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“Judas & The Black Messiah” (2021) – Based on the tale of William O’Neal who infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton. This inevitably led to the murder of the chairman while they slept.

These free community building events are designed to discuss the connections between the cinema we are fed and social justice issues. Bring your own snacks for this virtual event with us for Judas & the Black Messiah. The Oakland Greens 2023 Free Dinner & a Movie Discussion series are adult supervision only events.

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RSVP online or by emailing Lia Swindle at journalism-events@berkeley.edu by January 25.

From the Polk Award–winning investigative duo comes a critical look at the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, and the more than two-decades-long saga of attempted reforms and explosive scandals.

A look at the Oakland police department but also policing in America and where it’s headed.

A conversation with authors Ali Winston (’10) and Darwin BondGraham, and Professor Dan Lindheim, Goldman School of Public Policy and former Oakland City Administrator.

Books will be available to purchase.

This is a FREE event.
Tax-deductible donations from the J-School community help make this possible.

No tickets required

Wealth inequality is exacerbated by criminal legal system contact – making poor people and people of color even more likely to remain locked in cycles of poverty and criminalization. In this workshop, we will examine the ways racial capitalism has financialized the carceral system and how we can fight back!

C4C Action Monthly Assembly

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Join Care 4 Community Action at our upcoming virtual monthly assembly! You’ll get to hear from invited guests, and learn more about how local government works. Plus you’ll get to find out ways to get involved in this organizing!

The loss of Black life anywhere is an affront to the humanity and safety of Black lives everywhere. Traffic stops are the primary way Black people both enter the criminal legal system and serve as the igniting factor for daily and deadly acts of violence against our bodies. It is beyond time to remove badges and guns from traffic stops and tickets, and protect Black life.

Here in Oakland, Black people are eight times more likely to be stopped by law enforcement than their white counterparts. Despite orders from a federal monitor and a statewide task force dedicated to ending racial profiling, OPD can’t seem to stop targeting Black community members with pretextual stops.

The only way to stop police terror is to reduce the number of interactions between police and community members. That’s why we’re demanding cops out of traffic enforcement here in Oakland and beyond!

Suds, Snacks, and Socialism at the Starry Plough

Please join us as we reconvene our forum series in person at our traditional gathering place. We will also be conducting the forum series simultaneously online.

Doors open at 2:00 pm. Please register in advance at
https://bit.ly/SS_S_Haiti_2023
to receive your personal link to participate in this event online

Black History Month is a product of the struggle for African and African American liberation. The Haitian Revolution, which took place from 1791-1804, marked the beginning of liberation movements by and for African and all enslaved peoples in the Western Hemisphere. We will look back at this significant event, and its continuation as Haiti bears the brunt of capitalist domination.

The forum will include an update on the case of U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal.

Pierre Labossiere – Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee (HAC) and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF)

Robert Roth – Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee

Gerald Smith – Co-Founder of the Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality (OGC) and an activist in the struggle to Free Mumia Abu Jamal

*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.

Please help us celebrate our return to the Starry Plough by ordering food and/or drinks. Please try to arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentation. An open discussion will follow the presentations. We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.

This event is sponsored by the Oakland Greens, Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change, and the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party.
For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org>

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95452963262?pwd=Y2V6cHl4RjRlOE0wZTFWcktOaFZpdz09

An unprecedented, sustained, vibrant uprising of the people of Iran has unleashed the people’s spirits, minds, and dreams…
• What does it represent?
• How broad is the movement and what are its goals?
• What kind of regime is ruling in Iran and how did it come to power?
• Why are hundreds of peaceful protesters being killed on the streets, thousands arrested, tortured and subject to sham trials and executions?
• Who are the thousands of political prisoners in Iran’s prisons?
It’s urgent that people around the world, especially in the U.S. step up support for the uprising itself, and to oppose the repression of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
What can and should people of conscience here in the U.S. do to support the just struggle going on in Iran and stop the repression and free all political prisoners?
These and other questions will be addressed.

Presenters:
Live: Bay Area International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners (IEC) activist Plus other local IEC activist
On Zoom: Jamileh Davoudi: a women’s rights activist, leader of the Zanan Group in No. California which is a member of Collective Action of Independent Iranian Women Organizations. Producer and host of “Zanan, Niemeh Barabar” or “Women, the Equal Half” program in Radio Pooya for the past 7 years. She also contributes articles to “Pezhvak of Persia” monthly magazine.
And: Larry Everest: national spokesperson of the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners (IEC). Author of Oil Power and Empire, Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda.
Recent video selections from the struggle in Iran.

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

The opinions expressed in our Sunday morning programs are those of the speakers only and do not represent any kind of group consensus by the members of ICSS. 


The Chancellor:  January 30, 2023 will mark the 90th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s ascension to the Chancellorship of Weimar Germany.  Yet, Hitler did not take power, it was offered to him.  Little more than three years after the start of the Great Depression, President Paul von Hindenburg was able to exercise Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution; thereby circumventing representative government to appoint Chancellors to run the government to get Germany out of a worsening economic morass.  Three candidates were chosen, all three failed to reverse the declining fortunes of the Fatherland.

With investments from the United States drying up and with the Right and Left battling in the streets, prompted, of course, by a thirty-three percent unemployment rate, businessmen, bankers and the military urged the aging Hindenburg to appoint the man he little cared for, that vulgar little corporal from Austria, Adolf Hitler (who became a German citizen the year before in expectation of becoming Chancellor).  And this at a time of the Nazi Party’s loss of seats in Reichstag elections.  The Establishment of Germany would not, under any  circumstances, countenance a candidate from the Left at the helm of the German Government.  “We are hiring him,” seeing Hitler as a caretaker of Establishment expectations for Germany.  A decision that, twelve years later, would see to the Fatherland becoming a shambles.

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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This Sunday at @TheNewParkway join @carroll_fife in a fireside chat with film director, Cheryl Fabio of “A Rising Tide”, the Sarah Webster Fabio Center's new doc about Alameda’s unhoused children and families. 12:30-2:30pm

RSVP at: https://t.co/HnjjjHfc2K pic.twitter.com/lvFai8BaJA

— care4community (@care4community1) February 2, 2023

Be the first to see clips of our new film, “A Rising Tide” with Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife and film director, Cheryl Fabio’s fireside chat.

“A Rising Tide” is SWFCenter’s new documentary about Alameda County unhoused children and families.

“It is in your hands, to make a better world

for all who live in it.”

-Nelson Mandela

*Proceeds from this event help fund film completion

Join us tomorrow 2/05 @omnicommons from 4-6pm for our biweekly reading of Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth! We are planning to finish chapter 2 for those who want to catch up! Newcomers are welcome and masks are required to be worn at all times. DM us for an online link! pic.twitter.com/yCvbNDxksD

— Community Liberation Programs (@comlibprograms) February 4, 2023

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

In an effort to show solidarity with Black women who cope in silence, several state and local women electeds will rally to support Black women leaders experiencing disproportionate threats and harassment on February 6 at 9:00 AM in front of City Hall #SupportBlackWomen pic.twitter.com/kLKwctFzDy

— Queef Girgo (@emily_wherever) February 2, 2023

Come join us to mourn and celebrate the life of #Justice4TyreNichols on Monday, 2/6 at 11:15 am (Oakland Tech – 45th and Broadway) for a Block Party Vigil. Free food, art, and music!❤️ pic.twitter.com/QfD8Hgt3hU

— CURYJ (@CURYJ) February 2, 2023

Don't miss our Forum on Feb 6th, come catch up on the plan for the San Francisco Public Bank!

Register at https://t.co/6ELkMeyx4L pic.twitter.com/eIIbH25Y6F

— SF Public Bank Coalition (@sfpublicbank) January 31, 2023

Register at http://bit.ly/sfpbc-forum