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Join Street Spirit and Where Do We Go for a panel discussion on the War on the Unhoused at Berkeley City College at 1:30m on Tuesday, October 29, 2024. pic.twitter.com/pVzje3pyAl
— Mama Lisa (@LisTeague) October 20, 2024
Join Debt Collective and @tamaranopper in conversation October 29, 2024 5 – 6PM PST, 8 – 9PM EST to discuss Nopper’s groundbreaking Data & Society report: Medicalizing Inequity: The Risks of Financial Wellness for workers. RSVP here: https://t.co/w9tafvVtev
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) October 16, 2024
It’s almost election day! But our work doesn’t end with voting. EFF organizers José and Chris will facilitate a workshop on how local advocates can put together a plan for getting the attention of newly elected officials, and engaging them on Digital Rights issues. Participants are encouraged to bring questions and personal experiences for discussion.
RSVP: https://www.eff.org/EFA-Last-Wed
Notes: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/lDxeNgOoQjjvILJd+0UjfKyF/
The Friends of Public Bank East Bay host general organizing meetings every Wednesday at 6pm via zoom
If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch.
We can match your interests and skill set to our needs!
https://www.shutitdown4palestine.org/nov2
On November 2, just days before the U.S. Presidential election, people will take to the streets across the entire country to say NO VOTES FOR GENOCIDE!
We’ve been mobilizing every single day for over a year demanding an end to the U.S.-funded and supported Israeli genocide in Palestine and Lebanon. This election cycle, we will not forget these candidates’ direct support for this genocide.
The US government has the ability to enact an arms embargo, it has the ability to stop this genocide. This is a US war as much as it is an Israeli war on Palestine and Lebanon. We won’t be fooled by arbitrary 30-day deadlines and we will not be tricked into believing the political rhetoric of those who could have stopped the genocide with a single phone call to end military aid to Israel.
Free event: Come hear about the 1946 Oakland General Strike this Monday at 6:30pm (1610 Harrison St. Suite D) – Q&A w/ labor historian Gifford Hartman. Co-hosted by @leftinthebay pic.twitter.com/NY5Lx4rMjo
— East Bay Yesterday (@ebyesterday) November 30, 2024
Please note: Daylight Saving Time ends at 12:01 AM Nov 3
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With just a few days to go, the 2024 federal election campaign is on track to be the costliest ever, with at least $15.9 billion in total spending (OpenSecrets).
Yet for all the massive amounts of political advertising, media coverage, web and social media hype, stage-managed mainstream candidate interviews and debates, and even widespread talk of “the End of the American Dream” …
Little or nothing of real substance is being said about the unprecedented challenges facing capitalism and the US working class and small business owners in November, 2024.
Join us on November 3rd, just two days before the election, for a presentation and discussion of these issues, when we will pull back the curtain on the $16 billion circus show.
Speaker: Allan Miller is a member of the ICSS Program Committee and a long time political activist. He has a PhD in economics from UC Riverside and teaches statistics and data science at UC Bekeley Extension.
Come join us for a special screening of Spike Lee’s powerful documentary, 4 Little Girls, presented by the Oakland Symphony. This in-person event will be held at The New Parkway Theater.
Shawn Okpebholo’s Two Black Churches memorializes the “Four Little Girls” killed in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. Spike Lee’s acclaimed 1997 documentary provides the context for the work, which the Oakland Symphony and Kedrick Armstrong will perform on Friday, November 8, at the Paramount Theatre.
Reserve your seats now!
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
Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.
Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186
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
oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
Come out to the New Parkway from 5-11pm as we air the returns from this very important 2024 election. All seating is first-come, first-served. No outside food but we’ve got all the goodies on hand for purchase
Will it be a celebration? Will it be a wake? Or, most likely, will it be a continued counting of the votes? Regardless, we’ll open our doors for what will be a combination of election coverage, dubious and less dubious political videos, and, most importantly, a night of activism where community groups and organizers will share ways for us to get out of our political hangover/stupor and get engaged/stay involved for the next four days, four months, and four years
The Friends of Public Bank East Bay host general organizing meetings every Wednesday at 6pm via zoom
If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch.
We can match your interests and skill set to our needs!
at the Starry Plough
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Voting in the 2024 election is over, but the results have yet to take effect. Join our speakers for a discussion of the outcome, from the national picture to state and local candidates and ballot measures: how it will affect our lives and shape our organizing efforts.
BK Woodson Sr. – Steering committee, Respect Our Vote (No Recalls) coalition. Director, Faith in Action East Bay. Pastor, Bay Area Christian Connection
Peter Olney – Retired Organizing Director of the ILWU. Former Associate Director of the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California. Co-editor (with Glenn Peruek) of Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack Jr.
*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.
Please arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentations.
An open discussion will follow the presentations.
We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.
This event is sponsored by the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party,
the Alameda County Green Party and Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change.
For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org>
Speaker: Sara Flounders
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Election Postmortem � Prospects for the Working Class and Tasks Ahead>
Both parties prepare for war to stall the decay of U.S. world domination — and since 1999 alone, these parties have overseen wars of aggression in Europe, Africa and Asia and imposed coups and sanctions worldwide. Both parties support NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. Both support and arm Israel’s genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. Both back surrounding China with U.S. air and sea power as well as economic war against China. What working-class organizations must analyze and prepare for is how to confront the post-election period. Since the two parties have real differences in composition and tactics, the working class must prepare to fight them in different ways.
Speaker: Sara Flounders, is a longstanding political activist and author based in New York City. She is a contributing editor of Workers World Newspaper and a leader of the United National Antiwar Coalition, the International Action Center, and the SanctionsKill Campaign. She is the co-author and editor of numerous books, including Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of COVID-19 in China and the US and the recently released SANCTIONS � A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy<.
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
With the horrifying news from Gaza, many of us are asking “What can I do?” A compelling answer comes from Omar Barghouti, Palestinian co-founder of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Prioritizing the Chevron boycott, he tells us “We are building a global and intersectional movement, in partnership with Climate Justice and Indigenous People around the world who are exposing and resisting the colonial violence of Chevron’s extractionism, environmental destruction, and grave human rights violations.”
Join us to learn and exchange ideas about the #boycottchevroncampaign and how you can support local organizing.
Bonnie Lockhart works to connect Climate, Labor and Anti-militarism movements through class struggle. She is co-chair of East Bay DSA’s Climate Action Committee, a California DSA delegate, and an organizer with Labor Rise Climate Jobs Action Group. She is member of American Federation of Musicians and long-time cultural worker.
Vish Soroushian is a member of UAW Local 2320, which is committed to Palestinian liberation and has fully divested its dues accounts from Israeli apartheid, and a member of his bargaining unit’s leadership team. He also is a campaign co-lead for the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America’s Divest From Apartheid campaign and an organizer with Bay Area Divest!. Both campaigns aim to divest our county from bond holdings in companies that enable Israeli genocide and apartheid. They focus on organizing on the county and local levels, with government bodies taking divestment action, with support from community, labor and political organizations.
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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