An introduction to the global struggle for Socialism.
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UPDATE: EVICTION DEFERRED!!
This AM #Moms4Housing filed a claim of right 2 possession in response 2 eviction notice. The Court now has 2 delay eviction & schedule a hearing in 15 days so sheriffs will NOT be coming 2 Mom’s House tomorrow-which gives us more time 2 organize, fight & win ❤️✊
– @moms4housing pic.twitter.com/CSatlF8mN1
— Alyssa Kang (@1alyssakang) December 16, 2019
On November 18th, a group of mothers without shelter reclaimed possession of a vacant investor-owned property in West Oakland. On December 3rd they received an eviction notice from Wedgewood Inc., one of the country’s biggest “fix & flip” companies that has profited significantly from the housing crisis.
Moms 4 Housing is calling on all community supporters and members of the media to come to 2928 Magnolia St. on the 17th to defend #MomsHouse. The Alameda County Sheriff’s office has confirmed that they will be enforcing the eviction order on December 17th beginning as early as 6 a.m.
Oakland youth call for a gathering at Oscar Grant plaza to create a community “Resilient Village”.
This action is youth led and cohosted by YVA, Mycelium Youth Network, Planting Justice and others.
Join Critical Resistance to help us send solidarity postcards to imprisoned people!
Every year in the wintertime, Critical Resistance sends a note of solidarity, hope, and encouragement to all of the 7,500+ subscribers of The Abolitionist newspaper that are currently locked up in jails, detention centers, and prisons.
Come by to write a personalized note of solidarity.
The art for this postcard was done by Eduardo Sarmiento, a political prisoner in the Philippines. Thanks to SELDA, an organization of political prisoners and former political detainees in the Philippines, who provided the artwork.
But a community meeting is ON for tomorrow to talk about next steps – 6 pm at Taylor Memorial Church (1188 12th Street in West Oakland). We won this battle, now let's win the war! #HousingIsAHumanRight #EvictTheSpeculators https://t.co/4cc45cs2X8
— Moms 4 Housing (@moms4housing) December 17, 2019
Join the Local Clean Energy Alliance, the Sierra Club, and others to tell East Bay Community Energy not to buy nuclear power. On December 18, East Bay Community Energy (EBCE) will consider a proposal to contract for “carbon free” energy, which would be 30% large hydroelectric and 70% nuclear..
Now there is no nuclear in East Bay Community Energy’s power mix, and many community members and organizations who advocated for community choice explicitly intended to have a “nuclear free” program. As evidenced by the 2025 decommissioning of Diablo Canyon (the last nuclear plant in CA), nuclear is on the way out. This process has been hastened by nuclear plant accidents, failing designs, cost and the operational time lag in new plants, not to mention the unsolvable hazardous waste problem.
The Local Clean Energy Alliance says neither large hydro nor nuclear is community- or environmentally friendly — check out the Principles of Environmental Justice.
The East Bay Community Energy board agenda is expected to be available here December 14 and the board is expected to make a decision on December 18. Please join in telling EBCE to reject nuclear energy
More info here
join PBS Blackside documentary
filmmaker Aleta Alston Toure’, who has been staying with Canticle Farm for two
months. Aleta is a Mother, Filmmaker, Healer and Social Change
organizer/strategist that is presently helping to build the Parable of
the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative. Aleta will be joined by
local Bay Area members Kazu Haga, East Point Peace Academy and with
Lousie Dunlap, Undoing the Silence: Six tools for Social Change Writing,
as they screen and discuss the culminating 20 years since the
“Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage Walk” which started May 30,
1998 where they were peace walkers on the 20 mile a day journey to
retrace slavery through America, The Caribbean, South America and
Africa.
Come hear about how this journey came together through the PBS Episode
6: Rise Up and Call Their Names.
Rise Up and Call Their Names, which chronicles a two-year interfaith,
multiracial, multiethnic pilgrimage from Massachusetts to Africa�by
way of Florida and the Caribbean�undertaken to heal the wounds of
slavery.
But is religious belief alone enough to hold the pilgrimage together?
Rise Up and Call Their Names follows 60 people who joined the Interfaith
Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage on a physical and spiritual voyage.
They walked from Massachusetts to Florida, then made their way to the
Caribbean and ultimately to Africa. Their purpose was to encourage
whites to join the conversation about slavery and to pray to heal the
societal racial rift.
Along the way, they visited the Masjid Khalifah Mosque (part of Imam
Wallace Mohammed’s Muslim American Society) and the Federation of
Southern Cooperatives, which works with black farmers struggling to hold
onto their land in Alabama. After months of difficult travel and deep
soul-searching, the pilgrims reach Africa with a stronger sense of
identity and purpose.
Further information:
https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/about/episode_6.html
https://middlepassagereunion.wordpress.com/about/
https://newenglandpeacepagoda.org/
See how the Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative and
the Canticle Farms Community are utilizing spiritual upliftment and
liberation as a way to bring housing and “Beloved Communities” together.
The Residents of the West Oakland Wood st Homeless Community have been continually harrassed and threatened by the City of Oakland and the real estate developer, Game Changer LLC. Over a hundred homeless people have informally settled on Wood st in West Oakland, as the developer looks to make a profit, residents are being threatened with eviction. Residents have been fighting this eviciton for over a year.
Residents are planning to deliver a letter to an Oakland politician, demanding an end to this harrassment and that no homeless community be removed without adequate housing alternatives being made available.
Have you ever wanted to build a socialist utopia out of gingerbread houses? Want to learn more about what East Bay DSA is doing around housing? Wondering what exactly is “social housing?” Join the East Bay DSA Housing Committee for a fun evening of making gingerbread houses and socializing with comrades. We’re also assembling hygiene kits including donated items like soaps, socks, and toothpaste. This is open to the general public – So that’s you! And your friends. And your friend’s friends. And your cousin’s cousin. Oh, and kids are welcome, too!
One of the best days of the year at the New Parkway is our birthday: yummy cake, a bunch of friends, singing, good cheer, and of course lots of great movies. We’re so happy to be turning seven and hope that you’ll help us ring in our adolescence in two weeks time.
Here’s what we have in store:
$1 Movies All Day Long! It used to be that the movie prices on our birthday were the same as our age, but $7 tickets just aren’t that special, and we want everything about our birthday to be marvelous!
Great Movie Choices! Whether you like old or now, feature or documentary, family-friendly or dark, we’ve got something for everyone. Here’s the line-up:
12:15pm ABOMINABLE 🎫
12:40pm GREMLINS 🎫
2:40pm ELF 🎫
3:15pm IT�S A WONDERFUL LIFE 🎫
5:05pm FANTASTIC FUNGI 🎫
6:10pm THE LIGHTHOUSE 🎫
7:15pm HONEY BOY 🎫
8:45pm TBA
9:30pm TBA
You can have your cake and eat it too! We’ll have a homemade cake for each and every movie so everyone who wants some will get at least a nibble.
Nine lucky winners! At each and every show on the 22nd, there will be one guest who will take home a 2020 Annual Pass for basically unlimited movies for an entire year. So come see a $1 show for the chance to win hundreds of 2020 free shows!
And we’ve got some other surprises for you as well. Check the schedule and mark your calendar for the 22nd. And happy birthday to all of us!
THE NEW PARKWAY THEATER is a community-centered cinema and pub located in Oakland’s Uptown district. Sit back and relax in our cozy couches while watching our new releases, cult classics, and fabulous special programming. Enjoy delicious food and local beer and wine on tap delivered right to your theater seat, all at affordable prices! See you at the New Parkway!
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
On the eve of one of the holiest festivals of the Christian calendar we take a materialist and dialectical look at this influential religious denomination. Our topic will be introduced by ICSS member Richard Fallenbaum.
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 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 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months, once Daylight Savings Time springs forward we tend to assemble at 4 PM).
On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 2 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over five years! 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
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
So that is why we are asking you to join our Christmas Eve Press Conference 👇
Tomorrow 12/24 @ 10AM
2928 Magnolia St, Oakland
— Moms 4 Housing (@moms4housing) December 24, 2019
URGENT – @moms4housing eviction hearing date has been expedited by the courts and will now be Thursday, 12/26.
Show up to the Hayward Hall of Justice at 8:30AM
24405 AMADOR ST. Hayward, CA 94544 https://t.co/LdRfdCgDFy
— Coalition on Homelessness (@TheCoalitionSF) December 25, 2019
URGENT – Word the lawyers that if the @moms4housing lose in court tomorrow (which is likely), the Sheriff could execute the eviction immediately.
They need people at the house to prepare to defend the home against eviction TOMORROW at 9AM. This is a priority over court support.
— Indybay (@Indybay) December 26, 2019
Five years ago, the Bay Area achieved one of the most successful BDS victories against apartheid Israel in US history! In 2014 we stopped the Israeli-owned ZIM shipping line from docking at the Port of Oakland for 3 consecutive months, and it hasn’t returned since!
Join us to celebrate the historic and decisive Block the Boat victory as a major contribution to all movements for social and economic justice!
Music, food, drinks and speakers from the Block the Boat coalition.
Lisa Savage is a hard-hitting teacher-organizer-grandmother who’s been spearheading the “Conversion” campaign at Maine’s Bath Iron Works to convert it to supply green energy and transportation, rather than billion-dollar destroyer warships that drain our budget, worsen climate change, and don’t make us safer. She’s running in a high-profile Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) contest to challenge vulnerable Trump ally Senator Susan Collins in Maine.
Lisa’s race will also showcase RCV as the real solution to the “spoiler” hysteria used across the nation to shut down Green voices. By lifting up the real solution to “spoiler” panic, Lisa’s race will strengthen the RCV momentum that’s well underway across the nation.
Please join us at a reception on Thursday evening to meet Lisa and to support her US Senate campaign which Jill Stein recently called, “the most hopeful race on the 2020 horizon”. If you’re not able to attend on Thursday, you can still support Lisa at: LisaForMaine.org
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With gracious donations and coordination from nonprofit Peninsula Food Runners, The East Oakland Collective has embarked on distributing 400 lbs of gourmet food from Silicon Valley to those in need in Oakland.
For more info and schedule, visit our volunteer webpage.
V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by the Wachowskis based on the 1988 DC/Vertigo Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Set in an alternate future where a Nordic supremacist and neo-fascist totalitarian regime has subjugated the United Kingdom, the film centers on V (portrayed by Hugo Weaving), an anarchist and masked freedom fighter who attempts to ignite a revolution through elaborate terrorist acts, while Natalie Portman plays Evey, a young, working-class woman caught up in V’s mission and Stephen Rea portrays a detective leading a desperate quest to stop V.
V for Vendetta has been seen by many political groups as an allegory of oppression by government; libertarians and anarchists have used it to promote their beliefs.
David Lloyd stated: “The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny – and I’m happy with people using it, it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.”
After movie discussion led by Sake One of KPFA’s “Oooh, They Mad” program!