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
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
A low, intense war is being fought on the streets of Europe and the aim is on fascism. This documentary takes us behind the masks of the militant groups called antifascists.
In 2013 a group of armed nazis attacks a peaceful demonstration in Stockholm where several people are injured. In Greece, the neo-nazi party Golden Dawn becomes the third largest in the election. In Malmö, the activist Showan Shattak and his friends are attacked by a group of nazis with knives and he ends up in a coma.
In this portrait of the antifascists in Greece and Sweden, we get to meet key figures that explain their view on their radical politics but also to question the level of their own violence and militancy.
Doors at 7pm, screening at 7:30. Free snacks and popcorn!
~Liberated Lens~
Special guest, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin! Arreguin will be speaking and answering questions.
We’ll have updates from our teams, and community event announcements, followed by team breakouts and discussions.
Bring snacks to share! Bring friends!
Speaker Anthony Rendon is not letting SB 562, the Healthy California Act, progress through the Assembly Committees. Let’s visit his office and let him know that this is not ok! Meet at the South Entrance of the Capitol at 10 AM.
Pack a lunch if you want to picket all day outside of his office with signs. Room 219.
CNA Statement
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Join APTP in demanding Oakland City Council pass a progressive budget that ensures ZERO % increase in the Oakland Police Department Budget
Improvising with images, sonic sources, writings, dreams and daily heartbreak, choreographer/cultural activist Pearl Ubuñgen reflects on the conflicted role artists and arts organizations play as bewildered accomplices in the gentrification-based activity of cultural erasure. Inspired by the subtle presence and memory of her mentor, the late great Master Artist Ed Mock (1938 -1986). Ubuñgen performs an illustrated case-study weaving a sorrowful, soulful lament drawn from the terrain of today’s late phase, hyper-gentrified San Francisco.
Sacred City is an ongoing series of community-based projects in which Ubuñgen subverts disciplinary borders and offers activism, the arts and the dharma as interrelated practices. In September 2016, she curated a day-long retreat at the Shambhala Meditation Center of San Francisco, which brought together dharma practitioners, local performance artists, and advocates/organizers for tenants rights, the unhoused, and victims of police violence. The gathering featured the family of Luis Gongora-Pat who was murdered by SFPD on 7 April 2016 at Shotwell and 19th Streets in SF’s Mission District.
Pearl Ubuñgen is a fourth generation pilipina american who grew up in San Francisco’s Fillmoreand Richmond districts. Ubuñgen is known for her commitment to community engagement and groundbreaking innovations in the field of community-based work. During the 1990’s she worked with youth in the South of Market and Tenderloin neighborhood where her studio was located in the school building of St. Boniface Church. This year marks the 20-year anniversary of “Take Me to the Tenderloin, Now! (1997), created in collaboration with social documentary street photographer Ken Miller.
During the dot-com era, Ms. Ubuñgen was displaced from her rehearsal and living spaces in San Francisco and relocated to Boulder, Colorado. While in Boulder, Ubuñgen served briefly as Chair
of Performing Arts at Naropa University where she designed and implemented an innovative interdisciplinary BFA in Performance (2002-2006). During this time ubuñgen deepened and enriched her study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, lineage holder of Shambhala Buddhism. Ubuñgen now serves as the Northern California Regional Chopon (Master of Offerings) for Shambhala Buddhist rituals and is a Director of Shambhala Training and Meditation Instructor.
Time will be allotted for discussion and announcements.
Donations to Occupy Forum to cover costs are encouraged; no one turned away!
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
There will be a 15-hour reading of 1984 across the country on June 27.
This includes KPFA here in the Bay Area, and KPFK in Socal, which is the largest radio transmitter west of the Mississippi and can be heard from Santa Barbara to Tijuana. As well as NY, Houston, DC and a few hundred smaller stations across the country..
“The reading of George Orwell’s 1984 is going to be a Pacifica national event, using the 1975 recording from the 64GB USB drive from PRA”.
The ACLU, Copwatch, NAACP, NLG & UC Berkeley Black Student Union are holding a press conference to demand the chief release the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) report on racial profiling, and that the City of Berkeley commit to a program to address racial profiling by the BPD. Press conference on the steps of Old City Hall ahead of the City Council meeting.
Join us to urge the California Assembly to stop the delay and pass SB 562 – guaranteed healthcare for all Californians.
Very Slight Time & Location Change for Tomorrow's Sacramento Protest
Meet 11:30 a.m. South Capitol Steps – Move #SB562 Forward! pic.twitter.com/1EAox9qlls— Healthy CA (@4HealthyCA) June 27, 2017
Rally today at Alameda Co. BOS Budget meeting 12:30-1:30pm to demand the promised jobs for formerly incarcerated people.#JobsForJustice https://t.co/PpNlKp9uCM
— LSPC (@LSPC_) June 28, 2017
Volunteer with us!
The Prisoners Literature Project is based in Berkeley, California, and we’re always looking for volunteers to help answer letters, send out books, learn more about the prison system, and assist in other ways.
We currently meet on Sundays from 2-5pm and on Wednesdays from 6:30-9:30pm at the Grassroots House. This is located at 2022 Blake St. (at Milvia), Berkeley, CA 94704. (Map – there’s plenty of local parking, and the office is walkable in 11-15 minutes from downtown Berkeley BART or Ashby BART – also, AC Transit bus #18 stops nearby.)
(Please note that we can’t accept prisoner book requests at this address. Book requests from U.S. prisoners must be mailed to PLP; c/o Bound Together Books, 1369 Haight St, San Francisco, CA 94117.)
We welcome helpers of any age and experience at our volunteer sessions (here’s what they look like!), and are also very happy to host students looking for community service. You should read a lot, have neat legible handwriting, and be able to follow the rules to get books into prisons. We don’t make the rules, but we do have to follow them!
Bringing more than four people? Please contact us first so we can better accommodate your group. (BTW, we maintain ‘call for volunteer’ listings on VolunteerMatch.org, on Idealist.org, and on AllForGood.org, so you might have seen us there!)
Other ways to help?
If you can’t make it in-person to our volunteer sessions, we’d still love your help. In particular, we’re looking for donations — both one-time and recurring — to help pay for postage on the hundreds of book packages we send out monthly.
Other things we’d love help with include: fundraising efforts, publicity, and contacting publishers and distributors to get multiple copies of our most sought-after books. We need to keep building our reserves — and further reduce our request backlog.
Got more ideas? Come to a meeting and share them with us!
Full address with RSVP
Hear a presentation of the research described in the new book by environmentalist and business leader Paul Hawken. The book, Drawdown, describes 100 solutions to the climate crisis and ranks them according to the researchers’ criteria.
Chad Frischman, research director for Project Drawdown, will present the research and lead a discussion after a potluck dinner at an event hosted by the group Climate Compassion in Berkeley on June 28.
Full address with RSVP
Community power, led by folx from the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and supported by many in the ReFund Coalition, prevented the Council from passing a “crumbs off the table” budget on Monday.
Now it’s our chance to make sure all the hard work that each one of you has put into lifting up issues that are core to so many Oaklanders is reflected in the budget that the Council is set to pass this evening.
Here’s what you can do to hold Councilmembers accountable to passing a community budget!
1. Join us TODAY from 1-3pm for a “call-in” and social media action using the suggested script attached to this email! We are encouraging everyone to please call or ping/@ on social media the following Councilmembers:
· Councilmember Dan Kalb
· Councilmember Noel Gallo
· Councilmember Campbell-Washington
· Councilmember Abel Guillen
2. If you cannot call, please send a brief message to the Councilmembers on Facebook or twitter using #Refundoakland. Please send a personalized message calling on them to support a community budget, NOT the budget being presented by the Council President & Mayor
· @NoelGallo5
· @annieforoakland
· @DanKalb
· @Abel_Guillen
Please note:Phone messages get backed up. Emails require sorting. If you sign up and register your comments through E-comments 24-7 your message gets delivered DIRECTLY to ENTIRE council with just 1 post.
https://oakland.granicusideas.com/widget/meetings/2704-special-concurrent-meeting-of-the-oakland-redevelopment-successor-agency-slash-city-council-on-2017-06-29-4-00-pm
3. Join us today for the final Budget Hearing beginning @ 4pm and share your testimony about why you want to see Oakland pass a Community Budget!
After the special budget meeting on Monday, June 26th, was shut down by #DefundOPD and the people, another budget meeting has been called for the 29th.
CM’s reconvene meeting after protest ends, just to adjourn. Special meeting rescheduled for Thursday #oakmtg
— Gabrielle Canon (@GabrielleCanon) June 27, 2017
Organizers stressing folks need to be at City Hall 5 PM Thursday. #oakmtg
— Oak City Mtg notes (@OakMtgNotes) June 27, 2017
Please join us this Thursday for an emergency general meeting to discuss strategies for convincing Oakland city council members to fund the public bank feasibility study.
Last Tuesday, Oakland city council members voted to delay the vote on the public bank feasibility study to their next full council meeting, which would be on July 18th, 2017. Save the date, as we will need to show up in force again. Council members decided to delay the vote to see if they could find other entities help defray the costs of the feasibility study.
If you are interested in seeing their discussion and our testimony during the meeting, click the following link: http://oakland.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2350 – our item starts at 2:45:20
Since 2001, representatives from Cuba’s nationwide central labor organization Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) were granted U.S. visas to visit our cities.
Victor Manuel Lemagne, is the 55 year old Secretary-General of Cuba’s Health and Tourism union where he has served since 2011. As the leader of that nation-wide union he is also a member of the CTC Secretariat (executive committee). Lemagne is also a delegate to Cuba’s National Assembly (Parliament). He is Vice President of the International hotel and tourism union for the Americas and Caribbean affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions.
Mr. Lamagne will be in both Northern and Southern California. This community-labor event in Berkeley, on the 29th of June, will be a unique and special opportunity to hear directly from a Cuban union leader.
Initiated by the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity
Endorsers: Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10 Treasurer- Retired, Task Force on the Americas, Global Exchange, SOL Economics, Richmond Regla Friendship Committee, Workers World Party, Socialist Workers Party, International Action Center, Freedom Archieves, College of Ethnic Studies, Latina/o Studies Dept, SFSU-Cuba Educational Project, Clinica Martin Boro, Marcha Patriotica Colombia – California Chapter
In 1942, the U.S. government rounded up more than 110,000 Japanese Americans on the west coast and forced them into concentration camps. Three young men defied this and served jail time. This film is of their fight to overturn their sentences 40 years later.
Today with a fascist regime in power, there is an urgent need to learn from this history and to commit ourselves to act to stop what the U.S. did to the Japanese from happening again to anyone. Never again! Part of the film series,”America Was Never Great.”
Demo against SFPD police brutality of young SF queers following Pride:
FRIDAY JUNE 30TH, 2PM, MISSION POLICE STATION, 630 VALENCIA ST. #ftp pic.twitter.com/wlpRf0GgOR— AntiDisplacementCoup (@AsterZephyrIsis) June 29, 2017
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office has a long history of working with ICE – they federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws. They have notified ICE about arrests of undocumented people.
People have been picked up and then caught up by ICE even if the charges have been dropped.
They also sponsor Urban Shield, a yearly gun fair for police departments, which trains police in terror tactics against urban populations.
We’ll meet in front of Adult school at 4:45 pm. or just come in if you’re later. RSVP, carpooling, questions, to help organize, contact Heather MacLeod above.
1 mile from Hayward BART station, if you want to avoid rush hour traffic & get your exercise for the day!!
will present readings by Susan Griffin,
Rafael Jesús Gonzalez,
Dennis Bernstein
and Shanga Labossiere,
followed by open mic
at wheelchair accessible St. John’s Presbyterian Church
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (http://haitiemergencyrelief.org/) gives concrete aid to Haiti’s democratic movement and grassroots community groups organizing to meet Haitians’ needs directly.