Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance meeting to discuss plans, outreach, organizing regarding regional homeless communities and organizations.

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/541837129562482/

Join Alameda Justice Alliance and friends and neighbors for our second annual Town Hall, March 9th from 10am to noon! This time we’ll meet at the future site of Alameda Point Collaborative’s McKay Avenue Wellness Center for an interactive experiential tour and info session. Meet fellow activists and organizers experienced and new, and learn how you can get involved in AJA’s work for social justice, environmental justice, housing justice, and racial justice on the Island and beyond. We welcome everyone, no experience necessary!

We will be serving coffee, tea, and light snacks, and we will have an opportunity to tour the site of the future McKay Wellness Center and learn about its offerings of respite care and other services for Alameda’s unhomed neighbors. All ages welcome, street parking. Tickets

Members of GABRIELA Oakland and our allies invite you to join us for a Rally, March & Festival to commemorate the 111th International Working Women’s Day anniversary in honor of the first women strikers in 1908. Join us as we RISE, RESIST, and UNITE to build our collective Resistance here and abroad!

Let us take the streets as we RISE up and say NO to violence against women and Trans people and RESIST militarization and state violence!

Let us RISE to protect women, Trans and Gender non-conforming people, and our children!
Let us RESIST economic exploitation of our women!
Let us UNITE for the self-determination of all oppressed people to fight for their basic rights and livelihood!

*Note* This will be a family friendly march and celebration that will be accessible for children, elders, and people with disabilities. We will also be organizing our own community safety/security team.

Please email gabrielaoakland2018@gmail.com or send us a FB message if you or your organization would like to sponsor or endorse the march.

The Poor People’s Campaign, A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC) focuses on fighting the four pillars of evil: poverty, systemic racism, the war economy and environmental devastation, and on shifting the moral narrative. PPC supporters in the Bay Area have come together to form the Bay Area PPC Steering Committee and hope you can join this effort and share this information with others who may be interested.

In the PPC, people directly impacted by the 4 pillars of evil are central in our work.

We look forward to your participation as we move forward to build the PPC campaign here in the Bay Area and help grow this exciting new movement.

Let us break bread together! Bring a snack to share if you can!

Join us to talk about this important topic. We will have a couple of short presentations, and then open the floor for discussion.

Among the readings we will refer to are:
– Leon Trotsky’s “FASCISM: What It Is and How To Fight It”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm

– Sweezy on the Rise of Fascism – A synopsis by Fabian Van Onzen, including Paul Sweezy, Georgi Dimitrov, and Samir Amin
https://portside.org/2019-02-23/sweezy-rise-fascism
– George Jackson

Readings not required to attend.
Refreshments will be served.
The space is wheelchair accessible.
No cost, but donations are always welcome.
To get in the building, dial 411, or scroll for Solidarity Center on the intercom at the outside entrance.

This training is in preparation for a nonviolent direct action March 18 in San Francisco but everyone is welcome, even if you can’t participate that day. With wildfires and weather disasters all around us, and just 12 years left to address the climate crisis (per IPCC report), we’ll have many opportunities to stand up for future generations and a sustainable world. We especially encourage anyone willing to serve in support roles (not risking arrest) to join us.

The action will occur during our March for Fossil Fuel Freedom culminating rally, noontime Monday Mar 18 at “Oily Wells” Fargo headquarters, to spotlight the bank’s role as a leading funder of climate chaos. Participants need to attend one of two mandatory training sessions. Click link to RSVP and learn more:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexjCjWP46xrrXUuDqKj5Dn3OaQRhHDprcp8UbvMmF3WJxAuQ/viewform

March for Fossil Fuel Freedom details and registration: https://oilywells.com/

EBDSA’s General Meetings are at 1:00 p.m. on the second Sunday of each month – the next is on Sunday, March 10th at the Omni Commons. These meetings are the highest governing body of our organization, and include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more.

Volunteering at the GM is lively, easy, and low-commitment, and volunteers participate fully in meeting business. The contribution is huge, though – meetings require a lot of hands, and our volunteers keep them lively, inspiring, and productive. Join up here. Use this form, too, if you have child supervision or accessibility needs, including the need for an ASL interpreter.

With our new regular schedule, member-submitted resolutions will be accepted on a rolling basis – please email them to resolutions@eastbaydsa.org. The submissions deadline for each meeting is two days after the previous one.

General Meetings are run by the EBDSA Meetings Committee – for questions or comments, or if you are interested in joining the committee, write us at meetings@eastbaydsa.org!

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

Shelter Now! Alternatives to the Housing Crisis

The Green Party of Alameda County welcomes Clark Sullivan and Mary Behm-Steinberg to discuss alternative solutions to the housing crisis in the Bay Area. As rental costs increase across the city and climate change devastates Northern California regions, and as the Berkeley City Council recently passed overnight bans against RV dwellers, particularly at the Berkeley Marina — our panelists offer their unique experiences fighting for the rights of unhoused residents and low-income homeowners facing eviction and displacement, and offer next-step solutions on building solidarity against developers and their political interests.

Clark Sullivan is a revolutionary anarchist who has been organizing many successful social movements for nearly a half-century ranging from homelessness, the environment and AIDS to worker’s rights, anti-apartheid and peace. A Renaissance man, who is skilled in many disciplines such as: pharmacology, journalism, information technology and political science, Clark currently mentors young people seeking to radically change the status quo.

Mary Behm-Steinberg is an activist and former candidate for Berkeley City Council (District 1). Her experience ranges from running a small business and tenant as well as worker-oriented housing solutions. As indicated in a Berkeleyside article, Mary argues, “the biggest challenges that Berkeley faces now and in the foreseeable future” is “preserving diversity” while ending “homelessness in the city.”

No additional information yet.

Doors open at 7. We start promptly at 7:30.

Join us for this interactive Bystander Intervention Training! This training will be led by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. During the training, participants will learn about the history and principles of nonviolence, and will practice specific de-escalation techniques as a bystander in a variety of scenarios.

“They cut my breasts in torture, I didn’t even say “ah”,
The prevalent mindset is that if a woman knows justice, to cut her breasts
I am embarrassed to even say “ah” as a militant of a justified cause. ”

Sakine Cansız (Sara)

Sara was born in Dersim in 1958 as the daughter of an Alevi family. She was one of the founding members of the PKK, a political activist and feminist known by the codename “Sara” in the organization. She was among the founders of the PKK and was one of the five people who lived and worked in the organization until 2013, and she was the only woman among the founders of the PKK who continued her activities in the organization. She was imprisoned for twenty years in Diyarbakır No 5 Prison. She was one of the PKK’s representatives for Europe. On January 9, 2013, while with Fidan Dogan (code name Rojbin) and Leyla Şaylemez (codenamed Ronahi), the representatives of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), she was shot in the head by a silenced weapon at the Kurdistan Information Bureau near the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, France.

Cansız, who described her life in her book “My Life Was Always A Struggle”, did not stop at the prisons where she stayed. All her life she has resisted and struggled.

The stories of these women did not end with the massacre of the revolutionary women’s resistance leaders in Paris. Today in Rojava, in Kurdistan and in many parts of the world there are thousands of Saras, Rojbins and Ronahis.

We are not over the fight and will not end; until women and life are free …

Jin Jiyan Azadi

📢 Join us for some exciting public banking news Monday morning in LA and SF! We’re building a movement all across the state!

➡LA: 9AM @ LA City Hall
➡SF: 10AM @ Old Mint (88 Fifth St)#publicbanksnow 🙌 pic.twitter.com/j7xJrQKNbj

— California Public Banking Alliance (@calpba) March 8, 2019

The fight for socially and environmentally responsible public banking in California is about to level up!

On Monday morning, March 11, state legislators will unveil a new bill to advance public banking in California. The California Public Banking Alliance, of which we are a member, will be holding press conferences in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The call is going out to all Bay Area allies of public banking to show up in force at the San Francisco Mint at 10am Monday. Wear your public banking t-shirt if you’ve got one. We are going up against the powerful forces of Wall Street, the California Bankers Association, and their massive financial arsenal. We can win, but we need your help! Invite your friends and join us at the launch of a new campaign for public banking in California!