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OTU’s Mission
The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf.
Monthly Meetings
The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 pm on the second Monday evening of each month. Our monthly meetings are held in the Community Room of the Madison Park Apartments, 100 – 9th Street (at Oak Street, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station). To enter, gently knock on the window of the room to the right of the main entrance to the building. At the meetings, first we focus on general issues affecting renters city-wide and then second we offer advice to renters regarding their individual concerns.
If you have an issue, a question, or need advice about a tenant/landlord issue, please call us at (510) 704-5276. Leave a message with your name and phone number and someone will get back to you.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors, at its upcoming meeting on May 12th, will consider a request from Alameda County Sheriff Gregory J. Ahern for an additional $255 million or more over the next three years for the stated purpose of increasing staffing at the Alameda County Santa Rita Jail in Dublin despite the continuing decrease in the jail population.
This is precisely the wrong way to spend County money, especially during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Rather than giving the Sheriff more money for fewer prisoners, the Board of Supervisors should recognize that COVID-19 is spreading exponentially at the jail where the rate of diagnosed inmates per capita is 14 times the rate of recorded positive cases in Alameda County as a whole.
Instead, there is an urgent need to release as many inmates as possible and to fund healthcare, housing, and reentry programs, not more incarceration. Please call or email the Board of Supervisors, urging them to reject the Sheriff’s request for additional funds. It is particularly important to contact Supervisor Richard Valle from southern Alameda County, in addition to your Supervisor. If you have friends who live in Valle’s Second Supervisorial District (the cities of Hayward, Newark, and Union City; the northern portion of the city of Fremont; and a portion of the unincorporated community of Sunol), please pass this email to them.
Contact your member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors below:
- Supervisor Scott Haggerty
- Supervisor Richard Valle
- Supervisor Wilma Chan
- Supervisor Nate Miley
- Supervisor Keith Carson
Not sure who your County Supervisor is? You can look up which district you live in here.
You can also sign up to give public comment at the meeting, which will be live-streamed. See below.
Here is the agenda information:
54. Sheriff – Approve the following recommendations: A. Authorize an increase of appropriations for the Sheriff’s Office Law Enforcement Services Division for the purchase of gym equipment, in an amount up to $30,000, which will be fully offset with revenue from the Alameda County Narcotics Task Force Federal Asset Forfeiture Trust Fund #83114;
PUBLIC PROTECTION
1:30 P.M. – SET MATTER(S)
72. Sheriff and Health Care Services Agency – Authorize additional staffing and related costs at the Santa Rita Jail for the Sheriff’s Office and Health Care Services Agency/Behavioral Health Services – Continued from 3/24/20 (Item #32.5) – Continued from 3/31/20 (Item #8) – Continued from 4/21/20 (Item #21) – Continued from 4/28/20 (Item #35) Attachment 72
From the attachment:
http://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_05_12_20/PUBLIC%20PROTECTION/Set%20Matter%20Calendar/Sheriff_HCSA_295701.pdf
“The estimated annual cost of all requested positions, equipment and related expenses is approximately $106M…”
Here is participation information:
To provide written comment on an item on the agenda or to raise an issue as Public Input, you may send an email to CBS@acgov.org.
Please include your name, and either the agenda item number you are addressing, or that your comment falls under Public Input.
Copies of all written comments will be provided to the Board Members and will be added to the official record. Comments are NOT
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72 hours prior to the meeting date at CBS@acgov.org or call (510) 272-4949 or (510) 834-6754 (TDD).
You may also observe the
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AND PARTICIPATE IN MEETINGS BY FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE TELECONFERENCING GUIDELINES POSTED
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Input portion of the meeting on a matter not on the agenda provided the matter is within the Board’s subject matter
jurisdiction.
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As plans for re-opening businesses, communities, and schools emerge, mechanisms to track the SARS-COV-2 virus become increasingly critical to consider. In this conversation led by Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and Professor of Physics, Berkeley faculty will present their recent research findings and data on COVID-19 infection and death rates. They will discuss how they are using data to better understand how many people are infected and actually dying from COVID-19, whether infections and deaths are going up or down, and how much we can afford to increase mobility. They also will address broader questions about what data we need, how to protect it using encryption, and how to improve the ways we track and limit the pandemic.� Event Details
Shafi Goldwasser, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Director of the Simons Institute, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing; Uros Seljak, Professor of Physics, BIDS Senior Fellow, UC Berkeley Physics; Jacob Steinhardt, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Statistics
Saul Perlmutter, Professor of Physics, Director of BIDS, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Data Sciences
Live Webcast
Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19
COVID-19: Tracking, data privacy, and getting the numbers right
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM Pacific
As plans for re-opening businesses, communities, and schools emerge, mechanisms to track the SARS-COV-2 virus become increasingly critical to consider. In this conversation led by Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and Professor of Physics, Berkeley faculty will present their recent research findings and data on COVID-19 infection and death rates. They will discuss how they are using data to better understand how many people are infected and actually dying from COVID-19, whether infections and deaths are going up or down, and how much we can afford to increase mobility. They also will address broader questions about what data we need, how to protect it using encryption, and how to improve the ways we track and limit the pandemic. The panelists will be Shafi Goldwasser, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing; Uros Seljak, Professor of Physics, BIDS Senior Fellow; and Jacob Steinhardt, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
This conversation is sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science as part of a live online video series, Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19, featuring Berkeley scholars from a range of disciplines.
All Audiences
All Audiences
bids@berkeley.edu, 510-664-4506
Fenner, Marsha, bids@berkeley.edu, 510-664-4506
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Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay and nationwide.
We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing.
We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.
Check out some of what we worked on in 2020 and 2019.
Oakland Privacy originally came together in 2013 to fight against the Domain Awareness Center, Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OP was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network. We helped fight and helped win the fight against Urban Shield.
Our major projects currently include local legislation to regulate state surveillance (we got the strongest surveillance regulation ordinance in the country passed in Oakland!), supporting and opposing state legislation as appropriate, battling mass surveillance in the form of facial recognition, mass aerial surveillance, and other analytics, and pushing back against ICE.
On September 12th, 2019 we were presented with a Barlow Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for our work, and on March 16th, 2021 s James Madison Freedom of Information Award by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.
If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy email listserv, coming to a meeting, or have questions, send an email to:
Check out our website: http://oaklandprivacy.org/
Follow us on twitter: @oaklandprivacy
“WATCHING YOU WATCHING US”
Oakland Privacy works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment. Oakland Privacy drove the passage of surveillance regulation and transparency ordinances in Oakland and Berkeley and is kicking off new processes in various municipalities around the Bay. To help slow down the encroaching police and surveillance state all over the Bay Area, join us at the Omni.
Our Green New Deal Committee meets on the second Wednesday each month. We will discuss eco-socialist issues, upcoming events and actions, committee priorities, and campaigns. All are welcome! Please note that due to COVID-19, that this committee meeting will be conducted via Zoom video call. Please RSVP:
https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1274/2020-05-13-green-new-deal-committee-monthly-meeting-virtual/
to receive the URL to the meeting.
Agenda
2. Open Forum/Public Comment
4. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Forensic Logic Impact Report and proposed Use Policy -review and take possible action.
5. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – UAS (Drone) Impact Report and proposed Use Policy – review and take possible action
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• Comment in advance. To send your comment directly to the Selection Panel and staff BEFORE the meeting starts, please send your comment, along with your full name and agenda item number you are commenting on, to Joe DeVries at jdevries@oaklandca.gov. Please note that eComment submissions close thirty (30) minutes before posted meeting time. All submitted public comment will be provided to the Selection Panel prior to the meeting.
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Join us this Friday, on May Day, International Workers Day, at 5pm PST/8pm EST. Rachel Herzing will be in conversation with Kali Akuno (Cooperation Jackson), Zenei Cortez (National Nurses United) and Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental).
Fridays at 5pm PST/8pm EST
May 1: Organizing Workers Register
May 8: Sanctions on Iran Register
May 15: Palestine & the Blockade on Gaza Register
May 22: China and US Relations Register
May 29: Abolition & the COVID-19 Crisis Register
RECORDINGS OF PREVIOUS FORUMS
April 17: Venezuela and Sanctions Video Recording | Podcast
April 24: COVID-19 in Indian Country Video Recording | Podcast
The Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) in partnership with The Red Nation and the Center for Political Education is hosting a series of critical conversations on settler colonialism, US imperialism, and decolonization. The COVID-19 pandemic is global, and so our response to it must also be global. Friday Night Forums feature anti-imperialist perspectives and lessons on organizing from around the world, with an eye toward decolonizing Turtle Island.
Donate to AROC!
Help sustain our work in building power in the Arab community!
It’s time to elect a new East Bay DSA Steering Committee!
Join us for our May General Meeting and Steering Committee Candidate Forum via online conferencing (link TBA). During the first hour, we’ll hear updates from our committees and learn about ways to plug in to DSA. The second half of the meeting will be dedicated to our Steering Committee Candidate Forum. You’ll get to hear candidates talk about their vision for our chapter’s future and answer moderated questions from assembled members.
All Steering Committee members are elected for a one-year term, including two Co-Chairs, a Vice-Chair, a Recording Secretary, a Communications Secretary, a Treasurer, and seven At-Large members. You can read the role descriptions in our bylaws.
Find out more info at eastbaydsa.org/elections
Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, all voting will take place electronically through OpaVote. Each eligible voting member will receive a unique link through the email address that corresponds to their national account. Voting will open on May 17th and close one week later on May 23 at 11:59 pm.
- Eligible voting members must have joined East Bay DSA at least 1 month before the election, be current dues paying members at the time of the election, and not have been lapsed for the full year preceding the date of the election in order to vote in the Steering Committee election.
The meeting will be conducted via ZOOM and can be accessed using the following link: https://dsausa.zoom.us/j/638983293
he COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the nature of the capitalist system for all to see. It has revealed the vulnerability of the poorest people in society. It has shown clearly who is essential to our health and well being, and who is not. As the pandemic impacts societies across the globe, it gives us a glimpse of what massive climate disruption could also bring. The choice in front of us is clear – we have to organize our forces to save ourselves and life on our planet.
Join us for a discussion with Mike Davis, activist, professor and author of many books and articles about the impact of capitalism on the lives of working people and on the planet. Link to a recent article by MIke Davis on the pandemic: Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell.
As always, you will have an opportunity to ask questions and share your experiences from your workplace and community.
Please share widely – remember there are no borders.
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Strike Debt Bay Area proudly hosts a non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, and Capital and Its Discontents.
We will be reading the first half (Chapters 1-3) of How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century (Amazon, Abe Books, Verso) for the April 18th meeting and the rest of the book for the May 16th meeting.
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values—equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity—can provide both the basis for a critique of capitalism and help to guide us toward a socialist and democratic society.
Erik Olin Wright has distilled decades of work into this concise and tightly argued manifesto: analyzing the varieties of anticapitalism, assessing different strategic approaches, and laying the foundations for a society dedicated to human flourishing. How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century is an urgent and powerful argument for socialism, and an unparalleled guide to help us get there. Another world is possible. Included is an afterword by the author’s close friend and collaborator Michael Burawoy.
We start promptly at 6:30 – note the new time!
“Doors open” at 6 for socializing and tech troubleshooting. If you have never used Zoom before, we recommend you try connecting at 6 so if there is an issue one of our tech gurus can help you out before the meeting begins.
We will be using the Zoom video conferencing system for this meeting. You can download the software to your computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet by visiting https://zoom.us/download. For very detailed instructions, visit the IB Zoom Tips & Tricks page.
The link to click on to join the General Assembly (doors open at 6 to give you a chance to try out your connection) is https://zoom.us/j/96234848542.
Questions? Email info@indivisibleberkeley.org.
U.S. Sanctions: The Weaponization of the Global Financial System
While wars have historically been fought with soldiers and guns, the sole superpower has realized its monopoly ability to wage financial war through sanctions and embargoes against its perceived enemies around the world, such as Iran, North Korea, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria, Gaza. How and why does the United States alone exercise this extraterritorial power to such devastating effect?
Dr. Sharat G. Lin is a research fellow at the San José Peace and Justice Center. He writes and lectures on global political economy, labor migration, the Middle East, and public health. He has visited most of the countries under U.S. sanctions and studied the consequences of sanctions and embargoes.
Check here for login in starting Friday, May 15th.
North Oakland Neighbors! We are doing our distribution again and we would love your support for these dates:
Sunday 5.17 (Donations) 11am-1pm
Wednesday 5.20 (Donations) 3pm-5pm
Sunday 5.24 (Donations) 11am-1pm
Wednesday 5.27 (Donations) 3pm-5pm
Sunday 5.31 (Distribution) 10am-5pm
Wednesdays & Sundays (5/17, 20, 24, 27):
We are asking OUR HOUSED neighbors to contribute hygiene supplies, canned food, bottled water, rain gear, tarps, garbage bags, $$ et al to be redistributed on Sunday May 31st to encampments in North Oakland dealing with the COVID 19. We will sanitize and package your donations add a hot packaged meal and fresh fruit to the care kits to be distributed to North Oakland Encampments and surrounding encampments.
In order to properly sanitize and maintain social distancing we are collective the materials on April 26th &29th and aiming to distribute 500 hot meals and care kits on May 31st. Overflow resources will be distributed by sister orgs throughout Oakland.
To donate goods or volunteer please sign up here! :
https://forms.gle/gihhATtsXYyiNsVC9
Donate $$: https://www.facebook.com/donate/2956825734339312/2956825774339308/
***We need YOUR HELP!!!! If you have any of the items below that you can donate to your unhoused neighbors please do one of the following things:
-Drop off at 4799 Shattuck Ave (OMNI Commons)
or
-We can PICK UP FROM YOUR PORCH Sunday AM (for address within ~2.5 miles of 4799 Shattuck Ave)
**fill out this form https://forms.gle/B3J5c3PL55vmsiVK6 or email Diana at diwu118@gmail.com / text +1 510 898 6992 and volunteers will pick up from your porch (also email if you have a car and can pick up or redistribute)
*****
Items we need:
FOOD/WATER
– canned food: tuna, beans, jams, peanut butter, meats, soups, etc.
– Bagged rice, beans/pulses
– ramen, mac & cheese (easy to heat)
– Frozen Meats/Tofu (for future meals)
– bottled water
– juice packs
– Vitamin C tablets/EmergenC
HYGIENE PRODUCTS
– New tooth brush, toothpaste, deodorant
– soap (bar and liquid)
– pads and tampons
– hand sanitizer
– New wrapped toilet paper/paper towels
– Disinfectant Wipes
– Rubbing Alcohol/Bleach
– Unopened masks/gloves
– New in Package: socks and underwear
-Homemade masks
SHELTER AND GEAR SUPPORT
– rain gear
– tents
– tarp
– Garbage bags
– 5 gallon water containers
OTHER
– Dog Food
– $$$ Donate
– Ziplock Bags
– batteries
Donate $$$ on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donate/2956825734339312/2956825774339308/
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We will be organizing on an ongoing basis so funds or supplies not distributed will go out the following weeks.
Want to stay plugged in with the community restorative justice rapid response team? Text communityrj to 33222.
Partners for this distribution include: North Oakland Restorative Justice Council, Self Help Hunger Program, PLACE for Sustainable Living, Critical Resistance, The Omni and more to follow.
***As for safety we are a small group and we are wearing gloves and masks and sanitizing our items and maintaining recommend distances from each other and limiting numbers of involved people.
Main Distribution Event: MAy 31st (Sun) 10am-5pm
Sign up to volunteer for a shift for the main day. Some roles include people to help assemble bags, folks with cars to help caravan the supplies to the unhoused, etc. Please email Diana at diwu118@gmail.com / text +1 510 898 6992 to do so.
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
Panel: Surveillance Technology Governance During and After COVID-19
Registration: https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fl17AmcaT7ycekMQi1Vm6Q
As the world rushes to put contact tracing and illness-tracking tools in place to enable effective response to the coronavirus pandemic, privacy experts are raising concerns about exactly how this technology will be built and governed.
Join us for a panel, co-sponsored by the Corporations and Society Initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, on the use and governance of surveillance technology during (and after) the coronavirus pandemic. Our panelists will discuss how to align private and public sector interests to benefit society and support public health efforts, while also preserving privacy and civil rights.
This panel will feature leading voices from policy, tech, and medicine:
Albert Gidari (moderator): Director of Privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Inder Singh: Founder and CEO of Kinsa
Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD: Former President and Chief Executive Officer of AMIA, and Former Chief Science Officer for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Jon Callas: Senior Technology Fellow at the ACLU, Cryptographer, Software Engineer, UX Designer, and Entrepreneur
Gretchen Greene: Senior Advisor at the Hastings Center, International AI Policy Advisor, Lawyer, Computer Vision Scientist, Autonomous Vehicle Engineer, and Former U.S. national lab mathematician
Hey All,
The work hasn’t stopped! Quite the opposite. Much work going on to defend the most vulnerable in our communities. Join us in our virtual monthly membership meeting to hear what’s going on and talk about how you can help.
Agenda:
– Cat Brooks on the #BlackNewDeal
– James Burch on #AB2054 the #CRISESAct, which passed out of committee on May 12
– Rebecca Ruiz with update on #AuditAhern and #SantaRita jail next steps
– James Burch Update on the San Leandro PD murder of #Justice4StevenTaylor and next steps.
– Introducing our new Membership Coordinator
– Anti Police-Terror Project Committee updates and opportunities to get involved.
– Register in advance for this webinar:
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APTP General Membership meetings are held the third Wednesday of every month at 7pm. Join us to find out how you can get involved.
During a national crisis like the one we’re facing now, lawmakers must make critical decisions on a number of topics, which can define our future for decades to come. EFF is fighting to make sure that the policy changes we make in this moment are in service of a just, equitable, and healthy future for all of us.
Here are two things you can do to make sure lawmakers to do the right thing in California.
First, join us to learn about how face surveillance technology vendors are using this moment to promote surveillance products, even when they do more harm than good, in ways that endanger the very Californians most vulnerable to our current public health crisis.
Assemblymember Ed Chau (D-Monterey Park) is pushing a bill through the California State legislature that would promote the expansion of unnecessary and harmful face surveillance technology in the midst of this pandemic. We aim to stop it. On May 21, we’re co-hosting an online event discussing the risks presented by face surveillance, and simple actions you can take to protect your community and loved ones:
The Path to Privacy: Stopping Face Surveillance in California
Moderator: Hayley Tsukayama
Panelists:
Jennifer Jones, ACLU of Northern California
Kaitlin Jackson, Bronx Defenders
Nathan “nash” Sheard, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Myaisha Hayes, MediaJustice
Robert Sanger, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
When:
This event will be live-streamed via Twitch where you can chat and ask questions. It will also be streaming on Facebook Live and YouTube Live. (For Twitch’s Privacy Policy, see here.) We hope to see you there.
Second, tell your lawmakers that every Californian deserves access to high-speed broadband networks. In this moment of crisis, the cracks in our state’s broadband infrastructure are more apparent than ever as social distancing guidelines have increased the pressure on our Internet connections for keeping in touch with family and friends, schoolwork, and work for many Californians.
EFF is sponsoring a bill, authored by Sen. Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) that would improve the state’s Internet infrastructure, and make strides to close the digital divide permanently – especially in areas that have been neglected by traditional Internet service providers, such as rural communities and low-income urban neighborhoods.
If you agree that California should have universal access to high-speed broadband,take action now to tell your senator to support this critical bill ahead of its May 26 hearing.
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We’ll get through this crisis by investing in our communities, our social safety ne
Join us this Friday, on May Day, International Workers Day, at 5pm PST/8pm EST. Rachel Herzing will be in conversation with Kali Akuno (Cooperation Jackson), Zenei Cortez (National Nurses United) and Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental).
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May 22: China and US Relations Register
May 29: Abolition & the COVID-19 Crisis Register
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The Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) in partnership with The Red Nation and the Center for Political Education is hosting a series of critical conversations on settler colonialism, US imperialism, and decolonization. The COVID-19 pandemic is global, and so our response to it must also be global. Friday Night Forums feature anti-imperialist perspectives and lessons on organizing from around the world, with an eye toward decolonizing Turtle Island.
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Help sustain our work in building power in the Arab community!
Democratic Socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are raising the expectations of millions of people across the United States and bringing them into a political awakening. The membership of DSA, the largest socialist organization in the United States, is rapidly growing by the thousands. Millions of everyday people are calling for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, universal rent control, and more.
But what is democratic socialism? What does it mean to be a member of DSA?
Let’s talk about it.
Join us to discuss what our political moment calls for, make new friends, and get plugged into our fight for democratic control of the things that we need for all of us to live a dignified life.
Please RSVP to get the Zoom link and other information.