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Love jigsaw puzzles?
Hate white supremacy?
Join us at the ACCE office in Oakland for three hours of solving puzzles.
We’ve gotten a bunch of new puzzles donated since the last event, so we’ll be breaking some of those out for this one.
Puzzles for Justice is both a fundraiser for the Black Solidarity Fund*, and a time to relax, chat, be social with fellow racial-justice-minded folks!
For participants, we’ll have tea and snacks and a chance to have fun and put your puzzle-solving skills to work for a great cause! This is a multi-racial, anti-racist, sober, and kid-friendly space.
Solve puzzles! Get to know your fellow activists better! Invite your friends!
*The Black Solidarity Fund
Black communities have been continually dispossessed and Black organizations routinely pitted against each other in competing for limited resources. Community READY Corps has created an alternative funding mechanism, the Black Solidarity Fund, to unify and distribute micro-grants to Black organizations doing work on the ground in the Bay Area. This is the first Black-owned fund of its kind in the country!
Accessibility: This venue is fully wheelchair accessible. We ask that folks arrive sober and as reduced-scent as possible to make sure the space is safe and accessible for everyone! There are no steps to enter the building. The nearest 62 bus stop is 0.3 miles away and the nearest 1 stop is 0.2 miles away. Fruitvale Bart station is 0.8 miles away.
Join PLACE for Sustainable Living, Oakland Climate Action Coalition (OCAC), and Environmental Justice Solutions (E / J Solutions) for a Climate Equity Work Day at the PLACE Hearth Volunteers will seed and pot plants and other fun gardening activities.
OCAC and E / J Solutions are working with the City of Oakland to develop its2030 Equitable Climate Action Plan (ECAP). The ECAP is our roadmap to a Just Transition and Green New Deal for Oakland, climate actions that create good green jobs, reduce pollution, and help Oaklanders thrive.
Climate Equity Work Days, best summarized by the maxim, “what the hands do, the heart learns,” are opportunities for residents to participate in hands-on resilience skills building and learn more about how to engage in planning for the future of climate action in Oakland.
Bring sturdy shoes, gloves for gardening and plenty of water. Food will be provided.
See you then!
*PLACE Action Days occur the last Saturday of every month*
You’re invited to the Reel Stories June Film Festival!
July 27th location is the California Theater, 2113 Kittredge, Berkeley, CA.
Reel Stories teaches young women and non-binary youth ages 12-18 how to create a film in only 10 days. Institute and Beginner 1 filmmakers are debuting their films June 29th. Join us for the Reel Stories Film Festival and support the next generation of filmmakers!
Reel Stories believes that when women and non-binary people are better represented behind the scenes in the media, they will be better reflected on the screen. Reel Stories is a non-profit Oakland-based organization that empowers young women and non-binary people with the skills to create their own media, to view current media critically and thoughtfully, and to aspire to leadership in their field.
More info and tickets here.
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
Sun, Jun 30, 2019: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It.
“Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It” – a two part talk including a historical overview of the events leading up to the rise of fascism in Europe leading up to WWII, and a political analysis of the failures of the communist movement at the time in preventing it. This all in light of the current rise of white supremacy and fascist movements in the U.S., Europe and Latin America and the lack of a united left movement to fight it. Supplemental handouts will be available, including a timeline. Presented by Peoples Alliance members Bill Bowers and Tova Fry (both former WWP): Bill leading with the historical overview and TovaFry following with the political analysis, largely based on Trotsky’s work of the same name. Questions and comments will follow the presentations with time limits as needed to ensure that as many people as possible can express their views or ask their questions.
Sun, Jul 14, 2019: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
General Elections in India:
Modi’s Fascism vs. Social Democrats and the Left
Modi has completed 5 years in power, with his BJP having a majority in the Indian Parliament. In 2014, Modi won on the slogan of “Be with everyone, development for everyone” in the background of major corruption scandals in the last 5 years of the 10 years that Congress Party ruled (2004 thru 2014), with Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi as the Congress Party President.
Modi moved rapidly to consolidate power in his hands, ousting or sidelining veteran leaders in his own Party. Under his 5 years of rule, “cow protectors” have become emboldened. Several incidents of lynching of Muslims have taken place, religious bigotry is openly practiced, and assassinations of several public intellectuals, all secularists, have taken place while he mostly sat silently over such egregious violations of civil rights. Further he has tried to create a militarist posture and sought to portray himself as a strong PM, who is willing to take on the terrorists based in Pakistan aggressively. His policies of “demonetization” of 1916 created a great deal of small business distress. Unemployment is at 45 year high and farm distress and farmer suicides continue. But the mass media, now privately owned, and funded by big capital has helped create him as a “the man of the people”.
Raj Sahai will present his views on what is beginning to boil under the surface of a seeming “all is well” scenario presented in India in the mass media and projected and globally.
Let’s get organized together.
The tides of gentrification threaten to wash away what remains of Oakland. The rent is too goddamn high and the Town is drowning. In the spectacle of this commodified landscape, the class resentment simmering underneath ‘economic development’ has become a powder keg. We’ve seen how France responds to a small rise in the cost of living. How Haiti responds to the destructive force of inflation. The Bay Area housing crisis weighs on us like a thousand gas taxes. If not our homes, at least the streets remain ours!
After being on the defensive for so long, it’s time to take the offensive. This means demanding real concessions from landlords and shifts in the housing market. And if these aren’t given over, we will organize them ourselves. For lower rents and tenant control of housing! Toward the abolition of rents and housing for all!
Monthly assemblies are TANC’s public meetings, open to all. If you’d like to get to know us and find out more about our organizing, this is a good opportunity!
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:
occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
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
This is a test of the repeat feature.
Representatives from People’s Park, Defend Oxford Tract, and the Gill Tract Community Farm are coming together to discuss the threat of displacement by the University of California and gentrification in the Bay Area.
We will discuss solidarity between the struggle to protect the commons in these three land struggles, and our connection to land-based movements across the world. This will include updates from Fiend of the MST on the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil, and highlight the need for international solidarity with fights over food sovereignty, land, and housing.
TEACH-IN AGENDA:
6:00 — Mistica and land acknowledgment
6:15 — Updates from People’s Park/OT/GT/MST
6:45 — Impact of privatization on land / greenspace in the Bay Area
7:10 — Land struggles of working people internationally (MST)
7:30 — Updates from Friends of the MST and building international solidarity
7:45 — Next steps for Gill Tract / Oxford Tract / People’s Park solidarity movement. How do we continue to build knowledge, hope, and action about shared struggle?
Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.
Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186
The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a
grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality.
In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and mobilize people against police and state repression. Sisters and brothers! The Oscar Grant Committee invites you to join us in this vital struggle.
We meet on the 1st Monday of each month
You can join our discussion list by sending a blank (doesn’t even need a subject) email to
oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
Join the day of action against Trump’s fake emergency and racist deportation force.
JOIN US!
#ClosetheCamps sign holding
STOP TRUMP’S CHILD CONCENTRATION CAMPS!
Yes! I’ll be there.
Children denied soap and toothbrushes, crowded into unsafe conditions. Separated from their families, subject to cruel treatment that leads to lasting traumas. And some dying in custody- or dying with parents as they cross the Rio GGrande.
We’ve seen the images and heard the stories coming out of child detention centers. Horrifically, these conditions aren’t an accident. They are the byproduct of an intentional strategy by the Trump administration to terrorize immigrant communities and criminalize immigration—from imprisoning children in inhumane conditions to threatening widespread raids to break up families to covering up reports of immigrants dying in U.S. custody and abuses by ICE and CBP agents.
This Tuesday, July 2, while members of Congress are home for the Fourth of July holiday, we will gather at their local offices and make our voices heard. Jp, will you join us?
Yes! I’ll be there.
In recent years, Oakland, San Francisco, and cities across the country have been drastically reshaped by gentrification: new development causes rents in formerly affordable neighborhoods to skyrocket, pricing working people out of their neighborhoods — often where their families have lived for generations — and leaving many people without homes altogether.
Who or what is driving gentrification? How has gentrification played out in Oakland in particular? And what can be done to address the crises of displacement and homelessness caused by gentrification? Join East Bay DSA’s Socialist Night School on Tuesday, July 2 to discuss these questions and more.
Accessibility: The venue and restrooms are wheelchair-accessible.
Required Readings
See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members.
THE OVERPASS LIGHT BRIGADE DISPLAY IS CANCELLED.
You can write a letter directly to Chelsea: heress her address tell her who you are and why you want to save her. Don’t be shy
 PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TO CHELSEA (only hand written and no post cards no pictures do not write any thing on the outside of the letter to
Chelsea Elizebeth Manning
William G Truedale Adult Detention Center
2001 MILL ROAD
ALEXANDRIA VA 22314
here is her letter she wrote to the judge
It’s an extremely well researched LETTER TO THE JUDGE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF SECRET GRAND JURIES Don/t ever forget about what she said in response to her 2nd Grand Jury Trail which they imposed a 500.00 daily fine after 30 days and a $1000.00 daily fine after 60 days
“I’D RATHER STARVE THEN ANSWER YOUR SECRET GRAND JURY”
An update about the events of this last week:
As you may remember, at a hearing on May 16th Judge Anthony Trenga, found Chelsea in contempt of court and imposed graduated fines to be assessed at $500 a day after 30 days and $1000 a day after 60 days, for as long as she remains incarcerated.
During that same hearing, Judge Trenga prevailed upon Ms. Manning to use her confinement as an opportunity to reflect on her principles and objections to the grand jury process. Chelsea did so, and wrote the judge a letter that you can read here: https://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-manning-letter.
In a motion filed on May 31, Chelsea’s attorneys argued that fines and confinement may be used one after the other, but not at the same time, and are not supposed to be used to punish disobedience with a court order, but only to coerce compliance with the court’s order to give grand jury testimony. Coercive fines however, are not usually imposed upon individuals, but rather only against corporations or their representatives.
Attorneys also noted that Judge Trenga failed to conduct a careful examination of Chelsea’s financial capacity, which is required to confirm that the fines will not be excessive or punitive. As Chelsea is no longer even able to pay rent – largely due to her confinement – her lawyers believe that imposing any fine may be presumed to be definitionally punitive, rather than coercive.
Finally, given that the government has now successfully obtained not one, but two indictments, without the benefit of or need for Chelsea’s testimony, Chelsea’s team hopes Judge Trenga will acknowledge that there is no need for her testimony and therefore no utility to her further confinement.
Thank you for donating what you can to help Chelsea fight.
Sincerely,
The Chelsea Resists Support Committee
This Friday, we will take action against ICE and its enablers. To join our action, sign up at this link: https://forms.gle/unvRnDaPqBuwe9FT9
We will meet at the plaza in front of the San Francisco Public Library at 7:45 AM and walk to the location from there.
As Jews, we have grown up with the phrase Never Again seared into our memories. When we say never again, we mean it.
Now, as we see widespread separation of families, detention of children in horrific conditions, and adults and children dying at the border as they attempt to leave violence and instability created largely by our own country’s foreign policies, we refuse to wait to see what happens next.
We know that the current crisis is nothing new in this country. And we know that the crisis is not contained to the border; it is happening in communities across the country as our neighbors are terrorized by ICE raids and by increasingly violent rhetoric from the mouths of this country’s leaders. Until our politicians take drastic action to shut down ICE and create safe conditions for people seeking safety, we must make it impossible for ICE to do business as usual.
#NeverAgainMeans never again.
#NeverAgainMeans abolish ICE.
#NeverAgainMeans close the camps.
#NeverAgainMeans never again for anyone.
PLEASE JOIN US EVERY FRIDAY
“BASTA FREE CHELSEA AND JULIEN ” VIGIL DEMO POTLUCK MUSIC (7PM AFTER PARTY/MEETING ) FRUITVALE & MACARTHUR OAKLAND
WE HOPE TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO OUR ON GOING CAMPAIGNS IN THE BAY ARE here is a link to the bay area action for julien which includes CHELSEA SUPPORT PLEASE SIGN UP
https://bayaction2freeassange.org
Ok, folks, here’s the deal: the Main stream media (MSM) is so full of lies, it’s got the masses confused!! There’s only a few places we can get the truth.
Chelsea and Julian, were two of the most important WHISTLE BLOWERS to tell the truth about USA’s illegal, immoral WARS. That’s why our “US leadership” wants them dead. USA is the largest TERRORIST country in history, killing, wounding, and forcing immigration on millions of folks all over the world!!
To us, saving Chelsea and Julian is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! They told us the truth about the wars! And all the NEW MACARTHYISM. is due to blaming Julian for being a puppet of Russia. So much of all our issues stem from the honesty of Chelsea and Julian!! That’s why our govt. wants to kill them!
Please join us Fridays at our vigil/demo/music/potluck at MacArthur and Fruitvale, and if you know other organizations around the state and the country, contact them and encourage them to organize to protect Chelsea and Julian as well!! We have some pretty good posters, but also bring your own. Thanks. gg and Orion
VIRAL CHELSEA 2 MIN VIDEO TO ABOLISH ICE
https://youtube/R7qpQGGQqa8
AFTER U WATCH THE VIRAL VIDEO PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TO CHELSEA (only hand written and no post cards no pictures do not write any thing on the outside of the letter to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning
William G. Truedale Adult Detention Center
2001 MILL ROAD
ALEXANDRIA VA 22314
$7-40 (Pay-What-You-Can Previews: July 5-11).
July 5-August 4, 2019; July 5, 6, 10, 11 – 8pm; Wed-Thur 7/17-8/1 – 7pm; Fri-Sat 7/12-8/3 – 8pm; Sundays 7/7-8/4 – 5pm
Written by James Ijames
Directed by Darryl V. Jones
A co-production with Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
Opening Night: Friday, July 12
M.A.D. Night: Thursday, July 18 (especially for folks 25 and under)
This award-winning play takes the Elysium of Greek antiquity and flips the script. Inspired by recent events, the play is an expressionistic buzz saw through the contemporary myth that “all lives matter.” Ben Brantley of the New York Times writes: “Kill Move Paradise radiates an urgent and hypnotic theatrical energy.”
The emergence, development, and decline of patriarchal racial capitalism
Why so many crises seem to be converging at this moment
The relationship between systems change and systems transition
The role of critical connections and relationships in facilitating
systems transition into a sustainable, dignity affirming system
CHECK BELOW FOR LOCATIONS OTHER THAN FOR 7/6 and 7/7
SF Mime Troupe’s play – Using the classic pirate novel Treasure Island as its inspiration the show is the story of Hawkins, a civil servant in San Francisco, who accidentally stumbles upon the plans of a developer, L.J. Silver. Through bribery, and label brutality, Silver is overriding all the clear health, safety, and human concerns regarding developing Treasure Island for his own greed.
Written by Michael Gene Sullivan with Ellen Callas, Marie Cartier, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro.
Music by Michael Bello, Lyrics by Daniel Savio.
Co-Directed by Wilma Bonet with Lisa Hori-Garcia.
TREASURE ISLAND features Mime Troupe veterans Lizzie Calogero, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro, Michael Gene Sullivan, as well as returning performers Andre Amarotico and Brian Rivera
Other East Bay dates and locations:
- Frances Willard/Ho Chi Minh Park
Sat, Jul 13th @ 2:00 PM (Music 1:30)
Sun, Jul 14th @ 2:00 PM (Music 1:30)
Hillegass Ave. & Derby St., Berkeley
Ticket Info: FREE (Suggested donation $20)
Post show discussion on 7/13
- Lakeside Park / Lake Merritt
Wed, Jul 31st @ 7:00 PM (Music 6:30)
Thu, Aug 1st @ 7:00 PM (Music 6:30)
Edoff Memorial Band Stand, Oakland
Ticket Info: FREE (Suggested donation $20)
In front of the Edoff Memorial Band Stand - Live Oak Park
Sat, Aug 3rd @ 2:00 PM (Music 1:30)
Sun, Aug 4th @ 2:00 PM (Music 1:30)
Shattuck Ave. & Berryman St., Berkeley
Ticket Info: FREE (Suggested donation $20)
Post show discussion on 8/3
July Suds, Snacks and Socialism forum focuses on Julian Assange, Press Freedom
Join the Peace and Freedom Party’s Alameda County chapter for the monthly Suds, Snacks and Socialism forum All are welcome to discuss the topic of Julian Assange and Press Freedom.
Doors open at 2pm. The program will start promptly at 2:30pm and will wrap up by 4:30pm, but folks can stay and talk as long for as you like. All ages welcome!
The July forum on Julian Assange and Press Freedom is co-sponsored by the Oakland Greens, the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party and Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change and the Task Force on the Americas. The forum is part of our ongoing Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Our purpose is informed political discussion, and the views expressed are those of the speakers only, not official positions of the Peace and Freedom Party or our fellow co-sponsors.