July 9 Conference Call
The Fight Against the Destruction of Public Education and Public Services
School Closures, Class Cuts, Privatization, Charters, and Union Busting ILWU Local 6 Hall, 99 Hegenberger Rd., Oakland, 10 a.m. -5 p.m.
Our public schools and community colleges are undergoing many-sided attacks. School sites are being shut down and turned over to “charter schools.” Devastating class cuts in the community colleges have accelerated during the pandemic. The longstanding underfunding of public education in California despite a massive budget surplus is outrageous.
Privatization is affecting public services and public workers as their jobs and the services they provide continue to be turned over to private contractors and non- profit organizations. The plan to turn over the Howard Terminal in the Port of Oakland to A’s billionaire John Fisher to build a sports stadium and expensive condos would devastate longshore workers and the port, and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions.
The time has come for students, parents, educators, and school staff—all of us and all workers—to stand up and fight back! Schools and Labor Against Privatization (SLAP) will be holding an educational conference on July 9 from 10 to 5. This will be a hybrid conference, vaccination and masking is required to attend in person, vaccination status checked at the door. To participate on zoom, email labormedia1 [at] gmail.com to register. Social media information coming later.
We seek to bring together educators, students, community members and trade unionists to share and discuss the growing attacks on our public schools, the privatization of public services, why this is happening and what to do about it.
Conference Panels
Morning session: 1. What is happening in Bay Area school districts?
2. Impact of the cuts on students.
3. Privatization of public services; the role of non-profits; Howard Terminal plans. Afternoon session: 4. The Big Picture. Why is public education being downsized despite a $97 billion state surplus? The role of FCMAT. Charter schools. The efforts to weaken unions and the role of union leadership. What are the alternatives?
5. Plenary: What is to be done? Proposals to be put forward and discussed.
For more information,
SLAP website at http://www.slapbayarea.org
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Art build for Abortion Rights Saturday 1PM at Parker! pic.twitter.com/iFMVyihQ6G
— Parker For The People (@saveparker510) July 7, 2022
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Jul 9 @ 7:50 pm – 8:50 pm
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Jul 10 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
ICSS Sunday Mornings at the Marxist Library.
Even the corporate press pronounced Biden’s recent Summit of the Americas meeting in Los Angeles as a flop, while the balance between red states (and we don’t mean Republican) and blue states south of the Rio Grande is tipping to the left. Most recently, Colombia elected its first left leaning president, following similar victories in Chile, Peru, and Honduras, which in turn followed Bolivia, Argentina, and Mexico. And the frontrunner in Brazil’s presidential contest slated for October is a leftist. Meanwhile Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, countries led by explicitly socialist parties, remain in in the crosshairs of US imperialism, suffering from severe sanctions also known as unilateral coercive measures. What does this mean for US hegemony?
Speaking will be Roger Harris who is with the Task Force on the Americas, on the executive committee of the US Peace Council, and active with the #FreeAlex Saab and Sanctions Kill campaigns. Roger recently returned from the Workers Summit on the Americas in Tijuana, which was organized as an alternative to Biden’s summit as a place where countries besieged by and barred from the US could participate and meet with militants from workers, peace, human rights, and solidarity organizations (see https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/17/summit-of-the-americas-flops-while-workers-summit-exposes-cracks-in-the-imperial-facade/).
While there are undoubtably cracks in the façade of the US empire, the situation for its victims is critical. We highly recommend reading this article prior to the Sunday program:
https://www.resumen-english.org/2022/07/cuba-putting-on-the-boots/
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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
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Jul 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
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Despite the top-two primary and all the other moves to suppress us, the Alameda and San Francisco Green Parties have developed clout in local elections because so many people rely on our voter guides. That includes people who never think of voting Green because they wouldn’t want to “waste” their vote on a quixotic candidate tilting at windmills, and even people who resent our participation in presidential elections. Many of them nevertheless rely on our analysis of candidates, albeit often corporate, and on our yes-and-no recommendations on ballot measures — and several of our endorsed candidates did win impressive victories last month.
In federal elections, our presidential slates serve the important mission of articulating a social vision beyond war and austerity, even in the face of condemnation from the Democratic Party faithful.
But will we ever get beyond that to electing Green candidates to office outside the occasional city councilor, school board member, or board of supervisors, in a non-partisan race? At this point, neither the Alameda nor San Francisco Greens can claim any officials even at those levels.
In the June primary, Greens and Peace and Freedom Party members formed a “Left Unity Slate” of 4 statewide candidates from each party and pledged to support each other’s candidates. No one of course won, but 3 candidates each from both of the two parties polled enough votes to secure our respective ballot lines until 2026. What lessons were learned from this historic undertaking?
And moving forward, what should be our strategy in the November elections, and beyond? Join us for Green Sunday, July 10, with Cheryl Davila, Meghann Adams, and Laura Wells, to consider these questions.
Cheryl Davila was elected to the Berkeley City Council in 2016, beating a twelve year incumbent. She was a bastion of progressive agendas, worked tirelessly to find solutions to homelessness, convening a Regional Task Force, and helped to end the Berkeley Police Department’s participation in the Urban Shield wargames training program. Councilmember Davila took a strong stance for equity and built community through unity and respect. Prior to Council, she gained national attention while serving on the City of Berkeley’s Human Welfare and Community Action Commission when she called for the protection of Palestinian human rights. She’s the Founder and Steering Committee Chair of the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force, which addresses inequities and causes of the climate emergency. She is a mother and has a Business Economics degree from Mills College, where she received an academic award, Omicron Delta Epsilon, an international honor society in economics.
Meghann Adams has been a tireless organizer of anti-war and anti-racist actions in the San Francisco area for fifteen years. She has been a school bus driver for 7 years, active in SMART 1741, the union representing school bus drivers in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. She was elected president of the union last year. Active in many community organizations over the years, she has served as treasurer of campaigns, and this year ran for California Treasurer to represent working people. Her campaign slogan, “End Poverty in California,” hearkens back to the Upton Sinclair campaign of 1934. Sadly, the slogan is as appropriate today as it was 88 years ago, with more Californians lacking housing today than at the height of the Great Depression. A socialist, Meghann Adams considers capitalism the reason why poverty is still so common today.
Laura Wells is a political activist in California and in solidarity with Latin America. She lives in Oakland. She has been a Green Party organizer and candidate, and ran again for Controller in June 2022 as a member of the Left Unity Slate. She also ran for Congress in 2018, and for Governor after the global financial meltdown in 2010. A former financial systems analyst, Laura focuses her platform on public banking, taxing the rich, and saving money and lives by shifting California’s financial priorities away from destructive uses like the prison and war industries, and toward meaningful work including an improved Medicare for All healthcare system, tuition-free high-quality schools and universities, and restoration of our environment.
Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 7:00 pm, after a 30-minute break. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.
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Jul 11 @ 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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Jul 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
To achieve economic equity, we must prioritize investing our money into the wealth and health of local communities and the environment. Public banking is a promising strategy with a century-old history that can help us align how we spend our tax and fee dollars with the values and needs of our communities. A public bank is owned and controlled by the people of the city, state, or region it serves. Profits earned are recycled back into the local government, helping to support social services and economic development activities. It is capitalized by local public funds; providing financing for local businesses, housing, and infrastructure; and reinvesting profits back into the community.
The first and only functioning public bank in this country started in 1919 in North Dakota. In October 2019, California passed AB 857 signing public banks into law and providing another avenue for equitable investment in affordable housing, small business sustainability, greening communities, and more. An effort is now underway to open California’s first public bank, Public Bank East Bay, by 2023. Northern California Grantmakers, San Francisco Foundation, and East Bay Community Foundation are pleased to invite you to an informational session on public banking and to share details of the Public Bank East Bay that will serve our region.
The session will center on an expert panel made up of David Chiu, San Francisco City Attorney and author of the 2019 California Public Banking Act; Eric Hardmeyer, retired CEO of the public Bank of North Dakota; Henry (Hank) Levy, Alameda County Treasurer; Fred Blackwell, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation; Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, CFO of the East Bay Community Foundation; David Cobb, Humboldt County, and George Syrop, Board Member of Friends of the Public Bank East Bay.
Speakers
Fred Blackwell, CEO, San Francisco Foundation
Fred Blackwell is the CEO of the San Francisco Foundation, one of the largest community foundations in the country. The San Francisco Foundation works hand-in-hand with donors, community leaders, and both public and private partners to create thriving communities throughout the Bay Area. Since joining the foundation in 2014, Blackwell has led it in a renewed commitment to social justice through an equity agenda focused on racial and economic inclusion. Blackwell, an Oakland native, is a nationally recognized community leader with a longstanding career in the Bay Area. Prior to joining the foundation, he served as interim city administrator for the city of Oakland, where he previously served as the assistant city administrator. He was the executive director of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and director of the Mayor’s Office of Community Development in San Francisco; he served as the director of the Making Connections Initiative for the Annie E. Casey Foundation in the Lower San Antonio neighborhood of Oakland; he was a Multicultural Fellow in Neighborhood and Community Development at The San Francisco Foundation; and he subsequently managed a multiyear comprehensive community initiative for the San Francisco Foundation in West Oakland.Blackwell serves on the board of the Independent Sector, the Bridgespan Group, the dean’s advisory council for UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, and the community advisory council of the San Francisco Federal Reserve. He previously served on the boards of the California Redevelopment Association, Urban Habitat Program, NCG, LeaderSpring and Leadership Excellence. He is a visiting professor in the department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. He holdsa master’s degree in city planning from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from Morehouse College.
David Chiu, City Attorney, San Francisco
David Chiu is the 15th City Attorney of San Francisco and the first Asian American to hold the post. The City Attorney’s Office provides legal counsel to the Mayor, Board of Supervisors and over 100 departments, boards, commissionsand offices that comprise the City and County of San Francisco’s government.Before becoming City Attorney, David represented eastern San Francisco for 7 years as a State Assemblymember, authoring 75 state laws and chairing the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee and California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus. Previously, as District 3 Supervisor, he served as the only President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors elected to that post for three consecutive terms. Beforeholding public office, David was a civil rights attorney, criminal prosecutor, Democratic Counsel to the US Senate Constitution Subcommittee, a Ninth Circuit law clerk, and general counsel to a public affairs technology company. The son of immigrants, hereceived his undergraduate, master’s in public policy and law degrees from Harvard.
Eric Hardmeyer, Former President and CEO, Bank of North Dakota
Eric Hardmeyer is a Mott, North Dakota, native, and a graduate of the University of North Dakota and the University of Mary. He joined the Bank of North Dakota in 1985 as a loan officer. In 2001, he was named president and CEO. He retired in 2021.
Hank Levy, Treasurer-Tax Collector, Alameda County
Hank Levy is a CPA who has served as Alameda County’s Treasurer-Tax Collector since 2017 with oversight over a $7 Billion public portfolio, half of which is utilized for Alameda County-based public schools. He collects $12 Billion annually in tax receipts from the State and County residents and businesses and is the sole Plan Officer and Trustee for public employee trust funds.
Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, CFO, East Bay Community Fundation
Valerie Red-Horse Mohl of Cherokee ancestry, is the CFO of East Bay Community Foundation, whose mission is to eliminate structural barriers and advance racial equity. In this role she brings her experience as a financial professional to lead initiatives focused on 100% mission alignment of portfolio investments, impact investing, racial equity, social justice, ESG and diverse manager selections. She is also a Co-Founderof Known Holdings, a financial services platform dedicated to equitable distribution of capital and CEO/founder of Red-Horse Financial Group, Inc. Red-Horse Mohl has more than 25 years of in-depth experience in the financial services industry with specific expertise in asset management and investment banking.Red-Horse Mohl has raised, structured, and managed over $4 billion in capital (primarily for Native American tribal clients) and currently holds seven FINRA registrations.Red-Horse Mohl is the former Executive Director/CEO of Social Venture Circle, a non-profit leading the way in the field of impact investing.She is also the CEO/founder of Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc., a film and television production company focused on bringing important documentaries to the screen for which Red-Horse Mohl directs, produces, and writes.She is the Advisory Board Chair of Stanford University’s Center for the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and teaches two undergraduate courses on Entrepreneurship for Social Impact and Racial Equity at Stanford. She serves as Board Chair for the National Boys and Girls Clubs Native Services; and is Board Co-Chair of American Sustainable Business Network. Red-Horse Mohl has been married since 1982 to former NFL professional Curt Mohl and they have three children.
George Syrop, Board Member, Friends of the Public Bank East Bay
George is a community organizer born & based in Hayward. He served as a peer-counselor for the Berkeley Free Clinic. He’s designed tech tools for social workers, progressive causes and candidates. George founded the Hayward Community Coalition (HayCoCoa) which spurred a city-wide conversation around racial justice, public safety, and police spending. He is a Community Services Commissioner for Hayward and a candidate for Hayward City Council.
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ACLU People Power is hosting a new series of Abortion Activist Training sessions throughout this summer – so you can join the fight, no matter where you are.
We’re kicking this series off with our first session, Know Your Rights: Digital Privacy and Abortion Access. Because with the fall of Roe and the loss of federal protections for abortion, our digital privacy matters more than ever.
RSVP today and get ready to join fellow activists to mobilize for our rights and safety in this critical first training:
RSVP Today
James, in this virtual session, we’ll hear from reproductive freedom and speech, privacy, and technology experts on law enforcement’s long history of weaponizing technology to track, surveil, and arrest us – and what we can do to digitally protect ourselves and our loved ones when seeking abortion care.
Most importantly, we’ll learn how we can protect our constitutional right to privacy by supporting the 4th Amendment is Not for Sale Act. This critical piece of legislation will ensure that the government is not able to purchase our data (including our location and browsing history) from third-party brokers and make it harder for states to persecute anyone seeking an abortion by weaponizing their personal information.
Privacy, online and off, goes hand-in-hand with reproductive freedom. We must fight like hell to keep these civil liberties as safe as possible in this critical moment and for decades to come.
Claim your spot at this first Abortion Activist Training session.
Catch you there,
The ACLU Team
P.S. When you sign up for this first session with People Power – you’ll also have the option to select any and all future sessions you’d like attend this summer, too. So RSVP today and together, let’s fight back with everything we’ve got.
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Jul 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.
Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay and nationwide.
We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing.
We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.
Check out some of what we worked on in 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.
Oakland Privacy originally came together in 2013 to fight against the Domain Awareness Center, Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OP was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network. We helped fight and helped win the fight against Urban Shield.
Our major projects currently include local legislation to regulate state surveillance (we got the strongest surveillance regulation ordinance in the country passed in Oakland!), supporting and opposing state legislation as appropriate, battling mass surveillance in the form of facial recognition and other analytics, mass aerial surveillance, ubiquitous license plate readers, and pushing back against ICE.
On September 12th, 2019 we were presented with a Barlow Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for our work, and on March 16th, 2021 s James Madison Freedom of Information Award by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.
If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy email listserv, coming to a meeting, or have questions, send an email to:
Check out our website: http://oaklandprivacy.org/
Follow us on twitter: @oaklandprivacy
“WATCHING YOU WATCHING US”
Oakland Privacy works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment. Oakland Privacy drove the passage of surveillance regulation and transparency ordinances in Oakland and Berkeley and is kicking off new processes in various municipalities around the Bay. To help slow down the encroaching police and surveillance state all over the Bay Area, join us at the Omni.
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WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Friends of the Public Bank East Bay is a completely volunteer-run, nonprofit organizing to create and build community support for the first public bank in California’s history! If you’re committed to economic justice and interested in helping us build new financial systems by the people for the people, we look forward to having you join us!
HOW WE OPERATE:
We have five committees working together to create a Public Bank in the East Bay:
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Advocacy builds relationships with community groups and city governments.
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Communications assists other committees with content creation and promotion.
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Fundraising develops our organization’s budget and raises funds for our business plan.
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Membership brings on new members and volunteers and organizes educational events.
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Strategy & Planning is responsible for operations and the execution of PBEB’s business plan.
Email us with your interests and we’ll help you find a way to get plugged in!
We meet every other Wednesday at 6:30 pm.
If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch.
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Our Green New Deal Committee meets on the second Wednesday each month. We discuss eco-socialist issues, plan upcoming actions, and invite participation in working group projects and campaigns. All are welcome! Please RSVP or email green-new-deal@eastbaydsa.org.
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Join us for a CA Prison Closure Campaign Info Session – “Building Power Across Walls to #CloseCAPrisons”!
Why are Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) and Critical Resistance (CR) fighting to close 10 prisons by 2025? What are we doing to ensure that we win and that resources are being invested in the life-affirming infrastructure all of our communities need for true safety and sustainability? Want to know how to get involved?
Join us for Building Power Across Walls to #CloseCAPrisons, an online information session about the CA Prison Closure Campaign. We will share an overview of the campaign, share recent updates, and discuss in-depth how to get involved in the fight to close prisons in California, and build vibrant communities across the state.
Register for the event here and read more about the campaign on our website.If you have access needs, such as language interpretation, please email courtney@womenprisoners.org by Thursday, July 7, so we can do our best to accommodate!
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The California Prison Closure campaign invites you to an info session & discussion on Thursday, July 14th 6-7:30 PM PST! Come learn why we’re fighting to close 10 prisons by 2025, how we'll win and ensure resources go back to our communities, and how you can get involved pic.twitter.com/2OeVGwbOEQ
— Critical Resistance (@C_Resistance) July 11, 2022
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Jul 15 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Join the Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force for the first in its third summit series, Climate, Equity, and Race, United Actions. The topic is Ecological Protection.
Register here
Summit Schedule:
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Land Acknowledgement
Corrina Gould, Tribal spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan & Co-Founder, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Welcome
Cheryl Davila, Chair of CEMTF/ Former Councilmember, City of Berkeley
Keynote speaker
Marcy Winograd, Code Pink, speaking about the military and climate
10– 11:00 AM Petrochemicals. Plastics and Climate
- Ben Schleifer and Sarah Packer or Andrea Braswell. Center for Environmental Health
- Carol Kiatkowski, Green Science Policy Institute
11:05 – 11:50 AM Deforestation and the Threat of Wildfire
- Maya Khosla—Wildlife Biologist and Filmmaker
- Greg Simon–Author of Flame and Fortune in the American West, about the 1991 Oakland fire
11:50 Announcements about coming summit events
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Jul 16 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
“Michael Goldstein is a genuine love warrior and justice seeker. His heart, mind, soul and voice empower us all in these turbulent times.” — Cornel West
Are you tired of trying to make those beholden to the wrong people do the right thing?
Decades of electoral work and activism have failed to bring us sustainability, peace, or a just society. Blessed Disillusionment: Letting Go of What Cannot Save Us, Turning to What Can shows that there is a reason: the political system operates to absorb discontent while averting the fundamental change we urgently need.
Blessed Disillusionment also explains why the crises and upheaval we see in the U.S. will inevitably increase. The question is whether our country will fall to neofascism or ascend to true democracy and, in time, the beloved community.
Finally, the book offers a path towards building a massive, nonviolent, but truly revolutionary movement — one based on love melded with clear-eyed realism — that will allow us to pass on to our children a society where they truly govern themselves, in the interests of all.
Michael Goldstein worked until recently as an appellate lawyer, handling death-penalty and other indigent cases. He is a graduate of Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and Stanford Law School. His previous book was Return of the Light: A Political Fable in Which the American People Retake Their Country. He most recently worked in the movement against police violence, spent nearly three weeks with Water Protectors at Standing Rock, and ran for Nancy Pelosi’s House seat under the slogan, “New faces in Congress cannot stop the rise of fascism or bring us a caring society. Michael will use the office to help build the movement that can.”
Event website: https://www.bookpassage.com/event/michael-goldstein-blessed-disillusionment-corte-madera-store
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Jul 16 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.
For July, 2022 we’re reading The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth,
by The Red Nation, Amazon, Common Notions.
All are welcome!
When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation expands their original statement filling in the histories and ideas that formed it and forwarding an even more powerful case for the actions it demands.
One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasses everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land. We—Indigenous, Black and people of color, women and trans folks, migrants, and working people—did not create this disaster, but we have inherited it. We have barely a decade to turn back the tide of climate disaster. It is time to reclaim the life and destiny that has been stolen from us and rise up together to confront this challenge and build a world where all life can thrive. Only mass movements can do what the moment demands. Politicians may or may not follow–it is up to them–but we will design, build, and lead this movement with or without them.
The Red Deal is a call for action beyond the scope of the US colonial state. It’s a program for Indigenous liberation, life, and land—an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable for human and other-than-human relatives to live dignified lives. The Red Deal is not a response to the Green New Deal, or a “bargain” with the elite and powerful. It’s a deal with the humble people of the earth; a pact that we shall strive for peace and justice and a declaration that movements for justice must come from below and to the left.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth, Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything and A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.
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Hip Hop and Social Justice Symposium
About this event
Members of NWA and World Class Wreckin Cru and Chris Clarke (Shock G on “All Eyez on Me”) are promoting their new books and are joined by social justice organizations to discuss the intersectionality of hip hop and the civil rights movement.
Performances, Meet and Greet, DJ Tribute and After Party to follow.
Confirmed Organizations:
Anti-Recidivism Coalition
ACLU NorCal
NAACP Nor Cal
NorCal Resist
Neighbor Program
Vanguard Media
Music by Lions in Paris
Video by Cisco Kuhl
Photography by Danzo Photography
Collaboration with Twelves Wax Records
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NOTE: DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOUND OUR CONTROL, VLADIMIR KOZIN WILL NOT BE WITH US. WE ARE SUBSTITUING ANOTHER PROGRAM COVERING THE SAME MATERIAL, AS FOLLOWS:
Jul 17, 2022. 9:45am-11:30am Pacific
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND MODIFIED TOPIC
Debunking the US-NATO Narrative on Ukraine
Group Discussion. Allan Miller will lead the discussion.
…with its “Special Military Operation?
In his presentation Dr. Kozin will provide his background and military studies experience. He will cover why Putin is not authoritarian. He will give a brief description of Russia’s legal system, especially when it comes to the military. And he will explain why the measure Russia took in Ukraine had to be a military action as opposed to a diplomatic one.
Dr. Vladimir Kozin is a member of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences, a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Vice President of the Russian National Institute for Global Security Research, leading Expert for the Center for Military-Political Studies at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Ph.D, and Senior Researcher. He is the founder of the Analytical Agency “Strategic Stability,” a Russian NGO that deals with arms control. He is the author of 18 monographs on arms control and strategic stability, and he has been issuing reports almost on a daily basis on Russia’s special military operation since it began.
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Our Zoom room will be opened up early thiis week at 9:45 for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will begin as close to 10:00 am as possible and will end at 11:30, but the Waiting Room may remain open later for informal discussion.
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GOOD FOR SUNDAY, July 17, 2022 ONLY
Time: Jul 17, 2022 09:45 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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