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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.
Octavia Butler Science Fiction AI Theme
This week’s theme: Print is hardware too! And what better muse can we imagine than Octavia Butler, science fiction Goddess.
We’ll have a pre-hardware hack night presentation on creative ways to mix print with electronics, use artificial intelligence in the most open source and ethical way, and work on our SudoRoom print zine! Throw in some 3D models into the mix too!
Hack on Anything and Everything
○ Projects: can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to light projection art, to people building their own microchip boards! We provide the space, tools and peer learning – you bring your project and enthusiasm!
○ Group Sewing: Learn to do simple mending or get help with technical fabric and textile projects. In addition to regular machines our Sewing Lab features heavy-duty industrial sewing machines and sergers. Our in house sewing guru CC has worked for Academy or Art College, Tesla, SuitX, and Zipline and has vast sewing machine repair and maintenance experience; bring your own machine to tune up for tip-top operation and sew alongside others.
○ General Repair: Fix it Clinic’s weekly Oakland residency: bring your broken, non-functioning things – electronic gadgets, appliances, computers, toys, sewing machines, fabric items, etc.– for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair. We’ll provide workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to help you disassemble and troubleshoot your item. First-time repairers and “Fixing Families” are heartily invited. Learn more at https://www.fixitclinic.or
Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.
(THE JANUARY 17TH MEETING, 2024 WAS MOVED TO JANUARY 24TH)
Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for privacy, surveillance regulation of both corporations and the state, and government transparency, 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 in 2018 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 street surveillance, and fighting to ensure local governments adhere to State privacy and transparency regulations.
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, and/or on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@oaklandprivacy
Earlier this year the Anti Police-Terror Project proudly launched The People’s Clinic with scheduling options every 1st and 3rd Friday at The People’s House in West Oakland. We created The People’s Clinic as an abolitionist healing space for communities affected by police terror and state violence, frontline organizers, and our West Oakland neighbors. We offer free services for community like acupuncture, herbal consultations, massage, healing tools library, monthly workshops, and more.
Our Healing Justice framework invites community to envision and manifest a life beyond the violence we survive everyday. Without healing there is no justice. Sign up today to join us for free healing services this Friday!
Our Clinic draws upon the revolutionary history of the Young Lords and seeks to honor the legacy of Dr. Mutulu Shakur. Ancestral medicine is one of the greatest strengths that our movement has to combat state violence, and it is a central value of APTP to utilize healing justice as a strategy for the longevity of organized resistance.
APTP Healing Justice Team
A new grassroots coalition has formed in response to what it calls a major conservative threat to voters’ rights in Oakland and Alameda County, bluntly calling itself: “Respect Our Vote – No Recalls.”
“We already voted! We shouldn’t have to pay for another expensive election because a handful of multi-millionaires from Piedmont and San Francisco, along with a few billionaires across the country, don’t like the results of the election we already had,” said longtime Oakland activist Mariano Contreras, reflecting a sentiment of some politically aware residents from many groups and neighborhoods across Oakland.
While outside monied interests are paying for the recalls, other recall backers include supporters of those who lost the last election and those who are opposed to progressive reforms, according to anti-recall organizers. In fact, Piedmont resident and venture capitalist, Philip Dreyfuss, has provided three-quarters of the funding for one of. the recalls.
“I can disagree with some actions of an elected official, but I want them to serve out their term and carry out the programs they ran on. I can vote for someone else next time if I don’t like what they are doing,” said Servant BK Woodson.
“Time is short, and it is important to mobilize now to defend our rights to pick the leaders of our choice. Early voting starts in less than 70 days, and election day is Nov. 5,” said Pamela Drake.
“Our opponents are well funded, they utilize MAGA talking points, and have no respect for the truth. They are backed by corporate media. We have to make ourselves aware of what is really going on and mobilize with people power,” said attorney Walter Riley.
Among those throwing their energies into the coalition are representatives of labor unions, the faith community, nonprofit organizations, local Democratic clubs, African American community organizations, Asian and Pacific Islander organizations, teachers, and others.
For more information contact WalterRiley@rrrandw.com; 1-510-410-6481
Speaker: Radhika Desai.
The application of Neoliberal Economics had its beginning with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. It held its sway for almost four decades starting when China allowed G-7 capital to exploit a vast pool of labor power, but unlike in the past when it resulted in failed economics in the Third World, China rose as an economic giant in just three decades, with the Communist Party of China firmly controlling the process. The US workers largely lost good industrial wages even as they benefited from cheaper consumer products imported from China in these three decades. But lately the Chinese economy has also run into a slowdown and as shown by the recent parliamentary elections in India and Mexico, the Neoliberal Economics has lost support from the vast majority of these two countries and there appears to be opposition to it in China as well. Prof. Desai’s talk will focus on this core issue and how it is related to the decline of the G-7 group of countries, and its impact on the geopolitics and the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine.
Radhika Desai is the convener of the International Manifesto Group (https://internationalmanifesto.org/), which analyzes the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of the world order. From around the world, they represent a diversity of currents of anti-imperialist socialist thought.
Dr. Desai is professor at the Department of Political Studies and director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba. Among her many publications are Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats’ and the Labour Party. She is also the author of numerous articles in Economic and Political Weekly, International Critical Thought, New Left Review, Third World Quarterly, World Review of Political Economy and other journals and in edited collections on parties, political economy, culture, and nationalism. With Alan Freeman, she co-edits the Geopolitical Economy book series with Manchester University Press and the Future of Capitalism book series with Pluto Press.
Her article, “The Long Shadow of Hiroshima: Capitalism and Nuclear Weapons, International Critical Thought,” was published online: 08 Apr 2022
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21598282.2022.2051582?tab=permissions&scroll=top
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Oakland: Kamala, stop sending bombs for genocide!
Sun 8/18 11am
Lake Merritt Amphitheater
Masks required
Covid surging in the bay per wastewater data. Respect your & your comrades' health. Covid is a vascular disease that continues to damage years after infection. pic.twitter.com/wzlne1xl6v— Cisten Schmidt (@TristenSchmidt) August 15, 2024
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
The military industrial complex and PTSD: In a country where the electorate on both sides screams “support the troops”, why haven’t we had any meaningful direct action on the lack of support for veterans?
Join the Oakland Greens & special surprise guests, Monday August 19. Discussion starts at 7 PM and will end no later than 9:30 PM.
The Oakland Greens Townhall Discussion Series is a community discussion event. Get in – persxn & virtual tickets and information thru http://www.oaklandgreens.org/events These community engagement events are held the 3rd Monday of the month January thru October.
Please register by Sunday at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-oakland-greens-hybrid-townhall-military-industrial-complex-tickets-859106088437?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Join us at The People’s House or online next Wednesday
Our monthly meetings are opportunities for our broader community to be briefed on our work, learn more about how to support the work of APTP committees and participate in calls to action. This month we will be starting earlier to host an art build beforehand to support families in their fights for justice and the local fight against cop city.
Join to commemorate Black August with us, get updates on local fights and learn about ways to plug in to the work.
Register to join us at The People’s House or online for our hybrid general meeting!
- 5:30 to 7 PM: In-Person Art Build
- 7 to 8 PM: Hybrid General Meeting
Accessibility: K/N95 masks and covid tests will be required and also provided. The meeting space and bathroom are wheelchair accessible. CC will be offered for the hybrid meeting. Please let us know if you have any other access needs or need childcare when you register.
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.
Speaker: Roger Harris
The whole world was monitoring the high-stakes Venezuelan presidential election on July 28, not only because the country boasts of the planet’s largest oil reserves but also because it has been an exemplar of independent sovereignty from the US empire.
Corporate media coverage of the election and its aftermath was akin to an investigation of a homicide that is focused not with identifying the murderer but with an unpaid parking ticket of the victim.
Our speaker, Roger D. Harris, accompanied the election in Venezuela and will report back on what happened there as well as on Washington’s campaign to delegitimize the country’s Bolivarian Revolution with the ultimate aim of regime change.
Roger is on the executive committee of the US Peace Council and joined their delegation to Venezuela. He is on the ICSS program committee that has for over a decade and a half presented the weekly Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library series. He is active with the anti-imperialist human rights group Task Force on the Americas, the SanctionsKill Campaign against unilateral coercive measures, and is a founding member of the Venezuela Solidarity Network.
Recent articles by Roger on Venezuela include:
CNN’s Fraudulent Analysis of Fraud in the Venezuelan Presidential Election https://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/08/15/cnns-fraudulent-analysis-of-fraud-in-the-venezuelan-presidential-election/
Media Coverage of Venezuela’s Presidential Election Normalizes US Interference https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/12/media-coverage-of-venezuelas-presidential-election-normalizes-us-interference/
Venezuelans to Vote on Continuing the Bolivarian Revolution https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/venezuelans-to-vote-on-continuing-the-bolivarian-revolution/
How Venezuela Is Overcoming the US Blockade https://www.pressenza.com/2024/06/how-venezuela-is-overcoming-the-us-blockade/
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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:
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
We’re days away from the California State Senate voting on three transformative bills to hold Big Oil accountable and protect communities from deadly oil and gas pollution. We just need to secure a few more votes to get these crucial protections passed into law.
How do we do this? Come out to the Capitol on Monday 8/26 at noon for a big joyous outpouring of support for this important legislation. Senators will be reviewing hundreds of bills in the final days of the session. We need to focus their attention on these bills and secure their support.
Sign up here to take a stand on the Capitol lawn!
Front groups for the oil industry have spent millions of dollars lobbying to sink these bills and protect Big Oil profits. One notorious oil industry group (sounds like whiska!) is even planning a rally next Monday at the Capitol. At high noon. Are we going to let them outflank us? Outnumber us? Nope!
About the bills:
- Idle Well Clean-Up (AB 1866 – Hart): Forces oil companies to clean up their idle wells much faster.
- Low-Producing Well Accountability Act (AB 2716 – Bryan): Fines oil companies operating in the Inglewood Oil Field $10,000/month for operating low-producing wells near communities.
- Local Environmental Choice and Safety Act (AB 3233 – Addis): Protects local governments’ authority to restrict oil & gas production in their jurisdictions. Passage of this bill will enable a Contra Costa drilling ban.
All of us together can show that our movement, and not Big Oil, has the people’s support. Please join us on Monday! Sign up and recruit others from your networks. Childless cat ladies most welcome.
Again, here’s the link to RSVP and request or offer a ride.
Cosponsors include 350 Sacramento, 350 Bay Area Action, California Environmental Justice Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, The Climate Center, Food & Water Watch, Greenpeace USA, Last Chance Alliance, Oil & Gas Action Network, Sacramento Climate Coalition, Sunflower Alliance and Third Act Sacramento.
Let’s have some fun on Monday and get these bills across the finish line. Yes, We Can win these vital protections for Californians, local democracy, and our climate! Please join us at this important demonstration of people power.
Sunflower Alliance
https://350bayarea.nationbuilder.com/
We want you to join us for the 1st International Solidarity Concert benefiting the Gaza Great Minds humanitarian initiative featuring the music of the Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Jazz Sextet!
Founded just three months ago by Ahmad Abu Rizik from Gaza City, GGM is having a huge impact. Beginning with the intention of educating just 50 children, it has grown to serve close to 500 students at two tent schools operating 6 days a week.
The much needed funds raised by way of this uplifting musical experience will go directly to Ahmad and his team who have been working to provide for the whole child—educationally, psychologically, socially and spiritually.
If you own a computer, laptop, tablet or phone you can watch this concert!
This fully curated online concert will feature the band live from Lima, Peru with a live in-person audience AND YOU, sitting wherever you’d like around the world… on your computer or mobile device.
Afro-Peruvian Jazz Music is a rare combination of music that gives you something that you can feel while also giving you something that you can think about.
We will focus all of our energies in providing the best night of music you’ve ever heard online…
And if you are in a Time Zone that puts this concert at an inconvenient time, we will make a replay link available for 48 hours after the show… so even if you miss it, you can still catch it!
But most importantly, the money you contribute will be helping children continue to grow, learn, and heal.
Please know that attending this concert makes you quite literally a lifeline to education for the most vulnerable children on the planet.
Get your tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
The Grand Advent Church will be hosting a community outreach
This event will be held at the homeless encampment located at E. 12th St. between 17th and 18th Ave. in East Oakland.Â
Services will include free medical and dental screenings, showers, laundry services, haircuts, pet medical screening, pet food, prayer booths, and hot food. We are also giving away free clothes, shoes, and personal hygiene essentials.
Homeless Advocacy Working Group for anyone who might be unhoused or needing help.
(HAWG meets by phone/zoom or an hour on the first Monday of each month at 4-5PM it’s very welcoming, informative, and well moderated! see www.shelteroak.org for vision, mission, and actions. )
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
For our August, 31st meeting we will be reading the first five chapters of
Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Here, two leading activists and thinkers survey the past, present, and future of the concept across borders of nation, identity, and class to ask: how can we build solidarity in an era of staggering inequality, polarization, violence, and ecological catastrophe? Offering a lively and lucid history of the idea—from Ancient Rome through the first European and American socialists and labor organizers, to twenty-first century social movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter—Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor trace the philosophical debates and political struggles that have shaped the modern world.
Looking forward, they argue that a clear understanding of how solidarity is built and sustained, and an awareness of how it has been suppressed, is essential to warding off the many crises of our present: right-wing backlash, irreversible climate damage, widespread alienation, loneliness, and despair. Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor insist that solidarity is both a principle and a practice, one that must be cultivated and institutionalized, so that care for the common good becomes the central aim of politics and social life.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included (in chronological order) 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, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, Less is More, Cannibal Capitalism, Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America, End Times, Jackson Rising Redux , The Feminist Subversion of the Economy, How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems that Shape our World, Wealth Supremacy, The Persuaders, and The Path to a Livable Future.
Speaker: João Romeiro Hermeto
ZOOM LINK
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The energy crisis in Europe, proxy war in Ukraine, rebellion in the Global South, and expansion of the BRICS reflect the decline of Western imperialism and growing cracks in the capitalist world system.
Based on his new book of the same name (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2024), João Romeiro Hermeto will address some historical developments of intellectual property. He asks what is ‘knowledge’ under capitalism, and how is it created and appropriated?
Developments such as digitalisation and the convergence between big pharma and tech giants are bringing about transformations in social property relations. What are the conditions of intellectual property creation today? What theoretical assumptions does it make? Under what social relations is intellectual property produced?
The emphasis will not be on individual cases or symptoms but on the overarching logic: the logic of capitalism as revealed in intellectual property.
Our speaker is João Romeiro Hermeto. Born in 1985, he originally comes from Brazil, where he studied engineering at the Universidade de São Paulo and then economics. During the upheavals of the financial crisis, he first worked there as an investment banker and then founded a company that produced and promoted art and culture. At the end of 2013 he emigrated to Germany, studied philosophy and cultural reflection and did his doctorate in philosophy. His research focus is criticism of capitalism.
Recommended:
With Western imperial decline, capitalism is in crisis – a new phase is emerging
João Romeiro Hermeto is a Brazilian-Italian scholar. In Brazil, he studied engineering and then economics at the Universidade de São Paulo. During the upheavals of the financial crisis, he worked with derivatives credit risk management for an investment bank from 2007 to 2011 and subsequently founded a company that produced and promoted art and culture. In 2013, he emigrated to Europe, studied philosophy and culture, and earned a doctorate in philosophy at the Universität Witten/Herdecke. His research focuses on Marxism and the ontology of the social being, on the critique of political economy, and on the critique of knowledge production – ideology and intellectual property.
HCA – Contra Costa & Alameda County Members/Supporters Meeting
Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4137479233?omn=87100996689
Meeting ID: 413 747 9233
Agenda • Introductions • Approval of Agenda and last meeting minutes • HCA-CCC Reports: Membership (Nel) Treasury (Janet) • HCA-CA – Activities (Jonee) • HCN, labor, candidate and legislative updates, discussion and voting on candidate support, status of SB770 (Dan and all) • HCA-CCC and HCA- Alameda County outreach (speaker event in Lafayette May 9th, tabling, letters to the editor, visits to legislators) • Other NEXT MEETING: December 1, 2024
Our organization continues to educate and advocate to create a more equitable, efficient, effective, affordable health care system.We have a quarterly supporter and member meeting on Sunday, September 1st.Among our topics of discussion will be the upcoming election and which candidates we are supporting, a review of SB770 Health care: unified health care financing,and an overview of the Kaiser Permanente health care system.
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