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Rally and March in Berkeley, Support the Homeless & BlackLivesMatter, oppose Urban Shield. 4:00 pm
Rally and March in Berkeley, Support the Homeless & BlackLivesMatter, oppose Urban Shield. @ Old City Hall
Dec 1 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Rally on the Old City Hall Steps beginning at 4:00 in support of the Homeless Occupation and Protest now ensconced on the grounds, in support of #BlackLivesMatter and against Berkeley’s participation in Urban Shield, an annual militarized police training and military-style equipment show. Items concerning these issues will be on the City Council Agenda this evening – three anti-homeless ordinances, a spineless report about the Berkeley Police and their actions during the Black Lives Matters protests a year ago when people were tear gassed, shot at with bean-bag rounds and … Continued
Oscar Grant Committee 7:00 pm
Oscar Grant Committee @ Niebyl-Proctor Library
Dec 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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. We meet on the 1st Tuesday of each month at 7 pm at the Neibyl Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Avenue (near Alcatraz) in Oakland. For more information please call us at 925/798-3698 or e-mail us. You can join our discussion list by sending a … Continued
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Ella Baker Center Meeting 6:00 pm
Ella Baker Center Meeting @ Compass Point, Suite 320
Dec 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
December monthly membership meeting – This is the last membership meeting of the year! Let’s go out with a pop, not a whimper! If you’re curious about what we do and how we do it, there is no better time than to celebrate the year’s work and get involved with EBC! It will be a great way for people to meet the current members, learn about what the members have been up to and sign up for membership. Our members have formed an Outreach Committee to support getting the word … Continued
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Protest Against Police Firing Squad Execution in San Francisco 9:00 am
Protest Against Police Firing Squad Execution in San Francisco @ Mongtomery St. BART
Dec 3 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Hit the Streets tomorrow 9am-noon Montgomery BART in SF for the #climate & against #policeshooting in #SF by #SFPD https://t.co/JSBykhk7LO— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 3, 2015 In conjunction will the rally in solidarity with Climate Change protesters in Paris.60072
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Alameda Renters Coalition General Meeting 2:30 pm
Alameda Renters Coalition General Meeting
Dec 5 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Alameda Renters Coalition monthly General Meeting this Saturday, 12/5. 2:30-4:30 p.m at 2311 Buena Vista Avenue in Alameda.— Alameda Renters (@Alameda_Renters) December 3, 2015 60075
Justice for Mario Woods Rally and March 4:00 pm
Justice for Mario Woods Rally and March @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Dec 5 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
MARCH in Oakland #JusticeForMarioWoods 4pm Sat Dec 5th 14th & Broadway #Oakland #MarioWoods fuck #SFPD fuck #OPD pic.twitter.com/Su1iibykUX— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 4, 2015 60077
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Sacramento: Community Dinner Project: “The Occupation for The Right To Rest” 4:30 pm
Sacramento: Community Dinner Project: “The Occupation for The Right To Rest” @ Sacramento City Hall
Dec 8 @ 4:30 pm – 11:45 pm
Sacramento: Community Dinner Project: "The Occupation for The Right To Rest" @ Sacramento City Hall | Sacramento | California | United States
Since December 9th 2014 the Community Dinner Project (a group of concerned citizens and volunteers who are working on building a more unified, compassionate and just community), have fed the hungry, distributed needed clothing and toiletries, and provided other assistance to them as needed or requested, in front of Sacramento City Hall every week. We feed around 75-130 people a week! The homeless people who line up and gather near City Hall, are fed a nutritious organic meal by the volunteers, who by feeding said homeless people, are in violation … Continued
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Demand Justice for Mario Woods 5:00 pm
Demand Justice for Mario Woods @ San Francisco City Hall
Dec 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Demands: Public apology from Suhr to Mario’s mother SF pay for Mario’s funeral SF pay for Federal Investigation Identify all officers who fired weapons Fire all officers who discharged weapons Fire Police Chief Suhr This Wednesday at 5 pm @ San Francisco City Hall: Demand Justice for #MarioWoods, murdered by #SFPD. pic.twitter.com/2bYKIzuP2K — CRC Media Corps (@CRCMediaCorps) December 7, 2015 60097
Oakland Privacy Working Group: Fighting Against the Surveillance State! 6:30 pm
Oakland Privacy Working Group: Fighting Against the Surveillance State! @ Omni Commons
Dec 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Oakland Privacy Working Group: Fighting Against the Surveillance State! @ Omni Commons | Oakland | California | United States
Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against Stingrays being acquired by law enforcement agencies, against Urban Shield, for various privacy ordinances to be passed by Alameda County and the Oakland City Council, against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments. We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network, and … Continued
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Justice 4 Mario Woods: Walkout 11:00 am
Justice 4 Mario Woods: Walkout
Dec 11 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
#ShutItDown #JusticeForMarioWoods #SanFranciscoWalkoutForMario pic.twitter.com/1AIKvvplu9— Michael McBride (@pastormykmac) December 11, 2015 60115
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Richmond Progressive Alliance Meeting 3:00 pm
Richmond Progressive Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Dec 12 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
There will be a meeting, followed by a party! The meeting focus will be on the effort to get Rent Control and Just Cause for Eviction on the ballot for a public vote. Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin and others from the coalition working on the issue will give an update on how the measure is shaping up thus far, and RPA members will have the opportunity to ask questions and give input. Here’s a statement the coalition issued earlier this month: “We remain committed to rent control in Richmond to protect … Continued
Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting. 4:00 pm
Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting. @ Omni Commons
Dec 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
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. fighting modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitive ticketing and fining schemes 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 staging Debtors’ Assemblies Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts saving the Berkeley Post Office, fighting Post … Continued
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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 6:30 pm
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Steps
Dec 14 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Steps | Berkeley | California | United States
Come learn about continuing developments in the battle to save the Berkeley Post Office, other Post Offices in the area, 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. Since Federal Judge William Alsup’s ruling in April, 2015 after the Postal Service told the judge it is not currently selling the building, the Postal Service has remained silent and no further attempts at a sale have been attempted. But we’re not fooled. They could … Continued
Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm
Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room
Dec 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room  | San Francisco | California | United States
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 … Continued
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Anti-Displacement Allies Meeting 6:00 pm
Anti-Displacement Allies Meeting @ ACCE
Dec 15 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
This is the third follow-up to the Anti-Displacement Forum that took place on Saturday, October 17. Join ACCE for an extended conversation on how to fight displacement and how YOU can be part of this important campaign to stop private speculation, fight for community land trusts, and enact strong rent control measures. Why an “allies” meeting? ACCE is grassroots multi-racial membership driven organization comprised of low-income residents in the flatlands of Oakland. Due to the size and scope of the displacement crisis right now, the purpose of the allies meeting … Continued
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Coalition for Police Accountability Meeting 6:00 pm
Coalition for Police Accountability Meeting
Dec 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Agenda: 1.   Re-cap of meetings w/Monitor, Dan Kalb and Rebecca Kaplan 2.   Strategic analysis for 2016: Council votes vs signature collection 3.   Budget/infrastructure/501 c 4/fundraising:  what must we do to succeed? 4.   Voting procedures moving forward: how we will make decisions in 2016. 5.   Political analysis (mapping): please read the attached poll that was conducted. Pay close attention to the differences from district to district on key issues. We will be doing an interactive mapping session that identifies our supporters, our opponents and those that are somewhere in between. We … Continued
SUDO Room Meeting 7:00 pm
SUDO Room Meeting @ Omni Commons
Dec 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Our weekly meeting to get this hackerspace together, to provide a venue for those things that otherwise cannot be worked out through day-to-day practice. Potluck! (optional) – bring your own tasty dish!  60147
Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting 7:30 pm
Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance
Dec 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday 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, Community Ready Corps and Workers World 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.60041
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The Billion People March: Davis 12:00 pm
The Billion People March: Davis @ North End of Central Park
Dec 19 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
The Billion People March: Davis @ North End of Central Park | Davis | California | United States
This is being organized in Davis as part of a nation-wide day of action: “On December 19th , let’s join a billion others around the globe in issuing a mandate: WE DEMAND A 1% TAX ON ALL STOCK TRADE TRANSACTIONS! Money in the capitalist casino needs to slooooowwww dooowwwn before it runs us off a cliff. One week following the Paris COP21 climate talks, one billion of us will flood the streets. We will no longer accept such a mockery of an effort to respect the earth! If you’re in … Continued
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Occupy Forum: Justice 4 Mario Woods 6:00 pm
Occupy Forum: Justice 4 Mario Woods @ SEIU Local 1021
Dec 21 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
O C C U P Y F O R U M:  O F F – S I T E  M E E T I N G Justice 4 Mario WoodsCoalition Meeting: Next Steps   On Wednesday, December 2nd, Mario Woods was gunned down by a firing squad of San Francisco Police officers in the Bayview, allegedly for brandishing a kitchen knife and “threatening” police at the scene. Videos showed Woods confusedly stumbling around after police shot bean bags filled with lead pellets and pepper spray at him; then being assassinated … Continued
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Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting 6:30 pm
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall
Dec 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall | Oakland | California | United States
Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage. The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. Our work together encompasses: (1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers, (2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and (3) Efforts by … Continued
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Justice 4 Tamir Rice FTP Rally 4:00 pm
Justice 4 Tamir Rice FTP Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Dec 28 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Rally today for #TamirRice at 14th and Broadway #Oakland 1pm-7pm The cops who killed #Tamir were let off. #BlackLivesMatter #MarioWoods #SF— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 28, 2015 #Oakland: Today #Dec28 #tamirrice Rally @ 14th & Broadway 1pm-7pm https://t.co/cNhRhncIgU— SHOWERPROMOTION (@SHOWERPROMO) December 28, 2015 60195
Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting 6:00 pm
Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting
Dec 28 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Come out Monday night for Mario Woods Coalition planning meeting 6 pm Now that there are videos of these killings, it makes it a lot harder for police and authorities to deny what’s happening to the public. And the People won’t allow it. This is a great time to join in and put a stop to police violence against people of color, and the racist system that lets it keep happening. 60180
MLK Day March Planning Committee Meeting 7:00 pm
MLK Day March Planning Committee Meeting @ Workers' World Offices
Dec 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
There’s also a MLK Day march planning committee meeting tomorrow night (Monday). It’s at 7pm at the Workers World office, 1305 Franklin St #411, Oakland60194
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