Join us to learn about the fight to stop the development of a slag cement processing facility and deep water industrial port on Vallejo’s south waterfront. Vallejo residents will join us to discuss the local and global harm this project would cause and strategies for stopping it. We welcome your participation and your voice.
The meeting will also include updates on other climate and environmental justice action around the Bay. Come early to join us for a potluck lunch.
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Oakland Post Salon on Police Commission Ballot Initiative: the Oakland City Council could put the measure directly onto the ballot – but some members have used procedural delays to block our efforts. Come out to the Post Salon this Sunday to continue the discussion and learn how you can get involved.
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 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. 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 four 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
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
For the past few months, 68 grassroots organization in Haiti have joined together and have taken to the streets in massive numbers. They have stopped fraudulent presidential and legislative elections from taking place and have forced President Michel Martelly out of office. The teach-in will give us the latest information about where this struggle stands, how the United States is subverting democracy, and how we can show our solidarity.
This is the main event of “Black Love Beyond Borders: A Week of International Solidarity”, May 21-28, 2016. For more information about the other events, go to:
https://www.facebook.com/
Organizational Sponsors: Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Haiti Action Committee, Black Lives Matter Bay Area Chapter, All African People’s Revolutionary Party, Priority Africa Network, EastSide Arts Alliance and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Sing for an hour on Solano Avenue at the old Oaks Theater, Berkeley.
May 23rd will be the 2 year anniversary of James “Nate” Greer’s death at the hands of Hayward rogue police.
His grieving Family will be holding a rally with their attorneys, and have a candle light vigil immediately following.
Other coalitions, families and activists will be there to support.
as well as memorialize the loss of their loved ones, who were killed by police.
For more info on the beating death of Nate Greer, please see :
https://www.facebook.com/
AR-15 assault rifles and other military equipment have no place in Emeryville, let alone in the hands of the police department that claims to protect and serve this community.
On Monday, Chief Tejada will be meeting with our comrades at Residents United for a Livable Emeryville (R.U.L.E.) in an attempt to divide and conquer community organizations working together on this issue. APTP and SURJ will be outside holding a rally to oppose this tactic.
An Emeryville police officer used an AR-15 in the killing of beloved community member Yuvette Henderson near Home Depot in February 2015. That preventable incident alone should signal to Chief Tejada that our police do not need military weapons, but she hasn’t moved to discontinue their use.
Come out with your signs, banners and voices to let Chief Tejada know that we will not stand for the use of this weaponry in Emeryville.
Please join us for a student-led initiative to examine closely the need to address police violence and racism as public health issues directly affecting the safety of communities in the US and particularly here in San Francisco.
This event is the initiative of the Do No Harm Coalition at UCSF, which is a group of students, faculty and staff spanning the entire campus who are interested in furthering the local and national dialogue around community policing and public safety for all.
This event is open to UCSF community members and the public. Dinner will be provided.
Schedule
– Lecture by Rupa Marya, MD (Division of Hospitalist Medicine): “Reframing the Dialogue: Race, Police Violence and Public Health”
– Panel discussion featuring the Frisco5 Hunger Strikers, UCSF/SFSU Students and SFPD Sergeant Yulanda Williams, president of the black officers group Officers for Justice
– Musical accompaniment by jazz bassist Marcus Shelby
Co-Sponsored by UCSF PRIME, UCSF Global Health Group and the Heal Initiative
The committee will decide to either send the proposed ordinance to the full City Council to vote on putting it on the November, 2016 ballot (polls show that it would pass by more than 80%) or kill it altogether.
With this much at stake, count on the real estate industry to be there in force with sharpened knives unsheathed. We need to be there to make sure our proposal moves forward.
Agenda Item with Link to Proposed Ballot Initiative.
Come and demand that the City Council put this initiative on the ballot for November.
Protect Oakland Renters Act Ballot Measure
Report and Recommendation
Subject: Protect Oakland Renters Act Ballot Measure
From: Members Of The Public
Recommendation: Receive An Informational Report And Give Staff Direction On Next Steps About A Proposed Ordinance (The “Protect Oakland Renters Act”) That Would Establish The Composition And Functions Of The Rent Board; Establish Rent Adjustments For Certain Units; And Establish Procedures For Governance Of Rental Units In The City Of Oakland
Please join us to celebrate the delivery of more than 8,000 pre-screened petition signatures for the ballot measure we have been promoting. We needed only 6,240 verified signatures; so we are confident we will qualify for the November ballot! Please come and join the celebration. We can all be enormously proud of our role in making this historic moment possible. Celebrate loudly. Then let’s get busy getting voters to the polls in November!
Catherine Pauling and the Steering Committee thank the 100 or more volunteer who spent countless hours gathering signatures. With no experience and little training, you courageously braved the elements (and more than a few rude comments from the opposition) and sacrificed time away from friends and family. You are Alameda Renters Coalition. We could not have done this without the help of: Filipino Advocates for Justice, Tenants Together, East Bay Young Democrats, Wellstone Democrats, St. Joseph Basilica, St. Barnabas Church and Firefighter’s Local 689 for the generous use of their space. We are immensely grateful also to those who contributed funding.
We can be proud of how far we have come. But our real goal is next November 8, 2016. We need to get the word out to all Alamedans that our community’s future is at stake and we need to vote for Rent Control Now!!
See you at City Hall Tomorrow, 2:00!
Join the Ella Baker Center and the Justice Reinvestment Coalition of Alameda County for the kickoff of the Jobs for Freedom campaign tonight! Together let’s win 1,400 jobs.
We’re urging Alameda County leadership to provide good jobs for people affected by the criminal justice system and for youth to prevent their interaction with the criminal justice system.
Locking people up and then locking them out of quality jobs hurts us all.
Come out tonight to Imani Community Church and learn more about the campaign and how you can plug in!
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights | | 510.428.3939
1970 Broadway, Suite 1125, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage.
The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers.
Our work together encompasses:
(1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers,
(2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and
(3) Efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life.
We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:00 PM at the SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall, 436 14th Street #200, Oakland, CA
Please love and support one another ~ We have a duty to fight ~ We have a duty to win!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1568668586707336/
Alameda County’s Community Choice energy program is moving forward. Now is a crucial time to join the East Bay Clean Power Alliance in advocating for community representation on the board and development of local energy resources to benefit our community.
Clean Power to the People is a happy-hour mixer with a campaign update and community organizing strategy session. We need to organize ourselves to take action at an upcoming late June or early July Alameda County Board of Supervisors meeting. We must come together to demand an Alameda County Community Choice energy program that will meet our communities’ needs. Without our voices at the table, the program is moving forward without local clean energy, equitable economic development, or family-sustaining union jobs to benefit our communities.
Before you come, it would be helpful if you:
Come to the Ella Baker Center’s May member meeting to learn how to get involved with our local campaigns to win jobs not jails, books not bars, and healthcare not handcuffs in Oakland.
Free dinner will be provided and all are welcome.
The event is hosted at La Cultura Cura Cultural Arts Cafe, a social enterprise of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice that aims to employ and empower systems impacted youth and young adults.
Please contact our Local Advocate, Tash Nguyen, with questions: tash@ellabakercenter.org.
Vigil for #AmilcarPerezLopez at Mission Police station 6 pm every Wed til @GeorgeGascon announces if #sfpd charged pic.twitter.com/TiyAAbsH6F
— Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) May 19, 2016
This week’s meeting will focus on planning for a large rally on Saturday, June 25, two days before the City Council will be voting on whether to ban coal. We encourage allies to join us in this effort to demonstrate strong community support for a complete ban on coal. Our weekly planning meetings are jam-packed with ideas and energy. Newcomers are welcome; come one-half hour early and we’ll be happy to give you a brief personal orientation on the No Coal in Oakland campaign and our various activities.
The Sheriff wants to build a new $55 million jail expansion at Santa Rita for treating mentally ill inmate. It needs to be stopped in its tracks and the money redirected to mental health treatment outside of jail.
We’ve got some momentum to re-invigorate and have a lot to discuss with the decarceration plan. Here a tentative agenda for 7/28, feel free to add additional items by directly replying to me.
• Revitalize your passion for creating a better world
• Share your knowledge and gifts
• Find co-collaborators and kindred spirits
• Nourish established connections
Mutual Aid Networks: Redesign your own work life and build a more equitable sustainable and enjoyable
Transition Town: Making changes locally in ways that profoundly affect your neighborhood and local influence.
Timebanking: Decreasing dependence on using traditional money and enhancing a sense of community
Tiny Home Villages: Building self-governing communities that meet the needs of homeless and marginalized people
The Recession Generation: Creatively and courageously meeting the unique challenges facing millennials of all ages
Aging in Community: Living a rich life in the golden years among people who joyfully can support you until death.
Cooperative Living: Living together harmoniously and sustainably in all types of intentional communities
Simplifying & Organizing: Sorting out and then keeping only that which gives you joy and finding a place for everything
Plus Your Topic/Presentation: Anyone who wants to facilitate a 1 hour workshop or a 1/2 hour conversation that relates to enhancing the lives of Social Change Agents is welcome to do so. Just show up and we will support you!
MAY COPWATCH DAYS AND TIMES
– FRIDAY 5/6 – 8pm
– FRIDAY 5/13 – 8pm
– SATURDAY 5/21 – 8pm
– FRIDAY 5/27 – 8pm
You’re invited to join Berkeley Copwatch on one of our weekly copwatch shifts. We’ll be out in the streets witnessing and documenting police activity and doing outreach. No experience is required – we’ll train you in the essentials for documenting police activity and staying safe in the process.
DETAILS:
* Please RSVP (no deadline) by calling/texting 510-224-5950 or emailing CRivka@sonic.net to let us know which day(s) you plan to come. That way we can update you if we make any changes to the schedule.
* If you are able to bring a car and be a shift driver, that would be GREAT! Please let us know when you RSVP.
* Dress prepared for being outdoors