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Jun
12
Sun
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining
Jun 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

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 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.  On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

ooGAOO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! 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

  1. Welcome & Introductions
  2. Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
  3. Announcements
  4. (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

 

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Candlelight Vigil for Orlando Victims @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Jun 12 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

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Jun
13
Mon
LGBTQ Healing & Metta @ Kaiser Memorial Park (with the statues)
Jun 13 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Beloved Ones, the times are urgent and we must remember to love and hold one another. With the recent pains of the Orlando Massacre, we are reminded of the dangers that LGBTQI family members face every day.

I will be holding space at Henry J Kaiser Memorial Park for those who need a hug, a listening ear, a smudging, an energetic cleansing. Stop by to grieve, to ground for a moment of silence, to drum, to sing a mourning song. We will send metta and lovingkindness to our relations in Orlando who are suffering. Bring an item for the #LGBTQI altar if you feel called to do so.

Even if you cannot join us, please join us from wherever you are, in sending metta and prayers to the community in Orlando, and the family and friends of loved ones lost in this senseless and violent act. Feel free to share this invitation with others who may want to attend.

Come find me near the tree and “The Remember Them: Champions for Humanity Monument” in the park.

With all my love, Brenda

P.S. No charge. This is a love offering to community, and donations will be accepted but are not necessary. ♥ Please feel free to share with LGBTQI friends who may be needing energetic support at this time.

P.S.S. If you are a healer I know, and want to also offer support please private message me. Let’s offer space and healing to community together.

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E12th Week of Visionary Action – Film: Beyond Recognition @ 12th St. Parcel
Jun 13 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Join the E12th Coalition and friends for a week of:
• Black & Brown liberation
• Decolonization
• People’s sovereignty
• Hella good food
• A right to housing
• Art, short films, comedy, land, and more!!

Free food and short films each evening, M–Thu.
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MONDAY: 6:30pm – 9:00pm

Honor This Land

Food, discussion, mindfully being with the land, and themes of decolonization from Huichin (Oakland) to Palestine. Screening of the trailer of “Beyond Recognition,” on Ohlone organizing to reclaim stewardship over their sacred sites and traditional homeland, here in the Bay Area.
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TUESDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm

Black & Brown Unity

Drumming & healing circle with Maestro Arturo Carrillo, Black & Brown communities sharing a meal, sharing space, and discussing how to get free together in the face of legacies of trauma, violence, evictions, policing, and systems that pit us against one another. Affirming one another’s beauty and indispensable value to liberation. And screening the trailer of comedian Sampson McCormick’s “A Tough Act To Follow.”
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WEDNESDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm

Building Our Visions

Highlighting visionary projects like Homefulness, POC Sustainable Housing Network, Sustainable Economies Law Center, La Biblioteca, Afrikatown / Qilombo, and more. While the Planning Commission rubber-stamps a segregated luxury tower (with objection from our few yet wonderful allies on the commission), we stay steadfast on the People’s Visions.
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THURSDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm

Healing

Blessed with an abundance of local healing pracitioners in so many modalities, we assert the right of people and land to Heal. Herbal pain patches from Shift Acupuncture Collective; Danza Azteca with CuauhTonal; South African songs with the Vukani Mawethu choir; free food, and more.
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FRIDAY: 3:00–4:00pm

Rally & March Kickoff with #StopStayExpand

“WE DEMAND immediate protections for renters, redirecting City money to protect low wage workers & public education around connection between police terror, displacement and the impact on our schools/young people!”

More info on the Week of Action to ReClaim Oakland:
https://www.facebook.com/events/504950389694691/

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Jun
14
Tue
No Jail Expansion in Alameda County – Board of Supervisors Meeting @ Alameda County Building, 5th floor
Jun 14 @ 9:30 am – 12:00 pm

We need all hands on deck in Alameda County! Despite rapidly growing community opposition, the sheriff’s department is barrelling forward to seek county supervisor approval for the proposed mental health expansion at Santa Rita jail without the community’s consent.

Mobilize with us tomorrow at the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ meeting!

Will you help us change the tide in Alameda County?

The sheriff will be seeking approval for the expansion’s proposed architect and we are mobilizing to tell our Board of Supervisors that we need county money spent on care, not cages! RSVP here.

Let’s show the sheriff and the Board of Supervisors that the community is watching, and that we don’t support money being poured into the sheriff’s pockets.

Come support the No Jail Expansion in Alameda County Coalition as they (and you) try to convince the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to halt their plans to expand Santa Rita Jail.

The Alameda Jail Fight Coalition is gathering to call attention to the Alameda County’s $54 million Santa Rita Jail construction project that has been approved without the community’s consent.

We are expecting the Sheriff’s office to seek approval for the expansion’s proposed construction builder and we are mobilizing to tell our Board of Supervisors that we need county money spent on care, not cages!

Grassroots community organizing power to oppose the jail and prioritize mental health diversion and community-based solutions is growing rapidly. We need you there to help us stop this jail expansion in its tracks.

We encourage community members to join us outside at the Alameda County Administrative Building at 10 am. We will then move into the county chambers to collectively voice our opposition.

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Police Commission Ballot Initiative Hearing – Public Safety Cmte of the Oakland City Council @ Oakland City Hall
Jun 14 @ 12:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Press conference at 12:30 OM outside of City Hall.

Committee meeting begins at 4:00 PM.

Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee will be discussing and potentially voting on moving the Police Commission ballot measure being proposed by Dan Kalb & Noel Gallo and any of the Coalition’s proposed revisions to a full City Council vote. Attendance will be essential for ensuring community support is shown and heard, and that the measure moves forward. Mark your calendar and RSVP to optimize coordinated efforts.

And check back here for more details about the meeting as they are posted: https://oakland.legistar.com/calendar.aspx

 

For the past thirteen years, Oakland tax payers have spent OVER $30 MILLION on Federal oversight of the Police Department because rogue police officers profiled, harassed, abused, and planted drugs on hundreds of Black people in our city. Despite the mandate for reforms, recent events that prompted the firing of Chief Whent indicate that, while some progress has occurred, the underlying culture has not changed.


When people experience police violence and corruption, trust is broken. And without that trust, community members are unlikely to report crimes or work with police to apprehend suspects, compromising the safety of everyone.
We believe that a police commission made up of Oakland residents who have the authority to hold police accountable is necessary. While it may not prevent all abuses of power, it will allow the community a voice in the policies and practices that OPD engages in and will have the power to discipline for misconduct.
OUR MESSAGE:


We need the Public Safety Committee to move Item #3 to the full Council for consideration on Tuesday so the City Council can vote to place this police accountability measure on the November 2016 ballot.

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Week Of Action – #StopStayExpand. Equity for East Oakland. @ Seven Eleven
Jun 14 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Stand up for equitable development & community benefits for East Oakland Residents!

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Oakland’s rents are rising faster than almost every city in the United States creating a displacement crisis that touches all of our communities.  The crisis has particular negative impacts on Black residents that manifest in lack of access to quality housing, jobs, and education, as well as increased racialized profiling.

Meanwhile, the Oakland Police continue to be out of control.

STOP the hemorrhaging of severely impacted populations.

STAY – Retain current & long-time residents of Oakland.

EXPAND opportunities for displaced persons to return to the City.

and put the Oakland Police under civilian control.

The Week of Action is Supported by: ACCE Action, Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP), Community Ready Corps (CRC) and East Bay Organizing Committee (EBOC, Fight 4 $15).

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E12th Week of Visionary Action – Black and Brown Unity: Drum and Healing Circle @ 12th St. Parcel
Jun 14 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

TUESDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm

Black & Brown Unity

Drumming & healing circle with Maestro Arturo Carrillo, Black & Brown communities sharing a meal, sharing space, and discussing how to get free together in the face of legacies of trauma, violence, evictions, policing, and systems that pit us against one another. Affirming one another’s beauty and indispensable value to liberation. And screening the trailer of comedian Sampson McCormick’s “A Tough Act To Follow.”
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WEDNESDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm

Building Our Visions

Highlighting visionary projects like Homefulness, POC Sustainable Housing Network, Sustainable Economies Law Center, La Biblioteca, Afrikatown / Qilombo, and more. While the Planning Commission rubber-stamps a segregated luxury tower (with objection from our few yet wonderful allies on the commission), we stay steadfast on the People’s Visions.
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THURSDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm

Healing

Blessed with an abundance of local healing pracitioners in so many modalities, we assert the right of people and land to Heal. Herbal pain patches from Shift Acupuncture Collective; Danza Azteca with CuauhTonal; South African songs with the Vukani Mawethu choir; free food, and more.
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FRIDAY: 3:00–4:00pm

Rally & March Kickoff with #StopStayExpand

“WE DEMAND immediate protections for renters, redirecting City money to protect low wage workers & public education around connection between police terror, displacement and the impact on our schools/young people!”

More info on the Week of Action to ReClaim Oakland:
https://www.facebook.com/events/504950389694691/

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Film Screenings: Albany Bulb and Saving Midtown. @ Omni Commons
Jun 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

The local filmmaker series continues!

This time, we’ve paired two short documentary films that seemed to complement each other quite well. They depict stories about gentrification on both sides of the Bay: the Bulb in Albany, and the Western Addition neighborhood in San Francisco.

All We Did Was Live: Voices of the Albany Bulb (20 mins)

Directed by Andrew Schrader and Travis Schirmer

Albany Bulb film

This film follows several residents of the Albany Bulb community after they are forcibly removed from their encampments by the city, but the harassment doesn’t stop there…


Saving Midtown (13 mins)

Produced and Directed by Marianne Maeckelbergh and Brandon Jourdan

save midtown

This is the story of the Midtown rent strike, the largest rent strike in San Francisco since 1978.

Doors open at 7, screening at 7:30. The films will be shown in sequence, with Q&A afterwards.  $5 donation appreciated, but no one turned away! Free popcorn and snacks, as always.

~ Sponsored by Liberated Lens ~

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Jun
15
Wed
BERKELEY CLIMATE ACTION COALITION CONVENING: CARBON FARMING @ Ed Roberts Campus
Jun 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Even if we stopped extracting and burning fossil fuels today, the wheels of catastrophic climate change have been set in motion. While reducing emissions is essential, it’s half the battle – we must also sequester carbon out of the atmosphere. The world’s soils hold roughly three times more carbon than the amount stored in the atmosphere. Carbon farming uses intensive composting and innovative land management strategies to draw down even more carbon into our soil. The Bay Area is a hub for this exciting, potentially planet-changing research and practice.

Join our panel of local experts – Jeanne Merrill, Policy Director at CalCAN; UC Berkeley Professor Miguel Altieri; and farmers Elizabeth & Paul Kaiser from Singing Frogs Farm – to explore how improving the health of the planet’s soils holds tremendous potential to slow climate change.

We’ll also hear from Nathan Dahl on the BCAC Land Use Working Group’s campaign to include community gardens as a “by-right” land use in Berkeley’s zoning code, and from Councilmember Jesse Arreguin on the Urban Agriculture Package, which would incentivize food growing in vacant lots.

Email rebecca@ecologycenter.org by Thursday, June 9 to reserve a meal.

Co-sponsored by Berkeley Food Institute.
Invite friends, colleagues, and neighbors and keep growing our local climate movement!

About the Berkeley Climate Action Coalition
The BCAC is a network of local organizations and community members joining together to help implement the City of Berkeley’s ambitious, forty-year Climate Action Plan. We include residents, nonprofits, the City of Berkeley, neighborhood groups, faith-based organizations, schools, businesses, UC Berkeley, and anyone else interested in helping to achieve the critical goal of 80% emissions reductions. Visit the Coalition website to learn more:
www.berkeleyclimatecoalition.org

This event is wheelchair accessible.

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Honoring a Victim of Violence
Jun 15 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

My Brother Tur-Ha Ak says this:
If you have ever appreciated my work in this community, I need folks at 13th & Franklin at 6:00 p.m. this evening to let the world know we love us, we are unafraid, & we will address harm no matter where it comes from. If yall care about me, my family, our work or our people, be there. I’m takin the intersection, if I’m there by myself, so be it but 13th & Franklin belongs to our babies tonight.

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E12th Week of Visionary Action – Building Our Visions @ 12. St. Parcel
Jun 15 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

WEDNESDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm

Building Our Visions

Highlighting visionary projects like Homefulness, POC Sustainable Housing Network, Sustainable Economies Law Center, La Biblioteca, Afrikatown / Qilombo, and more. While the Planning Commission rubber-stamps a segregated luxury tower (with objection from our few yet wonderful allies on the commission), we stay steadfast on the People’s Visions.
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THURSDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm

Healing

Blessed with an abundance of local healing pracitioners in so many modalities, we assert the right of people and land to Heal. Herbal pain patches from Shift Acupuncture Collective; Danza Azteca with CuauhTonal; South African songs with the Vukani Mawethu choir; free food, and more.
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FRIDAY: 3:00–4:00pm

Rally & March Kickoff with #StopStayExpand

“WE DEMAND immediate protections for renters, redirecting City money to protect low wage workers & public education around connection between police terror, displacement and the impact on our schools/young people!”

More info on the Week of Action to ReClaim Oakland:
https://www.facebook.com/events/504950389694691/

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A Conversation about Online Trolling with Sarah Jeong @ Tiki Bar Lounge
Jun 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Join journalist Sarah Jeong for a conversation about online trolling, which she referred to as the “Internet of Garbage.”

Jeong is a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale and the author of the book The Internet of Garbage. She writes for Vice Motherboard, and other magazines and newspapers about the overlap between policy, tech, and the law.

Filmed before a live audience in Oakland tiki bar Longitude (347 14th St., Oakland, CA), each episode is a speculative, informal conversation between Ars Technica hosts Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar and an invited guest. The audience, drawn from Ars Technica’s readers, is also invited to join the conversation and ask questions. These aren’t soundbyte setups; they are deepcuts from the frontiers of research and creativity.

Doors are at 7pm, and the live taping is from 7:30 to 8:00pm (be sure to get there early if you want a seat). Then you can stick around for informal discussion at the bar, along with delicious tiki drinks and snacks. Can’t make it out to Oakland? Never fear! Episodes will be posted to Ars Technica the week after the live events.

For those who attended last month, we’ll have a new speaker setup so it should be easier to hear everything. Audio technology is the final frontier.

Sarah Jeong is a journalist who was trained as a lawyer. She is a contributing editor at Vice Motherboard who writes about technology, policy, and law. She is the author of “The Internet of Garbage”, and has bylines at the Atlantic, the Verge, Forbes, the Guardian, Slate, WIRED, Vice Magazine, and Bitch Magazine. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2014. As a law student, she edited the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. She is a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale for 2016, and also currently a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry.

Annalee Newitz is the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. Previously she was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and io9. She is the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday). Her first novel, Autonomous, comes out in 2017 from Tor Books.

Cyrus Farivar is the senior business editor at Ars Technica. His book, The Internet of Elsewhere (Rutgers University Press) is about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea. He previously was the Sci-Tech Editor, and host of “Spectrum” at Deutsche Welle English, Germany’s international broadcaster.

 

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CAN THE POLICE IN SF REALLY BE REFORMED? @ The Women's Building
Jun 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

CAN THE POLICE IN SF REALLY BE REFORMED?


With the growing movement for Black Lives, and the struggle against racist policing continuing, many people are asking questions about how we can be safe from police terror. The violence of modern day policing has its roots in the capitalist state. Come join us to discuss this history and what’s next for the movement to get killer cops charged, fired, and jailed. What should we be demanding to defend Black, Latino, homeless, and working people in San Francisco and beyond?

 

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Police Stops: Data and the Way Forward. @ Castlemont High School
Jun 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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Jun
16
Thu
East of Salinas: Film & Discussion @ The Lab, Suite 300
Jun 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

East of Salinas: Film & Discussion for Immigrant Heritage Month, 6/16/16

East of Salinas takes us to the heart of California’s “Steinbeck Country,” the Salinas Valley, to meet a bright boy and his dedicated teacher – both sons of migrant farm workers. With parents who are busy working long hours in the fields, third grader Jose Ansaldo often turns to his teacher, Oscar Ramos, for guidance. But Jose is undocumented; he was born in Mexico. Like many other migrant children, he is beginning to understand the situation – and the opportunities that may be lost to him through no fault of his own.

Sponsored by MomsRising’s Good Food Force, Ecology Center, Civic Engagement Laboratory and Welcome.US for Immigrant Heritage Month. Light snacks and non-alcoholic beverages will be served.

Click here to get your tickets for this free event!

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E12th Week of Visionary Action – Healing
Jun 16 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

THURSDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm

Healing

Blessed with an abundance of local healing pracitioners in so many modalities, we assert the right of people and land to Heal. Herbal pain patches from Shift Acupuncture Collective; Danza Azteca with CuauhTonal; South African songs with the Vukani Mawethu choir; free food, and more.
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FRIDAY: 3:00–4:00pm

Rally & March Kickoff with #StopStayExpand

“WE DEMAND immediate protections for renters, redirecting City money to protect low wage workers & public education around connection between police terror, displacement and the impact on our schools/young people!”

More info on the Week of Action to ReClaim Oakland:
https://www.facebook.com/events/504950389694691/

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Jun
17
Fri
A Conversation with Bobby Seale and a #Frisco5 Hunger Striker. @ Freedom Archives
Jun 17 @ 4:52 am – 5:52 am

Averi Sellassie Blackwell, 39, will lead a frank conversation with Bobby Seale, 79. Tickets are available for $20.

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Week Of Action – #StopStayExpand. March & Action to Reclaim Oakland. @ E 12th St. Parcel - diagonally across from 1200 Lakeshore
Jun 17 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

March to City Hall, Rally at OGP.

Oakland’s rents are rising faster than almost every city in the United States creating a displacement crisis that touches all of our communities.  The crisis has particular negative impacts on Black residents that manifest in lack of access to quality housing, jobs, and education, as well as increased racialized profiling.

Meanwhile, the Oakland Police continue to be out of control.

STOP the hemorrhaging of severely impacted populations.

STAY – Retain current & long-time residents of Oakland.

EXPAND opportunities for displaced persons to return to the City.

and put the Oakland Police under civilian control.

The Week of Action is Supported by: ACCE Action, Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP), Community Ready Corps (CRC) and East Bay Organizing Committee (EBOC, Fight 4 $15).

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1971: The Discovery of COINTELPRO – Film Screening @ Unitarian Universalist Center
Jun 17 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

 

            Forty-five years ago, before Watergate, Wikipedia Leaks and Eric Snowden, there was Media, Pennsylvania, 1971.   It was the town where eight brave souls broke into the FBI office and stole secret files and shared them with the public.   In doing so they uncovered the FBI’s illegal domestic spying program COINTELPRO.

            The film was produced and directed by Johanna Hamilton bringing this crucial but little known episode to life. 

            This riveting heist story told through a combination of exclusive interviews, rare primary documents,  the investigation, and national news coverage spurs dramatic reactions.   The film reveals the haunting echoes to today’s question of privacy in the era of government surveillance.

As usual, popcorn and other refreshments will also be available.

Free Admission (donations appreciated).  

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