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Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to healing.
The Bahá’í community of Oakland is organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing.
“Thy name is my healing, O my God, and remembrance of Thee is my remedy. Nearness to Thee is my hope, and love for Thee is my companion. Thy mercy to me is my healing and my succor in both this world and the world to come. Thou, verily, art the All-Bountiful, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.” ~ Bahá’u’lláh
“Remember the saying: ‘Of all pilgrimages the greatest is to relieve the sorrow-laden heart.'” ~ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Topic: Interfaith Devotions for Healing and Protection
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We’re looking forward to getting together with you for a regular meeting. We’ll discuss the latest developments in our fight to keep new oil and gas wells out of eastern Contra Costa County! Plus we’ll catch up on other campaigns and check in with each other. We need your participation and your voice!
Check here for connection info a few days before the meeting.
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
Green Sunday (6/14): Police Racism and George Floyd: Our Past and Our Future
What makes a “good cop” go bad, and what can we do about it? We present two speakers to provide an analysis of police racism and police violence as it relates to the recent wave of #blacklivesmatter protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands (and knee) of Minneapolis police. There will be a discussion of the different systems of police racism and ideas for how to address this seemingly intransigent problem both broadly and locally.
Speakers:
Michael Richardson is a freelance writer now living in Belize. Richardson writes about the Black Panther Party, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Taiwan foreign policy. After a 19-year career as a disability rights advocate, Richardson worked for Ralph Nader coordinating his ballot access campaigns in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections.
Richardson has written extensively for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper, CrimeMagazine.com, OpEdNews.com and Examiner.com, while spending the last decade researching and writing his first book, Framed: J. Edgar Hoover, COINTELPRO and the Omaha Two Story (2018). A policeman’s killers got away with murder so that the two Black Panthers, Ed Poindexter and David Rice, could be blamed and sentenced to life imprisonment. The book explores the racial divide of the time, the details of the FBI intrusion into a local prosecution, and the unsuccessful efforts of the two convicted men to obtain a new trial untainted by FBI and police misdeeds. https://sfbayview.com/tag/michael-richardson/
Wilson Riles began his engagement with Oakland in 1971, with teaching math at Hoover Jr. High (it was a Jr. High then). Wilson writes, “The early 70’s to the late 70’s was the period of time when I had the most direct experiences with the Panthers. It is from my experiences during these years that I draw some understandings about Oakland politics (which the Panthers had an indelible impact on) and from which I proffer some conclusions about organizing in the African American and progressive community.
I went on to coordinate a Northern California campaign for Shirley Chisholm, manage a campaign for Otho Green for Mayor, sit on Congressperson Dellum’s Advisory Committee, be Chief of Staff for Alameda County Supervisor John George, win election to The Oakland City Council for District 5, and join the Board for Western States Legal Foundation. Panthers and
I walked thorough many of the same doors.”
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Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows, at 6:30 pm. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.
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Zoom Topic: Green Party of Alameda County
Time: Jun 14, 2020 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Description: Virtual doors open at 4:50 PM. Green Sunday presentation at 5 PM
(Followed by County Council business meeting at 6:30. All are welcome to attend)
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Join us at the City Council meeting on Zoom to demand that they Defund OPD’s general fund budget by 50% ($150 million).
City Council now takes public comment on all agenda items at the beginning of the meeting. Please log in or call in at 1:30 PM to place yourself in the queue to speak. The City Clerk will call your name or phone number when it’s your turn to speak. You will need to unmute yourself to speak when you are called. At the beginning of your comment, please note that you are speaking on agenda item #7 (FY2020-21 Midcycle Budget Amendments). You will be given a limited time to speak (most likely 1 minute).
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Email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to 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, 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 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, mass aerial surveillance, and other analytics, 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:
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.
McDonald’s workers are striking after 11 workers and 4 family members tested positive for Covid 19. Owner, Michael Smith is refusing their demands for PPE, quarantine pay, closure for deep cleaning and has refused to even meet with them. Come make art to send a message to him and the community. EVERYBODY’S GOT A RIGHT TO LIVE! Please wear a mask, maintain 6 ft distance and stay home if you have fever/cough or other symptoms. While you’re here, RSVP for the June 20 Poor People’s Campaign Mass Assembly and Moral March on Washington digital event at June2020.org. The live streamed event will start at 7am pt and be rebroadcast 3pm Sat and Sunday
IV. Hearing on the Oakland Police Department Budget and Action on Recommendations to
City Council
Pursuant to Charter provision 604 (B), the Commission will hold a public hearing on the
Oakland Police Department budget. The Commission may also discuss the proposed
Commission and CPRA mid-cycle budgets that are included in the City’s comprehensive
budget. After conducting the hearing, the Commission will determine recommendations
to the City Council regarding changes to the OPD budget, if any. Budget items were
discussed on 4.23.20, 5.14.20, 5.28.20, and 6.11.20. (Attachment 4).
a. Presentation of budget considerations
b. Conduct hearing, receive public comment
c. Discussion regarding recommendations to City Council on proposed budget
changes, if any
d. Action, if any
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THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM CONTINUES!
STOP Police Terror, Systemic Racism & STOP the Privatization of the Port of Oakland!
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Longshore Division will stop work at all 29 ports on the West Coast for eight hours to commemorate JUNETEENTH, the holiday celebrating the end of slavery.
Join ILWU Locals 10, 34, 75, 91 for a day of solidarity & resistance. AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL!
Been to a “Heading for Extinction” Talk or seen us in the media? Want to get more involved? Attend a Zoom (video) Orientation Call! Note that this call is phone friendly! If you want to call in by phone, you can call in using the zoom meeting number (disclosed once you sign up).
Sign up here (June 12)
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Sign up here (June 19)
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Sign up here (June 26)
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Join the largest digital and social media gathering of poor and low-wealth people, moral and religious leaders, advocates, and people of conscience in this nation’s history. A global pandemic is exposing even more the already existing crisis of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. On June 20, the 140 million poor and low-wealth people across this nation will be heard!
The Poor People’s Campaign is organizing this important digital event. They write:
- The increasing urgency of a broad movement led by the poor and most impacted is more apparent every day. Now is the time to organize towards collective action to enact a moral agenda for the nation. As our ranks grow in the coming months due to COVID-19 and the ongoing crisis of poverty, building a platform for the plight, fight, and insight of the poor is even more urgent
- We are marshalling our collective voices to demonstrate the power of our communities. We demand that both major political parties address the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism by implementing our Moral Agenda.
- We are gathering on June 20, 2020 to dramatize the pain and prophetic leadership of the poor and build power to enact our demands.
- We are waking the nation to the interlocking injustices facing 140 million poor and low-income people, 43% of the nation.
- But it’s not enough just to be awake. It’s not the waking, it’s the rising. On June 20, 2020, we rise together!
- If the rejected millions—the poor without health insurance, without living wages, without clean water, without voting protections—unite, we can move the moral and political imagination of this country and revive the heart of our democracy!
WHEN
Saturday, June 20
7 AM PDT and 3 PM PDT
Sunday, June 21
3PM PDT.
WHERE
Visit June2020.org to tune in.
Register here
Get connected to your state’s coordinating committee.
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is made up of people of all backgrounds, we are Black, Brown, White, Native, and Asian; we are old and young; we are Christian, Sikh, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim; we are people of faith and not of faith; we are people of all sexual orientations and gender identities; we are led by poor people and we are a cross-class movement; we are people of all abilities; and we live across this nation, from Alabama to Alaska, from Maine to California to Mississippi.
What do we mean when we say "#DefundTheSheriff?" Join us on Saturday for this intro to the Alameda County Budget. #DefundThePolice REGISTER: https://t.co/JCHKQsUETx pic.twitter.com/xktvRSC7bG
— Ella Baker Center (@ellabakercenter) June 18, 2020
East Bay DSA. Register here
Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) is one of the largest social movements in Latin America, with over 2,500 land occupations and 900 encampments that they acquired through struggle.
In the midst of a global crisis of capitalism, the coronavirus pandemic has aggravated already existing economic and political crises around the world. Brazil now has the highest amount of deaths per day due to COVID-19. This is a direct result of the actions taken by the protofascist Bolsonaro regime. The MST is calling this a genocidal action as the Bolsonaro government, much like Trump, has minimized the pandemic, advocated for the reopening of the economy, vetoed financial support to states to face the pandemic, and incited political violence among his supporters.
As the world is held hostage by the imploding crises of global capitalism, while the US is in the midst of a Black-led uprising, international solidarity is most critical. Join us as we discuss strategies of resistance, international solidarity, and how to build a global movement against capitalism and imperialism.
Join us for this month’s nonvoting General Meeting of East Bay DSA!
Please RSVP and invite other comrades to hear updates on our campaigns and events.
Agenda TBA.
The meeting will be conducted via ZOOM. RSVP here and you’ll receive an email with the link.
Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Join us at our first virtual Intro to SURJ meeting and learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.
You will hear about SURJ’s pathways for engaging in the work, including Study & Action, committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We’ll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.
ACCESS
The Intro meeting will be held virtually over Zoom. Please be sure to check-in to our zoom room between 1:45 and 2:10 so we can begin promptly at 2:15pm. It will take a few minutes to check-in. Participants will receive instructions for joining the event a few days beforehand.
The Do No Harm Coalition, APTP, Public Health Justice Collective, Health Care Workers Action Network and Health Justice Commons invite ALL health workers, healers and students in the health and caring professions to join us in a socially distanced rally & car caravan to declare racism and police violence as public health crises that cause unacceptable and disproportionate poor health for Black people and require disproportionate decisive action to address.
Black people suffer the worst outcomes from COVID and from police violence due to entrenched systemic racism. We are committed to ending racism in every form in order to uplift the health of the communities we serve.
We will be sending a notice to our lawmakers for demands to uplift the Black New Deal, as outlined by Anti Police-Terror Project as well as to outline our vision for creating a society centered around a Culture of Care. We will be posting that notice here for you to sign before Saturday.
We will be meeting up Saturday June 20th at 4pm on Pill Hill and driving in a car caravan to Bernal Hill, SF, the site where Alex Nieto was shot by SFPD. We will be broadcasting on the radio as we drive, to keep the vibe alive between us.
Join the largest digital and social media gathering of poor and low-wealth people, moral and religious leaders, advocates, and people of conscience in this nation’s history. A global pandemic is exposing even more the already existing crisis of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. On June 20, the 140 million poor and low-wealth people across this nation will be heard!
The Poor People’s Campaign is organizing this important digital event. They write:
- The increasing urgency of a broad movement led by the poor and most impacted is more apparent every day. Now is the time to organize towards collective action to enact a moral agenda for the nation. As our ranks grow in the coming months due to COVID-19 and the ongoing crisis of poverty, building a platform for the plight, fight, and insight of the poor is even more urgent
- We are marshalling our collective voices to demonstrate the power of our communities. We demand that both major political parties address the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism by implementing our Moral Agenda.
- We are gathering on June 20, 2020 to dramatize the pain and prophetic leadership of the poor and build power to enact our demands.
- We are waking the nation to the interlocking injustices facing 140 million poor and low-income people, 43% of the nation.
- But it’s not enough just to be awake. It’s not the waking, it’s the rising. On June 20, 2020, we rise together!
- If the rejected millions—the poor without health insurance, without living wages, without clean water, without voting protections—unite, we can move the moral and political imagination of this country and revive the heart of our democracy!
WHEN
Saturday, June 20
7 AM PDT and 3 PM PDT
Sunday, June 21
3PM PDT.
WHERE
Visit June2020.org to tune in.
Register here
Get connected to your state’s coordinating committee.
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is made up of people of all backgrounds, we are Black, Brown, White, Native, and Asian; we are old and young; we are Christian, Sikh, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim; we are people of faith and not of faith; we are people of all sexual orientations and gender identities; we are led by poor people and we are a cross-class movement; we are people of all abilities; and we live across this nation, from Alabama to Alaska, from Maine to California to Mississippi.
