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Honduras and Colombia are centers for US Control in Latin America which has been in
process over many years. The Colombian elite has welcomed Plan Colombia, extensive military
training and 7 US military bases in exchange for “stability”, class security, money, business
interests and help opposing the mass anti-government movements over the years. The US has
centers for intelligence gathering, a new “School of the Americas”, bases with great military
capacity, ready to invade any anti-US country, such as Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba and Bolivia.
The US is not supporting the Peace Process in Colombia which is being attacked by US created
paramilitary armies, Gaintanistas and Urabeños. This is not to mention the many US mining and
business. Many peasant and popular leaders are being assassinated at this very moment. We
need to build opposition to the US wars around the world, be it in the Middle East, Latin
America or at home.

In Honduras, the “Alliance for Prosperity”, modeled after Plan Colombia, increases
militarization and privatization, and is responsible for increased displacement, and corruption,
violence, and repression.

The Presentation is sponsored by Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Coalition (BALASC)
and The Task Force on the Americas.

Alice Loaiza: Lived in Colombia for many years and works with Marcha Patriotica. Also
worked with CONAP, Coordinacion Nacional de Organizaciones Agrarias y Populares and also
in international accompaniment. She has lived and worked in many parts of the country. In the
Bay Area Alice works with BALASC and The Task Force on the Americas.

Diana Bohn: Visited Honduras for third time in December, 2016, as a member of the Root
Causes of Migration Pilgrimage, which visited groups affected by the policies of the Alliance for
Prosperity, government corruption, and violence. Diana is a Task Force on the Americas Board
member and Member of BALASC.

JOIN US to create magical shadow scenes in support of First They Come for the Homeless! Using donated tents, LED flashlights, and simple cut out shapes, we will create messages of love or inspiring scenes to promote awareness of homelessness in Berkeley. These tents will be donated to the homeless, and our shadow messages will be publicly on display on the streets of Berkeley. Now more than ever we must come together to show support and love for all.

Snacks provided

Featuring the poor, unhoused, disabled, Black, Brown, indigenous, elder and youth leaders, artists, cultural workers of POOR Magazine who have practiced this concept for 20 years through their own collective traumas.

This workshop will include an ongoing teaching of poor peoples/traumatized peoples accountability, how to redefine a western white supremacist notion of security, and how to hold each other through trauma into a true definition of inter-dependent safety.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 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 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland.  (In prior years we have agreed to meet at 4:00 PM during summer hours, that is, once Daylight Savings Time goes back into effect).

On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 2 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over five years! 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

1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
3. Announcements
4. (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

The Community Democracy Project is your connection to direct democracy in Oakland! Convened out of Occupy Oakland in Fall 2011, we’re gathering steam on a campaign to bring the people back in touch with the city’s resources through participatory budgeting.

Picture this: Across Oakland, Neighborhood Assemblies are regularly
held in every community. People come together to tackle the important issues of their neighborhoods and of the city. At these assemblies, people don’t just have discussions–they learn from one another, from city staff, and they make fundamental decisions about how the city should run. They decide the city budget.

Democratic, community budgeting is a powerful step toward building strong communities, real democracy, and economic justice–and it’s being done all over the world.

The budget of the City Oakland totals more than $1 billion per year. Although part of the budget must be used for specific purposes, still over half of the budget–over $500 billion per year–consists of general purpose funds paid by the taxes, fees, and fines of the people of Oakland. The Mayor and the City Council decide the city budget, with minimal input from the community.

Working together, we will not only get a seat at the table–we will REBUILD the table itself. Participatory democracy is real democracy–join us to say: Local People, Local Resources, Local Power!

Sing for an hour with the Tax the Rich crew.

Event is cancelled if it is raining.

Who’s Got the Power?
A Workshop for Organizers on Analyzing the Balance of Forces

Facilitated by Rebecca Gordon of University of San Francisco Department of Philosophy, a co-founder of the War Times/Tiempo de Guerras collective, and author of Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States (Oxford University Press) and American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes (Skyhorse Publishing).

Join Center for Political Education for a workshop offering a methodology for analyzing the relationship between forces of repression – social, economic, political – and those in resistance to them. Strengthening our practice of this type of analysis at local, national, and international scales helps us understand the levers of power and who controls them as well as potential areas of vulnerability through which we may take action to shift power.

For more information contact Center for Political Education.

Bay Area organizations demand:
Alameda County Sheriff Ahern’s rescind his policy to participate in mass deportations! Sheriff Ahern is not align with the community and the rest of Alameda County elected officials who have already stand on the side of the community to reject ICE entanglement and affirm Due Process for all regardless of immigration status!

We call on Sherriff Ahern to cease and reject any further entanglement with ICE and mass deportations! Ahern must comply with community demand to not participate in Trumps Policing and Militarization state. His anti-immigrant and racist policies have no place in our County!#AhernNOTmySheriff #Trumpnotmypresident.

We are also rallying in support of the California Values Act to protect all Californians by ensuring that state and local resources are not used for mass deportations or separation of families.

We will march from the Oakland Federal building plaza to Sheriff Ahern’s office!

It’s time for guaranteed healthcare for all Californians!

Join us in Sacramento to step up the campaign for a Healthy California – where healthcare is guaranteed for everyone in our state.

What California needs:

-Universal coverage
-No deductibles, co-pays
-Real patient choice
-Comprehensive benefits

With the future of healthcare in California and the U.S. at stake, now is the time to act

Hope to see you there!

The entrance to the building is down a corridor that runs between Addison and Center St – we’ll be meeting on the 6th floor in the UAW offices.

Hear from East Bay DSA members who study and work at Cal about what DSA is, what our East Bay chapter is working on, and what we’re involved in at Cal – and hope to be in the future!

Does the Trump presidency mean fascism is here, now? Let’s talk about what is fascism. We’ll start with a couple of short presentations, then open up for discussion, including how do we fight back?
We will have light refreshments. The space is wheelchair accessible.

KPFA Radio 94.1FM & Democracy at Work present

RICHARD WOLFF
“An Evening of Lucid Economics and Caustic Wit”
Hosted by Anita Johnson

Richard Wolff, an American Marxist economist, well known for his work in economic methodology and class analysis, has rapidly become famous as well for his Pacifica Network Radio program, Economic Update, which is syndicated on over 60 stations. Additionally, Professor Wolff has made appearances on various television shows, radio shows and films including: Real Time with Bill Maher, The Young Turks, Moyers & Company, Charlie Rose, Al Jazeera America, The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, Charlie Rose, CrossTalk, The David Pakman Show, Democracy Now! The Empire Files, Politics Nation with Al Sharpton, and The Real News Network (TRNN).

We have the enormously ominous prospect of President Donald Trump – just as the U.S. is sinking ever deeper into hard times for the vast majority of its population. More economic downturns are coming. Capitalism’s instability, inequalities, and failures to meet our needs are provoking rising opposition. Considering the increasing problems of drought, poverty, debts, job conditions, and a worsening environment, the American dream is now entirely out of reach. Our political leaders are controlled by corporate giants and lobbies that defy anything like democracy. And President Trump.

In 1988 Wolff co-founded the journal Rethinking Marxism. Later he published Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What To Do About It, This was followed by Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism (with David Barsamian), and Democracy at Work. The New York Times Magazine has named him “America’s most prominent Marxist economist.”

Yuvette Henderson was murdered by Emeryville police on 2/3/2015 who shot her with an AR-15 assault rifle for alleged shoplifting.

The city of Emeryville has filed a motion to dismiss her family’s lawsuit.

We need everyone to turn up in the Federal Courthouse on Thursday 2/23/2017 to show that the community stands with Yuvette’s family and demands Justice for Yuvette.

#sayHerName
#Justice4Yuvette

A call has gone out. It asks us to begin organizing a general strike on March 8, in response to Donald Trump’s oppressive administration and the neoliberal attack that threatens our livelihood.

We are heeding the call. Given the short amount of time, we are not planning for a strike in the traditional sense. We are instead planning a 5 pm demonstration.

By organizing this, we hope to create the tools and infrastructure necessary to organize a women’s bloc for the national general strike called for May 1 in Oakland.

Join us at the Omni Commons to discuss, plan and work towards building our collective power.

— Planning Meetings will be held Tues and Thurs leading up to March 8.

Poets Against War & Racism |
Poetas contra la guerra y el racismo

Sponsored by the Chiapas Support Committee
https://chiapas-support.org/

This is the first gathering of Poets Against War & Racism.

Donation requested: $5.00-25.00
No one turned away for lack of money.

Poets:
Amira Ali
Arnoldo Colibrí
DeMareon Gipson
María de la Rosa
Rafael Jesús Gonzalez with Gerardo Omar Marín on flute
Teboho Motaba
Other poets & performers coming too
Open mic.
…

We have invited several poets and will also have an open mic.

Chiapas Support Committee will be showing a 15 minute video of the recent CNI congress held with the EZLN whose first sessions were held in Oactober 2016. The video will be part of an update on the EZLN-CNI proposal to form an indigenous council of government and to run an Indigenous woman for President in Mexico’s 2018 presidential elections and other developments in Mexico.

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Why?
The challenge is to reclaim our power of self-determination and live our lives and words in community that resists and begins to dream how to govern itself. The infinite war that the U.S. started in 2003 added another layer of calluse and numbing, distorting our consciousness and our language.

As a result, racism and war has become normalized to unprecedented and new levels with the new U.S. regime taking office and power.

Questions and poems:
How will we reclaim all the Black lives lost?
How will we change the relationship we have with each other and with the original peoples when we are uninvited guests on Indigenous lands?
How do we live in community where everyone belongs and has something important to contribute, to do and to say?
What is to be done?

What are your key words? What are our powerful words?
* No Ban
* No Walls
* No DAPL
* No war on the natural world and her peoples
* No more migrant deaths
* Yes to poetry, peace, bread, living wage jobs or income, justice…
* Yes to water & life
* Yes to Black Lives Matter
* Yes to Indigenous and women of color power and leadership
* Yes to trans-border poor people’s soldarirty and power
* Indigenous peoples lands everywhere you stand…
* Everyone is a poet.

This first gathering to to let loose some outrage, begin to learn how to dream together and each one continue to what they are best at to stop war and racism in all its forms, end homophobia, islamophobia, transphobia, stop destruction of the natural world…
Painting by Arnoldo García

Free. Each documentary will begin promptly at 5:30 PM, discussion afterwards.  Food provided.

Feb 3 – John Henrik Clarke – A Great and Mighty Walk

Feb 10 – The House I Live In

Feb 17 – The Night Tulsa Burned

Feb 24th – 13th