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With the horrifying news from Gaza, many of us are asking “What can I do?” A compelling answer comes from Omar Barghouti, Palestinian co-founder of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Prioritizing the Chevron boycott, he tells us “We are building a global and intersectional movement, in partnership with Climate Justice and Indigenous People around the world who are exposing and resisting the colonial violence of Chevron’s extractionism, environmental destruction, and grave human rights violations.”
Join us to learn and exchange ideas about the #boycottchevroncampaign and how you can support local organizing.
Bonnie Lockhart works to connect Climate, Labor and Anti-militarism movements through class struggle. She is co-chair of East Bay DSA’s Climate Action Committee, a California DSA delegate, and an organizer with Labor Rise Climate Jobs Action Group. She is member of American Federation of Musicians and long-time cultural worker.
Vish Soroushian is a member of UAW Local 2320, which is committed to Palestinian liberation and has fully divested its dues accounts from Israeli apartheid, and a member of his bargaining unit’s leadership team. He also is a campaign co-lead for the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America’s Divest From Apartheid campaign and an organizer with Bay Area Divest!. Both campaigns aim to divest our county from bond holdings in companies that enable Israeli genocide and apartheid. They focus on organizing on the county and local levels, with government bodies taking divestment action, with support from community, labor and political organizations.
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.
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The Coastal Commission is meeting on Friday, November 15 in San Francisco to discuss the violations and unpermitted work by a Texas oil company, Sable Offshore Corp., which is charging ahead with dangerous plans to restart an old, corroded oil pipeline that ruptured off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015. Restarting the pipeline would be a disaster for coastal communities and our climate: it would allow Sable to bring three offshore oil platforms back online that have been shuttered for nearly ten years.
We’ll be rallying at the Coastal Commission meeting and then giving public comment to encourage the commission to stand strong and require Sable to play by the rules. We need to ensure that this disastrous pipeline will never have a second chance to spill!
Will you join us in San Francisco and help bring a few friends and allies, too? Sign up here.
What: Rally and Press Conference Opposing Restart of Dangerous Oil Pipeline in Santa Barbara, followed by public comment.
When: Friday, November 15 at 8am before the California Coastal Commission Meeting
Where: Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA 94111
Who: Center for Biological Diversity, Last Chance Alliance, Extinction Rebellion SF Bay, Oil and Gas Action Network, Fearless Grandmothers, 1000 Grandmothers, Sunflower Alliance, CalPIRG, UC Santa Barbara Environmental Affairs Board and more!
If you want to make public comment, you’ll need to sign up on this form (for General Public Comment) before 5pm on Thursday.
Thanks so much for showing up at this very critical time. Together let’s send a strong message that drill baby drill will get no traction here.
TONIGHT — There’s still time to make it to Public Domain Movie Night at @InternetArchive! 📽️ We’re screening "FEAR AND DESIRE" (1953), Stanley Kubrick’s 1st feature film, introduced by local documentarian Jason Sussberg.
🕢️ 7:30 pm
🎟️ https://t.co/Qpnvt1siZB#PublicDomain pic.twitter.com/l6Zi2Tmgm7
— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) November 15, 2024
Agenda Items:
2. UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy – Maria Climaco – Capstone Project Proposal
a. Review and take possible action
3. OPD & Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt – Recommendation to City Council Regarding Oakland Police
Department’s Written Agreement to Share Body-Worn Camera Video with Stanford University for
Research Purposes
a. Review and take possible action
4. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Hostage Throw Phone Proposed Use Policy and Impact
Statement
a. Review and take possible action
5. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – DGO I-32 Mobile Investigative Pan-Tilt-Zoom (MIPTZ)
Camera Systems Proposed Use Policy and Impact Statement
a. Review and take possible action
Members of the public can view the meeting live on KTOP or on the City’s website at
https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/ktop-tv-10.
Comment in advance. To send your comment directly to the Privacy Commission and staff BEFORE the meeting starts,
please send your comment, along with your full name and agenda item number you are commenting on, to Felicia
Verdin at fverdin@oaklandca.gov. Please note that eComment submissions close one (1) hour before posted meeting
time. All submitted public comment will be provided to the Privacy Commission prior to the meeting
Planetwalker by Dominic and Nadia Gill: In 1971, John Francis embarked on a journey that would redefine environmental activism after witnessing the San Francisco Oil Spill. He took a 17-year vow of silence, renounced all motorized transportation and began walking across the United States seeking a deeper understanding of humanity’s relationship with the earth. Planetwalker re-introduces the world to the inner-magic of Dr. John Francis, a central figure in the intersectional environmental movement who’s story takes on new meaning today.
With Hosts Diane Quon and Julie Parker Benello; Filmmakers in Attendance
Come join our Comrade Crafternoon on Saturday Nov 23th 2-5pm!
🌹After a hectic election cycle, relax with EBDSA and imagine a world free of capitalism, one without imperialism and that is devoid of exploitation. https://t.co/6KGn7plrwA pic.twitter.com/6NoF3mKSwh
— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) November 18, 2024
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome.
For our November meeting we will be reading the first seven chapters of “Breaking Together” by Jem Bendell (Amazon, free download .epub). For our December meeting we will finish the book.
The collapse of modern societies has begun. That is the conclusion of two years of research by the interdisciplinary team behind Breaking Together. How did it come to this? Because monetary systems caused us to harm each other & nature to such an extent it broke the foundations of our societies. So what should we do? This book describes people allowing the full pain of our predicament to liberate them into living more courageously & creatively. They demonstrate we can be breaking together, not apart, in this era of collapse. Jem Bendell argues that reclaiming our freedoms is essential to soften the fall & regenerate the natural world. Escaping the efforts of panicking elites, we can advance an ecolibertarian agenda for both politics & practical action in a broken world.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included (in chronological order) 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 A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, Less is More, Cannibal Capitalism, Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America, End Times, Jackson Rising Redux , The Feminist Subversion of the Economy, How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems that Shape our World, Wealth Supremacy, The Persuaders, The Path to a Livable Future, Solidarity and Mutual Aid.
This year’s annual Shellmound 2 Shellmound Prayer walk will honor the legacy of beloved warrior Wounded Knee De’Ocampo who transitioned on October 7th 2024.
Wounded Knee was known for showing up for the people, being a water protector and for being a part of The Longest Walk that began in 1978, starting from the Bay Area to Washington D.C.
Wounded Knee was also monumental in the movements to protect sacred sites, one of those sites being Sogorea Te’, which is now known as Glen Cove in Vallejo.
Through this work Wounded Knee reached people from various communities around the world and so many people will feel the impact from this great loss. The work that Wounded Knee has done in the protection of sacred sites will continue to live on through all who knew and loved him.
Join us on the largest shopping day after Thangs-taken!
The opinions expressed in our Sunday morning programs are those of the speakers only and do not necessarily represent any consensus by the members of ICSS. Our general practice is to allot at least half of the time to comradely discussion of the issues including as many voices as practical.
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Imperialism & Fascism in the 21st Century
Speakers: Raj Sahai and Mehmet Bayram
What constitutes (1) Imperialism and Fascism in our time at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century? (2) How is imperialism different today than in 1916 when Lenin penned his famous booklet? (3) How is Fascism today different than in 1935 and before when Dimitrov, Palme Dutt & Trotsky wrote to define it. What to call the new forms of fascism? (4) How has the wrong interpretations of fascism developed and where has it led Marxism? (5) What do the phenomenon of MAGA on one hand and Identity Politics Liberalism of today represent? (6) How to identify the trend toward the finance-capital monopoly dictatorship we are witnessing today? Does fascism demonstrate itself in the superstructure in the Marxist sense? Why is it important to identify the changes we are observing in the governance of US? How to fight it? (7) How is fascism related to imperialism and the new forms of imperialism. (8) How does it connect with the changes we are witnessing since 2016?
Join us in Sacramento on December 2 for a People's March & Rally from 11am- 1pm PT.
Where: Area 27, next to the California State Capitol Building (grassy area on N street between 12th and 13th street). pic.twitter.com/hrCNdJkYmZ
— Secure Justice (@SecureJustice) November 29, 2024
How can we stop culture from disappearing down the #MemoryHole? 🕳️ Join us for the #booktalk "VANISHING CULTURE: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record" to learn how.
📅 Tues, Dec 3
🕙 10am PT / 1pm ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://t.co/crFSQO8B1U#VanishingCulture @Auths_Alliance pic.twitter.com/ho3GdyEqY5— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) November 27, 2024
Please join me for a sneak peek of the documentary "Sign My Name to Freedom—The Lost Music of Betty Reid Soskin," along with a discussion of how her life can teach the history of Oakland, on Weds., Dec. 4 at 6:00 pm at Santa Fe School or on Zoom—RSVP at https://t.co/jwsYi8XdtA pic.twitter.com/GSqKdVGcGw
— Sam Davis, OUSD Board President (@samdavis510) November 24, 2024
UNITE To STOP The Fascist HB 9495 NOW Rally At Democratic Senator Alex Padilla’s Office Friday December 6, 2024 12 noon 333 Bush St. San Francisco Trump and the Republican party with the support of some Democrats in the House have passed HB 9495. This fascist bill titled Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act would allow the secretary of the Treasurer to unilaterally without out any process take away non-profit status of an organization that the Secretary determines to support “terrorism”.
This means that organizations like Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, The Lawyers Guild, Greenpeace, immigrant righst organization and organizations supporting the Palestinian people could immediately be put out of business financially by the Trump appointed Treasury Secretary.
This also could include unions that for example are opposed to sending arms to Israel and in favor of a ceasefire. Unions such as the UAW, SEIU, NEA, APWU have taken positions that Trump and his fascist supporters would like to crush and this bill would give them the power to do it when he takes power. The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act — would allow the Treasury Department unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it designates as a “terrorist supporting organization.”
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The elections are over and have brought a change in party control, but the direction of U.S. imperial interests and international militarism moves on regardless. Come hear speakers discuss the wars in Palestine and Ukraine and the growing saber-rattling towards China.
Emer Martin – Award-winning Irish novelist; Co-founder of Saoirse Hurriya (Palestinian/Irish Solidarity Committee); member of Fremont Education Association
Bert Knorr – Co-chair, Peace in Ukraine coalition; representative, Democratic Socialists of America International committee; participant in the International Peace in Ukraine conference in Vienna, Austria in 2023
Lara Kiswani – Executive Director, Arab Resources Organizing Center
Lisa Eugene – organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation; member, Peace and Freedom Party Alameda County Central Committee
*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.
Please arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentations.
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 Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party,
the Alameda County Green Party and Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change.
For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org>
🌹Looking to get organized and don't know where to start?
Come check out "What Is DSA" and learn more about what the largest socialist organization in the country is up to! https://t.co/hJnkyTSVpm pic.twitter.com/DM9eAq01PU
— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) November 22, 2024
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Sunday Morning Marxist Forum
Speaker: Basudev Nag Chowdhury, People’s Brigade
Bangladesh has observed a students-led mass-upsurge to overthrow the Hasina government replacing it with an interim government led by Md. Yunus as the Chief Adviser, although unrest is still going on. In quick succession, Sri Lanka has experienced the electoral power capture by the communist party JVP. Pakistan is exhibiting similar unrest since the arrest of its ex-president Imran Khan. The Indian state is still managing the people’s grievances although unprecedented sparks of protests are being observed such as in Bengal. In the talk at ICSS, Com. BNC will try to explain the general characteristics and identical origin of all such political turbulences in the entire Indian subcontinent as the manifestation of the global neoliberal crisis that has now been dumped to this region. Consequently the revolutionary aspect of the situation will be elaborated in the discussion.
Alameda County Supervisors have an ethical investment policy resolution on this week’s 12/10 agenda. Let’s mobilize to demand they vote and pass this resolution that will keep our tax dollars from being invested in companies that cause harm, enable or profit from environmental derogation, occupation, war, systemic poverty, mass surveillance, immigration detention centers, genocide or apartheid!We’ll be packing the house at 9:30am and again at 4pm, as we anticipate that this motion is going to get delayed again by Supervisor Miley At this meeting, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors will vote on the letter directing Alameda County’s Treasurer to divest the county from companies involved in Israeli apartheid and genocide. This letter was introduced on November 12, but Sup. Haubert moved to delay the vote until the December 10th Board meeting. At the beginning of a board meeting each supervisor can delay an item once by up to 2 meetings, and we anticipate Miley will move to delay again.
It’s important that we pack the room at the start of the meeting to show strong community support from all across Alameda County in favor of divestment and come back later at 4 to give public comment! But if you can only join one of those times, please prioritize the 4pm mobilization. We must signal to our representatives that our communities take this seriously, and that any further delay is a miscarriage of Justice
t is critical that the Board rejects this proposal for the following reasons:
- Unity and Community Needs Must Be Prioritized: In the face of rising antisemitism and significant budget challenges, divisive initiatives like BDS distract from supporting the well-being of the entire community and addressing critical issues.
- Insufficient Time for Public Input: Rushing this proposal undermines transparency and prevents thoughtful deliberation.
- Lack of Clarity: The proposal’s broad and undefined mandate leaves no room for open debate in a public forum and hinders meaningful accountability.
Provide Public Comment on Tuesday
In Person: The proposal will be considered at the Board Chambers (1221 Oak Street, 5th Floor, Oakland) at 4:00 p.m. and the public will be permitted to provide comments about this item. We encourage you to show up early, bring small signs, and prepare one-minute remarks.
Remember to fill out a digital speaker card at the front of the chambers as soon as you get there. For talking points, please refer to our guide. Given that this is a fast-moving situation, please click here to get real-time updates from JCRC Bay Area before the meeting.
On Zoom: Zoom link here. Instructions for remote participation here.
By Email: Click here to submit a personal email to the Supervisors and have your comment included in the public record. The proposal is item 51. For talking points, please refer to our guide.
Thanks for your ongoing advocacy. We are stronger together!
Mark your calendars! 🚨
Join us Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 3 PM in Room 250 at City Hall to urge the SF Board of Supervisors to overturn the RV ban. Punishing vulnerable residents isn’t the answer—the city must invest in real solutions like safe parking sites! pic.twitter.com/4QljcEDLQZ
— Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights SF (@lccrsf) November 21, 2024
We keep us safe!
Basic Self Defense training for folks on the streets – tomorrow at 10am @ 2nd and Page Street cul-de-sac, West Berkeley. Training by Balagoon Mutual Aid. pic.twitter.com/lrheo7hSIE— Mama Lisa (@LisTeague) December 13, 2024