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October 4: Our Beautiful Planet Home Living in, coping with, and learning from our changing environment: coyotes in San Francisco, cattle ranching in Silicon Valley, vertical cave diving in China.
October 5: Ai Wei Wei: Yours Truly Bay Area directors Cheryl Haines and Gina Leibrecht tell the powerful story of the outspoken artist and activist Ai Wei Wei’s Yours Truly exhibition at the former island penitentiary of Alcatraz.
October 6: On the Edge People following their own unique paths: America’s desert “hairstorian,” a boy’s quest to become a butler, a young woman’s quest to be more animated, genderqueer partners in love, an animated East Bay punk band chases fame during a pandemic.
October 11: Somewhere Else Instead Understanding where we are and might be: a wandering puzzle piece, a drag artist and an unusual request, a man who lives with Parkinson’s, dancing on the Albany bulb, a strange night in LA.
October 12: Transformations Exploring people and ideas in the midst of change: an LGBTQ+ generation gap, reclaiming the swastika as a message of peace, a circus seeking to do what others cannot do, two counties approach criminal justice differently.
October 13: Engaging with Life Living an authentic life: An artist of many “firsts,” a nonbinary social worker/activist, brave students resisting Nazis, and an aging magician looking for connection.
At Landmark’s Albany Twin Theatre October 4, 5, 6 & 11, 12, 13 / Doors open 7pm / All shows start 7:30pm / Tickets available online or at the box office. Full program and details www.albanyfilmfest.org.
October 4: Our Beautiful Planet Home Living in, coping with, and learning from our changing environment: coyotes in San Francisco, cattle ranching in Silicon Valley, vertical cave diving in China.
October 5: Ai Wei Wei: Yours Truly Bay Area directors Cheryl Haines and Gina Leibrecht tell the powerful story of the outspoken artist and activist Ai Wei Wei’s Yours Truly exhibition at the former island penitentiary of Alcatraz.
October 6: On the Edge People following their own unique paths: America’s desert “hairstorian,” a boy’s quest to become a butler, a young woman’s quest to be more animated, genderqueer partners in love, an animated East Bay punk band chases fame during a pandemic.
October 11: Somewhere Else Instead Understanding where we are and might be: a wandering puzzle piece, a drag artist and an unusual request, a man who lives with Parkinson’s, dancing on the Albany bulb, a strange night in LA.
October 12: Transformations Exploring people and ideas in the midst of change: an LGBTQ+ generation gap, reclaiming the swastika as a message of peace, a circus seeking to do what others cannot do, two counties approach criminal justice differently.
October 13: Engaging with Life Living an authentic life: An artist of many “firsts,” a nonbinary social worker/activist, brave students resisting Nazis, and an aging magician looking for connection.
At Landmark’s Albany Twin Theatre October 4, 5, 6 & 11, 12, 13 / Doors open 7pm / All shows start 7:30pm / Tickets available online or at the box office. Full program and details www.albanyfilmfest.org.
Encouraging public acceptance of deeply rooted commercial surveillance within U.S. society has become a cross-generational project. Professor Joseph Turow’s industry research and survey work over the past three decades has convinced him that academics, activists, and government policymakers have been ignoring a critical development: The convergence of key practices in the family, education, the law and other institutions with widespread strategies among marketers suggest that deeply personalized data use will be an even more taken-for granted part of future generations than it is today. Prescribing realistic solutions to this discriminatory dynamic that can fracture society is a key challenge of our age.
Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Media Systems & Industries, at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communications. Turow is an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association and was presented with a Distinguished Scholar Award by the National Communication Association. In 2012, the TRUSTe internet privacy-management organization designated him a “privacy pioneer” for his research and writing on marketing and digital privacy. He has authored twelve books, edited five, and written more than 160 articles on mass media industries.
Respondents:
Kirsten Martin, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Fred Turner, Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Stanford University
John Willich was a Prussian army career officer who quit after 25 years to become a carpenter. He was a German 48er who formed the proletarian army in the German Revolution with Friedrich Engels as second-in-command. He was exiled to England, where he joined Marx and Engels. Polemics between Willich and Marx-Engels led to his joining an opposing communist faction. In the 1850s he emigrated to the US where he become involved in communist clubs. He was an abolitionist who worked with free African Americans. In the Civil War, he started an innovative and highly praised German regiment. Conclusion: along with other Germans, he brought communism to the US�way before the Russian revolution.
Al Sargis founded the Friedrich-Engels Institute of Marxist War and Military Analysis, an informational outlet at the NPML. His presentations on this and other subjects have been made at the Chinese Academy of Military Science and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, among other venues, including the ICSS.
This will be a hybrid meeting on Zoom and at the NPML.
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You’re invited to stop by the Gill Tract Community Farm on October 16 – from 11am to 4pm – to celebrate the harvest and local birds.
You can explore the Albany based community farm, enjoy family activities, bird walking tours, vegan lunch, and more.
Walking shoes and a refillable water bottle are recommended. You’re also invited to bring new or gently used items for the free store.
No animals permitted in the growing fields and parking is limited.
For more information, visit gilltractfarm.org.
If you’re looking for work, or looking for a way to put your socialism into practice at work and don’t think that’s viable at your current workplace, join us on Sunday, October 16th to learn about jobs you can get organizing a workplace or strengthening existing unions with other East Bay DSA members at a strategic employer!
RSVP here for the exact location.
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
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Please join KPFA Radio for a very special evening when we welcome the legendary Barbara Dane (and Friends) in celebration of the release of Barbara’s autobiography, This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song. This live, in-person event will be hosted by KPFA’s Kris Welch and will include special guests such as: Tammy Hall, Holly Near, Maureen Gosling, Avotcja, Mark Hummel and Pablo Menedez. Pegasus Books will be on-site selling copies of This Bell Still Rings, published by Heyday
The autobiography of a courageous singer-songwriter, activist, and American icon.
A renowned folk, blues, and jazz singer who performed with some of the twentieth century’s most celebrated musicians, from Louis Armstrong to Bob Dylan. A proud progressive who has tirelessly championed racial equality and economic justice in America, and who has traveled the world to sing out against war and tyranny. An organizer, a venue owner, a record label founder, and a woman who has charted her own creative and political path for more than ninety years. Barbara Dane has led an epic, trailblazing life in music and activism, and This Bell Still Rings tells her story in her own adventurous voice.
Just saw this on the facebook page of a Wood Street resident. Looks like residents and supporters plan to rally tomorrow in front of city hall to demand access to the nearby land on the Northgate parcel to relocate them since they're facing eviction from CalTrans… pic.twitter.com/rbXFACH7dL
— Zack Haber (@ZZZZZZZZZZZack) October 17, 2022
SPECIAL EVENT WITH WENDELL POTTER!
Have you stopped to imagine what it would mean to have businesses across the state pushing for single payer in California? How can we bring them on board?
There is no pre-registration. Click here at the start of the event. The link will be operative at that point.
It’s clearly in their interests. Expensive and inadequate employer-based insurance hurts both the bottom line and workers. Small business owners yearn for good health care for themselves and their employees.
How best to activate the business community?
There’s no better person to ask than Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin. Wendell was PR chief for two major healthcare insurance companies before he woke up, walked out, and became a leading advocate for Medicare for All. He has been engaging businesses in the cause ever since while fighting Medicare privatization.
Tune in on Tuesday for this exciting conversation!
This event is sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program – CA with Health Care for All – CA and the Sonoma-based Healthcare for All Working Group.
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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.
APTP general meetings happens on the 3rd Wednesday of every month, and since the pandemic we’ve been meeting online.
As Mayor Libby Schaaf’s term comes to an end, check out our co-founder Cat Brooks’ latest op-ed in the SF Gate about Libby’s shameful legacy.
Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.
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Please join KPFA Radio when we welcome iconoclastic media personality Greg Palast for a very special screening of his brand new film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman. This live, in-person event will be hosted by KPFA’s Dennis Bernstein.
Greg Palast and his investigations team bust the most brazen, racist attack on voting rights yet – engineered by Georgia’s Brian Kemp to ensure victory in his rematch with Stacey Abrams. You’ll meet Kemp’s army of vigilante vote challengers. One dresses up like Old-West vigilante Doc Holliday with loaded six-gun, one of a posse of right-wing operatives who have challenged over a quarter million voters.
And there’s the hidden story of Brian Kemp, scion of the family that was the first to bring captive Africans to Georgia.
It’s not a story of Democrat versus Republican, but history versus smothered truth.
Tomorrow at 10 AM: the families of Keita O'Neil, Luis Gongora Pat, and Sean Moore are holding a rally outside of @BrookeJenkinsSF's office.
They are calling on DA Jenkins to prosecute the officers who killed their loved ones. The delays must stop.
Address: 350 Rhode Island St
— ACLU of Northern CA (@ACLU_NorCal) October 19, 2022
especially young women, taking to the streets across Iran in the face of police tear gas, batons and bullets. This rebellion was sparked when Iran’s “morality police” killed Mahsa Amini in custody. Her “crime”? Her hair was not completely covered by her hijab, the mandatory headscarf. The fury of young women burning their hijabs in bonfires in the streets has touched people everywhere women are oppressed – that is, the entire world.
Come see Persepolis. This is the first of a series of events we will do on Iran. This 2007 film presents a vivid picture of a young girl growing up in Iran. Through her story and that of her family, you see what it feels like inside the Islamic Republic, and see what is behind today’s massive rejection of the regime. Stay for a discussion.
Defend The Right To Strike!
An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!
Repeal The Anti-labor Railway Labor Act
US railroad workers are continuing to mostly vote against a proposed contract that does nothing to
defend their health and safety condition on he job with long dangerous hours.
Using the Railway Labor Act as a union busting tool which it is, workers are being told they really don’t have the right to strike and have to accept a contract that destroys workers lives and conditions.
Working people and unions need to rally to defend railroad workers and all other unions and working people who are under attack from striking NUHW Healthcare workers, OEA OUSD teachers, UTR WCCSD teachers and all public workers.
We also need to defend Amazon, Starbucks and all worker who are fighting to get organized and have a union. They face union busting billionaires that flagrantly violate weak US labor laws that are not even enforced by Biden & his “union” Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh.
We have to fight the closures of public schools and privatization of public services,
privatization of the Port of Oakland and defend all public services and fight systemic racism.
With 750,000 unionized workers whose contracts expire next year, we need to build a united
working class movement of all unions and working people to back each other up and fight together. Business unionism will not defend working people, our unions and worker rights.
Join us in a solidarity rally for Railroad workers and their right to strike and all
workers in this country and around the world.
Midwestern Marx comes to Northern California!
Midwestern Marx, a Marxist educational Institute originally organized in the midwestern United States, considers the working class to be at the heart of the revolutionary struggle in the US, and as such are dedicated to eliminating the divide between Socialists and the US working class. They publish the Journal of American Socialist Studies, books and articles on the struggle for socialism in the US, have a website at midwesternmarx.com, and a YouTube channel MidwesternMarx that offers video interviews, discussions on theory, political analysis, and live shows to over twenty-five thousand subscribers.
SPECIAL FORMAT WITH TWO SEPARATE 30 MINUTE PRESENTATIONS
1, The Comprehensive Crisis in the U.S.
and the Revolutionary Way Forward
In line with the tradition of Marxism-Leninism, this presentation argues that the elements constitutive of objectively revolutionary conditions are all present in the U.S.; what is missing for a successful revolutionary movement is the subjective factor. The presenter will argue that the purity fetish which predominates the outlook of modern American communism has presented a fundamental fetter for the development of the subjective factor in the American working masses; the development of a consistent dialectical materialist worldview, it will be argued, is the precondition for the advancement of the subjective conditions.
Speaker Bio:
Carlos L. Garrido is a Cuban American PhD student and instructor in philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (with an M.A. in philosophy from the same institution). His research focuses include Marxism, Hegel, early 19th century American socialism, and socialism with Chinese characteristics. He is an editor in Midwestern Marx Institute for Marxist Theory and Political Analysis and in the Journal of American Socialist Studies. His popular writings have appeared in dozens of socialist magazines in various languages. As a political analyst with a focus on Latin America (esp. Cuba), he has appeared in dozens of radio and video interviews around the world. He also edited and introduced Marxism and the Dialectical Materialist Worldview: An Anthology of Classical Marxist Texts on Dialectical Materialism (Midwestern Marx Publishing Press, 2022).
2. The Crisis of American Healthcare Post-Covid-19.
This presentation will provide an analysis of how corporate investors used the pandemic to maximize their profits and how the U.S. left missed a chance to critique these predatory practices. An argument will be made towards a class centered analysis of American healthcare and its place in the struggle for socialism in the U.S.
Speaker Bio:
Edward Liger Smith is an American Political Scientist and specialist in anti-imperialist and socialist projects, especially Venezuela and China. He also has research interests in the role southern slavery played in the development of American and European capitalism. He is currently a graduate student, assistant, and wrestling coach at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
LOGIN INFORMATION
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.
ZOOM LINK
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The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation invites the community to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the statue's installation and the 56th anniversary of the Black Panther Party. There will be music, food, vendors, and guest speakers.
10/23/22 noon to 3pm:https://t.co/KG9Kn53cya pic.twitter.com/sPMjfFGbOj— RasCeylon (@RasCeylon) October 9, 2022
Maybe you’ve been getting our emails for months or years but never come to a DSA event. Maybe you’re a veteran leftist with decades of battles under your belt. Maybe you’re a new member ready to take the next step and get organized.
Wherever you’re coming from, we want to hang out with you!
🌹 Hear what we’re currently working on
💪 Get more involved in critical fights right here in the East Bay
🥨 Eat some snacks
Right now, we’re grappling with a conservative attack on our reproductive rights, a looming climate catastrophe, and a Democratic establishment unwilling to fight for working people. But at the same time, Amazon and Starbucks workers are building power in their workplaces.
There’s never been a more pressing time to make the jump from socialist to *organized* socialist. And that starts with meeting your comrades and taking action. Plus, it’ll be fun, we promise. Join us!
Invite all your union friends and the socialism-curious! Look for us at Snow Park!