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Do you feel a drive to do something about the environment, immigrants’ rights, healthcare, Black Lives Matter, indigenous rights, reducing bullying, or building a culture of peace and inclusion? Are you looking for resources to turn your passion into action? Do you seek community support to help navigate the complications of the incoming administration?
If so, come meet like-minded neighbors, local activists, and peacemakers at the second Oakland Peace Center Activism and Advocacy Resource Fair.
Discover the ways you can get involved with activism, advocacy, and volunteering. Ask questions and get connected.
Learn about pressing issues and develop critical skills by attending FREE skill-building workshops offered at the fair.
Whether you are a long time activist or have never attended a rally in your life, your contributions matter!
Bring friends and loved ones. We are stronger together.
TABLING ORGANIZATIONS (more to come!):
* ACLU
* Arab Resource and Organizing Center
* Asian Americans Advancing Justice- Asian Law Caucus
* Bay Area 350
* Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)
* CAIR- Council on American-Islamic Relations
* CircleUp Education
* Community Democracy Project
* East Bay Forward
* East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
* Food First
* Healthcare for All- California
* Islamic Networks Group
* Islamic Relief USA
* Jewish Voice for Peace
* Niroga Institute
* Oakland Peace Ambassadors
* Our Family Coalition
* Senior and Disability Action
* Soul Shoppe
* Sunflower Alliance
* SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) Oakland/Bay Area
WORKSHOPS (more to come!)
* Social Media for Activists
* Protest Safety
* Islamaphobia and It’s Impact
* HeartMath Trainings
* “What if I’m Cisgender, White and Heterosexual?” Privilege and Fierce Allyship
* Knowing Your Rights: Interacting with Law Enforcement when traveling, and at school
Updates with organizations who will be tabling and additional workshops will appear on the Facebook page.
Please note: the room is accessible, but bathrooms are up about 8 stairs. There is parking around the corner at 111 Fairmount avenue on the south side of the building.
STRATEGY SESSION 2017
Health Care for All-Contra Costa County
East Bay Single Payer Coalition
· Update on New Legislative Campaign in California for Single Payer Universal Health Care
· Participate in planning 2017 Bay Area advocacy, education and actions to promote Single Payer Universal Health Care
· Bring your ideas, suggestions, questions, and enthusiasm
Everyone Welcome. Light refreshments.
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!
We document current events, make films together, steward an editing suite and share a film equipment library. We also host film screenings, often with local directors, and put on an annual short film festival for independent Bay Area filmmakers. Our goal is to make the digital filmmaking accessible – no overpriced college degree or certificate program required!
We are also a good group to reach out to if you’d like to screen a film at the Omni. We can be reached at [ liberatedlens@lists.riseup.net ].
We usually meet in the basement, unless otherwise noted.
Don't miss our third General Assembly tonight 7:30pm at The Finnish Hall on Chestnut St. (more room than last time!) Doors open at 7 pic.twitter.com/iQUuP2EvyS
— Indivisible Berkeley (@IndivisibleBerk) February 12, 2017
JOIN OUR SANCTUARY RESTAURANT MOVEMENT TODAY!
On Monday, February 13th, 2017 (2.13*) join the Restaurant Opportunities Center – Bay Area and ACCESS: Women’s Health Justice in a pivotal event on the intersections of economic and reproductive justice. We will bring together workers, employers, academics, parents, activists and policymakers for a transformative discussion on how restaurant owners, co-workers and community members can support each other during these trying times.
Our opening panel discussion will bring in key leaders and workers to connect the issues and bring together the broader picture. In the second half of the event, we will break off into smaller groups to participate in active workshops and move together towards productive outcomes in regards to the surging Sanctuary Restaurants movement, which seeks to create dignified and safe working conditions for immigrants, Muslims, people of color, women of color and LGBTIQ people.
*~ CHILDCARE WILL BE PROVIDED! ~*
Please RSVP (here: tinyurl.com/gngqpk9) or by clicking on the “ticket” link in the event!
AGENDA:
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Registration & Pastry Mixer
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Panel Discussion on Reproductive Justice + Economic Justice
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Lunch
12:15 PM – 2:15 PM Sanctuary Restaurants//Sanctuary Bodies Workshop/Teach-in
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM Closing Circle
BACKGROUND:
In the Trump era, both immigrant workers//families and *reproductive* healthcare are severely under attack. Both issues greatly impact the lives of low-income working women of color and put simply, affect families. Being one of the largest and fastest growing private sector employers, and one of the top employers of women and immigrants, the restaurant industry has great potential to be a strong stakeholder in the move to protect workers.
ACCESS – WOMEN’S HEALTH JUSTICE:
ACCESS Women’s Health Justice removes barriers to sexual and reproductive health care and builds the power of Californians to demand health, justice and dignity. Their English & Spanish ACCESS Healthline provides free, confidential and nonjudgmental information, referrals, peer counseling and advocacy on the full range of reproductive health services. Their Practical Support Network ensures that people in California can obtain safe abortion services without isolation or delay, with a network of more than 200 volunteers who provide rides, overnight housing, child-care, translation & other assistance to make reproductive health care access a reality.
RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTER – BAY AREA:
ROC the Bay is one of 10 local chapters of ROC United, a national non-profit worker center and advocacy organization. ROC the Bay seeks to ensure a just workplace and build power through the creation of a strong community of restaurant workers in the Bay Area. They provide hospitality job trainings for low-income restaurant workers, help to enforce the minimum wage through know your rights trainings and work with restaurant owners to promote just working conditions, fair wages and racial equity.
*$2.13 is the federal subminimum wage for tipped workers, a wage that has remained stagnant for over 20 years. Although California has One Fair Wage, and does not participate in the tip-credit system, ROC the Bay seeks to build awareness around $2.13 and show solidarity for the workers in the 43 other states that continue to allow for workers to rely solely on tips for their wages.*
People of all faiths are invited to join Berkeley Congregations and members of the Justice 4 Kayla Moore coalition for an afternoon vigil in honor and celebration of Black History Month, and in remembrance of black lives murdered throughout American history: from the middle passage and slavery to the civil rights movement to the ongoing realities of hate crimes and police brutality. We will read names, sing, pray, reflect, and remember.
February 13 is the anniversary of the murder of transgender African American woman Kayla Moore by the Berkeley Police Department 4 years ago. The Vigil is being organized in partnership with the Justice 4 Kalya Moore Coalition.
Sources for names to be read include, but are not limited to: “Close Encounters of a Dangerous Kind: Unarmed African-American Women, Men, and Children and encounters with police 1970 to 2015 by Daniel Alan Buford published in Tikkun Magazine online September 28th 2016.
We Charge Genocide : The Crime of Government against the Negro people by William L Patterson historic petition to the United Nations for relief from a crime of the US government against African Americans 1951. Names of police brutality victims and those who were lynched under color of law.
#SayHerName: Resisting Police Brutality against Black Women includes violence on Transgender people.
We Charge Genocide- 2014 Shadow Report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committees
Tangled Roots and Trees slave name Roll Project Tangled roots and trees.Blogspot.com Plantation records auction inventory lists
Louisiana Slave Records 1800 to 1832 transcribed by Stephanie Kay Martin-Quiatte for the Louisiana genealogical project African American inventory of Plantation Slaves from all Louisiana parishes and slave auction inventories.
BART Police Citizen Review Board will discussing BART Police Use of Force Policy, as well as their Aggressive Panhandling Policy. We will be turning out… join us!
To get there the easiest way is to go in the entrance on Webster just down from CVS and take the elevator to the 3rd floor.
Sing for an hour with the Tax the Rich crew.
Event is cancelled if it is raining.
Join us in promoting a public bank for the City of Oakland!
The Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland was formed by members of Commonomics and Strike Debt Bay Area in August, 2016.
In November, we succeeded in getting the Oakland City Council to instruct the City Administrator to report on the usefulness of a feasibility study for creating The Public Bank of Oakland. Our next goal is to convince the City Council to commission that study as soon as possible, and incorporate it into a business plan for a public bank in Oakland.
The City of Oakland, with our organizing help, held a public forum on public banking at Oakland City Hall, on Thursday, February 9, 2017. At this meeting we will be debriefing that forum, and moving in to high gear to respond to the Request for Qualifications that Oakland put forth to obtain information needed to report to the City Council in early March.
After the Administrator’s report, we will lobby the Oakland City Council to pass enabling legislation that will create and fund a public bank for Oakland. Our overarching goal is to see a public bank flourish in Oakland while it helps the community, thereby providing an example for other jurisdictions wishing to rid themselves of their dependence on Wall Street banks.
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
“Climate Refugees”
The Enormous Worldwide Consequences
of Climate Change and the Refugee Crisis
Mr. Nash poses a basic question: what will become of the millions of people whose lack of access to food and clean water leads them to take increasingly desperate measures? What type of strains will huge migration put on resources in more developed countries? Will this dislocation eventually pose a threat to Americans’ national security? How much is America’s political agenda in other nations and our disproportionate use of resources causing a refugee crisis?
Climate Refugees is the first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics. The film turns the distant concept of global warming into a concrete human problem with enormous worldwide consequences.
Experts predict that by mid-century hundreds of millions of people will be uprooted as a result of sea level rise and an increase in extreme weather events, droughts and desertification. Little is being done to plan for the potential mass migration of millions of refugees who will be forced to cross national borders. The Pentagon now considers climate change a national security risk and the phrase “climate wars” is being talked about in war-rooms. The film features a variety of leading scientists, relief workers, security consultants, and major political figures, including John Kerry and Newt Gingrich. All make a strong case that the changing climate is already creating humanitarian disasters and is leading inevitably lead to worldwide political instability.
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.
For the last few years, immigrant justice leaders and organizers have focused on decreasing deportations and immigration enforcement. These priorities will not change with any incoming administration, at either the federal or state level. With the help of political supporters, we have been able to advance pro-immigrant policies and legislation to ease the tension of xenophobic political practices and attacks. In the era of Donald Trump, our political supporters must move in a direction that is led by immigrant justice organizers.
We are calling on them to adapt to innovative tactics and strategies to move past the status quo on immigration enforcement. This can be done by using some of the state-level tools that have been developed in order to decrease deportations and any other attacks on immigrant communities.
Join us for a day of action in Sacramento!
Bay Area folks, if you’re interested in taking the train out to Sacramento on Tuesday to protest ICE raids, lmk https://t.co/0pzHMwTbh1
— Parker Higgins (@xor) February 11, 2017
Tech Policy Forecast: Digital Privacy and Net Neutrality under the Trump Administration: A talk by Heather West, Senior Policy Manager, Mozilla
Sponsor: Center for Technology, Policy & Society
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Technology, Policy & Society and Technology Applications in Public Policy at the Goldman School for Public Policy.
Heather is Senior Policy Manager at Mozilla, prior to which she has worked at the intersection of policy and cyber-security at Google and CloudFare, Inc. In 2014, she became Forbes 30 under 30 for her influential role as policy-to-tech translator and Internet strategist.
This talk is open to the public. Please RSVP at: https://goo.gl/forms/FhCE2NvTqJ1xmlCQ2
What: Leading the Way on Bail Reform
The Ella Baker Center and our allies are tackling California’s billion dollar bail industry and we need your help!
Join us next Wednesday at Leading the Way on Bail Reform, a community discussion for formerly incarcerated people, family members, activists, and advocates about reforming California’s unjust money bail system.
We will discuss the way the California’s bail system works, the reforms we are working on, and strategies for movement building. Help us build a strong grassroots movement that will overhaul an egregious money bail system that targets poor families of color.
Vegetarian dinner will be provided and the building is wheelchair accessible. We ask that this meeting be a fragrance free zone for accessibility. Looking forward to seeing you next week.
P.S. Are you a member of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights? Join our membership today and stay updated on how to organize with us for jobs not jails, books not bars, and healthcare not handcuffs.
A panel discussion with Rosalinda Guillen and David Bacon.
What does the Trump presidency mean for farmworkers? What does it mean for the food justice & food sovereignty movements> How can people support the struggles of farmworkers under these new constraints?
It’s true. Donald Trump is now president. What does this mean for immigrant communities, regardless of their legal status? Our guest for Episode 10 of Ars Technica Live is Ahmed Ghappour, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings.
He’ll be discussing if we may see a redux of the FBI vs. Apple controversy and how this may affect people in sanctuary cities like Oakland.
Ghappour’s research bridges computer science and the law to address the contemporary challenges wrought by new technologies in the institutional design and administration of criminal justice and national security, with a focus on the emerging field of cybersecurity. His most recent publication is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review.
Filmed before a live audience in tiki bar Longitude (347 14th St., Oakland, CA), each episode of Ars Technica Live is a speculative, informal conversation between Ars Technica hosts and an invited guest. The audience, drawn from Ars Technica’s readers, is also invited to join the conversation and ask questions. These aren’t soundbyte setups; they are deepcuts from the frontiers of research and creativity.
Doors are at 7pm, and the live taping is from 7:30 to 8:00pm (be sure to get there early if you want a seat). Then you can stick around for informal discussion at the bar, along with delicious tiki drinks and snacks. Can’t make it out to Oakland? Never fear! Episodes will be posted to Ars Technica the week after the live events.
Before coming to UC Hastings, Ahmed Ghappour was at the University of Texas School of Law, where he co-taught the National Security Clinic, and the the Civil Rights Clinic. Prior to that, Prof. Ghappour was a Staff Attorney at Reprieve UK, where he represented Guantanamo detainees in their habeas corpus proceedings. He began his legal career as a patent litigator at Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP. Formerly, Ghappour was a computer engineer focused on design automation, diagnostics, distributed systems architecture and high performance computing.
Annalee Newitz is the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. Previously she was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and io9. She is the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday). Her first novel, Autonomous, comes out in 2017 from Tor Books.
Cyrus [suh-ROOS] Farivar is the Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica, and is also an author and radio producer. His book, The Internet of Elsewhere—about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea—was published by Rutgers University Press in April 2011.
Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month.
The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community READY Corps and Workers World is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country.
We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, multi-generational coalition.
