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The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover Up in Oakland
By Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham
(Atria Books; 480 pages; $30)

9th Ave. presents “Riders” authors in conversation with Joe Eskenazi: 7 p.m. Jan. 19. Free. Green Apple Books, 1231 Ninth Ave., S.F. www.greenapplebooks.com

Uncovering Brutality, Cover-Up, and Corruption in Oakland: “Riders” authors in conversation with Otis Taylor. Live stream only. 3 p.m. Jan. 25. $10-$40, free for members. Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, S.F. www.commonwealthclub.org

“Riders” authors in conversation with Karym Sanchez: 4 p.m. Jan. 28. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. www.bookpassage.com

Zoom discussion on the future of OPD. This Friday 1/27 6:30pm. Join us to hear @PPriceCares @Tyfahra @OaklandOIG José Dorado @OakPoliceComm Jim Chanin
What needs to happen for real structural reform & effective oversight?
Register here: https://t.co/hs0kvjdtug pic.twitter.com/go1cbWHMBb

— Coalition for Police Accountability (@oakcopoversight) January 25, 2023

If you have not yet registered for tomorrow’s Extinction Rebellion US All-Chapters Open House, there is still time. Just click on the link below to go to the registration page, and please let us know if you have any questions.

XRUS National Open House

Learn about global, national, and regional initiatives and campaigns; network with rebels from around the country; and either find a local chapter to join or learn how to start a local chapter.

The XRUS Team

The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover Up in Oakland
By Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham
(Atria Books; 480 pages; $30)

9th Ave. presents “Riders” authors in conversation with Joe Eskenazi: 7 p.m. Jan. 19. Free. Green Apple Books, 1231 Ninth Ave., S.F. www.greenapplebooks.com

Uncovering Brutality, Cover-Up, and Corruption in Oakland: “Riders” authors in conversation with Otis Taylor. Live stream only. 3 p.m. Jan. 25. $10-$40, free for members. Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, S.F. www.commonwealthclub.org

“Riders” authors in conversation with Karym Sanchez: 4 p.m. Jan. 28. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. www.bookpassage.com

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library.

Speaker: Steve Martinot.

Our speaker, Steve Martinot, will describe how police militarization rests on the foundation of the militarist ethic by which the police operate. The government has seen fit to supply the police with military equipment, which has consequences both for the people subjected to the presence of such weaponry and for government intentions. The second half of the presentation will be on the relation of police militarization to the structures of racialization in the US.

Lifelong social justice activist Steve Martinot has worked as a machinist and organized a number of shops. Steve organized a trucking company in New York City, which led to a wildcat strike. He has been engaged in Latin American solidarity and once faced indictment from the federal government for that. In addition, Steve has done neighborhood organizing and edited two underground newspapers, one in NYC and one in the Akron area. A former political prisoner, Steve was incarcerated in 1970. After Steve started writing in the 1980s, he taught at Colorado University and UCSF. He has produced eight books, four on racialization and prison abolition and three as volumes from different conferences. He also translated a book on racism by Albert Memmi from French.

Recent articles by Steve include https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/30/the-dialogic-of-violence/, https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/06/theyre-militarizing-the-cops-again-hurroo-hurroo/,  and https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/11/oh-no-not-another-crime-wave/.

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“Judas & The Black Messiah” (2021) – Based on the tale of William O’Neal who infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton. This inevitably led to the murder of the chairman while they slept.

These free community building events are designed to discuss the connections between the cinema we are fed and social justice issues. Bring your own snacks for this virtual event with us for Judas & the Black Messiah. The Oakland Greens 2023 Free Dinner & a Movie Discussion series are adult supervision only events.

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RSVP online or by emailing Lia Swindle at journalism-events@berkeley.edu by January 25.

From the Polk Award–winning investigative duo comes a critical look at the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, and the more than two-decades-long saga of attempted reforms and explosive scandals.

A look at the Oakland police department but also policing in America and where it’s headed.

A conversation with authors Ali Winston (’10) and Darwin BondGraham, and Professor Dan Lindheim, Goldman School of Public Policy and former Oakland City Administrator.

Books will be available to purchase.

This is a FREE event.
Tax-deductible donations from the J-School community help make this possible.

No tickets required

Wealth inequality is exacerbated by criminal legal system contact – making poor people and people of color even more likely to remain locked in cycles of poverty and criminalization. In this workshop, we will examine the ways racial capitalism has financialized the carceral system and how we can fight back!

The loss of Black life anywhere is an affront to the humanity and safety of Black lives everywhere. Traffic stops are the primary way Black people both enter the criminal legal system and serve as the igniting factor for daily and deadly acts of violence against our bodies. It is beyond time to remove badges and guns from traffic stops and tickets, and protect Black life.

Here in Oakland, Black people are eight times more likely to be stopped by law enforcement than their white counterparts. Despite orders from a federal monitor and a statewide task force dedicated to ending racial profiling, OPD can’t seem to stop targeting Black community members with pretextual stops.

The only way to stop police terror is to reduce the number of interactions between police and community members. That’s why we’re demanding cops out of traffic enforcement here in Oakland and beyond!

Suds, Snacks, and Socialism at the Starry Plough

Please join us as we reconvene our forum series in person at our traditional gathering place. We will also be conducting the forum series simultaneously online.

Doors open at 2:00 pm. Please register in advance at
https://bit.ly/SS_S_Haiti_2023
to receive your personal link to participate in this event online

Black History Month is a product of the struggle for African and African American liberation. The Haitian Revolution, which took place from 1791-1804, marked the beginning of liberation movements by and for African and all enslaved peoples in the Western Hemisphere. We will look back at this significant event, and its continuation as Haiti bears the brunt of capitalist domination.

The forum will include an update on the case of U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal.

Pierre Labossiere – Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee (HAC) and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF)

Robert Roth – Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee

Gerald Smith – Co-Founder of the Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality (OGC) and an activist in the struggle to Free Mumia Abu Jamal

*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.

Please help us celebrate our return to the Starry Plough by ordering food and/or drinks. Please try to arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentation. An open discussion will follow the presentations. We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.

This event is sponsored by the Oakland Greens, Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change, and the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party.
For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org>

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95452963262?pwd=Y2V6cHl4RjRlOE0wZTFWcktOaFZpdz09

An unprecedented, sustained, vibrant uprising of the people of Iran has unleashed the people’s spirits, minds, and dreams…
• What does it represent?
• How broad is the movement and what are its goals?
• What kind of regime is ruling in Iran and how did it come to power?
• Why are hundreds of peaceful protesters being killed on the streets, thousands arrested, tortured and subject to sham trials and executions?
• Who are the thousands of political prisoners in Iran’s prisons?
It’s urgent that people around the world, especially in the U.S. step up support for the uprising itself, and to oppose the repression of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
What can and should people of conscience here in the U.S. do to support the just struggle going on in Iran and stop the repression and free all political prisoners?
These and other questions will be addressed.

Presenters:
Live: Bay Area International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners (IEC) activist Plus other local IEC activist
On Zoom: Jamileh Davoudi: a women’s rights activist, leader of the Zanan Group in No. California which is a member of Collective Action of Independent Iranian Women Organizations. Producer and host of “Zanan, Niemeh Barabar” or “Women, the Equal Half” program in Radio Pooya for the past 7 years. She also contributes articles to “Pezhvak of Persia” monthly magazine.
And: Larry Everest: national spokesperson of the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners (IEC). Author of Oil Power and Empire, Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda.
Recent video selections from the struggle in Iran.

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

The opinions expressed in our Sunday morning programs are those of the speakers only and do not represent any kind of group consensus by the members of ICSS. 


The Chancellor:  January 30, 2023 will mark the 90th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s ascension to the Chancellorship of Weimar Germany.  Yet, Hitler did not take power, it was offered to him.  Little more than three years after the start of the Great Depression, President Paul von Hindenburg was able to exercise Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution; thereby circumventing representative government to appoint Chancellors to run the government to get Germany out of a worsening economic morass.  Three candidates were chosen, all three failed to reverse the declining fortunes of the Fatherland.

With investments from the United States drying up and with the Right and Left battling in the streets, prompted, of course, by a thirty-three percent unemployment rate, businessmen, bankers and the military urged the aging Hindenburg to appoint the man he little cared for, that vulgar little corporal from Austria, Adolf Hitler (who became a German citizen the year before in expectation of becoming Chancellor).  And this at a time of the Nazi Party’s loss of seats in Reichstag elections.  The Establishment of Germany would not, under any  circumstances, countenance a candidate from the Left at the helm of the German Government.  “We are hiring him,” seeing Hitler as a caretaker of Establishment expectations for Germany.  A decision that, twelve years later, would see to the Fatherland becoming a shambles.

Mark Albertson is the historical research editor at Army Aviation magazine in Monroe, Connecticut; and, is the historian for the Army Aviation Association of America.

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This Sunday at @TheNewParkway join @carroll_fife in a fireside chat with film director, Cheryl Fabio of “A Rising Tide”, the Sarah Webster Fabio Center's new doc about Alameda’s unhoused children and families. 12:30-2:30pm

RSVP at: https://t.co/HnjjjHfc2K pic.twitter.com/lvFai8BaJA

— care4community (@care4community1) February 2, 2023

Be the first to see clips of our new film, “A Rising Tide” with Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife and film director, Cheryl Fabio’s fireside chat.

“A Rising Tide” is SWFCenter’s new documentary about Alameda County unhoused children and families.

“It is in your hands, to make a better world

for all who live in it.”

-Nelson Mandela

*Proceeds from this event help fund film completion

Join us tomorrow 2/05 @omnicommons from 4-6pm for our biweekly reading of Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth! We are planning to finish chapter 2 for those who want to catch up! Newcomers are welcome and masks are required to be worn at all times. DM us for an online link! pic.twitter.com/yCvbNDxksD

— Community Liberation Programs (@comlibprograms) February 4, 2023

In an effort to show solidarity with Black women who cope in silence, several state and local women electeds will rally to support Black women leaders experiencing disproportionate threats and harassment on February 6 at 9:00 AM in front of City Hall #SupportBlackWomen pic.twitter.com/kLKwctFzDy

— Queef Girgo (@emily_wherever) February 2, 2023