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While working people are struggling to stay housed, support their families, and keep our neighbors safe, Antonio Gracias is getting richer. Gracias is the founder, CEO and CIO of Valor Equity Partners with $26 billion in assets, and a close advisor to Elon Musk. As part of the DOGE team, he spearheaded massive cuts to Social Security — putting millions at risk and unfairly laying off dedicated workers, and he is fueling ICE attacks across our cities, spreading dangerous misinformation about our immigrant neighbors and friends. As our communities live in fear, and struggle with rising costs of living, Gracias’ net worth has grown to $2.2 billion.
This is what happens when billionaires hold too much power and zero accountability. Our retirement security and Social Security benefits are threatened, hard-won rights are being eroded, and our data privacy is disappearing. Enough is enough.
That’s why, on August 5, we’re coming together—in cities across the country—to say: Our families come first. Not billionaires. Not politicians. Not corporate greed. We’re joining forces with working people across the country to say no to billionaire overreach and public harm, and demanding
- Public accountability —including full transparency around Antonio Gracias’ actions at DOGE.
- Restore full staffing at the Social Security Administration.
- Stop the scapegoating and deportation of immigrants.
- A government that serves the people, not billionaires.
Billionaires like Antonio Gracias have no business shaping public policy that affects millions of working people. That’s why we’re demanding clear boundaries, transparency, and accountability for anyone in government who also answers to corporate power.
RSVP now to join Bay Area working families in Palo Alto on Tuesday, August 5, as part of the Families First Day of Action across the country, who will come together in peaceful marches, rallies, and events to say — our families come first, and we will protect each other!
WHO: Working people , families, neighbors, and community allies
WHAT: Day of Action – Families First, Not Billionaires
We invite you to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Tri-Valley CAREs and other peace and justice groups that are part of the Livermore Conversion Project.
We will gather at 9 AM on Wednesday, August 6 at the Livermore Lab West Gate, located in Livermore on Vasco Road (turn on side streets to park).
The theme this year is “80 Years of Nuclear Devastation: Remember Our History; Reshape Our Future!” We will join the cry of the Hibakusha, “Never Again,” and honor their lifelong commitment to the total elimination of nuclear weapons. And, we will do so at the West Gate of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where new nuclear weapons are being developed today for potential use tomorrow.
Our program will include speakers, music, and a symbolic “die in” followed by a traditional Japanese Bon Dance, which invites the ancestors to join us. Following the program, some of the participants may choose to approach the gate for a solemn nonviolent direct action, while others may choose to use their voices in song and support while remaining in the public space.
You are invited to bring your full being and your voice to support nuclear disarmament on this important occasion. Please see the flyer below for more information, and don’t forget to mark your calendar now!
Please bring your favorite nuclear disarmament banner. And, we will have extra “Nuclear Weapons are Illegal” and other banners to share with you if you would like. Also bring water, sunscreen and, possibly, a hat � along with your aspiratioons for a more peaceful and just world.
Speakers include Arjun Makajani, PhD. (Director of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Washington, DC), Helen Jacard (Veterans for Peace and the Golden Rule peace ship), Reverend Michael Yoshii (United Methodist Church and thinker on Japanese internment), Reverend Monica Cross (CA Poor Peoples Campaign), Patricia Ellsberg (peace activist and wife of the late Daniel Ellsberg), and Marylia Kelley (Senior Advisor of Livermore-based Tri-Valley CAREs).
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/06/30/18877718.php
To observe and participate in the meeting via Zoom, go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85817209915 Or One tap mobile: 1 669 444 9171
Relevant Agenda Items:
4. Informational Item a. Data Sharing policy for ALPR as pertains to ICE
5. Action Items:
a. Annual Reports 1. CrimeTracer Forensic Logic 2024 (OPD) 2. Cellebrite 2024 (OPD) 3. Pen Register (OPD)
b. Use Policies 1. OPD Community Safety Camera Systems (OPD)
c. Proposed Ordinance 1. The No Stolen Data Ordinance
Come out and support the Wood Street Community for a special work-in-progress screening and fundraiser for the documentary Wood Street — a gripping film that follows members of Oakland’s largest homeless encampment as they fight the city and state against eviction from their long-term community.
This intimate film centers on John and LaMonté—two unhoused men turned community leaders—who organize their neighbors in the face of displacement, addiction, and a failing social system. Their story is a powerful testament to resilience, solidarity, and the right to remain.
Directed by award-winning journalist Caron Creighton, Wood Street is currently in post-production and has received support from SFFILM, the Sundance Institute, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Black Public Media, Bay Area Video Coalition and the Berkeley Film Foundation.
We will show some scenes from the work-in-progress film, with the director and members of the Wood Street Commons present for a panel discussion after the screening.
Location: 1501 Harrison St., Oakland CA
Doors open: 6PM
Screening starts: 6:30PM
Price: The event is free with an RSVP — and you are welcome to donate what you want. Please make donations to our crowdfunding campaign.
Please note:
- The event space is about 1/2 block from 12th St. BART, some street parking is available.
- Ride-shares can drop off and pick up directly in front of the venue.
- Limited space available. If you cannot attend, please return your ticket so someone else can take it.
Accessibility:
- Masks required at all times in the space.
- There are no steps to enter the space. More info on access needs can be found on Moments Co-op website.
Between Acton and Bonar, beside “The Way”, in front of the bike path.
We reject the Israeli occupation of Gaza: We will not let Gaza stand alone – in SF and cities around the world, we are rising up for Palestine and for a world without Zionism and imperialism.
SEE YOU IN THE STREETS!
Join us for a powerful afternoon of film and conversation celebrating the enduring mission of the Golden Rule Peace Boat, the original anti-nuclear protest vessel that set sail in 1958 and continues her journey today.
The panel will include filmaker Nolan Anderson, Michelle KanoeLehua Marsonette, Project Manager of the Golden Rule Project and crew member on the 2021 Hawai‘i–California crossing, and Scott Yundt, Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs in Livermore. Panelists will discuss the making of the film, the lived experience aboard the Golden Rule, and what this unique vessel continues to teach us about courage, collaboration, and the long arc of peace.
Agenda: Learn how to assist with presence, documentation of ICE activity like ICE raids or detentions.
Meeting ID: 854 4920 3697
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
We are also sharing the next rapid response network training for Alameda county. Volunteers from Hayward and the southern part of Alameda county are especially needed to verify and respond to ICE activity.
Our resistance is critical and the time to come together is now. If you are looking for a space to connect with others about the urgent need to protect our community members and take action against fascism, join us!
East Bay Monthly Resistance Meeting
On the agenda:
- ICE Out of Dublin campaign
- Neighborhood organizing to prepare for ICE raids
- Mutual aid to support immigrant families with Faith In Action East Bay
- Swing district canvassing with Seed the Vote
- Upcoming actions targeting tech oligarchs with Stop Billionaire Summer
ONGOING STOP the COUP PROTEST from 5 – 6 pm
Focus: Rally every Friday Stop the Coup Protest, organized by Indivisible Elmwood
Join us in San Francisco on Friday, August 15th for a mass action at Well Fargo
A couple weeks ago, we put Wells Fargo on notice. Protestors blockaded every entrance to their global corporate HQ for hours, keeping dozens of employees from helping their bosses bankroll fossil fuels and genocide. Then, last week, a rowdy picket line and noise demo caused a serious commotion, calling out Wells Fargo for financing Palantir and Elbit Systems, companies enabling the genocide and mass starvation in Gaza.
We’ve planned a lot: banners, street theater, disruption, community art projects, and some creative ways of delivering a petition with tens of thousands of signatures on it. It won’t be an action that Wells Fargo will forget in a hurry.
We’ll be joined at the action next Friday by scientists with Scientist Rebellion and delegates from the Gulf South, a region that is home to the world’s largest build out of new fossil fuel projects, many of which are bankrolled by Wells Fargo.
Sign up here to join us on Friday, August 15th.
The Texas House Democrats are denying quorum to stop the Trump takeover of Texas and block his attempt to rig the 2026 midterm elections. But Trump isn’t stopping in Texas. He’s targeting Missouri, Ohio, Florida, and every state he can twist to help him steal Congress next year. States like California and New York are starting to fight back.
Let’s be clear: this fight started in Texas, but it doesn’t end there. This isn’t just about redistricting or one state’s politics. It’s about the future of our democracy. Trump is terrified of the American people. He knows he can’t win on his ideas, so he’s trying to take Congress by hook or by crook–and he’s doing it by silencing the voices of communities of color. We’re not going to let that happen.
That’s why we’re organizing a National Day of Action, on Saturday, August 16, to fight back against the Trump takeover of our country.
Texas will lead with an anchor rally at the Capitol in Austin. Across the country, we’re asking people to show up at their state houses, city halls, or community spaces and make it clear — we see what Trump is doing, and we won’t stand for it.
Please note: A core principle behind our Fight the Trump Takeover actions is a commitment to nonviolence in all we do. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.
STOP the DOGE DESTRUCTION from 12 – 1:30 pm
Location: at 1731 Fourth Street, between Virginia and Delaware, outside Tesla Showroom
Speaker: Gerry Condon
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“Nuclear weapons are used every day. They are like a gun you point at somebody’s head.” – Daniel Ellsberg
Eighty years ago, the US dropped nuclear bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, the world is closer to nuclear war even than during the Cuban missile crisis, and the Pentagon is planning a nuclear first-strike against China. Some say the absence of another nuclear war in the last eighty years proves that nuclear “deterrence” is working – but with the increasingly aggressive U.S. foreign policy, how long can “deterrence” work?
Our speaker, Gerry Condon, is a Vietnam-era veteran and war resister, a former president and current national board member of Veterans For Peace (VFP), and chair of their Golden Rule peace boat committee. Gerry is currently coordinating the Golden Rule’s month-long visit to San Francisco Bay. Gerry serves on the steering committee of the Peace In Ukraine Coalition, the board of the Task Force on the Americas, and the advisory board of the US Peace Council. In 1968, Gerry refused Army orders to deploy to Vietnam. He was court-martialed and sentenced to ten years in prison, but fled to Sweden, where he worked with the American Deserters Committee, and to Canada, where he worked with the AMEX-Canada war resister collective.
See these articles on peace by Gerry Condon:
Eighty Years After the U.S. Bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Are We on the Verge of Another Nuclear War?
‘The Law Is Simple’: Israel’s Unregulated Nukes Mean Biden Must Halt Military Aid
Remembering Nuclear Victims 71 Years after the Castle Bravo Test
- The film is in English.
- Childcare is not provided.
- Masks are kindly requested. We will have masks available on-site.
- There is a ramp available to access the building.
- There are no required steps in the theater itself.
- Read more about transit and parking information.
NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to:
occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we tend to meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months from November to early March after Daylights Savings Time.)
On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over six years, since October 2011! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally. Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
Welcome & Introductions
Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
Announcements
(Optional) Discussion Topic
Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.
Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area
San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv
Join us a rowdy noisy tour of shame of some of the worst banking and insurance institutions in San Francisco’s financial district on Monday, August 18th at 11am.
We will take direct action with a tour of shame to shut down business as usual and emphasize the connections between war, the climate crisis, capitalism, exploitation and oppression.
We and allies will be led by a delegation of Gulf South residents, a region on the frontlines of climate disaster, representing communities hit hardest by the fossil fuel projects supported by the financial and insurance institutions in the SF Financial District.
Bring pots, pans, and noisemakers of all kinds. We’ll have everything else you need, including chant sheets, banners, signs, props and art.
Send RSVP.
By now you’ve probably seen or heard of Newsom’s hot mess of a “Petroleum Market Stabilization” bill that will reverse every gain we’ve fought so hard for on the oil and gas front.
This coming Wednesday in Sacramento there will be a Joint Assembly Committee Hearing on “California’s Transportation Fuels Transition” to consider the bill’s disastrous proposals. This is our big chance to change hearts and minds in the legislature.
The hearing will cover topics related to Newsom’s current proposals to expand oil and gas drilling across the state, as well as legislative proposals to cut refinery regulations.
The current momentum, if left unchecked, could send us right back to drilling Mordor. We can’t let this happen.
This is a very critical moment in our efforts to hold back the wave of Big Oil handouts that Newsom and some legislators are proposing in the wake of of refinery closures and the panic over gas prices. There’ll be an opportunity at this hearing for public comments—anywhere from 1 minute to 30 seconds, depending on attendance—and we need dozens of us to pack the room and urge the legislature to stand up to Big Oil. The hearing starts at 1:30 PM in the Swing Space, Room 1100. Lunch will be provided at noon.
The sign-up form is here. Further info and talking points will be provided once you’ve signed up.
p.s. On Monday, August 18 at 5 PM there will be an organizing and info session for activists around the state to get up to speed on the Big Oil handouts proposed for the end of the legislative session. You can register for the zoom link here.
And please reach out to action@sunflower-alliance.org if you can give a ride on Wednesday or want to join some of us on the train.
These are terrible times and we are beset from all directions at once. Sadly, this is yet another area to come together in emergency response, and we thank you for rising to the occasion.
Sunflower Alliance
https://350bayarea.