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Rally in advance of hearing: 8:30 AM. Wear Blue! RSVP here.
BAAQMD Board of Directors Hearing: 9 AM – 5 PM
And online—see this page for link
The danger of burning fossil fuels in our own homes is no joke. Our everyday, domestic gas-powered building appliances actually cause hundreds of deaths each year in the Bay Area, with total health impacts of $890 million. They also account for a quarter of our regional carbon emissions. By exercising its legal authority to regulate NOx—the collective emission of carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides—which these appliances produce, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) wants to further its mission to save lives and clean Bay Area air.
Please join us on March 15 in advocating for a zero-NOx appliance standard!
Following the many Bay Area cities that have voted to ban gas in new buildings, along with recent revelations about how fossil gas harms the climate and human health, BAAQMD is proposing new, trailblazing rulemaking that would ban the sale of new gas furnaces and water heaters within about eight years. Read the laudatory LA Times editorial about this—”Bay Area making climate change history by phasing out sales of gas furnaces and water heaters”—here.
While this rule would have great benefits for the climate and health, it’s also controversial. Large numbers of opponents are expected to be bused in to the all-day hearing on March 15.
For this reason, supporters are strongly urged to give in-person commentary at the hearing, if possible. You can also send in comments in advance to your Air District representative. (Find your rep on the Board of Directors here. Look for your city and county.)
The hazards of fossil gas have been getting a lot of publicity after the December 2022 release of a study reporting that almost 13 percent of childhood asthma is attributable to gas stoves. Burning natural gas causes the release of health-harming nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. And fossil gas equipment—from the well to where it’s burned—inevitably leaks methane, a greenhouse gas with 80 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after it’s released.
The proposed Air District rule would not ban gas stoves but would ban most new gas water heaters (in new construction and replacements in homes) after 2027, gas furnaces after 2029, and large gas water heaters (in apartments and commercial buildings) after 2031.
Opponents charge it would put a big financial burden on many households that could not afford it. However, a report prepared for the Air District Board meeting on February 15 outlines the state and federal funding “available for retrofitting low-income homes with cleaner appliances,” and staff have intentionally built in a long lead time of four to eight years for each of the rule components. Implementation will be conditional. Two years prior to compliance dates staff will report on market readiness and equity considerations, and adjust accordingly. And during the rulemaking process, there were be multiple opportunities for public engagement.
To learn more and for help with preparing comments:
- Watch this invaluable webinar on “Eliminating Pollution from Gas Appliances in the Bay Area.”
- See these Sierra Club tips and talking points, and these FAQs from Bay Area Clean Air.
Here’s a sample comment from 350 Bay Area:
Dear __________,
As your constituent, I urge you to support our Air District’s proposed changes to rules 9-4 and 9-6 requiring only zero NOx water heaters, furnaces, and large commercial water heaters be sold and installed by 2027, 2029, 2031 respectively, as well as the introduction of an ultra-low NOx standard to Rule 9-4 for furnaces starting in 2024. We urgently need these rule changes to improve air quality and public health in the near term, and to mitigate the impacts of climate change over the long run.
The risk raised in the EIR regarding potentially insufficient grid capacity (to support a transition to electric water heaters and furnaces) can be mitigated by the adoption of increasingly efficient electric appliances, incentives to increase residential battery storage, and other policy measures that will be necessary, regardless of these rules changes, if we are to meet our municipal, regional and state electrification targets and reach zero net GHG emissions by 2040, if not earlier.
The risk of increased noise associated with some electric alternatives is already being addressed with the introduction of new technologies and products that generate far less noise than their older counterparts. This transition can be accelerated via carefully crafted regulations and incentives designed to favor noise reduction in electric appliances.
These two concerns should not be allowed to outweigh the considerably greater risks to public health and the planet from natural gas-powered equipment.
I urge the BAAQMD Board to certify the EIR and adopt these proposed rule changes as quickly as possible.
Thank you,
[Your name, city, and zip]
BERKELEY / BAY AREA: The second half of our @gmsberkeley-sponsored Mike Davis reading group begins this Wednesday 3/15 at Freehouse.
We'll be starting ECOLOGY OF FEAR (1998), beginning with the first two chapters. Come one, come all! pic.twitter.com/4WVCc1QrW7
— Jonathan Marty (@gradepending_) March 13, 2023
Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or 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, tracking equipment, 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 2022, 2021, 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 and other analytics, mass aerial surveillance, ubiquitous license plate readers, 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:
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.
The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational organization that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color.
APTP hosts its general meetings on the 3rd Wednesday of every month; since Covid we have been meeting online. If you want to learn more about our work and figure out other ways to plug in, you can join our next general meeting this Wednesday at 7pm. Register to join us!
Where: Online. Register to join us
Accessibility: ASL and Live Closed Captioning available.
Reminder that tomorrow DSA SF's Labor Working Group is holding an interactive Labor 101 training & discussion from 7pm to 8:30 at 1916 McAllister or on Zoom. RSVP: https://t.co/biZFqXcul0 pic.twitter.com/VRTYcpEn8c
— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) March 15, 2023
‘Tasha is a one woman show exploring the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna at the hands of law enforcement in Farifax, Virginia in 2015. The play, written by artist and activist Cat Brooks, directed by Oakland’s Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, and performed by acclaimed actor Jeunée Simon, explores her life and murder from the point of view of several characters, including Natasha herself. “Natasha started talking so loudly I had to get up and write what she was saying,” Brooks said of the script’s genesis in 2015.
Trigger warning: This show contains graphic images and language depicting the murder of a young Black woman at the hands of police. A non-shooting, replica firearm will be used onstage and will be pointed at the audience. It is a non-working, prop gun. It will be accompanied by the sounds of gunshots and screaming.
Thanks to the support of Anti Police-Terror Project and Mental Health First Oakland, Healing Services by Nekia Wright and Hadiza Mohammed are available for select performances. Healers will be in the lobby during the performance and in the theatre after the show to support anyone who feels the need for healing after experiencing the images and themes explored in this show.
The healers are available to talk to anyone about feelings that come up and help manage emotions to help you process this experience so you can go back out into the world.
Join the Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force for the last in their third series of summit meetings, Climate, Equity, and Race, UNITED ACTIONS for an Environmentally Just and Regenerative Future.
Online. Register here
‘Tasha is a one woman show exploring the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna at the hands of law enforcement in Farifax, Virginia in 2015. The play, written by artist and activist Cat Brooks, directed by Oakland’s Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, and performed by acclaimed actor Jeunée Simon, explores her life and murder from the point of view of several characters, including Natasha herself. “Natasha started talking so loudly I had to get up and write what she was saying,” Brooks said of the script’s genesis in 2015.
Trigger warning: This show contains graphic images and language depicting the murder of a young Black woman at the hands of police. A non-shooting, replica firearm will be used onstage and will be pointed at the audience. It is a non-working, prop gun. It will be accompanied by the sounds of gunshots and screaming.
Thanks to the support of Anti Police-Terror Project and Mental Health First Oakland, Healing Services by Nekia Wright and Hadiza Mohammed are available for select performances. Healers will be in the lobby during the performance and in the theatre after the show to support anyone who feels the need for healing after experiencing the images and themes explored in this show.
The healers are available to talk to anyone about feelings that come up and help manage emotions to help you process this experience so you can go back out into the world.
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
For our March, April and May meetings we are reading Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber (Warwick, Amazon).
For our March meeting we’ll be reading the first five chapters.
For the April meeting we are reading chapters 6 through 9.
For our May meeting will are reading the remainder of the book.
Before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors—which lives on in full force to this day.
So says anthropologist David Graeber in a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Renaissance Italy to Imperial China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong.
We are still fighting these battles today.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth, Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, Less is More, and Cannibal Capitalism.
Which labels are really necessary? — For this installment of the Linguistic Town Hall, your regular cast, special guests, and I ask: “Which identifiers are really necessary?” From gender identifiers on clothing and color, all the way down the rabbit hole to labeling pigment over ancestry – we want to hear your thoughts and ideas
virtual doors open at 6 PM (with the best pre-show music diversity). The discussion begins at 6:30 PM PST on ZOOM:
‘Tasha is a one woman show exploring the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna at the hands of law enforcement in Farifax, Virginia in 2015. The play, written by artist and activist Cat Brooks, directed by Oakland’s Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, and performed by acclaimed actor Jeunée Simon, explores her life and murder from the point of view of several characters, including Natasha herself. “Natasha started talking so loudly I had to get up and write what she was saying,” Brooks said of the script’s genesis in 2015.
Trigger warning: This show contains graphic images and language depicting the murder of a young Black woman at the hands of police. A non-shooting, replica firearm will be used onstage and will be pointed at the audience. It is a non-working, prop gun. It will be accompanied by the sounds of gunshots and screaming.
Thanks to the support of Anti Police-Terror Project and Mental Health First Oakland, Healing Services by Nekia Wright and Hadiza Mohammed are available for select performances. Healers will be in the lobby during the performance and in the theatre after the show to support anyone who feels the need for healing after experiencing the images and themes explored in this show.
The healers are available to talk to anyone about feelings that come up and help manage emotions to help you process this experience so you can go back out into the world.
One year into the War in Ukraine, the world has been redivided into two progressively decoupling camps, threatening a New Cold War. Meanwhile each camp is being drawn more tightly together. While the war began suddenly on February 24, 2022, its preconditions were a long time in the making. Was it really unprovoked as is relentlessly claimed? While this is one of a number of globally-televised wars, how is the Ukraine War different from the others? Whose interests does it serve? Dr. Sharat G. Lin examines the root causes of conflict, how peace can be brought about, and how the war is forging a new world order.
Our speaker, Dr. Sharat G. Lin, is with Human Agenda, the San José Peace & Justice Center, and the Initiative for Equality. He writes and lectures on global political economy, labor migration, and public health.
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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:
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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
Presented by the ACBA Racial Justice Taskforce
Part of the ACBA Racial Equity Series
As the Alameda County Eviction Moratorium comes to end, let’s come together to learn about the tenant protections that remain and how to exercise them, how COVID has affected marginalized communities, and how better housing policies can help mitigate the harm that marginalized folks experience, particularly Black and Brown communities hit hardest by the pandemic. Our panelists will also discuss local, state, and federal level policy priorities and how you can get involved in the call for equitable housing for all.
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Gregory Ching is Senior Staff Attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza. Mr. Ching received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Ching served as a law clerk in the Office of Mayor Edwin M. Lee. He earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining Centro Legal, Mr. Ching worked as a litigation associate, where he focused on intellectual property litigation and complex commercial disputes. He has also provided legal services in the areas of estate planning, and federal and state taxation. Before beginning his legal career, Mr. Ching worked in music supervision and as an audio engineer, performing technical work for major motion pictures and television shows. Mr. Ching enjoys golfing, craft beer, and playing with his dog.
Jasmine Rangel, Senior Housing Associate at PolicyLink, works closely with other members of the housing team to advance housing justice across the nation for the 100 million people struggling to make ends meet. Specifically, she conducts research, builds resources, and supports community leaders, organizers, and policymakers to advance their movement building efforts towards a more just housing system. From supporting the existing housing advocacy culture in Charlottesville, VA to conducting housing research with the Eviction Lab, Jasmine hopes to continue to build her passion and training in public policy to support communities achieve equitable and thriving communities. Jasmine holds a master of public policy from the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and a B.S. from Berry College in political science, with a minor in women and gender studies. In her free time, Jasmine enjoys reading, printmaking, and playing a myriad of fantasy table-top games with her partner and friends.
Desirée Nguyen Orth is Director of the Consumer Justice Clinic at East Bay Community Law Center. Desiree joined EBCLC’s Consumer Justice team as the Director in 2021. Prior to joining EBCLC, Desiree was the supervising attorney for the Consumer Advocacy Project at the Justice & Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco. Desiree is passionate about this work because financial equity is a large part of social justice and race disparity. To many, money is also a source of freedom. Financial education, advocacy, and policy are ways to make significant strides towards equity and freedom from both an individual and systemic level.
Alexis Payne is Senior Staff Attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza in the Tenants’ Rights Legal Practice. Alexis holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Alexis is a first-generation college graduate, attended community college before completing her undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Alejandra Ramirez is Senior Paralegal at the Tenant Rights Group at Centro Legal de le Raza. Alejandra joins Centro Legal as a Staff Paralegal on the Tenants’ Rights team, where she assists low-income tenants facing eviction, unlawful rent increases, uninhabitable conditions, and harassment. Alejandra has been at Centro for 5 years and is currently focusing on settling eviction cases. Alejandra graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Moderator: Henrissa Bassey is Co-directing attorney of Centro Legal de la Raza’s Tenants’ Rights practice. Ms. Bassey has represented historically marginalized and racialized clients in civil court, administrative hearings, HUD conciliations, and appeals. She has also litigated unlawful detainer actions for tenants facing eviction, illegal rent increases, retaliation, discrimination, harassment, and habitability violations. Prior to joining Centro Legal, Henrissa worked as a staff attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid and a policy research associate at PolicyLink. She has had the opportunity to work alongside systems-involved people from underserved communities in California, Washington, DC, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria to advance racial, social, and gender equity. Henrissa is passionate about using multi-faceted approaches to help tenants enforce their housing rights and remove barriers to the quality of life they’ve envisioned.
📚📚 Join our #Ecosocialist Book Club for a two part discussion of The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism. Open to all – @demsocialists, @dsa_ecosocialists, & DSA-curious! We'll meet in March – register today! https://t.co/pHlv9iA3EM pic.twitter.com/1kw1zi23rO
— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) March 2, 2023
For years, anti-surveillance, civil rights, and racial justice groups have been sounding the alarm about the dangers posed by Amazon Ring-police partnerships. Collectively, we’ve successfully petitioned members of Congress to investigate these surveillance partnerships, garnered widespread media attention, and published studies exposing the harms. Despite all the negative attention and backlash, over 2,000 police departments continue to partner with Amazon Ring to surveil communities.
In an effort to end these partnerships for good, we’re holding the first Ban Ring Coalition Campaign meeting where we’ll discuss a campaign to pass local ordinances to effectively ban these partnerships (even in cities without partnerships). The meeting takes place on Thursday, March 23rd from 1-3pm EST. We’re hoping you can attend.
Click here to RSVP.At the meeting, we’ll talk about the ordinance, the recent changes to how these partnerships work, share the ordinance campaign toolkit, and discuss ways we can work together to lead campaigns and/or support local efforts to ban Ring-police partnerships.
A little background on Amazon Ring-police partnerships: Ring cameras surveil millions, from children playing in the park to people visiting health clinics to protesters exercising their First Amendment rights. Alongside the massive growth of this private network of cameras, the tech giant is aggressively expanding their police partnerships. Amazon’s doorbell, floodlight, mailbox, and dash cameras record and collect data on our whereabouts, our homes, and our communities. This massive surveillance dragnet poses an existential Orwellian threat to the daily lives of the public at large and to our democracy�but for Black and Brown communities Amazon Ring technology puts their lives in immediate danger.
Should you need any additional information or have any questions please email me.
Ayele B. Hunt
Campaigns Director
Fight for the Future(813) 707-3584
http://fightforthefuture.org
See full agenda on website.
People Get Ready 4 will gather left movements in the Bay Area of California to analyze political conditions and discuss movement strategy during a period of deepening economic, social, and ecological crises.
The conference is hosted by Center for Political Education.
Endorsing organizations include:
Arab Resource & Organizing Center | Alliance of South Asians Taking Action | Black Organizing Project | Bay Rising | California Coalition for Women Prisoners | Catalyst Project | Chinese Progressive Association | Critical Resistance (Oakland) | GABRIELA Oakland | Haiti Action | International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network | National Lawyers Guild – SF Bay Area | Palestinian Youth Movement (Bay Area) | San Francisco Rising | Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Program Description
The conference will feature organizers, activists, strategists, and scholars in conversations that will sharpen participants’ understanding of the political conditions and threats we face in the current moment and provoke thoughtful debate and discussion on strategies for building working-class power for the long-term.
*Note: Session times, titles, and speakers may still be adjusted over the next few weeks.
Tickets & Registration
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale. Please self-select your ticket level based on what you are able to give. If you are able to give more than the suggested levels, please consider donating to the Solidarity Fund, which helps CPE provide this conference to more participants free of charge.
As with all of our previous conferences, no one will be turned away from People Get Ready 4 for lack of funds.
Disability Access at the Venue
Dwinelle Hall is located by the Sather Gate on the UC Berkeley Campus. A detailed description of Accessibility and Compliance for Dwinelle Hall can be found here.
The eastern entrance of Dwinelle Hall has two sets of stairs to enter the building (both sets of stairs have 5 steps each for a total of 10 steps) and a ramp to enter the building as well.
Plenary sessions and breakout sessions will be held in 155 Dwinelle and 145 Dwinelle. These auditoriums are wheelchair accessible at the top level near the entrances, and on stage for conference speakers via elevator. There are 20-30 seats in each auditorium that are accessible by zero to two steps: these will be reserved for attendees with limited mobility. The remaining seats in the auditorium are accessible by 3-16 steps.
In addition to 155 Dwinelle, the breakout sessions will be held in Dwinelle classrooms that are flat and without internal stairs or levels. They contain classroom chairs and desks for seating.
The floors on which these classroom are located are accessible via stairwell or elevator. Restrooms are also accessible via the same stairwell and elevator.
COVID Policy
Participants will be required to wear masks while indoors at the conference and to confirm up-to-date vaccination status prior to registration.
We will provide masks for participants to wear in case they do not have one.
If you are unable to attend the event due to illness, we will provide a full refund.
See our FAQ for more information on our COVID policy.
US aggression toward China is escalating and China is shedding its usual restraint to more clearly call out this aggression and warn the US not to overstep its red lines. K. J. Noh, an activist, journalist, and scholar on the geopolitics of the Asian continent, will discuss the renewed belligerence of South Korea under President Yoon Suk-yeol, the increasing militarization of Japan, shifting alliances in Western Asia, and how China, including Taiwan, is responding. Noh will also speak about efforts in the United States to prepare for a war against China and how that is increasing violence against Asian Americans, as well as what we can do to prevent what would be a catastrophic conflict.
K. J. Noh is a journalist, political analyst, writer, and teacher specializing in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region.
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Dan’s recent open letter revealing diagnosis of 3-6 months to live: https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/02/daniel-ellsbergs-not-yet-goodbye/
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