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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
John Fisher, son of the late Donald Fisher (of The Gap and related corporate wealth), personifies the connections between these two struggles. Not only is Fisher (the younger), principal owner of the A’s, pushing for the gentrification grab at the Howard Terminal, but he is a major force in the push for charter schools. not only in Oakland, but nationally, through the Kipp Schools network.
Given the continuing struggles on both fronts, with the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) / Oakland Police Department (OPD) repressive actions at the Parker Liberation School this week, and more protest about the Howard Terminal project, despite the votes of the city council, it is important to revisit these critical issues and the broader corporate politics involved.
Jack Gerson is a retired Oakland teacher who writes on and analyzes issues related to education, politics, public health and the pandemic. Before retiring, he was on the executive board and bargaining team of the Oakland teachers union (OEA). Among other things, he helped organize OEA’s campaign to bail out schools not banks and end foreclosures, and the Occupy Oakland education committee’s 18 day occupation of Lakeview Elementary in 2012 to protest school closures.
Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 7:00 pm, after a 30-minute break. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.
Description: Green Sunday presentation at 5 PM
(Followed by County Council business meeting at 7:00. All are welcome to attend)
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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
“WATCHING YOU WATCHING US”
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.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
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!
HOW WE OPERATE:
We have five committees working together to create a Public Bank in the East Bay:
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Advocacy builds relationships with community groups and city governments.
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Communications assists other committees with content creation and promotion.
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Fundraising develops our organization’s budget and raises funds for our business plan.
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Membership brings on new members and volunteers and organizes educational events.
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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!
Public Bank East Bay expects to open by 2023, and will be a transformative institution that keeps our money local, allowing local governments to divest from Wall Street and reinvest its profits back into our community. Public Bank East Bay’s initial loan policies will support affordable housing development, provide support for small businesses (especially for marginalized entrepreneurs), finance the renovation and electrification of existing buildings, and help cities and counties refinance their municipal debt.
Join us tonight on Zoom & make a call to stop CARE Court today!
Newsom’s bad “CARE” Court legislation (SB 1338) has made it out of its last committee and is headed for a final vote on the Assembly Floor any day now.
Join us tonight on Zoom for our monthly general meeting to get updates about our campaign to stop CARE Court and more.
Where: Online: CC and ASL will be provided Register here!
APTP is also in solidarity with fights across the state and world to reclaim public spaces. Community is fighting back against privatization and criminalization of poverty from Parker Elementary in Oakland to People’s Park in Berkeley to 24th Street Plaza in San Francisco to Echo Park in LA and BEYOND! We’ll cover some of these struggles, as well as the situation at Wood Street encampment, the largest encampment in Oakland.
Join APTP’s General Meeting
Reminder: if you haven’t already, please don’t forget to call your assemblymember TODAY (844) 537-1657 and urge them to vote NO on CARCARE Court!
A legislative staffer will be tallying the calls they receive. Here’s how to call:
- Dial (844) 537-1657
- The automated system will ask you to state your street, city, and zip code then you will be connected to your assemblymember’s office
- Tell the staff person your name, where you live and then you can say:
“I am a California resident calling in opposition to SB 1338, the bill to establish CARE Courts. I urge you to vote NO. All evidence shows that providing housing AND adequately-resourced, intensive, voluntary outpatient treatment – not court-ordered treatment – is most effective for treating the poopulation CARE Court seeks to serve. California doesn’t need to spend millions on another racist court system. Thank you for your time.”
This CARE Court proposal has a $65 million starting cost and claims to combat houselessness and support people with mental health disabilities, but provides no funding to permanent supportive housing or mental health services such as peer supporters and community-based organizations. The bill instead pushes for ineffectual forced treatment and allocation of funds to expand our racist criminal legal system.
The bill will be voted on any day now and then it will move quickly to Newsom’s desk to become law. This is our last real chance to stop this bill.
Call your assemblymember TODAY at (844) 537-1657 to tell them why they should oppose CARE Court (SB 1338).
Love and solidarity,
APTP
P.S. Having trouble with the line? Click here to call your legislator instead.
1015 Folsom presentsFight for Our Rights: Abortion Access Fundraiser
100% OF ALL PROCEEDS DONATED TO NNAF & PLANNED PARENTHOOD
oin the Bay Area chapter of the Climate Reality Project and three African climate activists to discuss what people living in the U.S. need to know about supporting and backing the leadership of climate activists in Africa and other places outside the U.S.
Register here.
This is the fifth in their series of workshops on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ), in preparation for the U.N. COP27 in Egypt in November.
The workshop will explore:
The Environmental Justice Summit is a bold platform for representation and activism that elevates and amplifies the voice and power of people of color as leaders in the environmental justice movement. This festival will take place on August 20th on the Presidio Main Parade Lawn in San Francisco, CA.
Environmentalism is a movement that impacts all classes, colors, and demographics of society and yet there is a lack of diversity in the environmental movement. People of color are strong supporters of environmental issues, more so than is commonly perceived. After all, communities of color have a much higher risk of air pollution and, historically, have been targeted as dumping sites for toxic pollution.
This lack of diversity is hurting the movement and stall
Please plan to stay all day. Bring hats, water, lunch, chair or blanket. There preps are an opportunity to lean into the long history of nonviolent direct action, working with affinity groups and Consensus Process decision-making, jail solidarity inside and outside of jail, with plenty of practice in role playing. Contact: weddress777@gmail.com
Our speaker will be Professor Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston has published dozens of books. Hear his presentation on his latest: “The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism,” 2022, which has implications for California and Indigenous History–and the prospects for a unique form of fascism.
Our Zoom room will be opened up as usual at 10:15 am for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will begin as close to 10:30 am as possible and will end at 12:30, but the Waiting Room may remain open later for informal discussion.
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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:
occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we tend to meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months from November to early March after Daylights Savings Time.)
On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over six years, since October 2011! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally. Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
Welcome & Introductions
Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
Announcements
(Optional) Discussion Topic
Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.
Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area
San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv
JOIN US FOR AN EXCITING WEBINAR ON CHEVRON v MONTEREY COUNTY, the case pending before the California Supreme Court that will determine the right of our cities and counties to regulate fossil fuel production.
Meet the Protect Monterey organizers whose successful ballot initiative to ban drilling and fracking in their county was challenged by Chevron and its army of oil industry bullies, and overturned by reactionary California Superior Court judges.
Hear from the one of the attorneys who will arguing before the state Supreme Court to defend the century-old right of local governments to ban or restrict oil and gas.
LEARN HOW THE OUTCOME OF THIS CASE WILL IMPACT FOSSIL FUEL REGULATION THROUGHOUT THE STATE – and here in the Bay Area!
RSVP TO: action@sunflower-alliance.org
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For more information, see the event post at sunflower-alliance.org.
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
Computer update – 5 min
County Green Sunday Proposal – 15 min
The Oakland Greens Withdraw Proposal
Virtual Town Hall update – 5 min
Parker direct action report back – 10 min
Tabling Outreach – 10 min
Oakland November elections and ballot measures – 10 min
Social Media – 5 min
Treasury/fundraising – 5 min
Changing Banks update
Announcements – 5 min
Adjourn
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Are you an organizer looking to shrink your digital fingerprint in the surveillance state? Get equipped with tools to combat digital surveillance and gain skills to understand digital privacy in our one-hour workshop with Adamma Izuegbunam Chau, Director at Cyber Collective.
Organized debtors just won big. And we’re not stopping til all the debt is ALL gone.
After months of dragging his feet, Biden has finally announced his plan of debt cancellation: up to $10,000 for borrowers with incomes under $125,000 a year and up to $20,000 of cancellation for Pell grant recipients.
We know this is far from what justice demands – to close the raccial wealth gap, to unchain generations of indebted families, to actually have a reparative higher education policy. We know the road ahead is long, with much much more work to do.
But right, now we’re celebrating. Organized debtors forced Biden – who has sided with banks over debtors his entire career – to administer debt cancelation for working-class communities. This is a testament to the power of a union of debtors banding together to exercise political and financial power.
If you came to a debtors’ assembly, this is your win. If you invited a friend to come to the action with you, if you made a sign, if you signed a petition, if you talked to a colleague about your debt, if you wore your debt to work, if you wrote an op-ed, if you pledged to strike, this is your win.
Please join our Jubilee Hour tomorrow, 7:30-8:30PM EST. We will gather to take a moment to bask in how far we’ve come, and point out the horizons we’re still marching towards. Biden didn’t do this — WE did.
Also be sure not to miss the awesome “Freedom Dreams” documentary that dropped yesterday about Black women’s leadership in the fight for debt cancellation.
AND ONE FINAL THING – it has taken us ten yearss to get $10K of student debt canceled. Can you throw in $10 bucks so the next round of cancellation doesn’t take quite so long?
A debt-free future is on its way. We’re never going back again —
The Debt Collective
Lessons From The 2022 National Protest In Ecuador. is hosted by the DSA International Committee.
For 18 days in June 2022, the people of Ecuador, led by the indigenous and poorest, fought austerity to a halt. Tens of thousands barricaded highways, paralyzed the capital and much of the nation. Eight people were killed and hundreds injured by police.
Led by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), poor and working people won major economic and political concessions, and other demands are in negotiation.
Top leaders of this “Paro Nacional” and grassroots organizers from the indigenous communities will explain how they did it and what happens next.
Want to join our amazing team of MH First volunteers?
APTP’s MH First (MH1) is Oakland’s first and only non 9-1-1 crisis response line for mental health, substance use and domestic violence and is available from 8 pm to 8 am, Fridays & Saturdays, covering the hours when traditional mental health hotlines are closed. Our MH First program is an assembly of doctors, nurses, systems-impacted people, and community members working together to build alternatives to police.
The only way to decrease police terror is to decrease police presence in our communities. A mental health crisis should not be a death sentence.
Join us this Saturday, August 27 for a full-day virtual training to build alternatives to police together!
What: Online MH First Training open to ALL* community members
Where: Online � Register to join us
*Note: Capacity is limited. Priority will be given to those who are able to start volunteering as MH First responders in the next 3 months.
Accessibility: This is a 7 hour training on Zoom. Breaks will be provided. Please include any accessibility needs in the registration form.
Register for MH First Training
We deserve community crisis response that doesn’t harm us and instead honors our lives.