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OccupyForum presents Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Shutting Down the Fossil Fuel Industry via Its Supply Chains Climate Change, Direct Action & Community Solidarity Empire Logistics will facilitate an interactive workshop for Occupy SF Forum where participants will brainstorm to find ways to create solidarity along fossil fuel supply chains ​ and will model ways for worker resistance, community solidarity, and direct action to flow from the point of extraction … Continued

According to the Contra Costa Times, “Recommendations from the meeting ((The #BlackLivesMatter City Council forum held on January 24th)) will be considered ((at the February 3rd City Council meeting)) .”57967

The purpose of the San Francisco 99% Coalition is to work in coalition and offer support to groups which promote nonviolent advocacy for more equitable social, economic and environmental public policies. See their website at http://sf99percent.org/ . Leave an email message at sf99percent [at] gmail.com to be called about specific meeting information. See the SF99% Facebook page at http://tinyurl.com/mcasbg3 58034

The first of eight meetings is January 28th. This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control.  57909

We are having an orientation for our hands-on study group. The focus of the project is both analytical and activist. As a group, we will develop an understanding of the relationship between gentrification and police violence thru readings, workshops and discussions. At the same time, we will be developing and implementing strategies in our neighborhoods that seek to discourage other people that are new to Oakland from calling the cops. It will last about 3 months and we would love to host it all at the Omni if that works … Continued

Facebook event. This open circle will continue the dialogue and planning around support, goals, and long-term strategy in addressing the issues of disproportionate degrees of police brutality and killings of black people and people of color, systemic racism, state violence, militarization of police, and more that have been brought to the forefront once again due to the recent surge of such atrocities. Let’s kick this meeting off with a potluck at 3:00 pm followed by the Open Circle at 3:45 pm. Please bring a dish or snacks to share! Open … Continued

Until the end of February (22nd) 2015 GA will meet at the Omni Collective basement, mostly at its regular time, 4PM Sunday. But on February 8th we will meet at 5 PM so folks can also attend the Open Circle meeting at the Omni Ballroom at 3 PM. The Occupy Oakland General Assembly generally meets Sundays, at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway, often on the steps of City Hall. “If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we … Continued

Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons. THE POSTAL SERVICE WANTED TO SELL THE POST OFFICE TO HUDSON-MCDONALD DEVELOPMENT GROUP. HUDSON-MCDONALD BACKED OUT OF THE DEAL IN EARLY DECEMBER. THE CITY OF BERKELEY SUED THE POST OFFICE TO STOP THE SALE. A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER WAS IN PLACE UNTIL DECEMBER 17th, BUT WAS LIFTED BY THE JUDGE WHEN HUDSON WITHDREW.  ` Get an … Continued

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 … Continued

The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 1433 Webster Street, 2nd Floor in downtown Oakland. These assembly meetings occur from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Our work together encompasses: (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent and care workers; (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve … Continued

The first of eight meetings is January 28th. This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control.  57909

Save CCSF Coalition meeting to discuss current situation at CCSF including the shut down of Civic Center Campus, the failure to go forward with the Performing Arts Education Center, reorganization, pushout policies and the attack on noncredit and the diversity departments. Help plan actions and organize for this semester.  58054

For our next meeting we’ll cover Chapters 3, 4, and 5 of PART FOUR (which is the “Organisation and Ownership” section) of E.F. Schumacher’s book, “Small is Beautiful” (which is here:  http://www.ditext.com/schumacher/small/small.html ). These are the chapters about “Socialism” and “Ownership” (which Gar Alperovitz recommended)!  In addition, people might also find this article by David Graeber, entitled “Hope in Common”, worthwhile: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-hope-in-common. We’ll also have a brief discussion of the recent Greek elections if Syriza, the anti-austerity party, wins, and the global ramifications thereof. The Politics of Debt Reading Group … Continued

AFFIRMATIVE RESISTANCE TO San Leandro Paramilitarization & Terro Join San Leandro SAFE in Organizing an Affirmative Strategy to Demand the Changes We Need in Our City Bring your solutions to this meeting and/or get involved.  Some ideas might be: DEMAND THE CHANGE WE NEED: Wasting money on paramilitarization means we don’t have resources our community needs to thrive.  What do do want instead?  Living wages, education, housing, roads, innovation? Let’s set a positive agenda for San Leandro. SHADOW REPORT ON SAN LEANDRO POLICING:  The San Leandro Police Department presents its … Continued

Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt! Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! organizing for public banking in Oakland and elsewhere. advocating for Postal banking. saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs working with the City of Richmond and other municipalities for eminent domain seizure of underwater mortgages from the banksters ongoing study group student debt resistance helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk our famous … Continued

The first of eight meetings is January 28th. This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control.  57909

Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, surveillance systems from facial recognition to license plate readers, Urban Shield and other invasions of privacy by our militarized police and benighted City Government. We are currently pushing to get a strong privacy policy for the DAC enacted by the City Council, for the Council to create a privacy committee that will create a private policy for all of Oakland, and for a surveillance equipment acquisition ordinance which provides transparency and prior … Continued

Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday (changed from Thursday) of the month. The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee that in coalition with other organizations like The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Workers World and Healthy Hoodz, is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country. We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition. Facebook event & RSVP.57884

 Presentations will be given by Attorneys Tony Rossmann (lawyer for the City of Berkeley’s lawsuit against the Post Office)  and Brian Turner (lawyer for the National Trust’s similar lawsuit against the Post Office). Others will also be there to share information about the Community Garden, the Occupation, and anything else relevant to the  fight to Save the Berkeley Post Office.57904

A Radio-Media Network event with Community and KPFA Staff to help develop live, diverse grassroots radio-media channels for sharing local actions, news, public affairs and alternative culture. On the 3rd floo,r administrative wing, look for KPFA signs. This event, sponsored by the KPFA Community Advisory Board is open to the public and is especially for individuals, community groups and social justice activists who want to be involved with KPFA’s free speech radio-media network. We want to explore new possibilities for KPFA live streaming, outreach interviews, Twitter, and other radio-media resources. … Continued

6th Open Circle ~Connect & Collaborate on Ending Police Brutality, Systemic Racism and Disenfranchisement of Black People & People of Color   Let’s kick this meeting off with a potluck at 3:00 pm followed by the Open Circle at 3:45 pm. Please bring a dish or snacks to share! Open circle will begin with report backs and announcements of upcoming actions followed by reflection and dialogue around the current state and thoughts or approaches on how to effect change. We will end with breakout group topics and time to connect … Continued

Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons. The postal service wanted to sell the post office to Hudson-mcdonald, a local developer. The city of berkeley sued the post office to stop the sale. Hudson-mcdonald backed out of the deal in early december. Get an overview of the sale announcement here. Here’s a good more general overview piece.  There was a … Continued

The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 1433 Webster Street, 2nd Floor in downtown Oakland. These assembly meetings occur from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Our work together encompasses: (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent and care workers; (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve … Continued

The first of eight meetings is January 28th. This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control.  57909

We’ll be discussing the Russian economy this time: Here is the reading for the next meeting: Hudson on the Russian Pivot: http://michael-hudson.com/2014/12/russian-pivot/ Putin’s gold for oil scheme: http://www.globalresearch.ca/grandmaster-putins-trap-russia-is-selling-oil-and-gas-in-exchange-for-physical-gold/5421567 The Russia-China Currency Swap deal: http://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-and-china-the-dawning-of-a-new-monetary-system/5423637 The Politics of Debt Reading Group is associated with the Bay Area Public School and Strike Debt Bay Area. 58170