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Mar

Tue

Which Way For the ILWU – Militant Unionism or Business Unionism?

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Mar 31 @ 7:00 pm

Which way for the ILWU-

Militant Unionism or Business Unionism?

— Hear ILWU Longshore Activists Speak on the Recent Longshore Contract Negotiations

— Open Discussion on the Tentative Agreement

–Longshore Members & Caucus delegates invited (EVERYONE IS WELCOME!)

WHEN: TUESDAY, MARCH 31 @ 7PM

WHERE: 1187 Franklin St., SF (across the street from ILWU International Headquarters)

The ILWU has a proud history of class struggle and the fight for democratic principles codified in the Ten Guiding Principles of the ILWU. Today ILWU officials flaunt these union principles, using top down control to direct longshore workers to cross picket lines and keep contract negotiations secret while the PMA gives the contract to the maritime employers’ Journal Of Commerce. This contract gives employers a free hand to automate without counter demands of shorter shifts tied to wage increases and follows on the tail of the concessionary grain contracts at EGT and the Northwest Grain agreements. Left unchecked, it will gut ILWU’s coastwide power and bury arguably the last militant union in the United States.

Speakers:

– Anthony Leviege, activist member ILWU Local 10

– Stacey Rodgers, Executive Board member ILWU Local 10

– Jack Mulcahy*, member ILWU Local 8 Portland, grain negotiator

– Dan Coffman*, former president of Longview ILWU Local 21

– Howard Keylor, retired member of ILWU Local 10, an organizer of the historic 1984 longshore anti-apartheid strike

– Jack Heyman, retired member of ILWU Local 10, organizer of militant port actions

* speaking by skype

Organized by the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee (www.transportworkers.org)

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Apr

Thu

WiFi Mesh Meeting Thursdays 7:30pm-11:30pm @ Sudoroom at Omni Commons

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Apr 2 @ 7:30 pm – 11:30 pm

WiFi Mesh General Meeting
When: Every Thursday @ 7:30pm – 11:30pm
Where: 4799 Shattuck Avenue – Oakland, CA
(corner of 48th and Shattuck)
Contact: Jenny Ryan – email –

We’re building a community wireless mesh network!

A wireless mesh network is a network where each computer acts as a relay to other computers, such that a network can stretch to cover entire cities. Our goal is to create such a free mesh network that is entirely controlled and operated by the community!

Want to help create an alternate means of digital communication that isn’t governed by for-profit internet service providers? Join us for the mesh hacknight!

We have crowdfunded the purchase of our first 100+ routers and are preparing to deploy the first nodes in Oakland. We need people with both technical and non-technical backgrounds to help with everything from local community involvement and crowdfunding to mounting wifi routers on buildings and developing software!

Last Thursdays are General Meetings for planning, strategy, and orientation for new folks.

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About OccupyOakland.org

This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly met in-person weekly (with a rare skip) since October 10th, 2011 up until the pandemic, at which point we went to bi-weekly Zoom meetings. We do checkins, go over the activist events of the past meeting interval, and have general discussions on politics and revolution.

For many years, until the pandemic, we put on a Feed the People event monthly at Oscar Grant Plaza, where all were welcome to come and partake of a freshly cooked, savory meal, before our GA.

If you would like to participate while the pandemic is still amidst, send an email to occupyoakland-request@lists.riseup.net. Check the calendar or this text to see if we have resumed in-person meetings.