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.
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
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.
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
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
Our namesake Ella Josephine Baker was a fierce advocate for justice. She believed in the power of people to create mass change.
Ella’s birthday is on December 13th – and there is no better way to honor her legacy than to celebrate together in community.
We are so grateful for what we have accomplished together this year – from strategic policy wins to moving into our permanent home – and we want to honor and appreciate YOU, our members!
Our team will share an update on our 2019 wins and a sneak preview of what we can expect in the year ahead.
Come share in cake and community as we kick back for a fun celebration!
Panelists Include:
Rev. Dale Weatherspoon, Easter Hill United Methodist Church Rev. John Anderson, St. John’s Presbyterian Church
Rev.. Allison Tanner, Lakeshore Ave. Baptist Church
We're stoked to join Punks With Lunch for their Winter Caring Village at Mosswood Park this Saturday. We'll be there at 4pm to provide HIV and HCV testing, hep A and flu vaccination, foot/toenail care, and wound care.
— Berkeley Free Clinic Outreach (@BFCoutreach) December 12, 2019
Sorry – it's actually at 11am. Our bad.
— Berkeley Free Clinic Outreach (@BFCoutreach) December 13, 2019
Beginning on August 10th, the Strike Debt Bay Area Economics Book Group began discussing Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age. We tackled the introduction and first chapter, available through the ‘Look Inside’ feature on Amazon, for the August 10th meeting.
For our September 7th meeting, we will be discussing the rest of the first section, Chapters 2-6.
For our October 12th meeting, we will be discussing Chapters 7-9, the first part of the second section.
For our November 16th meeting, we will be discussing Chapters 10 – 13.
For our December 14th meeting, we will be discussing Chapters 14 and through to the end.
All are welcome!
The Economics Book Group began with Doughnut Economics and continued with Take Back the Economy. We read a few chapters every month.
“Today most of our money is created, not by governments, but by banks when they make loans. This book takes the reader step by step through the sausage factory of modern money creation, explores improvements made possible by advances in digital technology, and proposes upgrades that could transform our outmoded nineteenth century system into one that is democratic, sustainable, and serves the needs of the twenty-first century.”
“In Banking on the People, attorney Ellen Brown provides a much-needed roadmap for reforming monetary and credit systems and the central banks now strangling our common human future. More lucidly that any other expert I know, she shows how we can break the grip of predatory financialization now extracting value from real peoples’ productive activities all over the world. Her in-depth research and systemic overview of the global and local politics of money-creation and credit allocation include all the viable proposals of global experts and reformers. She reviews many of these reforms: from financial transaction taxes, to a universal basic income to provide purchasing power for the cornucopia of goods and services now produced, to expanding the public banks she so ably promotes via the Public Banking Institute, to returning the Fed and all banks to serving the public utility functions that economies require. This book is a must read for citizens in all societies who see the promising future as we seek to widen democracies and transform to a cleaner, greener, shared prosperity, based on the renewable abundance of free daily energy from our sun.” – Hazel Henderson, CEO of Ethical Markets Media and author of Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age and other books.
Join us for an evening of food, drink, and politics as we discuss with Bay Area teachers on the recent walkout in Berkeley, the struggle against Privatization in Oakland, the statewide fight for public education, and the democratization of teacher’s unions across the Bay Area.
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Being our largest Feed the Hood this year, join us for another opportunity to give back to our unhoused brothers and sisters across Oakland with a bag lunch and hygiene preparation and distribution to curbside communities. This Feed the Hood features a special winter item drive to help aid our unhoused family for the cold and wet weather.
Register for Feed the Hood 13.
For more info, visit eastoaklandcollective.com/feedthehood.
To win in 2020, we must build people power, political power, and solidarity with other movements who stand to benefit from the Green New Deal. This training is for any young person (35 and under) looking for a meaningful way to stand up for our climate, our homes, and our values during this critical election year. See more details and register here.
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
Group Discussion: Dictatorship of the Proletariat
ICSS member Eugene E Ruyle will provide an introduction and recommends everybody read the Wikipedia article, “Dictatorship of the Proletariat,” which is surprisingly good.
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.
For info or to subscribe to our weekly announcements,
Call Gene Ruyle at 510-332-3865 or email: cuyleruyle [at] mac.com
For our full schedule, go to icssmarx.org
The Peoples Park Holiday Concert is a celebration of all things fun. This Concert is FREE and OPEN to the public with various activities between Telegraph and Haste Street. Our theme is the Rights of the Homeless Child and their Families. We encourage you to bring your kids for giveaways and face painting and more!
Performers include Yukon Hannibal, 2 Lazy Boys, Carol Denney, David Axelrod, Michael Smith, Hali Hammer, and the Dapper Shindig Band! You can also share your talents at our open mic!
Come for the music, stay for the history, free speech, gardens, and the PEOPLE! Join the fun and get up to date information about the People’s Park Committee and our efforts to protect our local green space! visit us at fb.com/savepeoplespark.
The People’s Park
1969-2019
50 years – Still Blooming
Fed up with government lies and corruption, Haitians have been taking to the streets. They are calling on President Jovenel Moïse to resign. Hear the Haiti Action Committee report on the historical context for the Caribbean nation’s latest insurrection and discuss what’s needed to bring about a victory for working people.
Dear Greens and Supporters,
Celebrate the Holiday Season with old friends and new. We’ll have good fun, yummy food, and open dialogue at the 2019 Annual Potluck Holiday Party
Please bring a drink or dish of your choice to share!
(There will be no Green Sunday Program or Green County Council meeting in December. We’ll party instead. The next regular Green Sunday program will be the second Sunday in January, 2020, followed as usual by the Alameda Green Party County Council.)
Marx’s Human Essence, the Green New Deal and Lessons from its Namesake
After the dramatic human outrage and reason of the youth-led Global Climate Strike, what can be said of the political solutions emerging from the global capitalist system of nation-states?
Even as it was agreed to, the Paris Climate Accord (PCA), was deemed to be a wholly inadequate response to the scale of the problem. Accelerated climate changes since reveal the PCA as an even more feeble response to the impending catastrophe. It is, in any case, in tatters without the U.S.’s participation.
Many left liberals like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and radicals like Naomi Klein are proposing a massive Green New Deal (GND). Are there lessons from the GND’s 1930s namesake? What barriers in thought, then and now, keep humanity locked in capitalism’s theoretical construct which emerged out of its abstractions that shape every day life activity?
An introduction to the global struggle for Socialism.
Redwood Gardens
Oakland youth call for a gathering at Oscar Grant plaza to create a community “Resilient Village”.
This action is youth led and cohosted by YVA, Mycelium Youth Network, Planting Justice and others.
Join Critical Resistance to help us send solidarity postcards to imprisoned people!
Every year in the wintertime, Critical Resistance sends a note of solidarity, hope, and encouragement to all of the 7,500+ subscribers of The Abolitionist newspaper that are currently locked up in jails, detention centers, and prisons.
Come by to write a personalized note of solidarity.
The art for this postcard was done by Eduardo Sarmiento, a political prisoner in the Philippines. Thanks to SELDA, an organization of political prisoners and former political detainees in the Philippines, who provided the artwork.