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Special guest speaker at our next meeting
On Monday, November 27th, at 5:30pm, FPBO will host a special guest speaker. Longtime Native/Chicano activist Roberto Mendoza will compare and contrast capitalist values and indigenous values. His one-hour talk will be followed by a short business meeting.
Roberto’s career as an activist began with the occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay in 1969. He has been involved in the Pit River struggle and in Los Siete de la Raza; he was co-chair of the San Francisco chapter of the American Indian Movement and a leader in the bioregional movement, Green Party USA, Detroit Summer, the Center for Vision and Policy in Maine, Idle No More Central Oklahoma and the Green Corn Movement of Oklahoma. He is the author of Look! A Nation is Coming: Native Americans and the Second American Revolution.
Roberto is also a muralist and filmmaker whose latest film project is Out of the Shadows, a film about how homeless people and undocumented people live in the shadows. He is currently developing a seminar on the differences between indigenous and capitalist values and how the revolution will be indigenized.
Folks are asking what they can do with other parents, teachers and students at their schools to stop the District from cutting $5.6 million from school site budgets. Here are the THREE things we ALL need to do:
- 1) Email the Board members and tell them to #ChopFromTheTop & #NoCutsToSchools: http://bit.ly/EmailOUSDBoard;
- 2) Come to the Board meeting on November 27 at 5:30pm at KDOL Studios/Met West 314 East 10th St;
- 3) Keep reporting the cuts and their impacts to us using this form: http://bit.ly/OUSDCuts2017. #J4OS #JusticeForOaklandStudents
Last Tuesdays of the month are general orientation meetings for new volunteers. (The first three Tuesdays of the month are open hacknights – we stay focused! )
Our goal is to create a wireless mesh network that is owned and operated by the community.
Want to help create an alternate means of digital communication that isn’t governed by for-profit internet service providers? We need people with both technical and non-technical backgrounds to help with everything from local community involvement and crowdfunding to mounting wifi routers on buildings and developing software!
Learn more at:Â http://sudomesh.org/
On Nov 29th, we join together with graduate students nationwide to oppose the GOP tax plan. The tax plan targets higher education by taxing tuition waivers as income, drastically increasing the amount we pay in taxes and locking out continuing and future grads who can’t afford the cost.
At 12pm on Wednesday 11/29, join together with grads, undergrads, faculty, staff, and community members at Sproul Steps. Bring a sign, bring a friend, and come ready to make some noise!
Starting at 10 am gather at Anthony Hall to make signs, have breakfast, and perform outreach about the bill. Walkout at 12 pm to gather at Sproul Plaza for a rally and speak out against the bill.
This action is co-sponsored by: The UC Student-Workers Union (UAW 2865), The UC Postdoctoral Researchers Union (UAW 5810), the Graduate Assembly (GA), International Socialist Organization (ISO), UC AFT, Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Association (EEGSA), BERC Action, and the Berkeley Faculty Association (BFA).
As the anniversary of the fire fast approaches, Safer DIY Spaces and Oakland Warehouse Coalition would very much like to check in with you, our community, to summarize what we’ve witnessed over the last year during our efforts to halt displacement, improve building safety, shore up DIY tenants’ rights, and fix a broken event permitting process.
Most importantly, we want to hear back from you – your questions, your experiences over the last year, and where you think our collective priorities should be moving forward into 2018, when new resources are slated to become available to aid struggling spaces. There is more at stake now than ever before, and a community meeting is long overdue.
Unlike the large public meetings of last year, there will be no breakout groups for this event, which will start promptly at 7pm. We will be providing loads of yummy pizza and beverages, so come early to grub and chat with your comrades! After the event, members of Safer DIY Spaces and Oakland Warehouse Coalition will be available for consultations with anyone needing assistance.
Agenda (subject to change):
6:00pm: Ballroom Doors open, come get some grub!
7:00pm: DIY & OWC 2017 Status Report Presentation
7:30pm: *Special Guests* TBA
• Claudia Cappio, Assistant City Administrator, City of Oakland
• Leah Simon-Weisberg, Attorney, Centro Legal de la Raza / Berkeley Rent Board Member
• Braz Shabrell, Attorney, East Bay Community Law Center
• Sadaf Zahoor of Burnt Ramen
8:00pm: Q&A with our panel. Question cards available if you prefer anonymity. Please do not disclose addresses.
8:30pm: Community reportbacks and announcements – please sign up onsite
8:45pm on: One-on-one consultation, legal referral, feedback
Suggestion book & mailing list signup will be available.
*** This is not a media event. Please respect everyone’s privacy. No broadcast, social media video, or audio recording please. ***
There is one very considerate documentary filmmaker (www.jasoncohenproductions.
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
- Steward an Editing Suite
- Share an equipment library
- Teach each other and make films together
- Host screenings with local filmmakers
- Organize a short film festival
We have flexible rates for event videography, music videos, short documentaries, etc.
Anyone with an interest is welcome to attent.
Bay Area folks: there's a tax protest tomorrow in SF at noon, organized by every @IndivisibleTeam group around. Be there or be square. Be advised the the House could pass the Senate bill tomorrow and the bill would not go to any conference committee. pic.twitter.com/asIZglitxN
— RedwoodWitch🌹 wants healthcare & housing for all (@RedwoodGirl) December 3, 2017
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
THIS EVENT HAS APPARENTLY BEEN CANCELLED.
Protest outside Verizon store against the rollback of net neutrality protections.
Protest outside Verizon store against the rollback of net neutrality protections.
Join other Team Internet members at the protest. Internet users outraged by top Verizon lawyer turned FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to gut net neutrality are planning to protest at Verizon retail stores across the country on Thursday, December 7th, one week before an expected vote at the FCC. Protesters will make it clear to members of Congress that the time is now to stand for net neutrality, not Verizon’s bottom line. And please remember, this event is about protesting actions of Verizon executives, lobbyists and their supporters in Washington, not the employees at these stores.
The new chairman of the FCC was a top guy at Verizon, and he just called a vote to kill net neutrality. On December 7, one week before the vote, we’ll protest at retail stores across the U.S. and demand that Congress stop Verizon’s FCC from destroying the Internet as we know it.
And please remember, this event is about protesting actions of Verizon executives, lobbyists and their supporters in Washington, not the employees at these stores. Please treat them with nothing but the utmost respect.
Bay Area Rally Against the Libyan Slave Trade! 5:30 PM!
December 7th
Oscar Grant plaza 14th & Broadway downtown Oakland!!
Share this ASAP!!!— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 7, 2017
Join other Team Internet members at the protest. Internet users outraged by top Verizon lawyer turned FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to gut net neutrality are planning to protest across the country on Thursday, December 7th, one week before an expected vote at the FCC. Protesters will make it clear to members of Congress that the time is now to stand for net neutrality, not Verizon’s bottom line. And please remember, this event is about protesting actions of Verizon executives, lobbyists and their supporters in Washington, not the employees at these stores.
Protest and march: Liar Liar Pants on Fire! Kids & Friends Against the Tax Scam. Sat. Dec. 9, 11AM-12 noon in Oakland at Astro Park by Lake Merritt & Lakeview Library pic.twitter.com/8NaL3g88YO
— Indivisible Berkeley (@IndivisibleBerk) December 6, 2017
San Francisco – Led by Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim leaders, community members from across the Bay Area will rally in San Francisco to oppose Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a move that violates international law and furthers the ongoing theft of Palestinian land by the Israeli state.
“Trump’s outrageous announcement, which was applauded by Israeli officials, demonstrates the natural alliance between his administration’s white supremacy and Israel’s apartheid, racism, and systematic violence against the Palestinian people,” said Sharif Zakout of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center. “The Trump administration is only more blatantly carrying out what has been the US’s long standing policy of supporting Israeli occupation, settlement expansion, theft of Palestinian land, and routine military violence against the Palestinian population.”
The rally will feature powerful speakers and performers. Spokespeople will be available to speak with the press.
General Union of Palestine Students -GUPS SFSU and AROC: Arab Resource & Organizing Center
PROTEST FOR PALESTINE: Hands Off Jerusalem!
The Trump Administration has just announced that they will officially recognize occupied Jerusalem as the capital of the settler colonial State of Israel.
The San Francisco Bay Area rejects this move and asserts that Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.
US Out of Palestine!
No to White Supremacy Here or in Our Homelands!
Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel!
End the colonial occupation of Palestine
…
CO-SPONSORS:
14 Friends of Palestine, Marin
Al-Awda SF
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA)
Anakbayan – East Bay
ANSWER Bay Area
Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP)
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
Asians for Black Lives – Bay Area (A4BL)
Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine
CodePink
Design Action Collective
Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)
General Union of Palestine Students, SFSU (GUPS)
International Action Center
International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)
Jewish Voice for Peace-Bay Area (JVP)
Marcha Patriotica Colombia-California
Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
National Lawyers Guild – SF (NLG)
NorCal International Solidarity Movement
Palestine American Coalition (PAC)
Palestine Legal
Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT)
San Francisco CODEPINK
Students for Justice in Palestine-Berkeley
Students for Justice in Palestine-San Jose
SWANAA-BAY AREA
Third World Resistance
Voice for Justice in Palestine – Walnut Creek
Workers World Party
Hands Off Jerusalem: Hundreds of Community Members to Rally in Defiance of Trump’s Jerusalem Announcement
Press Contacts:
Jody Sokolower – 510.499.4315 –Â jasokolower@gmail.com
Middle East Children’s Alliance
Lara Kiswani – 530.220.2842 – lara@araborganizing.org
Arab Resource & Organizing Center
DEFEND AUNTI FRANCES! Emergency Eviction Defense Rally.
Please come for an emergency eviction defense rally for beloved Oakland community member Aunti Frances Moore. It is crucial we get as many people as possible to show up and prove to Aunti Frances’ landlords that her community will support her no matter what. As the official launch of our eviction defense campaign, this event and its community turnout will be crucial. We will celebrate with food, music, and people power. Bring your kids, friends, and neighbors!
For any questions, please contact info@defendauntifrances.orgStay connected with this cause!
Join your fellow East Bay DSA members for the first of our bi-monthly membership meetings! This is an opportunity to meet new comrades, learn about what’s happening in the chapter, and participate in our shared democratic process. These meetings, which include voting and debate on proposals for chapter projects, are the highest decision-making body within our chapter. Your participation is crucial for determining our shared political and organizational priorities.
A draft agenda of business to be voted on at the meeting will be posted to the East Bay DSA website on Tuesday, November 21, and the final agenda — including any amendments submitted to the proposals — will be posted by Sunday, December 3.
The agenda is crafted by the Local Council (LC) and by general membership. Agenda items are either developed by members in collaboration with the Local Council, or brought forward by LC committees. Members can also automatically put a proposal on the agenda by gathering the signatures of 10 percent of our chapter membership, which currently equals 90 members. Please see the full set of meeting deadlines and procedures here. Members will also be able to submit position papers in support of or opposed to proposals, to be published on our website, via a link that will be posted with the draft and final agendas.
Meetings like this take a lot of collective effort! Please volunteer to help with setup, sign-in, and other important tasks.
The Omni Commons ballroom is wheelchair accessible, and the Omni Commons has a wheelchair-accessible restroom. Detailed accessibility information for the Omni is here.
If you would like to request accessibility accommodation, including supervised child activities, please fill out the RSVP form or email gm@eastbaydsa.org. We are continually trying to improve our democratic mechanisms, so please reach out via that email address if you have any other questions or feedback about the meetings process.
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
Kick-off meeting to create Slingshot issue #126. Slingshot is an independent radical newspaper published in Berkeley since 1988.
* Brainstorm articles for next issue
* Orientation on how you can submit articles, art, photographs
* Help us discuss our audience and themes for the next issue
* Discuss fundraising and distribution
* Your chance to comment on Slingshot
Everyone is welcome.
Issue #126 is due out on January 26, 2018
Deadline for Issue #126 is January 13, 2018
OTU’s Mission
The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf.
Monthly Meetings
The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 pm on the second Monday evening of each month. Our monthly meetings are held in the Community Room of the Madison Park Apartments, 100 – 9th Street (at Oak Street, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station). To enter, gently knock on the window of the room to the right of the main entrance to the building. At the meetings, first we focus on general issues affecting renters city-wide and then second we offer advice to renters regarding their individual concerns.
If you have an issue, a question, or need advice about a tenant/landlord issue, please call us at (510) 704-5276. Leave a message with your name and phone number and someone will get back to you.