Calendar

RSVP here.  Facebook post here. Join a broad coalition to demand that our elected officials hold the line against passing any dirty side deal with Senator Joe Manchin and the fossil fuel industry.  Adoption would mean the further sacrifice of frontline communities, fasttracking dangerous fossil fuel projects, pushing approval for Manchin’s pet Mountain Valley Pipeline, and gutting bedrock environmental laws mandating review and community input on infrastructure projects.  Now’s the time to take a stand and say that no community can be a sacrifice for fossil fuel profits. This dirty side deal was … Continued

Most folks think that last week Biden canceled student debt. But the truth is that last week, Biden announced a cancellation plan that most people will have to APPLY for before their debts are canceled. All that Biden’s pledge has yielded so far is crashed government website and promises from the Dept of Ed that they are “working” on the application that the whole cancellation program rests on. Pretty great system. Still. Some relief is coming, even if it’s going to be a set of hoops to jump through to … Continued

https://twitter.com/TristenSchmidt/status/156533811123986841670238

We will address  the relationship between the class struggle at home and anti-impeeriism abroad. Speaker(s) TBA 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 recording) will begin as close to 10:30 am as possible and will end at 12:30, but the Waiting Room may remain open later for informal discussion. ZOOM LINK https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81133350622?pwd=dUUyUWppbWt6djVTaElISUhocXpSUT09 Meeting ID: 811 3335 0622 Passcode: ICSS2717rs One tap mobile +16694449171,,81133350622#,,,,*5892135124# US +16699006833,,81133350622#,,,,*5892135124# US … 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

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

Online Event Location:  https://www.classy.org/event/now-and-next-how-has-redlining-persisted-into-the-modern-day/e411431  We think of redlining as a past practice. But in reality, the shameful legacy of redlining lives on today. It’s embedded into our data –our health outcomes, education, zip codes, wealth –and increasingly, into new technology. Zeroing in algorithmic bias, speakers will discuss how modern redlining affects people of color today, and how we can leverage technology as a positive force for equity and economic opportunity for formerly redlined communities. This session is designed for anyone with an interest in understanding the changing landscape of structural racism … Continued

online, please register at: https://bit.ly/3QfEm8l Are you concerned about the future of the planet and all life on it? are you concerned about the IRA? you are invited to a free Teach-in on People’s Assembly Saturday September 10th, from 1 to 3pm PST on zoom. Local Celebrities, Alycee Lane, & Jeremy Lent (authors) will be presenting as well as Yusra Bitar & Derek Seidman of littlesis. This Teach-in is free and open to the public. For more event information: https://triplejustice.org 70241

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

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library ICSS Sunday Mornings at the Marxist Library info@icssmarx.org via mitalumprod.onmicrosoft.com      Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library   The opinions expressed in our Sunday morning programs are those of the speakers only and do not represent any kind of group consensus by the members of ICSS. Programs are scheduled on a “first come first served” basis. Our general practice is to allot at least half of the time to comradely discussion of the issues including as many voices as practical. NOTE: The Library will … Continued

Save the date for a lively panel discussion!  This time we’re focusing on water issues and the SF Bay-Delta.  (Yes, when it comes to California politics, oil and water do mix.)  What exactly is the Delta-Conveyance Project and why is it important that we get involved?  Why do Indigenous and environmental groups contest the state’s claim that it will protect our infrastructure and water supply from “disruptions caused by sea level rise, climate change and seismic threats”? Paul Seger, President of the Delta Water Board and head of the Delta Group Sierra Club, … 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

Thank you to everyone who came out to Wood St encampment last week to provide support to residents during this violent displacement. Wood St encampment is home to an estimated 200 to 300 individuals, some who have lived here over a decade. With little to no resources or support from the state, we need to keep showing up for our unhoused neighbors! Please show up again this Monday and Tuesday anytime between 6:30 am to 5 pm at 34th and Wood St in West Oakland. This is the largest encampment in … 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

Thank you to everyone who came out to Wood St encampment last week to provide support to residents during this violent displacement. Wood St encampment is home to an estimated 200 to 300 individuals, some who have lived here over a decade. With little to no resources or support from the state, we need to keep showing up for our unhoused neighbors! Please show up again this Monday and Tuesday anytime between 6:30 am to 5 pm at 34th and Wood St in West Oakland. This is the largest encampment in … Continued

The nonprofit news model is growing nationwide, giving rise to local and national coverage from newsrooms that are independent of the motivations of shareholders and advertisers. A panel of journalists from nonprofit news group El Timpano, Mission Local and San Jose Spotlight will describe their goals, successes, and challenges. A staffperson will moderate the discussion, and there will be a question and answer period. El Timpano works in collaboration with residents and community partners to create empowering, two-way channels of information that inform and engage the Bay Area’s Latino and … Continued

On September 13, 2022, Chairman Omali Yeshitela returns to Oakland’s Uhuru House, headquarters of the African People’s Socialist Party in the 1980s from where he rebuilt the Black Power Movement out of the ashes of COINTELPRO. Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton made his last public appearances at the Uhuru House shortly before his assassination in 1989. In Oakland, Yeshitela led campaigns that put a Community Control of Housing initiative on the ballot, took over parks and an abandoned building to serve those without homes and built black community economic … Continued

Please join KPFA Radio when we welcome UC Berkeley professor Brad DeLong to celebrate the release of his most recent book, Slouching Towards Utopia. This live, in-person event will feature Brad DeLong in conversation with Michael Mechanic, author of Jackpot and senior editor at Mother Jones. “The author conveys a wealth of information in elegant, accessible prose, combining grand, epochal perspectives with fascinating discursions on everything from alternating-current electricity to the gender wage gap. The result is a cogent interpretation of economic modernity that illuminates both its nigh-miraculous achievements and its … 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

People’s Park Autumn Equinox ceremony Sat. 9/17 for Protection, Justice and Balance Gather on Sat. September 17 at 4 pm Ceremony at 5pm. (Bring a hat, your own food and water) At about 4pm music with Hali Hammer on stage Also free tarot readings before and after the event. Literature tables encouraged. Afterwards the circle opens onto the Stage in the west for an open mike. Eat and drink your own food, and enjoy music, songs and voices for Protection, Justice and Balance for the Park. 70267

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91297649127pwd=eitYTk1nVVFPdVlYK2VoWXQ2TjNHZz09 The U.S. War with Mexico, Manifest Destiny and the Rise of the U.S. Empire With Amy S. Greenberg, George Winfree Professor of American History Amy Greenberg is an historian of antebellum America (1800-1860) with a particular interest in the relationship between the United States and the rest of the world in the decades before the Civil War. Amy has published five books. Among them are • Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk • A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion … 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

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

https://twitter.com/YoungWomenFree/status/157094066838555852870272

Most folks think that last week Biden canceled student debt. But the truth is that last week, Biden announced a cancellation plan that most people will have to APPLY for before their debts are canceled. All that Biden’s pledge has yielded so far is crashed government website and promises from the Dept of Ed that they are “working” on the application that the whole cancellation program rests on. Pretty great system. Still. Some relief is coming, even if it’s going to be a set of hoops to jump through to … Continued

There will be a documentary film screening of PUSH with former United Nations Housing Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha on solutions to Oakland’s housing crisis. The screening will be followed by a discussion, and will be a great opportunity to learn about ways you can get active in the fight to make housing as a human right this election cycle and beyond. Please RSVP on Eventbrite to reserve your spot Fife’s District 3 Office is co-hosting alongside Moms 4 Housing, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE Action), Oakland Tenants … Continued

Join Youth vs Apocalypse to say: No to Coal in Oakland! and  No to all forms of violence! This is action is part of the Global Climate Strike on September 23, 2022 This global climate strike is focused specifically on economic, racial, and international justice   “To demand policymakers and world leaders to prioritize #PeopleNotProfit!  Globally, we are asking for Climate Reparations, not as charity, but as a transformative justice process in which political power will return to the people.  This should be a follow through on the demands from Indigenous, black, … Continued

Our speakers, Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny will discuss their book,  Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union (2004), and  their reflections since writing the book, including Gorbachev’s role in overturning socialism in the Soviet Union, why he arose, whether this was inevitable, and what lessons are to be learned. Roger Keeran is  Professor Emeritus at Empire State School of the State University of New York (SUNY), He has been a member of the Communist Party USA for three decades and is currently a member of the advisory board of the Marxist journal Science … 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

Ever since Roe v Wade legalized limited access to abortion in 1973, it has been under attack across the country. The nationwide assault on abortion rights has many looking at this problem and questioning what we can do? Jenny Brown, the author of the book Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now will join us to discuss the fight for reproductive rights, both the lessons from the past and strategies for today. Please join us online for this important discussion about standing up to the attacks on reproductive rights, as well as the … Continued

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH AT 7:00 PM Please join KPFA Radio  when we welcome Pulitzer-prize winning author Chris Hedges in celebration of the release of his most recent book, The Greatest Evil is War. This live, in-person event will be hosted by Project Censored’s Mickey Huff. “Hedges delivers a blistering condemnation of war in all forms and for all reasons -this spiky treatise deserves to be reckoned with.” Publisher’s Weekly “Chris Hedges has compiled a remarkable record of reporting and analysis. This is a contribution of great significance in these troubled times.” … Continued

https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/157482458282067968070289

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

https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/157482458282067968070289

https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/157482458282067968070289