Join us tonight on Zoom & make a call to stop CARE Court today!

 
Where: Online: CC and ASL will be provided Register here!

APTP is also in solidarity with fights across the state and world to reclaim public spaces. Community is fighting back against privatization and criminalization of poverty from Parker Elementary in Oakland to People’s Park in Berkeley to 24th Street Plaza in San Francisco to Echo Park in LA and BEYOND! We’ll cover some of these struggles, as well as the situation at Wood Street encampment, the largest encampment in Oakland.
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Reminder: if you haven’t already, please don’t forget to call your assemblymember TODAY  (844) 537-1657  and urge them to vote NO on CARCARE Court!

A legislative staffer will be tallying the calls they receive. Here’s how to call:

1. Dial (844) 537-1657
2. The automated system will ask you to state your street, city, and zip code then you will be connected to your assemblymember’s office
3. Tell the staff person your name, where you live and then you can say:

“I am a California resident calling in opposition to SB 1338, the bill to establish CARE Courts. I urge you to vote NO. All evidence shows that providing housing AND adequately-resourced, intensive, voluntary outpatient treatment  – not court-ordered treatment – is most effective for treating the poopulation CARE Court seeks to serve. California doesn’t need to spend millions on another racist court system. Thank you for your time.”
This CARE Court proposal has a $65 million starting cost and claims to combat houselessness and support people with mental health disabilities, but provides no funding to permanent supportive housing or mental health services such as peer supporters and community-based organizations. The bill instead pushes for ineffectual forced treatment and allocation of funds to expand our racist criminal legal system.

The bill will be voted on any day now and then it will move quickly to Newsom’s desk to become law. This is our last real chance to stop this bill.

Call your assemblymember TODAY at (844) 537-1657 to tell them why they should oppose CARE Court (SB 1338).

Love and solidarity,
APTP

P.S. Having trouble with the line? Click here to call your legislator instead.

Please plan to stay all day. Bring hats, water, lunch, chair or blanket. There preps are an opportunity to lean into the long history of nonviolent direct action, working with affinity groups and Consensus Process decision-making, jail solidarity inside and outside of jail, with plenty of practice in role playing. Contact: weddress777@gmail.com

Our speaker will be Professor Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston has published dozens of books.  Hear his presentation on his latest:  “The Counter-Revolution of 1836:  Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism,” 2022, which has implications for California and Indigenous History–and the prospects for a unique form of fascism.

Our Zoom room will be opened up as usual at 10:15 am for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will begin as close to 10:30 am as possible and will end at 12:30, but the Waiting Room may remain open later for informal discussion.

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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:

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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

JOIN US FOR AN EXCITING WEBINAR ON CHEVRON v MONTEREY COUNTY, the case pending before the California Supreme Court that will determine the right of our cities and counties to regulate fossil fuel production.

Meet the Protect Monterey organizers whose successful ballot initiative to ban drilling and fracking in their county was challenged by Chevron and its army of oil industry bullies, and overturned by reactionary California Superior Court judges.

Hear from the one of the attorneys who will arguing before the state Supreme Court to defend the century-old right of local governments to ban or restrict oil and gas.

LEARN HOW THE OUTCOME OF THIS CASE WILL IMPACT FOSSIL FUEL REGULATION THROUGHOUT THE STATE – and here in the Bay Area!

RSVP TO: action@sunflower-alliance.org

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For more information, see the event post at sunflower-alliance.org.

Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet 3rd Sunday of each month. Unless otherwise noted.

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Agenda

Intro (if needed) – 5 min
Agenda Review – 5 min
Computer update – 5 min
County Green Sunday Proposal – 15 min
The Oakland Greens Withdraw Proposal
Virtual Town Hall update – 5 min
Parker direct action report back – 10 min
Tabling Outreach – 10 min
Oakland November elections and ballot measures – 10 min
Social Media – 5 min
Treasury/fundraising – 5 min
Changing Banks update
Announcements – 5 min
Adjourn
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Organized debtors just won big. And we’re not stopping til all the debt is ALL gone.

After months of dragging his feet, Biden has finally announced his plan of debt cancellation: up to $10,000 for borrowers with incomes under $125,000 a year and up to $20,000 of cancellation for Pell grant recipients.

We know this is far from what justice demands – to close the raccial wealth gap, to unchain generations of indebted families, to actually have a reparative higher education policy. We know the road ahead is long, with much much more work to do.

But right, now we’re celebrating. Organized debtors forced Biden – who has sided with banks over debtors his entire career – to administer debt cancelation for working-class communities. This is a testament to the power of a union of debtors banding together to exercise political and financial power.

If you came to a debtors’ assembly, this is your win. If you invited a friend to come to the action with you, if you made a sign, if you signed a petition, if you talked to a colleague about your debt, if you wore your debt to work, if you wrote an op-ed, if you pledged to strike, this is your win.

Please join our Jubilee Hour tomorrow, 7:30-8:30PM EST. We will gather to take a moment to bask in how far we’ve come, and point out the horizons we’re still marching towards. Biden didn’t do this — WE did.

Also be sure not to miss the awesome “Freedom Dreams” documentary that dropped yesterday about Black women’s leadership in the fight for debt cancellation.

AND ONE FINAL THING  – it has taken us ten yearss to get $10K of student debt canceled. Can you throw in $10 bucks so the next round of cancellation doesn’t take quite so long?

A debt-free future is on its way. We’re never going back again —

The Debt Collective

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Lessons From The 2022 National Protest In Ecuador. is hosted by the DSA International Committee.

For 18 days in June 2022, the people of Ecuador, led by the indigenous and poorest, fought austerity to a halt. Tens of thousands barricaded highways, paralyzed the capital and much of the nation. Eight people were killed and hundreds injured by police.

Led by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), poor and working people won major economic and political concessions, and other demands are in negotiation.

Top leaders of this “Paro Nacional” and grassroots organizers from the indigenous communities will explain how they did it and what happens next.

APTP’s MH First (MH1) is Oakland’s first and only non 9-1-1 crisis response line for mental health, substance use and domestic violence and is available from 8 pm to 8 am, Fridays & Saturdays, covering the hours when traditional mental health hotlines are closed. Our MH First program is an assembly of doctors, nurses, systems-impacted people, and community members working together to build alternatives to police.

The only way to decrease police terror is to decrease police presence in our communities. A mental health crisis should not be a death sentence.

Join us this Saturday, August 27 for a full-day virtual training to build alternatives to police together!

What: Online MH First Training open to ALL* community members
Where: Online � Register to join us

*Note: Capacity is limited. Priority will be given to those who are able to start volunteering as MH First responders in the next 3 months.

Accessibility: This is a 7 hour training on Zoom. Breaks will be provided. Please include any accessibility needs in the registration form.
Register for MH First Training
We deserve community crisis response that doesn’t harm us and instead honors our lives.

Dear friends,

We are inviting you and your family, co-workers, cultural and community
members, and activists to enjoy the 2022 CompArte: The Emiliano Zapata
Community Festival.

The Chiapas Support Committee in partnership with the Peralta Hacienda
Historical Park is organizing CompArte [2]: The Emiliano Zapata
Community Festival at Peralta on Saturday, August 27, 2022, from
12:00-4:00 pm.

We invite you to enjoy an afternoon of music, poetry, art, tamales,
aguas frescas, good food, and community!

CompArte Festival & Solidarity

CompArte was started in 2016 [3] by the Zapatistas (EZLN, Ejército
Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, Zapatista Army of National
Liberation) in Mexico to bring together the best of our communities’ and
movements’ art, music, poetry, stories, dance, and other cultural work
for social justice, Indigenous autonomy and liberation and in solidarity
with the Zapatistas.

The Chiapas Support Committee took up the call and has held CompArte
every year since 2016 both in-person and online during the pandemic
sheltering-in-place. This year CompArte is back in the open air at
Peralta Hacienda Park in Oakland!

CompArte 2022 is a call and a festival:
Por la vida | For life:
Contra todas las guerras | Against all wars

CompArte 2022 will bring together artists, poets, musicians, painters,
cultural workers, and the community to express solidarity with the
Zapatistas and enjoy an afternoon filled with joy and community!

Our city, our region, our state, the U.S. and the world are on the cusp
of struggles that are rocking the foundations of the capitalist system.
Through CompArte and other spaces, you are invited to dream and walk
together, to weave the world where all worlds fit, and together raise
our voices and our songs to demand peace and justice across the U.S. and
the world.

Our CompArte 2022 is dedicated to the defense of all life and against
all capitalist wars and depravations. The gathering will begin with
Danzantes making a movement-offering to the four directions, recognizing
that we are on Ohlone land. We will have tamales & aguas frescas, son
jarocho, barrio and revolutionary poets, portable mural art, live
painting, and other activities.

Program: CompArte 2022 will include the son jarocho group AntiFaSon [4],
with anti-fascist _sones_, Oakland poets, music, a DJ, arts & crafts
vendors, tasty tamales, and other good food and deep community.

Join us to celebrate the movements and struggles for justice, peace &
solidarity with the Zapatistas and Indigenous people, everywhere with
words of resistance, tenderness and community in movements for
liberation and self-determination.

Speciesism’s effect on the world is unfathomably destructive. Like other forms of oppression and prejudice, it ranges from interpersonal microaggressions, to downright bigotry, to entire societal institutions that thrive off direct or indirect exploitation and violence. It’s an issue that’s widely underrecognized so please WEAR BLACK CLOTHING and join us Saturday afternoon, August 27th to take part in the 8th annual World Day for the end of Speciesism where we’ll march a portion of the highly trafficked Bay Bridge in hopes of drawing attention to the issue along with other actions happening on the same day around the world.
At times we’ll highlight the speciesist practice of prosecuting humans who help anyone who isn’t a human escape from situations of distress and certain death. One of our current organizers (Paul Darwin Picklesimer) and one of our co-founders (Wayne Hsiung) will stand trial in Utah on September 9th for helping two piglets get to a vet and are facing up to over a decade in prison if convicted.
After marching, we’ll return to the meeting point to reflect on the day and enjoy free, delicious, plant-based food from P and A Vegan Catering.
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ACCESSIBILITY: Some marching (as much as 4.6 miles) and standing. Some chairs will be on hand for sitting as needed. Sun protection and comfortable footwear may be helpful. Smoke flares may be present so please be aware in order to distance yourself from them in case they might bother you.
WHO: Everyone is welcome! However, please do not come if you have or recently had symptoms of or exposure to COVID-19. If you’re nervous, you can come observe or hold a sign quietly.
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Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is a grassroots network of animal rights activists. Through open rescue, demonstration, and disruption, we help build a world where every animal is safe, happy and free.
DxE cultivates a welcoming and supportive community. We ask that all those who attend our events (online and offline) respect our Code of Conduct which can be reviewed at dxe.io/conduct.
To learn about our vision, goals, strategy and more check out the San Francisco Bay Area chapter Activist Handbook here: dxe.io/handbook

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

LEPAIO: Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO International Operations.

The AFL-CIO has since its existence been involved in taking money from the CIA and other government agencies for international operations around the world  It has supported coups in Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Ukraine, and attempted coups in Venezuela, Cuba. It now operates in over 60 countries without real transparency and reports to the membership of the AFL-CIO members. Most workers in the AFL-CIO do not know about this history or the fact that the AFL-CIO “Solidarity Center” gets $75 million a year from the National Endowment for Democracy which is directly from the US government.

This panel of Professor Kim Scipes and labor journalist Steve Zeltzer are members of the newly formed organization Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations LEPAIO.

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Our speakers, Steve Zeltzer and Kim Scipes, are labor activists.

Background: Reckoning with the AFL-CIO’s Imperialist History. https://jacobin.com/2020/01/afl-cio-cold-war-imperialism-solidarit

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