Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.
Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay and nationwide.
We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing.
We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.
Check out some of what we worked on in 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.
Oakland Privacy originally came together in 2013 to fight against the Domain Awareness Center, Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OP was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network. We helped fight and helped win the fight against Urban Shield.
Our major projects currently include local legislation to regulate state surveillance (we got the strongest surveillance regulation ordinance in the country passed in Oakland!), supporting and opposing state legislation as appropriate, battling mass surveillance in the form of facial recognition and other analytics, mass aerial surveillance, ubiquitous license plate readers, and pushing back against ICE.
On September 12th, 2019 we were presented with a Barlow Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for our work, and on March 16th, 2021 s James Madison Freedom of Information Award by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.
If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy email listserv, coming to a meeting, or have questions, send an email to:
Check out our website: http://oaklandprivacy.org/
Follow us on twitter: @oaklandprivacy
Oakland Privacy works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment. Oakland Privacy drove the passage of surveillance regulation and transparency ordinances in Oakland and Berkeley and is kicking off new processes in various municipalities around the Bay. To help slow down the encroaching police and surveillance state all over the Bay Area, join us at the Omni.
Friends of the Public Bank East Bay is a completely volunteer-run, nonprofit organizing to create and build community support for the first public bank in California’s history! If you’re committed to economic justice and interested in helping us build new financial systems by the people for the people, we look forward to having you join us!
We have five committees working together to create a Public Bank in the East Bay:
Advocacy builds relationships with community groups and city governments.
Communications assists other committees with content creation and promotion.
Fundraising develops our organization’s budget and raises funds for our business plan.
Membership brings on new members and volunteers and organizes educational events.
Strategy & Planning is responsible for operations and the execution of PBEB’s business plan.
Email us with your interests and we’ll help you find a way to get plugged in!
We meet every other Wednesday at 6:30 pm.
If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch.
Our Green New Deal Committee meets on the second Wednesday each month. We discuss eco-socialist issues, plan upcoming actions, and invite participation in working group projects and campaigns. All are welcome! Please RSVP or email green-new-deal@eastbaydsa.org.
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Join us for a CA Prison Closure Campaign Info Session – “Building Power Across Walls to #CloseCAPrisons”!
Why are Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) and Critical Resistance (CR) fighting to close 10 prisons by 2025? What are we doing to ensure that we win and that resources are being invested in the life-affirming infrastructure all of our communities need for true safety and sustainability? Want to know how to get involved?
Join us for Building Power Across Walls to #CloseCAPrisons, an online information session about the CA Prison Closure Campaign. We will share an overview of the campaign, share recent updates, and discuss in-depth how to get involved in the fight to close prisons in California, and build vibrant communities across the state.
Register for the event here and read more about the campaign on our website.If you have access needs, such as language interpretation, please email courtney@womenprisoners.org by Thursday, July 7, so we can do our best to accommodate!
The California Prison Closure campaign invites you to an info session & discussion on Thursday, July 14th 6-7:30 PM PST! Come learn why we’re fighting to close 10 prisons by 2025, how we'll win and ensure resources go back to our communities, and how you can get involved pic.twitter.com/2OeVGwbOEQ
— Critical Resistance (@C_Resistance) July 11, 2022
Join the Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force for the first in its third summit series, Climate, Equity, and Race, United Actions. The topic is Ecological Protection.
Register here
Summit Schedule:
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Land Acknowledgement
Corrina Gould, Tribal spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan & Co-Founder, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Welcome
Cheryl Davila, Chair of CEMTF/ Former Councilmember, City of Berkeley
Keynote speaker
Marcy Winograd, Code Pink, speaking about the military and climate
10– 11:00 AM Petrochemicals. Plastics and Climate
11:05 – 11:50 AM Deforestation and the Threat of Wildfire
11:50 Announcements about coming summit events
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“Michael Goldstein is a genuine love warrior and justice seeker. His heart, mind, soul and voice empower us all in these turbulent times.” — Cornel West
Are you tired of trying to make those beholden to the wrong people do the right thing?
Decades of electoral work and activism have failed to bring us sustainability, peace, or a just society. Blessed Disillusionment: Letting Go of What Cannot Save Us, Turning to What Can shows that there is a reason: the political system operates to absorb discontent while averting the fundamental change we urgently need.
Blessed Disillusionment also explains why the crises and upheaval we see in the U.S. will inevitably increase. The question is whether our country will fall to neofascism or ascend to true democracy and, in time, the beloved community.
Finally, the book offers a path towards building a massive, nonviolent, but truly revolutionary movement — one based on love melded with clear-eyed realism — that will allow us to pass on to our children a society where they truly govern themselves, in the interests of all.
Michael Goldstein worked until recently as an appellate lawyer, handling death-penalty and other indigent cases. He is a graduate of Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and Stanford Law School. His previous book was Return of the Light: A Political Fable in Which the American People Retake Their Country. He most recently worked in the movement against police violence, spent nearly three weeks with Water Protectors at Standing Rock, and ran for Nancy Pelosi’s House seat under the slogan, “New faces in Congress cannot stop the rise of fascism or bring us a caring society. Michael will use the office to help build the movement that can.”
Event website: https://www.bookpassage.com/event/michael-goldstein-blessed-disillusionment-corte-madera-store
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.
For July, 2022 we’re reading The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth,
by The Red Nation, Amazon, Common Notions.
All are welcome!
When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation expands their original statement filling in the histories and ideas that formed it and forwarding an even more powerful case for the actions it demands.
One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasses everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land. We—Indigenous, Black and people of color, women and trans folks, migrants, and working people—did not create this disaster, but we have inherited it. We have barely a decade to turn back the tide of climate disaster. It is time to reclaim the life and destiny that has been stolen from us and rise up together to confront this challenge and build a world where all life can thrive. Only mass movements can do what the moment demands. Politicians may or may not follow–it is up to them–but we will design, build, and lead this movement with or without them.
The Red Deal is a call for action beyond the scope of the US colonial state. It’s a program for Indigenous liberation, life, and land—an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable for human and other-than-human relatives to live dignified lives. The Red Deal is not a response to the Green New Deal, or a “bargain” with the elite and powerful. It’s a deal with the humble people of the earth; a pact that we shall strive for peace and justice and a declaration that movements for justice must come from below and to the left.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth, Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything and A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.
Hip Hop and Social Justice Symposium
Members of NWA and World Class Wreckin Cru and Chris Clarke (Shock G on “All Eyez on Me”) are promoting their new books and are joined by social justice organizations to discuss the intersectionality of hip hop and the civil rights movement.
Performances, Meet and Greet, DJ Tribute and After Party to follow.
Confirmed Organizations:
Anti-Recidivism Coalition
ACLU NorCal
NAACP Nor Cal
NorCal Resist
Neighbor Program
Vanguard Media
Music by Lions in Paris
Video by Cisco Kuhl
Photography by Danzo Photography
Collaboration with Twelves Wax Records
NOTE: DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOUND OUR CONTROL, VLADIMIR KOZIN WILL NOT BE WITH US. WE ARE SUBSTITUING ANOTHER PROGRAM COVERING THE SAME MATERIAL, AS FOLLOWS:
Jul 17, 2022. 9:45am-11:30am Pacific
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND MODIFIED TOPIC
Debunking the US-NATO Narrative on Ukraine
Group Discussion. Allan Miller will lead the discussion.
…with its “Special Military Operation?
In his presentation Dr. Kozin will provide his background and military studies experience. He will cover why Putin is not authoritarian. He will give a brief description of Russia’s legal system, especially when it comes to the military. And he will explain why the measure Russia took in Ukraine had to be a military action as opposed to a diplomatic one.
Dr. Vladimir Kozin is a member of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences, a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Vice President of the Russian National Institute for Global Security Research, leading Expert for the Center for Military-Political Studies at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Ph.D, and Senior Researcher. He is the founder of the Analytical Agency “Strategic Stability,” a Russian NGO that deals with arms control. He is the author of 18 monographs on arms control and strategic stability, and he has been issuing reports almost on a daily basis on Russia’s special military operation since it began.
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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:
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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
Oakland Greens’ Monthly General Meeting
Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet 3rd Sunday of each month. Unless otherwise noted.
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Agenda
Intro (if needed) – 5 min
Agenda Review – 5 min
GPCA-GA Report Back – 15 min
Computer update – 5 min
County Green Sunday Proposal – 10 min
11 Shows, 6 hours per show $1980 donation to Oakland Greens based on a $30.00 HR general rate. Would add an additional $500.00 if the producer hosts all shows.
One third deposit $660 due October 1, 2022, one third payment $660 due June 1, 2023 with the remaining balance due Dec 1, 2023
Producer duties include submission of topics to be approved by the GPAC-CC booking of presenters on those topics, marketing graphics for shows, promotion of shows over social media, creation of event brite and facebook events. If the producer hosts all shows, add video and music pre-show loops.
Virtual Town Hall update – 5 min
GPCA comedy fundraiser – 5 min
Here is what the national party will be doing next week:
You need a good laugh, so join us for a night of live comedy right from your own home, while supporting the Green Party!
Born and raised on the mean streets of New York City’s Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a writer, comedian, radio and podcast host and video correspondent. She is the host of the creatively named “Katie Halper Show,” which is a video livestream, podcast and WBAI NYC radio show. She also co-hosts the podcast and video show Useful Idiots with Aaron Maté. Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, FAIR, Comedy Central, The Nation Magazine and more. The National Review called Katie “cute and some what brainy,” though they obviously don’t like her politics.
https://www.gp.org/halper?utm_campaign=eb_22_07_11_fr&utm_medium=email&utm_source=gpus
Get to know Katie and your fellow Greens at this limited engagement event.
Parker direct action report back – 10 min
Offer of a youth basketball class
asking if I can bring greens to witness
Tabling Outreach – 10 min
Translator Price
Social Media – 5 min
Treasury/fundraising – 5 min
Green Sunday compensation
Announcements – 5 min
un-published agenda item
Grassroots House request
This is only open to ZOOM participants and will not be uploaded to social media channels.
Adjourn
Our virtual general meeting is TOMORROW 7/20 at 7pm. Get updated on our #DefundOPD work, “CARE” Court, and more.
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— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) July 19, 2022
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The people who produced Hoodwinked in the Hothouse, a key report exposing corporate-based false solutions to the climate crisis, host the fourth in their series of webinars, Greenwashing Disaster Capital.
Speakers will explain how corporate interests are hijacking critical climate action around the world by co-opting key concepts, frameworks and language from our movements.
The organizers write:
“Traditional ecological knowledge concepts like biomimicry, strategy frameworks like a just transition, and even popular narratives like building a regenerative economy have been co-opted in recent years by big NGOs, philanthropists and academic institutions to advance neoliberal schemes like pollution trading at policy arenas like the UNFCCC.
“Scores of universities, government agencies, corporations, NGOs and funders are engaged in this widespread greenwashing pandemic – serving a colonial extractivist agenda that awards $trillions in subsidies to polluting corporations, creating structural barriers to the advancement of proven strategies and real solutions that our communities and the planet really need.”
Speakers:
Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth
Leonardo Figueroa Helland, The New School
Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network
Nnimmo Bassey, Health of Mother Earth Foundation
Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group
The Hoodwinked Collaborative
THIS FRIDAY! pic.twitter.com/d6CH8CsqpL
— Parker For The People (@saveparker510) July 19, 2022
THIS Saturday July 23, 2022, 10 AM to 6 PM, People’s Park Nonviolence Training, Nonviolent Direct Action prep/training. Food Not Bombs provides lunch. rsvp asap: weddress777@gmail.com (deets below) Text “SAVETHEPARK” to 74121 now.
🚌🚎🚊 DSA SF is proud to launch our priority resolution Free Muni Full Service. Join us at Dolores Park on 7/23 at noon to learn what a socialist transit system could be, how to get involved, and what transit justice in SF looks like today. 🌹 Register: https://t.co/oD4hU2VuqS pic.twitter.com/9Fiob7HkjX
— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) July 7, 2022
Foraging Peace Tour at Omni Commons !
Stay Together Vegan Pop Up !
Make sure to come out and support we have Plant-based/alkaline food, merch, and art!
Panel starts at 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM Live Concert will start after the panel !#omnicommons#vegan #food #party pic.twitter.com/ezKMjHwViM
— Omni Commons (@omnicommons) July 19, 2022