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The People’s Bank, Reclaiming California’s Future @ Online

Sep 30 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

As you know, the depths of the COVID economic crisis are rapidly eclipsing what we saw in the financial crisis of 2008. One of the most devastating legacies of that crisis is that it was one of the largest transfers of wealth in this country’s history. And that wealth loss was experienced most greatly in Black and Latinx communities. As you also know, this transfer of wealth happens most prominently when people lose their businesses and when they lose their homes.

Had the CARES act relief been equity focused, we would expect for the COVID economic recovery resources to also have been available to BIPOC communities. But this has not been the case, for example, of the data that is available on PPP loans, we know that only 2% of the businesses that received a loan were black owned and only 6% were Latinx. We also know that the major banks who administered this relief earned at least $18 billion in fees.

Now imagine that we recreate systems so that the relief is dispersed first to the communities that need it the most. A State Bank of the People/ A State Public Bank would establish this much needed infrastructure in California so that recovery dollars are dispersed quickly and are available promptly to protect vulnerable communities from losing their homes, their livelihoods and their generational wealth over and over again.

In addition, a State Public Bank would also democratize finance in California by investing in people over profits. It would create access to capital for BIPOC communities that have been left out by Wall Street banks. CRC invites you to join a conversation to explore a new kind of financial institution, one that is owned by the People of California. Join us to explore this alternative to the extractive economy we contend with now.

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The Village Sponsors a Census Party @ San Antonio Park

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Sep 30 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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Frontline Community Leaders: Climate and Just Recovery @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM'

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Sep 30 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Hear leaders on the frontlines of historic and ongoing climate disasters who are building a Just Recovery on the ground. At Stronger than Storms: Climate & Just Recovery Forum, hosted by 350.org, you will hear:

Jasilyn Charger, 24-year old Indigenous Environmental Protector
Verónica Noriega, Mentes Puertorriqueñas en Acción, a non-profit organization organizing young people into social initiatives in Puerto Rico
Cesar Aguirre, Central California Environmental Justice Alliance
Xiye Bastida, Re-Earth Initiative, NYC youth climate activist, raised in Mexico as part of the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous Peoples
Troy Robertson, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP), Regional Organizer from New Orleans, Louisiana
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN, New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), President
Moderator: Amira Odeh, 350.org, Carribean and Florida Organizer from Puerto Rico.

This event commemorates the anniversaries of ongoing climate devastation: 15 years since Hurricane Katrina, 2 years since Paradise burned, 3 years since Hurricanes Maria, Harvey, and Irma, 8 years since Superstorm Sandy, millions displaced from homes exercising the right to migrate as dangerous authoritarianism reveals its ugly face. The costs of climate destruction are paid for through the lives and livelihoods of BIPOC, immigrants, and workers.

Fossil fuel executives cashed out our planet. We’re coming together to make polluters pay and demand a Just Recovery led by those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

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he same fossil fuel companies that have doubled the number of billion-dollar climate disasters and lied about climate change, are the same ones: pillaging ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples without free prior and informed consent… continuously putting workers, our communities, and our planet in harm’s way… bankrolling militarized police and security… profiting off voter suppression… even backing anti-protest legislationattempting to criminalize our rights to protect our communities…

This comes as we commemorate anniversaries of ongoing climate devastation: 15 years since Hurricane Katrina, 2 years since Paradise burned, 3 years since Hurricanes Maria, Harvey, and Irma, 8 years since Superstorm Sandy, millions displaced from homes exercising the right to migrate as dangerous authoritarianism reveals its ugly face. The costs of climate destruction are paid for through the lives and livelihoods of BIPOC, immigrants, and workers.

Fossil fuel executives cashed out our planet. We’re coming together to make polluters pay and demand a Just Recovery led by those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

350.org is working with communities across the country and around the world to build a Just Recovery. This includes demanding no fossil fuel bail-outs, and resources be immediately and directly redistributed toward community relief, mutual aid, public power, and community-determined solutions for long-term health and a regenerative economy.

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For more information on the Sept 30th Climate Forum, explore this media pack.

To view this advisory online, visit: https://350.org/press-release/sept-30-stronger-than-storms-advisory/

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EBCE: Home Solar + Storage Incentives @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM'

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Sep 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Learn about East Bay Community Energy’s new program to help homeowners install a solar + battery system. Their new Resilient Home program pools the power of individual participants to get more competitive pricing, with an additional incentive that offers even better savings.

EBCE has done the upfront legwork and selected an experienced industry partner, Sunrun, to make installing a new solar + battery backup system on your home simple and more affordable than ever.

Learn more about how the Resilient Home program works, the basics of solar + battery backup systems, and incentive details. Sunrun will be on hand to discuss their product and financing options, warranties, what to expect during your initial consultation, and their safe installation processes.

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Thursday, September 24, 6 – 7 PM

sign-on info here

Tuesday, September 29, 12 – 1 PM

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Wednesday, September 30, 6 – 7 PM

sign-on info here

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Oct

Thu

UC Berkeley Cops off Campus Rally @ MLK Park

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Oct 1 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Join us on October 1st for the kick-off rally for a statewide campaign demanding the total abolition of the University of California Police Department (UCPD). This is a coordinated day of action which will occur on all ten UC campuses.

Tens of thousands of UC students and staff come from Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Muslim, immigrant communities that are constantly overpoliced through harassment and baseless arrest. The removal of UCPD and ICE from campus is not the endpoint, but the condition of possibility for imagining safety over security. Nearly all full-time UCPD employees make more than $100,000 per year—in the midst of public austerity measures, we demand the $24 million UCPD budget be transferred to the wellness programs and equity initiatives we desperately require.

The Cops Off Campus coalition has emerged amidst a global pandemic, relentless state and vigilante violence and national calls for the abolition of police, prisons, and the carceral state. The movement to abolish UCPD by Fall 2021 is led by BIPOC community members, undergraduates, graduates and other workers across UC and CSU campuses. Our goal is an end to all policing, beginning with questioning the University of California’s role in the militarized surveillance of higher education and beyond.

Community Guidelines—
Do not speak to UCPD, City of Berkeley police, or university administrators.
Follow all COVID-19 safety protocols: masks on, socially distance outside of your social bubble, stay home if you’ve had any flu-like symptoms in the last 14 days.
Bring pots, pans, noisemakers.
Bay Area National Lawyers Guild #: 415 285 5067
This event will be live-streamed and close-captioned from our Instagram @cal.ftp. ASL interpreters will be present on-site. If you have any additional access needs, please contact us at ucwideabolition [at] gmail.com.

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‘The BOX’ Virtual Performances @ Online

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Oct 1 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Please join the Pulitzer Center for a Zoom performance of The Box, a play written by a survivor of solitary confinement, Sarah Shourd, in collaboration with other survivors. There is no admission cost, but registration is required to attend.

Thursday, October 1 | 4pm PST/7pm EST

Saturday, October 3 | 11am PST/2pm EST

Saturday, October 3 | 4pm PST/7pm EST

Shourd’s play, based on her three-year investigation into the horrors of solitary confinement, is a piece of transformational theater that asks us to re-examine long-held notions of punishment. It reveals the tragic—and sometimes painfully comic and absurd—realities that dictate life “inside the box.”

Learn more about Shourd, the play and some of the actors.

This performance of The Box will feature actors Carlos Aguirre, Dameion Brown, Jordan Don, Dorian Lockett, Terrance Smith, and Lawrence Radecker. Produced by the Pulitzer Center. Tech manager Nikki Hyde. Written and Directed by Sarah Shourd.

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Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM'

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Oct 1 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87682009470

Agenda Items of Note:

4. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Exigent Circumstances Use Report (UAV) – review and take possible action.
5. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Live Stream Use Reports (2) – review and take possible action.
6. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Crime Lab Biometric Technology Impact Report and proposed Use Policy -review and take possible action.
7. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance Amendments – Hofer/Gage/De La Cruz – review and take possible action.
a. Prohibition On Predictive Policing And Remote Biometric Surveillance Technology
b. Annual Report metrics and due

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Socialist Night School: Indigenous Ecology and Resistance @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM'

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Oct 1 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85746952148?pwd=VkRrMlZHMG83dmJqWG81ZkthTHU0dz09

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In 2018 the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an alarming report, stating that the world needed to steeply cut its carbon emissions and make radical changes in order to limit the planet’s temperature from rising to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. If that goal wasn’t met, the report predicted a horrifying increase in suffering for almost all life and ecological collapses.

In America, this report was met on the political Left by sustained calls for the abolition of capitalist exploitation of people and the planet. The rationale was that capitalism’s imperative for endless economic growth required massive amounts of energy, the vast majority of which is still produced through fossil fuels. Some of the specific responses were reinvigorated support for anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggles by Indigenous peoples, surges in attendance at climate strikes, and great support for proposals like the Green New Deal by elected officials.

East Bay DSA will explore this theme in a Socialist Night School mini-series, co-organized with our Green New Deal Committee. These 3 events will explore what it means to be an ecosocialist, the Red Deal and Indigenous struggle, and how to fight for a Green New Deal after Bernie.

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In this second Night School, we’ll study the struggle by the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island (commonly known as “North America”) for decolonization and to re-establish their historic relations with the land. Our readings will emphasize how anti-capitalist resistance is crucial to that project, and how we, as socialists, can support that work.

Additionally, we will hear from two speakers from The Red Nation.

Priority Readings:

A Red Deal

Braiding Sweetgrass – ‘Gift of Strawberries’ & ‘Council of Pecans’

ECOTOPIA 2050 5-PART SPEAKER SERIES

Ecotopia 2050 is designed as a 5 Episode speaker discussion series with the first episode serving as an introduction/prelude to the event. The speaker discussion series is paired with corresponding book club meetings that give participants a more intimate opportunity to discuss the themes of the book in the community.

Based on the 1975 blockbuster utopian novel Ecotopia, this discussion and book club event series revisit some of the futuristic visions of the Ernest Callenbach classic. His visionary ideas, and those of his generation, that he so skillfully captured in Ecotopia are a fascinating amalgam of technical, economic, societal, and cultural transformations. They are predictive on so many levels, and the series will explore what has come true, what remains on the list of things to do that were proposed, and what new visions we might begin to pull together in the construction of an updated Ecotopian vision of today.

Registration Instructions
1. Choose your experience (single episode) or full series
2. Are you joining the book club? *choose the add on
Note: You must be registered for the full series if you register for book club.
3. Check out.
4. A secure Zoom link will be sent 24 hours ahead of event time to registered email.

Pricing:

Limited Income $60 full series $20 single episode

Membership $90 full series $25 single episode

General admission $110 series $35 single episode

No-one turned away for lack of funds.

EC Scholarship Request form here

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Oct

Fri

STOP FUNDING TAR SANDS @ Online

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Oct 2 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Tar sands oil is one of the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fossil fuels on our planet.

MAX HAIVEN, THE AUTHOR, WILL BE JOINING OUR DISCUSSION IN DECEMBER!

Revenge Capitalism Strike Debt Bay Area hosts a non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, and The Deficit Myth.

For our October discussion we will be reading the first two chapters of ‘Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts‘ by Max Haiven (You can order it from Pluto Press.)

For our November discussion we’ll be reading the third and fourth chapters, and for our December discussion we’ll read the final chapters and closing material.

Join us – all are welcome! (This is a dense and intricate book, so if you want to join in on the discussion in December as opposed to just auditing the discussion and listening to the author we’d ask that you make sure you’ve read it…)

Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of ‘ordinary’ structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its expression found in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical violence and the relentless degradation of common life.

In Revenge Capitalism, Max Haiven argues that this economic vengeance helps us explain the culture and politics of revenge we see in society more broadly. Moving from the history of colonialism and its continuing effects today, he examines the opioid crisis in the US, the growth of ‘surplus populations’ worldwide and unpacks the central paradigm of unpayable debts – both as reparations owed, and as a methodology of oppression.

Revenge Capitalism offers no easy answers, but is a powerful call to the radical imagination.

Max Haiven is Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University, Canada. His books include Art after Money, Money after Art (Pluto, 2018), Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power (Zed Books, 2004), Cultures of Financialization (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) and the Radical Imagination (Zed Books, 2014).

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Politics, Race, and the State of Play in our Nation w/ W. Kamau Bell & Steve Kerr @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM'

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Oct 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

POLITICS, RACE, AND THE STATE OF PLAY IN OUR NATION

Host: Berkeley #UNBOUND of the Bay Area Book Festival

Cost: $10 for Zoom link
(We will send all ticket buyers a Zoom Webinar link and password the day before the event)

RSVP: https://www.baybookfest.org/berkeleyunbound/schedule/#!event-register/2020/10/3/berkeley-unbound-kickoff

It’s 2020, the year of all hell breaking loose—so why not let it break loose in friendly (and hilarious) company?

Good friends and headline-makers W. Kamau Bell, an Emmy-winner for CNN’s United Shades of America (Robin Williams called him “ferociously funny”), and Steve Kerr, outspoken head coach of the three-time NBA champs Golden State Warriors, are teaming up to raise the good kind of hell, talking all things race, power, dissent, the intersection of sports and activism, and comedy as coping mechanism and vehicle for truth.

In a free-wheeling conversation refereed by yet a third friend of theirs, Dacher Keltner, founding director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, the comedian and the coach will hold nothing back, and you’ve got (virtual) courtside seats. Berkeley might have been famous in the 1960s for its free speech movement, but this 21st century version—as uncensored and envelope-pushing as 2020 demands—might just teach us new ways of speaking truth to power.

Laugh, cheer, reflect, and get fired up (and maybe a little out of bounds) with this totally unique conversation, only in Berkeley #UNBOUND.

FEATURING:

W. Kamau Bell
Sociopolitical comedian W. Kamau Bell is the host and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning CNN docuseries United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. His Netflix special, Private School Negro, was praised by TIME for “finding the comic absurdity in darkness,” and he is the author of The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6’4”, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. Full bio.

Steve Kerr
Currently in his sixth season as head coach of the Golden State Warriors, Steve Kerr has guided the club through four of the most prolific seasons in NBA history, with a list of accomplishments that includes three NBA championships and four of the five most victorious seasons in franchise history. He is also the first to win three NBA titles as a player and three as a coach. He’s also an outspoken activist for racial justice who the Guardian has called “an essential voice of reason in a world in which reason dies on cable news,” a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter, a proponent of gun control, and a persistent thorn in the President’s side. Full bio.

Dacher Keltner
A professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, Dacher Keltner has consulted for the Center for Constitutional Rights to help end solitary confinement, as well as for Google, Facebook, the Sierra Club, and Pixar’s blockbuster film Inside Out. He is the co-author of Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, The Compassionate Instinct, and The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence. Full bio.
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ABOUT: Berkeley #UNBOUND of the Bay Area Book Festival

https://www.baybookfest.org/berkeleyunbound/

On Sunday, October 4, the Bay Area Book Festival presents Berkeley #UNBOUND, an all-day, free, virtual mini-festival — kicked off with a ticketed keynote program on Saturday night, October 3. Just a month before the election, Berkeley #UNBOUND will gather many of the world’s most influential thinkers, writers and other trailblazers to offer bold visions in response to this moment of political and social crucible facing our nation.

Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND the virtual branch of our celebrated programming, amplifying bestselling and emerging voices across all genres. #UNBOUND explores compelling topics such as voter suppression, parenting in a time of anxiety, racism, health and wellness, and more — along with brilliant literary discussions. Our children’s and young adult programs present top authors who are interviewed by youth!

For a full list of events happening online with #UNBOUND, go to: https://www.baybookfest.org/unbound/directory/
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Oct

Sun

West Oakland Free Covid Testing @ West Oakland BART (Sat), 31st & MLK (Sun)

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Oct 4 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

THIS WEEKEND: Free COVID-19 Testing in West Oakland!

10/3: West Oakland BART, 9 AM – 4 PM
10/4: 31st & MLK, 9 AM – 4 PM

Giveaways: masks/sanitizer, food, and COVID resources!

Pre-register (not required): https://t.co/4YfZQPdmsL pic.twitter.com/i8kF5DIQ4Z

— Supervisor Keith Carson (@Keith_Carson) October 2, 2020

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September – October 2020 Sep – Oct 2020

About OccupyOakland.org

This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly met in-person weekly (with a rare skip) since October 10th, 2011 up until the pandemic, at which point we went to bi-weekly Zoom meetings. We do checkins, go over the activist events of the past meeting interval, and have general discussions on politics and revolution.

For many years, until the pandemic, we put on a Feed the People event monthly at Oscar Grant Plaza, where all were welcome to come and partake of a freshly cooked, savory meal, before our GA.

If you would like to participate while the pandemic is still amidst, send an email to occupyoakland-request@lists.riseup.net. Check the calendar or this text to see if we have resumed in-person meetings.