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Dec
19
Thu
Rally Against Displacement @ please contact the organizers via email or call/text for location details.
Dec 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

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.

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Dec
20
Fri
SAVE CHELSEA MANNING AND JULIAN ASSANGE FROM TORTURE/DEATH
Dec 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

BASTA! WE CAN SAVE CHELSEA MANNING AND
JULIAN ASSANGE FROM TORTURE/DEATH

Please join our weekly vigils.

We can help you start your own. Also sign up for our emails and alerts at: https://bayaction2freeassange.org
and watch the INCREDABLE “SHOWTIMES”doc. “XYChelsea free @ https://archive.org/details/XYChelsea

The Main Stream Media (MSM) is so full of lies, it’s got the masses confused!!
There are only a few places we can get the truth.Chelsea and Julian were two
of the most important WHISTLE BLOWERS to tell the truth about USA’s
illegal, immoral WARS. USA is one of the largest TERRORIST countries in
history, killing, wounding, and forcing emigration on millions (did you know
there are 65 million migrants?) all over the world!!

Saving Chelsea and Julian is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!! To the
Working class and it’s Allies.They told us the truth about the wars! And all the
NEW MacArthyism (phony Russia Gate conspiracy led by the New York Times)
is blaming Julian for being a puppet of Russia. So much of all our issues stem
from the honesty of Chelsea and Julian!! That’s why the RULING CLASS
imprisoned them and want’s them DEAD.

Please write letters to Chelsea (only hand written and no post cards or
pictures, or anything written on the outside of the letter) Write to:

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning,
William Truesdale Adult Detention Center,
2001 Mill Road, Alexandria Va. 22314.

Also write to julian @ writejulian.com
Web sites and twitter feeds – @xychelsea,@defendassange, andwikileaks.org –

– Real News Network – “Federal judge continues Chelsea Manning’s
confinement and $1000/day fine” https://youtub.be/qjywz_U_x1c – The
–Jimmy Dore Show – “Chelsea Manning jailed again for protecting
journalism” https://youtu.be/bTqVNKXZYAY (89,000 hits)
– Chelsea Manning 2min “Abolish ICE”https://youtu.be/R7qpQGGQqa8
—Orion song”WE will keep fightin everyday even though our tears won’t go
away!” https://youtu.be/T5-3db8GDFY
— Chelsea’s scathing 7 page letter to the judge about the history of
the SECRET GRAND JURIES: –

Letter from Chelsea Manning to Judge Anthony Trenga

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Dec
21
Sat
DSA: Gingerbread Social Housing Social @ RSVP for location (see text)
Dec 21 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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! 

RSVP Here

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Dec
22
Sun
New Parkway 7th Anniversary – $1 Movies
Dec 22 all-day


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!

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Group Discussion: The Christian Church and Marxism. @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Dec 22 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

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.

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Dec
24
Tue
Moms 4 Housing Christmas Eve Press Conference
Dec 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

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Dec
26
Thu
Moms 4 Housing Court Hearing @ Hayward Hall of Justice
Dec 26 @ 8:30 am – 11:00 am

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Block The Boat 5th Year Anniversary @ Quezada Center
Dec 26 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

block the boatFive 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.

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Reception for Lisa Savage Green Party U.S. Senate candidate – Vermont @ It's Your Move Games and Hobbies
Dec 26 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Reception for Lisa Savage
Green Party U.S. Senate candidate

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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Dec
27
Fri
Friday Hot Meal Prep & Distribution to the Unhoused @ Curbside Community
Dec 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Friday Hot Meal Prep & Distribution to the Unhoused

Hot-Meals[v2]

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.

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Dec
28
Sat
V for Vendetta @ New Parkway
Dec 28 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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!

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Dec
29
Sun
Group Discussion: David Graeber’s Debt: the First Five Thousand Years. @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Dec 29 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

This topic was suggested by ICSS member Karen Steward who will provide an introduction to this fascinating book.

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FreeUp Oakland – Free Store
Dec 29 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

freeoaklandup

Free Oakland UP is open Thursday to Sunday, 12-4.
Come in for your #free #treasures! One free treasure per person per day and for a fair monetary donation to help pay the rent you may choose more! More treasures!!
Plus! There are 2 tables where you can take all you want and may take as much Christmas stuff as you want! Sooooo much stuff!

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Dec
30
Mon
Unhoused Know Your Rights Training @ East Oakland Collective HQ
Dec 30 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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Jan
1
Wed
Vigil for Oscar Grant @ Fruitvale Bart Station
Jan 1 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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Jan
4
Sat
U.S. Troops Out of Iraq! @ Powell St. BART
Jan 4 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

National Day of Action U.S. Troops Out of Iraq!
Answer Coalition

On Saturday, January 4 the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK and others are calling on people from around the United States to organize local demonstrations to demand: NO MORE U.S. TROOPS TO IRAQ OR THE MIDDLE EAST! U.S. OUT OF IRAQ NOW! and NO WAR/NO SANCTIONS ON IRAN!

In response to the massive protests in Iraq following the latest U.S. aerial assault that killed scores of Iraqis, Donald Trump has ordered 750 more U.S. troops to the Middle East and potentially 3,000 more. This is in addition to the 5,200 U.S. troops already stationed in Iraq. Every U.S. president over the last 28 years has ordered the bombing of Iraq. The decision by Donald Trump and the Pentagon to launch new air assaults against Iraqis in the past week ignited nationwide resistance by Iraqis who want to reclaim their full sovereignty and do not want Iraq to be used in a U.S. war on Iran.

More than a million Iraqis have died during the past 28 years as a consequence of U.S. occupation, bombings and sanctions. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops have either been killed or suffered life-changing wounds. The U.S. government has spent more than $3 trillion in the ongoing occupation and bombing of this oil rich country. Instead of taking the United States out of this endless war, Trump is building up U.S. forces in the region and threatening a war with Iran.

Initiators for this call include the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK, Popular Resistance, World Beyond War and many other anti-war and peace organizations. If you want to add your name as an endorser click here.

Demonstrations will also take place on Saturday, January 4 in the following cities.

The White House – Washington D.C.
12 noon at the White House

Albuquerque, NM
2pm at Kirtland Airforce Base, San Mateo and Gibson Blvd
Initiated by ANSWER Albuquerque

Chicago, IL
12 noon at Trump Tower
Initiated by ANSWER Chicago

Los Angeles, CA
1 pm at Pershing Square
Initiated by ANSWER LA

New York City, NY
11 am at Times Square
Initiated by ANSWER New York

San Francisco, CA
12 noon at Powell and Market
Initiated by ANSWER San Francisco

Arlington, MA
12noon at Broadway Plaza, Mass. Ave. and Medford St
Initiated by Arlington United for Justice with Peace (AUJP)

Seattle, WA
2pm at Westlake Park
Initiated by ANSWER Seattle

Atlanta, GA
3 pm at Little Five Points
Initiated by ANSWER Atlanta

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Jan
5
Sun
The Politics of BDS @ Netivot Shalom Library
Jan 5 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Talk on BDS.

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The Year in Review @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Jan 5 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

Discussion Topic: Is this the year we will overthrow the hated dictatorship of the bourgeoisie?

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Jan
6
Mon
Locksmithing Lab @ Omni Commons
Jan 6 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Homes Not Jails is hosting a Locksmithing Lab. Learn how to pick. Learn about locks.

Every 1st and 3rd Monday
Omni commons Basement

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Jan
7
Tue
Changing Climate: Aligning Tech, Policy, Activism, and Equity @ DX Labs
Jan 7 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Join the Sunrise Movement for a workshop with a diverse crowd of activists, futurists, technologists, scientists, and policymakers to examine emerging trends and map out visions of the future to help inform our actions today.

The invitation to the workshop explains,  “We are each called to work on this issue in many different ways and it is important that we align on a common direction and purpose for the changes we need.”

Panel

Danielle Plat, Political Lead Bay Area Sunrise Movement

Shayna H. Hirshfield-Gold, Oakland’s 2030 Equitable Climate Action Plan Lead

Other Speakers: TBD

Facilitator:  Evan McEldowney, Sunrise Tech Lead

RSVP

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