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			1 Book Club: ‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition’ 4:30 pm Book Club: ‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition’ @ Online Jun 1 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/StrikeDebt/status/152400714676085555269750 Public Bank of the East Bay 6:30 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ Online Jun 1 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets 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	2 Another Push Needed to Save Solar, Now 11:00 am Another Push Needed to Save Solar, Now Jun 2 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets When the California Public Utilities Commission came out with a plan in December to make installing rooftop solar unaffordable, our huge outcry forced them to back down. But their new proposal is pretty much the same, so we need to do it again (sigh). Details on the old and new plans are here. The plan would continue to impose a “solar tax” on customers with rooftop solar and slash the payments they get for electricity they generate — this time described in slightly different language and with a more gradual implementation … Continued Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Online Jun 2 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85817209915 Relevant Agenda Items: 5. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DVP – Apricot 360 database a. Review and take possible action on Impact Report and proposed Use Policy 6. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Annual Reports (Automated License Plate Readers, Cell-Site Simulator, Biometric Crime Lab, Forensic Logic/Coplink, GPS Tag Tracker, ShotSpotter, Live Stream Camera, Mobile Fingerprint ID, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Drones) a. Review and take possible action on the annual reports 7. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DOT – Mobile Parking Payment … Continued International Sex Workers Day: Film Screening 6:30 pm International Sex Workers Day: Film Screening @ Adobe Books and Art Cooperative Jun 2 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Screening of a documentary film about the occupation of churches by sex workers in 1975 in France which International Sex Workers day commemorates. Readings from Prostitutes Our Life which documents powerful words from sex workers on strike then. Connecting that historic action with present day organizing against violence, poverty, racist enforcement of the prostitution laws and discussion.69765 Justice 4 Sean Monterrosa 7:00 pm Justice 4 Sean Monterrosa Jun 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/tal_moore/status/153242839514504806969790	3	4 David Rovics Concert LiveStreamed 1:00 pm David Rovics Concert LiveStreamed @ Online Jun 4 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets “I’ll do a concert from my living room, livestreamed on Twitch and other platforms (just click the link when the time comes and I’ll appear), archived afterwards.”69793
5 Anarchists Book Fair Anarchists Book Fair Jun 5 all-day Tickets https://twitter.com/BayAreaBookFair/status/150235728632437146169775 Seminar: White Nationalism & Intervention 11:00 am Seminar: White Nationalism & Intervention @ Online Jun 5 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/crc_accomplices/status/153183065415695155269788 Justice 4 Derrick Gaines 1:00 pm Justice 4 Derrick Gaines @ Wesborough Park Jun 5 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/153279242668273254469794 Health Care for All 3:00 pm Health Care for All @ Online Jun 5 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets You are invited to attend our combined HCA – Alameda & Contra Costa Counties Zoom Meeting Links to the draft agenda, zoom link and the April meeting notes. Chapter News Our work continues. One of our recent chapter activities involved educating and engaging more supporters as we look forward to a next round of legislation. On April 23rd we tabled at Pleasant Hill Community Park at a primary kick off event, sharing information about single payer, handing out brochures and gathering contact information of supporters. This and other educational … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 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	6 Hands Off People’s Park! 12:00 pm Hands Off People’s Park! @ California Hall, UC Berkeley Jun 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets RALLY AND SPEAKOUT TELL CHANCELLOR CHRIST: HANDS OFF PEOPLE’S PARK! People’s Park Council is hosting a rally and speakout for groups and individuals who oppose UCB’s plan to destroy People’s Park. DEMAND OPEN SPACE! The situation is increasingly urgent as UC administration and the City of Berkeley make plans to suppress community opposition to the impending invasion of Peopleâ€™s Park. Tensions are rising as deadlines and rumors of deadlines circulate through the park. The placement of large dumpsters in the park; the opening of the new Rodeway Inn specifically for … Continued Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Jun 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 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	7 Webinar: Sea Level Risks and Resilience 10:00 am Webinar: Sea Level Risks and Resilience @ Online Jun 7 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Get the latest information on a new study that maps the future pattern of sea level rise in the coastal US, flood risks to coastal wetlands, and where conservation efforts could help. Register here Climate Central will present scientific, policy, and other experts discussing the findings of their new report, their implications, and strategies for enhancing wetlands. Journalists who have covered the topic will also speak. This workshop will include embargoed information from a peer-reviewed paper scheduled for publication on June 8. Media representatives are invited to submit questions during live … Continued	8 Webinar: Investing in Building Electrification 10:00 am Webinar: Investing in Building Electrification @ Online Jun 8 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets About a quarter of California’s greenhouse gas emissions come from residential and commercial buildings. Hear from policy-makers and green energy experts talking about the investments necessary to quickly and equitably de-carbonize residential and commercial buildings in California.Some cities have taken the first steps toward all-electric buildings, like banning gas infrastructure in new construction, but current efforts don’t go nearly far enough.Register here Speakers: California Senator Josh Becker, who represents most of San Mateo County and the northern part of Santa Clara County. He is the author of several bills focused on accelerating … Continued Book Club: ‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition’ 4:30 pm Book Club: ‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition’ @ Online Jun 8 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/StrikeDebt/status/152400714676085555269750 Webinar: Investing in Building Electrification 6:23 pm Webinar: Investing in Building Electrification Jun 8 @ 6:23 pm – 7:23 pm Tickets Register here About a quarter of California’s greenhouse gas emissions come from residential and commercial buildings. Hear from policy-makers and green energy experts talking about the investments necessary to quickly and equitably de-carbonize residential and commercial buildings in California.Some cities have taken the first steps toward all-electric buildings, like banning gas infrastructure in new construction, but current efforts don’t go nearly far enough.Speakers: California Senator Josh Becker, who represents most of San Mateo County and the northern part of Santa Clara County. He is the author of several bills focused on accelerating … Continued	9 End the Gas Car Era – Sacramento 8:30 am End the Gas Car Era – Sacramento @ Cal EPA Jun 9 @ 8:30 am Tickets June 9 in Sacramento: End the Gas Car Era The California Air Resources Board (CARB) must step up for climate action. Join a climate justice rally outside the June 9th CARB hearing to push the Board to do the right thing and speed the transition to 100% electric vehicles. CARB’s latest clean cars proposal allows huge numbers of new dirty, gas-burning cars to be sold after 2030 and fails to ensure equitable EV access for low-income communities of color. We can’t achieve equity without a stronger 2030 sales target and … Continued MACRO conversation 6:30 pm MACRO conversation @ Online Jun 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets This Thursday, Oakland Councilperson Carroll Fife will be going live in conversation with the Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO) Program as well as Jame Burch from the Anti-Police Terror Project. They will talk about where the program is currently at and the state of public safety overall in Oakland. To watch, go to the Facebook, Twitter or YouTube page on Thursday June 9th at 6:30pm. You can read more about MACRO here.69800	10 We need Pelosi to fight! 4:30 pm We need Pelosi to fight! @ outside the courtyard of the Federal Building Jun 10 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets We need a fight! As we await Decision Day (Day X) that will more than likely overturn 50 years of legalized abortion in the US, we continue to see the Democratic Party establishment do nothing serious to fight back against this assault on bodily autonomy. Working people across the country are wringing their hands while Democratic lawmakers sit on theirs. On May 25, our comrades in New York led a sit-in at Chuck Schumer’s office calling out the gross inaction of the Democrats and demanding an immediate end to the … Continued	11 San Francisco: March for Our Lives to End Gun Violence 2022 9:00 am San Francisco: March for Our Lives to End Gun Violence 2022 @ Welcome Center at Golden Gate Bridge Plaza Jun 11 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets More info & RSVP: https://secure.everyaction.com/Mxhr1C3aYUqPRXAe-YZWHw2 MFOL website: https://marchforourlives.com/ Text MARCH to 954-954 Come protest with us in the city of San Francisco as we demand END GUN VIOLENCE, with people rising up in the San Francisco Bay Area, throughout California and across the United States. Together, we rose up 4 years ago across the coutnry. 1 million of us demanded change. We built a movement. We voted for new leaders. And the gun deaths increased. Now is the moment we march again in 2022. We are marching again in Washington D.C. and … Continued
12 US Sanctions & Future American Economic Empire 10:30 am US Sanctions & Future American Economic Empire @ Online Jun 12 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets US sanctions are not new and have been applied by the US in both recent history (Venezuela, Iran) and well prior (Japan 1937-45, Latin America, Africa). However, the scope & magnitude of US sanctions against Russia today represent a quantitative, as well as qualitative, higher stage and escalation of sanctions as a tool of US imperialism. The presentation will describe what’s in the US six packages of sanctions announced to date, distinguish between financial sanctions from goods & trade sanctions and individuals’ sanctions, and estimate their current stage of implementation … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 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 Sunflower Alliance Webinar: For a Stronger State Climate Plan 4:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Webinar: For a Stronger State Climate Plan @ Online Jun 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets RSVP to action@sunflower-alliance.org Save the date for a discussion with California climate justice leaders about the growing movement to oppose the weak and inadequate draft climate plan proposed by the California Air Resources Board. Learn how we can join the push for a plan that would rapidly phase out fossil fuels and bring justice to frontline communities. The CARB draft plan Doesn’t shut down any of the gas power plants that currently pollute our neighborhoods; keeps all fossil fuel gas plants operating Builds many new polluting power plants Plans for excessive … Continued Green Sunday: The Future of Peoples Park 5:00 pm Green Sunday: The Future of Peoples Park @ Online Jun 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets In the 1960s, students organized a Free Speech movement to resist the University of California, Berkeley, to counter administrative bans on flyering on the campus. 53 years later, there is a new battle brewing over Peoples Park with its community advocating for civic space and the University offering housing projects. As tensions grow between the City’s establishment and Park protesters, many people are caught in the middle trying to navigate college, Covid-19, and Berkeley’s unaffordable housing crisis. One of the greatest challenges facing the Peoples Park community is that … Continued Staged reading of ROE produced by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley 5:00 pm Staged reading of ROE produced by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley @ Brower Center Jun 12 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Staged reading of ROE produced by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley performance of Roe by Lisa Loomer directed by Susannah Wood and organized by Carol Marasovic of the City of Berkeley Commission on the Status of Women Admission is free – reservations are highly recommended, https://www.aeofberkeley.org/productions/upcoming-shows/378-roe-by-lisa-loomer donations to cover the production costs are welcome send to: Berkeley Actors Ensemble / ROE, PO Box 663, Berkeley, CA 94701 ROE at 7 pm at the Marsh 2120 at Allston Way Staged reading of ROE produced by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley performance of … Continued	13 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Jun 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 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	14 Polluter Greed California Day of Action 2:00 pm Polluter Greed California Day of Action @ Chevron Gas Station Jun 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Photo Action in Oakland 12 minute walk from 12th St/Oakland BART station June 14 is the day for coordinated photo stunts at fossil fuel infrastructure across California to challenge the narrative that high gas prices mean we need to drill for more oil. Actions are happening to communicate all the ways that Californians pay for big oil’s profits: at the gas pump, at the emergency room and with our very future. We call on Governor Newsom to stand up to big oil’s greed, stop permitting new fossil fuels, and end … Continued	15 Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Jun 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets 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 Public Bank of the East Bay 6:30 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ Online Jun 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets 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 APTP General Meeting 7:00 pm APTP General Meeting @ Online Jun 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets APTP general meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month. These meetings are a great way to get updates about our work and plug in. ASL and closed captioning is provided. Join our General Meeting Thank you all for your time and energy, Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and … Continued	16 SF: Support the Compassionate Alternative Response Team (CART) 4:00 pm SF: Support the Compassionate Alternative Response Team (CART) @ Online Jun 16 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/sfdefender/status/153708904257091584069812 Staged reading of ROE produced by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley 5:00 pm Staged reading of ROE produced by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley @ Brower Center Jun 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Staged reading of ROE produced by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley performance of Roe by Lisa Loomer directed by Susannah Wood and organized by Carol Marasovic of the City of Berkeley Commission on the Status of Women Admission is free – reservations are highly recommended, https://www.aeofberkeley.org/productions/upcoming-shows/378-roe-by-lisa-loomer donations to cover the production costs are welcome send to: Berkeley Actors Ensemble / ROE, PO Box 663, Berkeley, CA 94701 ROE at 7 pm at the Marsh 2120 at Allston Way Staged reading of ROE produced by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley performance of … Continued Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis 7:00 pm Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis @ Online Jun 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Please join KPFA for a very special Zoom Event when we welcome Britt Wray and her new book, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, in conversation with KPFA’s Sabrina Jacobs. “Wray proves to be consistently empathetic. Climaate activists feeling near the end of their rope will find this full of wisdom.”\Kirkus Reviews Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis is an impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid climate disruption. TICKETS AND MORE INFO AVAILABLE HERE69795	17	18 APTP Mental Health First Training (in-person) 10:00 am APTP Mental Health First Training (in-person) @ Location will be shared upon registration Jun 18 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets This Saturday we will have an MH First Training open to ALL community members… Register for MH First Training Community, APTP’s MH First (MH1) is Oakland’s first and only non 9-1-1 crisis response line for mental health, substance use and domestic violence and is available from 8 pm to 8 am, Fridays & Saturdays, covering the hours when traditional mental health hotlines are closed. A mental health crisis should not be a death sentence. We are hosting our first in-person training in a minute! Join us to build alternatives to … Continued Alameda County Budget 101 Training presented by the Care First Community Coalition. 11:00 am Alameda County Budget 101 Training presented by the Care First Community Coalition. @ Online Jun 18 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Come to our annual Alameda County Budget 101 Training presented by the Care First Community Coalition. You’re invited to the annual Alameda County Budget 101 Training presented by Restore Oakland, American Friends Service Committee & the Care First Community Coalition This will be a zoom webinar, registration is required. In this training, we will provide you with fundamental tools to demystify the county budget process and who the decisionmakers are. You’ll also learn about Care First Community Coalition‘s budget demands that are being made by incarcerated folks, their loved … Continued Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things 4:30 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things @ Online Jun 18 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite. For May, 2022 we’re reading the first four chapters of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, And the Future of the Planet, by Raj Patel and Jason W Moore. UC Press, Amazon For June, 2022, we’ll be finishing the above book. All are welcome! “Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things … Continued
19 Roe v. Wade to be abolished? 10:30 am Roe v. Wade to be abolished? Jun 19 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets That’s the intent of the pending Supreme Court decision, a draft copy of which has already been leaked to the media. This will be a human rights disaster for women. On May 11,2022 the U.S. Senate voted down the Women’s Health Protection Act 49 to 51. The WHPA would have made abortion legal, eliminating the role of the Supreme Court on the issue of abortion and nullifying the pending Supreme Court decision, How do we fight back against this grossly undemocratic decision? We certainly can’t trust the Democratic Party leadership. … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 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	20 Hold Biden to his Climate Promises! Film Premier 4:00 pm Hold Biden to his Climate Promises! Film Premier @ Online Jun 20 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Catch the premier of this new short film from the People vs Fossil Fuels coalition. Dear President Biden, a new documentary film by Jon Bowermaster, shares the stories of leaders from the People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition and the fossil fuel resistance movement who are fighting to protect communities, water, and public health. Online. Register here The screening of this 35-minute short film will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, and the organizers and climate activists featured in the film. The discussion will also share ways to get involved and hold President … Continued	21 World Refugee Day: Conversation on Helping Ukraine’s Refugees Fleeing War (hybrid event) 12:30 pm World Refugee Day: Conversation on Helping Ukraine’s Refugees Fleeing War (hybrid event) @ Online & Commonwealth Club Jun 21 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets As we mark World Refugee Day, an international day to honor refugees, we invite you to celebrate the strength and courage of all those forced to flee their homes in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion in February. In-person: $10 members & $20 nonmembers Online: $5 members & $10 nonmembers RSVP: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2022-06-21/helping-ukraines-refugees Multiple organizations and individuals are lending their support to the estimated 6.8 million refugees from Ukraine who have fled to Poland, Romania and throughout the European Union. In addition, there are an estimated 8 million people displaced … Continued	22 Bay Area Debtors’ Union 12:00 am Bay Area Debtors’ Union @ Online Jun 22 @ 12:00 am – 8:00 pm Tickets Our monthly meeting is happening! REQUEST from Matter of Life and Debt/ DC podcast group–> We are currently working on an episode that raises the voices of youth and their concerns/worries/anxieties/fears around student loans/debt. We are looking for teenagers that would be interested in sharing their stories as to how these feelings shape/inform their college/university journey. If you know anyone that fits that description, please send them our way! Many thanks! -Talia Molé� tmtalia@gmail.com New podcast episode – https://matteroflifeanddebt.com/caring-10-more/ If you would like to join the Debt Collective slack channel, … Continued Protest March on SCOTUS for Abortion Rights 9:00 am Protest March on SCOTUS for Abortion Rights @ Livestream Jun 22 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets We are rallying at the U.S. Supreme Court to stop reversal of Roe v. Wade. Join us! NASW is the largest individual membership organization of social workers in the world. The NASW organization advocates for policies that support individuals, families and communities. NASW supports Roe v. Wade. Join us at the U.S. Supreme Court to help us support reproductive rights for all. Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/naswsocialworkers/69821 Another Death at Santa Rita: Community Vigil 4:00 pm Another Death at Santa Rita: Community Vigil Jun 22 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/153939364875574067269830 Know Your Rights: A Workshop Series. California’s Open Meeting Law. 6:00 pm Know Your Rights: A Workshop Series. California’s Open Meeting Law. @ Online Jun 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Online Event Location: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/2022/05/know-your-rights-a-summer-workshop-series/?mc_cid=27b96c2210 In this session, open-government experts will offer an introduction to the Ralph M. Brown Act, California’s main open meetings law. Learn tips for exercising your right to speak out at public meetings so you can raise awareness about injustices and demand answers and actions from public officials. Learn about your rights to make public comment, such as whether you can attend and speak anonymously, and what kind of restrictions government officials can put in place on your ability to speak out and express yourself. 69827 Yippie Girl: Author Reading 7:00 pm Yippie Girl: Author Reading @ Books, Inc Jun 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets In 1968, a 24-year-old woman moved to Berkeley, California and immediately became enmeshed in the Youth International Party, aka The Yippies, a recently-formed satirical protest group. In the next few years, Judy Gumbo (a nickname given her by Eldridge Cleaver), was soon at the center of counter-cultural activity—from protests in People’s Park, to meetings at Black Panther headquarters, to running a pig for President at the raucous Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a protest that devolved into violent attacks by the police and arrests that led to the notorious Chicago … Continued	23 Stand Up for #OurClimateFuture 9:00 am Stand Up for #OurClimateFuture @ Ca Air Resources Board Jun 23 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its draft 2022 Scoping Plan, a blueprint for California’s climate policy for the next 20 years. The draft plan is a huge step backward for California, doubling down on fossil fuel infrastructure when we need to be phasing out fossil fuels. CARB are planning for a massive expansion of dirty gas-fired power plants and paving the way for billions in public subsidies for risky, ineffective carbon capture and storage machinery that extends the life of oil refineries. On June 23 at 9am, CARB … Continued Protest US Escalation in Ukraine! No More Weapon Sales 11:30 am Protest US Escalation in Ukraine! No More Weapon Sales @ Barbara Lee's Office Jun 23 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets On Thursday June 23 we will be gathering outside Rep Barbara Lee’s office in Oakland to protest her recent vote for $40 billion for the war in Ukraine. This demonstration is in conjunction with the International Day of Action for Peace in Ukraine called by the Peace in Ukraine Coalition. This massive funding package represents a clear escalation of the war in Ukraine by the government of the United States using the Ukrainian people as cannon fodder in a proxy war with Russia. It will prolong the war, resulting in … Continued Reproductive Freedom and Privacy 3:00 pm Reproductive Freedom and Privacy @ Online Jun 23 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/STOPSpyingNY/status/153675534919321190469809 Anti-SWEEPstakes Showdown 7:00 pm Anti-SWEEPstakes Showdown Jun 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets NO COPS IN PRIDE (or anywhere) STREET SWEEPS KILL QUEERS ‘Love Will Keep Us Together,’ but only for the state. Mayor London Breed sweeps houseless queer and trans youth from the Tenderloin just in time for corporate Pride’s open air beer garden. The preparation is a community affair as Urban Alchemy, case managers, and Karen “safety” snitch have rubbed their fingers raw by calling 911. Two million people scamper in to attend San Francisco’s massive LGBTQ+ themed blue lives matter march— a dress rehearsals for death squads. It’s no secret … Continued	24 Fund CART: Compassionate Alternative Response Team. SF. 10:00 am Fund CART: Compassionate Alternative Response Team. SF. Jun 24 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/CausaJusta1/status/153972606973700096069833 Abortion Rights Protests 5:00 pm Abortion Rights Protests @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 24 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/NSavidge/status/154043158717034496069834	25 Schools and Labor Against Privatization BBQ (Oakland) 2:00 pm Schools and Labor Against Privatization BBQ (Oakland) @ Parker Liberation Jun 25 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets The SLAP BBQ! If you are able to contribute to ensure we have enough food please Venmo donations to the handle @slapbayarea . OR if you do not have Venmo but want to donate ahead of time please email Ronan G, ronanronang@gmail.com.69836 Abortion Rights Protests 6:00 pm Abortion Rights Protests @ Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley Jun 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/NSavidge/status/154043158717034496069835
26 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 26 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 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 Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change 5:00 pm Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change @ Online Jun 26 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Please join KPFA for a very special matinee Zoom Event on when we welcome Delegate Danica Roem and her new book, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders. “this colorful, no-holds-barredd account of Roem’s life and political work still delights for its unabashed candor. An inspiring story of self-acceptance and determination.”Kirkus Reviews An inspirational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem, the nation’s first openly trans person elected to US state legislature. TICKETS AND MORE INFO AVAILABLE HERE Danica Roem made national … Continued	27	28 Socialist Night School: Black Reconstruction in America: The General Strike 6:30 pm Socialist Night School: Black Reconstruction in America: The General Strike @ Online Jun 28 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets “Easily the most dramatic episode in American history was the sudden move to free four million black slaves in an effort to stop a great civil war, to end forty years of bitter controversy, and to appease the moral sense of civilization.” W.E.B Dubois’ classic book “Black Reconstruction in America” flipped prevailing narratives about Reconstruction on their head. Bringing a materialist analysis of history to the forefront. Dubois analyzes the conditions of the white workers, the north, planters, and slaves before the Civil War and how these conditions led to … Continued	29 Home in the Bay \| A Reading Series: The Second Event 5:00 pm Home in the Bay \| A Reading Series: The Second Event @ Online Jun 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets What does home mean to you? Aunt Lute Books is pleased to present Home in the Bay, a California-based reading series centering the voices of those impacted by houselessness, gentrification, migration, and colonization. We are partnering with Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, POOR Magazine, Poets Reading the News, Black Freighter Press and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, organizations doing radical work around our relationships to place and location as well as to each other. Join us for the next event in the series, a virtual reading featuring talented writers, storytellers, and folklorists … Continued Public Bank of the East Bay 6:30 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ Online Jun 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets 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 Decolonial Futures and Environmental Justice – with Dr. Vandana Shiva 7:00 pm Decolonial Futures and Environmental Justice – with Dr. Vandana Shiva @ Online Jun 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Vandana Shiva in conversation with Bayo Akomolafe and Sonali Kolhatkar About this event How do we become better kin to the living Earth? Join author, ecofeminist and author Dr. Vandana Shiva, Bayo Akomolafe, and Sonali Kolhatkar for an intimate discussion about people, the planet and how we can build a regenerative future for all living beings. Mapping out visions of decolonial and environmental justice, we will explore some of the grassroots actions going on across the globe to defend the planet against the perpetual onslaught of late-stage capitalism as well as examine evidence-based … Continued	30

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About OccupyOakland.org

This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly met in-person weekly (with a rare skip) since October 10th, 2011 up until the pandemic, at which point we went to bi-weekly Zoom meetings. We do checkins, go over the activist events of the past meeting interval, and have general discussions on politics and revolution.

For many years, until the pandemic, we put on a Feed the People event monthly at Oscar Grant Plaza, where all were welcome to come and partake of a freshly cooked, savory meal, before our GA.

If you would like to participate while the pandemic is still amidst, send an email to occupyoakland-request@lists.riseup.net. Check the calendar or this text to see if we have resumed in-person meetings.