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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Film Feature 2:00 pm
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Film Feature @ African American Museum & Library of Oakland
Sep 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
To commemorate Labor Day, AAMLO is screening two films on the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African American trade union and a training ground for African American leaders from WWII to the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott to the 1963 March on Washington. Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle (Producers Paul Wagner and Jack Satino), 58 minutes A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom (Director Dante James), 83 minutes65022
Suds, Snacks and Socialism: Political Realignment in 2018? 2:00 pm
Suds, Snacks and Socialism: Political Realignment in 2018? @ Starry Plough
Sep 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Suds, Snacks and Socialism: Political Realignment in 2018? @ Starry Plough | Berkeley | California | United States
Political Realignment in 2018? We are inviting speakers from different political perspectives to lead our discussion of the question, “Are we seeing a major political realignment in the 2018 elections?” FREE! Please buy food & drink at the Pub. All ages welcome! FREE! This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Our purpose is informed political discussion, and the views expressed are those of the speakers only, not official positions of the Peace and Freedom Party. Doors open at 2 pm and … Continued
Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! 2:30 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons
Sep 1 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s projects! Presenting debt and inequality related topics at forums, workshops and in radio productions. Promoting single-payer / Medicare … Continued
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Climate Non-Violent Direct Action Training 1:00 pm
Climate Non-Violent Direct Action Training @ Greenpeace Warehouse
Sep 2 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Climate Non-Violent Direct Action Training @ Greenpeace Warehouse | Oakland | California | United States
Get ready to take bold action for the climate during Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit September 12 – 14. Diablo Rising Tide will conduct a non-violent direct action training session that will take participants through the strategies and tools used in non-violent direct action. It will include a a know-your-rights training. This training will be an important place, not only to learn or refresh your skills, but to plug into upcoming street actions around the Global Climate Action Summit. More information on the Solidarity to Solutions week of action leading … Continued
Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Sep 2 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza | Oakland | California | United States
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 … Continued
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RALLY FOR HEALTHCARE JUSTICE 10:00 am
RALLY FOR HEALTHCARE JUSTICE @ Mosswood Park
Sep 3 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
JOIN SEIU-UHW RALLY FOR HEALTHCARE JUSTICE ON LABOR DAY, SEPT 3RD 10AM AT MOSSWOOD PARK SEIU-UHW is celebrating the toughness and solidarity of labor, community and allies on Labor Day with a Rally for Healthcare Justice!  Kaiser is attacking its workers and outsourcing jobs all over the state, trying to silence workers and bad faith bargaining.  Help them show that justice and grit always beat out corporate greed! For more information: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0hfys4hotkzhjf/Flyer.SEIU.UHW.LaborDayRally.pdf?dl=0 65051
DSA Labor Day BBQ and Picnic 12:00 pm
DSA Labor Day BBQ and Picnic @ Bushrod Park
Sep 3 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Workers of the world, unite! While we know that May 1 is the real International Workers’ Day, we’ll happily take another day off in September to celebrate our work and our solidarity. Join East Bay DSA and the East Bay DSA Labor Committee for an afternoon of eating, drinking, and being merry. Meet new comrades and learn more about East Bay DSA’s exciting work and how you can plug in — especially our campaigns for union member Jovanka Beckles for AD-15 and our organizing for Prop 10, the Affordable Housing … Continued
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Socialist Night School: What Is Democratic Socialism? 7:00 pm
Socialist Night School: What Is Democratic Socialism? @ East Bay Community Space
Sep 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
“Democratic Socialism.” The phrase is indeed everywhere. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and now New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon have claimed the label. Meanwhile, the Democratic Socialists of America has seen its membership explode from 6,000 in summer 2016 to more than 45,000 today. And the political establishment doesn’t quite know what to make of it all. Please join your fellow comrades as we kick off the fall Night School series with an in-depth discussion on democratic socialist theory and practice. Required Readings See the readings that we’ll be discussing … Continued
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Protect the Protest: Speaker Event on Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise Ship 4:00 pm
Protect the Protest: Speaker Event on Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise Ship @ Pier 19, onboard the Artic Sunrise
Sep 5 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Protect the Protest: Speaker Event on Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise Ship @ Pier 19, onboard the Artic Sunrise | San Francisco | California | United States
Protect the Protest: Panel Discussion Event on Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise Ship in San Francisco Time: Boarding and ship tour from 3.30 PM, panel starts at 4.00-5.30 PM with optional reception afterward At a time when we need protest more than ever, our First Amendment rights are under attack. For decades, the powerful have attempted to silence their critics by filing meritless lawsuits intended to intimidate public watchdogs and advocacy groups. This repressive tactic — called “Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation” (SLAPPs) — is an abuse of the court system and … Continued
Ella Baker Workshop on Outreach and Engagement with the Unsheltered 6:00 pm
Ella Baker Workshop on Outreach and Engagement with the Unsheltered @ San Antonio Senior Center
Sep 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join us for a workshop that will provide training on how to do outreach and engage with the unsheltered. We will be joined by Anita de Asis from The Village (Encampment), Candace Elder from The East Oakland Collective, Janny Castillo from St. Mary’s Center, Talya Husabands-Hanking from the Homeless Advocates Working Group (HAWG) and Jonathan Lopez with the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP). Let’s end the criminalization of our homeless neighbors. To join the movement contact: Angelo Sandoval at angelo@ellabakercenter.org (510) 428-3939 ext. 220 Check out the Facebook page and RSVP. 65044
Punks With Lunch 6:00 pm
Punks With Lunch
Sep 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
West Oakland Punks with Lunch is a guerilla not-for-profit Harm reduction outreach organization providing food and other necessities to people experiencing homelessness. Anyone and everyone is welcome to volunteer with us! We just ask a few simple guidelines to keep PWL running smoothly. Please come wearing closed toed shoes and dressed appropriately for the weather. We ask that you show up with a non-judgemental, come as you are attitude. Be ready to work hard and have fun! Wednesday:  Mobile Outreach Meet at: 36th and MLK             … Continued
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Tell the Council to Support the Public Bank of Oakland 9:00 am
Tell the Council to Support the Public Bank of Oakland
Sep 6 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Oakland needs a public bank! The future Public Bank of Oakland will save our city millions of dollars in bank fees and interest charges. And it will earn millions more every year! It’s the best way to divest from Wall Street and keep our money in Oakland to benefit our community, not private banks’ shareholders. All around the country, the movement for state and municipal public banks is growing rapidly. To find out how public banking works, visit friendsofpublicbankofoakland.org and publicbanking.org. What’s happening now with Public Bank of Oakland? Global … Continued
Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission 5:00 pm
Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza
Sep 6 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Agenda: 4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – staff status update regarding department outreach for survey of existing equipment 5. 5:20pm: Sanctuary Contracting Ordinance – staff status update regarding review and introduction to Council 6. 5:25pm: Sanctuary “non-cooperation” Ordinance – staff status update on introduction of ordinance to Council. 7. 5: 40pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Department of Transportation – UAV/Drones. Review Anticipated Impact Report and take possible action on proposed Use Policy.65036
Omni General Assembly 7:00 pm
Omni General Assembly @ Omni Commons
Sep 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month at 7pm! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues.64992
The Fight for Abortion Rights 7:00 pm
The Fight for Abortion Rights @ Dwinelle Hall Room 105, UC Berkeley
Sep 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Join us this Thursday in Berkeley! We are talking about abortion and reproductive justice. 💐 Our right to an abortion wasn’t given to us by any politician but was won by a mass movement – and a mass movement is how we’ll defend it! pic.twitter.com/Skt9J0H24O— Bay Area ISO 🚩 (@norcalsocialism) September 4, 2018 65057
The General’s Son: An Israeli in Palestine. 7:30 pm
The General’s Son: An Israeli in Palestine. @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley
Sep 6 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Tickets: $12 brownpapertickets.com, Pegasus Books (3 stores), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Books Inc Berkeley), $15 door The General’s Son: Journal of an Israeli in Palestine  2nd edition “This is a brilliantly rendered father and son saga amidst a background that evokes     Greek mythology. .. is a story of admiration and anger.” —Sy Hersh “There are few books on the Israel/Palestine issue that seem as hopeful to  me as this  one.” — Alice Walker “Matti Peled, the general of the title, was a remarkable personality. An underground Fighter, a combat soldier  and an … Continued
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Tell the Council to Support the Public Bank of Oakland 9:00 am
Tell the Council to Support the Public Bank of Oakland
Sep 7 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Oakland needs a public bank! The future Public Bank of Oakland will save our city millions of dollars in bank fees and interest charges. And it will earn millions more every year! It’s the best way to divest from Wall Street and keep our money in Oakland to benefit our community, not private banks’ shareholders. All around the country, the movement for state and municipal public banks is growing rapidly. To find out how public banking works, visit friendsofpublicbankofoakland.org and publicbanking.org. What’s happening now with Public Bank of Oakland? Global … Continued
Rally against the last Urban Shield 4:00 pm
Rally against the last Urban Shield @ Alameda County Sheriff's Bldg
Sep 7 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Join the Stop Urban Shield Coalition as we rally against the last Urban Shield to take place Earlier this year, communities in the Bay Area achieved a huge victory by ending Urban Shield after a prolonged grassroots campaign. With 2018 as its last year  – wee want to amplify our victory and defend our gains in fighting police militarization! On September 7th, coinciding with the Peoples Climate Movement – Bay Area mobilization, we will be rallying against the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office hosting the final Urban Shield militarized war games … Continued
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RISE for Climate, Jobs and Justice 10:00 am
RISE for Climate, Jobs and Justice @ Chelsea Manning Plaza
Sep 8 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
10:00 AM – Lineup. 11:00 AM – March. Will we choose a safe, healthy future where everyone benefits? Or will we be stuck with the status quo? RISE for Climate, Jobs and Justice is drawing upon the  strengths of our movement – indigenous people, labor, youth, people of faith, communities of color, families and others to build a massive mobilization that demands what our communities and the planet really need – bold, immediate action towards a just transition away from the era of false solutions and fossil fuels and towards … Continued
The Slave Narrative That Freed Me 2:00 pm
The Slave Narrative That Freed Me @ African American Museum & Library
Sep 8 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Bay Area’s own Regina Mason discusses the journey that led her to discover her ancestor, William Grimes, and his 1825 book, The Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, one of the most important slave autobiographies published in the United States.65023
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Soil Not Oil Conference
Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater
Sep 9 all-day
Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater | San Francisco | California | United States
This year’s Soil Not Oil Conference has an amazing lineup of keynote speakers including Vandana Shiva, Tom Goldtooth, Miguel A. Altieri, Starhawk, Wenonah Hauter and John Dennis Lu, with dozens of presentations from activists (including ourselves and allies, workshop TBA) working on community-powered solutions to climate change. The conference will showcase agro-ecological practices—regenerative agriculture, no-till/bio-intensive farming, permaculture—as well as grassroots-originated solutions that people in the global south have creatively implemented to adapt and prevent the ecological and social impacts of climate change. Miguel Robles, who started the annual conferences in … Continued
Intertribal Prayer, Teach-in and Direct Action Trainiing 9:00 am
Intertribal Prayer, Teach-in and Direct Action Trainiing @ West Berkeley Shellmound
Sep 9 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Please Join us at the Oldest Bay Area Sacred Site that we have been working on saving for the last 2.5 years. Come to lay down prayers, offer songs and learn about the struggle to protect this ancient burial/ceremonial and village site of the Lisjan/Ohlone people. We are asking our Indigenous Sisters and Brothers to add their prayers with ours to protect this sacred place. A direct action training will follow directly after the ceremony. There are many events happening during this week of Global Climate Action and we want … Continued
Tours of Greenpeace Activist Ship 10:00 am
Tours of Greenpeace Activist Ship @ Pier 19, Aboard the Artic Sunrise
Sep 9 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tours of Greenpeace Activist Ship @ Pier 19, Aboard the Artic Sunrise | San Francisco | California | United States
Join Greenpeace on board the Arctic Sunrise in San Francisco and learn about life at sea as an activist, take a guided tour of the Arctic Sunrise, immerse yourself in the history of environmentalism and snap that photo in front of the iconic dove and rainbow on the ship’s bow. Be a part of the 2018 West Coast Ship Tour and learn about how we can all work together to protect our communities, our coasts, and our climate. The Arctic Sunrise is docking for tours through the weekend of the … Continued
Protest at Richmond Jail / Bay Area ICE Detention 11:00 am
Protest at Richmond Jail / Bay Area ICE Detention @ West County Detention Facility
Sep 9 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
MASS RESISTANCE TO MASS INCARCERATION IS GROWING! Please join your voice and stand together against he horrors of family separation, racist policing and imprisonment, and criminalization of immigrants this Sunday August 12th (11am-Noon) and demand WCDF and demand “Let Our People Go!” Please read details on parking and location below. Sheriff Livingston announced an end to WCDF contract with ICE, in part due to growing protests. Immigrant detainees are in peril of being sent to private prisons in other states, and the sheriff will likely fill the ICE budget hole … Continued
DSA General Membership Meeting 12:00 pm
DSA General Membership Meeting @ Omni Commons
Sep 9 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Beginning in September, East Bay DSA will hold general membership meetings (GMs) every month. This is the first such GM. If you intend to come and would like to volunteer (!), or if you have child supervision or accessibility needs, let us know. Finally, the Meetings Committee is seeking members with A/V experience to help with the GMs. Training and subsequent work will not be overwhelming, and it will be an indispensable service to our dear organization. Please write us at meetings-committee@eastbaydsa.org.    64991
Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Sep 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza | Oakland | California | United States
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 … Continued
Hasta Muerte Movie Night: #PrisonStrike Screening of “Attica” 6:00 pm
Hasta Muerte Movie Night: #PrisonStrike Screening of “Attica”
Sep 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Join the Hasta Muerte Movie Night: Prison Strike Screening of “Attica” (1971) Film screening and social! We will be capping off the 2018 Prison Strike with a free screening of “Attica”, a documentary about the prison uprising in the New York that led to a massacre of prisoners following intense state repression to their revolt. ( read more here: https://libcom.org/history/1971-the-attica-prison-uprising) The film screening will be followed by an informal social (we’re currently working on getting some food!), as well as a Q and A session with a person from the Incarcerated … Continued
Grab Your Privilege Like a Bat & Swing It At Racism, Injustice 6:30 pm
Grab Your Privilege Like a Bat & Swing It At Racism, Injustice @ Fellowship Hall
Sep 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Grab Your Privilege Like a Bat & Swing It At Racism, Injustice @ Fellowship Hall | Berkeley | California | United States
Join us for an exciting and inspiring evening with Berkeley-based activist Xan Joi, a self-proclaimed radical anti-racist Jewish and white lesbian feminist and now author. She will share stories and wisdom found in her new book “But What Can I Do?” gained from her experiences driving around the country over 400,000 miles since 9/11 in her veggie-oil powered box truck. Her “radical ride” has mobile billboards emblazoned with large, pointed anti-war, anti-violence, pro-peace, pro-empowerment missives all four sides. Xan shares her stories of engaging in dialogue with both the ‘choir’ … Continued
Liberated Lens screening and panel: People’s Park struggles 7:00 pm
Liberated Lens screening and panel: People’s Park struggles @ Omni Commons
Sep 9 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
We will show a couple of shorts from newsreel on People’s Park struggle and have a panel of activists who were involved in the struggle to keep the park and/or are currently involved. 65045
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Soil Not Oil Conference
Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater
Sep 10 all-day
Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater | San Francisco | California | United States
This year’s Soil Not Oil Conference has an amazing lineup of keynote speakers including Vandana Shiva, Tom Goldtooth, Miguel A. Altieri, Starhawk, Wenonah Hauter and John Dennis Lu, with dozens of presentations from activists (including ourselves and allies, workshop TBA) working on community-powered solutions to climate change. The conference will showcase agro-ecological practices—regenerative agriculture, no-till/bio-intensive farming, permaculture—as well as grassroots-originated solutions that people in the global south have creatively implemented to adapt and prevent the ecological and social impacts of climate change. Miguel Robles, who started the annual conferences in … Continued
Tell the Council to Support the Public Bank of Oakland 9:00 am
Tell the Council to Support the Public Bank of Oakland
Sep 10 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Oakland needs a public bank! The future Public Bank of Oakland will save our city millions of dollars in bank fees and interest charges. And it will earn millions more every year! It’s the best way to divest from Wall Street and keep our money in Oakland to benefit our community, not private banks’ shareholders. All around the country, the movement for state and municipal public banks is growing rapidly. To find out how public banking works, visit friendsofpublicbankofoakland.org and publicbanking.org. What’s happening now with Public Bank of Oakland? Global … Continued
Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland 5:30 pm
Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland @ Xolo, back courtyard
Sep 10 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
We’ll spend most of the time discussing our strategy for Tuesday morning’s meeting. Other items on the agenda: Introduction of our new social media person (!) Outreach/fundraising report (Leah) Reportback from Sunday’s event (Sylvia) Reportback on California Public Banking Alliance meetings (Susan, etc.)65067
Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm
Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room
Sep 10 @ 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
Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm
Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
Sep 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library | Oakland | California | United States
Normally we meet on the first Monday of the month, but are meeting a week later in honor of fake Labor Day.  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 … Continued
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Soil Not Oil Conference
Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater
Sep 11 all-day
Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater | San Francisco | California | United States
This year’s Soil Not Oil Conference has an amazing lineup of keynote speakers including Vandana Shiva, Tom Goldtooth, Miguel A. Altieri, Starhawk, Wenonah Hauter and John Dennis Lu, with dozens of presentations from activists (including ourselves and allies, workshop TBA) working on community-powered solutions to climate change. The conference will showcase agro-ecological practices—regenerative agriculture, no-till/bio-intensive farming, permaculture—as well as grassroots-originated solutions that people in the global south have creatively implemented to adapt and prevent the ecological and social impacts of climate change. Miguel Robles, who started the annual conferences in … Continued
Solidarity With Our Unhoused Community 12:00 pm
Solidarity With Our Unhoused Community @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Sep 11 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice 1:00 pm
Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice @ The Green Room
Sep 11 @ 1:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Join the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International for a public forum:  ‘Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Climate Change.” This free event will be an extraordinary gathering of women leaders from across the United States and around the world, joined in solidarity to speak out against environmental and social injustice, draw attention to root causes of the climate crisis, and present the diverse array of visions and strategies with which they are working to shape a healthy and equitable world. International advocates, … Continued
Tax the Rich Rally and Sing-Along – 7th Anniversary 5:00 pm
Tax the Rich Rally and Sing-Along – 7th Anniversary @ In front of old Oaks Theater
Sep 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Tax the Rich rally with Occupella sing along 7 Years on Solano Anniversary Celebration Top of Solano in front of closed Oaks Theater,. The very first Tax the Rich Rally was September 12, 2011. Occupy NYC began the following Saturday in 2011. 65069
EBC Prison Mail Night 6:00 pm
EBC Prison Mail Night
Sep 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
EBC will host a mail night at our office to respond to the increasing amount of correspondence we’ve been receiving from people in prisons and jails across the country. We are getting lots of questions about prior ballot initiatives including Prop 47 and 57, advocacy support, requests for pen pals and EBC’s work at large. We will also be sending information to people inside about how they can get involved with our priority bills. Please RSVP to Emily@ellabakercenter.org65031
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Protest to Stop Financing of Oakland Coal Terminal 12:00 pm
Protest to Stop Financing of Oakland Coal Terminal
Sep 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Come protest the Bank of Montreal’s involvement in financing Oakland’s unwanted coal terminal. We will be demonstrating outside the conference of Principles for Responsible Investment, running concurrently with Global Climate Action Summit. Inside the conference, bankers and investors will be discussing responsible investment. Outside we will be asking why the Bank of Montreal won’t renounce its plan to finance the Oakland coal terminal. The Bank of Montreal has been instrumental in attempting to raise the $$ to finance the proposed coal terminal on the Oakland waterfront. They lobbied to get … Continued
Punks With Lunch 6:00 pm
Punks With Lunch
Sep 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
West Oakland Punks with Lunch is a guerilla not-for-profit Harm reduction outreach organization providing food and other necessities to people experiencing homelessness. Anyone and everyone is welcome to volunteer with us! We just ask a few simple guidelines to keep PWL running smoothly. Please come wearing closed toed shoes and dressed appropriately for the weather. We ask that you show up with a non-judgemental, come as you are attitude. Be ready to work hard and have fun! Wednesday:  Mobile Outreach Meet at: 36th and MLK             … Continued
Ars Technica Live: Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission 7:00 pm
Ars Technica Live: Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission @ Eli's Mile High Club
Sep 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
In May 2018, Oakland joined a growing number of California cities and counties that are currently passing meaningful surveillance oversight laws. The new law requires that the Privacy Advisory Commission be notified if the city is spending money or seeking outside grant money to be spent on any hardware or software that could potentially impact privacy. Notably, Oakland’s law specifically includes provisions that forbid non-disclosure agreements and protect whistleblowers. Oakland has been at the forefront of local efforts to pass pro-privacy measures for many years now. Back in 2013, after … Continued
America, The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges 7:30 pm
America, The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley
Sep 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
America, The Farewell Tour is a book that should disturb and anger all of us. It is a profoundly sobering, upsetting portrait of our country as it is, not as we wish it to be. The road to taking our country begins with recognizing it for what it is.  Chris Hedges shows us in America, The Farewell Tour, a country that should Shame us, a land of rampant and deadly drug addiction, of escape into gambling and pornography, of zenophobic scapegoating – a country where the super rich exploit the poor and vulnerable. … Continued
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End Climate Capitalism: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations! 7:00 am
End Climate Capitalism: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations! @ Jesse Square
Sep 13 @ 7:00 am – 12:00 pm
End Climate Capitalism: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations! @ Jesse Square | San Francisco | California | United States
Mass Action: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations!   In September, Governor Jerry Brown is convening the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco to promote his “real climate leadership” credentials on a global stage. But Jerry Brown’s promotion of continued fossil fuel production, carbon trading markets and other incentives to oil, gas and other polluting corporations, perpetuates climate change and decimates Indigenous communities and Native nations, communities of color and other working class peoples throughout California and around the world. Such perverse subsidies for “climate capitalism” will turn frontline … Continued
Mass Action at the Global Climate Action Summit 7:00 am
Mass Action at the Global Climate Action Summit
Sep 13 @ 7:00 am – 11:00 am
The It Takes Roots-hosted Solidarity to Solutions Summit is a popular assembly for all progressive social movements to gather, discuss and debate the critical strategies, solutions and proposals for collective action that will tackle the root, systemic causes of capitalism and climate change. The gathering aims to critically examine the neo-liberal, corporate agenda of the Global Climate Action Summit and highlight the democratic, grassroots solutions being cultivated by Indigenous communities, communities of color and working class peoples around the world. This assembly is built on the shared belief that to successfully tackle … Continued
No DAC for BART: BART Proposes Facial Recognition Surveillance Dragnet Part 2 9:00 am
No DAC for BART: BART Proposes Facial Recognition Surveillance Dragnet Part 2 @ BART Board Conference Room, 3rd floor, enter behind CVS off Thomas Berkley Way
Sep 13 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am
On August 9, BART dropped a multi-million new security dragnet proposal with only three days notice. The Bay Area responded with 2 full hours of passionate public testimony leading to the tabling of 5 components of the plan, including the PSIM information platform and rumors of the possible adoption of facial recognition technology, as mentioned to the press by one BART director. On September 13, part 2 gets underway. After an unannounced and controversial installation of automated license plate readers at Macarthur BART in 2016, BART agreed to adopt a … Continued
Eliminate criminal justice administration fees 10:00 am
Eliminate criminal justice administration fees @ Room 255, 2nd Floor, County Admin Bldg
Sep 13 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
the Alameda County Probation Department, Public Defenders Office, and the Sheriff’s Office will testify in front of the Public Protection Committee to urge the adoption of legislation that will eliminate criminal justice administration fees in Alameda County. The East Bay Community Law Center, a legal services provider serving low-income residents in Alameda County, along with the Policy Advocacy Clinic of U.C. Berkeley Law School, Justice Reinvestment Coalition of Alameda County, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the Urban Strategies Council, have been actively advocating for the elimination of these … Continued
San Francisco Public Bank Task Force Meeting 3:00 pm
San Francisco Public Bank Task Force Meeting @ San Francisco City Hall Room 305
Sep 13 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Lake Merritt Tuff Shed (Tiny Homes) Village – Community Meeting 6:00 pm
Lake Merritt Tuff Shed (Tiny Homes) Village – Community Meeting @ Lake Merritt Methodist Churh
Sep 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
New Tuff Shed camp planned for parking lot at Kaiser Convention Center near Lake Merritt. Once open, no camping rule to be enforced by the lake. Community meeting Sept. 13 pic.twitter.com/nCZP3sIebI— Scott Morris (@OakMorr) September 8, 2018 65059
“International Hotel” Film Screening 7:00 pm
“International Hotel” Film Screening @ Omni Commons
Sep 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
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AROC 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY DINNER 6:00 pm
AROC 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY DINNER @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Sep 14 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
SPEAKERS ANGELA DAVIS & NADINE NABER STRENGTH & RESILIENCE: AROC 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF COMMUNITY DEFENSE, MOVEMENT BUILDING & RESISTANCE SPEAKERS Angela Davis Nadine Naber   FEATURING DJ Emancipacion Al Juthour Dabke Troupe HONOREES ILWU Local 10 Nancy Hormachea Stop Urban Shield Coalition Teachers 4 Social Justice TICKETS Purchase early bird tickets here! HOST COMMITTEE Alia Ghabra Eyad Kishawi Hassan Fouda Hatem Bazian Johnnie Batarseh Layla Feghali Lily Haskell Liz Derias-Tyehimba Monadel Herzallah Naima Shalhoub Noura Erakat Ramiz Rafeedie Renda Dabit Samer Elbandek Senan Elkhairi Yousef Abudayyeh … Continued
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2018 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair 10:00 am
2018 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair @ Omni Commons
Sep 15 @ 10:00 am – 6:30 pm
The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair is an annual community event bringing together publishers, book sellers, artists and community groups. It is free an open to the public. The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair is an annual event that brings together people interested and engaged in radical work to connect, learn, and discuss through books and information tables, workshops, panel discussions, skillshares, films, and more! We seek to create an inclusive space to introduce new folks to anarchism, foster a productive dialogue between various political traditions as well as anarchists from different … Continued
Yes On 10 and Y East Bay Mass Mobilization 10:00 am
Yes On 10 and Y East Bay Mass Mobilization @ Fruitvale Village (between International and 12th)
Sep 15 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Gentrification, displacement and sky-rocketing rents. We’ve all been talking about it and now its time to DO SOMETHING about it. Proposition 10 is a historic opportunity to take on the biggest barrier to winning for real housing justice with the repeal of the Republican backed 1995 bill the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Backed by corporate landlords and real estate billionaires, the opposition to Prop 10 is raising BIG money to fight us – but WE ARE IN THE MAJORITY and with all of your help we can win! Join … Continued
Intro to DSA Picnic 12:00 pm
Intro to DSA Picnic @ Elmhurst Community Prep
Sep 15 @ 12:00 pm – 3:30 pm
It’s 2018 and socialism is ascendant. More and more people are standing up to say that they’ve had enough with a system that puts profit over people, that puts the wealth of the few over the dignity and flourishing of the many. Democratic socialists all over the country are fighting for an improved and expanded Medicare-for-All healthcare system, a federal jobs guarantee, universal rent control, tuition-free public education pre-K through college or trade school, a powerful, militant labor movement, and the abolishment of ICE. We’re winning elections, we’re building explicitly … Continued
Justice for Terry Amons, Jr. 2:00 pm
Justice for Terry Amons, Jr. @ Pittsburg Police Station
Sep 15 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Terry Amons, Jr. was shot and killed by Pittsburg, CA police on January 12, 2018, while eating dinner inside his car outside of Nations Burgers in Pittsburg. We hold the Pittsburg PD responsible for murdering an innocent Black man. Terry’s family deserves justice. Please join Terry’s family to rally together and unite as a collective force against police terror. For those coming from the Oakland area, we will try to help with rides and carpooling. If you’re able to provide a ride or if you need one, please direct message … Continued
Benefit for Decarcerate Alameda County – Top / Rave 9:30 pm
Benefit for Decarcerate Alameda County – Top / Rave @ Elbo Room
Sep 15 @ 9:30 pm – 11:45 pm
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Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Sep 16 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza | Oakland | California | United States
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 … Continued
Liberated Lens general meeting 7:00 pm
Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons
Sep 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
We document current events, make films together, steward an editing suite and share a film equipment library. We also host film screenings, often with local directors, and put on an annual short film festival for independent Bay Area filmmakers. Our goal is to make the digital filmmaking accessible – no overpriced college degree or certificate program required! We are also a good group to reach out to if you’d like to screen a film at the Omni. We usually meet in the basement, unless otherwise noted. ~ Liberated Lens ~65048
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Occupy Silicon Valley
Occupy Silicon Valley @ The Internet
Sep 17 all-day
Occupy Silicon Valley @ The Internet | California | United States
AN ONLINE OCCUPATION [OR A DIGITAL VACANCY] WE SHUT DOWN BIG TECH FOR A DAY Big Tech competes for one thing: our attention. They exploit our basic human instincts in the pursuit of unprecedented financial and cultural control. Facebook claims to connect us, but promotes individualism to its most divisive extreme. Amazon endorses endless consumption, prodding people to milk mother earth for all she’s worth. Apple infiltrates every strata of our lives, with the HomePod to the Apple Watch, ensuring its role in everything we do. Google outsources our desires, … Continued
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Socialist Night School: What Exactly Is Neoliberalism? 7:00 pm
Socialist Night School: What Exactly Is Neoliberalism? @ East Bay Community Space
Sep 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Over the past few years the term “neoliberalism” has become ubiquitous. But what is it exactly? Is it an ideology that espouses “free markets,” a political project to crush the labor movement, or an economic era of globalization and financialization? What is the relationship of neoliberalism to capitalism itself? How can democratic socialists best fight back against neoliberalism? Please join us as we grapple with these questions and many others! Required Readings See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members. RSVP    65080
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Punks With Lunch 6:00 pm
Punks With Lunch
Sep 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
West Oakland Punks with Lunch is a guerilla not-for-profit Harm reduction outreach organization providing food and other necessities to people experiencing homelessness. Anyone and everyone is welcome to volunteer with us! We just ask a few simple guidelines to keep PWL running smoothly. Please come wearing closed toed shoes and dressed appropriately for the weather. We ask that you show up with a non-judgemental, come as you are attitude. Be ready to work hard and have fun! Wednesday:  Mobile Outreach Meet at: 36th and MLK             … Continued
APTP General Membership Meeting 7:30 pm
APTP General Membership Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance
Sep 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
APTP meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.​ For this meeting, the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective will present information about their work and how they are building and supporting TJ. The presentation will talk about TJ and what it is, covering some of the core concepts of TJ. For those who would like to learn more, attendees will be invited to a more in-depth TJ Intro later in the fall, Here are links to the BATJC website: https://batjc.wordpress.com and here is an intro from an interview with BATJC: … Continued
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Oil Pipelines Connecting Resistance: Panel Discussion 7:00 pm
Oil Pipelines Connecting Resistance: Panel Discussion
Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Oil Pipelines Connecting Resistance: Panel Discussion @ Oakland | California | United States
Info/RSVP Join Idle No More SF Bay, with the support of Stand, for Oil Pipelines Connecting Resistance: Extraction, Pipelines, and Refineries. This will be a powerful discussion about how resistance to oil pipelines, oil tankers, and refinery expansions connects frontline communities in Canada and the US who are rising to stop climate change. Moderator Isabella Zizi member of Idle No More SF Bay and organizer with Stand Panelists Charlene Aleck, indigenous leader who holds the Sacred Trust Initiative portfolio and works with the STI team to oppose the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline … Continued
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Bystander Training: Rapid Response to ICE 10:00 am
Bystander Training: Rapid Response to ICE @ Downtown Oakland Library
Sep 22 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Hey #Oakland SAVE THE DATE for training on rapid response to ICE and police terror #endpoliceterror #endwhitesupremacy pic.twitter.com/vuOtMJrqFc— impostor hoopoe (@thehoopoe) September 6, 2018 65058
Call Me Phaedra: The Life & Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender 2:00 pm
Call Me Phaedra: The Life & Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender @ African American Museum & Library
Sep 22 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Judge and author Lise Pearlman brings to AAMLO her well-researched book on prisoner rights activist and movement lawyer Fay Stender. Stender achieved amazing legal successes in criminal defense and prison reform, known for defending both Black Panther Party leader Huey Newton and revolutionary prisoner George Jackson, before she ultimately refocused with similar zeal on feminist and lesbian rights.65024
Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! 4:00 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons
Sep 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s projects! Presenting debt and inequality related topics at forums, workshops and in radio productions. Relieving Medical Debt through … Continued
First Aid and Trauma Response Training 5:00 pm
First Aid and Trauma Response Training @ Joyce Gordon Gallery
Sep 22 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
First Aid and Trauma Response Training @ Joyce Gordon Gallery | Oakland | California | United States
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DSA: Knock Doors for Housing Justice & Yes on Prop 10 11:00 am
DSA: Knock Doors for Housing Justice & Yes on Prop 10 @ Mclymonds Mini Park
Sep 23 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
The housing crisis in the Bay Area and beyond is a wholly preventable disaster, created and maintained by the notion that housing is a commodity and not a human right. On Saturday, September 23, join us in the campaign for the Yes on Prop 10, also called the Affordable Housing Act — a ballot initiative that that will give our cities and counties the power to adopt rent control necessary to address the state’s housing affordability crisis by repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act upholds … Continued
Oakland Justice Coalition 1:00 pm
Oakland Justice Coalition @ ACCE
Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Our Agenda is as follows: 1PM – Brief introductions and agenda check in 1:15 to 2:30PM – Candidate oral statements and Q & A 2:30PM – Ranked-Choice Voting discussion 3:00PM – Endorsement Vote 3:15PM – Fall Strategy Conversation 4PM – Adjourn65087
Save People’s Park Rally 1:00 pm
Save People’s Park Rally @ People's Park
Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Save People's Park Rally @ People's Park
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Sunflower Alliance Meeting 1:00 pm
Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center | Richmond | California | United States
 We’re canceling the Sunflower Alliance meeting for November 18th because of the toxic air. Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing eco-campaigns and plans for the future. Newcomers and old friends welcome — we need your participation and your voice. Come early to hang out and share a potluck lunch. Potluck lunch: 12:30 PM 65078
Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Sep 23 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza | Oakland | California | United States
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 … Continued
Film Screenings: Dystopia Down Under: Stare Into The Lights My Pretties/iRony 6:00 pm
Film Screenings: Dystopia Down Under: Stare Into The Lights My Pretties/iRony @ Omni Commons
Sep 23 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Oakland Privacy Movie Night Come and celebrate the big win at BART at Oakland Privacy’s Movie Night. Two great films from the land down under, free snacks, and a bit about how we’re wiping out secret surveillance across the Bay. Join Oakland Privacy for two award-winning Australian films about our dystopian techno-state. Cosponsored by Liberated Lens Film Collective. Doors open at 5:30pm Program starts at 6pm RSVP iRony, directed by then 19-year old Radheya Jegatheya, is an 8 minute animated film exploring the relationship between human and technology …. told … Continued
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Occupy Whole Foods 7:00 am
Occupy Whole Foods @ Whole Foods Berkeley
Sep 24 @ 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
As Whole Foods continues to exploit and kill millions of animals, we are occupying the Berkeley Whole Foods for an entire week from 7am until 10pm. We will be doing outreach, running workshops, playing music and taking nonviolent action together. We will end this week-long occupation on Saturday September, 29th with a dramatic demonstration. We will put pressure on Whole Foods to show us the farms and give customers the right to know! “As an act of protest, occupation is a strategy often used by social movements and other forms … Continued
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Cancel the ICE Contract: Dreamforce 9:00 am
Cancel the ICE Contract: Dreamforce @ Moscone Center
Sep 25 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Cancel the ICE Contract: Dreamforce @ Moscone Center | San Francisco | California | United States
  Last week, one of the largest consulting and management firms in the world cut ties with ICE. McKinsey and Company showed just how easy it is to stay true to its values. McKinsey’s contract did not deal directly with immigration enforcement but the company still took a stance stating they, “will not, under any circumstances, engage in any work, anywhere in the world, that advances or assists policies that are at odds with our values.” McKinsey’s move to cancel their ICE contract comes amid growing outcry over company’s contracts with ICE, … Continued
POSTPONED: Sex Worker Solidarity: Come Out & Speak Against Bad Laws in Oakland 6:00 pm
POSTPONED: Sex Worker Solidarity: Come Out & Speak Against Bad Laws in Oakland @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza
Sep 25 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. THE ITEM WILL NOT BE TAKEN UP BY THE COUNCIL THIS DAY. Council Person Abel Guillen is proposing the Nordic Model for East Oakland otherwise known as End Demand legislation. The law would target clients, thereby creating a smaller pool of paying clients. This is the last thing we need while we are reeling from FOSTA/SESTA. Every time this kind of bad legislation is put into law, anywhere in the world, it causes more violence against sex workers and unsafe working conditions. We need folks … Continued
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Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State 6:30 pm
Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons
Sep 26 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons | Oakland | California | United States
Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay. We fight against “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” spy drones, facial recognition, police body cameras and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones, to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government. We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no … Continued
Intro to SURJ Meeting 6:45 pm
Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Movement Strategy Center
Sep 26 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm
Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.64885
NEVER SURRENDER PEOPLE”S PARK! 7:00 pm
NEVER SURRENDER PEOPLE”S PARK! @ Art House Gallery
Sep 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Please attend! Tell people. Spread the word. Challenge this. UC must not be allowed to expand at the expense of rising rents and to displace homeless people!!! This year they admitted 2000 more students into a city that already has a huge affordable housing shortage! Are they manipulating the market just to KEEP RENTS HIGH? People’s Park Project  – An overview & planning steps for development presented by Ruben Lizardo, Director of UC’s Government & Community Relations You’re invited to the Le Conte Neighborhood Association meeting: People’s Park Project – … Continued
Organizing in the Gone City: Tech & the Dark Side of Prosperity 7:00 pm
Organizing in the Gone City: Tech & the Dark Side of Prosperity
Sep 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
ORGANIZING IN THE GONE CITY A conversation with Dick Walker on his latest book, Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area Join LeftRoots and the The Center for Political Education for an evening with radical geographer Dick Walker. He will be joined by on-the-ground organizers against gentrification, displacement, and exploitation by the tech industry in the Bay Area, including: • Vanessa Moses, of Causa Justa Just Cause • Alex Tom, of Chinese Progressive Association • Divya Sundar, of ASATA – Alliance of South Asians Taking Action … Continued
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Make AB 617 Really Work for Impacted Communities 9:00 am
Make AB 617 Really Work for Impacted Communities @ Byron Sher Auditorium
Sep 27 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Make AB 617 Really Work for Impacted Communities @ Byron Sher Auditorium | Sacramento | California | United States
The California Air Resources Board takes testimony this week on the new state Community Emissions Reduction Program, established by Assembly Bill 617.  The CARB board will decide whether to adopt their staff’s “blueprint,” and will set the communities receiving emissions reduction plans and requirements for the first year.  Your important testimony could make all the difference between a weak, inequitable program and one that lives up to its promise. Ask the Board to include a longer list of communities receiving a Community Emission Reduction Plan, adding Richmond, East Oakland, Southeast Los Angeles, … Continued
No DAC For BART – The Suburban Meeting 5:00 pm
No DAC For BART – The Suburban Meeting @ Pittsburg City Hall
Sep 27 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
On September 13, BART unanimously adopted a surveillance transparency ordinance, the 6th Bay Area entity to do so and the first transit agency in the country. Thanks to you, there will be no more secret surveillance on BART. But BART still has plans for enhanced security and has scheduled a meeting in the suburbs. What BART does affects all of its riders, so your voice should be heard – even if they make you travel a long way to do it. Pittsburg City Hall, to be exact. Free shuttle from … Continued
Beer and Roses: DSA Labor Social 6:30 pm
Beer and Roses: DSA Labor Social @ Telegraph Beer Garden
Sep 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Join East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for their regular Beer and Roses Social! Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in the East Bay DSA Labor Committee, and learn how you can get involved!  65079
Vigil for Marcellus Toney 7:00 pm
Vigil for Marcellus Toney
Sep 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
On September 27 it will be one year since OPD brutally murdered Marcellus Toney, a Black man who had gotten into a car accident. We will meet to honor his memory and provide support to his wife. Here is more information about the murder: https://oaklandnorth.net/2017/11/09/protestors-demand-answers-to-death-of-man-tased-by-oakland-police/ For more event information: http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/65086
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Stop Kavanaugh Emergency Rally 1:00 pm
Stop Kavanaugh Emergency Rally
Sep 28 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
We're sad. We're angry, And we won't give up. Join us in SF at 1:00 p.m. today, Friday Sept 28 in front of One Post Street (above Montgomery Bart) as we rally to #StopKavanaugh and thank @SenKamalaHarris and @SenFeinstein for their work. Wear black and please come. pic.twitter.com/Ryufjq0TDO— Indivisible East Bay (@IndivisibleEB) September 28, 2018 65118
Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting 6:00 pm
Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting @ Omni Commons
Sep 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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Futbolistas 4 Life 7:00 pm
Futbolistas 4 Life @ EastSide Arts Alliance
Sep 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Futbolistas 4 Life takes you into the lives of two Oakland high schoolers: One is a college hopeful and DACA applicant who’s navigating the reality of his immigration status, and the other is an American citizen who lives in fear that her undocumented parents may be deported. These youth take solace in the game of soccer that lets them, if only for a moment, put their worries on the sidelines. The film also features the fighting spirit of their coach Dania – a former professional soccer player. At a time … Continued
Ray McGovern and Emma’s Revolution! 7:00 pm
Ray McGovern and Emma’s Revolution!
Sep 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Ray McGovern and Emma's Revolution!
Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years, is a founding member of VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) and an erudite critic of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Ray will speak on the “Russia thing”, the situation in Syria, Gaza, Julian Assange, and more. Dennis Bernstein, host of KPFA’s “Flashpoints”, will M.C. Emma’s Revolution will join us with their gorgeous soul-stirring music and will be joined by the CODEPINK Chorus. CODEPINK dessert benefit (homemade pie and treats), Emma’s CDs and t-shirts. Sponsored by CODEPINK and the BFUU Social Justice Committee.65103
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Waffles & Zapatismo 10:00 am
Waffles & Zapatismo @ Omni Commons
Sep 29 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Waffles & Zapatismo is a free space for learning about and discussing the history, ideas, values and practices of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, EZLN or Zapatistas. We serve waffles at the start of the class to those who want them.65047
Rally To Legalize Psychedelic Medicine & Nude Love Parade 11:00 am
Rally To Legalize Psychedelic Medicine & Nude Love Parade @ SF City Hall
Sep 29 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Psychedelics are non-addictive, mind-altering plant-based medicines that do not harm the human body and pose no danger when consumed in safe conditions and within reasonable dosage. The most known psychedelics are psilocybin (magic mushrooms), LSD, MDMA (ecstasy), DMT, ayahuasca, ibogaine, 5-MeO-DMT or Bufo Alvaris (frog medicine), salvia devinorum. Psychedelic medicine has been used mostly underground to successfully cure PTSD, depression, different types of headaches, addiction to hard drugs and pharmaceuticals, autism, as well as an array of other mental and emotional conditions. Despite their tremendous healing properties, most psychedelics are … Continued
Cancel Kavanaugh Stand-Out at UC Berkeley 12:00 pm
Cancel Kavanaugh Stand-Out at UC Berkeley @ UC Berkeley
Sep 29 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Thanks to the power of the #MeToo movement and the courage of Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, and now Julie Swetnick, the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, appearing only days ago to be a virtual lock, is now hanging by a thread. Kavanaugh, having amassed a thoroughly reactionary anti-woman, anti-worker, and pro-corporation record as a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, was already the most unpopular Supreme Court nominee since Robert Bork in 1987. Come on out on Saturday to build a movement to #CancelKavanaugh and halt these … Continued
Richmond Progressive Alliance 2:30 pm
Richmond Progressive Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Sep 29 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
RPA fall membership meeting (a big one) Please mark your calendars for the quarterly RPA membership meeting. Since the election is just around the corner, it is going to be a big meeting – not only will we be talkiing about critical election stuff, including voting on school board endorsements; but there will be important business to conduct, such as formally incorporating the RPA as a 501c4 organization. (Don’t know that that is? We’ll explain what it is and why it’s important!)65084
Buffalo Field Campaign Roadshow 7:00 pm
Buffalo Field Campaign Roadshow @ Ecology Center
Sep 29 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Buffalo Field Campaign Roadshow @ Ecology Center | Berkeley | California | United States
A Night for the Buffalo: This very special event features storytelling and video straight from the field, from the land of the buffalo with Buffalo Field Campaign co-founder Mike Mease, along with Native Music from Mignon Geli and Karaj. The Campaign works to end the slaughter of the last of the wild herds of buffalo, in West Yellowstone, Montana. BFC uses video documentation, non-violent direct action, education and lobbying to change archaic laws targeting buffalo. Volunteers from around the world spend every day, from sunrise to sunset, monitoring and documenting … Continued
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Critical Resistance: 20 Year Anniversary 12:00 pm
Critical Resistance: 20 Year Anniversary @ Parking Lot at 44th and Telegraph
Sep 30 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
On the 20th anniversary of the first Critical REsistance conference in 1998, we invite you to join us at our new building to celebrate the next 20 years of resistance and community power! Food. Games. Art. Music. Fun. 65093
Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Sep 30 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza | Oakland | California | United States
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 … Continued