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Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed by our State Legislature and around the Bay Area, including the Alameda and San Francisco County Boards of Supervisors, the BART Board of Directors, and by the Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and Davis City Councils.
We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, ALPRs, requirements for “backdoors” to your cellphone and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments.
Oakland Privacy (nee Oakland Privacy Working Group) originally came together in 2013 to fight against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network; its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts further restrictions on the now Port-restricted DAC, and made Oakland’s new Privacy Advisory Commission to the City Council happen. We were also the lead in having Alameda County pass the most comprehensive privacy and usage policy in the country for deployment of “Stingray” technology (cell phone interceptors). Oakland and Fremont have followed suit. In conjunction with other groups we fight against Urban Shield and other killer-cop trainings.
We have presented our work at RightsCon in San Francisco and at Left Forum and HOPE in New York City.
If you would like to attend our meeting and would like a quick introduction to what we’re doing before we dive right into the thick of our agenda, send email to contact@oaklandprivacy.org and one of us will arange to meet you before the meeting.
Stop by and learn how you can help guard our right not to be spied on by the government. Look on the whiteboard inside near the entrance to the OMNI for our exact location within the OMNI.
If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:
oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net
or send a request to contact@oaklandprivacy.org
For more information on the DAC check out
Tomorrow the Assistant Sheriff and Commander of the Alameda County Sheriff’s department will be giving an overview of Urban Shield 2017. This is an opportunity to demand the Alameda County Board of Supervisors end their reliance on Urban Shield and militarized policing.
Next opportunity to turn out against Urban Shield:
Meeting of Alameda County Taskforce on Urban Shield
Friday, August 11th, 9am
Conference and Training Center
125 12th St, 4th Fl
Oakland, CA
Join us for the Thinking Ahead speaker series with Richmond City Council member Melvin Willis and journalist Steve Early on a discussion of community empowerment and transformative policies that help get big money out of politics.
What can we do to ensure everyone shares in the prosperity that they contribute to? Come hear how progress-minded activists transformed a city dominated by a narrow corporate agenda into a model for a greater shared prosperity.
RSVP here.
Greetings all,
Decarcerate Alameda will be hosting a CURB Letter to the Editor Training and a working meeting as we prepare for an emergency mobilization.
Letters to the editor are a quick and easy way to influence reporters, editorial boards and public opinion and a great way to practice our arguments and talking points. Please try to bring in a recent article you may want to respond to (especially about Alameda County), as well as a laptop, pen & paper, or whatever writing utensil suits you.
Reach out with questions, no need to have been at any recent meeting to join!
In the summer of 1892, the nation’s largest steelmaker (Carnegie) took on its most militant labor union, with devastating consequences. Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick head a fascinating cast of characters, including Pinkerton guards and anarchist Alexander Berkman. Directed by Steffi Domike and Nicole Fauteux.
To evoke the period, the film employs documentary techniques, primary sources, dramatically staged scenes shot on location in the Pittsburgh area, and lyrical commentary found in poetry, song and fiction. Labor Singer Jimmy Kelly Will Lead a Sing-Along Song Salute to Woody Guthrie, the Dustbowl Balladeer.
‘Feminist’ Police Chief and Mayor promote ‘Good Old Boys’ Club
#FireRapistCops
#ProsecutionNotPromotion
JOIN US IN PICKETING THIS OUTRAGEOUS OPD PROMOTIONS CEREMONY, where Chief Kirkpatrick is promoting three of the criminal cops responsible for covering up the child rape actions of OPD (and other jurisdictions) police officers.
Chief Kirkpatrick has approved major promotions for the very officers who failed to properly investigate the rape scandal, notify the federal monitor, DA and Mayor, and even encouraged “Celeste Guap’ to destroy evidence in the case. Schaaf closed her investigation before findings were even issued.
According to a brief filed by Jim Chanin and John Burris, who originally filed the class-action which led to the NSA, “There is no evidence that any of the officers engaging in this behavior, or any of the supervisors who observed it and apparently failed to report it, stop it, or discipline their subordinates, were ever investigated, and if appropriate, disciplined by the Oakland Police Department.”
APTP has no faith in the Mayor’s or Chief Kirkpatrick’s ability to get a handle on the blatant culture of sexual abuse and general disregard for the rights of the Black community, people of color, LGBTQIA, undocumented, disabled and unhoused people of Oakland.
Please comment if your organization would like to endorse the event. All: please share and invite your friends. Bring your signs and your voices!
Watch this page for updates!!!
Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members this and every Friday to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.
Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER! We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.
Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.
Join Berkeley Copwatch on Saturday, July 15th to get training on how to…
* deal with the police
* safely assert your rights
* safely and effectively observe the police in your community.
The trainings usually last 2 – 3 hours.
This is a free event; snacks will be included! Bring your bodies and your buddies, as well as questions, concerns, stories, resources.
And in the meantime, check out the Berkeley Copwatch Know Your Rights Pocket Card here: http://
Join us for the first coalition gathering of the Qilombo Healers Collective! Help us build a permanent healing space with ongoing programming that promotes autonomous, accessible and holistic healthcare in our communities. The Medical Industrial Complex has never given us meaningful options for accessible holistic healing. With TrumpCare threatening to cut MedicAid to 22 million low-income people across the country, the need for autonomy from America’s failed health system is more important than ever. We want to spread health and wellness knowledge and empower our communities to care for ourselves, rather than relying on the profit-driven healthcare system that values their bottomline over our lives.
We are group of about 10 healers and health educators from a wide range of backgrounds and modalities. We have been meeting since February developing our vision for an autonomous network of groups and organizations dedicated to decentralizing health knowledge and sharing our skills, practices and traditions with the community. We are renting a room in Qilombo, and have converted it into a permanent healing space. We hope to use this space as a home base for coordinating a series of classes, workshops and healing clinics, as well as a free or low-cost space for healers to practice their crafts.
So far we have been coordinating with members of the People’s Community Medics, the Healing Clinic Collective, the Black Wellness Collaborative: Healing with the People, and several herbalist, yoga teachers, massage therapist, sounds healers and Reiki practitioners. We have also reached out to a self-defense collective, a free clinic and several HIV prevention and education organizations. We are welcoming all groups and individuals who share our vision to help us build this project and coordinate our existing work to strengthen and support each other in the hard times ahead.
Please RSVP and share this event with your friends, collectives, organizations and anyone who shares our vision who you think would be interested in participating and/or sharing their knowledge and resources.
See you on the 15th!
Solidarity,
The Qilombo Healers Collective
July 15th Nationwide Protests – Rally at UN Plaza then March to the Mission
To all who agonize and rage at what’s being done to the people, protest and demand:
THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America!
Only the people acting together in the streets and public square can force this demand before the world. Should we fail to do so, the future and values we aspire to could be brutally cut short by the actions of the Trump/Pence regime.
The Trump/Pence government has been step by step criminalizing dissent and bludgeoning the truth with worse to come. Stripping away basic rights and the rule of law is at the core of fascism. Group after group is demonized and targeted along a trajectory leading to real horrors. We must not let this be normalized. History has shown that fascism must be stopped before it becomes too late.
July 15th must be a day when every person, every group –religious, community, service, political organization – all who feel the tremendous threat to humanity posed by the Trump/Pence regime – stand together showing the world that people here are determined that this regime must go …not in two years or four, but now.
On July 15, with conviction and courage, overcoming fear and uncertainty, we will act together to resist and say NO!… Not for ourselves alone, but in the name of humanity.
Contact Refuse Fascism to volunteer or to make your organization a partner or co-sponsor of July 15th.
Get involved: 510-253-5551 norcal [at] refusefascism.org
Endorse/signup Facebook.com/RefuseFascismBayArea
Refuse Fascism 917-407-1286; info [at] refusefascism.org http://www.refusefascism.org
Price: Free
8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony & Registration
9:30 a.m. Walk Begins
There are several places along the walk where folks can join the walk – please see the details of the route below.
The walk will end at Martinez Shoreline Park, end of Ferry Street in the City of Martinez, California
Please feel free to join us for the prayers for the water at 8:00 a.m. We will walk to the shore and make our prayers. Feel free to bring a small bottle of water from your area to join the waters in the Carquinez Straights (where the Delta meets the Bay) in Pittsburg.
Registration for the walk will begin at 8:00 a.m. Walkers will be asked to agree to the Nonviolent Principles. For details on what to bring/not bring, please go to “What To Expect” in the tabs above.
This walk is approximately 13.5 miles from beginning to end. There will be support vehicles available for people who wish to take breaks during the walk. Medics will also be available. Water will be provided – please bring your reusable water bottle.
Walk #2: Saturday, May 20th
We will begin near the Martinez Shoreline Park at the end of Ferry Street
in the City of Martinez, California
8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony & Registration
9:30 a.m. Walk Begins
There are several places along the walk where folks can join the walk – please see the details of the route below.
The walk will end at the 9th Street Park in the City of Benicia, California
Please feel free to join us for the prayers for the water at 8:00 a.m. Feel free to bring a small bottle of water from your watershed to join the waters in the Carquinez Straights (where the Delta meets the Bay) in Martinez.
Registration for the walk will begin at 8:00 a.m. Walkers will be asked to agree to the Nonviolent Principles. For details on what to bring/not bring, please go to “What To Expect” in the tabs above.
This walk is approximately 9.5 miles from beginning to end. There will be vehicles available for people who wish to take breaks during the walk. Medics will also be available. Water will be provided – please bring your reusable water bottle.
Everyone will be taken back to their vehicles at the end of the walk. If you are coming to the walk with friends and have two vehicles, please consider leaving one vehicle at the end.
Please consider CARPOOLING – You can sign up to give rides or receive a ride here:
https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/8wh0vr
Make sure you keep this phone number with you on the walk:
(510) 619-8279
Scroll down to see the map of the walk.
We will begin in Martinez and walk through the Shell Refinery in Martinez on the public road. It gets exciting when we walk across the Martinez Benicia Bridge over the Carquinez Straights! Once we get to Benicia, we head over to the Valero Refinery where we stop to pray for clean air, water, soil and safe jobs in our communities. We then walk through town to the 9th Street Park for the closing circle, a meal and the final prayers for the waters.
All walkers are encouraged to carry the water for at least five minutes in prayer for the life of the waters around the world.
Please go to the “What to Expect” page for more information:
http://www.refineryhealingwalks.com/what-to-expect.html
Walk #3 – Sunday, June 11th
We will begin at Ninth Street Park in Benicia
8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. Walk Begins
There are two places along the walk where folks can join us – please see the details of the route below.
The walk will end at Lone Street Park in Rodeo
Please join us for prayers for the water at 8:00 a.m. Feel free to bring a small bottle of water from your watershed to join the waters that we will be carrying in prayer along the walk and putting into the Bay at the end of the walk.
Registration for the walk will begin at 9:00 a.m. Walkers will be asked to agree to the Nonviolent Principles. For details on what to bring/not bring, please go to “What To Expect” in the tabs above.
We also request that walkers keep the Four Agreements in mind:
1) Be impeccable with your word
2) Don’t take anything personally
3) Don’t make assumptions
4) Always do your very best
For more information: The Four Agreements
This walk is 10.8 miles from beginning to end. There will be vehicles available for people who wish to take breaks during the walk. Medics will also be available. Water will be provided – Please bring your own refillable water bottle.
There will be three “return” points where people can be taken back to their cars at mile 4 and mile 6 (see map) and at the end. If you are coming to the walk with friends and have two vehicles, please consider leaving one vehicle at the end.
Sure you’re coming? Please carpool to the walk by offering a ride or accepting a ride as soon as possible by signing up here:
CARPOOL
Let us know you’re coming! RSVP BELOW!
Make sure you keep this phone number with you on the walk:
(510) 619-8279
We will begin in Benicia, home to the Valero Refinery, and proceed through Vallejo. Crossing the Carquinez Bridge is always a treat! Then we head toward the Conoco Phillips 66 Refinery in Rodeo , ending at Lone Tree Park.
Walk #4 in July
Sunday, July 16th
Rodeo Conoco Phillips 66 Refinery to Richmond Chevron Refinery California
We encourage folks to walk with us the entire day. It is truly a beautiful, profound and inspiring way to make a difference.
We will begin at Lone Tree Park in Rodeo
8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony – Feel free to bring water from your watershed!
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. Walk Begins
There are several places along the walk where folks can join the walk – please see the details of the route below.
The walk will end at Keller Beach in Richmond
You can join us at any time during the day of the walks.
Call this number to find out where we are: (510) 619-8279
Make sure to keep the phone number on you if you are joining us on the walk!
Registration for the walk will begin at 8:00 a.m. Walkers will be asked to agree to the Nonviolent Principles. For details on what to bring/not bring, please go to “What To Expect” in the tabs above.
This walk is approximately 13 miles from beginning to end. There will be vehicles available for people who wish to take breaks during the walk. Medics will also be available. Water will be provided – Please bring your own refillable water bottle.
Everyone will be taken back to their vehicles at the end of the walk. If you are coming to the walk with friends and have two vehicles, please consider leaving one vehicle at the end. Carpool: Sign up to drive or be a passenger here: CARPOOL
There will be two points where folks can get rides back to the beginning in Rodeo, at the Hilltop stop in Richmond and at the end at Keller Beach.
We will begin at Lone Tree Park in Rodeo within sight of the Conoco Phillips 66 Refinery and walking to Richmond, stopping to pray at several places including the Kinder Morgan facility and the gates of the Chevron refinery. We will end at Keller Beach in Richmond, the last natural beach left in the San Francisco Bay where we will all enjoy a delicious meal made by Mike Bear and his family and youth from Urban Tilth in Richmond!
Can’t come but want to support? Welcome us at Keller Beach in Point Richmond and feel free to bring a dish to share if you would like.
The Museum of Capitalism is hosting an in-person artifact donation event on July 16th from noon-5pm. RSVP, and bring your artifacts of capitalism to be considered for inclusion in the museum’s collection. If you live out of town and are interested in contributing, please visit our new artifact donation platform to submit an item for consideration.
Individuals who possess items related to the history or memory of capitalism, or tied to a personal experience that could help others to understand or feel life in capitalism, are invited to come forward and share their stories with Museum curators. All participants who submit an item for consideration will receive professional photographic documentation of their item, whether or not the Museum wishes to catalog the object for its collection. Donors will be asked to complete a short questionnaire about their donations, and Museum curators and volunteers will conduct short interviews with selected participants.
How are National Security Tools being Used for Deportation?
Since the election, Donald Trump began his campaign to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. He used racist rhetoric to target our communities. Over the course of his Presidency, there has been a sharp increase in immigration arrests.
In March, ICE agents and the FBI used a stingray, an extremely invasive breach of privacy, to track Rudy Carmaco-Carranza, a 23 year old immigrant from El Salvador. A stingray, also known as a cell-site simulator tricks nearby phones into providing location data and can interrupt cell service.
Come join:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus,
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
CAIR – San Francisco Bay Area,
Centro Legal de la Raza
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
ROC the Bay: Restaurant Opportunities Center Bay Area
SEIU Local 87
Learn more about how national security tools like Stingrays, created post 9/11 in response to to the War on Terror, are being used to target immigrant communities here.
The event will include a Know Your Rights Presentation by:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
CAIR – San Francisco Bay Area
followed by a Resource Fair with the opportunity to speak to attorneys.
On July 16th, also join Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for Movement 003: A Party to Benefit Immigrant Rights!
~ Movement ~ is a recurring gathering dedicated to inclusion, connection, activation, and transformation. It is a space that brings together diverse local artists, people who like to dance and express, and nonprofits that work every day to defend the rights of marginalized communities. Ultimately, Movement is a supportive, nurturing environment where our various communities can unite in healing, celebration, and hope.
All benefits from this event will be donated to organizations defending immigrant rights, from which representatives will be joining us and available to discuss their work and volunteer opportunities. Our beneficiary in July is Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).
The Labor Action Committee (LAC) is meeting to discuss what we can do to re-ignite and build the movement to Free Mumia.
We will view a short film (20 minutes) followed by a discussion on the many ways we can build the movement to Free Mumia and all victims of racist frame ups.
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 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 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months, once Daylight Savings Time springs forward we tend to assemble at 4 PM).
On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 2 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over five 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
- 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 feature-length documentary is about police brutality, anti-black racism, and the power of grassroots activism in Cincinnati, Ohio. From 1995-2001 there were fifteen black men killed by the Cincinnati police. The film focuses on two of those murders, Roger Owensby, Jr and Timothy Thomas. Martin Luther King said that “A riot is the cry of the unheard.” Thomas’s death sparked three days of civil unrest and protests. This poignant and powerful story of injustice is told through news reports, first-person accounts and cinema verité footage of the surviving families’ long-suffering battle for justice.
“Cincinnati Goddamn” creates a platform to discuss the state executions of Black men by police and gives voice to the families who have suffered in silence and have been let down by the judicial system. In addition to laying bare the emotional toll that the deaths of Roger Owensby, Jr. and Timothy Thomas took on their families, “Cincinnati Goddamn” details the tactics used by Cincinnati’s grassroots activists groups to reform the police department. The Cincinnati Black United Front, a coalition of activists and clergy, was able to work with the ACLU, the city of Cincinnati and the Department of Justice to craft and implement new policies and procedures that drastically reformed the police department. This historic model of reform known as the “Collaborative Agreement” is now being widely used in police departments throughout the United States in cities such as New Orleans and Oakland.
In light of recent organizing around police brutality in Ferguson, Missouri and dozens of other cities, this film is a perfect tool for education and organizing in communities that have been over-policed and victimized by the justice system.
Filmmaker April Martin will be in attendance.
OccupyForum presents…
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
Occupation as a Tactic:
Lakeview Elementary School and OccupyOakland
With Gerald Smith
As an act of protest, occupation is a strategy often used by social movements and other forms of collective social action in order to take and hold public and symbolic spaces, buildings, critical infrastructure such as entrances to train stations, shopping centers, university buildings, squares, and parks. Opposed to a military occupation, which attempts to subdue a conquered country, a protest occupation is a means to resist the status quo and advocate a change in public policy. Occupation uses space as an instrument to achieve political and economic change, and to construct counter-spaces in which protesters participate in the production and re-imagination of urban space. Often, this is connected the right to inhabit and be in the city as well as to redefine the city in ways that challenge the demands of capitalist accumulation. In many cases local governments declare occupations illegal because protesters seek to control space over a prolonged time. Thus occupations are often in conflict with political authorities and forces of established order, especially the police.
Occupy Oakland was one of the local manifestations of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, a national phenomenon. The occupation of Frank Ogawa Plaza officially began at 4 p.m. on October 10, 2011, with a rally attended by hundreds of supporters. The first general assembly, based on Occupy Wall Street’s New York general assembly, was held in the plaza amphitheater at 6 p.m. and several dozen protesters set up tents that evening. Oakland police estimated that as of April 2012 they had interacted with over 60,000 protesters since the movement began.
The rest is history. Come hear a participant, Gerald Smith, talk about his experiences building and struggling within Occupy Oakland. Special attention will be given to the occupation of Lakeview Elementary School, which was inspired by Occupy Oakland.
Gerald Smith has a long history in the Black Liberation and Workers’ movements. He is currently involved with the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia, Liberated Lens, and the Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality.
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Time will be allotted for discussion and announcements.
Donations to Occupy Forum to cover costs are encouraged; no one turned away!
This week’s OccupyForum is affiliated with Laborfest.
Progress on Public Bank Feasibility Study
First, the good news: the City Council has budgeted $75,0000 for a feasibility study regarding establishment of the Public Bank of Oakland! This study will include the possibility of a multi-jurisdictional public bank and the possibility of accepting deposits from cannabis businesses. However, the Council still needs to vote to authorize the study. This vote will come at the City Council meeting on Tuesday, July 18th.
Item # 18.
Subject: Feasibility And Economic Impact Of Establishing A Public Bank From: Finance Department
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution
(1) Amending The City Of Oakland’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2016-17 Midcycle Budget (Which Was Adopted Pursuant To Resolution No. 86250 C.M.S. On June 21,2016) To Appropriate One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000), From The Fiscal Year 2016-17 General Purpose Fund (1010) Balance For A Contract To Complete A Feasibility Study On Public Banking In Oakland, And
(2) Authorizing The City Administrator Or Her Designee To Negotiate A Scope Of Work, Terms And Execute A Contract With Global Investment Company In An Amount Not To Exceed One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000)
URGENT: Call City Council
Your support is needed now to make sure we get the five votes needed. First, Oakland residents, please call the councilmembers listed below. Say you live in Oakland and you want City Council to authorize the feasibility study for the Public Bank of Oakland. When you call your own councilmember, be sure to say you live in their district.
District 2: Abel Guillen 510-238-7002
District 3: Lynette Gibson McElhaney 510-238-7003
District 4: Annie Campbell Washington 510-238-7004
District 5: Noel Gallo 510-238-7005
District 6: Desley Brooks 510-238-7006
District 7: Larry Reid 510-238-7007
Find your district: http://mapgis.oaklandnet.com/councildistricts/
DONATE to show community support
Second, we need your help to raise the additional $25,000 needed to fully fund the study. At Tuesday’s council meeting, the more funds we can say we’ve already raised, the better our chances of getting a green light. Please use the JustGive button on our website’s homepage to make a tax-deductible donation.
If you prefer, you can pledge an amount to be donated when the feasibility study is authorized. To pledge, send an email to contact@friendsofpublicbankofoakland.org before 3pm on Tuesday, July 18th, and tell us the amount of the pledge and the name of the person or organization making the pledge. In the subject line, please put ‘Pledge for PBO study.’
Thanks!
Watch our new video
Videographer and Friend of the Public Bank Maren Poitras has made an informative ten-minute video to help everyone understand the advantages of public banking. Watch it here.
Spread the word!
Finally, please tell everyone you know about the Public Bank of Oakland! And THANK YOU for your support!
Join us for a evening of fun, friends, and fund-rasing benefitting the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights!
If you unable to join us, show your support through a donation.
For 20 years, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights has fought tirelessly to build the power of black, brown, and poor people to break the cycles of incarceration and poverty and to make our communities safe, healthy, and strong.
The Ella Baker Center’s work includes:
- The Ella Baker Membership: Anyone, anywhere can join our movement to create a safe and just nation
- Restore Oakland: A community hub opening in June 2018 with restorative justice programming, a restaurant, worker training programs, a cooperative food-enterprise incubator, and other services supporting families
- Advocacy: Winning policies that reduce sentences, remove barriers, and restore opportunities by re/investing in jobs, education, healthcare, and housing
- Ella’s Squad: A group of grassroots organizations across the country campaigning to end criminalization and mass incarceration, and re/invest the resources wasted on punishment into building safe and strong communities
We look forward to seeing you.
*Snack and refreshments will be provided
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.
Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. You’ll also hear about SURJ’s new pathways for entering the work, including study and action groups as well as committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We’ll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.
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Address info:
The Sierra Club is located at 2101 Webster Street between 21st and 22nd Street in Oakland. The Sierra Club Offices are on the 13th floor. There is a bank of elevators that go to the 12th floor and above.
Getting Into the Lobby:
The doors for the Sierra Club building lock right at 7pm, so please do your best to arrive prior to 7pm. We will have someone stationed at the Webster entrance to the building until 7:15 for late arrivals. If you arrive after 7pm, please use the Webster entrance.
Accessibility:
Building Accessibility: There are two entrances to Sierra Club Office building on Webster and 21st both of which are accessible for mobility devices. The building has an elevator, and the kitchen space, conference room, and restrooms can also all accommodate mobility devices.
Scents: The Sierra Club’s space endeavors to offer a scent free environment; however as the Club is currently transitioning towards the use of only scent free products, we cannot guarantee an entirely scent free space. We ask everyone to please arrive at meetings fragrance free to support access for folks who experience multiple chemical sensitivities and allergies. This means using only body products and laundry detergent that say “fragrance free” or “unscented” on the label and do not have scented ingredients.
Restrooms: Restrooms are currently labeled in a gender-binary way. The Sierra Club is working on changing this and has an office policy that all restrooms are available to anyone, regardless of lived or perceived gender identity. We ask that folks choose the restroom that is right for them, and that no one question a person’s chosen restroom.