Calendar

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Mar
30
Sun
Know Your Rights Daytime Party @ Oeste Bar
Mar 30 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Third annual Women’s Herstory Month celebration, centering an urgent and vital conversation: “Know Your Rights: How to Deal with ICE.

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Mar 30 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

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Oakland Greens movie: Money and Medicine (2012) @ It’s Your Move Games & Hobbies,
Mar 30 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
The Oakland Greens Present: FREE Dinner & a Movie Community Discussion Series

 As we sip our multinational corporation coffee on the road to fascism, we turn our focus to the privatization of our health.  Money & Medicine examines the rising costs of healthcare in the United States. The film explores the dangers of over-diagnosis and over-treatment, investigates systemic waste within our medical system, and highlights hospitals striving to create affordable, high-quality alternatives to the current system.  
 
Join the Oakland Greens for this free community event on Sunday, March 30.  Dinner starts at 6:30 PM, the movie starts at 7:00 PM, and doors will be closed at 7:30 PM.
 
The Oakland Greens Free Dinner & a Movie Discussion Series runs from January through October, with events held on the last Sunday of each month. Attend in person —tickets and information is available at:  https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-oakland-greens-30818034656  or  facebook.com/oakland_greens  However, if you’ll be there for dinner, please do register by tomorrow (Saturday), at:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-oakland-greens-free-dinner-a-movie-tickets-1256047354449?aff=ebdsoporgprofile  so we can know how much food to bring!  All Oakland Greens events are held in partnership with It’s Your Move Games & Hobbies
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Apr
2
Wed
Public Bank of the East Bay General Organizing Meeting @ Online
Apr 2 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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!

Public Bank East Bay hopes to open by 2025, as a transformative institution that keeps our money local, allowing local governments to divest from Wall Street and reinvest its profits back into our community. Public Bank East Bay’s initial loan policies will support affordable housing development, provide support for small businesses (especially for marginalized entrepreneurs), finance the renovation and electrification of existing buildings, and help cities and counties refinance their municipal debt.

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Apr
3
Thu
Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission
Apr 3 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

 

1. Call to Order, determination of quorum

2. Open Forum/Public Comment on Non-Agenda matters

3. Review and approval of the draft November 20, February 6 and March 3 meeting minutes

4. Review and Possible Action on Federal Task Force Ordinance – OPD – Annual Reports: a. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) b. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) c. Secret Service d. United States Marshall Service (USMS) e. Federal Bureau of Investigation Violent Crimes – Safe Streets (FBI) f. Federal Bureau of Investigation Child Exploitation (FBI)

5. Review and Possible Action on Unmanned Aerial System (UAS or Drone) 2024 Annual Report

6. Review and Possible Action on ATF Bodyworn Cameras – MOU Addendum

7. Review and Possible Action on the Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) 2024 Annual Report

8. Review and Possible Action on Sanctuary Contracting Ordinance – Presentation of Annual Report

Members of the public can view the meeting live on KTOP or on the City’s website at https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/ktop-tv-10. Comment in advance. To send your comment directly to the Privacy Commission and staff BEFORE the meeting starts, please send your comment, along with your full name and agenda item number you are commenting on, to Felicia Verdin at fverdin@oaklandca.gov. Please note that eComment submissions close one (1) hour before posted meeting time. All submitted public comment will be provided to the Privacy Commission prior to the meeting.

To observe and participate in the meeting via Zoom, go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85817209915 Or One tap mobile: 1 669 444 9171 To participate in the meeting virtually, you must log on via Zoom.

If you have a question, please raise your hand in Zoom during open forum and public comment. For those attending in person, you can complete a speaker card and submit to staff.

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Apr
5
Sat
“Hands Off!” Day of Action @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Apr 5 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Trump, Musk, and their billionaire cronies are gutting Social Security, slashing Medicaid, and looting our government to bankroll their latest tax scam—unless we stop them. We’re taking to thee streets to say Hands Off. Join us!

This mass mobilization day is our message to the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies. Alongside Americans across the country, we are marching, rallying, and protesting to demand a stop the chaos and build an opposition movement against the looting of our country.

A core principle behind all Hands Off! events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

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Hands Off! Berkeley Fights Back @ North Berkeley BART
Apr 5 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Berkeley is fighting back!

They’re taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to stop them. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now.

🚨 On Saturday, April 5th, we’re gathering at the North Berkeley BART station to show our solidarity with a clear message: Hands off! 🚨

This mass mobilization day is our message to the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies. Alongside Americans across the country, we are marching, rallying, and protesting to demand a stop the chaos and build an opposition movement against the looting of our country.

A core principle behind all Hands Off! events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

Check out handsoff2025.com for more information.

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Apr
6
Sun
Weaponizing Antisemitism by Project Esther @ Online
Apr 6 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Weaponizing Antisemitism by Project Esther
Speaker: Seth Morrison

To Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1
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Project Esther is the Heritage Foundation’s roadmap to destroy the pro-Palestine movement in the US.  This McCarthy era-like project falsely conflates anti-zionism with antisemitism and then deceptively accuses pro-Palestine activists of antisemitism.

Our speaker, Seth Morrison, is a leader in the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), an articulate advocate to peace in West Asia, and a campaigner against the criminalization of pro- Palestinian speech. He has been active in Jewish organizations throughout his life.  He was formerly a leader in J Street and other Jewish organizations, before joining JVP and becoming a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist and an anti-zionist.  He is on the national board of JVP Action and a leader in the Bay Area chapter of JVP. Professionally he is retired from a career in marketing and product development in the cable television industry.

An interview with our speaker on this subject was recently published in Counterpunch:  https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/27/the-persecution-of-anti-zionist-jews/

On a related issues, he and a colleague recently published “Can Palestinians and Israelis coexist in a single democratic state? (https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241221-can-palestinians-and-israelis-coexist-in-a-single-democratic-state/

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Apr 6 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

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Apr
7
Mon
Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting
Apr 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.

Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186

If you wish to get the password please subscribe to the Oscar Grant Committee mailing list by sending an email to:

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

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Apr
9
Wed
Public Bank of the East Bay General Organizing Meeting @ Online
Apr 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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!

Public Bank East Bay hopes to open by 2025, as a transformative institution that keeps our money local, allowing local governments to divest from Wall Street and reinvest its profits back into our community. Public Bank East Bay’s initial loan policies will support affordable housing development, provide support for small businesses (especially for marginalized entrepreneurs), finance the renovation and electrification of existing buildings, and help cities and counties refinance their municipal debt.

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Tracking and Documenting Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico Border @ Internet Archive
Apr 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

 “Tracking and Documenting Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico Border.”

This panel will discuss the massive increase in domestic surveillance throughout the border region. EFF’s Hannah Zhao and Saira Hussain will be joined by journalist Lauren Markham, Senior Staff Attorney at Just Futures Law Daniel Werner, and migrant justice organizer Alex Mensing as they explore digital civil liberties at the U.S.-Mexico border.

I hope you are able to participate in the Q&A that will follow the discussion. You can also reply to this message now with a question for the panelists. We encourage you to join us live for this discussion, however it will be recorded and available following the event on YouTube and the Internet Archive!

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Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Online
Apr 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.


Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for privacy, surveillance regulation of both corporations and the state, and government transparency, around the Bay and nationwide.

op-logo.2.1We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment and online tracking, 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 pursue lawsuits as necessary to protect our rights. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.

Check out some of what we worked on in 2024, with links back through 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 in 2018 we 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 and other analytics, mass aerial surveillance, ubiquitous license plate readers,  online tracking and ID requirements,  street surveillance, and fighting to ensure local governments adhere to State privacy and transparency regulations.

On September 12th, 2019 we were presented with a Barlow Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for our work, and on March 16th, 2021 the 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:

contact@oaklandprivacy.org


Check out our website: http://oaklandprivacy.org/

Follow us on twitter: @oaklandprivacy, and/or on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@oaklandprivacy, and/or at Bluesky at @oaklandprivacy.bsky.social

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Apr
11
Fri
The Encampments : film @ New Parkway Theater
Apr 11 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

The Friday, 4/18 show is at 4:00 PM.

 

Students flooded Columbia University’s lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies. THE ENCAMPMENTS follows the central organizers of the encampment as they are thrust into the spotlight, face violent police repression and suspension, congressional pressure, and a media firestorm, all while fighting to attain their goal of divestment at any cost.

Also Saturday, 4/12 @ 5:10 PM,  Sat 4/19 @ 12:00 Noon, Sun 4/20 at 3:15, etc.

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Apr
12
Sat
Privacy Self-Defense & Immigration Know Your Rights @ Oakstop
Apr 12 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Registration is required – secure your seat here.

Tagalog version (Magrehistro Dito) Spanish version (Regístrate Aquí)

Secure Justice invites you to participate in our east bay regional Privacy Self-Defense Workshop and Immigration Resource Fair, in Oakland. This important event will provide participants with practical resources and strategies to protect digital privacy rights, particularly for immigrants, Muslims, individuals seeking reproductive care, and the LGBTQ+ community.

Event Details:

  • What: Privacy Self-Defense Workshop and Immigration Resource Fait

  • Who: Open to the general public (Max capacity: 150)

  • Cost: Free*

Extras: Coffee, tea, lunch, childcare, and translators provided

Translators in Spanish, Mandarin, Farsi, Dari, Pashto confirmed so far (more to come)

Questions? Send an email to events@secure-justice.org

*This event is free thanks to generous funding received from the:

About the Event: Secure Justice, with assistance from the organizations listed below, will provide practical privacy tools and immigration legal guidance, including:

This event will begin with remarks from invited elected officials, followed by privacy and KYR workshops to empower attendees with actionable knowledge and technical assistance.

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Mickey 17 : film @ New Parkway Theater
Apr 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, “Mickey 17.” The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living…

A disposable employee is sent on a human expedition to colonize an ice world. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. A deeply heartfelt and funny musing on capitalism, colonization, and corruption.

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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Techno-Feudalism – What Killed Capitalism @ Online
Apr 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.  All are welcome!

For our March, 2025 meeting we will be reading the first four chapters of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis  (Penguin Random HouseAmazon). For our April meeting, we will be finishing the book.

Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. The perfect Christmas gift for the political visionaries in your life.

In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world’s feudal overlords – replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power.

But as Varoufakis also reveals, technofeudalism contains new opportunities to thwart and overturn it, bringing into focus more clearly than ever the revolution we need to escape our digital prison.

Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included (in chronological order) Doughnut EconomicsLimitsBanking on the PeopleCapital 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 TelescopeMission 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, Less is More,  Cannibal Capitalism,  Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America, End Times, Jackson Rising Redux , The Feminist Subversion of the Economy, How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems that Shape our World, Wealth Supremacy, The Persuaders,  The Path to a Livable FutureSolidarity,  Mutual Aid, Breaking Together
and Making Sense of Chaos.

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Peace Gathering @ Universalist Unitarian Church
Apr 12 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

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Apr
13
Sun
BRAZIL ON THE RAZOR’S EDGE – The fight for sovereignty under imperialist and fascist attack @ Online
Apr 13 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Speaker: Eleonora de Lucena and Rodolfo Lucena

To Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 851 7586 0127
Passcode: 580909

The victory of President Lula in 2022 put a brake on the fascist crescendo in Brazil. But the government faces enormous challenges to keep up to its campaign promises. There are combined pressures from the financial market and the business elites, which are intertwined with and dependent on international financial capital. The increased size and strength of agribusiness, with fascist ideas and the power of local landlords, is also linked to extremist factions of the military. In the cities, the alt-right recruits followers from the ranks of precarious labor.

Despite all that, there have been some victories. For the first time in history, four-star generals were brought to justice because of their role in the defeated coup d`etat of January 8, 2023. Ex-president Bolsonaro, the head of the coup, faces charges for the attempt to violently destroy democracy. Lula continues to stand up for a multipolar world, defending peace, and being a voice against the genocide in Palestine. As the current president of the BRICS, he is committed to strengthen Latin America unity. Yet, it is uncertain how Brazil will react to Trump’s actions against the country.

Eleonora de Lucena and Rodolfo Lucena, journalists for almost 50 years, both worked in the underground and popular press against the dictatorship in Brazil as well as in the mainstream media. From 2000 to 2010, Eleonora was the head of the newsroom of Folha de São Paulo � at the time, the largest circulation and most influence newspaperr in the country. Rodolfo was the information technology editor at Folha for more than 15 years.

Today, they both run Tutaméia, a news web channel based on live interviews that has almost 80,000 followers. Presidents Lula and Dilma, Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad, Juan Carlos Monedero, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel are some of the people interviewed by Tutaméia, as well as Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif, ex-guerrilla Peruvian leader Héctor Béjar, Aleida Guevara, and Filipino thinker Walden Bello, not to mention political leaders, intellectuals, and artists from Brazil.

Rodolfo, a marathon runner, and Eleonora have taken running as a political, educational, and agit-prop tool, creating projects like Marathoning with the MST, working with the landless movement, and a series of runs called Corrida fora Temer, done during the period that Dilma was illegally ousted from the presidency in a lawfare coup d´etat. They have been married for 46 years and have two daughters.

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Apr 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

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