Calendar
Major Agenda Items:
3. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Cellebrite Cellphone Data Extraction Technology
a. Review impact report and take possible action on a proposed use policy
Folks are calling for a counter-protest against far-Right, anti-LGBTQ+ troll at UC Davis on November 3rd. #Davis #LGBTQ #LGBT https://t.co/4Jn7pWq4cR pic.twitter.com/U8ErTiMVoF
— OFF THE 99 (@Off_The_99) October 31, 2023
On November 4th, tens of thousands of people will converge in Washington, D.C. for a truly historic march to demand no more U.S. aid to Israel and an end to the siege on Gaza now. Massive sister actions will take place around the world, and the Bay Area will be no exception! Join us in San Francisco on November 4th to show that the Bay stands with Palestine!
Continued international pressure is the only way to end the genocidal Israeli siege on Gaza. Its residents continue to live cut off from food, water and electricity by Israel. The Gazan hospital system has completely collapsed from lack of fuel sources.
On an international day of action to Power Up for Climate Solutions, join an action to protest Costco’s plan to build a mega new gas station next to its Novato warehouse.
The project would include 14 fuel dispensers that accommodate 28 fueling positions, with three 40,000-gallon gasoline underground storage tanks and a 1,500-gallon additive storage tank.
The site is right next to a pediatric clinic and a pristine watershed, and close to a huge wildlife area.
In September 2022 the Marin County Superior Court ordered Novato to set aside its March 2021 approval of the Costco Gas Station, agreeing with seven concerned residents of Novato, who filed a lawsuit in April 2021, that the city needs to conduct an environmental review because the project might have significant environmental impacts related to air quality and health risks.
The City is currently drafting an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). Once a draft EIR is completed, likely towards the end of 2023, it will be made available for public review and comment. Subsequently, Planning Commission and City Council hearing dates will be scheduled.
After that the Novato City Council will vote again on approving or disapproving the building of a mega Costco gas station in the Vintage Oaks Shopping Center.
More info here.
Against Police Brutality and State Repression
https://bit.ly/PoliceBrutal-231104
to receive your personal link to participate in this event online
The Oscar Grant Committee against Police Brutality and State Repression was formed in 2010 after the one-day shutdown of the Port of Oakland demanding Justice for Oscar Grant. Since then, the committee has been involved in struggles for justice for families of victims of police violence, opposition to police attacks on rallies and demonstrations, and assisting the International Longshore and Warehouse Union #10 with May Day rallies.
The panelists will talk about the history of the committee, the increased militarization of the police, The fight against the fake science of “exicted delirium” to justify abuse by police, and the ongoing gross police violence in Vallejo and Antioch.
Melissa Nold – civil rights attorney in Vallejo, California
[TBD] – Stop Cop Campus, San Pablo, California
Robert Collins – Angelo Quinto Foundation
Please arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentations.
An open discussion will follow the presentations.
We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.
the Alameda County Green Party and Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change.
The 1st annual Sacramento Anarchist Bookfair and Rock Against Racism benefit show is coming up on Sunday, November 5th, 10 AM. Currently, there are around 35-40 tablers confirmed, with several planned workshops and panels. The bookfair event will end around 6pm. At this time, a Rock Against Racism benefit show will begin at the Big Sexy Brewing Company (5861 88th St), also located in Sacramento, about 5 miles east of the bookfair space. We encourage you to attend both events!MASK UP! HELP US PREVENT THE SPREAD OF COVID
Most of the bookfair will take place outside, including the tabling and the workshops and panels. Masking in all bookfair spaces is mandatory, both inside and outside. There will be space inside to get food/drinks and use the bathroom, and masks, hand sanitizer, and air purifiers will be on hand in these areas. We’ve gotten a lot of requests from people to be masked to ensure that everyone can attend the event, so please respect those requesting masking.
The benefit show is happening at a brewing company, with the musical portion happening outside. We encourage people to mask, but aren’t in control over the venue, so please be aware of this if you choose to attend the show.
SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS AND PANELS!
Block #1 10:30 – 12 PM
Parking Lot:
Autonomous Communications for Radicals: This workshop/presentation will cover the basics of “autonomous communications” aka long range communications without internet or cell service. Topics will include ham radio, CB radio, mesh networks, radio scanners and FM pirate radio. No experience needed but there will be a chance to get hands on with some gear and ask questions!
Lunch! 12 PM – 1 PM
Radical poetry reading featuring some queer, hater, anarchist poets from the bay and beyond.
Block #2 1 – 1:55 PM
Backyard Area:
Decarcerate Sacramento Panel: A discussion on abolitionist organizing from Decarcerate Sacramento, a local group working to prevent jail expansions, decrease jail populations, NS shift funds away from policing AND incarceration towards community-based systems of care that promote community safety and health.
Parking Lot:
Education and Implementing Youth Liberation: Focused especially on education (drawing on my experiences as a teacher) and ways to implement youth liberation/anti-adultism practices in daily life regardless of background.
Block #3 2 – 2:55 PM
Backyard Area:
Building Solidarity and Support with Asylum Seekers in Sacramento: NorCal Resist reports on their work building solidarity and material support with asylum seekers flown into Sacramento by racist politicians scapegoating migrants. They discuss mutual aid work and supporting those targeted by the State.
Block #4 3 – 4:20 PM
Backyard Area:
Panel on Peer Support, Mad Liberation and Abolition: A panel discussion on the movement for mad liberation. Due to the recent co-optation of peer support by the state, involvement and training of people with lived experience of madness rarely includes and often ignores situating the movement in history. We will an overview the evolution of mad organizing throughout time internationally, ways peer support can create alternatives to the mental health system, and how our work fits in within broader struggles for decarceration and abolition. While emphasizing the role of grassroots movement, we will also discuss the current moment in peer support models and the role of white supremacy, oppression, and the nonprofit industrial complex in the mental health system and our movements.
Block #5 4:30 – 6 PM
Backyard Area:
Panel Discussion on the Struggle to Stop Cop City, Climate Change, and Beyond: Join us for a panel discussion featuring representatives from the CrimethInc. collective, author Joshua Clover, and the Stop Cop Campus campaign in the bay area. Panel will discuss the growing movement against Cop City and save the Weelaunee forest, the upcoming mass mobilization in November in Atlanta, and how this movement informs the struggles to come under climate change. The panel will also feature a presentation on the fight against the “Cop Campus” in the bay area.
Parking Lot:
Creative Healing and Decolonizing Mental Health: Learn methods of utilizing spirituality, cultural healing, CBT and DBT to explore healing from a holistic, revolutionary stance while challenging the oppressive nature of western mental health approaches.
TABLES! BOOKS! ZINES!
We are excited that so many people, groups, organizations, projects, distros, and beyond will be joining us on November 5th.
If you are still interested in tabling the event, please email us at: sacabf [at] proton.me
Check out who is already coming:
1.) CrimethInc.
2.) PM Press
3.) AK Press
4.) Cops Off Campus
5.) Sacramento IWW/IWOC
6.) Civ Fucks Distro
7.) Black Rose Anarchist Federation
8.) Pink Knight Press
9.) Central Valley Guerilla Gardening
10.) Bay 161
11.) Manic Press
12.) Brown Recluse Distro
13.) Anti-State Communist Reading Group
14.) Homeward Art Zine
15.) No Bonzo
16.) Off the 99
17.) Zapatista School Zine Project
18.) Mara Gervais
19.) Seeds to Forest Defense
20.) True Leap Publishing
21.) Pushing Down the Walls
22.) Bay Area IWW
23.) Poison Oak Distro
24.) Brittle Bush Distro
25.) Exitos Gnosis
26.) AnarchoTranshumanism
27.) Satanic Anarchists
28.) Punks with Lunch
29.) NorCal Resist
30.) Harm Reduction Services
31.) Decarcerate Sacramento
32.) Mad Liberation
33.) Socialist Rifle Association – Sacramento
34.) Hammer Times
35.) Sacramento Food Not Bombs
36.) We’ll Think of Something Press
Speaker: Joti Brar of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist�Leninist), abbreviated (CPGB-MML)
In the face of a renewed global crisis of overproduction, the imperialists have determined that, in the present conditions, their best chance of saving themselves and their system remains in huddling together under the military and economic leadership of the USA and aiming their combined force at the destruction of the primary centers of independence and sovereignty in the world – Russia and China.
In doing so, they hope to bring about a repeat of the carnival of pillaging they enjoyed after the collapse of the USSR. They want to break Russia and China into pieces, subdue their peoples, and plunder their considerable resources.
Thus we can see that the third world war will be primarily characterized by a confrontation between the camps of imperialism (NATO) and anti-imperialism.
And that the workers of the world have everything to gain by ensuring the victory of the anti-imperialist camp and the defeat of the imperialists, which will be a hammer blow to the entire edifice of monopoly capitalism on the planet and thus a giant step towards socialist revolution in all corners of the world
Speaker:
Our speaker, Joti Brar, is an anti-imperialist and leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist). Brar has been involved in the communist movement since an early age, working as a trade union organizer and writer on topics such as imperialism, socialism, and the working class. She also actively participates in the World Anti Imperialist Platform (https://wap21.org/)
For background see: Comrade Joti interviewed by Caleb Maupin.
https://thecommunists.org/2019/11/03/tv/joti-brar-interview-caleb-maupin/
ZOOM LINK
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81133350622?pwd=dUUyUWppbWt6djVTaElISUhocXpSUT09
Meeting ID: 811 3335 0622
Passcode: ICSS2717rs
Dial by your location
+1 669 444 9171 US
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdVC04x
Mothers around the globe are mourning for the mothers and children of Gaza. Join us Sunday Nov. 5th at 11 am for a march around Lake Merritt. Mothers, fathers, parents, and kin – bring your signs, strollers, carriers, and kiddos as we collectively hold our grief and RAGE.
DRAG QUEEN STORYTIME IS COMING TO THE NEW PARKWAY THEATER!
The New Parkway is hosting our first-ever Drag Queen Storytime—Come for the hair, the glitter, the glamour, and the stories!
Drag Queen Storytime can be enjoyed by everyone; whether you’re a kiddo yourself or a kid at heart, this event is for you!
In November, we are proud to feature award-winning local drag artist Coco Buttah, with books donated by Out and About Books.
Drag Queens and Kings serve as positive role models who encourage kiddos to be themselves and express their individuality without fear of judgment – and Drag Queen Storytime combines entertainment with education by using family-friendly books to convey messages of diversity, inclusion, self-confidence, and self-expression, making learning fun and engaging for children.
Join us on the Mezzanine as we kick off this unique monthly event.
Tickets are $5 per family/party; the proceeds go to support our guest Drag Artist.
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:
occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
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
Hear from health and environmental experts.
Japan has begun the release of over a million tons of radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. Many experts have stated that this is a dangerous way to dispose of the waste.
On July 11, 2023, the Berkeley City Council abstained on a proposal from the Peace and Justice Commission to oppose the discharge. Since then Japan has twice released water from the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant into the Pacific Ocean. The public will hear from prominent scientists, environmental experts, and health professionals, as the world faces the first-ever release of massive amounts of radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, over the next 40 years.
This event is free, wheelchair accessible, and open to all. For more information email fukushimaberkeley@gmail.com. Come learn why this issue matters to people in Berkeley.
Find more information on Facebook.
Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.
Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186
The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a
grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality.
In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and mobilize people against police and state repression. Sisters and brothers! The Oscar Grant Committee invites you to join us in this vital struggle.
We meet on the 1st Monday of each month
You can join our discussion list by sending a blank (doesn’t even need a subject) email to
oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
Today at 3pm folks are mobilizing to turn out to the Oakland City Council meeting to pressure city officials to pass a resolution that calls for a ceasefire & an end to the genocide in Gaza
Join in on this autonomous effort to tell the world that Oakland stands against genocide! pic.twitter.com/ORLSfqtJoD— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) November 7, 2023
we call on groups to walk out of work and/or school and join us in front of the SF Federal Building (90 7th street) at 2pm for a speak out! There is a growing global movement for a Free Palestine, but we have to keep the pressure! No business as usual until Palestine is free!
CEASE FIRE NOW! Join us for our Global Indigenous Solidarity With Palestine event for an intergenerational action to demand the lifting of the siege on Gaza and to stop U.S. aid to Israel. The gathering will occur Thursday, November 9th at 4:30 p.m. at the Oakland Federal bldg pic.twitter.com/VgeqLkeNL8
— Morning Star (@saaylooli) November 4, 2023
Musicians, Poets, Magicians, Comedians, Storytellers, etc.:
Sign-ups begin 6:30. Perform or just come to enjoy! Show time 7pm
Host: Phoebe Thomas Sorgen
Phoebe is an activist/organizer and singer. She teaches/coaches vocal technique.
Featured Artist: Dave Welsh
Dave “Redd” Welsh is a labor and blues pianist/singer http://www.reddwelsh.com/
Suggested donations of $10 – $20 will benefit the BFUU & help cover expenses.
No one is turned away for lack of funds! Volunteers appreciated!
Sponsored by BFUU Social Justice Committee http://www.bfuu.org/social-
Subscribe to the BFUU Social Justice Committee’s “Rise Up List”!
Send an email to: bfuusjev-subscribe@lists.
Calling all Bay Area families! Join us for a kid-friendly action and teach-in at the Oakland Federal Building! We will have art, music, a chance to record messages to children in Gaza, storytime for younger kids, a teach-in for older kids, and more. This is a great action to share with friends or family who are less comfortable bringing kids to big protests! Tell your neighbors, classmates, cousins, daycare families, and everyone else!
We demand:
1. An immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
2. Let in sufficient humanitarian aid to Gaza.
3. Human rights and self-determination for all families in Pales
Speaker: Al Sargis.
This talk will cover from the late 1970s to present, with main focus on the past few years. Two aspects: far rightwing direct action (e.g., direct attacks on racial, religious, gender, communist and other political attacks) and legislative rollbacks on the same groups (e.g., Moms for Liberty attempts to promote reactionary education policies).
Also, it will cover various groups and their ideologies, chief social traits and international interconnections among them. Finally, some proposals to counter them.
Our speaker, Al Sargis, is the founder of the Friedrich Engels Institute of Marxist War and Military Analysis (FEIMWAMA).
ZOOM LINK
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81133350622?pwd=dUUyUWppbWt6djVTaElISUhocXpSUT09
Meeting ID: 811 3335 0622
Passcode: ICSS2717rs
Dial by your location
+1 669 444 9171 US
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdVC04xvn9
APEC will have major impacts on the climate crisis, the global economy, human rights, worker rights and more for decades to come. Meanwhile, as corporate CEOs and lobbyists are keynoting panels with world leaders, the people have been completely shut out of these discussions. Furthermore, APEC will only greenwash the climate catastrophe we are facing and will do nothing to phase us out of an economy based on fossil fuels.
After the rally there will be a march to within sight & sound of Moscone Center. Local Bay Area climate justice organizers are part of a large coalition of labor, trade, diaspora, student, local communities and climate justice groups organizing saying NO to APEC’s corporate agenda.
Please, if you can, join us on Sunday!
With Love and Rage and Action,
Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area
https://www.xrsfbay.org
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:
occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
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