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Google claims to be a privacy-conscious company. But the lack of a global privacy control in their Chrome browser contradicts those value statements. Google makes efforts to protect online spying by “cleaning up” tracking, instead of letting Chrome users decide for themselves if they want to globally opt out of all third party trackers in their browser.
That should be OUR decision.
Join us in demanding that Google honor its commitment to user privacy.
Here is how you can help:
Circulate our demand letter to listservs and colleagues passionate about privacy.
Join our webinar to refine and update the demand letter and organize a delegation visit to Google’s headquarters.
SEIU Local 1000 represents the largest group of California state employees. That includes nearly 1700 members and represented workers in San Francisco county specifically. The statewide member lead bargaining team’s main economic proposal in collective bargaining to our boss the State is a 30% General Salary Increase and full coverage of health care premiums for all represented workers.
We are reaching the final moments of negotiating time as the contract expires on June 30th. We call on all labor allies San Francisco Labor Council affiliates to join us for this Wednesday June 29th, 1:00 pm San Francisco Civic Center Plaza march.
SEIU Local 1000 is not backing down and intends to fight. Recently, State Senator Scott Wiener declared himself an ally for state employees. SEIU Local 1000 needs him to show up now for our fight for higher wages, and better benefits and work life conditions.
Join us, June 29th from 1pm – 2pm and march with us for a better State, and for a better future.
For justice, for solidarity!
John Torok, VP-Chief Steward
SEIU Local 1000 DLC 743 (San Francisco)
Ken Lustenberger, Shop Steward
SEIU Local 1000 DLC 743 (San Francisco)
In an insane society how can we help those struggling with actual mental illness? And who is driving the country insane? The social worker drowning in the bureaucracy needed to help their unhoused client? The news anchor, who feeds anxiety with “breaking news” of daily atrocities and political scapegoating rather than the real “Who, What, Where and Why?”
We will meet them and more in our new comedy musical aptly titled: BREAKDOWN – A New Musical. Sometimes it’s not all just happening in your mind.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical is written by: Michael Gene Sullivan & Marie Cartier Director: Michael Gene Sullivan Music & Lyrics Daniel Savio Music Director: Daniel Savio The show runs 80 min. – no intermission.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical features a five-person cast that includes veteran SF Mime Troupe collective member: Andre Amarotico (Mr. Stereós); who is joined by Jamella Cross (Marcia Stone); Alicia M. P. Nelson (Saidia); Jed Pasario (Felix); and Kina Kantor (Yume). And SFMT Band: Breakfast (Keyboard, Guitar, Sax); Guinevere Q (Bass); and Jason Young (Drums, Percussion).
Bios: https://www.sfmt.org/press-bios All actors and the stage manager appear through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. To arrange an interview with writers, actors, or anyone from the SF Mime Troupe Collective, please call or e-mail publicist Lawrence Helman at 415-336-8220 heytheresells@gmail.com
Tech credits for BREAKDOWN – A New Musical include: Scenic Designer: Carlos Aceves; Costume Designer: Keiko Shimosato Carreiro; Props: Lena Seagrave; Choreographer: AeJay Mitchell; Sound Designer / Engineer: Taylor Gonzalez; Sound A2: Miguel Wacher; Sound A2: Solstiz Ibarra-Camp; Poster Design: Pablo Mica; Prod. Stage Manager: Karen Runk; Booking Coordinator: Junelle Taguas-Utumoengalu & Andre Amarotico; Tour Manager: Maxine Tower; Publicity: Lawrence Helman; Photography: DavidAllenStudio.com.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical plays July 1 – Sept. 4, 2023 Opening: Sat. / Sun. July 1, 2 – Cedar Rose Park – Berkeley Opening: Mon. July 4, – Dolores Park – San Francisco Running throughout the Bay Area in SF, Marin (Mill Valley), Ukiah (Mendocino), Cotati (Sonoma), East Bay, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and Davis July 1 – Sept. 4, 2023.
All shows are FREE and open to the public unless otherwise listed. Ticketed performance: Z Space: Aug. 24, 2023 (Thurs.). Some shows will require RSVPs: Davis HS, Richard Brunelle Performance Hall: Aug. 3 (Thurs.); SFMT Studio Back Lawn in SF: Aug 16 (Sun.). For a complete schedule and more information, visit http://www.sfmt.org or call 415-285-1717.
In an insane society how can we help those struggling with actual mental illness? And who is driving the country insane? The social worker drowning in the bureaucracy needed to help their unhoused client? The news anchor, who feeds anxiety with “breaking news” of daily atrocities and political scapegoating rather than the real “Who, What, Where and Why?”
We will meet them and more in our new comedy musical aptly titled: BREAKDOWN – A New Musical. Sometimes it’s not all just happening in your mind.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical is written by: Michael Gene Sullivan & Marie Cartier Director: Michael Gene Sullivan Music & Lyrics Daniel Savio Music Director: Daniel Savio The show runs 80 min. – no intermission.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical features a five-person cast that includes veteran SF Mime Troupe collective member: Andre Amarotico (Mr. Stereós); who is joined by Jamella Cross (Marcia Stone); Alicia M. P. Nelson (Saidia); Jed Pasario (Felix); and Kina Kantor (Yume). And SFMT Band: Breakfast (Keyboard, Guitar, Sax); Guinevere Q (Bass); and Jason Young (Drums, Percussion).
Bios: https://www.sfmt.org/press-bios All actors and the stage manager appear through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. To arrange an interview with writers, actors, or anyone from the SF Mime Troupe Collective, please call or e-mail publicist Lawrence Helman at 415-336-8220 heytheresells@gmail.com
Tech credits for BREAKDOWN – A New Musical include: Scenic Designer: Carlos Aceves; Costume Designer: Keiko Shimosato Carreiro; Props: Lena Seagrave; Choreographer: AeJay Mitchell; Sound Designer / Engineer: Taylor Gonzalez; Sound A2: Miguel Wacher; Sound A2: Solstiz Ibarra-Camp; Poster Design: Pablo Mica; Prod. Stage Manager: Karen Runk; Booking Coordinator: Junelle Taguas-Utumoengalu & Andre Amarotico; Tour Manager: Maxine Tower; Publicity: Lawrence Helman; Photography: DavidAllenStudio.com.
BREAKDOWN – A New Musical plays July 1 – Sept. 4, 2023 Opening: Sat. / Sun. July 1, 2 – Cedar Rose Park – Berkeley Opening: Mon. July 4, – Dolores Park – San Francisco Running throughout the Bay Area in SF, Marin (Mill Valley), Ukiah (Mendocino), Cotati (Sonoma), East Bay, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and Davis July 1 – Sept. 4, 2023.
All shows are FREE and open to the public unless otherwise listed. Ticketed performance: Z Space: Aug. 24, 2023 (Thurs.). Some shows will require RSVPs: Davis HS, Richard Brunelle Performance Hall: Aug. 3 (Thurs.); SFMT Studio Back Lawn in SF: Aug 16 (Sun.). For a complete schedule and more information, visit http://www.sfmt.org or call 415-285-1717.
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 Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never coded before!). And if you’re an intermediate programmer looking for a challenge, we can help you find problems to work on. No computer? No problem: we can provide one for the night. Coders of all abilities are welcome! All coding languages are welcome! Bringing a WNB friend is highly recommended. Coding is more fun with friends! Join in person if you’re in Oakland or online anywhere else in the world!
The idea is also to be a safe space for WNB in the tech world, besides promoting empowerment, also to provide emotional support for those facing challenges in a work environment, tech job search or anything else related.
Your host: Juliana A. (pronouns she/her) is originally from Brazil, has been living in the US for 10 years, and has been working as a software engineer since 2020, after finishing a software engineering bootcamp for women/nb people only. She has worked with Ruby on Rails, Python, SQL, JavaScript, React, Typescript.
Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night
- Every Monday from 7pm to 9pm Pacific Time
Virtual: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
If you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can’t get in, call 510-844-0014 or 510-740-5758.
Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.
Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186
The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a
grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality.
In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and mobilize people against police and state repression. Sisters and brothers! The Oscar Grant Committee invites you to join us in this vital struggle.
We meet on the 1st Monday of each month
You can join our discussion list by sending a blank (doesn’t even need a subject) email to
oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
UPCOMING EVENT:
Path to Win Single Payer NOW — Online Webinar — Register at http://bit.ly/Path2SinglePayer —
Join Dr. Jill Stein for an online discussion of U.S. health care with healthcare experts and activists including Dr. Claire Cohen, Don Fitz, Ryan Skolnick, and Dr. Margaret Flowers — The profit-driven U.S. health care system has produced staggering healthcare inequities, patient suffering and death, declining health outcomes, and massive medical debt. A single-payer system would cover comprehensive health care for everyone from head to toe regardless of citizenship or employment. It will be free at the point of service and cost less than the current system — Registration is required for this free event.
Please contact Lauren Filla (filla.lauren@gmail.com) with any questions — Co-Hosted by: the Green Party of California & the Missouri Green Party — Co-Sponsored by: National Single Payer, Physicians for a National Health Program, OR, People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, Green Parties of Washington, Florida, and Illinois, and many others
Main Agenda Items:
3. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – DOT – Mobile Parking Payment System
a. Review and take possible action on the proposed use policy
4. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Annual Reports
a. Review and take possible action on the annual reports for ShotSpotter, Forensic Logic/Coplink, Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)
5. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Fixed Wing Aircraft (with surveillance technology)
a. Review and take possible action on a proposed use policy
6. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)
a. Review and take possible action on a proposed use policy
Agenda packet: https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Privacy-Advisory-Commission-Meeting-Agenda-Packet-070623.pdf
To observe the meeting via Zoom, go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85817209915
Or One tap mobile: +1 669 900 9128
FREE MUMIA NOW!
BOOK LAUNCH AND PANEL AS PART OF LABORFEST 2023
[In person event. Attendees are politely requested to mask.]
Speakers:
Eliot Lee Grossman, attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, 2001-2003
Rachel Wolkenstein, attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1995-1999
Gerald Smith, Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (LAC) cordially invites you to a panel discussion to launch a new book on the Mumia Abu-Jamal case written by his former attorney, Eliot Lee Grossman. Mr. Grossman represented Mumia, with his colleagues Marlene Kamish, British barrister Nick Brown, and J. Michael Farrell, from  2001-2003, and saved his life by convincing a federal judge to overturn his death sentence, a decision later upheld on appeal.
The panel includes attorney Rachel Wolkenstein who, as head of the Partisan Defense Committee, brought Mumia’s case to national and international prominence, represented Mumia from 1995-1999 with co-counsel Jonathan Piper, and investigated, discovered and developed new evidence of Mumia’s innocence. Ex-Black Panther Gerald Smith will also speak on behalf of the LAC.
Mumia narrowly escaped execution for a crime he did not commit, but has been imprisoned for over 40 years despite his innocence. Mr. Grossman’s new book traces the history of Mumia’s case from December 9, 1981, when a white Philadelphia police officer was murdered and Mumia was shot, beaten by the Philadelphia police and framed for the killing, through trial, appeal, six state post-conviction petitions, and numerous appeals to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court, to the present and continuing struggle to Free Mumia!
Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing by the author. Join our panelists to discuss how the labor movement and its allies can revitalize the international campaign to Free Mumia Now!
For Labor Action to Free Mumia!
Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Speaker: Simone Chun.
Can there be peace in Korea under the US imperialistic strategy? Can there be peace in Korea when the US is at a virtual war with China? Simone Chun’s talk will show that the greatest threat to peace and stability in northeast Asia is the U.S. imperialistic quest and military encirclement of China. She will argue that the US peace movement must seriously oppose US imperial policy as a focal point of its struggle, and join its voice with the South Korean public as they campaign to regain their sovereignty and independence.
Our speaker, Simone Chun, is a researcher and activist focusing on inter-Korean relations and U.S. foreign policy in the Korean Peninsula. She has served as an assistant professor at Suffolk University, a lecturer at Northeast University and an associate in research at Harvard University’s Korea Institute. She is on the Korea Policy Institute Board of Directors, and serves on the advisory board for CODEPINK. She can be found on Twitter at @simonechun
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Maybe you’ve been getting our emails for months or years but never come to a DSA event. Maybe you’re a veteran leftist with decades of battles under your belt. Maybe you’re a new member ready to take the next step and get organized.
Wherever you’re coming from, we want to hang out with you!
🌹 Hear what we’re currently working on
💪 Get more involved in critical fights right here in the East Bay
🥨 Eat some snacks
Right now, we’re grappling with a conservative attack on our reproductive rights, a looming climate catastrophe, and a Democratic establishment unwilling to fight for working people. But at the same time, Amazon and Starbucks workers are building power in their workplaces.
There’s never been a more pressing time to make the jump from socialist to *organized* socialist. And that starts with meeting your comrades and taking action. Plus, it’ll be fun, we promise. Join us!
Invite all your union friends and the socialism-curious!
Look for us at Snow Park!
Extinction Rebellion presents this film, “an insider’s view of the world of direct action . . . the battle between frontline communities, activists and fossil fuel corporations,” followed by a discussion with Michael Levitin, author of Generation Occupy: Reawakening American Democracy.
Finite: The Climate of Change tells the story of a community in Germany where activists stepped forward to save an ancient forest from one of Europe’s biggest coal mines. They formed an unlikely alliance with a frustrated community in rural England who were forced into action to protect their homes from a new opencast coal mine.
The screening will also feature a pre-recorded introduction from director Rich Felgate.
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
Diana Bohn and Don Macleay will discuss the current situation in Nicaragua and what it me ans for the US solidarity movements and the Green Party.
Our speakers have a long history with Nicaragua dating back to the time of the Sandinista Popular Revolution 1979-1990. Since then they have both been involved in Nicaragua solidarity and support of human rights.
The current government of Nicaragua has the Sandinista name, but not the revolutionary practice, the human rights record and has lost the support of almost all of the original generation of Sandinistas. From 2018 to today, repression has ramped up, civil rights have been eliminated and democratic practice only exists in name.
The challenge for the democratic left, solidarity movements and the Green Party USA is to both support civil rights and oppose foreign intervention. We need to stand up against political repression in all parts of the world. At the same time, res pect for other national sovereignty is something we should do for all nations, especially the countries where our state department has a long history of interference.
There will be a short presentation followed by open discussion.
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UPCOMING EVENT:
Wed, July 5, 5:30 pm — Path to Win Single Payer NOW — Online Webinar — Register at http://bit.ly/Path2SinglePayer — Join Dr. Jill Stein for an online discussion of U.S. health care with healthcare experts and activists including Dr. Claire Cohen, Don Fitz, Ryan Skolnick, and Dr. Margaret Flowers — The profit-driven U.S. health care system has produced staggering healthcare inequities, patient suffering and death, declining health outcomes, and massive medical debt. A single-payer system would cover comprehensive health care for everyone from head to toe regardless of citizenship or employment. It will be free at the point of service and cost less than the current system — Registration is required for this free event. Please contact Lauren Filla (filla.lauren@gmail.com) with any questions — Co-Hosted by: the Green Party of California & the Missouri Green Party — Co-Sponsored by: National Single Payer, Physicians for a National Health Program, OR, People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, Green Parties of Washington, Florida, and Illinois, and many others
SPEAKER: Mariya P Ivancheva
Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, The Alternative University outlines the origins and day-to-day functioning of the colossal effort of late President Hugo Chávez’s government to create a university that challenged national and global higher education norms. The session will commence with reading from the book and outlining some of its main themes. It will then open a dialogue will participants about some of the lessons that the book carries and challenges that the Venezuelan experiment poses to the possibility of revolutionary change in higher education.
The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never coded before!). And if you’re an intermediate programmer looking for a challenge, we can help you find problems to work on. No computer? No problem: we can provide one for the night. Coders of all abilities are welcome! All coding languages are welcome! Bringing a WNB friend is highly recommended. Coding is more fun with friends! Join in person if you’re in Oakland or online anywhere else in the world!
The idea is also to be a safe space for WNB in the tech world, besides promoting empowerment, also to provide emotional support for those facing challenges in a work environment, tech job search or anything else related.
Your host: Juliana A. (pronouns she/her) is originally from Brazil, has been living in the US for 10 years, and has been working as a software engineer since 2020, after finishing a software engineering bootcamp for women/nb people only. She has worked with Ruby on Rails, Python, SQL, JavaScript, React, Typescript.
Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night
- Every Monday from 7pm to 9pm Pacific Time
Virtual: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
If you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can’t get in, call 510-844-0014 or 510-740-5758.
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.