Calendar
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
The 90-day bloodbath known as the Rwandan Genocide was actually the final phase of a four-year war that most Westerners know little or nothing about. However, that war and many smaller wars for the resource riches of Rwanda’s neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, continue today. The US and its Western allies have played an unconscionable role in all this that should be understood.
The great French investigative journalist Pierre Paen, who passed away on July 25, published a landmark study of the conflict titled Noires fureurs, blancs menteurs. Rwanda, 1990-1994 (Black Furies, White Liars. Rwanda, 1990-1994). Two landmark studies published in English are Robin Philpot’s Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa, from Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction, and Judi Rever’s In Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
Ann Garrison is an independent Bay Area journalist who contributes to the San Francisco Bay View, Counterpunch, Consortium News, the Black Agenda Report, the Black Star News, Global Research, and Pambazuka News. She also produces radio for the KPFA-Berkeley Weekend News and WBAI-New York City’s AfrobeatRadio. In 2014, she was awarded the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize by the Womens International Network for Democracy and Peace for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes Region.
EastSide Arts Alliance and Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) present:
Mujeres Magicas Book Release
Childcare and light snacks provided
Our readings will be in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation in English
Mujeres Mágicas is a bilingual Spanish-English anthology of domestic workers writing stories that cross languages, genders and borders to reveal lessons of survival and celebration for all.
Come celebrate 26 years!
— free t-shirt raffle
— silk screen your own t-shirt – bring a blank shirt
— vegan chocolate cake / celebratory food items
— tell funny stories
Indivisible Berkeley brings the Trump Resistance to 2000+ of our closest neighbors in Berkeley and surrounding communities.
Our mission is to resist the Trump agenda by engaging our elected officials at all levels of government and promote progressive and democratic values. Read our entire mission statement here
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance meeting to discuss plans, outreach, organizing regarding regional homeless communities and organizations.
For more info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/541837129562482/
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.
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
APPARENTLY NOT HAPPENING
No further information yet.
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
“Kovalik helps to cut through the Orwellian lies and dissembling which make this
intervention possible, and just when such truth-telling is so desperately needed.”
—Oliver Stone, Academy Award-winning director & screenwriter
Since 1999 when Hugo Chavez became the elected president of Venezuela, the US has been conniving to overthrow his government and to roll back the Bolivarian Revolution which he ushered in to Venezuela. With the untimely death of Hugo Chavez in 2012, and the election of Nicolas Maduro that followed, the US redoubled its efforts to overturn this revolution. The US is now threatening to intervene militarily to bring about the regime change it has wanted for twenty years. While we have been told that the US’s efforts to overthrow Chavez and Maduro are motivated by altruistic goals of advancing the interests of democracy and human rights in Venezuela, is this true? The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela answers this question with a resounding “no,” demonstrating that:
- U.S. interests in Venezuela have always centered upon one and only one thing: Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.
- The US has supported one repressive regime after another in Venezuela to protect its oil interests.
- Chavez and Maduro are not the “tyrants” we have been led to believe, but in fact have done much to advance the interests of democracy and economic equality in Venezuela.
- What the US and the Venezuelan opposition resent most is the fact that Chavez and Maduro have governed in the interest of Venezuela’s vast numbers of poor and oppressed racial groups.
- While the US claims that it is has the interests of the Venezuelan people at heart, the fact is that the US war against Venezuela has greatly undermined the health and living conditions of millions of Venezuelans.
The battle for Venezuela now being waged will determine the fate of all of Latin America for many years to come. The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela lets readers know what is at stake in this struggle and urges readers to reconsider which side they are on.
Dan Kovalik is the author of critically-acclaimed The Plot to Scapegoat Russia, The Plot to Attack Iran, and The Plot to Control the World. He has been a labor and human rights lawyer since graduating from Columbia Law School in 1993. He received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford Law School, has appeared on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, has written extensively for theHuffington Post and Counterpunch, and has lectured throughout the world.
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Come by our open Delegates Meetings! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom
This meeting usually happens in the Ballroom, but the the location may change depending on the access needs of people attending and other events taking place in the building.
Come hang out with East Bay DSA members and talk about socialism, current events, historic events, the future, music, your cat, someone else’s cat, etc.
This is a great event for new members and people curious about DSA. We’ll tell you about upcoming East Bay DSA events and how you can get involved!
Ale Industries is family friendly and allows dogs. It’s a five minute walk from Fruitvale Bart and has some parking available in front of the brewery.
While Ale Industries doesn’t sell food, there will be a food truck parked outside.
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
CompArte: The fourth annual Emiliano Zapata Community Festival
The Chiapas Support Committee invites you to enjoy music, poetry and art that expresses anti-capitalist resistance, deep solidarity with indigenous peoples’ struggles for community, land & justice, and a shared space for envisioning an end to the repressive and racist climate we are challenging in the U.S.
CompArte means to share & build a living culture of humanity with musicians, artists & poets from Oakland and S.F. Bay Area.
All the funds collected at the door and from the purchase of Zapatista arts & crafts sold by the Chiapas Support Committee go to support the autonomy projects of the Zapatista communities in Mexico.
FEATURING
Artists:
Paintings by Zapatistas
Daniel Camacho + live mural painting
FYE Collective
Alejandro García
Xochitl Guerrero
Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo
Eddie Lampkin
Maya
Jhovanny Rodríguez
Stephanie Sánchez
Poets & Music:
EJ (dj)
Madelina y los Carpinteros
Mo Sati
Francisco Herrera
Omi & Amanda
Mogauwane Mahloele
The Chiapas Support Committee will be selling hand-woven blouses and artesanía made by the Zapatista women’s art collective from Chiapas
There will also be local community-based vendors offering hand-made jewelry, weavings, arts & crafts, coffee & dessert.
Click here for more information on the Zapatistas: https://chiapas-support.org
If you can’t make it to CompArte, please consider making a generous donation on-line:
* Click I am in solidarity:
https://chiapas-support.org/home/donate/
Or through Venmo: @Enapoyo1994
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CompArte: Why we come together in art
2019 marks the 25th year since the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN, Zapatista Army of National Liberation) launched an armed uprising to say NO to capitalist neoliberalism and “free” trade, which mean indigenous genocide, and a deep heart-made YES to indigenous liberation, autonomy and solidarity across borders and dreams.
In the last 25 years, the EZLN and indigenous people have transformed the political landscape of Mexico, provided global leadership and inspiration against the capitalist sickness of possession, private property and war. The EZLN continues organizing with indigenous and non-indigenous communities to build autonomy, stop capitalist mega-projects and extractive destruction and new and renewed relationships rooted in justice, the natural world and shared dreams of land, peace & solidarity to stop out common enemy capitalist economies and world wars.
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Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Zapatista Revolution
Come together to share art and express solidarity with the Zapatistas and indigenous peoples’ struggles for justice!
The Chiapas Support Committee is organizing the fourth annual CompArte Zapatista to be held on Saturday, August 17, 2019, at the Omni Commons in Oakland, California! Stay tuned for more details.
CompArte
CompArte literally means Share-Art, a space to uplift the challenges, dreams, visions, of the people, indigenous and non-indigenous people, that are leading the struggle for a world where all worlds fit, a community of communities, against neoliberalism, against capitalism, against war & racism, against a patriarchy that is blood-soaked in capitalist/dominant industrial society and the struggles for humanity, for a return to the sources of life and dream of relationships that heal and not harm, a matriarchy of relationships that take care of each other and the natural world, that give prominence to women, girls, transpeople, the different, the marginalized, those forgotten by capital and Presidents and only remembered when they are needed as cannon-fodder for wars and political strife.
CompArt is a deep space for art, paintings, songs, theater, dance, poetry, hip-hop and community for peace & justice and that demands we live and uphold life in all her diversity.
ALERT: @PalantirTech when we said we'll be back, we meant it. Palantir is responsible for ICE workplace raids like the one that stole 680 people in Miss. last week. Join us for an immediate emergency response rally in Palo Alto THIS FRIDAY 8/16. #DisarmICEhttps://t.co/i3aRGAFFww pic.twitter.com/wHeXY9Z0N9
— CCCC Bay Area (@CloseTheCampsBA) August 13, 2019
When we said we’ll be back, we meant it. Join us for an immediate response rally, speakout, and action at Palantir this Friday at 12 PM. Palantir provided the technology ICE used to steal 680 people during the largest single-state immigration enforcement action in US history last week. Hit the streets for an immediate emergency response rally in Palo Alto THIS FRIDAY 8/16 #DisarmICE.
We know that Palantir Technologies, listed as a “mission critical” software in uncovered ICE documents, is the tech backbone fueling the deportation, detention, and war machine — and we REFUSE to be complicit. Palantir Tech makes workplace raids like the one that victimized 680 people and their families in Mississippi last week possible. As the growing threat of fascist white supremacy emerges in deadly outbreaks all across the country, we must target and hold institutions that embolden and produce this violent escalation responsible. Palantir Technologies cannot continue business as usual in Palo Alto as asylum seekers die in ICE detention and children continue to sit in cages.
Palantir workers: You don’t have to be complicit. Stop enabling terror and #DropICEContracts NOW!
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One month ago, 600-800 community activists, immigrants, workers, youth, students, tech workers, and more united to Shut Down Palantir in the largest action at Palantir Technologies in history. Join our 7 Weeks to #DisarmICE campaign as we turn up the pressure on Palantir Tech to Drop the ICE Contracts before their September 25 deadline. This will be the first of several coordinated actions. It’s all hands on deck — Silicon Valley, Complicit No More!
We will meet at 542 High Street at 12 p.m. on Friday. Please arrive on time as our rally will have a program. We are in need of volunteers, speakers, and coalition partners. Interested in helping out or joining our coalition? If you or your group agrees with the call to #CloseTheConcentrationCamps, let us know. DM for questions or to join the coalition.
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The Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps Bay Area is a network of migrant rights and activist organizations united to #CloseTheCamps and #AbolishICE.
Coalition partners:
-Mijente
-Silicon Valley De-Bug
-SIREN Coalition
-Tech Workers Coalition
-Tech Workers Coalition Bay Area
-Serve the People San Jose
-Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area
-South Bay Jewish Voice for Peace
-PSL San Francisco
-Bay Area Tech Workers Coalition
-Anakbayan Silicon Valley
-Silicon Valley Democratic Socialists of America
-Democratic Socialists of America San Francisco
-Raging Grannies Action
-Palestinian Youth Movement Bay Area
-Democratic Socialists of America Santa Cruz
-Oakland Privacy
-Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
-Movement for a People’s Party (National)
-Green Party of Santa Clara County
-Human Agenda
-And more
**WHY PALANTIR?**
https://twitter.com/CloseTheCampsBA/status/115421418726393856
#DisarmICE: Exposing @PalantirTech's Reign of Terror
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612335/amazon-is-the-invisible-backbone-behind-ices-immigration-crackdown/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/13/tech-workers-palantir-immigration-protest-github
These Are The Companies Profiting From Detaining Migrants At Border Concentration Camps
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/02/palantir-provides-the-engine-for-donald-trumps-deportation-machine/
Palantir Played Key Role in Arresting Families for Deportation, Document Shows
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*Interested in volunteering or learning more?*
http://bit.ly/DisarmICE
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