This weekend, North Oakland Mutual Aid will be at Omni Commons for taking in donations for the next round of resource materials to be collected and redistributed to our neighbors who are unhoused and/or precariously sheltered.#north #oakland #mutualaid #omnicommons #oakland pic.twitter.com/6wLi2n4MFW

— Omni Commons (@omnicommons) April 28, 2021

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Just as Darwin discovered the law of motion of biological evolution, so Marx and Engels discovered the law of motion of human history and with it, placed the science of human society on a firm, working class basis. In 1880, Engels published Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, explaining how socialism had been transformed from a utopia into a science. This science was further developed by Lenin who led the world historic October Revolution and is continuing to develop in other world historic revolutions in China, Vietnam, and Cuba, and well as revolutionary movements throughout Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Unfortunately, some comrades have chosen to reject science and revert to utopianism. We will examine this question in Group Discussion in which everyone may participate fully.

Organizer: Eugene E Ruyle is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at CSU, Long Beach; President  of Veterans For Peace, East Bay Chapter 162 (Berkeley/Oakland); and active in a variety of working class organizations, including the ICSS.

At its May meeting, Sunflower Alliance is proud to present three warriors in the struggle against the international fossil fuel giant headquartered in our own backyard—Chevron, or as it’s pronounced in Ecuador, Chev-wrōng.

Please RSVP at action@sunflower-alliance.org.  You’ll receive a Zoom link along with the meeting agenda and campaign updates on Friday, April 30.

From its environmental crimes in Nigeria to the Ecuadorian Amazon, and its support for a fascist military dictatorship in Myanmar, Chevron has established an egregious record of human rights abuse, environmental degradation, and the deliberate poisoning of global communities. The toxic plume of particulate matter emissions from its Richmond refinery affects half a million people in the Bay Area, especially Black and Brown residents of San Pablo, North Richmond, and Richmond. Come hear about why it’s so important to show up for Anti-Chevron Day on May 21st.

Speakers:

We are excited to announce @decarcerateAC is hosting a vigil this Sunday. Join us for an evening fo reflections, prayers, and hope.

Sunday at 5:00 p.m.
Lake Merrit Columns
577 Grand Ave Oakland pic.twitter.com/UfgoEWnQgq

— Ella Baker Center (@ellabakercenter) April 30, 2021

.@MhFirstOak is a non police response to a mental health crisis that we set up last August as a free alternative to calling 911.

Join us at 2:00 PM MONDAY and urge the City Council to support @MHFirstOak and other critical community services. https://t.co/BUktdnrNRD#DefundOPD pic.twitter.com/uShcTW86Qx

— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) April 30, 2021

Please join the Debt Collective @ 7 PM ET / 6 PM CT / 5 PM MT / 4 PM PT for ‘Workers & Debtors of the World Unite!’ a conversation about May Day, labor movements & how we can build our debt-free world together. The conversation will feature a presentation by Debt Collectice Organizing Director Umme Hoque!

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Join us as community leaders discuss how labor and community can work in partnership together. Let’s build people power.

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Agenda Items:

4. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DOT – Informational presentation on Safe Oakland Streets Initiative, including Automated Speed Safety Systems – no formal action will be taken at this meeting.

5. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DOT – informational presentation of Mobile Parking Payment program – no formal action will be taken at this meeting.

6. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DOT – presentation of Chinatown Camera Grant impact report and proposed use policy – review and take possible action.

7. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – presentation of Annual Reports – review and take possible action:
a. Live Stream Transmitter
b. ShotSpotter

What is the People’s Budget amendment? Who is the Community Democracy Project (CDP)? How do I become a member of CDP? How do I get on their mailing list? How do I get on their extra special contact list to get personalized text messages about upcoming events? When is CDP launching? What are they launching? What is participatory budgeting? Why do they want the residents of Oakland to decide the entire city budget? Who’s funding this project? Who’s leading it? Why should I join CDP? Do I get a prize or like… earn a badge for joining?

If you have ANY of these questions, join us for this informal Q&A session! If you know any of the answers already, join the orientation to help answer them from your own perspective! If you follow us on social media and want to get MORE involved, then join us to learn about the first step to joining this revolution!

Once all of the questions are exhausted, and you feel fully oriented, our orientation will turn into what was our regularly scheduled Hella People Power Happy Hour where we play games or do whatever you like!

We’ll be gathering via Zoom here: https://zoom.us/j/497963173

We invite you to come with creative ideas of games we can play virtually, maybe even try to figure out bingo for cash app legit. Maybe some folks will branch off and play online games together. And/or creative games can spontaneously be proposed and played through Zoom.

Join us in this experiment of staying connected through playing games!

THIS IS A VIRTUAL EVENT
We will NOT meet at EBCS

For years, Indigenous communities and allies have been opposing the construction of the Line 3 pipeline, which would transport nearly one million barrels of dirty tar sands oil – every single day. Enbridge Energy, the company building the pipeline, has a terrible environmental track record, and this pipeline would violate several treaties with indigenous communities.

Indigenous-led water protectors and allies in Minnesota are taking action every day to stop the construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline – confronting bulldozers, decision-makers, and the politicians that are putting profit before people. Pipelines take billions of dollars to build – and banks like JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank, Bank of America, TD Ameritrade, Union Bank – as well as insurers like Liberty Mutual – are bankrolling Line 3.

As part of a Global Day of Action May 7th – we’ll be mobilizing in San Francisco’s Financial District to send a clear message to the banks and investors that they must #DefundLine3.

Join us at 10am at the corner of Sansome and Market (E-trade Plaza) as we work to Stop the Money Pipeline. We’ll have plenty of art and signs for people to carry, but feel free to bring any signage that reflects the message of the day– Defund Line 3!

Community safety is always a priority, and we ask everyone in attendance to adhere to the public health guidelines that have been circulated. Please:

Wear a mask at all times
Practice social distancing
Use & bring hand sanitizer
Stay home if you feel sick, or if you have been exposed to anyone with COVID or that is quarantining

You can also RSVP here if you’d rather not let FB know even more about your life than they already do: https://actionnetwork.org/events/san-francisco-defundline3-day-of-action

Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won.

In Another Now, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about – and might yet. But would we really want it? Varoufakis’s boundary-breaking book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and reveals the uncomfortable truth about our desire for a better world.

Yanis Varoufakis is the author of the bestseller Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism and two previous books, Adults in the Room, a memoir of his time as finance minister of Greece, and an economic history of Europe, And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, both of which were number one bestsellers.

Chaired by Sara Hill, Programmer at Theatre Deli and Co founder of Opus Independents.

Join the EBDSA political education committee and EBDSA racial solidarity committee in the second in our “What is Abolition?” series as we explore the school-to-prison pipeline. We’ll be hearing from Ben “Coach” Tapscott, an OUSD School board candidate, endorsed by EBDSA, and Gerald Smith, an activist with the Oscar Grant Committee, who’s worked with the family of OUSD students Raheim Brown who was shot by OUSD PD. Check out the readings below and join us to discuss and explore what the school-to-prison pipeline is and how we can fight it.

Readings
East Bay DSA Majority – “It’s Time to Kick Cops Out of Oakland Schools for Good”
Ch 3 – The School to Prison Pipeline – End of Policing by Alex Vitale
Video – Oakland Community Learning Center
Critical Resistance – Schools and the PIC (pg. 8-9)

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ACTION ALERT: On May 8, #Alameda City Council will hold a special meeting to discuss a resolution in response to Mario's killing. The community can be heard through public comment and this petition: https://t.co/GTp5m1LxbK. Please sign and share #Justice4MarioG #CareNotCops

— Transform Alameda (@transform_ala) April 29, 2021

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The recent events call us to revisit Historical Materialism to understand what is happening.  The COVID-19 Pandemic, the re-emergence of the cold-war racing towards a real war, the Minneapolis murders by the police, the US police force becoming the third largest army in the world, the Amazon workers’ organizing efforts, the struggle of the health care workers, the Indian Farmers’ Strike, the failure of the world capitalist system to deal with a simple and preventable disease, and to allow millions of people to die from it shows the world, as we know it, is bubbling and boiling.  “A Change is gonna’ come,” for sure, but why, how, when, or where?  Where are the “Locomotives of History,” the revolutions, as Marx called them?

As the saying goes, there is no revolutionary action without a revolutionary theory.
We will not offer solutions or chart a path to revolution in this session.  However, we will visit Historical Materialism and see why revolutions are a way of life, a natural phenomenon, a natural way for anything, including human societies, to evolve and change.  When, how, or do the dialectically consequential evolutionary and revolutionary stages of development merge into one?  We will discuss the assertion of the inevitability of revolutions, the development, needed conditions, the necessary organizations for societal change and revolutions.  The possibility of change without violence, a peaceful transition, will be discussed alongside what constitutes a revolution.  We may even talk about what happens if a change does not occur in the current human societies.

Our speaker will be Mehmet Bayram of the ICSS group is an activist, journalist, photographer, videographer, and translator.  His writings, news articles, and commentaries could be found in https://Sendika.org, or in English, https://sendika.org/kategori/english/, a progressive site that survived for more than 20 years, even after the Turkish government shut it down 62 times.