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YARD AND ESTATE SALE (No Early Birds) Treasures Galore! All donated funds go to refugees from: Afghanistan, Haiti, and Yemen* Household items, Bric-a-brac, Vintage Items, Costume Jewelry, Clothing (some vintage), Furniture, Books, Musical Instruments, and more *Donated funds go to: • Haiti: Haiti Emergency Relief Fund • Yemen: Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation • Afghanistan: Earth Activists Emergency Fund for Afghan Relief; Fellowship of Reconciliation (checks can be mailed to: Fellowship of Reconciliation, Chicago Area Chapter, 705 11th St., #205, Wilmette, IL 60091) Sponsored by CodePink Women for Peace69656

This is online. Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/SFDArecall to receive your personal link for this event. Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s recently elected District Attorney, is facing a recall election in June. It does not please certain interests in the liberal city that he is fulfilling his campaign promise of prosecuting police officers who use excessive force and fatally shoot without cause. This forum examines what it means to be a progressive prosecutor and the possibilities for real justice and public safety in a capitalist system. Come hear: Lara Bazelon – … Continued

Robert Jensen will outline four key challenges facing humanity: size, scale, scope, and speed. What is the sustainable size of the human population? What is the appropriate scale of a human community? What is the scope of human competence to manage our interventions into the larger living world? At what speed must we move toward different living arrangements if we are to avoid catastrophic consequences? The sooner we face the realities of these challenges without unwarranted faith in ideology or technology, the more likely we can create the conditions for … Continued

Exhibit Dates: March 26~April 24, 2022 Community Reception: in-person at OACC on Sunday, April 3, 2022 from 4-6pm Pacific In partnership with the Class Conscious Photographers and A Working Lens, the Oakland Asian Cultural Center will display the 2022 edition of “Housing!” featuring Bay Area photographers in our front windows. In summer 2021, the Class Conscious Photographers, an activist photographer group, held an open call for photography that reflected on our times on the broad topic of “housing.” Submissions included content featuring 1) housing of all types, especially where there … 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

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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

Register here Join this national digital rally, Wall Street’s Moment of Truth, to: – Amplify the voices of tens of thousands of bank customers who are demanding that their banks stop funding fossil fuels – Take action together to demand that banks, insurance companies, and investors take meaningful action this shareholder season – Learn from top movement researchers about the key findings from the brand new Banking on Climate Chaos 2022 report The new report shows that over the last six years, the world’s 60 biggest banks poured $4.6 trillion into … Continued

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WE NEED YOUR HELP! Friends of the Public Bank East Bay is a completely volunteer-run, nonprofit organizing to create and build community support for the first public bank in California’s history! If you’re committed to economic justice and interested in helping us build new financial systems by the people for the people, we look forward to having you join us! HOW WE OPERATE: We have five committees working together to create a Public Bank in the East Bay: Advocacy builds relationships with community groups and city governments. Communications assists other … Continued

Agenda Packet Interesting Agenda Items: 5. Privacy Commission Ordinance – annual election of chair/vice-chair positions 6. Federal Task Force Ordinance – OPD – Presentation of Annual Reports (ATF, USMS, DEA) a. Review and take possible action on reports 7. Sanctuary Contracting Ordinance – CPO – Presentation of Annual Report a. Review and take possible action on report 8. AB 2336 (Friedman) Speed Safety System Pilot Program – Safer Streets LA/National Motorists Association – Informational report only a. No formal action will be taken on this item at this meeting 9. … Continued

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Online meeting, see website for details: https://speakoutsocialists.org/online-townhall-saturday-april-9th/ The problem of climate change is the most severe crisis of our time. The future of life on this planet is at risk. Despite the serious warnings of climate scientists, corporations around the world are continue to be directed by their drive for profits. And the governments that represent their interests continue along the same path of environmental destruction. The future of our species cannot remain in their hands. The choice in front of us is clear – we have to organize our … Continued

We are coming back, as promised! And we will be wearing GREEN in solidarity with the Marea Verde or “Green Wave” movement for reproductive rights that continues to sweep across Latin America. We have green bandanas to share too (first come first served, so it would be really good to wear whatever green you have that day). We are coming back to the streets nationwide to say Abortion on Demand and Without Apology. This time we will be louder, and we will be a sea of green. Our first hour … Continued

  We have invited Judy Greenspan, a longtime leader and organizer for Workers World Party to talk about life in the WW and about WW positions on the burning issues of our time. Judy Greenspan is a member of the Bay Area Branch of Workers World Party. Judy, who uses pronouns them/them, is also an Oakland public school teacher, a union rep for substitute teachers in the Oakland Education Association, a writer for Workers World newspaper, and a long time activist in the prison abolition movement. Judy will present a … 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

“Let’s Agree to Disagree” — with Mickey Huff!!  Director of Project Censored His new book is sub-titled: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management and Critical Media Literacy Breaking through the polarization is essential, so don’t miss this riveting program! Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89559844652 Meeting ID: 895 5984 4652 In this age of extreme polarization, hyper-partisanship and “siloed information,” our society is challenged on agreeing to disagree, and our democracy has become fragile, and political future seems almost hopeless. America is in need for re-establishing a more tolerant and … 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

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” – Karl Marx This history is the history of class struggle. To understand the class struggle is to understand the fundamental conflict within capitalism, between capitalists and workers, and the means to move beyond it. It keeps our hope for a better world from becoming sentimental and anemic and empowers it with the means for fundamental change. … 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

Join KPFA for this special Zoom event when Steve Wasserman hosts Azar Nafisi and her book, Read Dangerously Afar Nafisi with Steve Wasserman : A KPFA Zoom Event Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood. [TICKETS / MORE INFORMATION] Buy Tickets69650

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New Member Orientation! Get involved with community-based police accountability and the struggle for justice! Copwatch will be hosting a new volunteer orientation (with snacks) where we will have info sessions on copwatching shifts, Know Your Rights trainings, creative projects, casework, and our police incident database. This even will be held outside, socially distanced with masks. Accessibility: The location is at ground level, in a grassy area. For questions, email: berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com69668

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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

Ww have invited Laura Wells to discuss the historic decision this year in which the Green Party and the Peace and Freedom Party created a Left Unity Slate of statewide candidates for the June 7, 2022 primary in California. This cooperative strategy was based on the many shared values between the two parties, all of which will save lives, money, and the planet. Among the values are a single-payer “Medicare for All” healthcare system, real justice not increasing criminalization, truly affordable housing, public ownership of energy, ending wars for profit, … 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

Join KPFA for this very special, IN-PERSON EVENT, when Beverly Guy-Sheftall hosts Alice Walker and her book, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire. Alice Walker with Beverly Guy-Sheftall Gathering Blossoms Under Fire From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize�winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and wwriter Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual. *Proof of COVID-19 vaccination required for entry, masks strongly encouraged. [TICKETS / … Continued

Lead the way in bringing change to the California State Capitol and all our communities! Virtual. Link will be shared upon registration. SIGN UP Led by organizers from the three ACLU California affiliates and ACLU California Action, the 2022 ACLU California Action Conference will kick off on Tuesday, April 19 and be followed with training and visits to lawmakers’ offices to lobby for the change we seek. This legislative session, activists like you will help pass key bills to: Increase oversight of officer-involved deaths. Protect students from unnecessary interactions with … Continued

Add your support for a proposed Bay Area Air Quality Management rule that would ban gas hookups in new buildings. This measure would update the Air District’s guidelines for applying the California Environmental Quality Act.  It’s a way to extend the good work that dozens of Bay Area cities have done with reach codes and regulations to require all-electric new construction. This would apply a similar standard to the whole region. Methane ( 80 – 90% of “natural gas”) is a much more potent greenhouse has than carbon dioxide. Extraction, transportation … Continued

WE NEED YOUR HELP! Friends of the Public Bank East Bay is a completely volunteer-run, nonprofit organizing to create and build community support for the first public bank in California’s history! If you’re committed to economic justice and interested in helping us build new financial systems by the people for the people, we look forward to having you join us! HOW WE OPERATE: We have five committees working together to create a Public Bank in the East Bay: Advocacy builds relationships with community groups and city governments. Communications assists other … Continued

Next Friday: Earth Day Youth Rally What: Show Up to Support the Youth Earth Day Rally This Earth Day, join Youth Vs. Apocalypse and other allies at 10 AM at Civic Center Bart Station to demand environmental and climate justice. Demands to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor Breed, the EPA, State Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Water Quality Control Board, and all elected officials include: Retesting with independent community oversight of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site & adjacent areas Full and comprehensive cleanup of all … Continued

Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer. Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more. Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to save endangered wildlife, protect frontline communities, and raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions. IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22 Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm Films: 7 pm … Continued

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Join us for a comprehensive overview of legal protections and practical considerations for covering protests, filming police in the field and more. This free webinar is presented by: Asian American Journalists Association, Los Angeles, California News Publishers Association,  Californians Aware, First Amendment Coalition, Los Angeles Press Club, Media Alliance, Media Guild of the West, National Association of Black Journalists of Los Angeles, National Association of Hispanic Journalists,  National Press Photographers Association, Pacific Media Workers Guild, NewsGuild-CWA Local 39521, SPJ/LA, SPJ NorCal Register for the Webinar 69687

Sun, Apl 24, 2022: 10:30am-12:30pm Pacific The economic depression ongoing since 2008 has put the dangeers of fascism and imperialist world war, but also popular revolts and revolutions, back on the agenda. While the working class and oppressed communities around the world have been rising in revolt for more than a decade, no revolutionary organization adequate to face up to the task of bringing down the bourgeois order has crystallized. Meanwhile, the Covid-19 pandemic and the danger of fascism have been ravaging humanity. In this presentation, we will consider the … Continued

An environmental street fair that educates, informs, and inspires people with a call to action for more sustainable choices in the way we live and work. Join us for this family- friendly, FREE EVENT in San Francisco on April 23, 2022. 11 AM – 8 PM. http://earthdaysf.org/ Dedicated to San Francisco’s annual Earth Day celebration, and to raising environmental awareness. We are resuming our family-friendly street fair after the global hiatus. Join us for fun and for ideas on how to live sustainably. Live Bands • Environmental Speakers • Hands-on Eco … Continued

Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer. Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more. Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to save endangered wildlife, protect frontline communities, and raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions. IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22 Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm Films: 7 pm … Continued

On April 20, 1969, a group of activists, Berkeley residents, and idealistic Cal students took it upon themselves to take a blighted, empty lot next to the university campus and turn it into a public park. Our park, The Peoples Park, was born from a dream of free speech and common space in a turbulent time 53 years ago. It has been threatened and defended many times over the years. Join us–activists, students, artists, musicians, travelers, and homeless people who believe in those ideals and PROTECT PEOPLES PARK on Sunday … 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

Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer. Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more. Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to save endangered wildlife, protect frontline communities, and raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions. IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22 Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm Films: 7 pm … Continued

https://www.change.org/p/drop-the-charges-support-kpfa-staff-independent-journalist-frank-sterling/u/30374303 Update: New Court Date April 25th at 8:30 am Contra Costa Superior Court There is no indication yet that Contra Costa DA Diana Becton is willing to drop the charges of resisting arrest against Frank Sterling. We would like to let Frank’s supporters know that the court date has been changed to April 25th, 2022 and we will hold a brief rally outside of the courthouse to show our support. We will also go inside to pack the courtroom. The DA needs to be aware that the community supports … Continued

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Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer. Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more. Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to save endangered wildlife, protect frontline communities, and raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions. IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22 Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm Films: 7 pm … Continued

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Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer. Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more. Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to save endangered wildlife, protect frontline communities, and raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions. IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22 Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm Films: 7 pm … Continued

https://mediajustice.org/news/greenlining-institute-algorithmic-bias-explained-qa-with-vinhcent-le/  AI is more than C3PO and Alexa. Artificial Intelligence and algorithms are becoming universal. However, AI can create unfair, biased outcomes that can limit what job you get, the school you go to, whether you can buy a home, and more. As part of our Political Education Series, we have the pleasure of learning from those fighting for unbiased, equitable outcomes for marginalized communities in the digital age. Leading the second part of our series is Vinhcent Le, Senior Legal Council from Tech Equity Greenlining Institute. We had the … Continued

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Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer. Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more. Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to save endangered wildlife, protect frontline communities, and raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions. IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22 Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm Films: 7 pm … Continued

Online Event Location:  https://mediajustice.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0oc-msqTsuGdEFhaC4mr5MxHAxa16Q28Kp  Electronic Monitoring (EM) is rapidly increasing in the United States. While EM is marketed as an “evidence-based” alternative to incarceration, it’s actually an expansion of incarceration and surveillance. EM devices, like ankle shackles (ankle monitors or bracelets), restrict an individual’s liberty, limit their privacy, disrupt family relationships, and may jeopardize their financial security. We need your help to mobilize against EM in local communities across the country! Join MediaJustice in launching a new digital organizing hub, #UnshacklingFreedom, to fight the harmful use of EM in the United … Continued

Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer. Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more. Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to save endangered wildlife, protect frontline communities, and raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions. IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22 Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm Films: 7 pm … Continued

Longshoremen and teachers are united to strike against the privatization of Oakland Please spread this far and wide to encourage everybody to participate. Begin the fightback vs the billionaires https://tinyurl.com/7dfvez5e The billionaires are after our public resources here in the City of Oakland. The Oakland School Board has recently voted to close 11 public schools, despite overwhelming opposition from the community. School closures disproportionately harm communities of color. They are part of a long-term plan by corporations to destroy public education – selling them off to real estate developers or converting … Continued

Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer. Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more. Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to save endangered wildlife, protect frontline communities, and raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions. IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22 Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm Films: 7 pm … Continued

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