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North Oakland Neighbors! We are doing our distribution again and we would love your support for these dates:

Sunday 5.17 (Donations) 11am-1pm
Wednesday 5.20 (Donations) 3pm-5pm
Sunday 5.24 (Donations) 11am-1pm
Wednesday 5.27 (Donations) 3pm-5pm
Sunday 5.31 (Distribution) 10am-5pm

Wednesdays & Sundays (5/17, 20, 24, 27):

We are asking OUR HOUSED neighbors to contribute hygiene supplies, canned food, bottled water, rain gear, tarps, garbage bags, $$ et al to be redistributed on Sunday May 31st to encampments in North Oakland dealing with the COVID 19. We will sanitize and package your donations add a hot packaged meal and fresh fruit to the care kits to be distributed to North Oakland Encampments and surrounding encampments.

In order to properly sanitize and maintain social distancing we are collective the materials on April 26th &29th and aiming to distribute 500 hot meals and care kits on May 31st. Overflow resources will be distributed by sister orgs throughout Oakland.

To donate goods or volunteer please sign up here! :
https://forms.gle/gihhATtsXYyiNsVC9

Donate $$: https://www.facebook.com/donate/2956825734339312/2956825774339308/

***We need YOUR HELP!!!! If you have any of the items below that you can donate to your unhoused neighbors please do one of the following things:

-Drop off at 4799 Shattuck Ave (OMNI Commons)

or

-We can PICK UP FROM YOUR PORCH Sunday AM (for address within ~2.5 miles of 4799 Shattuck Ave)
**fill out this form https://forms.gle/B3J5c3PL55vmsiVK6 or email Diana at diwu118@gmail.com / text +1 510 898 6992 and volunteers will pick up from your porch (also email if you have a car and can pick up or redistribute)

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Items we need:
FOOD/WATER
– canned food: tuna, beans, jams, peanut butter, meats, soups, etc.
– Bagged rice, beans/pulses
– ramen, mac & cheese (easy to heat)
– Frozen Meats/Tofu (for future meals)
– bottled water
– juice packs
– Vitamin C tablets/EmergenC

HYGIENE PRODUCTS
– New tooth brush, toothpaste, deodorant
– soap (bar and liquid)
– pads and tampons
– hand sanitizer
– New wrapped toilet paper/paper towels
– Disinfectant Wipes
– Rubbing Alcohol/Bleach
– Unopened masks/gloves
– New in Package: socks and underwear
-Homemade masks

SHELTER AND GEAR SUPPORT
– rain gear
– tents
– tarp
– Garbage bags
– 5 gallon water containers

OTHER
– Dog Food
– $$$ Donate
– Ziplock Bags
– batteries

Donate $$$ on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donate/2956825734339312/2956825774339308/

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We will be organizing on an ongoing basis so funds or supplies not distributed will go out the following weeks.

Want to stay plugged in with the community restorative justice rapid response team? Text communityrj to 33222.

Partners for this distribution include: North Oakland Restorative Justice Council, Self Help Hunger Program, PLACE for Sustainable Living, Critical Resistance, The Omni and more to follow.

***As for safety we are a small group and we are wearing gloves and masks and sanitizing our items and maintaining recommend distances from each other and limiting numbers of involved people.

Main Distribution Event: MAy 31st (Sun) 10am-5pm
Sign up to volunteer for a shift for the main day. Some roles include people to help assemble bags, folks with cars to help caravan the supplies to the unhoused, etc. Please email Diana at diwu118@gmail.com / text +1 510 898 6992 to do so.

APTP will be holding a car caravan for #GeorgeFloyd and #BreonnaTaylor . We will gather in the parking lot at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park at 7th St and Middle Harbor Road at the Port of Oakland. We will have some signs or you can bring your own.

Once the lot fills, please line up on 7th St, between Port View Park and Middle Harbor Park, facing Middle Harbor Park. (map posted in event discussion tab).

Please wear masks when your windows are open and stay in your cars. If you have to get out to post signs, please remember to keep 6 ft apart.

People’s Strike Bay Area will caravan from downtown Oakland to Frutivale to the Coliseum on Monday, June 1st, from 12pm to 3pm. Because “normal” was not. The current situation is untenable. And the future is only an opportunity if we seize it. We stand with others around the country and around the world on the first of every month to build toward community control of everything.

1) 12PM-12:45PM: Rally @ State Building
if OSHA can’t protect workers, we don’t need it. No Safety, No Work. No work, No Rent. No Safeguards, No School.

2) 1:15PM-2PM: Speakout @ Oscar Grant Station/Fruitvale Plaza
In memory of Oscar Grant, Richard “Pedie” Perez, Steven Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, we stand together to clarify: America’s “enough is enough” moment ended about 500 years ago.

3) 2:30PM-3PM: Rally @ Oracle Arena/Oakland Coliseum
We need investment in communities, neighborhoods and future generations, not yuppie playgrounds and tourist attractions. Another Oakland, another California, another world, is possible.

As Arundhati Roy says, the pandemic is a portal.

Volunteer opportunities abound.

This event will be livestreamed here: People’s Strike Bay Area will caravan from downtown Oakland to Frutivale to the Coliseum on Monday, June 1st, from 12pm to 3pm. Because “normal” was not. The current situation is untenable. And the future is only an opportunity if we seize it. We stand with others around the country and around the world on the first of every month to build toward community control of everything.

1) 12PM-12:45PM: Rally @ State Building
if OSHA can’t protect workers, we don’t need it. No Safety, No Work. No work, No Rent. No Safeguards, No School.

2) 1:15PM-2PM: Speakout @ Oscar Grant Station/Fruitvale Plaza
In memory of Oscar Grant, Richard “Pedie” Perez, Steven Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, we stand together to clarify: America’s “enough is enough” moment ended about 500 years ago.

3) 2:30PM-3PM: Rally @ Oracle Arena/Oakland Coliseum
We need investment in communities, neighborhoods and future generations, not yuppie playgrounds and tourist attractions. Another Oakland, another California, another world, is possible.

As Arundhati Roy says, the pandemic is a portal.

Volunteer opportunities abound.

This event will be livestreamed here: https://www.facebook.com/events/279883183187302/, and will be linked with other June 1st actions on the People’s Strike website. Check there for links and this event will be linked with other June 1st actions on the People’s Strike website.

RSVP: https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1296/2020-06-02-socialist-night-school-medicare-for-all-after-bernie/

This pandemic lays bare how broken our market-based healthcare system is, as millions of Americans lose their employer-sponsored insurance and lack access to testing and treatment for COVID-19. Medicare for All is now more popular than it’s ever been, yet Democrats refuse to fight for it. Instead Speaker Pelosi is pushing for subsidizing COBRA — a massive giveaway to private insurers. Especially after Bernie’s presidential run, we have no blueprint for how to build the movement that we need to finally guarantee healthcare as a human right.

How has COVID-19 altered the terrain for healthcare reform? Despite its popularity, why do Democratic politicians refuse to fight for Medicare for All? After Bernie, how can DSA confront the colossal for-profit healthcare industry and continue the fight for Medicare for All?

Join us Tuesday, June 2 at 7pm as we discuss these questions and more with talks from guest speakers Rachel Madley and Natalie Shure.

Rachel Madley is a Ph.D. student at Columbia University Medical Center.

Natalie Shure is a Los Angeles-based writer and researcher whose work focuses on history, health, and politics. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, In These Times, Slate, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Pacific Standard, New York Observer, Metro, Democratic Left, and more.

Readings

COVID-19 and the Myth of ‘Choice’ in American Healthcare — Rani Marx, James G. Kahn, Common Dreams

Medicare for All Is the One-in-a-Million Shot We Have to Make Happen — Natalie Shure, Jacobin

Why Does Nancy Pelosi Want to Subsidize a Brutal For-Profit Health Insurance Industry? — Ari Rabin-Havt, Jacobin

Deep dive:

Why Congress Did Not Enact Health Care Reform — Vicente Navarro, PNHP

Bonus charts:

COVID-19 Emergency Legislation Comparison Chart — PNHP

Who are the uninsured in California? — Social Security Works

More about Socialist Night School 

Oakland #dpw told residents on Wood st that they would come evict residents on June 3rd!!!
Come out to defend the community at 9am!!
Meet at 18th & Wood st

— the United Front Against Displacement (@TheUfad) May 25, 2020

Join us on June 3rd from 10:30am-1pm for an action and car caravan from
the SF Federal Building to the Oakland Federal Building calling on
Congress and on our state level officials to adopt the 5 Economic
Essentials:

* Keep America healthy—protect and expand health insurance for all
workers.
* Keep front-line workers safe and secure.
* Keep workers employed and protect earned pension checks.
* Keep public schools going, the Postal Service solvent, state and
local governments running.
* Keep America competitive—hire people to build infrastructure.

Here are the details:
10:30 AM: Staging in SF at Lot A of Oracle Park
11:00 AM: Caravan to SF Federal Bldg
11:30 AM: Depart to Oakland
12:00 PM: Arrive at Oakland Federal Bldg

Make your voice heard. Demand worker protections today.

#TheTown Sits OUT the Curfew

Our coalition includes
Anti Police-Terror Project CRC Oakland Rising
Bay Rising CURYJ Black Organizing Project
Ella Baker Center

Family, JOIN US Wednesday night 6/3 at 8:05 pm

We, The People of Oakland, and our allies and accomplices around the bay, DISSENT to the steadily encroaching FASCISM of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department’s 8pm curfew order!!!

We’ll be sitting down in the intersection of 14th and Broadway to say an unequivocal “F***k your curfew!”

Everywhere we turn there are reminders to fight for each other’s freedom. Today, 6/2, is Miles Hall’s Angelversary ( https://www.facebook.com/events/538186717063894/ ). We defy the sheriff’s orders in honor and memory of him, as well as Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Steven Taylor, and countless others murdered by so-called civil servants.

The CURFEWS here and nationwide are RACIST policing measures that serve the militant suppression of The People. These measures are in clear, direct response to us rising up in defense of Black Lives. We won’t submit to Trump’s “Law and Order State”.

On Monday, June 1st, young organizers from Oakland Tech led a George Floyd Solidarity March that was multigenerational, peaceful, and 15,000 STRONG

On Monday, June 1st, at 7:57 pm, OPD threw flashbang grenades and teargas into the gathered crowd and proceeded in making 100+ arrests into the night — rounding up protesters and non-protesters alike, including many of our unhoused neighbors and essential workers

Again, WE DISSENT

Our coalition includes
Anti Police-Terror Project
CRC
Oakland Rising
Bay Rising
CURYJ
Black Organizing Project
Ella Baker Center

You, your loved ones and friends

NOTE: We remain committed to offering to post bail for Black & Brown folks arrested while protesting. Please contact us if you know of anybody arrested and held who needs this support.

PANDEMIC REMINDER: Wear your mask. Hold 6 foot distance as much as possible. Bring sanitation supplies such as hand sanitizer for yourself, and more if you have enough to share.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83424517084

Or Telephone:
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Webinar ID: 834 2451 7084

Agenda Items of Interest:

4. Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – OPD – FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force 2019 Annual Report – review and take possible action.
5. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Forensic Logic Impact Report and proposed Use Policy – review and take possible action.

Registration link.

Are you ready to step into more action in defense of Black lives? Are you hungry to further support the demand to defund the police but not sure where to start? Are you curious about what the demand means and where the money would go?

Join us for a webinar with powerful Black feminist leaders and long time criminal justice reform and police accountability organizers, Charlene A. Carruthers and Dr. Barbara Ransby, for a conversation on WHAT Defunding the Police means, HOW it can work and what YOU can do to support.

A peaceful march for Sean Monterrosa , he was just murdered by the Vallejo Police Department a few nights ago while surrendering to officers on his knees . Please come out and support !! 555 Santa Clara st , Vallejo ca 5pm !!

[CALL TO ACTION] We are on the brink of a great win! Not only for BOP, but for Oakland, the Bay Area, and communities across the country organizing in the name of #BlackSanctuary and #PoliceFreeSchools. Oakland, continue to stand with us! Please come–https://t.co/VYPbZllxHE pic.twitter.com/oiiWA8IUNH

— B.O.P. (@BlackOrgProject) June 5, 2020

Mayor London Breed has the power to move all unhoused San Franciscans into vacant units and hotel rooms, yet she has ignored calls from homeless people, community organizations, and even the Board of Supervisors to do so. Instead, she has chosen to leave thousands of our neighbors on the streets without access to bathrooms, basic hygiene, or shelter.

Leaving people outside is inexcusable at any time. Doing so during a global pandemic is absolutely unconscionable. We need safe and permanent housing for all San Franciscans. We can’t wait another day!

We are partnering with a candlelight vigil to honor the unhoused people we have already lost due to Mayor Breed’s negligent policies. After holding that space to grieve, we invite all supporters to join us in making a ton of noise in support of opening all vacant units and hotel rooms to homeless people in San Francisco!

If we can’t sleep, she can’t sleep!

SAFETY AGREEMENTS
It is very important for the safety of all participants that everyone who attends this action wear a mask or face covering, and imperative that folks practice social distancing with anyone outside their immediate pod. There will be safety monitors onsite to remind folks to adhere to these guidelines, and they will ask anyone who refuses to respect the safety of their fellow protestors to leave the action.

ACCESSIBILITY
The rally and march will begin in front of the Harvey Milk Center in Duboce Park. The park has wheelchair accessible entrances on Duboce Avenue near the Muni station and at the end of Carmelita Street. The entire route is wheelchair accessible on wide sidewalks, a total of 0.2 miles, and is mostly flat.

This event will not have ASL interpretation, deafblind interpretation, and will be predominantly in English without translators. It is likely we will not have access to bathrooms at the park or along the route.

This action is organized by Reclaim SF + Coalition on Homelessness + POOR Magazine + Do No Harm Coalition + Solidarity Forever + Public Health Justice Collective (formerly Occupy Public Health)

Berkeley Copwatch is having a Know Your Rights training at 11am-1pm on Saturday. Open to the public.

Register for the Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMudumuqD8tEtawzvElxvtPWXta4Qoen4iy

An evening to remember and honor the lives lost to COVID-19. As the death toll approaches 100,000 in the US, and social distancing restrictions are lifted in a patchwork fashion nationwide, we will safely gather to grieve and remember those lost.

Gather at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater on Saturday, June 6th, at 8pm for a candlelight vigil. We will remember individuals and groups of people who have passed, due to both action and inaction. Bring your memories, your joy, and your pain. Bring candles, flowers, and pictures, or anything else to hold or add to a community altar. Together we will honor our people while wearing masks and maintaining physical distance, because Solidarity is Safety.

Artists with the SF Projection Dept. will honor victims lost to the virus by projecting outdoor #COVIDmemorial messages and photos shared by loved ones.

For more info: @COVID19Remembrance / covid19remembrance@gmail.com

Join us for a presentation and discussion for those interested in a better understanding of a revolutionary socialist perspective on our world.

Activists from Speak Out Now will give a twenty minute presentation, which will be followed by a discussion in which attendees are encouraged to participate, ask questions, and make comments. All perspectives are welcome.

This is Part One of a series. The following week, Sunday, June 14, we will host Part Two: Why We Need Socialism. Participants are encouraged to attend both if possible.

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