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Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.
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The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a
grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality.
In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and mobilize people against police and state repression. Sisters and brothers! The Oscar Grant Committee invites you to join us in this vital struggle.
We meet on the 1st Monday of each month
You can join our discussion list by sending a blank (doesn’t even need a subject) email to
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The 25th SF IndieFest will be presented at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco from Feb 2nd – 9th, and online through virtual cinema from Feb 2nd to Feb 12th.
More info at https://t.co/zlbTFFeDZK#movies #sfindie #indiefilm #sanfrancisco #film pic.twitter.com/zdigQNFMGi— ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD FILM FESTIVAL (@AHITHfilmfest) February 1, 2023
The 25th SF IndieFest will be presented at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco from Feb 2nd – 9th, and online through virtual cinema from Feb 2nd to Feb 12th.
More info at https://t.co/zlbTFFeDZK#movies #sfindie #indiefilm #sanfrancisco #film pic.twitter.com/zdigQNFMGi— ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD FILM FESTIVAL (@AHITHfilmfest) February 1, 2023
The 25th SF IndieFest will be presented at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco from Feb 2nd – 9th, and online through virtual cinema from Feb 2nd to Feb 12th.
More info at https://t.co/zlbTFFeDZK#movies #sfindie #indiefilm #sanfrancisco #film pic.twitter.com/zdigQNFMGi— ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD FILM FESTIVAL (@AHITHfilmfest) February 1, 2023
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This 90 minute workshop will equally emphasize factual evidence on hydrogen from Professor David Cebon, and strategic communications advice from a global communications group’s hydrogen specialist, to help provide the wider climate community with an understanding of hydrogen, topline key messages, and tools to navigate this complex topic.
As natural gas has increasingly become a politically divisive topic on the global stage, many of the world’s economies are desperately looking for ways to speed up the energy transition. Oil and gas companies have reciprocated by latching on to the “hydrogen economy” as an exit route for their business in an environment where they are under pressure to evolve.
Through intensive political lobbying, hydrogen has shot to the forefront of the climate debate in the past few years. Politicians are now touting hydrogen as a central piece needed to unlock the energy transition, allowing oil and gas companies a seat at decision-making tables and a silver bullet tactic to buffer out their net-zero plans.
But while hydrogen as a silver bullet solution to natural gas sounds alluring, what does the evidence actually tell us about its role in the energy transition? And how can we best organize as a global climate community to strategically communicate about this complicated subject?
AGENDA:
- Introductions and objectives of the session
- What is hydrogen?
- What role can (and should) hydrogen play in the energy transition?
- Why is hydrogen strategically important in the global energy transition, and what is the current media narrative?
- How can we, as climate activists, communicate about hydrogen?
- Opportunities, threats, and things to watch
- Breakout questions and group discussion
SPEAKERS:
- Professor David Cebon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge, England
- Kaliana French, Senior Strategic Communications Associate, Hydrogen, the Global Strategic Communications Council.
- https://eff.org/EFA-2nd-Thu
- Join us for a talk from EFF staff technologist Will Greenberg on Fog Data Science� a data broker which has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
- You can get a head start on the topic by checking out our blog series on the topic here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/inside-fog-data-science-secretive-company-selling-mass-surveillance-local-police
A few weeks after Vallejo PD shot 55 rounds at Willie McCoy, his niece was pulled over by VPD, dragged out of the car, tased & arrested, by 2 of the cops who murdered Willie. There were no charges filed against her. On 2/9 we gather to remember Willie & renew calls for justice. pic.twitter.com/U8O5uaazEa
— Melissa Nold, Esq. (@savage_esquire) February 4, 2023
The 25th SF IndieFest will be presented at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco from Feb 2nd – 9th, and online through virtual cinema from Feb 2nd to Feb 12th.
More info at https://t.co/zlbTFFeDZK#movies #sfindie #indiefilm #sanfrancisco #film pic.twitter.com/zdigQNFMGi— ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD FILM FESTIVAL (@AHITHfilmfest) February 1, 2023
moderated by Dr. Maya Soetoro
Join us to learn from Medea Benjamin who will describe her work to stop wars and activism in the United States, Palestine, Yemen, Afghanistan, Cuba, North Korea and Iran. She will also share how college students can participate in these issues.
About Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is an internationally recognized peace and human rights activist. She is the co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women For Peace. Both organizations have trained dozens of interns in challenging the US government’s war propensity and have enabled young activists to work in conflict areas to gain a better understanding of the effects of U.S. government policies including economic war through the use of sanctions. Medea is the author of 10 books including books on Drones, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Her latest book is “War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless War.”
About Dr. Maya Soetoro
Dr. Maya Soetoro is the Graduate Chair at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She was previously the Director of the Matsunaga Institute where, in addition to leading outreach and development initiatives, she also taught Leadership for Social Change, History of Peace Movements, Peace Education, and Conflict Management for Educators. Maya also serves as a consultant to the Obama Foundation, working closely with their international team to develop programming in the Pacific-Asia region.
Sponsor: Matsunaga Institute for Peace, Veterans For Peace-Hawaii Chapter, and Hawaii Peace and Justice
The 25th SF IndieFest will be presented at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco from Feb 2nd – 9th, and online through virtual cinema from Feb 2nd to Feb 12th.
More info at https://t.co/zlbTFFeDZK#movies #sfindie #indiefilm #sanfrancisco #film pic.twitter.com/zdigQNFMGi— ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD FILM FESTIVAL (@AHITHfilmfest) February 1, 2023
Join the South Berkeley Legacy Project at its Neighborhood History Walking Tour for #BlackHistoryMonth, led by Tina Jones Williams!
Saturday, February 11
10 am – 12 pmRSVP: 510-821-0821 or zach@twcmih.org pic.twitter.com/fFqiPmzWE0
— Terry Taplin🚰🏳️🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾 (@TaplinTerry) February 6, 2023
If you’re interested in getting involved in our family support work, we have a training opportunity with our first responders committee who work directly with impacted families day in and day out.
This training draws on over 10 years of experience of investigating incidents of police terror and providing support to impacted families. We’ll give an overview of APTP’s history, organizing, and trauma-informed family support model. We’ll discuss typical challenges faced by families as well as the needs we seek to address.
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
For our February meeting we are reading Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It (Verso, Amazon) by Nancy Fraser.
A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world.
Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy.
What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital—and starve it to death.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth, Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, and Less is More.
The 25th SF IndieFest will be presented at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco from Feb 2nd – 9th, and online through virtual cinema from Feb 2nd to Feb 12th.
More info at https://t.co/zlbTFFeDZK#movies #sfindie #indiefilm #sanfrancisco #film pic.twitter.com/zdigQNFMGi— ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD FILM FESTIVAL (@AHITHfilmfest) February 1, 2023
Marxism and Problems of Linguistics.
Our speaker is Yusuf Gürsey who is originally from Istanbul, Turkey and currently lives in New Haven, CT. He is a member of the CPUSA, as well as a member of the US Peace Council in Connecticut and a member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Marxist Education centered in Cambridge, MA. After retiring from being an associate professor of physics in Turkey, he studied graduate level linguistics online at the Virtual Linguistics Campus broadcast from the University of Marburg in Germany. He is an independent researcher, translator and interpreter. His fields of interest in linguistics are historical linguistics (specializing in Turkic and Semitic languages), phonology and socio-linguistics. He is also currently engaged in research in the study of calendars and the history of Middle Eastern peoples, the medieval period and the history of modern Leftist movements.
The current talk will concentrate Joseph Stalin’s “Marxism and Problems of Linguistics” and the language policies of socialist states and some other leftist movements.
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Learn about a plan to destroy California forest land and increase pollution—here and overseas—by producing “biomass,” a false climate solution that does more harm than good.
The plan is to produce wood pellets to burn in for energy that’s supposedly “renewable,” because trees absorb carbon dioxide when they grow back—disregarding the fact that the CO2 from burning wood is all released immediately, while it takes many decades for a new tree to absorb that much. We don’t have that time!
Golden State Natural Resources is proposing to build two of the country’s largest wood pellet production facilities in California’s Lassen and Tuolumne counties, using wood obtained by cutting and removing “trees and other forest materials, of any type and size . . .within a 100-mile radius of each pellet facility.”
The wood pellets would then be transported by rail to ports in Stockton and Richmond, where they would emit methane, dust, and fine particulate matter. From there they would be shipped overseas to burn in power plants converted from coal, releasing CO2 and co-pollutants.
At this webinar, speakers including Gary Hughes of Biofuel Watch will explain the dangers of this plan and the efforts to stop it.
In a comment letter on the scoping plan for the environmental impact report on this project, the Center for Biological Diversity and other organizations, including Sunflower Alliance, wrote: “Wood pellets are a highly polluting, expensive, and inefficient energy source that have no place in a clean energy future. Burning wood for electricity releases more carbon emissions at the smokestack than fossil fuels, including coal, per unit of energy produced.
“Numerous studies show that it takes many decades—to a century or more (if ever)—for cut forests to re-sequester the amount of carbon that is emitted from logging and burning woody biomass for energy, even when forest “residues” (i.e. “waste”) are burned. Producing wood pellets is extremely carbon-intensive because the wood must be debarked, chipped, dried, pulverized, and compressed into pellets. . . Wood pellet production facilities also emit toxic air pollution that harms public health. These facilities are often concentrated in communities of color and low-income communities, worsening environmental injustice.”
For deeper dive on the proposed California project and the perils of biomass, check out this recent episode of Terra Verde on KPFA.
Take a look at how biomass projects contribute to old-growth forest destruction in Canada here.
Find an inspiring story about how North Carolina communities defeated a proposed biomass plant here.
Take action:
If you’re interested in joining a work group to organize opposition, please email action@sunflower-alliance.org
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
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Natylie Baldwin is the author of The View from Moscow: Understanding Russia and U.S.-Russia Relations and co-author of Ukraine: ZBIG’s Grand Chessboard & How the West Was Checkmated. She traveled throughout western Russia in 2015 and 2017 and interviewed a cross-section of Russians. Her writing has appeared in various publications including The Grayzone, Consortium News, RT, The Globe Post, Antiwar.com, and OpEd News. Her websites are: https://natyliesbaldwin.com/ and: https://natyliesb.medium.com/
Baldwin will discuss Ukraine’s history and how it relates to contemporary political and cultural divisions in the country. She will also provide insight on how NATO expansion and other post-Cold War actions by the US-led West looked from Moscow’s perspective, which led to Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine last February.
Save the Date for Next Month’s Green Sunday – March 12 Report from Nicaragua
Panel Discussion: Phoebe Thomas Sorgen, Erica Caines, and Jennifer Sullivan were part of the Alliance for Global Justice delegation to Nicaragua in January titled “Women in Nicaragua – Power and Protagonism.” Did you know that Nicaragua is a world leader in gender equality?
Erica Caines is Co-Coordinator of Black Alliance for Peace – Haiti/Americas Team. Jennifer Sullivan, who is on the Green Parrty International Committee with Phoebe, joins us from Florida. She is treasurer for the GP National Women’s Caucus. Phoebe is the GP-US representative to the Global Green Network.
Sneak preview: https://afgj.salsalabs.org/reportjan23?wvpId=3b43e68b-92fb-431b-b75f-6268ae8dcb1f
Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 7:00 pm, after a 30-minute break. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.
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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.
https://t.co/FQYTHaNbc5 things are getting fun during our Monday night women coding nights at the SudoRoom – new flyer and a cool learning mapping project of all the languages spoken in Oakland using Jupiter pic.twitter.com/pUvHtP1sRa
— Sudo Room (@sudoroom) February 12, 2023