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Yuvette Henderson was murdered by Emeryville police on 2/3/2015 who shot her with an AR-15 assault rifle for alleged shoplifting.
The city of Emeryville has filed a motion to dismiss her family’s lawsuit.
We need everyone to turn up in the Federal Courthouse on Thursday 2/23/2017 to show that the community stands with Yuvette’s family and demands Justice for Yuvette.
A conversation on ending mass criminalization and incarceration with:
• Fania Davis, Executive Director, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
• Dorsey Nunn, Co-Founder, All of Us or None
A call has gone out. It asks us to begin organizing a general strike on March 8, in response to Donald Trump’s oppressive administration and the neoliberal attack that threatens our livelihood.
We are heeding the call. Given the short amount of time, we are not planning for a strike in the traditional sense. We are instead planning a 5 pm demonstration.
By organizing this, we hope to create the tools and infrastructure necessary to organize a women’s bloc for the national general strike called for May 1 in Oakland.
Join us at the Omni Commons to discuss, plan and work towards building our collective power.
— Planning Meetings will be held Tues and Thurs leading up to March 8.
Poets Against War & Racism |
Poetas contra la guerra y el racismo
Sponsored by the Chiapas Support Committee
https://
This is the first gathering of Poets Against War & Racism.
Donation requested: $5.00-25.00
No one turned away for lack of money.
Poets:
Amira Ali
Arnoldo Colibrí
DeMareon Gipson
María de la Rosa
Rafael Jesús Gonzalez with Gerardo Omar Marín on flute
Teboho Motaba
Other poets & performers coming too
Open mic.
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We have invited several poets and will also have an open mic.
Chiapas Support Committee will be showing a 15 minute video of the recent CNI congress held with the EZLN whose first sessions were held in Oactober 2016. The video will be part of an update on the EZLN-CNI proposal to form an indigenous council of government and to run an Indigenous woman for President in Mexico’s 2018 presidential elections and other developments in Mexico.
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Why?
The challenge is to reclaim our power of self-determination and live our lives and words in community that resists and begins to dream how to govern itself. The infinite war that the U.S. started in 2003 added another layer of calluse and numbing, distorting our consciousness and our language.
As a result, racism and war has become normalized to unprecedented and new levels with the new U.S. regime taking office and power.
Questions and poems:
How will we reclaim all the Black lives lost?
How will we change the relationship we have with each other and with the original peoples when we are uninvited guests on Indigenous lands?
How do we live in community where everyone belongs and has something important to contribute, to do and to say?
What is to be done?
What are your key words? What are our powerful words?
* No Ban
* No Walls
* No DAPL
* No war on the natural world and her peoples
* No more migrant deaths
* Yes to poetry, peace, bread, living wage jobs or income, justice…
* Yes to water & life
* Yes to Black Lives Matter
* Yes to Indigenous and women of color power and leadership
* Yes to trans-border poor people’s soldarirty and power
* Indigenous peoples lands everywhere you stand…
* Everyone is a poet.
This first gathering to to let loose some outrage, begin to learn how to dream together and each one continue to what they are best at to stop war and racism in all its forms, end homophobia, islamophobia, transphobia, stop destruction of the natural world…
Painting by Arnoldo García
Free. Each documentary will begin promptly at 5:30 PM, discussion afterwards. Food provided.
Feb 3 – John Henrik Clarke – A Great and Mighty Walk
Feb 10 – The House I Live In
Feb 17 – The Night Tulsa Burned
Feb 24th – 13th
*HELP DEFEND OUR COMMUNITIES, WORKERS, AND UNIONS !*
*RESIST IMMIGRATION RAIDS AND FIRINGS!*
Raids and the threat of more raids is upon us. Please join us at training about workplace raids and immigration
enforcement:
The legal rational for workplace enforcement – called Employer Sanctions –
became part of immigration law in 1986. Since then workplace raids –
sometimes called ’silent raids’ – have been a mainstay of immigration
enforcement and will likely ramp up under the Trump regime. Immigration
enforcement has included firings for immigration status, raids and
detentions at work, street corner raids and others. Trump promises to
unleash all of those strategies to round up and deport thousands of
immigrants.
*The training has 3 goals:
Educate advocates about how workplace enforcement has played out here in
the SF Bay Area (through multiple examples) and lessons learned,
Strengthen immigrant defense through know your rights education and a
system of support/solidarity for immigrants who are picked up; and
Plan creative political responses from the labor, faith and general
community.
Help our communities, workers, and unions get ready.
Everyone is welcome – knowing our past workplace enforcement history and
sharing critical rights information is important for all advocates
preparing to resist Trumps attacks on immigrants and refugees.
If you have any questions, please contact Lillian Galedo (Filipino
Advocates for Justice), 510-456-9876 (510) 20456-9876 (ofc) or
510-409-1679 (510) 20409-1679 (cell) or Agustin Ramirez (ILWU),
916-606-4681
Spanish/English translation provided.
- POLICING IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE
- Because policing fails to meet people’s needs, and puts people in danger of arrest, imprisonment, and/or even death, we must eliminate connections between policing and healthcare.
- Critical Resistance Oakland and The Oakland Power Projects present: “Know Your Options: Acute Emergencies” workshop
- When: Saturday February 25th, 11am-1:30pm
- Where: East Side Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland, California 94606
- RSVP: croakland@criticalresistance.org
This will be the first major organizing drive for our campaign to make single-payer health care a reality in California. You can learn more about this issue here. We want all hands on deck for this exciting kick-off day! No prior experience necessary!
You can RSVP by filling out this short form. And don’t forget to share the event on Facebook!
DSA members who come will receive education on single payer and be trained on how to talk to your neighbors and friends about the issue. Then, first-time canvassers will be paired with experienced organizers and canvassers to go spread the word about single payer, sign people up to be supporters, and recruit new members to DSA.
This is not only EBDSA’s first big day of organizing, but it’s also an opportunity for new members and people new to organizing to learn the ropes and build confidence for the work of socialist organizing we will be doing for years to come.
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Developing a coordinated agenda for local resistance and radical change in Oakland
a. Presentation and discussion on the impact of Trump’s election
b. Discussion of how Trump’s election impacts our work in Oakland
(1) Housing, gentrification and displacement
(2) Police accountability
(3) Education
(4) 2018 Oakland City Elections
c. How to build OJC to carry out this work
3. Responding to Trump’s attacks on immigrants – Presentation and discussion
If you’re interested, you can RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/178774692617282/
We’ll be starting the conversation promptly at 1:30pm, so make sure to arrive by then!
We’ll see you next Saturday!
The Universal Income Project team
BOB MOSES
President and Founder, The Algebra Project
Milo Yiannopoulos and Free Speech on the Berkeley campus: A Discussion
Trump tweeted on Feb 2: “If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view – NO FEDERAL FUNDS?”
We are inviting speakers to lead our discussion on this topic.
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 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 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (In prior years we have agreed to meet at 4:00 PM during summer hours, that is, once Daylight Savings Time goes back into effect).
On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 2 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over five years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally. Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
- Welcome & Introductions
- Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
- Announcements
- (Optional) Discussion Topic
Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.
Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area
San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv
The Community Democracy Project is your connection to direct democracy in Oakland! Convened out of Occupy Oakland in Fall 2011, we’re gathering steam on a campaign to bring the people back in touch with the city’s resources through participatory budgeting.
Picture this: Across Oakland, Neighborhood Assemblies are regularly
held in every community. People come together to tackle the important issues of their neighborhoods and of the city. At these assemblies, people don’t just have discussions–they learn from one another, from city staff, and they make fundamental decisions about how the city should run. They decide the city budget.
Democratic, community budgeting is a powerful step toward building strong communities, real democracy, and economic justice–and it’s being done all over the world.
The budget of the City Oakland totals more than $1 billion per year. Although part of the budget must be used for specific purposes, still over half of the budget–over $500 billion per year–consists of general purpose funds paid by the taxes, fees, and fines of the people of Oakland. The Mayor and the City Council decide the city budget, with minimal input from the community.
Working together, we will not only get a seat at the table–we will REBUILD the table itself. Participatory democracy is real democracy–join us to say: Local People, Local Resources, Local Power!
Within Our Gates by Oscar Michaeux.
Oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director.
1920’s silent film. Portrays the contemporary radical situation in the United States during the early 20th Century – the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Klan, the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and the emergence of the ‘New Negro.’
Free snacks and popcorn.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the country’s largest socialist organization. We are building progressive movements for social change while establishing an openly democratic socialist presence in American communities and politics.
DSA East Bay holds Executive Committee meetings on the second and fourth Saturday of the month. All are welcome to attend and join in the discussion about the direction of our local chapter!
We will review the work our 18 teams have accomplished over the past two weeks, and set action plans for the next two weeks. Time permitting, we might also offer a training on Grassroots Organizing 101 or another topic as part of our evening. A more detailed agenda will be developed over the next week, as we hear back from our new groups and see what they would find most helpful.
The family of Angel Ramos inivites community members to attend and make their voices heard during public comment at the next Vallejo City Council meeting. Vallejo police murdered Angel on January 23rd, 2017.
The family demands:
-The release of the officers’ body camera footage
-Naming of the officer(s) who killed Angel
This is an important early opportunity to put City Councilmembers on notice that the community will not tolerate a cover-up or failure to investigate.