Location Details:
Virtual through Google Meet: The Pursuit of Happiness framed in political-economic terms
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/mqd-jtmf-gkk

Join high school US History teacher David Giesen as he vets an overview–seeking your critique–of next year’s approach to US History.

The curriculum’s theme is “Liberating the Pursuit of Happiness.”

The “elevator pitch” is: The United States was created in the stated belief that governments should exist in order to facilitate a people’s ability to pursue happiness. The pursuit of happiness requires liberty to be playfully expressive. The USA is on the continuum of aligning politico-economic conditions with the sort of liberty required for people to pursue happiness.

On three successive Sunday evenings (January 8, 15, and 22) you are invited to join a virtual conference where you will remotely watch a few videos and afterwards join in discussion of those videos as they relate to the curriculum. You need not attend every session.

I welcome those desiring a short course in US history, those desirous of critiquing an unconventional approach to US history, friends of Howard Zinn-like alternate US histories, enemies of Howard Zinn-like alternate US histories, self-described woke, self-described woke-adverse, would-be US history teachers, US history teachers, and others.

REMINDER: Our 9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy begins in ONE WEEK! And MLK Day is in only TEN DAYS!!

✊🏾WHEN: Monday, January 16, meet-up at 11am
✊🏾MEET UP LOCATION: Middle Harbor Shoreline Park, 2777 Middle Harbor Rd, Oakland, CA pic.twitter.com/gGDTnPnkab

— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) January 6, 2023

“What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, ‘America, you must be born again!’”

🌹Join us tomorrow at 6:30pm tomorrow to here the King in his own words🌹https://t.co/NFajjLLeBY pic.twitter.com/uYgyqwdFTv

— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) January 16, 2023

We know it has been quite 2022 and a lot to come in 2023, so join our STATE OF THE DEBTORS UNION January 25, 8pm ET / 5pm ET as we highlight some accomplishments in the fight against housing debt, medical debt, carceral debt and student debt. We’ll discuss lessons from 2022 and take stock for the year ahead.

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:

contact@oaklandprivacy.org

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.

The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover Up in Oakland
By Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham
(Atria Books; 480 pages; $30)

9th Ave. presents “Riders” authors in conversation with Joe Eskenazi: 7 p.m. Jan. 19. Free. Green Apple Books, 1231 Ninth Ave., S.F. www.greenapplebooks.com

Uncovering Brutality, Cover-Up, and Corruption in Oakland: “Riders” authors in conversation with Otis Taylor. Live stream only. 3 p.m. Jan. 25. $10-$40, free for members. Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, S.F. www.commonwealthclub.org

“Riders” authors in conversation with Karym Sanchez: 4 p.m. Jan. 28. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. www.bookpassage.com

The Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force presents:

CEMTF 3RD Virtual Summit Series: CLIMATE & the ECONOMY

Which Green Matters Most?

9:00 – 9:20 AM

Land Acknowledgement

Corrina Gould, Tribal Chair, Confederated Villages of Lisjan & Co Director Sogorea Te Land Trust

Welcome

Cheryl Davila, Chair CEMTF & Former Councilmember

Speakers & Co-Speaker

9:20 – 10:00 AM

Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder Code Pink

10:00 – 10:30 AM

“The Doughnut that’s good for CA”

Franziska Raedeker & Anne Sheridan, California Doughnut Economics Coalition

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Public Banks, A Tool for building pathways to a just and sustainable future

Gayle McLaughlin, Councilmember, City of Richmond

Public Banks, A Piece of the Sustainability Jigsaw Puzzle

Debbie Notkin, Chair, Friends of the Public Bank East Bay

5 minute Break

11:05 – 11:50 AM

Zero Food Waste–

Tara McNerney & Pete Pearson, World Wildlife Fund

David Hott, Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen

Cara Morgan, Branch Chief, Local Assistance and Market Development, CalRecycle, State of California

11:50 AM – Noon

Announcements & Closing

Cheryl Davila

CEMTF.org/ @CEMTF1/ https://www.facebook.com/ClimateEmergencyMobilizationTaskForce/

January 20th marks the 2 year anniversary of President Biden’s inauguration, and the halfway point for his current administration. It also marks the birthday of an extraordinary activist and pillar of the national fossil fuel resistance movement, Joye Braun, who we sadly lost in November. Joye was instrumental in fighting and ending devastating fossil fuel projects such as Keystone XL – we are also celebrating the two year anniiversary of its death – and the Dakota Access Pipeline.

We are showing up, along with People vs. Fossil Fuel groups across the country, to demand that Biden exercise his power to Stop Fossil Fuel Projects and Declare a Climate Emergency. Our local climate fights show why.  We’ve continued to see flaring at the Martinez Refinery just in this last month, health and pollution concerns from the Chevron Richmond Refinery, and countless instances of our frontline communities facing harsh impacts from poor air quality, toxic substances, and limited resources. The climate emergency is already here – we need Biden to step up and do something about it.

Join us at the SF Federal Building on Jan. 20th from 11am-1pm for a rally with speakers and art, as we demand that President Biden:

1. Declare a Climate Emergency
2. Stop All Fossil Fuel Projects
3. Honor Indigenous & Human Rights.

RSVP here.

Rally in front of the Grand Lake Theater, Oakland

Saturday, January 21: 10 AM – 12 PM

Victory to the people of Ukraine, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Belarus & India!

  Flyer

Peoples Assemblies are new for 2023. Collaborative actions and mutual aid are valuable community responses to concerns and as alternatives to relying on unresponsive government. An Extinction Rebellion demand is to hold Peoples Assemblies to take action because government is not acting quickly or effectively on the climate emergency, threat of nuclear annihilation, racism, poverty, and other problems. Together we can generate solutions, connect in community, be heard, be creative.

Limited seating; you must register for the assembly in advance and to reserve free childcare: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/berkeley-community-peoples-assembly-tickets-503288949797

Agenda: Welcome and introductions, brief presentations on

1) banking responsibly; moving your money to ‘good’ banks & credit unions that don’t finance nuclear weapons or fossil fuel projects, presented by Third Act/350.org

2) ending the war in Ukraine, presented by CODEPINK with video from Medea Benjamin

3) saving rooftop solar in California, presented by Solar Rights and Clean Energy Alliances. Discussions focusing on solutions and generating ideas for future Assemblies. Snacks, free childcare by reservation to codepinksfbay@gmail.com, handouts, door prizes.

Hosted by Mutual Aid Institute (https://mutualaid.institute), CodePink (https://codepink.org), Third Act (350.org), Extinction Rebellion Peace, Progressive Democrats of Oakland, Triple Justice.

On January 22, 2023, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, as we mourn the loss of nearly 50 years of constitutional protections, we send a clear message: We are not defeated. We are not going gently. Women are rising, and we are on the march.

We are taking our fight to every state house and every state legislator in this country. We are putting all politicians at every level of government on notice: If you come for our families, our freedoms, or our future, we are coming for your seat.

Our movement is strong. Our movement is growing. Our movement is #BiggerThanRoe

RSVP

Speaker: Mark Albertson.

The Nuclear Option:  The nuclear option was exercised twice:  At Hiroshima, August 6, 1945, followed three days later at Nagasaki, August 9.  Both by the United States against the same targeted nation, Japan.  Japan, as well. was working on the Bomb, with the Army and Navy each having programs.  Yet it was Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman who split the atom in 1938, providing Germany with the inside track towards the Bomb.  The advent of the Bomb will effect foreign relations, war, societies, and cultures.  Indeed, the Bomb will hasten the use of the helicopter among armies as a way to circumvent a nuclear battlefield with a doctrine known as Airmobility in the United States Army and the Vertical Assault Concept in the United States Marine Corps.  And while the Bomb is seen as Man’s Doomsday Weapon, it has not prevented him from deciding his options on the battlefield.  And so, just how has the Bomb altered Man’s approach to war and what is the future?

Mark Albertson is the historical research editor at Army Aviation magazine in Monroe, Connecticut; and, is the historian for the Army Aviation Association of America.

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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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Live Broadcast – Abolition: A Multigenerational Perspective, Lecture Hall

Due to high demand for this program, the James Moore Theatre (JMT) has sold out. HOWEVER, we are offering a limited number of tickets to view the program from our Lecture Hall. Visitors joining us in the Lecture Hall will watch the program LIVE via telecast from the JMT.  

Centering past and contemporary abolition movements, this powerful event will feature the activist, scholar, and author celebrated in Seize the Time, Angela Davis, in conversation with former Oakland Youth Poet Laureate and author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley, and National Movement Building Director from the Black Organizing Project (B.O.P.), Jessica Black, whose long-term and ultimately successful efforts abolished the OUSD police force. The conversation will be moderated by Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project and Executive Director of The Justice Teams Network”

Special performances will include a spoken word by director, playwright, arts educator and Oakland Poet Laureate Ayodele Nzinga PhD, and a dance performance by Destiny Junior Company.

Live Broadcast Program Schedule: 

1–1:15 pm – Reading

1:20–1:45 pm – Destiny Junior Company

1:45–2:45 pm – Panel Discussion

2:45–3 pm – Q&A

Accessibility The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is committed to providing programs that are accessible, welcoming, and inclusive of our community. Assistive listening devices and wheelchairs are available for checkout on a first come, first served basis at the Ticketing Desk. To request other accommodations, like American Sign Language (ASL), Cantonese, Spanish or another language interpreter, please email visitor@museumca.org at least three weeks before the event.

Location of Action:  Assemble, Lake Merritt Columns; Rally, Lake Merritt Ampitheatre
Date and Time of Action:  Sunday, January 22, 2023, assemble/march-1:00 pm, rally 2:15pm

CoSponsoring Organizations: 

• Joe Lombardo, National Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition
• Jeff Mackler Dir., Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal; Free Julian Assange, SF Bay Area
•  Rick Sterling, Task Force on the Americas; Mt. Diablo P&J Center
• Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Vincent De Stefano, National Organizing Director, Assange Defense.org
• Anna Scibek, Women for Racial and Economic Equality
• Roger Harris, FreeAlexSaab and US Peace Council
• Judy Greenspan, International Action Center
• Cynthia Papermaster, CodePink Women for Peace
• Dennis Bernstein, Host, KPFA’s Flashpoints

Website:  https://socialistaction.org, https://unacpeace.org, https://unac.notowar.net

As Martin Luther King, Jr. so correctly reminded us, the U.S. is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. Since WWII, the US has initiated more than 60 military interventions in foreign countries. The US/NATO proxy war in Ukraine, brings the US in direct confrontation with a major nuclear power as does the U.S. provocation against China over Taiwan, and now Japan! It is extremely important that we build a strong, unified antiwar movement that can break through the media propaganda and censorship and end the US military aggression around the world.

Actions linking ALL the continuing US wars and sanctions will be a unifying focus and help break through the propaganda that saturates each and every war.

“We are now experiencing the coming to the surface of a triple prong sickness that has been lurking within our body politic from its very beginning. That is the sickness of racism, excessive materialism and militarism.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’

2023 is kicking in with the usual challenges, and we can already sense the need for a little soul-soothing.  Please join us for a concert of celestial harp and vocal music that reminds us that heaven-on-earth can sometimes be as close as the next musical performance.

Floy Andrews and Maureen Brennan are offering a late Sunday afternoon of Celtic music and camaraderie to celebrate the New Year.  Maureen will play Celtic harp alongside special guest singer, Amelia Hogan, at the Point Richmond home of Floy Andrews and Fred Page.  Light refreshments will be served.  Please join us!

Recommended minimum donation of $15 to Sunflower Alliance, collected at the Gathering.  Of course, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP to Maureen at harpmo@sbcglobal.net for address.  *Attendance limited to 20 guests; please RSVP soon.

*The event will be indoors with attendance limited to 20 guests.  Please consider the setting.  Floy and Fred have a smallish house (with a very nice view of the Bay).  It will likely be too chilly to have doors and windows open.  Masking will be optional.  If you feel ill, have recently tested positive for COVID, or have reason to believe that you might have been exposed to COVID within five days of the Gathering, please opt out of joining us (as much as we will miss your presence).  We thought about rescheduling, but intend the program as a welcome to this new year so we decided to forge ahead.  Please assess your personal COVID risk tolerance based upon the above.

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

Location Details:
Virtual through Google Meet: The Pursuit of Happiness framed in political-economic terms
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/mqd-jtmf-gkk

Join high school US History teacher David Giesen as he vets an overview–seeking your critique–of next year’s approach to US History.

The curriculum’s theme is “Liberating the Pursuit of Happiness.”

The “elevator pitch” is: The United States was created in the stated belief that governments should exist in order to facilitate a people’s ability to pursue happiness. The pursuit of happiness requires liberty to be playfully expressive. The USA is on the continuum of aligning politico-economic conditions with the sort of liberty required for people to pursue happiness.

On three successive Sunday evenings (January 8, 15, and 22) you are invited to join a virtual conference where you will remotely watch a few videos and afterwards join in discussion of those videos as they relate to the curriculum. You need not attend every session.

I welcome those desiring a short course in US history, those desirous of critiquing an unconventional approach to US history, friends of Howard Zinn-like alternate US histories, enemies of Howard Zinn-like alternate US histories, self-described woke, self-described woke-adverse, would-be US history teachers, US history teachers, and others.