OAKLAND, CA
▪ Street Action
Gather at at 10:00am with many banners, placards with photos of people in long-term solitary confinement, and informational handouts at the huge intersection outside the First Congregational Church. The Church is supportive of our efforts to end solitary confinement. Their service begins at 10:30am and they might allow PHSS to speak, during the service, about the importance of ending torture, solitary confinement.
END LONG TERM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT !!
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Aug
22
Sat
Aug 22 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Help block the proposal to transport coal by rail through Oakland for export overseas. Join an educational and planning meeting for residents of District 4, but all Oakland residents are welcome.
This meeting is particularly relevant to residents of that area but this project could affect all East Bay residents, and all are welcome.
You will learn what the Coal Free Oakland campaign has been doing and how you can help convince the City Council to ban coal in our city.
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Aug 22 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt!
Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects!
- student debt resistance
- organizing for public banking.
- advocating for Postal banking.
- ongoing study group
- helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk
- our famous Strike Debt radio program
- staging Debtors’ Assemblies
- Restaging our recent presentation on money and debt at the US Social Forum
- Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts
- saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs
- and much more!
Strike Debt Bay Area is an offshoot of Occupy Oakland and Strike Debt, itself an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.
Strike Debt – Principles of Solidarity
Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it.
We also oppose debt because it is an instrument of exploitation and political domination. Debt is used to discipline us, deepen existing inequalities, and reinforce racial, gendered, and other social hierarchies. Every Strike Debt action is designed to weaken the institutions that seek to divide us and benefit from our division. As an alternative to this predatory system, Strike Debt advocates a just and sustainable economy, based on mutual aid, common goods, and public affluence.
Strike Debt is committed to the principles and tactics of political autonomy, direct democracy, direct action, creative openness, a culture of solidarity, and commitment to anti-oppressive language and conduct. We struggle for a world without racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of oppression.
Strike Debt holds that we are all debtors, whether or not we have personal loan agreements. Through the manipulation of sovereign and municipal debt, the costs of speculator-driven crises are passed on to all of us. Though different kinds of debt can affect the same household, they are all interconnected, and so all household debtors have a common interest in resisting.
Strike Debt engages in public education about the debt-system to counteract the self-serving myth that finance is too complicated for laypersons to understand. In particular, it urges direct action as a way of stopping the damage caused by the creditor class and their enablers among elected government officials. Direct action empowers those who participate in challenging the debt-system.
Strike Debt holds that we owe the financial institutions nothing, whereas, to our friends, families and communities, we owe everything. In pursuing a long-term strategy for national organizing around this principle, we pledge international solidarity with the growing global movement against debt and austerity.
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Aug
23
Sun
Aug 23 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Aug. 23rd Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary
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Aug 23 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
A great time to meet a lot of people, and get them excited about 15 Now and the upcoming Berkeley city council meeting on a higher minimum wage.
So come join if you’re around, and get ready to clipboard like crazy
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Aug 23 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
This Sunday 1-5pm @ Henry J Kaiser Center, share your vision for the E12th St parcel. #E12thWishList #SaveE12th pic.twitter.com/qLiVON0GTz
— krok (@kiernanrok) August 21, 2015
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On the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month Occupy Oakland meets at the Omni Commons (4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland) basement at 2:00 PM sharp so folks can also attend the Open Circle at the Omni a little later at 3:45 PM. A potluck lunch normally precedes the Open Circle and postcedes GA at roughly 3 PM.
On the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre at 14th Street & Broadway, often on the steps of City Hall. 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
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for more than three 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
- 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)
Occupy Oakland Kitchen Committee: (kitchen@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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Aug
24
Mon
There meeting tomorrow night. #SaveE12th pic.twitter.com/bRlxUxMeFB
— Bay Solidarity (@BaySolidarity) August 23, 2015
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Aug 24 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
OccupyForum presentsAll Power to the People:
The Black Panther Party and Beyond
A documentary film by Lee Lou Lee on racism,
the Panthers, and the Indigenous Peoples’ Movement
All Power to the People! examines problems of race, poverty, dissent, and the universal conflict of the haves versus the have nots. U.S. government documents, rare news clips, and interviews with both ex-activists and former FBI/CIA officers provide deep insight into the bloody conflict between political dissent and governmental authority in the U.S. of the 60s and 70s.Working as a TV cameraman during the 1992 L.A. riots, Lee Lew-Lee became curious about the history of American race relations and the Black Panther Party (founded in Oakland in 1967). His research led to All Power to the People. The film combines archival footage with interviews — from ex-CIA officer Philip Agee, journalist/filmmaker Gordon Parks, and former FBI Special Agent Wesley Swearingen — to various Panthers and political radicals. The film covers slavery, civil-rights activists and assassinations in the ’60s, and it explores methods used by police, the FBI, and the CIA to divide and destroy the key figures in the Black Panther Party. The film extends beyond the Panther history to more recent times, covering Reagan-Era events, privacy threats from new technologies, and the failure of the War Against Drugs.
Globally acclaimed as being the most accurate depiction of the goals, aspirations, and ultimate repression of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, All Power to the People! is a gripping, timeless news documentary.
Time will be allotted for Q&A, discussion and announcements.
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Aug
25
Tue
Aug 25 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Protest at the Sierra Club on Tuesday, August 25, at 4pm, at 2530 San Pablo Ave (near Dwight), in Berkeley, California.
If you want to help us stop the deforestation and poisoning of the East Bay Hills, please join the organizing and discussion list of the Coalition to Defend East Bay Forests: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/eastbayhills
- Over the past 15 years, tens of thousands of trees have been destroyed on public lands in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now hundreds of thousands of trees in the East Bay are in jeopardy of being destroyed by a FEMA grant to three public land managers. The Bay Area Chapter of the Sierra Club has actively supported all of these projects and now it has sued FEMA to demand the destruction of 100% of all “non-native” trees.
- These projects have already used hundreds of gallons of herbicide to prevent the trees from resprouting and to kill the weeds that grow when the shade of the canopy is destroyed. Now, the FEMA project intends to use thousands of gallons of herbicide for the same purpose. These herbicides (glyphosate, triclopyr, imazapyr) are known to be harmful to wildlife, pets, and humans.
- This environmental disaster will release tons of carbon into the atmosphere, thereby contributing to climate change. It will destroy valuable habitat for wildlife, introduce poisons into our watershed, cause erosion, and eliminate our windbreak. We call on the national leadership of the Sierra Club to prevent the active participation of the Bay Area Chapter of the Sierra Club in this environmental disaster.
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Aug 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The El Cerrito Democratic Club will host a talk by Sean Donahoe on “Cannabis Policy Reform in California.”
Donahoe is a cannabis policy reform advocate and owner of Operative Campaigns LLC.
Donahoe is an Oakland resident who co-founded the California Cannabis Industry Association in early 2013 after years of political consulting. He “is regularly in the Capitol or traveling around the state, speaking with activists and electeds while organizing this industry with an activist mindset. In addition to his work with CCIA, he helped write the United Food and Commercial Workers national organizing plan for the cannabis industry, served on the executive board of the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform, created several political action committees, and advised several local ballot measure committees last year. He currently serves on the City of Oakland’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission and has a monthly political article in Culture magazine.”
The meeting is open to the public.
The meeting starts with a 6 p.m. social time, followed by club announcements before the talk by Donahoe at 6:30 p.m.
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Join the TGI Justice Project (TGIJP) and Black Lives Matter Bay Area at 6 pm tomorrow (Tuesday, 8/25) at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco as we come together in response to the #BlackTransLiberationTuesd
17 trans women of color have been killed in 2015. The average life expectancy of a Black trans woman is 35 years. We are in a state of emergency and the time to speak our grief, rage and love to power is now!
Please also take a few minutes to read this article on just some of the ways we can all help show up for trans* women of color and their survival.
http://
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Aug 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage.
The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers.
Our work together encompasses:
(1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers,
(2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and
(3) Efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life.
We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:00 PM at the SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall, 436 14th Street #200, Oakland, CA
Please love and support one another ~ We have a duty to fight ~ We have a duty to win!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1568668586707336/
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Aug
26
Wed
#BayArea tomorrow go 2 @TheNewParkway Karma Cinema in Uptown Oakland. 20% proceeds will go 2 Critical Resistance! Every Wednesday in August.
— Critical Resistance (@C_Resistance) August 11, 2015
Here’s what’s playing and at what times.
Every Wednesday, you pay what you want for your movie ticket. At the end of the month, we donate 20% of all Karma Cinema ticket sales to our monthly Karma Cinema partner, a local organization that benefits Oakland communities.
Karma Cinema is an example of our efforts to make going to the movies accessible for people of all means, as well as giving an opportunity for those who can afford to give back to do so.
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No War With Iran” National Day of Action in Oakland
Where: Rep. Barbara Lee’s office (in Oakland)
What: Help keep America out of another war by joining MoveOn members and other anti-war activists at one of more than 175 events across the country, sending a unified message: No War With Iran. Join us outside the office of Representative Barbara Lee to deliver pro-diplomacy petitions and help make sure Congress supports the diplomatic deal that will prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons?
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Please Come & Invite Your Friends to Special BOARD MEETING.
Background article on Berkeleyside.
YOUR presence this coming WEDS Aug 26 at 5:30 pm is
ESSENTIAL. Please plan to come and CONTACT your friends, family, neighbors to come, too!
The Board will hear public comment before discussing the performance of the library director (in closed session).
Our freedom of, and access to, information, cultural heritage and history continue to be at stake as members of the Board of Library Trustees
continue to support the director’s actions. Hard to believe, but true. They see our facts as “wild claims” and “misinformation.” They see 2
managers with a budget to buy books from one jobber (along with 4 librarians with a small “allowance”) as just as good as 34 people being
able to thoughtfully buy books from independent publishers. The Vice-Chair feels all those books needed to be tossed!
The Board continues to support its director–despite clear evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse. Change WILL come only if LARGE numbers of us show up to the meeting and speak our minds. See you on Weds at 5:30pm on the steps of Central Library (Kittredge and Shattuck).
MANY, Many THANKS!!!
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Aug 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Women Organized to Resist and Defend (WORD) invites you to speak out against the attacks on women’s healthcare & reproductive rights. Planned Parenthood is again facing attacks that would strip it of federal funding. This not only takes away a woman’s right to choose & have control over her own body, but is a direct assault on women’s health. These bigoted attacks are potentially dangerous to women’s health, & women’s rights as a whole. Planned Parenthood is an important resource for women’s health, not only for its reproductive services, but also for many other health issues & preventative care for women and their partners. The majority of Planned Parenthood’s services goes to providing affordable health care for poor women & their families. Their cancer screening & prevention services are crucial to poor families. We say enough! We demand affordable healthcare & the right to choose for ourselves!
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Aug
27
Thu
Aug 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BERKELEY ORGANIZING CONGREGATIONS FOR ACTION
– Unlocking the Power of People.
hosts
ACLU & NAACP Panel Discussion
“Why the new ‘Fair and Impartial’ Police Policy
is important for Berkeley”
Dinner Provided
Public Invited – No Charge
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Aug 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
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Board of Trustees Meeting
The Agenda includes a discussion of audio-taping or videotaping the Board of Trustees’ meetings as well as an Affordable Housing Presentation by the Council of Community Housing Organizations.
The Save City College Coalition is working with affordable housing advocates to fight for the principle that scarce and irreplaceable public land must go toward the public good, and truly affordable housing – not toward yet more luxury condos and profits for market rate developers! (See opinion editorial by Fernando Marti and Peter Cohen, Public land ideal for affordable housing, March 4, 2015 which brings in other needs.
The deal at 33 Gough is being guided by CBRE, a huge commercial real estate company that has a long track record of stripping out public assets at fire sale prices. Three Inspector General Reports and a book length study show that CBRE sold off 52 main post office buildings at 70% of fair market value, often to their own business partners (Peter Byrne, Going Postal). We should not be fooled by vague language about “below market rate” units – there are clear affordable housing guidelines that are legally and morally required.
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