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Any comrades who live, work, go to school, or otherwise spend a significant amount of time in Berkeley, Albany, or Emeryville, please join us for the first organizing meeting of the Berkeley/Albany/Emeryville Branch. We’ve been hard at work laying the groundwork for a branch for the area, and are happy to welcome you to our first organizing meeting! (For the avoidance of confusion, there is not yet a formal Berkeley/Albany/Emeryville branch. The purpose of this meeting is to help facilitate the creation of the Branch.) RSVP for info/link70159

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

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Join us for a teach-in session hosted by organizers across the country on how you can join the Stop Shotspotter campaign! Register 70163

Ten years later: what has changed? Join a coalition of Richmond community and environmental justice organizations to call out Chevron’s 120 years of harm and mark the tenth anniversary of the August 6, 2012 explosion and fire at the Chevron Richmond refinery. On that date ten years ago, Chevron’s willful negligence caused a fireball that spread a cloud of toxic smoke over Richmond, sending 15,000 residents to local hospitals with complaints of breathing problems. In 2015, the federal Chemical Safety Board issued a stinging indictment that blamed Chevron for the event. … Continued

Ten years later: what has changed? Join a coalition of Richmond community and environmental justice organizations to call out Chevron’s 120 years of harm and mark the tenth anniversary of the August 6, 2012 explosion and fire at the Chevron Richmond refinery. On that date ten years ago, Chevron’s willful negligence caused a fireball that spread a cloud of toxic smoke over Richmond, sending 15,000 residents to local hospitals with complaints of breathing problems. In 2015, the federal Chemical Safety Board issued a stinging indictment that blamed Chevron for the event. … Continued

Non-violent direct action preparations and training Please plan to stay all day. Lunch provided by Food Not Bombs This will be a day of preparation for being in the streets and park with your friends and probably some strangers. It’s an interactive day with a background in the history of nonviolent philosophy and practical action, the legal process, jail solidarity, affinity group formation, and consensus process decision-making. contact:  weddress777@gmail.com Donate: Support the legal actions to save People’s Park To ALL who believe in preserving and growing the legacy and natural beauty … Continued

What are the motives and likely effects of Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan? We will be looking at these questions in the light of the interlocking crises of the US empire, US capitalism and the US Democratic Party. We will start the discussion with short presentations by ICSS members Gene Ruyle and Raj Sahai and other invited speakers, including David  Ewing, Chair of the US-China Friendship Society. LOGIN INFORMATION Our Zoom room will be opened up as usual at 10:15 am for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up … Continued

HCA – Alameda & Contra Costa Chapters Zoom Meeting Links to the draft agenda, zoom link and the June meeting notes We will share an excellent new half-hour recorded presentation by Dr. Corinne Frugoni that lays out the problem of Medicare profiteering and steps we need to take to stop this practice. Discussion to follow the presentation.70154

Join us for a coalition rally at the SF Federal Building to protest the FBI’s repression of activists. We will have speakers from different organizations doing anti-oppression work, and they will share stories of government repression and how we can come together to support one another’s work. Speakers will include: – Susan Stryker, renowned professor, author, and theorist whose work focuses on gender – Jason Woody, Development Director at Rich City Rides, – Andrés Soto, Richmond community organizer, – Paul Paz y Miño, Associate Director at Amazon Watch – Doggtown … Continued

NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net   The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to … Continued

OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued

Alameda County Board of Supervisors Meeting on AB 481Find the Zoom link for the Board meeting here! The American Friends Service Committee has let us know that next week, the Board will be reviewing a military equipment use policy from Sheriff Ahern that would continue to authorize using his arsenal of military weapons for any purpose, including future pre-dawn raids on families. The sheriff’s military equipment inventory includes over 450 assault weapons, 3 armored vehicles, 162 drones, and much more. See the full toolkit from AFSC here, and make your … Continued

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Join us tonight for a rally before the board meeting, and send messages today! Community, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) is retaliating against educators and community members protesting the district’s racist school closure policies, both through physical violence and firings. Last Thursday, August 4, untrained, unlicensed, third-party security providers contracted by OUSD violently assaulted parents and community members at Parker School, injuring at least 11 people and sending four to the ER. Meanwhile, the district has fired at least two educators—32-year veteran Oakland educator Craig Gordon and another teacher who … Continued

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Advocates from all over Northern California will converge at the Capitol to demand this administration take REAL climate action and make a plan to phase out fossil fuels in our state. A recent Supreme Court decision is obstructing federal climate action, oil and gas wells are leaking, and the climate crisis keeps getting worse by the day. We need California to take real leadership now more than ever. We will demand real action from the Newsom administration to protect our communities by ending all new oil and gas drilling permits, … Continued

As the climate crisis gets worse and worse — and the Supreme Court and the filibuster are blocking federal climate action — now more than ever, we need California to take the lead. Join a statewide coalition of climate action organizations in Sacramento August 13 to tell Governor Newsom to take real action: * end all new oil and gas drilling permits * phase out oil and gas production in the state * rolling out a safety buffer between fossil fuel operations and communities * stop all new permits. Details/RSVP70158

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite. For August, 2022 we’re reading the first four chapters of  Beyond Money – A Postcapitalist Strategy, by Anitra Nelson. Available at Pluto Press, Amazon.  For September, we’re reading the remaining chapters. ‘A fascinating portal into arguments about why we need to get beyond money’ – Harry Cleaver What would a world without money look like? This book is a lively thought experiment that deepens our understanding of how money is the driver of political power, environmental destruction and social … Continued

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The México Solidarity Project, SINTTIA, and the continuing importance of international working class solidarity The presentation will include clips from a documentary film and current footage from Labor Notes 2022 Conference with commentary. Not pedantic or dogmatic — more observational with moments of humor (sorely needed). Our speaker, Anne Lewis, is an independent documentary-maker and professor of practice at UT-Austin. Her work reveals working class people fighting for social change. Anne was associate director/assistant camera for HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A. After the strike, she moved to the east Kentucky coalfields where … Continued

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Maybe you’ve been getting our emails for months or years but never come to a DSA event. Maybe you’re a veteran leftist with decades of battles under your belt. Maybe you’re a new member ready to take the next step and get organized.   Wherever you’re coming from, we want to hang out with you! 🌹  Hear what we’re currently working on 💪  Get more involved in critical fights right here in the East Bay 🥨  Eat some snacks Right now, we’re grappling with a conservative attack on our reproductive … 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

John Fisher, son of the late Donald Fisher (of The Gap and related corporate wealth), personifies the connections between these two struggles.  Not only is Fisher (the younger), principal owner of the A’s, pushing for the gentrification grab at the Howard Terminal, but he is a major force in the push for charter schools. not only in Oakland, but nationally, through the Kipp Schools network. Given the continuing struggles on both fronts, with the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) / Oakland Police Department (OPD) repressive actions at the Parker Liberation … Continued

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

WE 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

Join us tonight on Zoom & make a call to stop CARE Court today! Community, Newsom’s bad “CARE” Court legislation (SB 1338) has made it out of its last committee and is headed for a final vote on the Assembly Floor any day now.  Join us tonight on Zoom for our monthly general meeting to get updates about our campaign to stop CARE Court and more.   Where: Online: CC and ASL will be provided Register here! APTP is also in solidarity with fights across the state and world to … Continued

Online Event Location:  https://www.seetickets.us/event/Fight-forOurRightsAbortionAccessFundraiser/494100  1015 Folsom presents Fight for Our Rights: Abortion Access Fundraiser 100% OF ALL PROCEEDS DONATED TO NNAF & PLANNED PARENTHOOD 70186

The screening will be followed by an interview and Q&A discussion with the film director Omar Qattan. Register Ways to help Palestinians: 1) Sign the following: https://www.codepink.org/gaza2022 https://action.sumofus.org/en/a/paypal-stop-discriminating-against-palestinians?sp_ref=772035514.99.176208.e.0.2&referring_akid=107071.16341133.OhWp6y&referring_source=fwd&source=mlt https://palestine.salsalabs.org/suspendallusaidtoisrael/index.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=6345228c-829a-455a-8830-27686ab7fb68 https://www.notechforapartheid.com/ https://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/contact_your_lawmaker_about_hr_2590?utm_campaign=may_14_gaza_update_nwttac&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dcipalestine&emci=898aaa6a-50ba-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=720e95c4-78ba-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=13259655#/ https://ampalestine.salsalabs.org/sanctionisrael/index.html https://www.gazaunlocked.org/act2019MELPA https://secure.everyaction.com/1bUDFJrq_kWz5sjKEeyoPQ2?emci=5d4149d1-36af-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&emdi=48af3b35-3eb3-eb11-a7ad-0050f271b5d8&ceid=1631053 http://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/petition_end_solitary_confinement?recruiter_id=219146 https://defundracism.org/ 2) Call your US House Representative (202-225-3121) and tell them to cosponsor HR2590, The Palestinian Children & Families Act, so that Israel cannot use US funds to imprison and torture Palestinian children. 3) Learn more about Palestine at: – American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) – US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) – Rebuilding Alliance … Continued

oin the Bay Area chapter of the Climate Reality Project and three African climate activists to discuss what people living in the U.S. need to know about supporting and backing the leadership of climate activists in Africa and other places outside the U.S. Register here. This is the fifth in their series of workshops on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ), in preparation for the U.N. COP27 in Egypt in November. The workshop will explore: What do people living in the U.S. need to know about supporting and backing the leadership of climate … Continued

Online Event Location:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/6th-annual-environmental-justice-summit-tickets-323494780597  The Environmental Justice Summit is a bold platform for representation and activism that elevates and amplifies the voice and power of people of color as leaders in the environmental justice movement. This festival will take place on August 20th on the Presidio Main Parade Lawn in San Francisco, CA. Environmentalism is a movement that impacts all classes, colors, and demographics of society and yet there is a lack of diversity in the environmental movement. People of color are strong supporters of environmental issues, more so than is … Continued

Please plan to stay all day. Bring hats, water, lunch, chair or blanket. There preps are an opportunity to lean into the long history of nonviolent direct action, working with affinity groups and Consensus Process decision-making, jail solidarity inside and outside of jail, with plenty of practice in role playing. Contact: weddress777@gmail.com70192

Our speaker will be Professor Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston has published dozens of books.  Hear his presentation on his latest:  “The Counter-Revolution of 1836:  Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism,” 2022, which has implications for California and Indigenous History–and the prospects for a unique form of fascism. Our Zoom room will be opened up as usual at 10:15 am for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and … 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 US FOR AN EXCITING WEBINAR ON CHEVRON v MONTEREY COUNTY, the case pending before the California Supreme Court that will determine the right of our cities and counties to regulate fossil fuel production. Meet the Protect Monterey organizers whose successful ballot initiative to ban drilling and fracking in their county was challenged by Chevron and its army of oil industry bullies, and overturned by reactionary California Superior Court judges. Hear from the one of the attorneys who will arguing before the state Supreme Court to defend the century-old right … Continued

Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet 3rd Sunday of each month. Unless otherwise noted. Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/98037130102 Meeting ID: 980 3713 0102 One tap mobile +16694449171,,98037130102# US +17207072699,,98037130102# US (Denver) Dial by your location +1 669 444 9171 US Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kdD3dhmhEq Agenda Intro (if needed) – 5 min Agenda Review – 5 min Computer update – 5 min County Green Sunday Proposal – 15 min The Oakland Greens Withdraw Proposal Virtual Town Hall update – 5 min Parker direct action report back – 10 min … Continued

Kick-off meeting to create Slingshot issue #136. Slingshot is an independent radical newspaper published in Berkeley since 1988. * Brainstorm articles for next issue * Discussion forum for your article ideas * Orientation on how you can submit articles, art, photographs * Help us discuss our audience and themes for the next issue * Discuss fundraising and distribution * Your chance to comment on Slingshot Everyone is welcome. Issue #136 is due out Fall 2022 Deadline for Issue #136 is September 24, 2022 This is an in-person meeting. Masks are … Continued

Online Event Location:  https://action.aclu.org/webform/trainings-change-makers-safeguarding-your-data-digital-sphere  Are you an organizer looking to shrink your digital fingerprint in the surveillance state? Get equipped with tools to combat digital surveillance and gain skills to understand digital privacy in our one-hour workshop with Adamma Izuegbunam Chau, Director at Cyber Collective. 70188

Organized debtors just won big. And we’re not stopping til all the debt is ALL gone. After months of dragging his feet, Biden has finally announced his plan of debt cancellation: up to $10,000 for borrowers with incomes under $125,000 a year and up to $20,000 of cancellation for Pell grant recipients. We know this is far from what justice demands – to close the raccial wealth gap, to unchain generations of indebted families, to actually have a reparative higher education policy. We know the road ahead is long, with … Continued

Register Lessons From The 2022 National Protest In Ecuador. is hosted by the DSA International Committee. For 18 days in June 2022, the people of Ecuador, led by the indigenous and poorest, fought austerity to a halt. Tens of thousands barricaded highways, paralyzed the capital and much of the nation. Eight people were killed and hundreds injured by police. Led by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), poor and working people won major economic and political concessions, and other demands are in negotiation. Top leaders of this “Paro … Continued

Join Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights to oppose and nonviolently shut down “Pro-Life” SF’s action at UC Berkeley! We REFUSE to tolerate, normalize and legitimize any anti-abortion forces! The overturning of abortion rights is ILLEGITIMATE! The Federal Government Must Restore NATIONWIDE LEGAL ABORTION NOW! Let the anti-abortion forces and those in power know that we will sooner bring the gears of society to a grinding halt through mass nonviolent resistance than accept the horrors of forced motherhood! With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the lives of women, girls and … Continued

Want to join our amazing team of MH First volunteers? 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. Our MH First program is an assembly of doctors, nurses, systems-impacted people, and community members working together to build alternatives to police. The only way to decrease police terror is to decrease police presence in our … Continued

Dear friends, We are inviting you and your family, co-workers, cultural and community members, and activists to enjoy the 2022 CompArte: The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival. The Chiapas Support Committee in partnership with the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park is organizing CompArte [2]: The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival at Peralta on Saturday, August 27, 2022, from 12:00-4:00 pm. We invite you to enjoy an afternoon of music, poetry, art, tamales, aguas frescas, good food, and community! CompArte Festival & Solidarity CompArte was started in 2016 [3] by the Zapatistas (EZLN, Ejército … Continued

Speciesism’s effect on the world is unfathomably destructive. Like other forms of oppression and prejudice, it ranges from interpersonal microaggressions, to downright bigotry, to entire societal institutions that thrive off direct or indirect exploitation and violence. It’s an issue that’s widely underrecognized so please WEAR BLACK CLOTHING and join us Saturday afternoon, August 27th to take part in the 8th annual World Day for the end of Speciesism where we’ll march a portion of the highly trafficked Bay Bridge in hopes of drawing attention to the issue along with other … Continued

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library LEPAIO: Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO International Operations. The AFL-CIO has since its existence been involved in taking money from the CIA and other government agencies for international operations around the world  It has supported coups in Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Ukraine, and attempted coups in Venezuela, Cuba. It now operates in over 60 countries without real transparency and reports to the membership of the AFL-CIO members. Most workers in the AFL-CIO do not know about this history or the fact that … 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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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