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Three weeks ago, getting an abortion in Texas became almost virtually impossible as Senate Bill 8 passed – making it illegal to get an abortion after 5 or 6 weeks no matter the circumstance. The US Supreme Court denied an emergency stay on this bill, and instead allowed it to go into effect immediately. With their upcoming ruling on the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, this lack of action represents a willingness of the court to appease right-wing bigots. With attacks on abortion rights poised to increase as … Continued

https://twitter.com/Indybay/status/1439042745675436032 WHY WE ARE MOBILIZING https://www.womensmarchsac.com/october-2021-event-info Abortion has never been fully accessible, but we are at the risk of losing our reproductive freedom completely. The call to action is clear, and urgent. The relentless attacks from Texas to Mississippi are ramping up quickly. Anti-choice extremists have a deep desire to return to a time when there was more clear and effective domination and control over queer and trans folks, women, and people of color; they want to revive those old values and societal norms to the point of re-acceptance. The … Continued

Rally and Speak Out: Protect & expand Roe v. Wade; safe, legal abortion on demand without apology Repeal the Hyde Amendment Stop forced sterilization No to caged kids, forced assimilation & child welfare abuses Defend queer & trans families End medical & environmental racism; for universal healthcare Guarantee medically sound sex education & affordable childcare Uphold social progress with expanded voting rights & strong unions Hosted by Bay Area Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women. Info: BayAreaFSP [at] socialism.com 69359

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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Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82809764186?pwd=eWtjcXlsKzU1QkdSdk5xOUxseFl0Zz09 Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186 If you wish to get the password please subscribe to the Oscar Grant Committee mailing list by sending an email to: oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net 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 … Continued

Five tenants at Raj Properties apartments in Oakland are facing eviction. Among them is a dear friend and elder Momii,�  a longtime Japantown activist and a current activist on housing and poor people’s issues.�  Momii and family (who have lived at the property for 26 years) and 4 other tenants are facing imminent eviction from their home in Oakland. Protest aimed at the abusive landlord who is trying to evict 5 tenants in the midst of a pandemic69381

We meet over Zoom. If you’d like to join us, and aren’t on our organizers’ list, drop us an email and we’ll send you an invitation. If you would like to join the meeting early and get an introduction to the concepts of public banking, or more locally to who we are and what we do, please email us and we’ll see you online at 6:30. Donate to keep us moving forward It is the mission of Public Bank East Bay to provide community oversight and stewardship in the formation and … Continued

Join us for our virtual member meeting, Wed Oct 6 at 6pm! We have an amazing panel and presentation exploring the power of District Attorneys, as well as how to organize to hold them accountable! Register at bit.ly/EBCOctMeeting.69372

RSVP to action@sunflower-alliance.org for Zoom link. Billions of dollars of private capital and public investment are covering a massive international bet on CCUS, the fast-emerging technologies of carbon capture, utilization, and storage currently being promoted as the means to planetary salvation.   State, federal, and global entities ranging from the California Air Resources Board to the U.S. Department of Energy and the International Energy Agency all endorse CCUS as a necessary means of net-zeroing carbon emissions.  Carbon capture has equally captured the imagination and endorsement of multiple Big Green organizations.  But many in the environmental … Continued

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

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

We meet as a coalition on the 2nd Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30p. We also have a google group where we share updates. If you’d like to be added to those meetings or google group, please contact decarceratealameda@gmail.com. ​Link to General Meetings: https://zoom.us/j/96555663590 General Questions about DAC or to get involved please contact Cynthia Nunes at Cynthia@Restoreoakland.org ​ If you have a media request, please contact Ashley Chambers at ashley@ellabakercenter.org. If you still have questions, we have four workgroups to our coalition: If you’re interested in connecting with the Budget and Legislative … Continued

Our Green New Deal Committee meets on the second Wednesday each month. We will discuss eco-socialist issues, upcoming events and actions, committee priorities, and campaigns. All are welcome! Please RSVP to receive the URL to the meeting or email green-new-deal@eastbaydsa.org.69363

Protest the political repression under president Bukele. Free the FMLN prisoners. Show respect for human rights and democratic institutions in El Salvador. Respect the 1992 Peace Accords. We will picket outside the consulate.69407

March for Reparations to African People: One year after the murder of George Floyd, it’s not over. The struggle continues. On Saturday October 16, 2021, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement is hosting a March for Reparations to African People in four cities across the U.S.. The march is part of a decades-long campaign calling on white people to go beyond protest and get organized under the leadership of the African working class. Oakland’s march will begin at Snow Park (Harrison St & 19th St, Oakland, CA 94612) at 11:00am. This campaign … Continued

  We’re calling on everybody to support Jonathan’s family in this moment. Jonathan took a trip to the corner store a month ago and never came home because he was gunned down by the FBI. Unknown law enforcement agents have continued to call, harass, and follow members of his family, including at his funeral. This is terrorism. On Saturday, let’s show the feds that the community is united in support of the family! We condemn Jonathan’s murder, call out the horrific acts of law enforcement on the day of his … Continued

Please join us for our October General Meeting! Stay tuned for more information. We’ll post the agenda here when it’s released.   Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87237433481?pwd=aGNVV1ZGVHl5RjdTY3RGWUhGR25XQT09 Meeting ID: 872 3743 3481 Passcode: 814562 One tap mobile +16699006833,,87237433481#,,,,*814562# US (San Jose) +13462487799,,87237433481#,,,,*814562# US (Houston)69365

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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We meet over Zoom. If you’d like to join us, and aren’t on our organizers’ list, drop us an email and we’ll send you an invitation. If you would like to join the meeting early and get an introduction to the concepts of public banking, or more locally to who we are and what we do, please email us and we’ll see you online at 6:30. Donate to keep us moving forward It is the mission of Public Bank East Bay to provide community oversight and stewardship in the formation and … Continued

Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info. Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay and nationwide. We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” —  to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what … Continued

We’ll give updates on our recent legislative wins, MACRO, MH First, and more… Community, Join us tomorrow night for our monthly Virtual General Meeting! We’ll talk about the latest on MACRO and MH First, give you updates on our legislative wins this year, and we’ll invite systems-impacted family members or spokespeople to talk about their campaigns for justice & more! WHERE: Zoom : Register to join us at bit.ly/aptp-mtg1020 ACCESSIBILITY: ASL interpretation and closed captioning will be available Register APTP General Membership meetings are held the third Wednesday of every … Continued

George Orwell said: “If you wanna vision of the future imagine a boot stomping on a human face forever.”  Well at the moment it is the face of Julian Assange. Please join me at the Grand Lake to protest the vengeance against Assange who is being imprisoned for revealing the war crimes of the US government, the corruption of the oligarchs, and the piracy by global corporations. Julian “stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation … Continued

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

With the pandemic and its multiple, intersecting crises, and the polling popularity of Medicare for All, our commitment to the movement is more important than ever. Come learn about our committee’s efforts, as well as local, state, and national initiatives around Medicare for All and single-payer healthcare. All are welcome!   Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81235048894?pwd=RDZHcnRDQ0FpV3ZndzdUenVJZ3JaZz09 Meeting ID: 812 3504 8894 Passcode: M4A69364

Youth march 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM As we approach the global climate talks in Glasgow, join a global day of action against the biggest funders of climate chaos to demand that banks and finance companies like BlackRock stop funding fossil fuels. The Youth Climate Finance Alliance and many climate justice organizations have called this worldwide day of action. A growing network of Indigenous Land Defenders, community organizations, climate activists, and student strikers are preparing local events like the one in San Francisco. Big banks are accelerating the climate crisis … Continued

We will gather at Alta Plaza Park (Jackson St. & Steiner St.) in the Presidio neighborhood of San Francisco at 12 noon and proceed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s residence in the style of a funeral procession. In mourning the tens of thousands of lives lost, we demand Speaker Pelosi take actions to support the passage of Medicare for All into law! On Saturday, October 30, 2021, we will be mourning the unnecessary deaths of 68,000 Americans annually due to lack of healthcare and also the estimated 285,000+ deaths for the … Continued

Rally and Speak Out: Protect & expand Roe v. Wade; safe, legal abortion on demand without apology Repeal the Hyde Amendment Stop forced sterilization No to caged kids, forced assimilation & child welfare abuses Defend queer & trans families End medical & environmental racism; for universal healthcare Guarantee medically sound sex education & affordable childcare Uphold social progress with expanded voting rights & strong unions Hosted by Bay Area Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women. Info: BayAreaFSP [at] socialism.com 69314

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