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Shut Down Chase, World’s #1 Fossil Fuel Banker @ Red Hill Shopping Center

Apr 10 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Join 350 Marin to let Chase Bank — the world’s number one financier of fossil fuels — know we’re done with their disastrous, world-damaging greed.

From the just released 2019 study by Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, and other non-profits:

Things JPMorgan Chase would rather you didn’t know:

JPMorgan Chase is the #1 banker of fossil fuels, representing 29% of all global fossil fuel funding.

JPMorgan Chase led all banks with a 68% expansion of its lending to fossil fuel projects in the last 3 years.

JPMorgan Chase is the #1 banker of Arctic oil and gas, #1 banker of ultra-deep water oil and gas, #2 banker of fracking (just behind Wells Fargo), and #1 U.S. banker of tar sands.

JPMorgan Chase is the only bank financing ALL FOUR key tar sands expansion companies.

The big 6 U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citi, and Bank of America, account for 37% of global fossil fuel financing.

Bring signs if you can – there will also be a few extra signs and small printed placards there.

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Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons

Apr 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay.

We fight against “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” spy drones, facial recognition, police body cameras and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones, to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government.

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 stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.

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.

Our major projects currently include local legislation to regulate state surveillance (we got the strongest surveillance regulation ordinance in the country passed in Oakland!), opposing Urban Shield (now gone!) and pushing back against ICE with local legislation.

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

Check out our sister site DeportICE.

“WATCHING YOU WATCHING US”

Oakland Privacy works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment. Oakland Privacy drove the passage of surveillance regulation and transparency ordinances in Oakland and Berkeley and is kicking off new processes in Richmond and Alameda County. To help slow down the encroaching police state all over the Bay Area, join us at the Omni.

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Monthly Interfaith Vigil at ICE (Compassion Has No Walls) @ ICE San Francisco

Apr 12 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

This is a monthly interfaith ceremony to demonstrate our solidarity for immigrant justice. This is also an educational opportunity for the community to learn about how current immigration policies impact our neighbors. We invite the audience to get involved in concrete ways.

Join us to pray, sing, hear testimony and demand an end to detentions, deportations and policies which hurt our communities.

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Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons

Apr 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance meeting to discuss plans, outreach, organizing regarding regional homeless communities and organizations.

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/541837129562482/

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RV Ban Protest @ Berkeley City Hall

Apr 13 @ 12:00 pm – Apr 14 @ 3:00 am

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Transition Berkeley: OPEN MEETING and CELEBRATION! @ Terea Hall Pittman, South Branch, Berkeley Public Library,

Apr 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Want to help build a better future for Berkeley?…..
Transition Berkeley wants you!

Curious about Transition Berkeley activities and projects? Wondering how you can be involved? Do you have ideas on how to help transform Berkeley into a more livable, equitable and sustainable place? Join us! And celebrate our 8th Anniversary and new nonprofit status! To build a better future, we have to act collectively and we have to act now! We’ll have light refreshments to share!

Questions: click here

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‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons

Apr 13 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Doughnut Economics Reading Group:Creating a world with neither human suffering nor planetary peril

Doughnut Economics: 7 ways to think like a 21^st century economist

By Kate Raworth Chelsea Green Publishing (2017)

The capitalist economic system defines every aspect of our lives: the schooling and medical care we get, where we live, and how we sustain ourselves. The system works for a lucky few and exploits everyone else. And it’s a real threat to the survival of our species (and many others) on this planet.

We know the system needs to change—but we can’t change what we don’t understand. We have to know what we’re talking about.

Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics lays out traditional economic theory—still taught as gospel at all the major temples of capitalism—with clarity, authority, lots of graphics, and quite a bit of humor. She exposes the flawed models and persistent myths that keep the system in place. Even more importantly, she presents seven big, basic ideas with which to begin creating the world we want to see. We can indeed build an economy in the “doughnut”—meeting the needs of all while maintaining the biospheres that support us.

All of us need to read this book. We’ve all grown up in this deeply unfair and absurd system; seeing it clearly and getting free of it require a group effort.

So we at Strike Debt Bay Area are sponsoring a group discussion of Doughnut Economics. We’re doing one meeting a month on the 2nd Saturday; we’ll usually do about one chapter per meeting. Please join us!

4th meeting:

4:30 – 6:00pm, Saturday, February 9th.Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland

We’ll be discussing the 4th chapter.

5th meeting:

4:30 – 6:00pm, Saturday, March 16th.Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland

We’ll be discussing the 5th chapter.

6th meeting:

4:30 – 6:00pm, Saturday, April 13th.Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland

We’ll be discussing the 6th chapter.

7th meeting:

4:30 – 6:00pm, Saturday, May 11th.Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland

We’ll be discussing the 7th chapter and the concluding chapters, and discussion possible futures for the group.

Bring the book (available at your favorite online bookseller and in select local bookstores) and/or your thoughts on the topic (The first and possibly subsequent chapters are available online – http://tinyurl.com/ycysqtde ‘Look Inside’).

The book is an easy read (but full of ideas!) so it’s easy to catch up.

Author website: https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/

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Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center

Apr 14 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing campaigns and future plans and identify upcoming actions we can take to fight fossil fuels and work for a just and sustainable world. Old friends and newcomers are equally welcome. We need your participation and your voice! Come early to hang out and share a potluck lunch.

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East Bay DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons

Apr 14 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

EBDSA’s General Meetings are at 1:00 p.m. on the second Sunday of each month – the next is on Sunday, March 10th at the Omni Commons. These meetings are the highest governing body of our organization, and include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more.

Volunteering at the GM is lively, easy, and low-commitment, and volunteers participate fully in meeting business. The contribution is huge, though – meetings require a lot of hands, and our volunteers keep them lively, inspiring, and productive. Join up here. Use this form, too, if you have child supervision or accessibility needs, including the need for an ASL interpreter.

With our new regular schedule, member-submitted resolutions will be accepted on a rolling basis – please email them to resolutions@eastbaydsa.org. The submissions deadline for each meeting is two days after the previous one.

General Meetings are run by the EBDSA Meetings Committee – for questions or comments, or if you are interested in joining the committee, write us at meetings@eastbaydsa.org!

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Apr 14 @ 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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No Coal Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center

Apr 15 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Join the Bay Area-wide campaign to keep coal out of our cities. Hear updates on developments in Oakland, Richmond, Vallejo, and Stockton and discuss next steps. Attendees are encouraged to bring snacks.

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APTP General Membership Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance

Apr 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

APTP meets the third Wednesday of every month. This month we’ll be talking about our state and local campaigns to limit the police use of force. We’ll also have some updates on organizing in Vallejo in response to multiple police killings and brutality.
Join us to find out how you can get involved.
This space is wheelchair accessible. Please contact us for any additional accessibility questions or concerns.

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Oakland First Fridays Community Meeting @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 3

Apr 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

About Oakland First Fridays:
Our vision is to be the premier Oakland First Fridays Event as the epicenter for the community to come together to celebrate, sustain & support the arts.Our Mission:
Preserve Oakland First Fridays as an all inclusive, safe and vital community-driven platform to showcase the emerging artists, makers, gourmet food vendors, musicians, cypher circles (dance battles, spoken word), drumming circles, acrobats, magicians, and many uniquely talented street performers and their audience.

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No PG&E Bailout! Stop the Next Wildfire Now @ Chelsea Manning (Embarcadero) Plaza

Apr 19 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Join a lively, creative action to demand that the state stop letting PG&E endanger our communities, as we head into the next wildfire season.

Nothing has changed since last year’s catastrophic wildfires.
PG&E is still in charge of the electrical grid, even though it has been responsible for 17 recent fires that killed dozens of people and endangered all Californians’ health.

PG&E gave $4.5 billion in dividends to shareholders in the last 5 years, $0 to Camp Fire victims, and $204,800 to Gov. Newsom’s gubernatorial campaign.

California can do better. We can take our power back from a corporation that values profits more than our lives, our health, and our planet. We can create a California Green New Deal, providing good jobs building a clean, safe, carbon-zero, publicly owned power grid.

Tell the legislature and Governor Newsome to stop the ongoing PG&E disaster and build a responsible clean-energy electricity system.

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Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons

Apr 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance meeting to discuss plans, outreach, organizing regarding regional homeless communities and organizations.

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/541837129562482/

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Strike Debt Bay Area: You Are Not a Loan! @ Omni Commons

Apr 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Come get connected with SDBA’s projects – we have exciting work to do in 2019!

NEW: Relieving millions in local Medical Debt through pennies-on-the-dollar buyback programs.
NEW: A book group and seminar focused on Economic Inequality and Economic Theory for the modern age.
Presenting debt and inequality related topics at forums, workshops and in radio productions.
Promoting single-payer / Medicare for All to end the plague of medical debt
Money bail reform and fighting modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitative ticketing and fining schemes
Tiny Homes and other solutions for the homeless.
Student debt resistance. Check out the Debt Collective, our sister organization
Helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk
Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts, and divesting from the Wall St. banks
Promoting the concept of Basic Income
Advocating for Postal banking
Organizing for public banking in Oakland! We made the first steps happen… now there’s a spinoff group
Bring your own debt-related project!

If you are new to Strike Debt and want to come early, meet one or two of us and get a briefing on our projects before we dive into our agenda, email us at strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com

Also check out our website, our twitter feed, our radio segments and our Facebook page. Take a look at the local Public Banking website, Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland.

Strike Debt Bay Area is an offshoot of Occupy Oakland and Strike Debt, itself an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.

Strike Debt – Principles of Solidarity

Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it.

We also oppose debt because it is an instrument of exploitation and political domination. Debt is used to discipline us, deepen existing inequalities, and reinforce racial, gendered, and other social hierarchies. Every Strike Debt action is designed to weaken the institutions that seek to divide us and benefit from our division. As an alternative to this predatory system, Strike Debt advocates a just and sustainable economy, based on mutual aid, common goods, and public affluence.

Strike Debt is committed to the principles and tactics of political autonomy, direct democracy, direct action, creative openness, a culture of solidarity, and commitment to anti-oppressive language and conduct. We struggle for a world without racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of oppression.

Strike Debt holds that we are all debtors, whether or not we have personal loan agreements. Through the manipulation of sovereign and municipal debt, the costs of speculator-driven crises are passed on to all of us. Though different kinds of debt can affect the same household, they are all interconnected, and so all household debtors have a common interest in resisting.

Strike Debt engages in public education about the debt-system to counteract the self-serving myth that finance is too complicated for laypersons to understand. In particular, it urges direct action as a way of stopping the damage caused by the creditor class and their enablers among elected government officials. Direct action empowers those who participate in challenging the debt-system.

Strike Debt holds that we owe the financial institutions nothing, whereas, to our friends, families and communities, we owe everything. In pursuing a long-term strategy for national organizing around this principle, we pledge international solidarity with the growing global movement against debt and austerity.

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Apr 21 @ 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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Public Bank East Bay – Sacramento Hearing @ State Capitol, Banking and Finance Cmte

Apr 22 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Vote approaching – take action now!

AB 857, the crucial local public banking bill, will soon come up for a vote in the Assembly’s Banking Committee and Local Government Committee. The deadline for public comment is Wednesday, April 17. Please take a moment right now to send a letter to your Assemblymember and voice your support! You can bet our representatives are hearing from the bill’s powerful opponents, the big Wall Street banks.

And join us at our meeting to help support the public banking. Everyone welcome! Get involved!

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Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons

Apr 26 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance meeting to discuss plans, outreach, organizing regarding regional homeless communities and organizations.

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/541837129562482/

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Richmond Progressive Alliance Quarterly Membership Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center

Apr 27 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Should RPA endorse Bernie?

You never want to miss out on a quarterly RPA membership meeting, but you’ll be especially regretful if you don’t make our April meeting!

At the meeting we’ll be voting on whether the RPA should endorse Bernie Sanders for President — we encourage you to attend the meeting, share your thoughts, and vote. Full agenda coming soon. And of course, if you find that your membership has elapsed, you can always renew at the door.

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About OccupyOakland.org

This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly met in-person weekly (with a rare skip) since October 10th, 2011 up until the pandemic, at which point we went to bi-weekly Zoom meetings. We do checkins, go over the activist events of the past meeting interval, and have general discussions on politics and revolution.

For many years, until the pandemic, we put on a Feed the People event monthly at Oscar Grant Plaza, where all were welcome to come and partake of a freshly cooked, savory meal, before our GA.

If you would like to participate while the pandemic is still amidst, send an email to occupyoakland-request@lists.riseup.net. Check the calendar or this text to see if we have resumed in-person meetings.