Open as many homes as possible…
Hold them as long as possible…

Our weekly PARTY to get this hackerspace together, to provide a venue for those things that otherwise cannot be worked out through day-to-day practice.

Potluck! – bring your own tasty dish!

Sudo room, located in the southwast corner of the ground floor, is a creative community and hackerspace. We offer tools and project space for a wide range of activities: electronics, sewing/crafting, 3D and 2D manufacturing, coding, and good old-fashioned co-learning!

Hours: The space is open whenever a member is present. Come visit! Best times to drop in are evenings between 7 and 9pm. See the calendar for recurring meetups and upcoming events: https://sudoroom.org/calendar

Draft agenda:

• Alameda County Mental Health Advisory Board Meeting report back and next steps
• Turnout for Friday’s meeting
• Outreach

• NOTE DAY CHANGE – ONE TIME ONLY. MEETING IS ON THURSDAY INSTEAD OF WEDNESDAY.
• Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the surveillance state,  against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, including the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the BART Board of Directors, and by the Oakland and Berkeley City Councils.
• We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, ALPRs, requirements for “backdoors” to your cellphone and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments.

OPWG originally came together to fight against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network; its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts further restrictions on the now Port-restricted DAC, and made Oakland’s new Privacy Advisory Commission to the City Council happen.  We were also the lead in having Alameda County pass the most comprehensive privacy and usage policy in the country for deployment of “Stingray” technology (cell phone interceptors).

We have presented our work at the recent RightsCon in San Francisco and at Left Forum and HOPE in New York City.

If you would like to attend our meeting would like a quick introduction to what we’re doing before we dive right into the thick of things, send email to  contact@oaklandprivacy.org and one of us will show up twenty minutes early to give you some background on our work.

Stop by and learn how you can help guard our right not to be spied on by the government.

If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:

oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net

Check out our new website.

For more information on the DAC check out

• DAC FAQ
• Oakland Wiki Domain Awareness Page
• Oakland Privacy WordPress

You’re invited to join us tonight to discuss justice and injustice at UC Berkeley, and how to build a student organization on campus.

The ISO will hold a discussion about UC Berkeley’s history of complicity with sexual harassment, and its censorship of a student-run course on Palestine, and plan how to expand socialist organization on campus.

We are asking if anyone in the community has any information, eyewitness accounts or video showing the unjust killing of Colby Friday, shot in the back by Stockton Police Officer David Wells.

The community can no longer tolerate Stockton police officers shooting their citizens in the back – it is the same tired narrative that repeats time and time again.

From Luther Brown, James Cook and James Rivera Jr., all shot and yet these officers all still work, are promoted and are allowed to stalk the streets for their next victim.

Your family many be next. Take this seriously – we don’t want to be out there for you next.

Justice 4 Colby Friday Facebook

Want to learn how to work toward eliminating the cops? Want to hear how we challenge the notion that policing keeps us safe? CR Oakland regularly offers this workshop that looks at the role and history of policing in the U.S., the way it has impacted various communities, and how people have resisted and challenged its inherent violence. This workshop also goes over how we can reduce our reliance on policing by highlighting the various ways that building up community strength and practices lead to true safety that does not depend on law enforcement.

OccupySF 5th Anniversary picnic and open mic. Bring your own food. Bring your own drink. Bring instruments. Bring megaphone.

Bring sings and banners!

 This will be the last meeting of the Oakland Justice Coalition before the elections on November 8.

The meeting will focus on the work we must do to elect our candidates to the Oakland City Council and Board of Education. After a long process of creating our organization, establishing a platform, and interviewing prospective candidates, we have created a great slate to work for progressive change in Oakland:

City Council District 3: NONI SESSION
City Council District 7: NEHANDA IMARA

School Board District 1: DON MACLEAY
School Board District 3: KHARYSHI WIGINTON
School Board District 5: MIKE HUTCHINSON
School Board District 7: CHRIS JACKSON

These are candidates who will fight for social, racial, and economic justice in Oakland: better schools, affordable housing, decent jobs, and police reform.

Please come out to help us elect them on November 8.

Join Alameda Renters Coalition and Filipino Advocates for Justice for an intimate screening of “The Fall of the I-Hotel” documentary, as well as special showings of two short videos produced by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project about the signature drive to put M1 on the ballot.

In 1977, tenants at San Francisco’s International Hotel — mostly Filipino elders — fought a mass eviction. Students, activists, poets, and politicians joined their cause, and while the residents were eventually forced out by sheriff’s deputies, the campaign helped catalyze the Filipino-American community and the Bay Area’s anti-eviction movement.

This political season, Alamedans are remembering the I-Hotel — and are recognizing that the campaign at 470 Central on the west end connects us all to this history and to the present fight for sustainable rent increases and just-cause protections.

After the screenings, we’ll have the opportunity to plug into current opportunities for action around 470 Central and the M1 campaign. RSVP today!

After much posturing, the City FINALLY approved our petition to gather signatures for the recall of Libby Schaaf. Join us for a brief training and refreshments before we hit the streets to talk to the people and build momentum for our campaign. We will break bread as a community in Oscar Grant Plaza at the end of the afternoon.

Displacement in the name of Development
Rampant Police Corruption, Rape & Brutality
Inciting Police Violence Against Black Women, Children & Elders
Attempting to Turn Oakland Into A SunDown Town
Loss of Youth Jobs
Cultural Appropriation
Heightened Inter-Communal Violence
Pandering to Big Busines at the Expense of the People

It is time to say #BYELIBBY

www.byelibby.com

Facebook event

Intentional Community in Exile (ICE) presents “Intentional Community in Exile (ICE)”

Including a treatise on ‘warming up exile without melting’ using voices, bodies.

Discussion: 2pm in the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Koret Reading Room

Action: 3:30pm

ICE (Intentional Community in Exile) is a fresh new mutual aid society, built to sustain radical, creative and political practices within a hostile economic system. ICE breaks with the assumption that the objective of this life is a house with a nuclear/biological family, through accumulation of personal property, or individual recognition. ICE is being made by a small group of precarious transient anti-capitalist women trying to survive together while being literally and metaphorically evicted.

Please join us on September 18, for a discussion and a performance of life practices as well as frameworks for material and immaterial mutual support. This project is about finding ways to exit economic precarity by building human relationships instead of accumulating capital– to make exile ‘warm.’

The entire time I have lived in “x” I have been precarious and indebted. I have only survived, and thrived, because of the networks of solidarity and mutual aid I have participated in. Now, as the city, “x” gentrifies beyond the imagination, I’m being forced to leave. I don’t want to let those networks die. If people like me are going to survive in this world, we need to imagine and create better non-monetary common resources.

BAMPFA event page: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/event/heavy-breathing-4-ice-feminist-economics-department

Presented in collaboration with Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Heavy Breathing is a monthly series of experimental movement seminars designed by artists that combine physical activity with group discussion on ideas related to their creative practice. Critical discourse often feels heady, abstract, and divorced from the body. How do conversations change when we are moving our bodies and out of breath? What new modes of thinking become possible?

Dear Friends,

There are still plenty of seats left for the SECOND in the film series and discussion group called “Fascism on Film”.

The film this time is “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” (1970), a BBC production based on the play by Bertolt Brecht.  It features an outstanding performance by Nicol Williamson in the title role. The story parallels the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich, portraying Hitler as a petty gangster in Chicago who by hook and by crook takes over the vegetable market, a.k.a. the “Cauliflower Trust”.  An informal discussion will follow the film.

The screening begins at 4:00 on Sunday, September 18th, at our house, 1171 Colusa Avenue in North Berkeley.  There is no admission charge; snacks and drinks will be provided.  For more information and/or to reserve seats for this event, please contact me at DaniellsDin@gmail.com or 510-277-6669.

Peace,

TD Daniell

510-277-6669

Cauliflower wants to be free!