Do you think internet should be a public commons rather than a corporate monopoly?

Come on over to the Omni Commons to learn about the history of the internet, how it works, and how to build your own. Meet and mingle with civic hackers and organizers behind peoplesopen.net: an open, community-based network in the East Bay.

Agenda:
* 1:00pm – Why/what/how of the internet (< 30 minutes)
* 1:30pm – Snack, mingle, share and experiment
* 2:00pm – Hands-on workshop with a variety of learning stations

Donations for pizza and internet are enthusiastically accepted ; )

The Omni Commons’ ballroom is wheelchair-accessible via a lift in the Entrance Hall, where there is also located a wheelchair-accessible single-stall bathroom.

The Peoples Open Network enables anyone to share their Internet connection or extend signal from neighboring nodes. Learn more atpeoplesopen.net.

The Omni Commons is a 100% volunteer-run space for community organizing, collaboration, and creative production located in North Oakland. Learn more at omnicommons.org.

As many of you know, the foreclosure crisis claimed over 12,000 homes throughout Oakland since 2006, wiping out generations of wealth built by predominantly people of color & paving the way for outside investors to purchase unprecedented numbers of properties, driving up rents and driving out families.

One of the latest victims of this type of economic violence and racist, predatory lending practices, was Dorothy Debose and her family.  Ms. Dorothy, now 76 years old, and the family moved into their home @ 6521 Bancroft Ave in the 1960’s, to one of the few neighborhoods in Oakland at the time where African Americans could actually buy a house.  Some 50 years later, amidst historic displacement, Ms. Dubose’s home was taken from her by Wells Fargo and sold to one of the largest investors in Alameda County, Community Fund LLC, owned by Michael Marr.

After a very questionable foreclosure process and aggressive behavior on behalf of the investor, Dorothy and her nephew, Omar Osiris, a long time organizer and participant in the movement, decided to take a stand.  The family has decided to not be another victim of displacement and wrongful or illegal behavior and began an occupation of the front portion of their family home last week.  Fellow members of ACCE Action supported the family’s right to remain in their home and are working alongside them to see to it they do not get pushed out.

On Wednesday, March 29^th, @ 3pm, Ms. Dorothy, the family with the support of ACCE Action will be publicly launching this fight and they need your help.  Given the extremely aggressive nature of this particular investor, it is important to have their back and support them as much as possible.  We are calling on everyone who believes in long-term families’ right to stay to come out next Wednesday to 6521 Bancroft Ave. in East Oakland, support the family and be part of saying “no” to displacement and the type of race based, economic violence that has pushed so many families from their homes.

The family will be calling on allies, supporters and community to help hold down this action in a number of different ways that we will inform folx about in the coming days.  In the meantime, please let us know if you can support the family this coming Wednesday.  If not, we ask that you sign up for the rapid response team, in the event of an eviction, or take a shift at the house, holding down this action.

In solidarity,

Omar, Anthony-on staff w/ ACCE & the family

apanarese@calorganize.org

Call #Vallejo police chief & demand he fire Officer Zachary Jacobsen for murder of #AngelRicoRamos. 707-648-4321; 707-552-3285; 707-648-5291 pic.twitter.com/GIXfjHOjZl

— Indybay (@Indybay) April 10, 2017

Join the Caravan Against Fear in the Bay Area
Stand up to Trump’s Racism & Xenophobia

Stand up for Immigrant Rights! Stop Separating our Families! Free Yasmin! ICE Out of California! Yes on sb54 for a Sanctuary State!

Stand with loved ones and workers who are locked up in the Bay Area immigration detention facility.

Transportation from Oakland or SF provided. REGISTER for your bus spot here: bit.ly/411crvn

Sponsored by: Asian Law Caucus, Bay Resistance, Contra Costa ACCE, Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy, Global Exchange, NDLON, SEIU 1021, SEIU UHW, SEIU USWW, Richmond Progressive Alliance

We’re mobilizing because fear is spreading throughout the U.S. and being used as a tool to promote white supremacy, terrorize communities and break apart families. We believe that defiant protest, coupled with acts of mutual aid, trust, and understanding across communities, are vital to combating fear, repelling Trump’s attacks on our freedoms and families, and building a lasting civic offensive to defend immigrants and defeat the hate-filled plans of the Trump administration.

Since Trump took power, millions have marched, blocked airports to defend immigrants and refugees, and gathered in public to speak – and shout – truth to power. But the job of fighting fascism is just getting started.

The Caravan Against Fear gives people a way to join and support a highly visible action in defense of basic civil and human rights.

The Caravan is sponsored by a coalition of labor, community, human rights, religious, civic, environmental, and other organizations in both the U.S. and Mexico including the Southern Border Communities Coalition, SEIU, National Day Labor Organizing Network, Rompeviento Television, as well as dozens of other local organizations joined together in a diverse and growing coalition of resistance.

The Defund DAPL Coalition is on the march to urge the SF Board of Supervisors to continue their divestment from banks financing Transcanada,  the company constructing the KXL Pipeline right through Lakota lands of the Great Sioux Nation.  A related demand is for the City conduct a feasibility study for a municipal bank so we can rid ourselves of these parasitic banks once and for all.

Join us as we march along Market Street, home to many branches of banks financing DAPL and Keystone XL, including Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank, and Bank of America.  This event comes in tandem with Rainforest Action Network’s Week of Action (April 15 – 21) to prevent banks from giving Transcanada project-level financing for the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Volunteers are needed:
Native singers and drummers
Food donations for participants awaiting to give testimonies at the BOS meeting
A canopy and table (in case of rain)

If you want to volunteer, please show up at 3pm and await assistance from the organizers.  The SF Board of Supervisors meetings always vary on time, so there’s a likelihood that participants will miss lunch or dinner.  Please donate snacks!   This is an alcohol and drug free event (this includes marijuana).  If there are any questions, please email sfdefunddaplcoalition@gmail. com.

Don’t miss free ‘Science Talk @Cal‘ conference 4/22 w/ #BayArea reporters/experts on food, water & climate change: https://t.co/shSA5gaH5V pic.twitter.com/1ZvN6oCw3M

— UC Berkeley J-School (@ucbsoj) March 7, 2017

Today’s political environment bears witness to unprecedented attacks on truth, science, and our planet. This Earth Day, April 22nd, we march to affirm that:

– public funding for scientific research is a social good
– climate change is real
– environmental abuses are human rights abuses
– scientific truths are not subject to political manipulation
– scientists MUST engage with government to support these truths

Bring your lab coats! Bring your rally signs! We gather together to defend our planet and our institutions through civic engagement and sustained political action at local, state, and federal levels.

RESIST!

Please note: This event is in the evening, so it will be possible to support both this march and other marches for science in San Francisco or Sacramento, or to participate in UC Berkeley’s Cal Day. We support ALL efforts to promote Earth rights and science literacy on this important day, and we want all to have the opportunity to fully participate!

The Oakland City Council Finance Committee will be voting on whether to allocate money for a feasibility study for the Public Bank of Oakland, or wait until the summer to take the money from next year’s budget.

Because the Bank will be able to start saving Oakland money almost from Day 1, we need the Committee to take the funding from this year’s budget, and move this project along asap. Please call the members of the Finance Committee [Noel Gallo (238-7005), Abel Guillen (-7002), Dan Kalb (-7001), and Annie Campbell Washington (-7004)] and ask them to vote YES on Agenda Item #7 on the Finance Committee Agenda for 4/25.

You can also attend the Finance Committee. meeting and testify in support.  1st floor hearing room, City Hall.

To register to speak: https://solar.oaklandnet.com/Speaker/form

Our message is Vote YES on Item #7.

Our Bank, our money!
Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland

Tomorrow (Sunday 4/30) at 5:00 PM in Vallejo at 545 Magazine St. pic.twitter.com/PljvQSIwT5

— dr. hoopoe (@thehoopoe) April 29, 2017

The first in a series of monthly classes that include Zapatista history, projects and thinking and discussion of how the Zapatista experience has relevance to those of us outside of Chiapas and Mexico. Classes are open to all those interested in learning about the Zapatista movement, which governs its own territory through a government parallel to that of the Mexican State. We’re also serving waffles and coffee to welcome participants.

The Bay Area refuses to accept the final verdict for the officer who shot and killed our son, Philando Castile, on July 6, 2016. Join us to voice our intolerance for this injustice on Saturday June 17th.

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, SHARE THIS EVENT NOW! 🚨

The Bay Area refuses to accept the final verdict made by the jury members in Minnesota this past week. The officer who shot and killed Philando Castile, while his wife and daughter were present, IS GUILTY.

There is no debate, and there is no justification for murdering an innocent man. Oakland wishes to stand in solidarity with Philando’s family, and we wish to voice our intolerance for police terror NOW. There is no time to wait–the system has and continues to fail black folks in Amerikkka.

RALLY: 6:00 PM
MARCH: 7:30 PM

Bring signs, drums, any materials to make your voice heard. THE BAY AREA STANDS WITH PHILANDO CASTILE AND HIS FAMILY. WE WILL FIGHT AND DEMAND JUSTICE FOR BLACK LIVES.

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

Living Graveyard (monthly protest)

Covered with sheets to represent the dead of wars, people lie down on the city sidewalk in front of the Federal Building, This is legal, non-violent witness.  People stop, look and think. (Bring your own sheet)

Iraqi Deaths 2,973,613
U.S. Deaths 4,520   Coalition 4,841

Syrian Deaths, unknown
 
Afghan Deaths 30,000+
U.S. Deaths in Afghanistan 2,399  Coalition 3,535

Pakistani Deaths over 1,000 from drone attacks

Sponsor: Ecumenical Peace Institute www.epicalc.org
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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

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

Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members this and every Friday to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.

Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER! We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.

Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.

The second in our series of Second Saturday Skillshares. This month we are sharing skillz related to lockpicking, locksmithing and using bolt cutters. Come get some hands-on experience with these ninja skills! Additionally, we will be talking about other methods of gaining entry, bypassing security, etc.

ALL INFORMATION IS SHARED FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES ONLY!!!!!

Donations are collected to support East Bay Homes not Jails and the Omni Commons

July 11 we head to city hall and demand land so we can create villages.

We created an effective, immediate, humane and dignified solution that addressed the housing and homeless state of emergency. we cant wait for the city’s slow, money driven bureaucratic process. folks need homes and services NOW! not 5 years from now. the monies and programs the city is FINALLY putting towards low income and no income housing won’t house folks immediately.

but #TheVillage can house folks NOW until the city has secured permanent #HomesForAll.

There are 6,000 folks without homes in oakland. that number will continue to grow unless the city acts like we are in a state of emergency and allows the community to enact our creative and effective solution.

Our displaced residents on the streets want land to build a village for folks in recovery. we want land for a harm reduction village. we want land for a village for families with children and homeless youth. we want land for a lgbtq village. we want land for a village of elders. we want land for a village for women.

please share far and wide.