Calendar
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Program:
Guest artist musical introduction
speakers :-
Gerald Smith – Organizer for Oscar Grant Committee and Mumia Ab Jamal
Steve Zeltzer- Host of WORK WEEK KPFA and Labor Fest SF and Labor Video Project. Organizer for many spirited demos at Federal Building, Brittish, ,Austrialian and Equadorian consulates in support of Chelsea and Julian.
Cecile Pineda -Poet Actress Code Pink
Ricardo Ortiz- Past and founding member of Frente Socialism de Puerto Rico Collaborator Labor Fest SF.
5th Speaker TBA.
Our Aim in this forum is to continue and deepen the discussion on how Chelsea and Julian have helped build more awareness of who the real enemy is and who are our real friends and how important Chelsea and Julian are to our survival.
. We can do this by our speakers presenting their analyses of how very important they truly are .
After the presentation, special guest music interlude, followed by audience participation: 2 minutes each, questions and/or comments on furthering the struggle.
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
Join APTP in offering hot food, drinks, snacks, and solidarity to releasees and visitors at Santa Rita Jail!
Let us know you’ll be there by sending us a text at (510) 686-3284.
Prisons function to repress, warehouse and extract labor from primarily those of us who are Black or poor. We believe that solidarity is a weapon of resistance, and that we must respond to the basic needs of our community while also confronting state terror.
In honor of Dujuan Armstrong Jr. who entered Santa Rita Jail for a weekend sentence and never came home, APTP is providing material support and direct care to folks at Santa Rita Jail as a small but meaningful way to address the harm caused by incarceration in our community. We do not positively engage with the racist pigs who work at the jail, as they are willing agents of the state that criminalizes and incarcerates us.
We’d love to see you there! Meet APTP outside of the Lake Merritt BART Station at 4pm – we’ll drive out to the jail together from there. All are welcome, no experience required.
The Film “The Wanted 18”
Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:
The Israeli army’s pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared “a threat to the national security of the state of Israel.”
In response to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, a group of people from the town of Beit Sahour decide to buy 18 cows and produce their own milk as a co-operative. Their venture is so successful that the collective farm becomes a landmark, and the cows local celebrities–until the Israeli army takes note and declares that the farm is an illegal security threat.
Consequently, the dairy is forced to go underground, the cows continuing to produce their “Intifada milk” with the Israeli army in relentless pursuit.
Recreating the story of the “wanted 18” from the perspectives of the Beit Sahour activists, Israeli military officials, and the cows, Palestinian artist Amer Shomali and veteran Canadian director Paul Cowan create an enchanting, inspirational tribute to the ingenuity and power of grassroots activism. (The film is 75 minutes long)
Discussion:
Palestinian activist Leena Dallasheh has been active in the struggle for freedom and justice in Palestine for many years. She will share about her experience in this struggle and about her time in the Zapatista Caracol of Oventic this summer. Ms. Dallasheh will present some thoughts about the the common challenges indigenous people experience in both places, the commonalities between the Zapatista and Palestinian struggles, and the potential of solidarity work between the two.
Members of the Chiapas Support Committee will share information about Zapatista autonomy.
Requested Donation: $5-$10 (Sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.)
For more information:
www.chiapas-support.org
Offside is a 2006 film directed by Jafar Panahi. If you are a woman, you are forbidden from watching a soccer game in a stadium in Iran. Offside is the story of a group of women who decided to go anyway.
Offside is a work of fiction, but on Sept. 9, 2019, an Iranian woman, 29-year-old Sahar Khodayari, a soccer fan died. She had been arrested in March for “appearing in public without a hijab” when she attempted to enter the stadium “dressed as a man” to see a game. When she learned she could face 6 months in jail, she set herself on fire and died two weeks later. She is known as #BlueGirl and her death has sparked an international outcry demanding that the ban be overturned.
Stand in solidarity with the overwhelming majority of Haitians, whose
continued resistance to an illegitimate, US-backed regime has given rise
to years of sustained protest against stolen elections, government
corruption, poverty, land grabs, rising prices, and 15 years of UN/US
military occupation. These are the conditions that drive people to leave
Haiti and immigrate elsewhere seeking a means to survive. $4.2 BILLION
has been stolen from government revenues. The international media has
either ignored this struggle or reported in a way that blames the
demonstrators for “violence.”
As resistance to this regime intensifies, so does repression. Police and
paramilitary forces have responded with bullets, teargas, imprisonment
and increasingly, massacres, aimed at wiping out Haiti’s grassroots
_Lavalas_ movement. Over several nights in November, 2018
state-sponsored armed forces tortured, and/or murdered several hundred
people, raped women in front of their families and burned homes in
Lasalin, a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince with a history of resistance.
The U.S. arms, funds and trains Haiti’s military and police, and only
with U.S. support can this corrupt regime remain in power. The people of
Haiti deserve to live without the daily threat of state-directed
violence. It is time for the U.S. to be held accountable for its
continued support of the repressive regime now in power in Haiti.
—
sent by Haiti Action Committee
Join the East Bay Democratic Socialist of America for a screening of the groundbreaking 1976 strike film, Harlan County U.S.A.
In this academy-award-winning documentary, viewers are transported to the front lines of the class struggle as militant striking coal miners and their families in Southeastern Kentucky go to battle against their tyrannical bosses.
Even today, workers in Harlan County are fighting back. This summer, miners employed at the Blackjewel Mine camped out on the railroad tracks to demand their stolen wages. https://www.labornotes.org/2019/07/kentucky-miners-are-camped-out-railroad-tracks-blocking-coal-train-demanding-their-stolen
ABOUT SOCIALIST NIGHT SCHOOL
Socialist Night School is a rolling open course that provides opportunities for East Bay DSA members to ground their political work in the rich theoretical and historical traditions of the socialist left.
Classes are down-to-earth, inclusive spaces that give East Bay comrades a chance to grow their politics together, regardless of background knowledge or affiliation. You don’t have to have been to a night school before and you don’t have to RSVP to join us! You don’t even have to be a member of East Bay DSA—everyone is welcome.
Join us for a work and action planning meeting on Wednesday October 2 as we push forward the #AuditAhern campaign.
There will be a free film viewing of ‘What Happened to Dujuan Armstrong’ followed by breakout working groups. Bring a friend!
This meeting is ADA accessible, open to non-members, dinner will be provided.
Artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous robots, social scoring, mass surveillance, and concentrations of power among corporate platforms and political states. Digital technologies have created huge challenges to our democratic rights, freedoms and values. Must we sacrifice these rights to “progress”?
Two major visions of the future currently dominate in the world: an anti-regulation Silicon Valley model which seemingly values profit over people, and China’s digital totalitarian model, which seeks to monitor and track individuals in an unprecedented way. Both models undermine human rights as we know them. Is a third way possible? What should that model look like?
With so little leadership coming from the Trump administration, the European Union (EU) has been at the forefront of efforts to regulate internet-based platform companies and their use of our private data. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become a model for other countries or states, such as California’s own Consumer Privacy Act.
Now, a group of renowned German net activists, civil society experts, lawyers and politicians have drafted a “Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights.” It is based on one leading principle: “Human dignity shall be inviolable” (here’s a link in English). Could this proposal shape our digital future for the better? How would you regulate our digital future?
Come join this dialogue between EU/German and US leaders, and be prepared to offer your own thoughts and ideas about digital rights, Big Tech and the challenges to ensure that society benefits from technology and innovation.
The Cambodian American community is under attack by ICE AGAIN. ICE is scheduling check-ins for Cambodian Americans with deportation orders on October 3rd at the San Francisco ICE building. WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY FROM DEPORTATION. We are hosting a rally in support of impacted folks and their families who have check-ins that day. This is a nationwide collective action in support of other Cambodian community members that have check-ins.
Hosted by Asian Prisoner Support Committee – APSC
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join our call on October 3rd and then invite a friend?
Over 7.6 million and counting took action during this past week of Global Climate Strikes. This is one of the largest coordinated global protests in history – and many of you were part of this historic event. More than 6,100 events were held in 185 countries with the support of 8,500 websites, 3,000 companies, and 73 Trade Unions. We truly demonstrated the power of our movement.
But, participating in the biggest climate mobilization in history is simply not enough. We have the momentum, and we need you to help us turn this moment into a tipping point. As the science about the climate crisis becomes more dire and urgent, our movement must take bold, escalated action to build political will and local solutions for the transformation we need.
On Thursday, October 3rd at 8 PM ET/ 5 PM PT, we are hosting a next steps call in the United States called: We Are Unstoppable: Building a Movement to Shut Down Fossil Fuels. We will discuss our ongoing campaigns, how to get involved in a local group near you, and share how together, we can make sure the Global Climate Strikes were just the beginning of the end of the age of fossil fuels. Will you join our call on October 3rd and then invite a friend?
To win this fight, we need a movement that’s more powerful than the fossil fuel industry. This work is not easy but we are going to give this everything we’ve got and we hope you will join us in this epic fight for a just and equitable world.
Relevant Agenda Items:
4. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – ShotSpotter Impact Report and proposed Use Policy – review and take possible action
Campaign for Community Power to Decide OPD’s Military Equipment
Community Town Hall
Thursday, October 3, 7:00 pm program
First Congregational Church, 2601 Harrison St., Oakland
Many communities are concerned about police departments’ acquisition and deployment of military-grade equipment in events ranging from public protests to parades and service of drug warrants. In Oakland, the use of grenade-like projectiles, armored vehicles, and military-grade assault weapons by OPD officers has resulted in harm to residents, controversy, and costly lawsuits. In March 2018, Oakland police used the tank-like BearCat armored vehicle as a shooting platform and AR-15 rifles in the killing of Joshua Pawlik.
Oakland PD uses force disproportionately against black residents. And several studies conclude that police departments that acquire military-grade equipment are more likely to use violence and are no more successful in reducing crime.
Yet Oakland has no policy for the acquisition or use of militarized equipment. Oakland PD can acquire and use military equipment of all kinds – anywhere, at any time, with no policy for its use or public reporting of what is has or how it is used.
Now Oakland has an opportunity to exercise community control over the militarization of policing in Oakland, by adopting an ordinance that will require approval by the City Council for the acquisition of military equipment, and use policies and reporting for military equipment that OPD has or obtains.
The proposed ordinance will require that the civilian Oakland Police Commission review proposed acquisitions and use policies for armored vehicles, assault weapons, weaponized aircraft, battering rams, sonic weapons, and flashbang grenades. This will apply to equipment that OPD acquires with grants or with purchases from the city budget. The proposal is modeled on Oakland’s surveillance equipment ordinance.
Supporting organizations (list in formation): 67 Sueños; ACLU; American Friends Service Committee; Anti Police Terror Project; CURYJ; Human Impact Partners; Oakland Privacy Working Group; Restore Oakland; Secure Justice; Urban Peace Movement; Urban Strategies.
Contact: John Lindsay-Poland, American Friends Service Committee,
510-282-8983,
jlindsay-poland@afsc.org.
You can examine the draft of the proposed ordinance here. You can download libreoffice for free if you can not read the open document format.
This is the sign-on message being sent to the Oakland City Council.
To: Members of the Oakland City Council and members of the Oakland Police Commission
Dear Council Members and Commissioners:
We urge you to support a local ordinance that empowers the Oakland Police Commission and City Council to protect our communities against unnecessary police militarization and requires transparency for the equipment that the Oakland Police Departments acquires and deploys.
The acquisition and use of military-grade equipment by civilian law enforcement agencies does not reduce crime,1but it does contribute to substantial fear in the community and a warrior mentality among officers. Several studies conclude that police departments that acquire military-grade equipment are morelikely to use violence.2
Last year, Oakland police used aBearCat armored vehicle as a “shooting platform” for officers armed with AR-15 assault rifles. Police used this equipment to kill an unconscious man. During the 2011 Occupy protests, the OPD fired “specialty munitions” atScott Olsen and other activists.Olsen suffered a fractured skull, and his injuries prompted a lawsuit that the City resolved with a $4.5 million settlement. The OPD deploys military-grade equipment during public protests, parades, local street festivals, and while serving warrants.
There is almost no publicly-available information about what military-grade equipment OPD possesses or how it is used. There is no established process for community representatives to set policy for the equipment OPD should use moving forward, and there is little policy in place to provide oversight for the military-grade equipment that the OPD has already acquired.
It’s time for the community to know what equipment OPD has and have a say in whether and how it will be used. The proposed ordinance empowersthe Police Commission to review and approve OPD requests for military-grade acquisitions, and mandates that the OPD submit use policies to the Commission for equipment that the department already has. Oakland has an equivalent ordinance for surveillance equipment that functions well. A similar ordinance on military equipment will provide the City Council, Police Commission and the public with important tools to oversee the police working in our neighborhoods and to place appropriate restrictions on counterproductive uses of militarized equipment.
Oakland has a chance to set a precedent for transparency in the use and acquisition of military-grade weapons for civilian law enforcement. We urge you to advance this legislation.
Sincerely,
Attachment: Draft Proposed Ordinance on Military Equipment
1Jonathan Mummolo, “Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime but may harm police reputation,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 11, 2018 (37) 9181-9186.
2Casey Delehanty, Jack Mewhirter, Ryan Welchand Jason Wilks, “Militarization and police violence: The case of the 1033program,” Research and Politics, April-June 2017, 1-7; and Edward Lawson Jr., “Police Militarization and the Use of Lethal Force,” Political Research Quarterly, 2018, 1-13.
Come by our open Delegates Meetings! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom
This meeting usually happens in the Ballroom, but the the location may change depending on the access needs of people attending and other events taking place in the building.
JOIN US TO SAVE CHELSEA & JULIAN EVERY FRIDAY
SAVE CHELSEA AND JULIAN FROM TORTURE AND DEATH
NEWS LETTER 10/11/19
Please sign up for our emails and alerts at:
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The Main Stream Media (MSM) is so full of lies, it’s got the masses confused!!
There are only a few places we can get the truth.Chelsea and Julian were two of
the most important WHISTLE BLOWERS to tell the truth about USA’s illegal,
immoral WARS. USA is one of the largest TERRORIST countries in history,
killing, wounding, and forcing emigration on millions of folks (did you know there
are 65 million migrants?) all over the world!!
Saving Chelsea and Julian is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!! To the Working
class and it’s Allies.They told us the truth about the wars! And all the NEW
McArthyism (phony Russia Gate conspiracy led by the New York Times) is
blaming Julian for being a puppet of Russia. So much of all our issues stem from
the honesty of Chelsea and Julian!! That’s why the RULING CLASS imprisoned
them and want’s them DEAD.
Please write letters to Chelsea (only hand written and no post cards or
pictures, or anything written on the outside of the letter) Write to: Chelsea
Elizabeth Manning, William Truesdale Adult Detention Center, 2001 Mill Road,
Alexandria Va. 22314. Also write julian writejulian.com
We need to hip people to YouTube shows, web sites and twitter feeds ie. –
twitter.com/xychelsea, twitter.com/defendassange, and wikileaks.org
– Definitely check out these specific links, and add comments and tell your friends:
– Real News Network – “Federal judge continues Chelsea Manning’s confinement
and $1000/day fine” https://youtub.be/qjywz_U_x1c
– The Jimmy Dore Show – “Chelsea Manning jailed again for
protecting journalism” https://youtu.be/bTqVNKXZYAY (89,000 hits)
– Chelsea Manning “Abolish ICE” https://youtu.be/R7qpQGGQqa8
-Orion song”WE will keep fightin everyday even though our tears won’t
go away!” youtube/DnF6pvX4478
– Chelsea’s scathing 7 page letter to the judge about the history of the SECRET GRAND
JURIES: – https://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-manning-letter
Homeless First by Anka Karewicz & Travis Schirmer
This documentary, a Liberated Lens original production, follows the Berkley encampment known as “First They Came for the Homeless,” a group fighting for the right to live in tents within a self-sustaining community. After BART evicted the group from their space, they went to court to fight back. Several residents share their personal stories, views on homeless activism, and ideas about organizing a self-governed, shared community. The majority of voices and opinions in this film come from within the group itself.
https://liberatedlens.org/our-work/first-they-came-for-the-homeless-homeless-first/
24 Hours by Yesica Prado
Documentary on the eviction of people living in vehicles in Berkeley.
Three documentaries will screen outside on the plaza at National Nurses United headquarters .
The art exhibition “Recognition: Labor Meets Art in Explorations of Social Justice and Identity,” will be open to the public during the screenings.
The films feature three locations where Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN) volunteers have deployed to provide direct relief and response to humanitarian, environmental, and social injustice: Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Standing Rock, and rural Arizona. RNRN volunteers will introduce the films with stories of how RNs have intervened to provide direct care in support of social justice.
Undeterred: Border Militarization and Community Resistance
Undeterred is a documentary about community resistance in the rural border town of Arivaca, Arizona. Since NAFTA, 9/11, and the Obama and Trump administrations, border residents have been on the frontlines of the humanitarian crisis caused by escalating border enforcement. This intimate portrait shows how Arivaca residents have mobilized to provide aid to injured, oftentimes dying people traveling across the desert. Directed by Eva Lewis, an Arivaca resident and member of People Helping People in the Border Zone (PHP). Screens as part of “Recognition and Response,” National Nurses United’s fall outdoor documentary film series.
“The Coming 2020 Election Crisis” Conference Oct. 5,6, in Berkeley
The National Voting Rights Task Force (NVRTF) is proud to announce its 3rd National Election Integrity Conference – “The Coming 2020 Election Crisis – In Paper We Trust” – Sat. and Sun., 10 am – 6 pm.
The 2020 Primary and General Elections are just around the corner. But will everyone who wants to vote be able to? Will all the votes be counted as cast? How secure will the elections be? Will they be hacked? And, if so, will we even know it? What are the major problems that are looming? And what can we do to both secure the elections and to verify that the declared winners are the actual winners?Come join us to learn from election experts, activists, researchers, and reporters from around the country. We have assembled an incredibly wide and deep pool of speakers to enlighten us on every aspect of our elections, the major problems of which they are both intensely familiar and have been deeply involved in researching, fighting and attempting to correct for many years.
With the help of all of our speakers we hope to both enlighten you with a comprehensive and detailed picture of our current situation, the problems confronting us, what is being done to correct them, and what we all can do to help them and ourselves to get to honest, transparent, and verifiable elections. Our country and planet is at stake. The stakes can’t be higher.
Please join us at our best ever 3rd National Election Integrity Conference Go to www.nvrtf.org – “nvrtf” as in National Voting Rights Task Force.
We have over 20 confirmed speakers whose pictures, bios, and presentation topics can be found by paging down at the above website and clicking on “Conference Speakers Announced” or by getting there directly at: https://nvrtf.org/2019-nvrtf-conference/conference-speakers-for-the-coming-2020-election-crisis-in-paper-we-trust/
Purchase early-bird tickets by going to www.nvrtf.org and clicking on “Early Bird Conference Tickets on Sale Now” or getting there directly
at: https://nvrtf.org/event/national-voting-rights-task-force-3rd-election-integrity-conference/
I hope you’ll join us at this conference. It will definitely be wort your while. Early-bird tickets are available at: https://nvrtf.org/event/national-voting-rights-task-force-3rd-election-integrity-conference/. Ticket prices are extremely reasonable for a two-day conference. We are out to spread the word, not make money.
A big event involving tiny houses is coming to Richmond this fall.
The Tiny LIVING Festival California is set to bring tiny homes, vintage campers, converted buses (skoolies), teardrop trailers and more, along with live music and all sorts of family-friendly activities.
The festival will include live music and entertainment, a kids area that includes fun activities with Circus for Purpose, speakers, presentations and notable members of the tiny house community.
The event will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Founded by John and Fin Kernohan, the festival serves two main purposes: to raise awareness about the tiny house movement, and to help raise funds for good causes in communities where the festivals occur.
This is the 14th tiny house event by the United Tiny House Association that has thus far given over $600,000 in proceeds to over 70 charities, nonprofits and other causes.
For the Richmond festival, the United Tiny House Association has partnered with Richmond-based Tentmakers Inc., a nonprofit that creates innovative affordable housing solutions in the Bay Area.
For more than seven years, the Kernohans have been living in a 304-square-foot, off-grid home and travel the country their towable 148-square -foot tiny house, called “Tiny Firehouse — Station No. 9,” which is a tribute to firefighters and emergency responders and supports fire station fundraising.