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Public Land for Public Good – Tell the Council 1:30 pm
Public Land for Public Good – Tell the Council @ Online
Mar 1 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
https://twitter.com/PeoplesProposal/status/149836557866213785769598
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Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission 5:00 pm
Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Online
Mar 3 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
TO OBSERVE: Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85817209915 Interesting Agenda Items: 5. Federal Task Force Ordinance – OPD – Review Annual Reports (ATF, USMS, DEA) a. Review and take possible action 6. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Crime Analysis Software a. Review and take possible action on Impact Report and proposed Use Policy69606
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Youth March for Peace 6:00 pm
Youth March for Peace
Mar 4 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
https://twitter.com/ShengForOakland/status/149907400831410585869609
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How Socialist Women Would Run California 2:30 pm
How Socialist Women Would Run California
Mar 5 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Green & P&F statewide candidates!  “How Socialist Women Would Run CA” featuring: Laura Wells, Meghann Adams, and Nathalie Hri Suds, Snacks, and Socialism�BYO How Socialist Women Would Run California Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/CalifSocialistWomen to receive your personal link for this event. Celebrate International Women’s Day early with three women running on the Left Unity Slate in the June 7, 2022 California primary election. * Meghann Adams – Peace and Freedom Party candidate for State Treasurer * Laura Wells – Green Party Candidate for State Controller * Nathalie Hrizi … Continued
Public Land for Public Good E12th St. Celebration 3:00 pm
Public Land for Public Good E12th St. Celebration @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater
Mar 5 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Dear supporters of the Save E12th Coalition!!! 💥Last night the City Council cast a decisive 5 to 3 vote denying the 6th extension to the luxury tower development on the East 12th St Remainder Parcel, and committing once and for all to affordable housing on this public land!! 💥 Seven+ years of organizing has paid off!! 💥 Last night the City Council cast a decisive 5 to 3 vote denying the 6th extension to the luxury tower development on the East 12th St Remainder Parcel, and committing once and for … Continued
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El Cerrito Fair Budget Rally 12:00 pm
El Cerrito Fair Budget Rally @ RSVP for location
Mar 6 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
https://twitter.com/DSAEastBay/status/149946752556998658169611
Marin Climate Action Summit 12:00 pm
Marin Climate Action Summit @ Online
Mar 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Join the Marin Climate Action Summit to explore and consider specific legislative and policy approaches to reverse our contributions to the climate emergency while strengthening the local economy and catalyzing a just, verdant, and inclusive county. Keynote speaker Edward Quevedo, founder and head of practice at The Foresight Lab, will share approaches that The Lab has spearheaded in other locales to achieve these outcomes. After Mr. Quevedo’s remarks, the Summit will consider two questions: What are the barriers that keep climate organizations from succeeding? How do we get traction and … Continued
Naila and the Uprising – Film Screening and Discussion 2:00 pm
Naila and the Uprising – Film Screening and Discussion @ Online
Mar 6 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
RSVP here for the Link! Fierce Palestinian struggle against settler-colonialism is ongoing, and this seemingly far-away struggle makes its way into the very fabric of the repressive apparatus back at home. The first Intifada was a key part of Palestinian resistance during an important historical moment in the struggle for Palestinian liberation. Please join East Bay DSA and San Francisco DSA to take part in our virtual film screening and discussion of 𝙉𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜, an inspiring and educational documentary about the key role of women in the first Intifada. The … Continued
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Ecological Imperatives & the Decentralized Web 11:15 am
Ecological Imperatives & the Decentralized Web @ Online
Mar 9 @ 11:15 am – 12:15 pm
  Can we build a better web AND protect our planet at the same time? For those of us working on decentralized tech, how can we achieve both critical goals? https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1500927490688180224 At the March DWeb Meetup, we join hands with Mozfest 2022 to tackle this big question with Kelsey Breseman, Civic Science Fellow at the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, where she works on environmental accountability, data ownership models, and intentional community. Kelsey has written this thought-provoking essay (https://blog.archive.org/2021/09/20/ecological-awareness-for-the-decentralized-web/) on ecological awareness, one of the core principles of the DWeb. … Continued
Tech Wars Building the force against surveillance and policing in the digital world. 3:00 pm
Tech Wars Building the force against surveillance and policing in the digital world. @ Online
Mar 9 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
This 5-part course is designed for anyone interested in studying technology and data as the new frontier in organizing against the systems of enforcement and criminalization that harm our communities. Three years since beginning our monumental #NoTechForICE campaign, we’re launching this course to share resources we’ve developed and to create a digital space for deepening our collective understanding of the ever-expanding state of surveillance––and how to organize against it. By signing up for this course, you will hear from organizers, professors, and movement leaders who contribute towards this powerful movement for a … Continued
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Justice 4 Tyrell Wilson 4:30 pm
Justice 4 Tyrell Wilson @ Park n Ride
Mar 11 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
https://twitter.com/JusticeTeamsNet/status/150130862562876211669623
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No Drilling Contra Costa—Youth Climate March and Rally 1:00 pm
No Drilling Contra Costa—Youth Climate March and Rally @ Antioch Community Center
Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
No Drilling Contra Costa—Youth Climate March and Rally @ Antioch Community Center
RSVP on Eventbrite – Free Event Join us in building a greener, healthier, fossil fuel-free future.  Let’s stop the expansion of fossil fuel production in Contra Costa County. Save the date:  the No Drilling Contra Costa Youth Climate March and Rally is coming to the Antioch Community Center on  Saturday, March 12th! We’ll march 1.2 miles on a trail along Lone Tree Way, then join a rally on the right-hand side of the Antioch Community Center parking lot.  The rally will feature a range of exciting speakers, music, art, entertainment, an informational … Continued
BAAQMD Meeting on Valero Emissions 7:05 pm
BAAQMD Meeting on Valero Emissions
Mar 12 @ 7:05 pm – 8:05 pm
Exactly what harmful organic compounds have our friends in Benicia been breathing during all the years the Valero refinery failed to report its emissions?  BAAQMD has scheduled two important informational meetings to discuss the ongoing Serious Emission Violations incurred by the refinery.  Jack Broadbent, the Air District’s Executive Officer/Air Pollution Control Officer, has said: “Valero’s disregard for air quality regulations and public safety in the surrounding community warrants decisive action and significant penalties to deter violations in the future.  Valero did not report or control the emissions from this source as required by … Continued
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The Political-Military-Strategic Outlook for Russia in Ukraine 10:30 am
The Political-Military-Strategic Outlook for Russia in Ukraine @ Online
Mar 13 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library – Forum The presentation will be a combo, the overall political-strategic outlook and, of course, the military aspect of the campaign.  References will be made to such Soviet era theorists as Mikhail Tuchachevsky, Mikhail Frunze, Alexander Svechen an artillery specialist and Leon Trotsky, and such generals as Georgi Zhukov, Vasili Chuikov, defender at Stalingrad and armored theorist, Pavel Rotmistrov.  And, of course, the importance of airpower will be included, with a comparison to the United States. Our speaker, Mark Alberstson, is the historical research … Continued
Non-Violent Direction Action Training for Climate Action 12:30 pm
Non-Violent Direction Action Training for Climate Action @ The Studio
Mar 13 @ 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Non-Violent Direction Action Training for Climate Action @ The Studio
This training will take participants through many of the strategies, tools and considerations of direct action, including power and privilege, de-escalation, blockades, legal, direct action organizing models, and the opportunity to form affinity groups. This training will be an important place to get plugged into for upcoming actions in 2022. COVID Protocols: Please stay home if you have tested + for COVID, have COVID symptons or have been exposed to someone who has tested + for COVID. We’ll be in an inside/outside space. Part of the time in a warehouse … Continued
Sunflower Alliance meeting: Climate crisis & militarism — Note new time! 4:00 pm
Sunflower Alliance meeting: Climate crisis & militarism — Note new time! @ Online
Mar 13 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
For Zoom link, RSVP to action@sunflower-alliance.org Join local activists with the Veterans for Peace Climate Crisis & Militarism Project and Code Pink for a discussion of how US militarism—the single largest institutional source of greenhouse gases on the planet—fuels the climate crisis, and the growing movement to expose and fight this dangerous threat. Vince DiJanich, a longtime activist in Veterans for Peace and the Climate Reality Project, will present the Veterans for Peace “Climate Crisis and Militarism” slide show that the horrific climate impacts of US military operations. He will describe the … Continued
Green Sunday:  The Struggle Against School Closures 5:00 pm
Green Sunday:  The Struggle Against School Closures @ Online
Mar 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
The Oakland Unified School District board majority has again moved to close schools this school year, with others looming in the near future.  As with other rounds of such arbitrary action (most recently in 2019), the brunt of such austerity measures is felt in flatland schools overwhelmingly populated by black  and brown students. Hillary Chen is both a teacher in one of these schools and a community anti-racist activist involved in the Oakland Education Association (OEA) and the DSA.  She will discuss her experiences and the campaign of resistance  to … Continued
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Fossil Fuel, the Military, and National Security 7:00 pm
Fossil Fuel, the Military, and National Security @ Online
Mar 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Register here Join the Green Sofa Cinema Series for a Zoom chat with Andrea Marr, a retired military officer and award-winning climate activist. Before the event, settle into a comfy sofa and watch The Burden from writer/director Roger Sorkin. The Burden has been called “the most effective communications tool ever made for shifting the debate on clean energy as one of urgent national security.” The film underscores the US military dependence on oil. Our military is the largest global institutional producer of greenhouse gas emissions. For every $1 the price of a barrel of … Continued
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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber et al 4:30 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber et al @ Online
Mar 19 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber et al @ Online
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite. For February, 2022 we’re reading the first three chapters of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by the late David Graber and co-author David Wengrow. For March, we’re reading the next four chapters, 4-7. For April, we are finishing the book. All are welcome! “A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new … Continued
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Is the present Ukraine – Russia Conflict an  Imperialist  War? 10:30 am
Is the present Ukraine – Russia Conflict an  Imperialist  War? @ Online
Mar 20 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Description: Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine on the 24th of February 2022. As of now, hundreds of civilians and thousands of soldiers of both sides have lost their lives. Oil Prices have risen steeply. Working classes in the US and Russia and in fact all over the world will be poorer as a result of additional inflation, which in the past year in the US was already very high, at 7.9%. However, this war did not start in 2022, but rather in 2014, with the Maidan counter Revolution aided … Continued
Teach-in: Palestine and BDS 101 12:00 pm
Teach-in: Palestine and BDS 101
Mar 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Teach-in: Palestine and BDS 101
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Palestine and BDS 101 1:00 pm
Palestine and BDS 101 @ Online
Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
RSVP here for the Link! Often the situation in historic Palestine is referred to as a conflict, but this obscures the huge difference in power between the two sides. One side has the latest in military and surveillance technology, and the other side is being pushed out of their homes and under legal restrictions on where they can go. The struggle in Palestine is an indigenous struggle of liberation against an ongoing settler-colonial project. BDS – Boycott, Divest, Sanctions is a set of strategies and demands that come from Palestinian civil society, … Continued
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Troubleshooting the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Waiver 3:00 pm
Troubleshooting the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Waiver @ Online
Mar 21 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Public Service Loan Forgiveness is a broken promise. On Oct. 6, 2021, the Biden administration announced a limited waiver intended to finally fulfill the promise of loan cancellation for millions of public servants. So far over 100,000 have gotten their debt cancelled because of the PSLF waiver, but many others are encountering problems. The Debt Collective is co-hosting a webinar with the Student Borrower Protection Center that will focus on how to troubleshoot those problems. 6 p.m. ET Monday, March 21: Troubleshooting the PSLF Waiver We will cover some of … Continued
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Tech Wars Building the force against surveillance and policing in the digital world. 3:00 pm
Tech Wars Building the force against surveillance and policing in the digital world. @ Online
Mar 23 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
This 5-part course is designed for anyone interested in studying technology and data as the new frontier in organizing against the systems of enforcement and criminalization that harm our communities. Three years since beginning our monumental #NoTechForICE campaign, we’re launching this course to share resources we’ve developed and to create a digital space for deepening our collective understanding of the ever-expanding state of surveillance––and how to organize against it. By signing up for this course, you will hear from organizers, professors, and movement leaders who contribute towards this powerful movement for a … Continued
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Support Ukraine 5:00 pm
Support Ukraine @ Berkeley Old City Hall
Mar 24 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
President Zelenskyy has called for everyone to have demonstrations of support tomorrow on the one month anniversary of the beginning of the war. The Berkeley demonstration will be at 5 o’clock tomorrow at the flag pole across from the old City Hall on Martin Luther King. https://twitter.com/JesseArreguin/status/150703313033871360569646
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Wall Street’s Moment of Climate Truth
Wall Street’s Moment of Climate Truth
Mar 25 all-day
What: Digital Action Day When: all day Where: Online or Phone Who: Extinction Rebellion & You Wall Street is lying to us. On the one hand, they are making announcements about the Paris Agreement and Net Zero and investing in green technology. But on the other, they are funding companies building massive new fossil fuel projects that they want to profit from for decades. This shareholder season, resolutions demanding an end to fossil fuel expansion will be introduced at the annual shareholder meetings of major Wall Street banks, and several … Continued
Fridays For Future climate strike 10:00 am
Fridays For Future climate strike
Mar 25 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
#PeopleNotProfit   Join climate organizing powerhouse Youth Vs Apocalypse as they rally along with adult allies in downtown San Francisco as part of the global Fridays For Future climate strike on March 25th. #PeopleNotProfit If you’d like to help out as a safety marshal, photographer, videographer, or other support role please get in touch with dawg@xrsfbay.org. 69636
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Film screening of Naila & the Uprising. 10:00 am
Film screening of Naila & the Uprising. @ Online
Mar 26 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
https://twitter.com/DSA_SF/status/150702420382815436869647
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Marxist Perspetives on the Situation in  the Ukraine. Group discussion 10:30 am
Marxist Perspetives on the Situation in  the Ukraine. Group discussion @ Online
Mar 27 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Description: Afteer brief presentations by members of the ICSS Progrm Commiottee, we will continue our discussion on the   Our Zoom room will be opened up, as usual, at 10:15 for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will begin as close to 10:30 am as possible and will end at 12:30, but the Waiting Room will remain open until about 1 pm for in Raj Sahai is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: ICSS SUNDAY Time: … Continued
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Virtual Arts Training for #DefundClimateChaos Week of Arts Actions 5:00 pm
Virtual Arts Training for #DefundClimateChaos Week of Arts Actions
Mar 29 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join us for this Virtual Arts Training with long-time movement artists and activists, David Solnit, Jetsonorama (aka Chip Thomas) and others. On the training, we will walk you through step-by-step tips for pasting, using art in your actions, and setting up a pop-up art show. This training is designed for people who plan to participate in the #DefundClimateChaos Week of Arts Actions69637
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Tune In: California Cities Surge Forward on Public Banks! 6:00 pm
Tune In: California Cities Surge Forward on Public Banks! @ Online
Mar 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
From Legislation to Operation: The Nuts and Bolts of Opening Public Banks in California Join us for an exciting virtual town hall on March 30, 2022 at 6pm PST and learn about the groundbreaking efforts to start public banks in California! Keynote speaker Eric Hardmeyer will discuss the mechanics of the successful Bank of North Dakota – the nation’s only public bank in operation for more than a century – which he steered for over 20 years.. Eric will be joined by a powerful lineup of elected officials representing five … Continued
What’s Up With Our Alameda County Jail System? Zoom Town Hall 6:30 pm
What’s Up With Our Alameda County Jail System? Zoom Town Hall @ Online
Mar 30 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
What’s Up With Our Alameda County Jail System? RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpdOugpjkjGddBtsDFwoLE-Yfh_hth9Th5 Join us on Zoom for a forum in advance of the June primary election for Alameda County Sheriff and District Attorney. Conditions in our jail have led to many unexplained deaths and suicides. “The system continues to fail Black and brown people, poor people, and those with mental illness.” –Brendon Woods, Chief Public Defender. YOUR VOTE MATTERS in the June 7th election for Alameda County Sheriff and District Attorney! Join us at this Town Hall on the justice issues that … Continued
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Keeping Your Personal Data Personal: How Decentralized Identity Drives Data Privacy 1:00 pm
Keeping Your Personal Data Personal: How Decentralized Identity Drives Data Privacy @ Online
Mar 31 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Keeping Your Personal Data Personal: How Decentralized Identity Drives Data Privacy @ Online
Online Event Location:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TETvI8qYTV2Cowt_JtmplQ?mc_cid=5f786dc67a  Instead of handing over your data everytime you log on to a platform, what if there was a better way forward? What if you could maintain control over your personal identity and share only what is needed? Enter decentralized or self-sovereign identity (SSI). In the future, we believe each person will hold an e-wallet and control his/her/their own personal information. This Thursday, March 31, 2022, join leaders in Digital Identity: Kaliya Young for an introduction to Decentralized Identity, plus Lambert Heller of the Open Science Lab at TIB & Irene Adamski … Continued
Training session to demilitarize police in our community 5:00 pm
Training session to demilitarize police in our community @ Online
Mar 31 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
AFSC and Council on American-Islamic Relations – SF Bay Area invite you to a virtual training event Are police and sheriffs in your community allowed to tear gas children or protesters? To send the SWAT team to serve a drug warrant? What militarized equipment does your local police or sheriff have? When are they allowed to use it and against whom? A new state law gives Californians a new window of opportunity to influence what militarized equipment local police agencies use. Join our March 31 Zoom training to find out … Continued