Calendar
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. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months, once Daylight Savings Time springs forward we tend to assemble at 4 PM).
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 interwoven story of two of the most significant workers’ rights struggles of our time: the 2011 weeks-long fight by public employees in Wisconsin, and the long struggle by teachers in Chicago to win quality public schools and democracy in their union, culminating in a 2012 teachers strike. Working class struggle is analyzed through union history and a radical critique of the Democratic Party.
Panel with Oakland’s striking teachers after the screening
free admission
free snacks and popcorn
Liberated Lens Film Collective is screening the move Schoolidarity at the Omni Commons in support of the striking Oakland Unified teachers on Sunday, March 3rd at 5 PM.
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The interwoven story of two of the most significant workers’ rights struggles of our time: the 2011 weeks-long fight by public employees in Wisconsin, and the long struggle by teachers in Chicago to win quality public schools and democracy in their union, culminating in a 2012 teachers strike. Working class struggle is analyzed through union history and a radical critique of the Democratic Party. Panel with Oakland’s striking teachers after the screening Free admission Free snacks and popcorn  |
We’re still playing every Monday that it doesn’t rain!
Occupella organizes informal public singing at Bay Area occupation sites, marches and at BART stations. We sing to promote peace, justice, and an end to corporate domination, especially in support of the Occupy movement.
Music has the power to build spirit, foster a sense of unity, convey messages and emotions, spread information, and bring joy to participants and audience alike. See spirited clip of an action at BART. Check out the actions calendar and come add your voice. There are lots of ways to participate and everyone is welcome.
Join us and our allies in our campaign to audit the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. Help strategize, build community, organize for upcoming rallies and events. Interested in join the #AuditAhern campaign? please reach out to Jose@EllaBakerCenter.org to find out more!
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
Accessibility: Wheelchair-accessible entrance and restrooms
Required Readings
See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members.
Ad Hoc Committee on UASI
Wednesday March 6th, 2019 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
125 12th street, 4th floor, Hayward Room (STE 400)
Oakland CA 94607
- Opening (15 min.)………………………………………………………………………………………………………Chair
- Roll call.
- Meeting purpose and deliverables / Direction from the Board of Supervisors.
- Agenda review.
- Review of Board Actions (30 min.)………………………………………………………County Counsel / Chair
- Review actions taken by the Board of Supervisors at their 2/26/2019 meeting.
- Review recommendations passed in BOS Motion 1.
- Review recommendations passed in BOS Motion 2.
- Review of BAUASI Funding Guidelines (30 min.)…………………………………………………BAUASI/ACSO
- Review funding guidelines for UASI.
- Review recommendations not in compliance with UASI guidelines.
- Funding Compliance Discussion (120 min.)………………………………………………………………………ALL
- Identify Committee recommendations that may not comply with the funding guidelines.
- Review recommendations passed in BOS Motion 2 that are deemed as “non-compliant”, including reason for the classification.
- Propose and discuss modifications that could bring non-compliant recommendations into compliance.
- Identify points of consensus.
- Public Comment……………………………………………………………………………………………………….Public
- Report to the Board of Supervisors (15 min.)…………………………………………………………………Chair
- Identify how best to jointly presents a response to the Board of Supervisors.
- ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..fin
A lecture: “Stamped From the Beginning: How the Ideology of Race Shapes Education and Society”
For details, call 510.642.3726.
Join us as we discuss and finalize the Ella Baker Centers 2019-20 legislative platform to end mass incarceration and hear from people directly impacted by criminal justice policy changes. Dinner will be provided.
Come learn how you fit, and where you can plug into, the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative.
The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EB PREC) uses community investment to develop permanently affordable cooperative housing that uses regenerative practices, like wealth re-distribution, to empower sovereign, self-determined Black Indigenous and POC communities.
Our mission is to facilitate BIPOC and allied communities to cooperatively organize, finance, purchase, occupy, and steward properties, taking them permanently off the speculative market.
By co-creating community controlled assets, thereby reducing risk of displacement, we help people meet their basic social, economic, and emotional needs, and empower them to cooperatively lead a just transition from an extractive capitalist system into one where communities are ecologically, emotionally, spiritually, culturally, and economically restorative and regenerative.
Points of Unity:
This is not an exhaustive list and it is a work in progress. For now, EB PREC has adopted the following points of unity.
~We stand for the liberation and healing of all people and lands oppressed and exploited by histories of Genocide, Slavery, Low wage labor, Land theft, Predatory lending, and Forced migration.
~We provide mutual aid to front-line communities first, the liberation of black and indigenous communities is fundamental to the liberation of all people, a rising tide lifts all boats.
~We believe restorative solutions are rooted in collective land stewardship and decision-making. We prioritize people, planet, and future generations over profits. We move at the pace of community, not capital.
~We build trust and safe spaces with each other by doing the healing work required to transform antiquated capitalist notions into regenerative and cooperative relationships.
~We build productive capacity for disinvested BIPOC communities through community education and networks of cooperatives. EBPREC helps communities manifest vision into reality on the communities terms.
AST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Nanjala Nyabola to discuss her new new book Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya, on Wednesday, March 6th at 7pm.
Kenya is the most digitally advanced country in sub-Saharan Africa, where Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, and other online platforms are part of everyday life. And, as in Western nations, the digital age has had dramatic effects on society and politics. Yet, while we hear about the #MeToo movement and the Russian bot scandal, there is little appreciation for the feminist movement #MyDressMyChoice and the subversion of state-run political propaganda by social media.
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics aims to change this by presenting a unique contribution to the debate on digital democracy. For traditionally marginalized groups, particularly women and the disabled, digital spaces have provided vital platforms that allow Kenyans to build new communities that transcend old ethnic and gender divisions. Covering attempts by political elites to prevent social movements from translating online visibility into meaningful offline gains, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics explores the drastic efforts to contain online activism and new methods of feminist mobilization, as well as how “fake news,” Cambridge Analytica, and allegations of hacking contributed to tensions around the 2017 elections. Reframing digital democracy for the first time from the African perspective, Nanjala Nyabola’s groundbreaking work opens up new ways of understanding our current global online era.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer, humanitarian advocate, and political analyst currently based in Nairobi. She is a frequent columnist at Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, and other publications.
What is Democracy?
One Night Only!
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Main auditorium at 7:15pm
Astra Taylor in person with philosopher Wendy Brown, moderator Anasuya Sengupta and other special guests
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted.
Director Astra Taylor’s idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents: from ancient Athens’ groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism’s roots in medieval Italy; from modern-day Greece grappling with financial collapse and a mounting refugee crisis to the United States reckoning with its racist past and the growing gap between rich and poor.
Featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, and former prime ministers—this urgent film connects the past and the present, the emotional and the intellectual, the personal and the political, in order to provoke and inspire. If we want to live in democracy, we must first ask what the word even means.
Taylor was active in the Occupy Movement and was the co-editor of Occupy!: An OWS-Inspired Gazette with Sarah Leonard of Dissent magazine and Keith Gessen of n+1.[18] The broadsheet covered Occupy Wall Street in five issues over the course of the first year of the occupation and was later anthologized by Verso Books
On Thursday, March 7th, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is having an “exploratory” hearing into the City’s cold weather policy. The Government of the City of San Francisco has endlessly harassed folks with nowhere to go. The San Francisco Police Department has confiscated peoples tents in the rain, arrested people for creating shelter and not offering more than a temporary stay in a shelter or a cot.
The People of San Francisco and the Bay Area must come together to resist these attacks on working people. Join activists from other Bay Area cities in this action against the attack on the poor and learn about local struggles and ways we can work together to fight back.
This event is sponsored by: The United Front Against Displacement, Democratic Socialists of America: San Francisco chapter, POOR Magazine, and the Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance
Agenda:
4. 5:15pm: UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic – presentation of draft Privacy Principles; review and take possible action.
5. 5:30pm: Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – OPD – presentation of inaugural annual reports (FBI/JTTF, ATF, DEA, US Marshals task forces), review and take possible action.
6. 5:45pm: Presentation by Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maas – use and risks of Automated License Plate Readers
7. 6:00pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DOT – Automated License Plate Reader Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy – review and take possible action.
8. 6:30pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Automated License Plate Reader Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy – review and take possible action.
9. 6:50pm: Review of Old Business and take possible action
Refinery corridor residents and allies are busy organizing a community forum on Phillips 66’s very dangerous plans to expand tar sands refining at its Rodeo facility. Increased use of tar sands in the P66 crude slate means vastly increased tanker traffic in the Bay, an increased risk of spills, and increased assaults on community health and our worsening climate. This town hall is an opportunity to learn about the two linked P66 proposals—the first Environmental Impact Report drops soon—and what we can do to stop them.
Please come out to listen, learn, and offer support to impacted community residents.
Food and beverage provided!
Confirmed speakers:
Andres Soto, Communities for a Better Environment
Pennie Opal Plant [and or Alison Ehara Brown], Idle No More SF Bay
LaDonna Williams, All Positives Possible and Fresh Air Vallejo
Janice Kirsch, MD, 350 Bay Area
Janet Pygeorge, President, Rodeo Citizens Association
Greg Karris, Senior Scientist, Communities for a Better Environment
Sponsored by:
Rodeo Citizens Association, Crockett-Rodeo United to Defend the Environment, Fresh Air Vallejo, Sunflower Alliance, 350 Bay Area, Idle No More SF Bay, Communities for a Better Environment, and Stand.earth.
Watch Online: Visit facebook.com/standearth at 6:00 PM PST on Thursday, March 7th.
RSVP: action@sunflower-alliance.org
The mid-2000s financial “crisis,” the spread of neoliberalism, and attempts by activists and artists to counter it.
Lyn Hejinian, with Trisha Low and Noah Warren
Celebrating the publication of Hejinian’s Positions of the Sun.
To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of Positions of the Sun in advance at Mrs. Dalloway’s or by speaking to one of our booksellers.
Positions of the Sun is a sometimes melancholy, sometimes militant cross-genre experiment, combining elements of (largely non-narrative) fiction, with those of local journalism, and of cultural and literary criticism. Its twenty-six interlocking “essays with characters” (plus a “Coda”) explore the mid-2000s financial “crisis,” the spread of neoliberalism, and attempts by activists and artists to counter it, through the movements and daily lives of a wide-ranging cast of characters located in the Bay Area. In Positions, Hejinian plays the bricoleur, bringing together whatever’s needed in her approach to the subject, whether it’s the paratactic tactics of poetry, scholarship’s critical patchwork, or characters set in time that evokes but frustrates narrative. Positions of the Sun is the second work in Belladonna*’s Germinal Texts Series, which seeks to trace feminist avant-garde histories and the poetic lineages they produce.
Lyn Hejinian teaches at UC Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of more than twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which is Positions of the Sun. Her poetic trilogy Tribunal will publish later this year. The recipient of various awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions.
Trisha Low is a poet and performer living in the East Bay. She is the author of The Compleat Purge and the forthcoming Socialist Realism.
Noah Warren is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A former Stegner Fellow, his work appears in The Paris Review, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, New England Review, PEN America, and elsewhere. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at UC Berkeley.
The Green New Deal:
A Bold New Solution
Or
Sustainable Snake Oil for a Green American Empire
Read The New Green Deal https://revcom.us/a/581/the-green-new-deal-sustainable-snake-oil-for-a-green-american-empire-en.html
The Middle East Children’s Alliance & The American Friends Service Committee present Palestinian journalist and refugee, Ahmed Abu Artema –one of the original organizers of the Gaza Great March of Return. He will speak about his experience, the future of nonviolent actions in Palestine, and his vision for a just and lasting peace. He advocates for restoration of Palestinian rights, and his writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, and more.
Ahmed will be joined by Jehad Abusalim, a Chicago-based activist/scholar from Gaza and AFSC Program Associate. This event is part of AFSC’s national speaking tour, “Hashtag to Headlines: How the Gaza Great March of Return Challenged the World”!!
Cosponsored by St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Mission & Justice Committee
Benefit for projects in Gaza
International Women’s Strike Speak Out – which protests gender violence, racism & imperialism – takes place at Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland. For details, visit facebook ‘international women’s strike Bay Area’ or email gabrielawomen@gmail.com