “Homeless First” and “Couper Was Here”
September 3 – “Quarantine Diary”, “Cob On Wood”, “Shelter in Displacement”, “Humanity Scale of
Oakland! TODAY from 12-4pm, celebrate Black August with @togetherABC, @LSPC_ & @AllofUsorNone at a community BBQ supporting the Oakland Rejects Slavery / Abolish Bondage Collectively campaign! At Lil' Bobby Hutton Park in West Oakland – more info at https://t.co/9mrnq5Uecy. pic.twitter.com/EPTju6yrNu
— Ella Baker Center (@ellabakercenter) August 21, 2021
Assuming it is open, we will be meeting in-person at our old haunt, the OMNI, and, as an experiment, with a Zoom live link for those who can’t be there physically. Check back here a few days before the event to insure the availability of the OMNI, otherwise we will meet again solely online.
Due to the exponential growth of Delta COVID in Alameda County we will still be meeting online in July. The August meeting may be held dually online and at the OMNI Commons.
Stay tuned!
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com for up-to-date status and the online invite.
Our current topic is degrowth. Our book is Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide, by Liegey and Nelson, available from its publisher Pluto Press and elsewhere, including Amazon. We will be reading the first half of the book this month, constituting the first three chapters, through page 85 of the paper back edition, and the second half of the book for our August meeting.
“A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. This book is an introduction to the movement. As politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives, the degrowth movement demands that we must slow down the economy by transforming our economies, our politics and our cultures to live within the Earth’s limits. This book navigates the practice and strategies of the movement, looking at its strengths and weaknesses. Covering horizontal democracy, local economies and the reduction of work, it shows us why degrowth is a compelling and realistic project.”
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth, Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, and Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism.
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
A Good question – which we hope to help answer with some serious analysis and information in the following upcoming activity
PLEASE JOIN US for what will be an excellent panel discussion on the dangers and opportunities Cuba is now facing in today’s world
This online activity will include:
Gloria La Riva – ANSWER Coalition co-founder, member of the SF Bay Area Cuba-Venezuela Committee, and recent visitor to Cuba
Cheryl LaBash – co-chair of the National Network on Cuba.
Pablo Menendez – North American musician/composer and resident of Havana, Cuba since 1966.
This event will be moderated by long-time Cuba solidarity activist Tony Ryan.
At the program’s end, there will be sufficient time for Q & A and comments.
Please share this announcement with your friends and contacts.
LOGIN INFORMATION
We Intend to start the presentation as close to 10:30 am as possible, but the Zoom room will be opened up, as usual, at 10:15 for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will end at 12:30, but the Waiting Room will remain open until about 1 pm for informal discussion.
Raj Sahai is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join Zoom Meeting
LOGIN IN INGO WILL GO HERE
Bay Area: We are asking you to turn out for this tomorrow! Follow @AfghansTomorrow. #BayArea #Oakland #Afganistan #HousingIsAHumanRight https://t.co/lWFXMJW8oY
— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) August 21, 2021
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
