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A series of 5 minute presentations of hackery and radical projects from the bay and beyond, followed by socializing and hacking!
Sponsored by the Sudo Room.
AGENDA:
- 5:00pm: Call to Order, determination of quorum 2.
- 5:05pm: Review and approval of June 1 meeting minutes 3.
- 5:10pm: Open Forum 4.
- 5:15pm: Staff update on Surveillance Equipment Ordinance status 5.
- 5:20pm: Discuss and take possible action on city attorney feedback regarding Non-Cooperation With Anti-Registry Ordinance
- 5:30pm: Review take possible action on draft Privacy Advisory Commission Annual Report 7.
- 5:45pm: Continue ongoing Database Review with outside entities 8.
- 6:10pm: Discuss and take possible action on Oakland Police Department’s automated license plate reader policy
We’ll be going over our new jail outreach surveys and mobilization/escalation planning for the july 24 alternatives to incarceration county hearing.
� Decarcerate Alameda- Survey
Click HERE to become a member of the Ella Baker Center and organize with us to win jobs not jails, books not bars, and healthcare not handcuffs.
Join Transition Berkeley for a film screening of Smog of the Sea, followed by a discussion with San Francisco’s Senior Commercial Zero Waste Coordinator, Jack Macy, who will share info about local efforts to reduce single use plastics. Smog of the Sea follows the crew of @5Gyres SEA change research expedition, as they discover that the great ocean garbage patch is actually a “fog” of microplastics – trillions of barely visible shards – permeating the world’s oceans. The crew includes renowned surfers Keith & Dan Malloy, musician Jack Johnson, spearfisher woman Kimi Werner, and bodysurfer Mark Cunningham. Using sparkling underwater cinematography and live-action footage of the crew’s research, Smog of the Sea makes an artful call to action for rethinking single-use plastic.
Attendees are invited to meet and greet and asked to bring healthy snacks to share if possible. The film will begin at 7:00 and discussion will follow, as well as hands-on opportunities to create alternatives to plastic packaging.
Co-Sponsors: Transition Berkeley, Social Justice Committee (Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists)
This event is part of our series for Plastic-Free July. Learn more here.
Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month at 7pm! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom
Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month at 7pm! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom
Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members this and every Friday to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.
Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER! We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.
Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.
Mumia’s Struggle For Freedom at Crucial Stage!
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been kept alive while on the slow death row of life
imprisonment without parole, by those who came out to support him worldwide in
the fight to get him hepatitis-C treatment! Now, let’s act to finally free him!
“…I’m Hep C “negative”! Aint’t that a gas? I wanna thank you and the
brothers in N. Cali for helping to make it happen. Without a people’s movement
we would have never gotten into ct. W/out it, we never coulda won…”
– Excerpt from Mumia’s letter to the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Mumia’s Hepatitis-C infection, which came from a blood transfusion in the hospital
after he was critically wounded from police shooting him on December 9, 1981, is
cured due to active support by thousands of supporters who tirelessly resisted the
PA prison system’s refusal to supply the needed medication. Mumia’s federal legal
victory is now the precedent to provide Hep-C treatment to thousands of prisoners.
Mumia’s New Legal Action
Now, Mumia has a new legal action pending in the Pennsylvania courts, and the movement of Mumia’s supporters worldwide has called for actions to free Mumia on July 7th.
Mumia’s legal action is based on the 2016 US Supreme Court ruling in the case of Williams v Pennsylvania. The Supreme Court ruled that a prosecutor who “had significant personal involvement” in a “critical decision” cannot later sit in judgment in appeals concerning the very same case. This was found to be a conflict of interest, which violates the due process right to an impartial appeal. In the Williams case, the former DA, then judge, was one Ronald Castille. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Williams now has the right to re-litigate all of his legal arguments that were previously rejected. In Mumia’s case, the very same Ronald Castille was the Philadelphia District Attorney who argued to uphold Mumia’s frame-up conviction and death sentence in 1989 and then as a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice denied all Mumia’s post-conviction appeals from 1998-2008. Last August Mumia filed a post-conviction appeal based on the Williams decision. A legal victory in Mumia’s action will reinstate his appeal rights to assert his innocence and the wholesale denial of his due process trial rights.
Mumia Won “Discovery” But DA’s Office Stonewalls
On April 28, 2017 Mumia Abu-Jamal won in court against the prosecution motion to dismiss Mumia’s new appeal. The
judge also ordered the District Attorney’s Office to disclose all files and information that would support Mumia’s claims
that his state appeal process was corrupted because Philadelphia District Attorney Ronald Castille was involved in
prosecuting Mumia’s appeals. Not surprisingly, the DA’s office did not comply. Only public documents from Mumia’s
case that have Castille’s name listed as District Attorney were released. Mumia’s lawyers have demanded “full
compliance” with the judge’s order and the judge issued a new order to the DA to release the files by July 7.
The DA’s office states there is no evidence of Castille’s involvement in Mumia’s case. This is a cover-up of the
prosecutorial, police and judicial frame-up of Mumia. It is inconceivable that Castille as District Attorney did not make
“critical decisions” on Mumia’s appeal given that he was elected to that office as a “law-and-order” and pro-death penalty
candidate. When he ran for Supreme Court justice he openly bragged that he put 45 men on death row. Castille also stated
publicly that he was personally responsible for all filings in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mumia Challenges Race Discrimination and Lies in Prosecution
Mumia’s appeals included direct challenges to the practice of racial discrimination in jury selection, as well as
prosecution’s arguments that told jury’s they could ignore the responsibility for sentencing someone to death, since a
defendant had “appeal after appeal.” Mumia also challenged the prosecution using his teenaged membership in the Black
Panther Party to argue that Mumia had a life-long intent to kill a police officer. These issues were fought in the PA
Supreme Court and then in the U.S. Supreme Court by Mumia while Castille was the District Attorney.
As DA, Castille produced a training videotape to instruct prosecutors how to evade the1986 Batson decision, a US
Supreme Court ruling which banned racial discrimination in jury selection. Prosecutors were told how to keep Black
people off their juries and how to conceal this discriminatory purpose.
During Mumia’s 1988 appeals to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and then to the U.S. Supreme Court, the D.A.’s office
argued that Mumia could not prove the prosecution’s discriminatory motive when they removed Black people from his
jury. The existence of the videotape, which was the very evidence of the discriminatory motive, was suppressed.
Former Prosecutor Sits In Judgement On Mumia’s Case
As a PA Supreme Court Judge, Castille sat in judgment over all the appeals of Mumia’s case since 1998, including the
issues of his direct appeal—jury selection (Batson), jury integrity (appeal after appeal), membership in the Black Panther
Party, as well as the new evidence of coercion of witnesses, of falsified ballistics, the confession of Arnold Beverly, who
confessed to being the actual killer, and the racial bias of the trial and post-conviction hearing judge Albert Sabo, who
stated, “I’m gonna help ‘em fry the n—-r”.
In 1996 and again in 2002 Mumia’s lawyers demanded that Castille recuse himself from hearing the case, on account of
his earlier role as prosecutor over the same case. In each instance, Castille refused to recuse himself, stating he had no
knowledge of Mumia’s case. Castille denied any knowledge of the DA/TV videotape.
Yet Castille’s alleged “non-involvement” is what the current Philadelphia DA now wants us to believe, as their office has
refused the full “discovery” of evidence of Castille’s collusion (in framing Mumia), which was ordered by the
Philadelphia Court earlier this year! This is why we call for action now.
Demand Full Disclosure of Documents in Mumia’s Case!
We need to free Mumia now, and demand full disclosure of documents in his case! The Williams decision could lead to
the throwing out of all the negative decisions on Mumia’s appeals by the PA Supreme Court, which, in turn, could lead to
throwing out his original false conviction! But all of Mumia’s scant victories in court, such as the reversal of his original
death sentence, have depended on the mass mobilization of his supporters worldwide.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a journalist, a former Black Panther, a MOVE supporter and an innocent political prisoner. His
freedom from false murder charges is long overdue, after 36 years for a crime he did not commit. Winning Mumia’s
freedom is a fight against this injustice system and paves the way for others, as did his victory to get Hep-C treatment,
which is precedent for Pennsylvania prisoners as well as other thousands nationwide.
Former political prisoners such as Panther Albert Woodfox, whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, and Puerto Rican
Nationalist/activist Oscar Lopez Rivera have recently achieved freedom with the help and support of masses of
supporters. Now, let us move on.
In 1995 we mobilized in the thousands against the death warrant issued by the Pennsylvania governor; and in 1999
Longshore workers on the entire West Coast of the US shut down all ports to free Mumia. Also in 1999, Oakland teachers
held unauthorized teach-ins in Oakland Schools on Mumia and the death penalty.
Join us at Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th & Broadway, Oakland, on Friday July 7th, at 4 pm. Rally and march to the
Federal Building, with flyers to distribute on Mumia’s case. Solidarity with Mumia and all his worldwide
supporters! Free Mumia Now!
The July 7th action, called by the Labor Action To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal in Oakland, is initially endorsed by: Oakland
Teachers For Mumia, Oscar Grant Committee, Oscar Grant’s Uncle Bobby of Love Not Blood Campaign, Workers
World Party, Speak Out, Party of Socialism and Liberation, ANSWER Coalition, Freedom Socialist Party, Socialist
Viewpoint, Mobilization To Free Mumia, Socialist Action, and Doro Chiba-the Japanese Railway Workers Union.
Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal • July 2017 • labor donated
We’re excited to grow The Anti-Policing Health Workers cohort. Join us for a two day training on Saturday July 1st and Saturday July 8th, 10am-5pm in Oakland.
We strongly encourage applicants to attend an upcoming Know Your Options workshop so you have a clear sense of our program goals and politics.
Click here to see the schedule.
New cohort members will train alongside the 2015 OPP Health Workers and members of Critical Resistance- Oakland. New cohort members will be skilled up to facilitate and join us in offering more workshops to communities for 2017-2018.
Would you help us recruit? You can download the flyer here.
The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe opens in the Bay Area July 1, 2 & 4 with its 58th season premiering “WALLS“
| WALLS asks the question: How can a nation of immigrants declare war on immigration? The answer: FEAR!L. Mary Jones (Velina Brown) knows all about fear. As a top agent for I.C.E. – Immigration and Customs Enforcement – she knows how to stoke fear to keep her country safe. Fear of people like Bahdoon Samakab (Rotimi Agbabiaka), a Somali refugee escaping oppression, fear of Cliodhna Aghabullogue (Lizzie Calogero), an Irish woman yearning to be American, and fear of Zaniyah Nahuatl (Marilet Martinez), whose family comes from… here. As a foreigner in a land her people have worked for thousands of years suddenly Zaniyah is a criminal, an illegal, a “bad hombre.” What part of herself will this American give up to pass as “American?” Will she? Can she? Should she? Can someone leave part of themselves behind without losing their mind? And is it better or worse that she crossed the border to find Agent L. Mary Jones – the woman she loves? |
Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it.
- Promoting single-payer / Medicare for All to end the plague of medical debt
- Presenting debt-related topics at forums and workshops
- Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts, and divesting from the Wall St. banks
- Tiny Homes and other solutions for the homeless.
- money bail reform and fighting modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitative ticketing and fining schemes
- Student debt resistance. Check out the Debt Collective, our sister organization
- helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk
- Promoting the concept of Basic Income
- Advocating for Postal banking
- Organizing for public banking in Oakland! We made the first steps happen… now there’s a spinoff group
- Bring your own debt-related project!
If you are new to Strike Debt and want to come early, meet one or two of us and get a briefing on our projects before we dive into our agenda, email us at strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com .
Strike Debt – Principles of Solidarity
Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it.
We also oppose debt because it is an instrument of exploitation and political domination. Debt is used to discipline us, deepen existing inequalities, and reinforce racial, gendered, and other social hierarchies. Every Strike Debt action is designed to weaken the institutions that seek to divide us and benefit from our division. As an alternative to this predatory system, Strike Debt advocates a just and sustainable economy, based on mutual aid, common goods, and public affluence.
Strike Debt is committed to the principles and tactics of political autonomy, direct democracy, direct action, creative openness, a culture of solidarity, and commitment to anti-oppressive language and conduct. We struggle for a world without racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of oppression.
Strike Debt holds that we are all debtors, whether or not we have personal loan agreements. Through the manipulation of sovereign and municipal debt, the costs of speculator-driven crises are passed on to all of us. Though different kinds of debt can affect the same household, they are all interconnected, and so all household debtors have a common interest in resisting.
Strike Debt engages in public education about the debt-system to counteract the self-serving myth that finance is too complicated for laypersons to understand. In particular, it urges direct action as a way of stopping the damage caused by the creditor class and their enablers among elected government officials. Direct action empowers those who participate in challenging the debt-system.
Strike Debt holds that we owe the financial institutions nothing, whereas, to our friends, families and communities, we owe everything. In pursuing a long-term strategy for national organizing around this principle, we pledge international solidarity with the growing global movement against debt and austerity.
The second in our series of Second Saturday Skillshares. This month we are sharing skillz related to lockpicking, locksmithing and using bolt cutters. Come get some hands-on experience with these ninja skills! Additionally, we will be talking about other methods of gaining entry, bypassing security, etc.
ALL INFORMATION IS SHARED FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES ONLY!!!!!
Donations are collected to support East Bay Homes not Jails and the Omni Commons
Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to survivors and victims of violence and police terror in Oakland.
“Remember the saying: ‘Of all pilgrimages the greatest is to relieve the sorrow-laden heart.'” ~ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
The Baha’i community of Oakland is organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing.
Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us. Simple breakfast will be served.
“Thy name is my healing, O my God, and remembrance of Thee is my remedy. Nearness to Thee is my hope, and love for Thee is my companion. Thy mercy to me is my healing and my succor in both this world and the world to come. Thou, verily, art the All-Bountiful, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.” ~ Bahá’u’lláh
The city of Oakland's government won't feed it's most vulnerable people. We will. It is our duty.#PeoplesBreakfastOakland pic.twitter.com/N7z8cnhkZh
— DaHonorable Brotha B (@BlakeDontCrack) July 2, 2017
Potluck lunch: 12:30 PM
Meeting 1 – 3 PM
The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe opens in the Bay Area July 1, 2 & 4 with its 58th season premiering “WALLS“
| WALLS asks the question: How can a nation of immigrants declare war on immigration? The answer: FEAR!L. Mary Jones (Velina Brown) knows all about fear. As a top agent for I.C.E. – Immigration and Customs Enforcement – she knows how to stoke fear to keep her country safe. Fear of people like Bahdoon Samakab (Rotimi Agbabiaka), a Somali refugee escaping oppression, fear of Cliodhna Aghabullogue (Lizzie Calogero), an Irish woman yearning to be American, and fear of Zaniyah Nahuatl (Marilet Martinez), whose family comes from… here. As a foreigner in a land her people have worked for thousands of years suddenly Zaniyah is a criminal, an illegal, a “bad hombre.” What part of herself will this American give up to pass as “American?” Will she? Can she? Should she? Can someone leave part of themselves behind without losing their mind? And is it better or worse that she crossed the border to find Agent L. Mary Jones – the woman she loves? |
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.
OO 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
- Welcome & Introductions
- Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
- Announcements
- (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
What is the history of violent white supremacist groups? What is the relationship between our government and these hate groups? What are our legalcies of resisting this violence? How do we support those of us who are targeted and repressed while working towards our shared goal of community resilence? We must come together in defense of our neighbors, elders, youth, friends, families, movements and ourselves!
A panel discussion will be followed by small group sessions about how to organize effective community defense.
Speakers:
- Lara Kiswani, AROC
- Judith Mirkinson, NLG
- Tur-Ha Ak, APTP
- Danielle, AFFIRM
Our goal is the purchase of a porta potty for The Poor Tour. The city, after months, still has not helped. The encampment is stressing neighbors by needing to use the bathroom. Enough is enough. We are forced to take matters into our own hands.
Please share.
We document current events, make films together, steward an editing suite and share a film equipment library. We also host film screenings, often with local directors, and put on an annual short film festival for independent Bay Area filmmakers. Our goal is to make the digital filmmaking accessible – no overpriced college degree or certificate program required!
We are also a good group to reach out to if you’d like to screen a film at the Omni. We can be reached at [ liberatedlens@lists.riseup.net ].
We usually meet in the basement, unless otherwise noted.