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Interesting Agenda Items:

5. Federal Task Force Ordinance – OPD – Review Annual Reports (ATF, USMS, DEA)
a. Review and take possible action
6. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Crime Analysis Software
a. Review and take possible action on Impact Report and proposed Use Policy

This Friday, Oakland’s young leaders are organizing a Youth March for Peace to advocate for the end gun violence in Oakland’s streets.

This event will be at 6pm at St. Patricks Parish 1023 Peralta St. on Friday, 2/4.

Hope to see you there! pic.twitter.com/3s4dI5ZJvr

— Sheng Thao 盛桃 (@ShengForOakland) March 2, 2022

• No closures, no cuts
• Cancel the debt and fund our schools
• Show us the money
• No state take-over

In solidarity,
APTP

P.S. The campaign to fight against school closures is accepting Venmo donations at @ShutDownTheTown.
Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.

Green & P&F statewide candidates!  “How Socialist Women Would Run CA”
featuring: Laura Wells, Meghann Adams, and Nathalie Hri

Please register in advance at
https://bit.ly/CalifSocialistWomen
to receive your personal link for this event.
Celebrate International Women’s Day early with three women running on the Left Unity Slate in the June 7, 2022 California primary election.
* Meghann Adams – Peace and Freedom Party candidate for State Treasurer
* Laura Wells – Green Party Candidate for State Controller
* Nathalie Hrizi – Peace and Freedom Party candidate for Insurance Commissioner
Join them as they share their ideas about how to ensure health care, housing, education and the future of the planet instead of profits for the rich and their corporations.
The Left Unity Slate is a cooperative effort by the California Green Party and the Peace and Freedom Party to offer a clear choice to voters as an alternative to the two capitalist parties. You can find out more at:

Dear supporters of the Save E12th Coalition!!!

💥Last night the City Council cast a decisive 5 to 3 vote denying the 6th extension to the luxury tower development on the East 12th St Remainder Parcel, and committing once and for all to affordable housing on this public land!!

💥 Seven+ years of organizing has paid off!!

💥 Last night the City Council cast a decisive 5 to 3 vote denying the 6th extension to the luxury tower development on the East 12th St Remainder Parcel, and committing once and for all to affordable housing on this public land!!

💥 We started this PUBLIC LAND FOR PUBLIC GOOD fight in 2014 and along the way lifted the voices of our communities, we organized for Oakland to stem displacement and gentrification, and worked to prioritize dignified and affordable housing for those who need it most.

💥 Along the way our efforts inspired the public lands policy for Oakland, contributed to improving conditions for our houseless neighbors, said no to luxury towers on public land, and said yes to maximizing affordable housing on E12th St!

💥 It took a lot of us to get here. Neighbors, organizers, union reps, legal teams, journalists, architects, landscape architects, planners, radical developers, students, movement chefs, artists, & entertainers, and city council members all worked tirelessly.

💥 All throughout we always insisted on maximizing affordable housing on E12th St and WE WON!! Thank you for all of your support over the years!

NOW we want to celebrate!!
Where: Lake Merritt Amphitheater (across Kaiser center & E12th land)
When: 3-5pm THIS Saturday March 5
What: Bring a snack or something to drink to CELEBRATE

Join us this Sunday, March 6th, from 12-2 for the public launch of our Fair Budget El Cerrito campaign- East Bay DSA members in El Cerrito are working to reinvest the city’s police budget into community services! RSVP here for location: https://t.co/tIiaO2eQR0 pic.twitter.com/kpktD4H5Dz

— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) March 3, 2022

Join the Marin Climate Action Summit to explore and consider specific legislative and policy approaches to reverse our contributions to the climate emergency while strengthening the local economy and catalyzing a just, verdant, and inclusive county.

Keynote speaker Edward Quevedo, founder and head of practice at The Foresight Lab, will share approaches that The Lab has spearheaded in other locales to achieve these outcomes. After Mr. Quevedo’s remarks, the Summit will consider two questions: What are the barriers that keep climate organizations from succeeding? How do we get traction and achieve policy change? Although the Summit is sponsored by Kevin Morrison’s campaign for Marin County supervisor, participation in the summit does not express or imply endorsement of his candidacy.

Other speakers include:

Marisol Cantú, coordinator of the Richmond Progressive Alliance  Listening Project, a youth-led project that brings together all Richmond residents—from youth to elders—to talk about how the climate crisis has impacted their lives, families, and communities as they envision a fossil-free Richmond.

Janet Johnson of Sunflower Alliance and the Richmond Shoreline Alliance

WHERE

Online. Register here

RSVP here for the Link!

Fierce Palestinian struggle against settler-colonialism is ongoing, and this seemingly far-away struggle makes its way into the very fabric of the repressive apparatus back at home. The first Intifada was a key part of Palestinian resistance during an important historical moment in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

Please join East Bay DSA and San Francisco DSA to take part in our virtual film screening and discussion of 𝙉𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜, an inspiring and educational documentary about the key role of women in the first Intifada. The movie is just under 90 minutes and we will have a discussion afterward.

This is part of a project by the DSA BDS & Palestine Solidarity Working Group to bring this film to any DSA chapter, YDSA, or internal body through the end of 2022 in honor of the first Intifada. December 8th, 2021 marked the 34th anniversary. Please email dsanailafilm@gmail.com to find out how to coordinate a screening or with any questions.

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

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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

We need all hands on deck for this coming Tuesday, to demand the termination of Vallejo PD’s badge benders and to protest borrowing $30M for a police station upgrade we already voted against. #PoliceBrutality #Vallejo #PoliceReform pic.twitter.com/42B0ZzsyH6

— Melissa Nold, Esq. (@savage_esquire) March 6, 2022

Can we build a better web AND protect our planet at the same time? For those of us working on decentralized tech, how can we achieve both critical goals?

🌎This WED at 11:15 AM PT: We're joining hands with @mozillafestival to convene a dialogue around how to protect the planet AND build a better, #decentralized web. @Ifoundtheme will lead us

REGISTER thru Mozfest (reg fees are only suggested): https://t.co/vKExqYFqFZ pic.twitter.com/MzRKrcVoY6

— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) March 7, 2022

At the March DWeb Meetup, we join hands with Mozfest 2022 to tackle this big question with Kelsey Breseman, Civic Science Fellow at the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, where she works on environmental accountability, data ownership models, and intentional community.

Kelsey has written this thought-provoking essay (https://blog.archive.org/2021/09/20/ecological-awareness-for-the-decentralized-web/) on ecological awareness, one of the core principles of the DWeb. (See https://getdweb.net/principles.) Together, we’ll examine the assumptions and truths about energy use and blockchains, NFTs, and how the decentralized web can solve some problems, while perhaps deepening others.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Kelsey Breseman is a Rita Allen Civic Science Fellow at the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, where she works on environmental accountability, data ownership models, and intentional community. Kelsey has founded and managed tech startups, and has a history of activist leadership for progressive causes. She has a B.S. in Neural Engineering from Olin College and is currently working on a M.S. in Data Science from UT Austin.

Check out this Web 3 Beginner’s Guide

Biden won’t cancel student debt – until we force him that he must.

That’s why we’re preparing for our national student debt strike on May 1. A debt strike is the act of refusing to pay back one’s debts for political, economic, and moral reasons.

A debt strike is one of the strongest forms of debtors’ collective power, but ** it is not for everyone.** Going on debt strike comes with serious risks and potential long-term consequences, which do not fall equally on all.

Join this call to learn more if a debt strike makes sense for you, and what your options are.

RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/student-debt-strike-101/

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

Email bayareadebtorsunion@gmail.com for Zoom link.

Twice monthly meetings, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays.

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:

contact@oaklandprivacy.org

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.

Show up and support the family of Tyrell Wilson!!!!@Conscious_Coco#JusticeForTyrellWilson#DemandAccountability pic.twitter.com/6ysjh9QdmH

— Justice Teams Network (@JusticeTeamsNet) March 8, 2022

Exactly what harmful organic compounds have our friends in Benicia been breathing during all the years the Valero refinery failed to report its emissions?  BAAQMD has scheduled two important informational meetings to discuss the ongoing Serious Emission Violations incurred by the refinery.  Jack Broadbent, the Air District’s Executive Officer/Air Pollution Control Officer, has said:

“Valero’s disregard for air quality regulations and public safety in the surrounding community warrants decisive action and significant penalties to deter violations in the future.  Valero did not report or control the emissions from this source as required by Air District regulations, state and federal law, so we are requesting approval of an abatement order to provide transparency as we seek to hold Valero accountable for its actions.”

Broadbent describes this as a “major shift” in the handling of enforcement cases.

The next public meeting, a legal hearing, will be held on March 15 from 9:30 AM – 5 PM.  The newly revived Air District’s Hearing Board will consider approving the proposed abatement order (information below).   We can view the agenda and provide written comment to the Hearing Board here.   We can also provide verbal comment to the Hearing Board during the Hearing in the following ways:

Zoom webinar:

https://bayareametro.zoom.us/j/88980571855

Webinar ID: 889 8057 1855

Participate remotely via phone:  (669) 900-6833 or (408) 638-0968.