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May
30
Thu
Meeting tomorrow 10am @ Downtown Berkeley Starbucks til whenever just to hang out, do art, talk about general plans.
— Earth Strike California (@EarthStrikeSFBA) May 30, 2019
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May 30 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
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In a continued effort for community building, they're showing @BootsRiley's film, Sorry to Bother You, tonight at People's Park. pic.twitter.com/gZxXszABzx
— Alastair Boone (@alastairboone) May 30, 2019
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It’s almost time for May’s monthly potluck and free movie at the Bobby Bowens Progressive Center!
This month we will be screening The One Percent (1h 16m)
Schedule: 6:30pm Potluck / 7pm Screening
Join us on May 30 for the documentary The One Percent, created by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. The film examines the system that allows a growing divide between the wealthy and the poor in America. Johnson interviews a number of America’s richest people and asks them about the inherent dangers of having the majority of America’s money in the hands of less than one percent of its citizens. Also interviewed are Chuck Collins and Bill Gates Sr., estate tax proponents and Johnson’s own father, James Johnson who earlier in his life was interested too in the subject of inequality.
Johnson also discusses the economic and societal pitfalls of our current economic imbalance with Milton Friedman, Robert Reich and Ralph Nader. Using real-world examples of the wealth gap, Johnson takes a tour of a dilapidated housing project in Chicago, rides around with an enlightened taxi driver, and sees the human toll of the unfair economics of the Florida sugar industry.
The money that flows into the system shapes who gets what in the economy. At the end people who give the money have the greatest benefits. Yet not all rich people see the wealth gap a good sign and think the problem should be reversed. Is there truly equality in life? Are there solutions to the problem?
This is a free monthly event at BBPC that falls on the last Thursday each month. Mark your calendar for upcoming films:
June 27 – Flow: for Love of Water
July 25 – Tapped
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May
31
Fri
TILL SHE IS FREE OR MARYTRED YEAH IT/S VERY SERIOUS
BASTA !!! FREE CHELSEA MANNING WEEKLY VIGIL
optional after meeting/party rain cancels.
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Jun
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Sat
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Join us at Ocean Beach (near the Cliff House) at 11:00 AM on Saturday June 1st as we help the legendary Brad create a brand new I-M-P-E-A-C-H human banner. It’s CADem weekend and MoveOn presidential forum weekend so every big name D will be in town, including Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris & Kirsten Gilibrand.
The helicopter arrives at midday, so get there early and don’t miss out!
This is a great opportunity to make ourselves seen and heard, and immediately after the event we plan to head off to the MoveOn forum and the CADem event with our IMPEACH signs and banners – so BRING IMPEACH SIGNS AND BANNERS, & be prepared for a long and impeachful day!!!
Please sign up HERE if you would like to VOLUNTEER, and sign up at the official event page (link under the ‘tickets’ tab) if you’d just like to attend.
Let’s ITMFA!!!
Please amplify on social media using the hashtag #ImpeachOnTheBeach.
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Come join East Bay DSA’s Medicare for All Committee as we discuss updates from the fight for single-payer healthcare and upcoming organizing projects. We’ll circulate some a short reading in advance, so please RSVP. All East Bay DSA members interested in getting involved with the Medicare for All campaign are welcome!
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Jun 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Suds, Snacks, and Socialism at the Starry Plough Pub
U.S. Imperialism and the Struggle for Venezuela’s Future
Roger Harris and Mehmet Bayram, both recently returned from Venezuela, will discuss this key battleground in the U.S. ruling class’s ongoing war to overthrow independent and left-wing governments world wide. The will be joined by the National President of Veterans for Peace, Gerry Condon, who was beaten by police when he was delivering food to the activists defending the Venezuelan Embassy in Washinton, DC. All speakers have recently visited Venezuela.
Questions and comments will follow the presentations. Doors open at 2:00. All ages welcome.
This forum is co-sponsored by the Oakland Greens,
the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party and
Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change
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Jun
2
Sun
🗣️ Spread the word
~SIT WITH US~
Inviting Bay Area community to our table for a Sex Worker celebration! 6/2
• Tabling by community health, wellness & social justice orgs
• Performers, Pole, & Speakers TBA
• Allies are wanted & welcome
• Wear red
• Bring flowers to share pic.twitter.com/nz57lql8oD— Bay Area Workers Support (@BAWSupport) May 15, 2019
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Jun 2 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Noted social justice activist Bill Fletcher has written his first novel, The Man Who Fell From The Sky. In it, Fletcher looks at the issues of race, ethnicity, power, history and politics through the eyes of a young reporter in Cape Cod investigating a murder in 1970. In the course of the novel, he weaves together portraits of Cape Verde, Portuguese, African American and white communities. (Books will be available for purchase.)
Please register at the Eventbrite page so we can get a good headcount: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bill-fletcher-book-talk-tickets-62069395232?fbclid=IwAR0-MHqTF9K9B_sbv8L5XemusaK-3NJ2-b078GR9kwvy2-sMEg9zmXpYO_k
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Jun 2 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
How can we show up in solidarity with migrants at the southern border who have fled gang violence and government brutality to endure traveling on foot for months, family separation, and further persecution?
Please join us on June 2 to hear how you can volunteer with Al Otro Lado, (AOL), a wonderful organization known as the “most loving place in Tijuana.” Al Otro Lado, is mostly volunteer-run and provides asylum seekers with know-your-rights training, legal consultation, document support, meals and medical care.Bay Area SURJ members who spent several days at the border will share their experiences working with asylum seekers. Volunteering is a great way for you to work against white supremacy and for human rights, and Spanish is not required.
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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
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Jun 2 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
“If Americans Knew” presents a 1-hour version of the censored Al Jazeera documentary, “The Lobby, Abridged”.
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Jun
3
Mon
Twitter: @EarthStrikeSFBA
Facebook: @EarthStrikeBA
We, the people of the world, are striking to save our planet. Leading climate scientists have warned that we only have until 2030 to prevent global temperature increases from exceeding 1.5ºC. At that time, many effects of Climate Change will be irreversible, and the consequences will be dire. If the global average temperature increases reach 2°C, the results will be catastrophic; famine, droughts, floods, wildfires, the spread of infectious diseases and mass extinction– all on an unprecedented global scale. It would mean the collapse of the human race. According to the Carbon Disclosure Project’s 2017 Carbon Majors Report, 71% of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions come from just 100 companies worldwide. Big business does not serve the interests of the environment or a sustainable future, and by extension, the interests of humanity and life itself. A drastic change in course is imperative to avert catastrophe. To address this potentially catastrophic event, our protests will raise awareness for the global general strike, beginning September 27, 2019. Until all the world’s corporations and governments are held accountable to the needs of the common person, we refuse to participate in a system that only serves to line their pockets. Under the provisions of our protests, there will be no banking, no offices full of employees, no schools full of children, until our demands are met. We refuse to function in a society and political system that is complacent in the environmental demise of our planet.
Earth Strike is not made up of political elites. We are not funded by Super PACs. We are not servants to corporate masters. We are not interested in being re-elected. We do not kowtow to institutions of power. We are people, common people, who understand the alarming situation we are facing, and we demand something be done. We have no vested interests, save one: the survival of all life on the planet. Earth Strike is a global movement with Chapters all over the world, building momentum and solidarity across country and state lines, through concerned communities, and spanning every person with the conscience to recognize the noble goal of the preservation of our home. Based in the idea of solidarity, Earth Strike is a coalition of horizontally-organized, popular, workers movement to save the very existence of life on earth. As an inhabitant of this earth, we urge you to join us, to mitigate and prepare for the effects of Climate Change. Spread our demands, organize with your community, and take a stand for the future, our future.
The Earth shall go on Strike!
Our Demands
- Enact energy systems of community-led renewable energies
- Wind-down and end all fossil fuel extraction, and become totally carbon neutral by 2035
- End all pipeline projects
- Guarantee the sovereignty of indigenous lands with regards to government and government sponsored projects involving their land
- Democratically determine and allocate community led renewable energy initiatives
- Fund and expand carbon neutral and fare-free public transit
- Prepare for Climate Change and protect those most harmed
- Aid communities displaced by climate catastrophes with a focus on rebuilding sustainable infrastructure, including providing state-level aid to United States territories for natural disasters
- Increase funding for FEMA by at least 50%
- Offer a grant program to people who lose their means of survival due to energy transition
- Improve FEMA to better serve the needs of communities
- End the FEMA 50% rule and all regulations that base community aid on market values of property.
- Train FEMA and other disaster response personnel to work with low income and homeless, people of color, and other marginalized communities
- End the use of military/police forces in disaster relief programs
- Provide transportation and lodging in evacuation situations for everyone, prioritizing at-risk communities.
- Protect workers by repealing the Taft-Hartley Act
- Include climate change and environmental safety in collective bargaining and union negotiations with employers
- Retrofit buildings for energy efficiency and disaster resilience
- Build climate-adaptive infrastructure
- Improve sustainability of agricultural processes
- End all subsidies to the meat industry
- Regulate large-scale agriculture to reduce methane emissions, limit hazardous runoff, and preserve biodiversity.
- End factory farming and create significantly stricter regulations in regard to quality of life for livestock
- Further research and development on addressing dairy and other animal agriculture related environmental concerns.
- Cattle must be fed diet of at least 50% grass grazing and the rest will be supplemented with grain and forages with less than 10% corn
- Enact non-retaliation policies to limit large company’s control over individual farmers’ agricultural practices
- End seed patents on genetically modified crops
- Incentivize planting native/food gardens on residential properties
- In conjunction with the above, ban lawn grass.
- Incentivize local production/consumption of food
- Sustainably manage resources
- Mindfully manage potable water resources, and the inclusion of rainwater into irrigation and waste systems
- Limit logging to only what can be replanted in the span of 1 year and enforce that replanting occurs
- Deprivatize and municipalize all water supplies
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Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.
Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186
If you wish to get the password please subscribe to the Oscar Grant Committee mailing list by sending an email to:
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
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Jun
4
Tue
Jun 4 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
No Coal in Richmond: Important Meeting
Photo by Baykeeper, 2013
Help plan an hour-long rally and press conference to be held right before the Richmond Planning Commission meets at 6:30 PM on June 20th to consider the historic Richmond Coal Ordinance.
You can contribute to making the No Coal in Richmond campaign a successful effort! Even contributing an hour or two between now and June 20th will make a huge difference.
In December 2018, the Richmond City Council voted unanimously to send the Richmond Coal Ordinance to the City Attorney for review. This land use ordinance relies on the city’s police powers to regulate businesses in the interest of residents’ health and safety, and it contains three main provisions:
- It prohibits new coal operations on private land in the city;
- It prevents existing facilities from expanding;
- It provides for a graduated phase-out of coal operations.
For more information about the ordinance, see the No Coal in Richmond website.
And if you haven’t yet, please sign this letter to the Richmond City Council and Mayor supporting the ordinance to ban the handling and storage of coal and petroleum coke. Urge them to vote ‘Yes’ on the ordinance and protect community health and the environment.
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Jun 4 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
We don’t have to wait to repeal Costa Hawkins to fight displacement and stabilize the homes of thousands of tenants in Oakland NOW.
Oakland City Council has the power to remove rent-control exemptions on thousands of currently owner-occupied duplex and triplex units in Oakland and protect the futures of families in thousands more. It’s time we demand they take action to stop displacement and rent gouging.
Closing the rent stabilization loophole for owner-occupied 2-3 unit buildings would immediately:
• Protect an estimated 5,100 tenants already living owner-occupied duplexes or triplex units by allowing them to re/gain rent stabilization;
• Qualify these tenants for protections under Oakland’s Tenant Protection Ordinance, which protects tenants from harassment and “bad acting“ landlords who are refusing to make necessary repairs;
• Make these tenants eligible for relocation payments for no-fault evictions
• Preserve the affordability of approximately 11,000 additional units vulnerable to losing rent stabilization and coverage under the Tenant Protection Ordinance and Uniform Relocation Ordinance.
Learn more about the fight here https://cjjc.org/mediapress/closetheloopholes-to-defend-and-expand-oaklands-rent-stabilized-housing/
And join us
Tuesday 5/21 @ 5:30pm First full City Council Vote – 3rd Floor Oakland City Hall
and
Tuesday 6/4 @ 5:30pm Final vote 3rd Floor Oakland City Hall
Also up for a vote on 5/21 – demand transparency and accountability from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department https://www.facebook.com/events/395420811306185/
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Jun 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Throughout the history of capitalism, capitalists in a handful of countries have managed to impose their dominance across the world, subjecting people, land, and resources in the Global South to intense forms of exploitation. Socialists call this system imperialism.
What is the connection between the socialist project and anti-imperialism? What can socialists in the US do to fight imperialism? And what might an international struggle against imperialism and capitalism look like?
Join us on Tuesday, June 4 for the third part of our three-part Socialist Night School series on imperialism to discuss these questions and others.
Accessibility: The venue is wheelchair-accessible.
Required Readings
See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members.
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Jun 4 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Housing Struggle & International Solidarity: Eastern Europe and Beyond
The housing crisis is a global issue. Across the world, struggles for housing justice are on the rise, as are fights against evictions, gentrification, and houselessness.
A transnational analysis and international solidarity strategy based on anti-capitalist, antiracist, and communitarian ideals has become increasingly necessary. Join us for an evening presentation and discussion around organizing and building regional and global solidarities!
Drawing upon their own contexts in Romania, Czech Republic, and the US (Bay Area), housing activists Eliska Černá (Wake up houses), Jakub Černý (Wake up houses, Squat Klinika), Erin McElroy (Anti-Eviction Mapping Project), Veda Popovici (Common Front for Housing Rights) will explore local tactics, regional radical visions, and the necessity for international housing movement solidarity.
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