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Come to a meeting about what we learn from the real history of May Day, the Marxist traditions of working class organizing in America and discuss what we need to do today to continue the fight. Followed by a social/fundraiser for the Socialism 2015 conference. www.socialismconference.org58703

Addressing police violenceand systematic racism through community building and direct action. Open Circle, first and foremost, is an opportunity to build community with one another. Secondly, it is a space to reflect and collaborate on strategies and actions to bring an end to these egregious crimes. Please join us for the 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 speakers who have lost their loved ones to police violence. Then updates / announcements … 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.  There was a hearing in Federal Court on December 11th. There was another hearing in March 26th. Federal Judge … Continued

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 … Continued

How the Gentrifiers are Gentrifying City College: Land Grabs, Student Push-out Policies and Downsizing Join in a roundtable discussion of the rotten underbelly of the City College accreditation crisis: An official in Sacramento told Tom Ammiano that Mayor Lee did not want the elected Board of Trustees to be reinstated yet, as important real estate deals need to be completed. We will analyze the “January surprises” in which the current administration pushed out some 3100 already- enrolled students in a single week—in the middle of a major enrollment crisis! On … Continued

Terminal Logistics Solutions, the developers of City-owned land at the former Oakland Army base, announced this week that it has received $53 million dollars from four Utah counties to export up to six million tons of Utah coal out of Oakland each year.  It intends to begin construction on a mega shipping terminal within a few months. Terminal Solutions?  Six million tons annually?  Do we need any more symbolic reminders that this project needs to be shut down? Sign this emergency petition to the Mayor Libby Schaaf. Fossil fuel activists … Continued

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library Essentials of Scientific Socialism Part of an ongoing series “Clarity about the aims and problems of socialism is of greatest significance in our age of transition.” Einstein’s comment remains true in our Century, when the growing interest in socialism is matched by a growing confusion about socialism. This workshop, led by Gene Ruyle of the ICSS, will be part of an ongoing series seeking to overcome this confusion through study and discussion, focusing on the classics of scientific socialism: The Communist Manifesto, by Marx … Continued

Sunflower Alliance general meetings offer a great opportunity to learn more about fossil fuel resistance and climate justice efforts in our region. Your voice matters. We welcome newcomers.58753

Occupy Forum devoted to planning and expanding the coalition event of “Listen Up Mayors…coming up June 19-22 at Union Square, SF and other locations nearby TBD. Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter Stop “Fracking” Mother Earth Stop Crude By Rail People Before Profits Homelessness is not a Crime Medicare for All Strike Against Student Debt Tax the Rich and Jobs Not Jails These essential demands have been opposed by most Big City US Mayors. So….Listen Up Mayors.. We are the 99% In the SF Bay Area, Gentrification and Home Foreclosures only serve … 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. Facebook RSVP 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 wages and quality of work life.   We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build … Continued

Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt! Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! student debt resistance organizing for public banking. advocating for Postal banking. ongoing study group helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk our famous Strike Debt radio program our next Debtors’ Assembly saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs and much more!  Also check out our website, our twitter feed, and our Facebook page. Strike Debt Bay … Continued

Malcolm X and Black Liberation In honor of the 90th birthday of Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), we have invited Gerald Smith, of the Oscar Grant Committee, to speak on the life and death of Malcolm X and his continuing relevance for the Black Liberation struggle. 58767

Open Circle, first and foremost, is an opportunity to build community with one another. Secondly, it is a space to reflect and collaborate on strategies and actions to bring an end to these egregious crimes. Please join us for the 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 speakers who have lost their loved ones to police violence. Then updates / announcements of upcoming actions followed by reflection and dialogue around the current … Continued

We will be reading the introduction and first chapter of To Our Friends, the newly released book from the Invisible Committee. Bring food and refreshments. Some will be provided. Hard copies of the first chapter will be available, but those with copies are encouraged to bring them.   58793

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.  There was a hearing in Federal Court on December 11th. There was another hearing in March 26th. Federal Judge … Continued

OccupyForum presents  Action Council Forum to coordinate actions June 19-22, San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee is hosting the 83rd Annual Conference of Mayors. Around 200 Mayors, their families and corporate sponsors will be in attendance. This is an opportunity to raise issues LOCALLY and NATIONALLY, that are of concern to us, The People, that the mayors have resisted and refused to act upon, or acted on against the interest of The People. For instance: “Black Lives Matter” ~ Police Militarization and Excessive Use of Force ~ Racism ~ Gentrification of … Continued

LOCATION CHANGE: PREVIOUSLY THIS LISTING HAD THE IMPACT HUB AS THE LOCATION. NOW AT THE OMNI! Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, and other invasions of privacy by our benighted City Government, and to support privacy ordinances now being considered by the Oakland City Council emerging from the effort to fight the DAC. These pieces of legislation will be considered on May 26th by the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, and then later at a full City Council … Continued

The Anti-Police Terrorism Project is a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee that in coalition with other organizations like the Alan Blueford Center for Justice, 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. We meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month.  58728

Talking Richmond, Talking Politics! Our focus this month: Talking Housing The RPA Housing Action Team reports. Learn about the work the HAT’s doing on affordable housing, in lieu fees, city planning & neighborhoods. And much more… Participate and guide RPA Standing Committees and possible new Action Teams. The Membership Committee wants your input Health Action Team (HAT: DMC/Health related), Education Action Team (EAT); Police/Community Action Team (P-CAT: Pedie Perez/Justice/Community Safety) , Global Campus. And we’ll revisit RPA’s mission statement: What’s our aim? 58837

San Francisco is hosting the 83rd Annual Conference of Mayors June 19th, 2015 – June 22nd.. Around 250 Mayors will be in attendance. This is an opportunity to raise issues locally and nationally that are of concern to us. Black Lives Matter Gentrification Homelessness Privatization Homophobia and Transphobia Immigration The Environment Corporate Greed Wars not People All are welcome to help plan for actions.   58894

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 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall in downtown Oakland at 6:30 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 wages and quality of work life. We share stories and information in … Continued

We will be discussing the Social Credit movement… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit and Basic Income and Non-Wage Money. Basic Income wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income#Funding Negative in come Tax wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax#Advocates Rutgers Bergman: https://decorrespondent.nl/541/Why-we-should-give-free-money-to-everyone/20798745-cb9fbb39 Films for Action: http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-town-where-everyone-got-free-money/ Vox: http://www.vox.com/2014/9/8/6003359/basic-income-negative-income-tax-questions-explain Ellen Brown:  http://ellenbrown.com/2014/09/01/even-the-council-on-foreign-relations-is-saying-it-time-to-rain-money-on-main-street/   The Politics of Debt Reading Group is affiliated with the Bay Area Public School and Strike Debt Bay Area.58844

San Francisco is hosting the 83rd Annual Conference of Mayors June 19th, 2015 – June 22nd.. Around 250 Mayors will be in attendance. This is an opportunity to raise issues locally and nationally that are of concern to us. Black Lives Matter Gentrification Homelessness Privatization Homophobia and Transphobia Immigration The Environment Corporate Greed Wars not People All are welcome to help plan for actions.   58894

Open Circle, first and foremost, is an opportunity to build community with one another. Secondly, it is a space to reflect and collaborate on strategies and actions to bring an end to these egregious crimes. Please join us for the 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 speakers who have lost their loved ones to police violence, followed by reflection and dialogue around the current state and thoughts or approaches on how … Continued