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Register or audit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYwKCKZvC270piELHNDhnJ5zaxQ1-SoVcIlGihiAZF1f53gQ/viewform The Struggle for People’s Park is a 2-unit student-led class offered to UC Berkeley Students during the Fall 2021 semester under the Democratic Education at Cal (DeCal) program. You may apply by clicking the “take my class” button above. Note: Grading will be based on a pass/fail framework depending on the participation and development designs regarding People’s Park. For more information and updates, please contact our student facilitator, Aidan Hill at hillae@berkeley.edu69271

We will march to City Hall to uphold our rights as women, especially our reproductive rights, but also our civil, immigrant, LGBTQIA+, worker’s and disability rights. And, we will speak out for an end to violence against both women and our planet. Poster making will begin at 9am at Washington Park and we will end with a program at City Hall. Please join us for this uplifting, and very necessary, gathering. DATE & TIME: Saturday, Oct. 2 @ 9 AM poster making; 10 AM march begins MORE EVENT INFO: https://act.womensmarch.com/event/oct-2-2021-march/1884 NATIONAL … Continued

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

Online Event Location:  https://nlgsf.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/info?id=84&reset=1  In partnership with Freedom Archives, the NLG-SFBA will host a series of virtual film screenings and discussions on Saturday, October 2nd and Saturday, October 9th. Topics will include COINTELPRO, the life of George Jackson, the Attica uprising, and “We Know Our Rights,” a multimedia toolkit produced by the chapter for people dealing with law enforcement. All panels, guided discussions, and films will be livestreamed. October 2nd – Screening of COINTELPRO 101 and George Jackson Commemoration October 9th – Scrrening of Attica (1974) & We Know Our Rights These events commemorate the 50th anniversary of George Jackson’s assassination … Continued

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library Over the past three decades, environmentalism has emerged as a consistent area of work and organizing in the Communist Party of Canada. In general, this mirrors the development of a large body of scientific analysis that has highlighted environmental destruction as an issue of mass public concern and, presently, as an existential crisis. This is an area of political work that has seen a tremendous change in terms of the science around it and how Communist Party policy has developed in line with that. … 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

Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA map  This private screening will be held October 3, 2021 and attendance is by invitation only. If you would like to attend, please send us an email: gillian@phoolandevimovie.com PHOOLAN is a feature-length documentary about one of the most controversial and influential women of our time. It tells the untold true story of Phoolan Devi, known to many as the Bandit Queen of India, who became a social justice warrior and a female Robin Hood. After taking revenge on 22 high-caste men for her … 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

TOMORROW! Join us at 9:30 AM at City hall for a press conference and rally to get #Justice4JonathanCortez!!! Jonathan should still be with his family today. A father of 3 & youngest of all his siblings, he was 31 when he was murdered by the FBI in Oakland on September, 13 2021. Jonathan’s family demands: 1. FBI must release the footage of Jonathan’s killing / the video tapes that the FBI took from the store 2. The officers/ agents involved to be named & charged 3. Jonathan’s personal belongings returned … 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

Online Event Location:  https://mediajustice.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudu6qqzkjHdEdqweCW6hOKJ3PqM4c0HTC  Electronic monitoring is expanding rapidly. ICE is putting more people on monitors; authorities in Cook, Los Angeles and Marion (IN) and many other counties have escalated the use of ankle shackles as a supposed form of decarceration. The devices themselves are evolving-moving to phone apps which allow law enforcement to capture massive amounts of data well beyond simple location tracking. Moreover, state pretrial reform measures in states like Illinois, California and New York are having to confront the influence of EM among legislators and law enforcement. We … Continued

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

Reading for 10/5 Next week we’ll kick off October by beginning what will hopefully end up being a complete reading over the coming months of a true classic: Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life. One of the high water marks of Situationism, a profound influence on “second-wave”/type 3 anarchisms, and an under-acknowledged example of egoist thought, this is a reading I’m very stoked to discuss with all of you. Each and every page of this text gives us ample material to unpack, so for this first reading let’s go from … Continued

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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

Online Event Location:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-facebook-files-tickets-175719881897  The Facebook Files – a collection of stories published at the Wall Street Journal based on hundreds of pages of leaked documents from inside Facebook – is one of the greatest exposés of Big Tech yet produced. Over the course of its first five articles, it details the internal machinations of Facebook, the company’s awareness of how its business model contributes to user harms, and its decisions to do nothing. The implications of the Facebook Files resonate in the worlds of both activism and law. The first … Continued

“Shut Up” Or Speak Out! Stand Up For Free Speech At KPFA Press Conference At KPFA The attacks on democratic governance continues by the management and their supporters at KPFA. Pacifica bylaws provide that the Local Station board which is elected by the members and staff should do oversight of the budget on and evaluate the manager. At last month’s Local Station Board meeting on September 18, 2021 during public comment, the Treasurer of the KPFA Local Station board told a public speaker who was also a candidate to “shut … Continued

Online Event Location:  https://nlgsf.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/info?id=84&reset=1  In partnership with Freedom Archives, the NLG-SFBA will host a series of virtual film screenings and discussions on Saturday, October 2nd and Saturday, October 9th. Topics will include COINTELPRO, the life of George Jackson, the Attica uprising, and “We Know Our Rights,” a multimedia toolkit produced by the chapter for people dealing with law enforcement. All panels, guided discussions, and films will be livestreamed. October 2nd – Screening of COINTELPRO 101 and George Jackson Commemoration October 9th – Scrrening of Attica (1974) & We Know Our Rights These events commemorate the 50th anniversary of George Jackson’s assassination … Continued

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

Via Zoom: please see access info below We will explore the Texas anti-abortion law (SB8) and the struggle against it (and similar legislation).  But we want to go deeper, by locating this struggle in the context of the polarization of politics in America and other countries.  The US is more severely divided than it has been for decades.  Trump is no longer President, but Trumpism is very much alive.  In the sixties and seventies, the last period of major polarization, our movement, including radical feminism, was growing.  Now, despite some … Continued

The Indigenous Peoples’ Day Sunrise Gathering at Alcatraz Island on October 11th is organized by the International Indian Treaty Council in commemoration of the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes. Join the commemoration broadcast at KPFA or on the International Indian Treaty Council Facebook page. When: Monday, October 11, 2021 at 6:00 AM – 8:00 AM PDT Radio: KPFA 94.1 FM or https://kpfa.org/ Simulcast: https://www.facebook.com/treatycouncil/ ABOUT: Indians of All Tribes and the Occupation of Alcatraz (Nov. 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971) The Native American occupation of this … 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

Protect Our MACRO Victory & Police out of Special Events Thanks to the leadership of local community groups, labor and key City Council members, Oakland is one step closer to leading the country in the development of MACRO – the City’s police alternative to responding to non-violent emergencies. However to ensure MACRO lives up to its transformative potential we need your support! Please plan to make public comment tomorrow at 1:30pm at the Public Safety Committee meeting! Where: Online : go to bit.ly/macro101221 at 1:30pm tomorrow To make public comment: … Continued

Rapid Response Call for Afghan and Haitian Families Hosts: Families Belong Together, Haitian Bridge Alliance, and Welcome with Dignity Campaign RSVP for Zoom: https://domesticworkers.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ahfHwbeoSkGVy-h52SKIRA In just under a month, thousands of Haitian families in Del Rio were expelled back to danger, put in ICE detention, or completely abandoned — including mothers with babies only a couple days old. At the same time, roughly 53,000 Afghan families have been living on military bases as they wait to be welcomed into our communities. This Tuesday, Families Belong Together, the Haitian Bridge Alliance, and … Continued

Concord City Council meeting Zoom Webinar ID: 844 9368 0542 Zoom Passcode: 097684 Concord city council will make a decision on the police department’s request for approval to operate drones. Private business interests have offered to pay for the initial purchase of the devices, meaning that business leaders are using their money and influence to shape policing policy in the city. If business leaders hadn’t offered to buy the machines, the city wouldn’t be considering a police drone program. Additionally, the police department is refusing public demand for any oversight. … Continued

Reading for 10/5 Next week we’ll kick off October by beginning what will hopefully end up being a complete reading over the coming months of a true classic: Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life. One of the high water marks of Situationism, a profound influence on “second-wave”/type 3 anarchisms, and an under-acknowledged example of egoist thought, this is a reading I’m very stoked to discuss with all of you. Each and every page of this text gives us ample material to unpack, so for this first reading let’s go from … Continued

  Location:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AP2jIRfDQsCEG67lyDqdsw  Building Surveillance: Three Chapters in US History Featuring Simone Browne, Assia Boundaoui, and Omar Farah, moderated by Lilly Irani. This panel discussion invites three speakers to share important chapters in US surveillance history: analog surveillance in the early colonial era, FBI surveillance of Black and Muslim communities in the 1970s through 1990s, and NYPD and federal surveilance of Muslim communities after 9/11. The speakers will then weave the chapters together, showing the historical, tactical, and social connections between agencies, approaches, and philosophies and how surveillance undergirds the need … 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

Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ Public Protection Committee is taking up further AB1185 sheriff/jail oversight implementation planning on Thursday, October 14th @ 10am. Make Your Voice Heard. Links will be posted here: https:// bos.acgov.org/ committee-meetings/ Your emails to the Committee prior to the Oct 14th meeting can be sent to Chair Valle, richard.valle@acgov.org and Supervisor Miley at nate.miley@acgov.org supporting the principles that ICJJ, FIAEB, CPA and allies are advocating (link) For additional followup information, contact Bruce @ brucds@pacbell.net   Faith In Action East Bay, the Interfaith Coalition for Justice in … Continued

Mitch Jeserich, host of KPFA’s Letters and Politics, speaks on the importance of public broadcasting and the art of conversation. Mitch Jeserich is a veteran broadcast journalist. In 2009 he launched a pilot program called Letters from Washington, chronicling the first 100 days of the Obama administration, that would become Letters and Politics—a look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and the world. You must register for this free online event, hosted by the Magazines and Newspapers Center of the San Francisco Public … Continued

The post 9/11 war on terror framework further legitimized the targeting and criminalization of Muslim, immigrant and Black communities and produced techniques, agencies, and concepts of policing that are increasingly being used on all communities of color and protesters.  We will look at militarized policing, the development of ICE, fusion centers, “pre-crime,” the use of community leaders and social service organizations in surveillance, and what local communities are doing to push back. Register: https://www.afsc.org/action/policing-and-war-terror69392

We are the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force (CEMTF) a Bay Area coalition of elected officials, city & county staff, nongovernmental organizations, youth, environmental activists, social activists, and front line communities addressing the inequities and causes of the climate emergency. We meet Fridays from 9am-noon, from July-November 2021. Below are our planned meetings. Visit our website to learn more: https://www.cemtf.org/. July 30th: Fossil Fuel Free Bay Area August 20th: Clean and Just Transportation September 17th: Ecological Protection October 15th: Just Transition & Green New Deal November 19th: United Climate Actions … Continued

From October 11 to 15, thousands of people will take action at the White House, participate in civil disobedience, and demand that President Biden choose a side: People vs. Fossil Fuels. This Friday we will take the message of the People Vs. Fossil Fuels week of action to our local federal building, in solidarity with the hundreds of activists that will be putting their liberty on the line in Washington, D.C. Join us in making these demands: https://peoplevsfossilfuels.org/demands/69411

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

Join us for a screening of the KQED-produced documentary “Dear Homeland” by award-winning Colombian documentary filmmaker Claudia Escobar. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the film’s director and singer-songwriter Diana Gameros, whose story is the heart of this film, and a live musical performance. —–Unete para la proyeccion del documental producido por KQED “Querida Tierra” (o “Dear Homeland” en ingles) de la galardonada cineasta documental colombiana Claudia Escobar. La proyeccion sera seguida de una conversacion con la directora de la pelicula y cantautora Diana Gameros, quien compartira … Continued

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

Sunday at the Marxist Library (online) So, what does Lenin take from Marx’s vast works and summarize it succinctly? And specifically on Socialism. Some of us thought that last week’s discussion on socialism did not deal aqequately with Lenin’s scientific concept, so we invited Raj Sahai to lead a Group Discusion on this important topic. Raj will be joined by Gary Hicks and Eugene Ruyle to begin our open discussion. In preparation, folks are invited to read V. I. Lenin’s Karl Marx — a Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition … 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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Join the East Bay DSA Labor Committee this fall for a 5-part study series on the rise of public sector unionism in the 1960s-70s in the context of the radicalizing social movements for civil rights, student power, ending the Vietnam war, and women’s liberation. Open to all and designed for anyone engaged or interested in workplace or non-workplace based movement work! Sign up here What were the key lessons of the ‘60s and ’70s public sector union upsurge that can inform our work today? How did workers organize themselves and … Continued

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

Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing … Continued

Reading for 10/5 Next week we’ll kick off October by beginning what will hopefully end up being a complete reading over the coming months of a true classic: Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life. One of the high water marks of Situationism, a profound influence on “second-wave”/type 3 anarchisms, and an under-acknowledged example of egoist thought, this is a reading I’m very stoked to discuss with all of you. Each and every page of this text gives us ample material to unpack, so for this first reading let’s go from … Continued

Oneof the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza’s work has helped shape the discourse on activism and empowerment for more than a decade. In 2013, Alicia wrote what she called “a love letter to Black people” on Facebook, in the aftermath of the acquittal of the man who murdered seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. She wrote: Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. Long before #BlackLivesMatter became a rallying cry for this generation, Alicia spent the better part of two decades learning … Continued

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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

Online: Choose “livestream” ticket option A look into the “On Our Watch” podcast and how journalists, activists and citizens can access public records to uncover misconduct. In-person location: KQED Headquarters, 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Online: Choose “livestream” ticket option RSVP: https://www.kqed.org/events/167827417323 When California’s SB 1421 was signed into law, it opened the door to previously hidden police files. KQED went to court with a cadre of lawyers and assembled a coalition of media partners to uncover and expose misconduct, abuse and criminal behavior by agencies and individuals engaged … Continued

Journey through time with us, celebrating the builders and dreamers who have reached for the stars, opening up knowledge for all About this event In 1996, a young computer scientist named Brewster Kahle dreamed of building a Library of Everything on the Internet. He called it the Internet Archive. This year, the Internet Archive is turning 25. On October 21, come on a virtual journey with us through time. First, we’ll go way back with Brewster Kahle to the early days of the Internet, when computers promised to put the published works … 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

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library    Turkey is a neo-colonial NATO member country.  It is tied through its umbilical cord to imperialism.,  Changing the name from Ottoman Empire to Republic of Turkey did not change much from what Ottomans stood for.  An attempt at a bourgeois revolution was too late and had started during the Ottomans but was cut short, crushed, due to occurring in the age of imperialism,  Bourgeois had changed character in this age and was no longer what used to be called a “national bourgeoisie.”  Better … 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

RSVP A specter is haunting the Bay Area – the specter of communist unionism. Join East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for our Spooky Socialist Social, the second in-person committee-sponsored social of 2021 on Tuesday, October 26th, between 6 pm and 9 pm at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland! Come meet members of the committee, friends of the committee, fellow travelers, DSA members, and the socialism and unionism curious! We’ll have announcements on upcoming committee events to share, organizers on committee projects to chat with if you’re curious to plug … Continued

Reading for 10/5 Next week we’ll kick off October by beginning what will hopefully end up being a complete reading over the coming months of a true classic: Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life. One of the high water marks of Situationism, a profound influence on “second-wave”/type 3 anarchisms, and an under-acknowledged example of egoist thought, this is a reading I’m very stoked to discuss with all of you. Each and every page of this text gives us ample material to unpack, so for this first reading let’s go from … 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

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Celebrate our 25th Anniversary With Alicia Garza, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ … Continued

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Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups Thu Oct 28th 4:00pm – 5:00pm Online Event Location:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-capacity-for-mutual-aid-groups-workshop-1-no-masters-no-flakes-tickets-170367620138  Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups: A Workshop Series 4 Sessions, Thursdays, 7 p.m. ET: Oct 28, Nov 18, Dec 9, Jan 20 Sponsored by BCRW, Fireweed Collective, and Survived & Punished NY In this series, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next), will present four interactive workshops designed for people working in mutual aid groups. Each workshop provides tools for addressing common obstacles and growth areas for people doing sustained work together to … Continued

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

What: Global Day of Action to Defund Climate Chaos and Fossil Fuels Where: 400 Howard St., San Francisco One of the world’s biggest financier of climate fires, climate chaos and deforestation,  BlackRock investments have set the world on fire, from CA to the Amazon. On the eve of the Glasgow climate summit, let’s send them a message to stop funding Climate Chaos: 9am-1pm: STREET MURAL ACTION: Help paint a block-long street mural with paint made from California wildfire ashes and charcoal. Street Mural Action Initiated by: NDN Collective, Idle No … Continued

The Glasgow Conference Of Parties will meet from Oct. 31-Nov. 12, but they do not represent the billions of people now facing a bleak future, if they have a future at all; no. The system of capitalism-imperialism has ravaged the earth, shredded crucial ecosystems, driven many species to extinction, and continues to inject massive quantities of carbon and other greenhouse gases into the air, driving the temperature of the atmosphere and oceans higher and higher. Storms, droughts, extreme heat and cold lash the planet, and there is a real danger … 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

Throughout autumn, members of East Bay DSA’s Branches Working Group are organizing ** socials** so you can connect with comrades and local DSA work in your own cities and neighborhoods! Calling on residents of Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville, and beyond! Join us on Saturday, October 30 at 2-5 PM for a social potluck at Live Oak Park in Berkeley. Bring family, comrades, and prospective East Bay DSA members! We’ll share some info about local East Bay DSA work, as well as the Branches Working Group — but mostly it’s an opportunity … Continued

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite. For September, 2021 we’re reading the first two sections of “The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society.” by Eric D. Beinhocker. (e.g. Amazon, Powell’s, possibly available in libraries. For October, we’ll be finishing the book. Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this system? And how … 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