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

Join us for this Virtual Arts Training with long-time movement artists and activists, David Solnit, Jetsonorama (aka Chip Thomas) and others.

On the training, we will walk you through step-by-step tips for pasting, using art in your actions, and setting up a pop-up art show.

This training is designed for people who plan to participate in the #DefundClimateChaos Week of Arts Actions

Join us for an exciting virtual town hall on March 30, 2022 at 6pm PST and learn about the groundbreaking efforts to start public banks in California! Keynote speaker Eric Hardmeyer will discuss the mechanics of the successful Bank of North Dakota – the nation’s only public bank in operation for more than a century – which he steered for over 20 years.. Eric will be joined by a powerful lineup of elected officials representing five cities: Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Francisco, Richmond, and Santa Cruz.

Register here

Serious efforts are underway to establish public banks in cities and regions throughout California. Following the passage of the landmark California Public Banking Act, elected officials and activists are working hand-in-hand to implement public banks that will serve as a powerful tool for local governments. Public banks are the pathway for governments to invest in the long-term sustainability of local economies and return profits to the public. We’ll hear from electeds and advocates on constructing business plans, viability studies, and the governance frameworks for California public banks.

Eric Hardmeyer, the former CEO of the Bank of North Dakota (BND), will share his experiences at the helm of the nation’s only public bank. He will elaborate on the mission, design, and mechanisms that enabled the BND to weather the 2008 financial crisis and successfully roll out more PPP loans than any other state during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Facilitator: David Cobb, California Public Banking Alliance

Keynote: Eric Hardmeyer, Former CEO Bank of North Dakota

Speakers:

Gayle McLaughlin, Richmond City Councilmember
Curren Price, Los Angeles City Councilmember
Miguel Santiago, CA State Assemblymember
John Avalos, Former San Francisco Supervisor
Justin Cummings, Santa Cruz City Councilmember
Robert Garcia, Long Beach Mayor

DONATE

The California Public Banking Alliance is a 100% grassroots, volunteer-powered organization. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our critical work to revolutionize finance. 100% of your donation goes towards making public banking a reality in California.

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CaliforniaPublicBankingAlliance.org

What’s Up With Our Alameda County Jail System?

RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpdOugpjkjGddBtsDFwoLE-Yfh_hth9Th5

Join us on Zoom for a forum in advance of the June primary election for Alameda County Sheriff and District Attorney.

Conditions in our jail have led to many unexplained deaths and suicides. “The system continues to fail Black and brown people, poor people, and those with mental illness.”
–Brendon Woods, Chief Public Defender.

YOUR VOTE MATTERS in the June 7th election for Alameda County Sheriff and District Attorney! Join us at this Town Hall on the justice issues that must be raised in the campaigns.

The CA Poor People’s Campaign is sponsoring this Town Hall together with Faith In Action East Bay, the Interfaith Coalition For Justice In Our Jails, The Ella Baker Center and others.

SPEAKERS:
–Brendon Woods, Chief Public Defender
–Kimberley Graves, Advocate for son with serious mental health issues incarcerated in our jail
–Rudy Howell, Re-entry staff at Rubicon & member of Oakland Police Commission
–Loni Hancock: Former Berkeley City Mayor, State Legislator, and social justice advocate

AFSC and Council on American-Islamic Relations – SF Bay Area invite you to a virtual training event

Are police and sheriffs in your community allowed to tear gas children or protesters? To send the SWAT team to serve a drug warrant? What militarized equipment does your local police or sheriff have? When are they allowed to use it and against whom?

A new state law gives Californians a new window of opportunity to influence what militarized equipment local police agencies use.

Join our March 31 Zoom training to find out how. You’ll learn:

• What is AB481? How does it apply to my community?
• How do I find the relevant policy and hearing date for my city or county?
• What are effective talking points for speaking up?

You can also use our AB 481 Advocacy Toolkit.

Register here for our 45-minute training session, Advocate for your community: AB481, militarized police, and you.

While Oakland and Berkeley have local ordinances on military equipment used by police, sheriff and police departments across the state, they are now required to comply with similar state legislation, AB 481, and will submit policies to city councils and county supervisors within the next five weeks.

Please consider joining us and spreading the word.

YARD AND ESTATE SALE (No Early Birds)
Treasures Galore!

All donated funds go to refugees from: Afghanistan, Haiti, and Yemen*

Household items, Bric-a-brac, Vintage Items, Costume Jewelry, Clothing (some vintage), Furniture, Books, Musical Instruments, and more

*Donated funds go to:
• Haiti: Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
• Yemen: Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation
• Afghanistan: Earth Activists Emergency Fund for Afghan Relief; Fellowship of Reconciliation

(checks can be mailed to: Fellowship of Reconciliation, Chicago Area Chapter, 705 11th St., #205, Wilmette, IL 60091)

Sponsored by CodePink Women for Peace

Robert Jensen will outline four key challenges facing humanity: size, scale, scope, and speed. What is the sustainable size of the human population? What is the appropriate scale of a human community? What is the scope of human competence to manage our interventions into the larger living world? At what speed must we move toward different living arrangements if we are to avoid catastrophic consequences? The sooner we face the realities of these challenges without unwarranted faith in ideology or technology, the more likely we can create the conditions for a soft landing for humanity. These ideas are drawn from the forthcoming book that Jensen coauthored with Wes Jackson, An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity.

Robert Jensen, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas in Austin, collaborates with the New Perennials Project. He is the coauthor with Wes Jackson of An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity, which will be published by the University of Notre Dame Press in fall 2022. Other books are articles by Jensen are online at https://robertwjensen.org/.

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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

Join Stanford in Government for a conversation on the future of capitalism with world-renowned thinker and politician, @yanisvaroufakis. This webinar is open to the public. Sign up at https://t.co/epwc1dqza7 pic.twitter.com/FTfZWoZ0Wy

— SIG (@StanfordinGov) April 1, 2022

oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

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 1^st 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

Register here

Join this national digital rally, Wall Street’s Moment of Truth, to:
– Amplify the voices of tens of thousands of bank customers who are demanding that their banks stop funding fossil fuels
– Take action together to demand that banks, insurance companies, and investors take meaningful action this shareholder season
– Learn from top movement researchers about the key findings from the brand new Banking on Climate Chaos 2022 report

The new report shows that over the last six years, the world’s 60 biggest banks poured $4.6 trillion into the fossil fuel industry. The report adds up financing (lending, and underwriting of debt and equity issuances) from the world’s 60 biggest banks for the fossil fuel sector as a whole, as well as for top expanders of the fossil fuel industry and top companies in specific sectors.

And it identifes the 12 worst banks. The top four are based in the US: JP Morgan Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America

Speakers:
– Nemo Guiquita of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon
– Roishetta Ozane with Healthy Gulf
– Third Act! founder, Bill McKibben.

Hosts for the evening:
– Jackie Fielder, co-director, Stop the Money Pipeline
– Erika Thi Patterson, Climate and Environmental Justice director,
Action Center on Race and the Economy

This event is co-sponsored by Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, Amazon Watch, and Stop the Money Pipeline.

JOIN US! Intro to Green Banks and Public Banks Webinar. Everything you want to know about green banks and public banks but were afraid to ask! 4/6 from 2-3pm EDT with @PODERSF and @CTGreenBank. Registration link is in our bio! #JustSolutions #RegenerativeEconomy #ClimateSolutions pic.twitter.com/efDJqHDx6a

— Just Solutions Collective (@Just_Solutions_) April 2, 2022

This 5-part course is designed for anyone interested in studying technology and data as the new frontier in organizing against the systems of enforcement and criminalization that harm our communities.

Three years since beginning our monumental #NoTechForICE campaign, we’re launching this course to share resources we’ve developed and to create a digital space for deepening our collective understanding of the ever-expanding state of surveillance––and how to organize against it.

By signing up for this course, you will hear from organizers, professors, and movement leaders who contribute towards this powerful movement for a surveillance-free future. Lessons will cover: data colonialism, race and policing, immigration enforcement, border militarization, global migration, organizing tools, and more.

Alongside key speakers, you will engage with selected readings, reflection questions, and meet other people thinking through these issues of 21st century technologies in their own communities. Join us every two weeks for one hour as we learn together and continue to build a path that centers communities targeted by the detention and deportation machinery, policing, and military operations.

We know that left unchecked, we will be facing down a new world order designed and controlled by big tech and enabled by the government.

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH US!

Session Dates

Live sessions will take place biweekly on Wednesdays for one hour at 3pm PST/5PM CST/6pm EST. Lesson materials and content for each lesson will be unlocked prior to the live session.

Session 1: February 23rd
Session 2: March 9th
Session 3: March 23rd
Session 4: April 6th
Session 5: April 20th

Agenda Packet

Interesting Agenda Items:

5. Privacy Commission Ordinance – annual election of chair/vice-chair positions
6. Federal Task Force Ordinance – OPD – Presentation of Annual Reports (ATF, USMS, DEA)
a. Review and take possible action on reports
7. Sanctuary Contracting Ordinance – CPO – Presentation of Annual Report
a. Review and take possible action on report
8. AB 2336 (Friedman) Speed Safety System Pilot Program – Safer Streets LA/National Motorists Association – Informational report only
a. No formal action will be taken on this item at this meeting
9. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Crime Analysis Software
a. Review and take possible action on Impact Report and proposed Use Policy
10. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Biometric Crime Lab – Informational report only
a. Review proposed San Francisco ordinance (Sup. Ronen)
b. Review existing policies and proposed state laws (SB 1228)
c. No formal action will be taken on this item at this meeting
11. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – EDW – East Oakland Security Camera Proposal
a. Review and take possible action on Impact Report and proposed Use Policy
12. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Annual Reports (Automated License Plate Readers, Cell-Site Simulator, Biometric Crime Lab, Forensic Logic/Coplink, GPS Tag Tracker, ShotSpotter, Live Stream Camera, Mobile Fingerprint ID, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Drones)
a. Review and take possible action on the reports

TONIGHT! I will be moderating a panel from 6-7:30pm at Koret Auditorium (SF Main Public Library – 100 Larkin) on Copaganda & Public Safety. Featured panelists: @equalityAlec, Sameena Usman, @aditisjoshi, and @DeanPreston. RSVP at https://t.co/5c1eBoyCJp pic.twitter.com/hpLSwbN8tk

— Melissa, she/they 🌹🐈‍⬛💖 (@altheatremaine) April 7, 2022