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Join the Movement for Black Lives for the launch of its campaign for a Red, Black, & Green New Deal—a Black climate campaign to set a national Black Climate Agenda for a sustainable future in defense of Black lives.

The membership of DSA, the largest socialist organization in the United States, is rapidly growing by the thousands. Democratic Socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Cori Bush are raising the expectations of millions of people across the United States and bringing them into a political awakening. Millions of working-class Americans are calling for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, universal rent control, and more.

But what is democratic socialism? What does it mean to be a member of DSA? How do socialists view the crises of police brutality, economic recession, and COVID-19? And what is the best course of action during the Biden administration?

Let’s talk about it.

Join us to discuss what our political moment calls for, meet new people, and get plugged into our fight for democratic control of the things that we need for all of us to live a dignified life.

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We meet virtually on zoom on the second Wednesday of every month from 6-7:30pm. These meetings are open to the public. The content of our meetings span from trainings, campaign updates, teach-ins, debates, roundtable discussions, etc. Click below to join the meeting or use this link: https://zoom.us/j/96555663590

2021 General Meeting Dates: February 10, March 10, April 14, May 12, June 9, July 14, August 11, September 8, October 13, November 10, December 8

Our Green New Deal Committee meets on the second Wednesday each month. We will discuss eco-socialist issues, upcoming events and actions, committee priorities, and campaigns. All are welcome! Please RSVP to receive the URL to the meeting or email green-new-deal@eastbaydsa.org.

Oakland Jericho’s monthly online events focus on Political Prisoners, their cases, dedication to the community, and guidelines for writing to them. This month we will discuss and write to: Imam Jamil Al-Amin and David Gilbert.

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It’s that time of the year again!

The Local Convention is the highest decision-making body of East Bay DSA and meets once a year to elect our Steering Committee and collectively decide our priorities for the coming year. All members are encouraged to attend!

This year, the Local Convention will take place digitally on Saturday May 15th and Sunday May 16th, 2021

The 3 main tasks of the Local Convention will be: 

• Elect a new Steering Committee and 2021 national convention delegates
• Ratify our 2021 chapter platform and select 3 priorities for the year
• Vote on bylaws amendments

We are so excited to participate in the highest body of the chapter with you all.

Questions and Accessibility

Email info@eastbaydsa.org ASAP with any accessibility needs so we can begin to arrange accommodations.

Other questions about the Convention? Reach out with questions at info@eastbaydsa.org.

Register in advance for this meeting:
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The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) first responders training draws upon over ten years of experience of investigating incidents of police terror and providing support to impacted families. The training will cover the history, structure, and organizing model of APTP, the principles of our work, conducting independent peoples’ investigations, introduction to the APTP model of supporting those impacted by police terror, and an overview of our jail support program.

Independent Investigations: This part focuses on conducting independent people’s investigations including considerations on how to build your team, security and Know Your Rights considerations, required skills and infrastructure, preparation, identifying witnesses, trauma-informed interviewing, cultural humility, collecting evidence, and documenting investigations. We will use case studies from our investigations in Oakland, and provide time for knowledge and skill sharing, and discussion.

CopWatching: In the great tradition of our Oakland’s Pathers, Brown Berets, and other radical grassroots community groups, we need to Police the Police! Learn how to observe and document police harassment in our communities, advocate for someone under arrest, and deescalate police intervention.

Family Support: This part will cover the principles of our work with families impacted by state terror, the introduction to our trauma-informed family support model, an overview of typical challenges and current needs faced by the families. Family support is on-going relationship building, long term advocacy and partnership with families impacted by police terror as they seek justice, navigate the legal system, cope with trauma, and create community with other impacted families.

Jail Support: Jail Support Training will cover the structure and procedures of our program providing community care and support for people released from Alameda County Jail (Santa Rita).

We will share materials including our confidentiality agreement, investigation form, flyer, and a training manual.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: May 15, 2021 01:00-06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

register here

Join the Ecology Center and Grandmothers for a Green New Deal for a free, interactive online workshop introducing the Green New Deal and discussing the many ways the resolution can be used as a framework to move us towards a more sustainable future.

Grandmothers for a Green New Deal is a small group of elder women working to educate communities about the Green New Deal and how to get climate solutions enacted on a local, state and Federal level. The hosts are keeping this workshop small so everyone has a chance to share their ideas. Register early!

Please bring your signs and face masks to stand in solidarity against police terror.

Register here
 

It’s that time of the year again!

The Local Convention is the highest decision-making body of East Bay DSA and meets once a year to elect our Steering Committee and collectively decide our priorities for the coming year. All members are encouraged to attend!

This year, the Local Convention will take place digitally on Saturday May 15th and Sunday May 16th, 2021

The 3 main tasks of the Local Convention will be: 

• Elect a new Steering Committee and 2021 national convention delegates
• Ratify our 2021 chapter platform and select 3 priorities for the year
• Vote on bylaws amendments

We are so excited to participate in the highest body of the chapter with you all.

Questions and Accessibility

Email info@eastbaydsa.org ASAP with any accessibility needs so we can begin to arrange accommodations.

Other questions about the Convention? Reach out with questions at info@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

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland is a documentary that looks into the death of Sandra Bland. Sandra was a politically active 28-year-old African American who, after being arrested for a traffic violation in a small Texas town, was found hanging in her jail cell three days later. Dashcam footage revealing her arrest went viral, leading to national protests. The film team followed the two-year case beginning shortly after Bland’s death, exploring the questions of what really happened to her, and what we may learn from her tragedy.

Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87505163942

Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/3wsRe454u8s

If you have other documentary recommendations feel free to message us! 🙂

Want to know your rights & stand up for others in your community? Want to document the police & organize for change? Every 1st & 3rd Monday from 6:30-7p we're hosting New Member Mondays. Hop on zoom so we can answer yr questions & get you plugged in
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— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) May 7, 2021

TOMORROW: Palestinian civil society has called for a general strike on May 18th across historic Palestine (including the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, and 1948 lands)🇵🇸

Solidarity Action @ Israeli Consulate, SF
Tuesday from 4-6pm.
456 Montgomery St. pic.twitter.com/DThC5VKiIc

— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) May 17, 2021

Join us for our first ever Red Square – a discussion-based format centered around an opening topic, but open to whatever is on your mind!

We will feature a presentation by Peter Olney!

This is a space to talk through ideas, questions, and learn from each other!

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We meet over Zoom. If you’d like to join us, and aren’t on our organizers’ list, drop us an email and we’ll send you an invitation.

If you would like to join the meeting early and get an introduction to the concepts of public banking, or more locally to who we are and what we do, please email us and we’ll see you online at 6:30.

Donate to keep us moving forward

“This is NOT a re-imagining budget”

Berkeley Copwatch * Berkeley Tenants Union * Berkeley Community Safety Coalition * Cops off Campus * Where Do We Go Berkeley * Members of the Re-Imagining Public Safety Task force and the Specialized Care Unit Task Force * South Berkeley Mutual Aid Project * Latinos Unidos de Berkeley * Friends of Adeline

Berkeley community organizations will collectively oppose the City Manager’s budget proposal at a press conference this Wednesday, May 19th at 12 noon on the steps of City Hall  

We’ve got something to say about the proposed budget for our city!! Bring your outrage! Bring your signs:  #Justice4KaylaMoore #JusticeforVincentBryant #RacismMakesMeSick #CARENOTCOPS #DefundBPD

Get informed & get angry: Click here to view the full budget proposal

Join us on Wednesday and bring signs! Spread the word to your friends, allies, and press contacts!

Share on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

Cory Doctorow – In Conversation with Andrew Clement​

Cory Doctorow is an award-winning author, journalist, and blogger who has worked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, and is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University. Join Cory in conversation with Andrew Clement, Professor Emeritus in University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information where he coordinates the Information Policy Research Program and co-founded the Identity Privacy and Security Institute.

Co-sponsors: Edmonton Public Library, Milton Public Library, Thunder Bay Public Library, Toronto Public Library.

Zoom link to event ryerson.zoom.us/j/91941276567

This is a free event and no registration is required.

Please contact cfe@ryerson.ca if you require accommodation to ensure inclusion in this event.

Email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to obtain Zoom meeting access info.

Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay and nationwide.

We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” —  to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing.

We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.

Check out some of what we worked on in 2020 and 2019.

Oakland Privacy originally came together in 2013 to fight against the Domain Awareness Center, Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OP was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network.  We helped fight and helped win the fight against Urban Shield.

Our major projects currently include local legislation to regulate state surveillance (we got the strongest surveillance regulation ordinance in the country passed in Oakland!), supporting and opposing state legislation as appropriate, battling mass surveillance in the form of facial recognition, mass aerial surveillance, and other analytics, and pushing back against ICE.

On September 12th, 2019 we were presented with a Barlow Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for our work, and on March 16th, 2021 s James Madison Freedom of Information Award by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.

If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy email listserv, coming to a meeting, or have questions, send an email to:

contact@oaklandprivacy.org

Check out our website: http://oaklandprivacy.org/

Follow us on twitter: @oaklandprivacy

“WATCHING YOU WATCHING US”

Oakland Privacy works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment.  Oakland Privacy drove the passage of surveillance regulation and transparency ordinances in Oakland and Berkeley and is kicking off new processes in various municipalities around the Bay.  To help slow down the encroaching police and surveillance state all over the Bay Area, join us at the Omni.