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Oakland Privacy’s, the ACLU’s and the EFF’s surveillance equipment regulation ordinance comes to City Council for the (hopefully) final go-round to be made into City law.

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Subject: Surveillance And Community Safety Ordinance

From: Office Of The City Administrator

Recommendation: Adopt An Ordinance Adding Chapter 9.64 To The Oakland Municipal Code Establishing Rules For The City’s Acquisition And Use Of Surveillance Equipment

Taina Vargas-Edmond, Executive Director of Initiate Justice, and Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None, will be in conversation with Tim Wise at this live taping of his national podcast.

Taina Vargas-Edmond, Executive Director of Initiate Justice and Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None, two leaders in the forefront of policy and advocacy work on behalf of incarcerated Californians, the formally-incarcerated, and their families, will be in conversation with anti-racism author and educator Tim Wise. They’ll look at recent victories and efforts currently underway.

Tickets are sliding scale. 100% of proceeds go to Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None and Initiate Justice.

THIS WEDNESDAY: FREE Name and Gender Change workshop at EBCLC’s Adeline office, right next to Ashby Bart! And because of funding from Trans Lifeline – Microgrants, we can provide fee waivers to folks who need them!

Please share widely- this will be our last Name and Gender Change Workshop until this summer.

We have the power to make sure that everyone has a safe and stable home. Come to this CDP Community Conversation event to find out how to get involved and meet groups already working in our community. Join a discussion about how to take immediate action and create long-term solutions. Featured speakers include representatives from: Causa Justa Just Cause, The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople, Oakland Warehouse Coalition, Safer DIY Spaces, EveryOne Home, and our City Council representative, Rebecca Kaplan.

Venue is wheelchair accessible,
Located a short walk from Downtown Oakland 12th Street BART station.

Doors will open at 6p for food and mingling. 🍯🎊
The conversation will start promptly at 6:30p.

Hard Work Is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace

Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

KATRINELL DAVIS
Associate Professor of Sociology, Florida State University

with CATHERINE FISK
Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, UC Berkeley, asrespondent

Sponsored by Center for Research on Social Change, UC Berkeley

Co-sponsored by Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Center
for the Study of Law & Society, Division of Equity and Inclusion, and
Sociology Department, UC Berkeley

ABSTRACT

In this talk, I discuss African American women’s experiences as bus
operators in a San Francisco Bay Area transit firm from 1974-1989,
during the height of affirmative action hiring. Through a series of
interviews with these transit operators alongside correspondence between
management and union leaders, grievance and arbitration data, as well as
litigation against the firm, I trace the gradual demise of job security
within this SF Bay Area transit company that once led the nation in
offering its transit operators good wages and benefits. The findings
suggest that transit operating became increasingly stressful throughout
the period of study due to declining work conditions and the arbitrary
implementation of institutional strategies designed to discipline and
eliminate workers deemed undesirable.

American Masters/Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic champion of the rights of the poor working man, the disenfranchised, and people of color. His story is one of the great dramas of the 20th century–spanning an international canvas of social upheaval and ideological controversy. Directed by St. Clair Bourne, narrated by Ossie Davis. 117 minutes.
Sponsored by the BFUU SJC.

Whose Money? Our Money!

Everybody talks about money, but nobody knows what to do about it.  For the Full Circle show on KPFA closest to tax day, Paul Pryde of Our Money and Debbie Notkin of Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland reach into our wallets and look at what money is, who has it, who needs it, and how we could think about money in completely different ways.

Join millions of people around the world in the second annual March for Science! In 2017, more than one million people around the world gathered to defend science for the common good and its role in policy and society. Since then, science has continued to face increasing threats at the federal, state, and local levels.

A POETIC BENEFIT for the HAITI EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND
with
RAFAEL JESUS GONZÁLEZ (Poet Laureate of Berkeley)
AVOTCJA with BILL CROSSMAN (Piano)
& CAROLYN SCARR
also
A Report back by
PIERRE LABOSSIERE & DELEGATION
(who just returned from Haiti)

Wheelchair Accessible
Come celebrate National Poetry month for a good cause!
A benefit for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund  featuring:
Avotcja with Bill Crossman,
Rafael Jesus Gonzalez (Poet Laureate of Berkeley),
and Carolyn Scarr followed by open Mic

www.Avotcja.org

Until we solve the problem, it’s that time again. Join us for #FeedTheHood 5 bag lunch and hygiene kit distribution to the homeless across Oakland in #DeepEastOakland . RSVP and donate today at http://bit.ly/feedthehood5 . #housingforall

Until we solve the problem, it’s that time again. Join us for #FeedTheHood 5 bag lunch and hygiene kit distribution to the homeless across Oakland on Sunday, April 15, 7 AM at Oakland SOL in #DeepEastOakland . RSVP and donate today at https://t.co/SfAMcRjW2q. #housingforall pic.twitter.com/iAcJeQ8USf

— EOakCollective (@EOakCollective) March 16, 2018

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

82-minute documentary focusing on food co-ops as a force for dynamic social and economic change in the US culture. The film examines the important historical role played by food co-ops, their pioneering quest for organic foods, and their current efforts to create regional food systems.

http://foodforchange.coop/

Film will be followed by a panel discussion with:
Adrionna Fike, Worker Owner of Mandela Foods Cooperative
Dennis Terry, Director of Seeds of Struggle
& more TBA

Here is a Liberated Lens TV interview with Adrionna:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmjOqMD5J2A&t=9s

doors open at 7pm, film starts at 7:30pm

free popcorn!

Hey Everyone!
We’ll  meet in the back room of Muddy Waters Cafe this evening  to continue our discussion of the future of OccupyForum. Let’s include report-backs from recent actions around SF and Oakland, and insights into recent war development.

See you there!