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Shut down the  concentration camps! Free all immigrant detainees! No ban, no wall, sactuary for all!

10:00 AM : Teach-In

12:00 Noon : Youth Speak Out and March from Krober Hall Plaza (Bancroft & College).

National Speaking Tour: Steve Ellner.

Ellner has taught economic history in Venezuela since 1977. He is the author of numerous books and journal and magazine articles on Venezuelan history and politics. His most recent book: The Pink Tide Experiences: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings in 21st Century Latin America.

Campaign to end US and Canada Sanctions Against Venezuela.

Luxe Laundromat Free Laundry Events will offer free laundry to the community. If you or someone you know is in need please reach out to our page and leave your contact information. Anyone can come and help support by volunteering. The event will include live music,food and prizes.

What if we all realized food isn’t as scarce as we’ve been led to believe?

YOU are cordially invited to a FREE community potluck-style picnic where everyone is truly welcome! If the people of Oakland showed up to feed our neighbors with what we could, we would see that there is enough for EVERYONE!

Come enjoy the day with your neighbors! Offer rides to your unhoused neighbors! Bring a side dish if you can! Bring plates or cups! Bring your favorite dessert! Bring your friends! Bring your neighbors! Or just bring an appetite! Use this space to coordinate what’s already being brought!

Are you part of an organization, church, or restaurant that could provide meat or other entrees? Use this event page to coordinate! There are grills for public use in the park.

Lunch is served at 11:30!

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

Hardships imposed on the Venezuelan people by US-Canadian Sanctions.

As part of a campaign to educate the public and organize a stronger movement against ongoing – and ever increasing – US and Canadian sanctions and intervention on the Venezuelan people, the Alliance for Global Justice is organizing a national speaking tour by Dr. Steve Ellner, who has taught at several U.S. and Latin American Universities.

FREE – but hat will be passed for donations to NPML

About Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
A weekly discussion series inspired by our respect for the work of Karl Marx and our belief that his work will remain as important for the class struggles of the future as they have been for the past.

Tomorrow, Sun 10/28 at 2PM, the #HousingAndDignityVillage is hosting a Community BBQ + Potluck at Edes Ave & Elmhurst Ave! Join us in building community + solidarity b/t housed & unhoused folks and discussing communal, collaborative, caring solutions for houselessness epidemic pic.twitter.com/pIXM8TkXJa

— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) October 28, 2018

Dinner: 6:30 PM

Movie: 7:30 PM

Striking to Survive records workers’ views of their ongoing strikes in Pearl River Delta.

There is also a new movement of idealistic party youth in China for who are looking to Marxism to align with workers’ own aspirations. They have been rounded up by the party-state machine.

What future comes from “handling contradictions among the people” according to the “thought of Mao” or now the “thought of Xi Jinping”?

What is Marx’s philosophy of liberation in distinction from the party-state? How does it speak to the new movements in China and to the world facing a rise of fascism?

Don’t miss this riveting report on the state of the world and what’s being done to back away from the nuclear brink.

A Slide Show & Talk by John Steinbach, Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area

Edging toward nuclear war, the world remains balanced precariously on the knife edge of nuclear annihilation.

Sponsored by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee.

What are the origins of the racial wealth gap and how can we leverage wealth to undermine, rather than support, the structures of white supremacy? SURJ’s Fundraising Committee will provide historical context, map the limitations of existing institutional financial support for racial justice, and engage participants to rethink their own access to wealth, networks, and other resources in an effort to develop a “reparations mindset.”

All proceeds go to support one or more of our partner organizations led by people of color.

Laney College’s Poor Peoples Campaign Teach-In Committee is hosting a teach-in. Data suggests that at least 14 percent of students at Peralta community colleges are homeless. The number of those who worry about housing stability each month is even higher. The teach-in will discuss: What’s the role of our government in meeting the basic needs of the people, such as housing?  Does voting make a difference?

The Teach-In is co-sponsored by the Poor Peoples Campaign Teach-In Committee, the Women’s Economic Agenda Project, Associated Students of Laney College (ASLC), and the Umoja-UBAKA Student Success Community at Laney.

The Poor Peoples Campaign Teach-In Committee at Laney is made up of faculty, students and community members.  The group holds teach-ins each semester on social and political issues affecting the Oakland community, including Peralta students, faculty and staff.

Required Readings

Additional details and readings will be added shortly.

Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission Agenda:

4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – discussion with staff and take action to adopt sequence of impact analysis and use policy writing for existing Fire Department equipment

5. 5:20pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Unapproved Use of UAV by OPD during exigent circumstances – presentation of staff report and take possible action

6. 5:30pm: Review and discuss Federal Task Force MOU with Drug Enforcement Agency – take possible action

7. 5:50pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Cell Site Simulator Impact Analysis and draft Use Policy – review and take possible action.

OPAC meetings

Agenda packet for this meeting

Cindy Sheehan and gg Winter have a slide presentation and report from their recent trip to Cuba, including a celebration with four of the released Cuban 5 where Cindy was honored for her work in helping get them released. It was an amazing musical and dancing program put on for her and our group. Nice pictures of the occasion, and many others of the trip will be shown. Please attend and enjoy.

Sponsored by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Social Justice Committee.

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CSLS Book Event with Issa Kohler-Hausmann on Fri., Nov. 2 from 2-3:30p (reception to follow) pic.twitter.com/Pxz8D2x8R9

— CSLS at UC Berkeley (@CSLSatBerkeley) October 5, 2018

Donations for the 13 people directly impacted by the encampment fire @ e12th & 23rd can be dropped at Omni Commons on Saturday and Sunday, 11/3 and 4, from 10 am-3 pm.

Contact T (512) 663-8871 if you have stuff to drop but need to find another time. https://t.co/TdhBWtOklV

— ellie hwa (@spectralsex) November 2, 2018

Come help us rebuild Daniela’s home. No more leaky roof for her Monica her mom age 43 and her younger brother.
In fine barn raising fashion we will also be rebuilding several shelters for her unhoused neighbors.

11 am
Opening remarks by encampment resident and project cooridinator Derrick Soo

1pm Community potluck lunch. Please bring food to share

2 – 5 pm finish rebuilding shelters