Amber Cummings, a known fascist organizer is planning a rally, “No to Marxism in America” in Berkeley, CA on September 1st at Sproul Plaza. It is critical that the people of the greater Bay Area show up to resist their hateful actions and rhetoric. The ideology and presence of fascist forces are on the rise not only in the United States but around the globe.
Domestically, the U.S. government is carrying out the imprisonment of tens of thousands of Latin American migrants and refugees at the southern border who are escaping war and terror in their countries created by the imperialist policies of the United States. In the Bay Area alone there are over 55,000 homeless people living on the streets. We will mobilize against the fascists and we will not forget the daily oppression of working people.
This is the environment that allows fascism to develop.
Our plan is to meet at People’s Park (2556 Haste) at 10AM. We will rally there and march to Sproul Plaza at noon.
If you would like to co-sponsor this event or if you have an accessibility request, please email wewontgo@riseup.net
NVDA stands for Non-Violent Direct Action. Examples of nonviolent direct action (also known as nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, or civil resistance) can include sit-ins, strikes, workplace occupations, or street blockades.
Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. (Yes, it’s Labor Day weekend, but come if you can.) We’ll discuss ongoing campaigns and future plans, the September actions, and other ways to fight fossil fuels and work for a just and sustainable world. Old friends and newcomers are equally welcome. We need your participation and your voice! Come early to hang out and share a. potluck lunch.
Potluck lunch 12:30 PM
Meeting 1 – 3 PM
Join us for an informative discussion on the ideology of Pan-Africanism at the Pan-African Festival 9/1/19 at 2pm in Oakland’s Mosswood park. We’ll be discussing the fundamentals of Pan-Africanism and how it can be used as a revolutionary tool to address the conditions facing African people all over the world.
NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to:
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The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 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 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we tend to meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months from November to early March after Daylights Savings Time.)
On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over six years, since October 2011! 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
Organizer/AuthorBay Action 2 Free Assange
Join us at the Jimmy Dore Show LIVE! We’ll be out front PRE-show at 6:30pm with signs and sign up list to #FreeAssangeNOW #FreeManning. Help educate the public on this issue vital to save jailed, innocent journalists’ lives. Our future depends on it.
After our pre-show event, Jimmy’s show starts at 7:30 and requires a ticket $15- link below.
Jimmy Dore Show Live is an irreverent take on today’s headlines and hypocrites. Jimmy has fun sharing his favorite news clips and setting the record straight with hilarious results. A certified YouTube sensation, The Jimmy Dore Show boast of over 200 million views and over 580,000 subscribers. Dore’s hit show can be also heard on the Pacifica Radio Network.
The Jimmy Dore Show can be seen on YouTube and heard on the Pacifica Radio Network powered by the people for the people. The Jimmy Dore Show tours all of the country to sold out crowds.
For more information, visit https://jimmydorecomedy.com/events/list/
To purchase tickets, visit https://www.cityboxoffice.com/ordertickets.asp?p=11041&src=eventperformances
The Marines’ Memorial Theatre does not have an elevator to the Balcony. For assistance with accessible seating, please contact City Box Office at (415) 392-4400.
Thousands of SEIU-UHW members across the state are publicly rejecting Kaiser’s greed and hypocrisy this Labor Day — protesting against Kaiser’s unfair labor practices and demanding a new contract that protects our futures, families, and patients.
Kaiser is making record profits and gave the CEO a 60% raise to $16 million a year. But when it comes to us, the healthcare workers who help patients thrive, Kaiser is bargaining in bad faith and demanding unprecedented cuts in our next contract.
RSVP to commit to rallying with SEIU-UHW members statewide to win a contract that protects our jobs, wages, and benefits from Kaiser’s corporate greed.
An historic gathering is happening THIS Labor Day, Monday, September 2nd, at Snow Park in Oakland, CA and all Union members, Affiliates, their families and friends, along with supporters of Labor, are invited to join the day and festivities!
Yes! Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, and San Mateo Labor Councils are hosting this fun day in the Park, with music, activities for the kids, and entertainment for all – with a few powerful speakers to inspire the work we do! Join us!
We will have food available but you can also bring your own picnic – and, find a place on the recently renovated and beautiful park abutting Lake Merritt. Close to 20th Street BART Station – so public transportation is encouraged!
We will also start our day at Mosswood Park – in support of SEIU-UHW’s action and then march the 1.4 miles from Mosswood to Snow Park (down Broadway, to 20th Street, and the Park).
Labor is one family and we have FOUR Counties’ Labor Councils bringing us all together in 2019!
The 9th edition of the San Francisco Green Film Festival, September 24 – 29, at the Castro Theatre, Roxie, Exploratorium, Swissnex, and more! The Festival will be showing incredible new environmental films and sparking conversations on critical issues such as affordable housing, migration, habitat loss, and more. From the streets of San Francisco’s mid-Market to earth’s outer reaches on the International Space Station, this year’s Festival theme explores many different perspectives of home.
Does your landlord keep raising the rent? Does he ignore repair requests? Are you fed up and want to do something about it?!
Join the Berkeley Tenants Union for our second general membership meeting! Whether you were previously or already are a member of BTU, or are interested in joining for the first time, you won’t want to miss this great meeting.
Doors open/sign-ins start at 6:15 and the meeting will start at 6:30. We’ll be serving light refreshments. The meeting agenda will be posted closer to the meeting date.
Berkeley tenants unite!
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The Berkeley Tenants Union (BTU) is dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of Berkeley renters through grassroots organizing, outreach, and policy advocacy. We believe housing is a human right and rent control is Berkeley’s most effective affordable housing program. We empower and educate tenants to preserve their right to stable, quality housing, because Berkeley is a better place to live when people from all walks of life can afford to make Berkeley their home.
Our goals Include:
• Supporting a contact person or tenant organizer in every rental building in the city
• Creating a force of renters with hundreds of due paying members
• Changing policy to benefit tenants
• Organizing tenants to protect them from threats, intimidation, and bribes that lead to the loss of our homes
• Empowering tenants through tenants rights education and advocacy training
The Berkeley Tenants Union is volunteer-led and membership-supported. We are only as strong as our members.
Berkeley tenants unite!
Website: www.berkeleytenants.org
Subscribe to Our Newsletter: www.berkeleytenants.org/newsletter/
Pay dues (sliding scale of $10-$27 per year): tinyurl.com/BTUPayPal
There’s a large field of candidates vying for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination this election. The result has been a series of presidential debates that are often messy, occasionally entertaining, and only rarely informative. Fed up with the hypocritical grandstanding and “gotcha” questions? Wondering what to say about the centrist attacks on Medicare for All, or the corporate-friendly politicians who are now posing as champions of the working class? Join East Bay DSA on Tuesday, September 3 for a special edition of Socialist Night School, where we’ll screen and “debate” clips from the Democratic debates.
Join us as we learn about gentrification and the role it plays in the criminalization and displacement of communities of color. This is an open member meeting, you do not have to be a member to attend. Wheelchair accessible. Dinner will be provided.
DON’T DRIVE ON 9/5: National Go Car-Free Day
We are calling for a Car-Free holiday across the United States (and around the world).
The Earth is plagued by cars and other fossil-fuel guzzling machines of mass destructiveness, as well as the miles-upon-miles of highways that cause among other problems, habitat fragmentation.
Please avoid driving on September 5th and encourage others to take part in alternative transportation as well.
In the San Francisco Bay Area:
BART: https://www.bart.gov/
Caltrain: http://www.caltrain.com/
MUNI: https://www.sfmta.com/
SF Bay Ferry Service: https://sanfranciscobayferry.com/
Golden Gate Transit: http://goldengatetransit.org/
SMART: https://www.sonomamarintrain.org/
AC Transit: http://www.actransit.org/
samTrans: http://www.samtrans.com/
VTA: https://www.vta.org/
Let’s do our part and #stopdrivingclimatechange
Join students, teachers, and Fossil Free California at the headquarters of the California State Teachers Retirement Fund to tell them to divest from fossil fuels. The fund still has $6 billion dollars worth of funds invested in fossil fuels. With those funds, they are supporting the destruction of our future—and losing teachers’ hard-earned money.
Sponsored by Fossil Free California, with Youth vs Apocalypse and Earth Guardians Bay Area Crew
If you want to carpool or need help with transportation, email contact@fossilfreeca.org
RSVP: http://bit.ly/September5CalSTRS
Buses: We will be providing two buses for students from Oakland. These will be available on a first-come, first-served basis! Please let us know ASAP if you want space on the bus: email contact@fossilfreeca.org
Join Amazon Watch and Extinction Rebellion to answer the call from the National Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) for global pressure to force Brazil to address the urgent need to suppress the fires, protect the Amazon and respect the rights of indigenous peoples and their territory.Unprecedented fires are ravaging the Amazon – more than 74,000 fires this year is an 84% increase over last year’s count. This is an international tragedy and a dangerous contribution to climate chaos.
This devastation is directly related to President Bolsonaro’s anti-environmental rhetoric, which erroneously frames forest protections and human rights as impediments to Brazil’s economic growth. Farmers and ranchers understand the president’s message as a license to commit arson to expand their operations into the rainforest.
Amazon destruction is not new, however. Indigenous people of the Amazon have been sounding the alarm about risks to the rainforest for years and resisting the destruction – sometimes at the cost of their own lives.
Governments and companies around the world are emboldening Bolsonaro’s toxic policies when they enter trade agreements with his government or invest in agribusiness companies operating in the Amazon.
Amazon Watch and APIB conducted an investigation this year that showed how many US and European companies – like Cargill and ADM – and financiers – like BlackRock, JP Morgan Chase and Santander – are complicit in Amazon deforestation.
Agenda items of import:
