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Town Hall on Drones: Informing Policy in Berkeley 1:00 am
Town Hall on Drones: Informing Policy in Berkeley @ North Berkeley Senior Center
May 2 @ 1:00 am – 5:00 am
Town Hall on Drones: Informing Policy in Berkeley.48473
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Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting 6:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Offices, East Oakland
May 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
We will be holding a vigil on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death. We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th. We held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general. We have issued a Statement of Solidary with the family of Kayla Moore, dead in the custody … Continued
Strike Debt Bay Area: Ideas Into Action. 10:00 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area: Ideas Into Action. @ Applied Research Center
May 4 @ 10:00 pm – May 5 @ 12:00 am
Come to wheel chair accessible door, press intercom for ARC. Near the Lake Merritt BART station. —– Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery. We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February) and debating future actions. Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone. We will first meet all together and … Continued
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Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
May 5 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland 46745
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
May 5 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland47972
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Fight For $15 1:00 am
Fight For $15 @ Oscar Grant Plaza
May 9 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
The May 1st march and noise demo for $15/hr was the first step. What’s next? Come help make it happen!49129
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Justice 4 Alan Blueford Weekly Meeting 6:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Weekly Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Offices, East Oakland
May 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
We held a vigil on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death. See photos here. We are figuring out how to get Miguel Masso, the officer who killed Alan Blueford, fired and prosecuted. We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier. We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence. We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come … Continued
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Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
May 12 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland 46745
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
May 12 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland47972
Strike Debt Bay Area. 11:30 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area. @ San Francisco Pizza
May 12 @ 11:30 pm – May 13 @ 1:00 am
Join us! All Are Welcome! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone. We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February), scheduled for May 18th in San Francisco, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Unite Here, Local 2, near Civic Center BART, 209 Golden Gate Avenue. We are also planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on … Continued
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OO Finance Committee Meeting 12:30 am
OO Finance Committee Meeting @ The Holdout
May 14 @ 12:30 am – 1:30 am
OO Finance Committee Meeting @ The Holdout | Oakland | California | United States
Held every 2nd & 4th Monday of the month. 5.30pm The Holdout  2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland CA The Occupy Oakland (OO) Finance Committee works inclusively to make our process transparent, our membership requirements clear, and to develop clear communication and financial reporting available to associated groups and to OO as a whole. Our commitments to Occupy Oakland as a whole: We commit to report back to the GA. We commit to regularly updating our page onoccupyoakland.org with monthly bank statements, meeting notes, summaries of check reimbursements and general OO Finance … Continued
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Fight For $15 Oakland 1:00 am
Fight For $15 Oakland @ UNITE HERE Offices, 2nd floor
May 16 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
Plan the next steps in the Fight for a $15/hr livable wage in Oakland, our manifestation of a national campaign that has already seen actions in Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago and New York City.49283
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Justice 4 Alan Blueford Weekly Meeting 6:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Weekly Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Offices, East Oakland
May 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
We held a vigil on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death. See photos here. We are figuring out how to get Miguel Masso, the officer who killed Alan Blueford, fired and prosecuted. In light of the recent upheavals in the Oakland Police Department, we are renewing are calls for the firing of Masso and justice for Alan. We will have held a press conference to this effect on Thursday, May 16th. We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly … Continued
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Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
May 19 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland47972
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
May 19 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland 46745
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Support the upcoming California Prisoners Hunger Strike 1:00 am
Support the upcoming California Prisoners Hunger Strike @ Siegel & Yee
May 21 @ 1:00 am – 3:00 am
Occupy4Prisoners ‏@Occupy4Prisoner Hey! A bunch of rad folks are having a strategy mtg to discuss supporting people in CA prisons as they prepare to go on hunger strike! (1/2) Occupy4Prisoners ‏@Occupy4Prisoner Hunger strike support mtg: Mon 5/20 6-8p, 499 14th Street, Oak (Siegel & Yee) 49458
The Public School: The Politics of Debt featuring Darwin Bond-Graham 1:30 am
The Public School: The Politics of Debt featuring Darwin Bond-Graham
May 21 @ 1:30 am – 3:00 am
Come to the very first session of The Politics of Debt reading group on Monday, May 20th at 6:30! Darwin Bond-Graham will help kick off the discussion and present on public debt as it relates to our personal lives and public institutions. Together we will help shed light on the variety of ways that the debt economy subjects individuals and communities to moral and financial burden. After the initial talk we will break into a general group discussion and lay out the vision for the class. More info.49417
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Reading Group: Debt, The First 5000 Years, by David Graeber. 2:00 am
Reading Group: Debt, The First 5000 Years, by David Graeber. @ Research on Collective Art
May 23 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
A reading group focused on graeber’s Debt. The plan is to have this be a long discussion covering about a chapter a month so that it will be accessible for those with other commitments. We will have our first meeting on Wednesday may 22 at 7pm. We’re meeting at Research on Collective Art at 2331 international Blvd. 49489
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Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
May 26 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland47972
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
May 26 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland 46745
Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 7:30 pm
Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ 19th & Telegraph, in the park by the statues
May 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland50026
Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting. 11:30 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting. @ San Francisco Pizza
May 26 @ 11:30 pm – May 27 @ 1:00 am
Join us! All Are Welcome! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone. We held our second Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February), May 18th in San Francisco. We are planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on June 1, 518 Valencia St, near the Mission St. BART in San Francisco 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. We will be discussing our … Continued
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Cops or Counselors: The Crisis in Berkeley’s Mental Heath System 2:00 am
Cops or Counselors: The Crisis in Berkeley’s Mental Heath System @ East Bay Media Center
May 31 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
Tasers, spit hoods, pepper spray, hog-tie and “the Wrap” : Is this what Berkeley means by the term “Mental Health Services” ? Numerous incidents in Berkeley show that the “compassionate care” we thought was beging given by mental health care professionals has deteriorated into the systematic use of brute force against those in crisis. SPEAKERS VIDEO CLIPS WORKSHOP Join us for a public examination of Berkeley’s Emergency Mental Health Services and whether Police should even be involved as responders.49427