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Dec
7
Sat
Green Strategy: The Path to Fundamental Transformation. @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Dec 7 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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Dec
8
Sun
The Sixth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair – Strike! Discovering Our Power @ City College of San Francisco - Mission Campus
Dec 8 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
sm_zinn_2019.jpg The 6th Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair!
The fair draws upon the legacy of legendary historian and activist Howard Zinn by gathering together over 60 publishers, booksellers, zinesters and community groups and dozens of author readings, panel discussions and workshops, all to explore the ways people can take collective action to build a better future.

The HZBF has become an invaluable annual event for left political culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and this year will feature over 50 author readings and panel discussions (each 90 minutes long!) on a wide range of issues relating to economic and social justice. Speakers will include Silvia Federici, Jane McAlevey, Alice Bag, Bhaskar Sunkara, Nicholas Baham III, Eric Drooker, Shawna Potter, Charlie Anders, Emory Douglas and voices from The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, The Yellow Vest Movement in France, The Oakland Teachers Strike and more.

The theme of this year’s book fair is “Strike! Discovering Our Power.” We selected this theme to celebrate the ways in which everyday people discover their ability to work together. Inspired by the wave of strikes across the United States in the past year, the massive General Strikes in India, and the recent uprisings in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon and Chile, we expand the idea of the strike to include all of the ways people can take collective action to preserve their homes, protect life on earth, respect indigeneity, shut down the machinery that produces racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and inequality, and build movements that are strong enough to last. The Strike! is not only about withdrawing our labor, but about redirecting it to create a better world.

Building on Zinn’s legacy, the mission of the HZBF is to showcase authors and organizations which chronicle the often overlooked experiences of oppressed people and their struggle for justice. Since its founding, the HZBF has been held annually as a free, volunteer-run, one-day event in the Mission District of San Francisco, drawing around 2000 attendees each year. We recognize the stories of the ways that everyday people have risen to propose a world beyond empires big and small. The Howard Zinn Book Fair is a non-sectarian left event that welcomes a wide variety of political left traditions where discussion can flow freely; where differences can be articulated, heard, and debated; and where people can connect with each other and talk about creating a better world.

Please join us!

For our program of speakers and exhibitors and for more info visit our website at:
https://howardzinnbookfair.com/
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Bitcoin and crypto currencies @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Dec 8 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

Bitcoin and crypto currencies

Bitcoin showed the world that there can be a decentralized alternative to existing nation-state fiat currencies. People anywhere in the world can send and receive any amount of money, nearly for free, with no middlemen that can censor their transactions. Come learn about the history of crypto currencies, the differences in eToro vs Coinbase and the benefits they offer to society compared to the systems we have today. This talk is geared towards those new to crypto currencies who are interested in the separation of money and state. Lets dream together about a peer to peer future, and how wecan bring financial services to the 2 billion people who are not served today. One of our new members, Josh Elitthorse, a staff software engineer at Coinbase, the biggest exchange in the United States, will lead our discussion.

FREE — but we will pass the hat to support ICSS — FREE

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.

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Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Dec 8 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Sunflower Alliance Meeting

Please join us for our regular Sunday meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We welcome newcomers, old friends, and regulars to hear updates on current campaigns and discuss future plans. We need your participation and your voice! Come early to hang out and enjoy a potluck lunch

12:30 PM potluck lunch
1 – 3 PM meeting

 

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East Bay DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons
Dec 8 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

East Bay DSA’s bimonthly general meetings (GMs) include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more.

Volunteering at the GM is lively, easy, and low-commitment, and hugely benefits the meetings and thus our internal democracy. If you intend to come and would like to volunteer, let us know here. Use this form, too, if you have child supervision or accessibility needs, including the need for an ASL interpreter.

With our new regular schedule, member-submitted resolutions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please email them to resolutions@eastbaydsa.org. The submissions deadline for each meeting is three weeks before the meeting.

General meetings are run by the Meetings Committee. For questions or comments, or if you are interested in joining the committee, write us at meetings@eastbaydsa.org!

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Dec 8 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 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 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland.  (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months,  once Daylight Savings Time springs forward we tend to assemble at 4 PM).

On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 2 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

ooGAOO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over five 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

  1. Welcome & Introductions
  2. Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
  3. Announcements
  4. (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

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Emory Douglas and Jeff Haas: Honoring Fred Hampton
Dec 8 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Join Jeff Haas & Emory Douglas and the Freedom Archives for this Howard Zinn Book Fair event!

50 years ago Chicago police with FBI support raided Black Panther Fred Hampton’s Chicago apartment assassinating him and Mark Clark and injuring 4 others. Attorney Jeff Haas exposes the conspiracy behind the execution in this updated book. Emory Douglas, then Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, will also join us.

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Slingshot new volunteer meeting / article brainstorm for issue #131 @ Longhaul
Dec 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Kick-off meeting to create Slingshot issue #131. Slingshot is an independent radical newspaper published in Berkeley since 1988.

* Brainstorm articles for next issue
* Discussion forum for your article ideas
* Orientation on how you can submit articles, art, photographs
* Help us discuss our audience and themes for the next issue
* Discuss fundraising and distribution
* Your chance to comment on Slingshot

Everyone is welcome.
Issue #131 is due out in early 2020
Deadline for Issue #131 is January 1, 2020

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Dec
9
Mon
Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room
Dec 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

OTU’s Mission

The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf.

Monthly Meetings

The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 pm on the second Monday evening of each month. Our monthly meetings are held in the Community Room of the Madison Park Apartments, 100 – 9th Street (at Oak Street, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station). To enter, gently knock on the window of the room to the right of the main entrance to the building. At the meetings, first we focus on general issues affecting renters city-wide and then second we offer advice to renters regarding their individual concerns.

If you have an issue, a question, or need advice about a tenant/landlord issue, please call us at (510) 704-5276. Leave a message with your name and phone number and someone will get back to you.

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Socialist Feminist Panel: Silvia Federici, Jenny Brown, and Dani Burlison @ Moe's Bookstore
Dec 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

East Bay DSA is proud to co-sponsor this panel discussion featuring some of the leading socialist-feminists of our time. Silvia Federici is a feminist activist, writer, and teacher well known for her works “Wages Against Housework” and Caliban and the Witch. Jenny Brown is a National Women’s Liberation organizer, former editor of Labor Notes, and author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now. Dani Burlison is the author of Some Places Worth Leaving (Tolsun Books, 2019), Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories.

Silvia Federici – Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women and Re-Enchanting the World
Jenny Brown – Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work
Dani Burlison – All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body

This event is free and wheelchair accessible. PM Press is a fellow co-sponsor.

Accessibility Information

This event is wheelchair accessible via elevator to event room

 

 

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Dec
10
Tue
Beyond Climate Denial: Countering Fossil Fuel Industry Tactics @ Children's Creativity Museum
Dec 10 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Climate scientist Mike Mann, community organizer Andres Soto, and investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz will discuss ways of countering the fossil fuel industry’s shifting tactics to block a just and equitable transition off dirty fossil fuel production.

The panel will be moderated by climate attorney Kassie Siegel and followed by a mixer with food and drinks.

Hosted by the Center for Biological Diversity and the 11th Hour Project, co-sponsored by Sunflower Alliance and the Children’s Creativity Museum.

Free. RSVP

 

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Dec
11
Wed
Poor People’s Campaign: March and Mass Meeting | We Must Do MORE Tour @ Glide
Dec 11 @ 5:45 pm – 9:00 pm

**This event will be ASL Interpreted**

Join the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in San Francisco for the 4th stop of the We Must Do M.O.R.E. national tour as we Mobilize, Organize, Register and Educate.

The tour stop in California will culminate with a March and Mass Meeting on Wednesday, December 11. We will march through San Francisco at 6:00 pm and gather together for a mass meeting at 7:00 pm. This will follow an Oakland community site visit to shine light on the struggles and stories of impacted people from the community and provide a platform for them to share both the conditions they are facing and the solutions they believe in

At the Mass Meeting, we will hear from people directly impacted
by systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the corrupt moral narrative. We will also hear from Rev. Barber and Rev. Theoharis, Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is organizing a 25-state We Must Do MORE national tour from September 2019 to May 2020. This tour will lead into the Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington, where thousands of poor people and moral agents will gather at the nation’s capitol on June 20, 2020 to demonstrate their power.

We will demand the implementation of our Moral Agenda and call all people of conscience to engage in deeply moral civic engagement and voting that cares about poor and low-wealth people, the sick, immigrants, workers, the environment, people with disabilities, first nations, the LGBTQ community, and peace over war.

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Public Bank East Bay
Dec 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

At the December 5 meeting, we’ll go over all the current developments in the East Bay and California, and all next steps for working groups. We’re going to focus that meeting on organizational issues as we transition to a group with an Interim Board.

If you would like to come early and get an introduction to the concepts of public banking, or more locally to who we are and what we do, please email us and someone will come meet you at 5:30.

Working Group Meetings:

Some of our working groups meet between organizers’ meetings, and others just confer by phone and email. You can plug into any one of these:

  • Outreach to Organizations
  • Outreach to Individuals
  • Digital Outreach
  • Advocacy (working with politicians)
  • Governance
  • California Public Banking Alliance
  • Fundraising
  • Operations

Just send us a note and we’ll help you get connected to the work you want to do.

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Reimagining local journalism in Oakland @ Wolfman Books
Dec 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The View from Somewhere: Reimagining local journalism in Oakland

Join us for a conversation on journalism, objectivity and an equitable approach to local news in Oakland.

Two months after the 2016 presidential election, radio journalist Lewis Raven Wallace proclaimed “Objectivity is Dead and I’m Okay With it” to highlight how “neutrality” in newsrooms can be a tool of white supremacy. While journalism schools and newsrooms often tout objectivity as a pillar of the craft, Wallace argues that if you look back at how journalists in the U.S. reported on issues like slavery or the early LGBTQ movement, “many of the journalists who’ve told the truth in key historical moments have been outliers and members of an opposition, here and in other countries.”

Wallace is now launching a book and accompanying podcast, The View from Somewhere: A Podcast About Journalism With A Purpose, and going on tour to facilitate conversations about “objectivity,” oppressed communities, and the news.

At this special event in Oakland, Wallace will talk with journalist Tasneem Raja about the harm caused by the myth of objectivity, and facilitate a group discussion on how journalism can better serve and reflect Oakland.

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Dec
12
Thu
OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION @ East Oakland Youth Development Center
Dec 12 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Agenda Items of Special Interest:

 

VII. Draft Ordinance on Military Police Equipment The Ad Hoc Committee for Military Police Equipment will present a revised version of a draft ordinance for review.

VIII. Report on Policing of Oakland’s Unhoused Communities The Commission will discuss the report which was prepared on behalf of the Coalition for Police Accountability by students at the University of California, Berkeley.

X. The Use of Force Working Group will present its draft report which needs to be complete by the end of the year.

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Poets Laureate on Social Justice @ Oakland Public Library
Dec 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Explore poetry and social justice in this exciting poetry reading at the Oakland Public Library Main Library.

Join Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist, Darien Em, along with host Ron Riekki, co-editor of Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice, with five local poets laureate (not youth) sharing poems around a theme of social justice.

Featuring:

Caroline Goodwin, San Mateo County Poet Laureate 2014-2016
Darien Em, Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist 2018-2019
Juanita J. Martin, Fairfield Poet Laureate 2010-2012
Dani Gabriel, El Cerrito Poet Laureate 2018-present

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DSA: Beer & Roses Labor Social @ Telegraph Beer Garden
Dec 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join the East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for their regular Beer and Roses social. Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in EBDSA Labor Committee & learn how you can get involved.

 

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Police Commission Community Meeting
Dec 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

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Radical Futures, United Fronts: Global Women’s Resistance Against State Violence & Repression @ EastSide Arts Alliance
Dec 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Join GABRIELA Oakland and the Center for Political Education for “Radical Futures, United Fronts: Global Women’s Resistance Against State Violence & Repression.”

This panel discussion will bridge individual struggles against ongoing and escalating policing, militarization, and repression at home and around the globe. Panelists will speak to the political fights against rising authoritarianism and repression in Palestine, the Philippines, Venezuela, and our own backyards in Oakland to shed light onto the strength of our movements and the tacit threats they pose to the ruling class.

Featuring the following speakers:
� Lara Kiswani, Executive Director of the Arab Resource & Orrganizing Center
� Carolina Morales, Venezuelan Activist
� Desiree Mims, Member Leader of the Black Organizing Project – Irma Shauf-Bajar, Chair of GABRIELA USA
� Moderator: Claire Valderama-Wallace, Community Health Nursingg Faculty at CSUEB & External Educational Development Chair of GABRIELA Oakland

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Dec
13
Fri
Save Chelsea and Julian – Rally/Protest
Dec 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

WE CAN SAVE CHELSEA MANNING AND JULIAN
ASSANGE FROM TORTURE AND DEATH

Please sign up for our emails and alerts at: https://bayaction2freeassange.org and watch the
INCREDIBLE “SHOWTIMES” Manning doc.free @ https://archive.org/details/XYChelsea

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 , Web sites and twitter feeds ie. –
#xychelsea,#defendassange, and wikileaks.org – Please 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 2min “Abolish ICE”https://youtu.be/R7qpQGGQqa8
-Orion song”WE will keep fightin everyday even though our tears won’t go
away!” https://youtu.be/T5-3db8GDFY
– Chelsea’s scathing 7 page letter to the judge about the history of the SECRET GRAND
JURIES: – https://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-manning-letter

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