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What is the People’s Budget amendment? Who is the Community Democracy Project (CDP)? How do I become a member of CDP? How do I get on their mailing list? How do I get on their extra special contact list to get personalized text messages about upcoming events? When is CDP launching? What are they launching? What is participatory budgeting? Why do they want the residents of Oakland to decide the entire city budget? Who’s funding this project? Who’s leading it? Why should I join CDP? Do I get a prize or like… earn a badge for joining?
If you have ANY of these questions, join us for this informal Q&A session! If you know any of the answers already, join the orientation to help answer them from your own perspective! If you follow us on social media and want to get MORE involved, then join us to learn about the first step to joining this revolution!
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This event will take place outdoors, in person. Thank you in advance for being mindful of others’ covid precautions.

Commemorate the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Abolish nuclear weapons. Tune in, connect the dots, and act for change.

Join a virtual rally from 9 to 10:45 AM Pacific Time on Hiroshima Day and repeated on Nagasaki Day.
Hiroshima Day, August 6 link https://youtu.be/_kM7IuzKQls
Nagasaki Day, August 9 link https://youtu.be/OB57nQAcSWQ

The overall rally broadcast will feature the following speakers who will be filmed at the West Gate of the Livermore Lab at 9 AM on August 6 to kick off the virtual event: A-bomb survivor Nobu Hanaoka, A-bomb survivor, Marylia Kelley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley Cares, and John Burroughs, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy. Keynote speaker Daniel Ellsberg, writer and peace activist, and other amazing presenters are prerecorded.

Speakers and musicians include Tsukuru Fors, trans peace/anti-nuclear human rights activist, Pacific Asian Nuclear-Free Peace Alliance; Marcina Langrine & Benetick Kabua Maddison, young activists with the Marshallese Education Initiative; Nell Myhand, Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign; Betsy Rose, community song leader; Benjamin Mertz, Black spiritual tradition composer, performer and song leader; Patricia St Onge & Wilson Riles, co-emcees.

Come join community for art at the lake. We are banding together to celebrate ourselves, but also to remember what’s important: thanks to the hard work of the Black Organizing Project and allies, the Oakland Unified School District has pledged to the George Floyd Resolution to keep officers out of Oakland public schools! This event is an example of the type of joy that can be shared when we focus on community healing, rather than over-policing.

There will be live poetry, guest speakers, art making, mural painting, music, care packages, community poetry booklets, a resource table, food, and above all community!

Students, parents, OUSD community members, and allies and supporters are welcome.

Come through to celebrate and help us remind OUSD of their commitment to the George Floyd Resolution.

Please RSVP on ActionNetwork [link coming soon] if you plan on being there.

Masks required, and six feet of social distancing will be enforced.

Join the movement to #FreeDonziger! Tomorrow August 6, will mark 2 years of Steven Donziger's unprecedented house arrest for taking on @Chevron & demanding #EnvironmentalJustice for the Amazon.
=> SF Bay Area: Chevron Richmond Refinery, 4pm Friday
Learn more 👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/04UU574C8t

— Sunflower Alliance (@SunflowerAction) August 5, 2021

Bringing your own lawn chairs, blankets and snacks is highly encouraged! These student films will bring a smile to your face… we promise!

Of Oakland is a student-made documentary where youth explore how their diverse communities intersect creating empathy and acceptance for everyone. RSVP to see Of Oakland in its entirety and many other student films at this outdoor screening! Get a sneak peek of this high-quality documentary by watching the trailer below. We will also be featuring the best summer films from our talented youth filmmakers!

Can’t make it to the screening, but still want to show up for Oakland youth? Donate! https://bit.ly/3eGzlVx

Our speaker, Elazar Friedman,  will discuss the imperative need to develop a Leninist United Front to combat the menace of Fascist and White Supremacist attacks in today’s US.

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The presentation will use two models as diagnostic tools.

1.) The Ernst Meyer led KPD’s model of United WC Front and the lessons of abandoning this powerful model in the third period and then zig zagging to class collaborationist coalition People’s Fronts-betraying Proletarian class independence

2.) The  1984 United Front like action at SF Pier 80 led by Howard Keylor Longshore of the Trotskyist  Bolshevik Tendency and by Leo Robinson   Longshore of the CPUSA

Nelson Mandela paid tribute to this act of International working class solidarity at the Oakland Coliseum for having re- ignitied  the   SA antiApartheid movement.

Criticism of PL/Grover Furr type spurning of United Fronts with extant US Trotskyist groups such as the Spartacist League, the Bolshevik Tentency and the Internationalist Group as examples will be proven to be infantile Ultra Left obstacles to WC unity.

Ernst  Meyer  KPD  on the other hand posited that the way to   best expose  to their rank and file the lies and  class treachery of the SPD reformist leadership was  via the United Front not by  the self destructive spurning  of working class unity.

All parts of the presentation are integrated and require inclusion in the presentation

Since Jack H ILWU Local 10  ret. was an active part of the  SF Pier 80  action as well as furthering this WC solidarity  by winning the entire US Canadian West Coast port shutdown as a tribune  for the oppressed ie the George Floyd murder if heZooms in I would propose  he be granted a 10-15minute  synopsis of the Pier 80 United Front

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:

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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

Black August was initially made in 1969 by individuals from the Black Panther Party as a way for African Americans to commend their legacy and culture, marking the assassination Black Panther George Jackson during a prison rebellion in California. The idea behind Black August is to have remembrance for those who have died during this month in history. Black people are resisting. First, for their survival. And just like every generation before them, they are resisting to make their lives better and give themselves a chance at freedom. The history of black people in America is one of living for generations in a society where our lives have been considered less than human, where our dignity as individuals has been consistently denied. This month is a time to reflect and learn about the legacies of Black revolutionaries, while we rededicate ourselves to the protracted struggles against white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism. Join us as we give a platform to the next generation of black revolutions so we may study, plan, and pledge to continue the work and fight for Black liberation into the future

Kerby Lynch (she/they) is a current PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. She considers herself a child of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, Occupy Oakland, and the radical legacy of Lesbian Feminism in the Bay Area. Kerby also holds a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies with a concentration in Gender and Sexuality from UC Berkeley. Currently, they work on issues of police violence accountability, dismantling the carceral state and sexual justice. Kerby is a high school educator that teaches courses on Indigenous counter-mapping and California Native history to local students of color. Kerby also is a community archivist for the Bay Area Lesbian Archives where they work to preserve the life stories of radical lesbian activist who strived and successfully created alternative worlds

Alecia Harger (she/they) is a sophomore at UC Berkeley and representative for both UC Berkeley Cops Off Campus and the transnational Cops Off Campus Coalition, a network of students, educators, staff, and community members passionate about abolishing policing at all levels of education.

Host: Aidan Hill (they/them) is a queer/trans political activist in the bay area living on the intersection of multiple identities. They are a Former Vice-Chair City of Berkeley Homeless Commission, a Green Party Electoral Candidate and a UC Berkeley Student stewarding People’s Park in Xučyun, Turtle Island. Aidan is committed to highlighting the disparity of power among marginalized groups and actively contribute to the social, cultural and political movements during their lifetime. Aidan has formerly been employed by the Riverside City College’s Political Science department to teach Model United Nations where they won dozens of awards in New York, Rome, and Seoul, South Korea. Aidan traveled the state organizing press conferences to save the Bag Ban with the assistance of the California Public Interest Research Group at UC Berkeley (Founded by Ralph Nader)

Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 7:00 pm, after a 30-minute break. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.

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Commemorate the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Abolish nuclear weapons. Tune in, connect the dots, and act for change.

Join a virtual rally from 9 to 10:45 AM Pacific Time on Hiroshima Day and repeated on Nagasaki Day.
Hiroshima Day, August 6 link https://youtu.be/_kM7IuzKQls
Nagasaki Day, August 9 link https://youtu.be/OB57nQAcSWQ

The overall rally broadcast will feature the following speakers who will be filmed at the West Gate of the Livermore Lab at 9 AM on August 6 to kick off the virtual event: A-bomb survivor Nobu Hanaoka, A-bomb survivor, Marylia Kelley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley Cares, and John Burroughs, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy. Keynote speaker Daniel Ellsberg, writer and peace activist, and other amazing presenters are prerecorded.

Speakers and musicians include Tsukuru Fors, trans peace/anti-nuclear human rights activist, Pacific Asian Nuclear-Free Peace Alliance; Marcina Langrine & Benetick Kabua Maddison, young activists with the Marshallese Education Initiative; Nell Myhand, Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign; Betsy Rose, community song leader; Benjamin Mertz, Black spiritual tradition composer, performer and song leader; Patricia St Onge & Wilson Riles, co-emcees.

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.

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

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

Housing is a human right! March and rally on Thursday, August 12th 5pm at Downtown Berkeley Bart. Spanish translation will be available#ElPuebloUnido pic.twitter.com/jZKKol2pNF

— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) August 10, 2021

Join DSA SF’s Tenant Solidarity Committee for tonight's screening of Fall of the I-Hotel from 7-8:30PM. The event will feature a presentation by some of the original organizers! Register here: https://t.co/ktJKKClXTm pic.twitter.com/m4EqNrt9Gz

— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) August 12, 2021

It’s time to demand that banks stop funding the climate crisis.  As part of the #DefundLine3 Global Day of Action, join us in downtown San Francisco for Guerrilla Movies and Art Action on Friday, August 13th from 7pm – 10pm.

Bring chairs, blankets, and people power as we host a guerrilla movie screening and art action at Wells Fargo’s headquarters to help stop the Line 3 pipeline.

7:00pm – Non-Violent Direct Action training – (around the cornner at 555 California Street.)
8:30pm – Guerrilla Movie screening about the Line 3 resistancee movement
Followed by: Creative art action (details will be shared on the ground)

This Friday, August 13th, activists from around the country will demand banks stop funding the Line 3 pipeline, and all other fossil fuel projects.
Corporate greenwashing is climate denial ― it must stop, and you can help.

Click here to say you will attend: https://actionnetwork.org/events/defundline-3-sf-bay-area/

Join XRSF Bay Area and partners: 350 Bay Area, Climate Health Now, Code Pink Golden Gate Chapter, Diablo Rising Tide, Oil and Gas Network, Sunrise Movement Bay Area, 1,000 Grandmothers for Future Generations SF, and Silicon Valley Climate Action Now.

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

THE STRUGGLE FOR IDEOLOGICAL HEGEMONY: THE ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (AND THE MEDIA): The Case of Purdue University

Harry Targ, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Purdue University, Blogger at Diary of a Heartland Radical, co-chair of CCDS, and author of books and articles on international relations, Cuba, and the labor movement.

The attacks on “critical race theory” are part of an assault by sectors of the capitalist class who seek to shape who and what is taught in educational systems. This talk will address ideological struggles, the claim that the “ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class,” and will concentrate on the transformation of higher education. Targ will describe particularly the example of Purdue University, the land grant public university in Indiana.
For background:  https://heartlandradical.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-contradictions-facing-21st-century.html

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