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Chocolate Caliente Por Paz! @ First Unitarian Church

Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm

HOT CHOCOLATE FOR PEACE / CHOCOLATE CALIENTE POR PAZ
Since our first Hot Chocolate/Churros stand last Sunday, Lily & Lauren (Age 10) have raised $8500 To Reunite Immigrant Families.

JOIN US this Sunday, hosted by the First Unitarian Church of Oakland, from 1-3:30 p.m. All donations will support RAICES, whose mission is to “help separated families, detained families, unaccompanied minors, and others who are seeking asylum in the United States.”

The girls decided to host the chocolate and churros stand as a response to the 7 year old boy in Austin, TX, whose hot chocolate stand raised more than $5,000 to support building the wall between the US and Mexico. Lily and Lauren could not accept this, when families are still being separated, with children being caged, illegally adopted and parents unable to be reunited.

Lily is an integral member of the GRAMMY nominated kids hip hop group Alphabet Rockers, who will provide music at the event. Lauren’s mom own’s Jennys Churros, who will supply the hot beverages and churros for the fundraiser.

Volunteer support will be generously provided by teenagers from Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula Keystone, the premiere teen character and leadership program. Grateful for the leadership support from the church, special shine on: Pastor Jacqueline Duhart and Stefan Schneider, Director of Joyful Noise Band.

Special thanks to Remezcla and LatinLive for lifting up the work of these girls, and to Berkeleyside, The Daily Californian and NBC Bay Area for covering us last week (see story here): https://www.facebook.com/alphabetrockers/videos/2248272052111108/

You can donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/mexican-hot-chocolate-stand-for-raices-texas
or Venmo @alphabetrockers – with note #hotchocolateforpeace #chocolatecalienteporpaz

#hotchocolateforpeace #chocolatecalienteporpaz
#alphabetrockers #jennyschurros

PRESS: Beth Blenz-Clucas / Sugar Mountain PR beth@sugarmountainpr.com
EVENT: Alphabet Rockers Jennys Churros

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Liberated Lens presents: Schoolidarity, a film by Andrew Friend @ Omni Commons

Mar 3 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

The interwoven story of two of the most significant workers’ rights struggles of our time: the 2011 weeks-long fight by public employees in Wisconsin, and the long struggle by teachers in Chicago to win quality public schools and democracy in their union, culminating in a 2012 teachers strike. Working class struggle is analyzed through union history and a radical critique of the Democratic Party.

Panel with Oakland’s striking teachers after the screening

free admission

free snacks and popcorn

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Schoolidarity: screening and panel in support of the Oakland Teachers’ Strike @ Omni Commons

Mar 3 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Liberated Lens Film Collective is screening the move Schoolidarity at the Omni Commons in support of the striking Oakland Unified teachers on Sunday, March 3rd at 5 PM.

Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland

The interwoven story of two of the most significant workers’ rights struggles of our time: the 2011 weeks-long fight by public employees in Wisconsin, and the long struggle by teachers in Chicago to win quality public schools and democracy in their union, culminating in a 2012 teachers strike. Working class struggle is analyzed through union history and a radical critique of the Democratic Party.

Panel with Oakland’s striking teachers after the screening

Free admission

Free snacks and popcorn

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Tax the Rich Sing-A-Long with Occupella @ Outside the Old Oaks Theater

Mar 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

We’re still playing every Monday that it doesn’t rain!

Occupella organizes informal public singing at Bay Area occupation sites, marches and at BART stations. We sing to promote peace, justice, and an end to corporate domination, especially in support of the Occupy movement.

Music has the power to build spirit, foster a sense of unity, convey messages and emotions, spread information, and bring joy to participants and audience alike. See spirited clip of an action at BART. Check out the actions calendar and come add your voice. There are lots of ways to participate and everyone is welcome.

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Socialist Night School: Socialism in the UK? The Corbyn Project @ East Bay Community Space

Mar 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Accessibility: Wheelchair-accessible entrance and restrooms

Required Readings

See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members.

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Urban Shield Ad Hoc Cmte Sits Down with the Sheriff! @ Alameda County Administration Bldg

Mar 6 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Ad Hoc Committee on UASI

Wednesday March 6th, 2019 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM

125 12th street, 4th floor, Hayward Room (STE 400)

Oakland CA 94607

Opening (15 min.)………………………………………………………………………………………………………Chair
- Roll call.
- Meeting purpose and deliverables / Direction from the Board of Supervisors.
- Agenda review.
Review of Board Actions (30 min.)………………………………………………………County Counsel / Chair
- Review actions taken by the Board of Supervisors at their 2/26/2019 meeting.
- Review recommendations passed in BOS Motion 1.
- Review recommendations passed in BOS Motion 2.
Review of BAUASI Funding Guidelines (30 min.)…………………………………………………BAUASI/ACSO
- Review funding guidelines for UASI.
- Review recommendations not in compliance with UASI guidelines.
Funding Compliance Discussion (120 min.)………………………………………………………………………ALL
- Identify Committee recommendations that may not comply with the funding guidelines.
- Review recommendations passed in BOS Motion 2 that are deemed as “non-compliant”, including reason for the classification.
- Propose and discuss modifications that could bring non-compliant recommendations into compliance.
- Identify points of consensus.
Public Comment……………………………………………………………………………………………………….Public
Report to the Board of Supervisors (15 min.)…………………………………………………………………Chair
- Identify how best to jointly presents a response to the Board of Supervisors.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..fin

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STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING

Mar 6 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

A lecture: “Stamped From the Beginning: How the Ideology of Race Shapes Education and Society”

For details, call 510.642.3726.

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Permanent Real Estate – Hosted by East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative @ Sustainable Economies Law Center

Mar 6 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Come learn how you fit, and where you can plug into, the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative.

The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EB PREC) uses community investment to develop permanently affordable cooperative housing that uses regenerative practices, like wealth re-distribution, to empower sovereign, self-determined Black Indigenous and POC communities.

Our mission is to facilitate BIPOC and allied communities to cooperatively organize, finance, purchase, occupy, and steward properties, taking them permanently off the speculative market.

By co-creating community controlled assets, thereby reducing risk of displacement, we help people meet their basic social, economic, and emotional needs, and empower them to cooperatively lead a just transition from an extractive capitalist system into one where communities are ecologically, emotionally, spiritually, culturally, and economically restorative and regenerative.

Points of Unity:
This is not an exhaustive list and it is a work in progress. For now, EB PREC has adopted the following points of unity.

~We stand for the liberation and healing of all people and lands oppressed and exploited by histories of Genocide, Slavery, Low wage labor, Land theft, Predatory lending, and Forced migration.

~We provide mutual aid to front-line communities first, the liberation of black and indigenous communities is fundamental to the liberation of all people, a rising tide lifts all boats.

~We believe restorative solutions are rooted in collective land stewardship and decision-making. We prioritize people, planet, and future generations over profits. We move at the pace of community, not capital.

~We build trust and safe spaces with each other by doing the healing work required to transform antiquated capitalist notions into regenerative and cooperative relationships.

~We build productive capacity for disinvested BIPOC communities through community education and networks of cooperatives. EBPREC helps communities manifest vision into reality on the communities terms.

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Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era Is Transforming Kenya @ East Bay Book Sellers

Mar 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

AST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Nanjala Nyabola to discuss her new new book Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya, on Wednesday, March 6th at 7pm.

Kenya is the most digitally advanced country in sub-Saharan Africa, where Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, and other online platforms are part of everyday life. And, as in Western nations, the digital age has had dramatic effects on society and politics. Yet, while we hear about the #MeToo movement and the Russian bot scandal, there is little appreciation for the feminist movement #MyDressMyChoice and the subversion of state-run political propaganda by social media.
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics aims to change this by presenting a unique contribution to the debate on digital democracy. For traditionally marginalized groups, particularly women and the disabled, digital spaces have provided vital platforms that allow Kenyans to build new communities that transcend old ethnic and gender divisions. Covering attempts by political elites to prevent social movements from translating online visibility into meaningful offline gains, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics explores the drastic efforts to contain online activism and new methods of feminist mobilization, as well as how “fake news,” Cambridge Analytica, and allegations of hacking contributed to tensions around the 2017 elections. Reframing digital democracy for the first time from the African perspective, Nanjala Nyabola’s groundbreaking work opens up new ways of understanding our current global online era.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer, humanitarian advocate, and political analyst currently based in Nairobi. She is a frequent columnist at Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, and other publications.

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Film Showing: What is Democracy? by Astra Taylor at the Grand Lake @ Grand Lake Theater

Mar 6 @ 7:15 pm – 9:15 pm

What is Democracy?

Grand Lake Theater

One Night Only!

Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Main auditorium at 7:15pm

Astra Taylor in person with philosopher Wendy Brown, moderator Anasuya Sengupta and other special guests

Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted.

Director Astra Taylor’s idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents: from ancient Athens’ groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism’s roots in medieval Italy; from modern-day Greece grappling with financial collapse and a mounting refugee crisis to the United States reckoning with its racist past and the growing gap between rich and poor.

Featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, and former prime ministers—this urgent film connects the past and the present, the emotional and the intellectual, the personal and the political, in order to provoke and inspire. If we want to live in democracy, we must first ask what the word even means.

Taylor was active in the Occupy Movement and was the co-editor of Occupy!: An OWS-Inspired Gazette with Sarah Leonard of Dissent magazine and Keith Gessen of n+1.^[18] The broadsheet covered Occupy Wall Street in five issues over the course of the first year of the occupation and was later anthologized by Verso Books

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Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – Automated License Plate Readers, Etc @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1

Mar 7 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Agenda:

4. 5:15pm: UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic – presentation of draft Privacy Principles; review and take possible action.
5. 5:30pm: Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – OPD – presentation of inaugural annual reports (FBI/JTTF, ATF, DEA, US Marshals task forces), review and take possible action.
6. 5:45pm: Presentation by Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maas – use and risks of Automated License Plate Readers
7. 6:00pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DOT – Automated License Plate Reader Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy – review and take possible action.
8. 6:30pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Automated License Plate Reader Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy – review and take possible action.
9. 6:50pm: Review of Old Business and take possible action

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Rodeo Town Hall on Refinery Expansion @ Rodeo Hills Elementary School

Mar 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Refinery corridor residents and allies are busy organizing a community forum on Phillips 66’s very dangerous plans to expand tar sands refining at its Rodeo facility. Increased use of tar sands in the P66 crude slate means vastly increased tanker traffic in the Bay, an increased risk of spills, and increased assaults on community health and our worsening climate. This town hall is an opportunity to learn about the two linked P66 proposals—the first Environmental Impact Report drops soon—and what we can do to stop them.

Please come out to listen, learn, and offer support to impacted community residents.

Food and beverage provided!

Confirmed speakers:

Andres Soto, Communities for a Better Environment
Pennie Opal Plant [and or Alison Ehara Brown], Idle No More SF Bay
LaDonna Williams, All Positives Possible and Fresh Air Vallejo
Janice Kirsch, MD, 350 Bay Area
Janet Pygeorge, President, Rodeo Citizens Association
Greg Karris, Senior Scientist, Communities for a Better Environment

Sponsored by:

Rodeo Citizens Association, Crockett-Rodeo United to Defend the Environment, Fresh Air Vallejo, Sunflower Alliance, 350 Bay Area, Idle No More SF Bay, Communities for a Better Environment, and Stand.earth.

Watch Online: Visit facebook.com/standearth at 6:00 PM PST on Thursday, March 7th.

RSVP: action@sunflower-alliance.org

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Author Event: Positions of the Sun. The Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, and Counter-Movements. @ Mrs. Dalloways

Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

The mid-2000s financial “crisis,” the spread of neoliberalism, and attempts by activists and artists to counter it.

Lyn Hejinian, with Trisha Low and Noah Warren

Celebrating the publication of Hejinian’s Positions of the Sun.

To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of Positions of the Sun in advance at Mrs. Dalloway’s or by speaking to one of our booksellers.

Positions of the Sun is a sometimes melancholy, sometimes militant cross-genre experiment, combining elements of (largely non-narrative) fiction, with those of local journalism, and of cultural and literary criticism. Its twenty-six interlocking “essays with characters” (plus a “Coda”) explore the mid-2000s financial “crisis,” the spread of neoliberalism, and attempts by activists and artists to counter it, through the movements and daily lives of a wide-ranging cast of characters located in the Bay Area. In Positions, Hejinian plays the bricoleur, bringing together whatever’s needed in her approach to the subject, whether it’s the paratactic tactics of poetry, scholarship’s critical patchwork, or characters set in time that evokes but frustrates narrative. Positions of the Sun is the second work in Belladonna*’s Germinal Texts Series, which seeks to trace feminist avant-garde histories and the poetic lineages they produce.

Lyn Hejinian teaches at UC Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of more than twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which is Positions of the Sun. Her poetic trilogy Tribunal will publish later this year. The recipient of various awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions.

Trisha Low is a poet and performer living in the East Bay. She is the author of The Compleat Purge and the forthcoming Socialist Realism.

Noah Warren is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A former Stegner Fellow, his work appears in The Paris Review, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, New England Review, PEN America, and elsewhere. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at UC Berkeley.

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Green New Deal: A Bold New Solution Or Sustainable Snake Oil for a Green American Empire @ Revolution Books

Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Discuss & Debate
The Green New Deal:
A Bold New Solution
Or
Sustainable Snake Oil for a Green American Empire

Read The New Green Deal https://revcom.us/a/581/the-green-new-deal-sustainable-snake-oil-for-a-green-american-empire-en.html

For more event information: https://www.revolutionbooks.org/

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Speaker: Ahmed Abu Artema, of the Gaza Great March of Return @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church

Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The Middle East Children’s Alliance & The American Friends Service Committee present Palestinian journalist and refugee, Ahmed Abu Artema –one of the original organizers of the Gaza Great March of Return. He will speak about his experience, the future of nonviolent actions in Palestine, and his vision for a just and lasting peace. He advocates for restoration of Palestinian rights, and his writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, and more.

Ahmed will be joined by Jehad Abusalim, a Chicago-based activist/scholar from Gaza and AFSC Program Associate. This event is part of AFSC’s national speaking tour, “Hashtag to Headlines: How the Gaza Great March of Return Challenged the World”!!

Cosponsored by St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Mission & Justice Committee

Benefit for projects in Gaza

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WOMEN’S STRIKE SPEAK OUT @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Mar 8 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

International Women’s Strike Speak Out – which protests gender violence, racism & imperialism – takes place at Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland. For details, visit facebook ‘international women’s strike Bay Area’ or email gabrielawomen@gmail.com

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Hear German Anti-Coal Direct-Action Activists @ Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics

Mar 8 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Hear climate organizers with the German anti-coal direct action group Ende Gelande discuss their epic campaign to stop the coal mines of the Rhineland region and protect the Hambach Forest.

Brought to you by your friends and comrades at Diablo Rising Tide.

Over the last ten years, a strong and diverse radical climate justice movement has been growing in Germany, founded on principles of frontline struggles, mass mobilization, direct action, and cooperation across organizational and tactical differences.

The last few years saw the emergence of “Ende Gelände” mass mobilizations for civil disobedience; 6,000 people collectively blocked coal infrastructure last fall. Wearing their emblematic white overalls, demonstrators invaded mining pits, danced in front of the diggers, slept on the railways, and provoked pictures that have raised attention globally by exposing the dirty truth behind the official tale of the German energy transition “Energiewende” and making the connection between climate chaos and capitalism.

More info on Ende Gelande here

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International Women’s Day Programming on KPFA @ on KPFA radio, 94.1 FM

Mar 9 all-day

Tune in all day for music,culture and her-stories celebrating the courage, creativity and contributions of some of themost vulnerable and some of the most powerful women on the planet.

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International Working Women’s Day March & Festival @ Fruitvale Village

Mar 9 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Members of GABRIELA Oakland and our allies invite you to join us for a Rally, March & Festival to commemorate the 111th International Working Women’s Day anniversary in honor of the first women strikers in 1908. Join us as we RISE, RESIST, and UNITE to build our collective Resistance here and abroad!

Let us take the streets as we RISE up and say NO to violence against women and Trans people and RESIST militarization and state violence!

Let us RISE to protect women, Trans and Gender non-conforming people, and our children!
Let us RESIST economic exploitation of our women!
Let us UNITE for the self-determination of all oppressed people to fight for their basic rights and livelihood!

*Note* This will be a family friendly march and celebration that will be accessible for children, elders, and people with disabilities. We will also be organizing our own community safety/security team.

Please email gabrielaoakland2018@gmail.com or send us a FB message if you or your organization would like to sponsor or endorse the march.

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Immigration Emergency: In Defense & Defiance – Opening Reception and Live Printing @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center

Mar 9 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

San Francisco Poster Syndicate, a poster artists collective based in San Francisco, will silkscreen prints live during the opening reception to celebrate the new OACC exhibition, Immigration Emergency: In Defense & Defiance. More than 30 local artists produce powerful artworks in response to the Muslim Ban, DACA, proposed changes to the Public Charge Rule, Sanctuary Cities, ICE raids and detention, family separations, the fake border emergency and Trump’s wall, the 2020 Census, the revoking of Temporary Protected Status, and the rise of deportations of Southeast Asians.

Co-presented by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center and San Francisco Poster Syndicate.
http://oacc.cc/iddep/
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-of-immigration-emergency-in-defense-defiance-tickets-57429079924

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March 2019 Mar 2019

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.