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Wealth inequality is exacerbated by criminal legal system contact – making poor people and people of color even more likely to remain locked in cycles of poverty and criminalization. In this workshop, we will examine the ways racial capitalism has financialized the carceral system and how we can fight back! Register 74568

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

C4C Action Monthly Assembly Register here Join Care 4 Community Action at our upcoming virtual monthly assembly! You’ll get to hear from invited guests, and learn more about how local government works. Plus you’ll get to find out ways to get involved in this organizing!74549

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As we all collectively process the trauma of yet another public lynching of a Black man, this Saturday has been called as a National Day of Action for Tyre Nichols. Tyre Nichols was murdered by five police gang unit officers in Memphis, TN following a traffic stop that never should have happened. He should be alive today. APTP will host a Community Skate Session and Healing Village this Saturday, February 4, 1 to 4pm to continue to stand in solidarity with the family of Tyre Nichols and to demand police … Continued

Suds, Snacks, and Socialism at the Starry Plough Please join us as we reconvene our forum series in person at our traditional gathering place. We will also be conducting the forum series simultaneously online. Doors open at 2:00 pm. Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/SS_S_Haiti_2023 to receive your personal link to participate in this event online Black History Month is a product of the struggle for African and African American liberation. The Haitian Revolution, which took place from 1791-1804, marked the beginning of liberation movements by and for African and … Continued

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Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95452963262?pwd=Y2V6cHl4RjRlOE0wZTFWcktOaFZpdz09 An unprecedented, sustained, vibrant uprising of the people of Iran has unleashed the people’s spirits, minds, and dreams… • What does it represent? • How broad is the movement and what are its goals? • What kind of regime is ruling in Iran and how did it come to power? • Why are hundreds of peaceful protesters being killed on the streets, thousands arrested, tortured and subject to sham trials and executions? • Who are the thousands of political prisoners in Iran’s prisons? It’s urgent that people around the … Continued

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.  The Chancellor:  January 30, 2023 will mark the 90th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s ascension to the Chancellorship of Weimar Germany.  Yet, Hitler did not take power, it was offered to him.  Little more than three years after the start of the Great Depression, President Paul von Hindenburg was able to exercise Article 48 of the Weimar … Continued

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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

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To register:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEof-isqzsvHtIz_YFVwpOvckDgM_0W_J1f This 90 minute workshop will equally emphasize factual evidence on hydrogen from Professor David Cebon, and strategic communications advice from a global communications group’s hydrogen specialist, to help provide the wider climate community with an understanding of hydrogen, topline key messages, and tools to navigate this complex topic. As natural gas has increasingly become a politically divisive topic on the global stage, many of the world’s economies are desperately looking for ways to speed up the energy transition.  Oil and gas companies have reciprocated by latching on to the “hydrogen economy” … Continued

https://eff.org/EFA-2nd-Thu Join us for a talk from EFF staff technologist Will Greenberg on Fog Data Science� a data broker which has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. You can get a head start on the topic by checking out our blog series on the topic here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/inside-fog-data-science-secretive-company-selling-mass-surveillance-local-police 74575

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 After an incident of state terror in our community, APTP’s First Responders Committee works to connect impacted families and community members with material support, resources, legal referrals and more. We organize to respond to police murders and incidents of excessive force because we believe in the need to defend ourselves and our communities from state violence. If you’re interested in getting involved in our family support work, we have a training opportunity  with our first responders committee who work directly with impacted families day in and day out. Register to … Continued

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. For our February meeting we are reading Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It (Verso, Amazon) by Nancy Fraser. A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world. Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice … Continued

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Marxism and Problems of Linguistics. Our speaker is Yusuf Gürsey who is originally from Istanbul, Turkey and currently lives in New Haven, CT. He is a member of the CPUSA, as well as a member of the US Peace Council in Connecticut and a member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Marxist Education centered in Cambridge, MA. After retiring from being an associate professor of physics in Turkey, he studied graduate level linguistics online at the Virtual Linguistics Campus broadcast from the University of Marburg in Germany. He … Continued

Register here Learn about a plan to destroy California forest land and increase pollution—here and overseas—by producing “biomass,” a false climate solution that does more harm than good. The plan is to produce wood pellets to burn in for energy that’s supposedly “renewable,” because trees absorb carbon dioxide when they grow back—disregarding the fact that the CO2 from burning wood is all released immediately, while it takes many decades for a new tree to absorb that much. We don’t have that time! Golden State Natural Resources is proposing to build two … 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

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83676331606?pwd=SUtqU1V3OW1SZ0kzQTlMeDhDRXA5dz09 Natylie Baldwin is the author of The View from Moscow: Understanding Russia and U.S.-Russia Relations and co-author of Ukraine: ZBIG’s Grand Chessboard & How the West Was Checkmated.  She traveled throughout western Russia in 2015 and 2017 and interviewed a cross-section of Russians.  Her writing has appeared in various publications including The Grayzone, Consortium News, RT, The Globe Post, Antiwar.com, and OpEd News.  Her websites are:  https://natyliesbaldwin.com/  and:  https://natyliesb.medium.com/ Baldwin will discuss Ukraine’s history and how it relates to contemporary political and cultural divisions in the country.  She will … 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

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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 us at our monthly general meeting tonight at 7pm, and tomorrow for two solidarity actions… The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational organization that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. APTP hosts its general meetings on the 3rd Wednesday of every month; since Covid we have been meeting online. If you want to learn more about our work and figure out other ways to plug in, you can join our next general meeting tonight at 7pm.  … Continued

Why now? Judge Lucretia Clemons of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has ordered the Philadelphia District Attorney to turn over its files up to 200 boxes to Mumia’s defense team. His lawyers expect to find further evidence that he was framed, that police coerced and bribed witnesses, and that extreme racism and judicial bias have permeated all the proceedings against him. What you can do now: In addition to participating in the actions of Feb. 16, we can write letters to Judge Clemons to demand Mumia’s immediate release. Here is her … Continued

All are welcomed to stand with Mothers On The March and People from the Community. We stand with signs and banners and chalk the sidewalk, bringing attention to the crimes of the SFPD. Our Demands: -The Police Officers Association be SHUT DOWN! -The SF POA Be Declared a Non-Grata Organization -Abolish the ‘Officers Bill of Rights’ – This has been used to protect officers in abusing our communities! -Jail Killer Cops – we demand killer cops be charged and convicted with murder -Abolish the Police!74600

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Oakland Greens 4th annual virtual townhall: Green Party politics:  What are best practices for growing the  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oakland-greens-4th-annual-alternative-political-parties-virtual-townhall-tickets-483979605027?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Our 4th annual alternative political parties event:  What are best practices to overgrow for a new system? The Oakland Greens have long voiced that a best practice might be using rallies as candidate recruitment. We think the current system is running exactly as planned and we need a completely new system. What are your ideas? Virtual doors open att 6 PM (with the best pre-show music diversity!)  The discussion begins at 6:30 PM … Continued

Turkiye (the new and improved name replacing Turkey) is in a nosedive toward a total collapse.  This is an expected route of all neo-colonial countries dependent on imperialism. A new section of capitalists is using the NATO Gladio criminals to implement a narco-state to keep the economy alive in Turkiye.  Privatization and marketization of every aspect of life have come to a total failure. Unprecedented Corruption at every level, bribery, theft, eco-destruction, gang rule, and the rise of deadly attacks, especially on women, shows the limits of a market economy … Continued

PEACE MARCH etc. Ends 3pm with a tea party outside Nancy Pelosi’s mansion in Pacific Heights. A flatbed truck will transport marchers. Details: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/02/05/18854146.php Big peace rallies are starting up again! We’re hoping lots of people will find a way to BE THERE in San Francisco at noon on February 19, this Sunday, and to encourage others. For rallies around the nation, see: https://rageagainstwar.com/rallies/ WHAT: Rage Against the War Machine march and rally WHEN: Sunday, February 19, 12:00 noon WHERE: Embarcadero Plaza, SF WHO: You, your friends, your family WHY: … Continued

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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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Agenda | Resources | Registration As part of BCLT’s newly launched project on biometrics, we will be hosting a virtual symposium on February 22 and 23, 2023 titled ‘Biometrics Regulation: Global State-of-Play’.  Join us to hear leading global experts in the fields of law, public policy, social science, and computer science discuss existing data protection regulations for biometrics and future pathways for ethical innovation. We will discuss real-world innovations in Digital ID, facial recognition technology, and commercial digital wellness. Registration is now open!(opens in a new tab)   The aim of the virtual symposium is … Continued

CANCELLED We have a rare opportunity to work together to make national headlines for our sites. The Palestine, OH scandal has been flooding the news and it’s about to die out. We need to catch that wave before it’s gone. Let’s work together to bring attention to the fact that this isn’t just happening in E. Palestine. California is its own environmental trainwreck. We’re working with a media consultant and will get national news coverage if we get enough participation from all EJ groups in CA. We’ll have a press … Continued

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  A timely discussion: “Police Reform in Oakland and Berkeley, Is it Working?” The event is hosted by the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club. The discussion of Oakland will start with Darwin BondGraham, co-author of the acclaimed new book The Riders Come Out at Night, an explosive history of the Oakland Police Department. An award-winning investigative journalist, he serves as News Editor of The Oaklandside. The second Oakland speaker, Millie Cleveland, directed the Violence Prevention Project for West Oakland and is active with the Coalition for Police Accountability. For Berkeley, we … Continued

Help build the March 21 national day of action demanding that banks stop funding climate disaster. Third Act and others have called this event to highlight the Banking on Our Future campaign: a national effort to pressure the Big 4 Banks—Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo—to stop financing the climate crisis. Participants pledge that they will close their accounts and credit cards with these banks if they don’t shift to clean, renewable investments. Wells Fargo, headquartered here, is one of the biggest fossil fuel investors worldwide. Join weekly actions at … Continued

The Wilmington Ten, State Repression, and African American Politics in the 1970s – Kenneth Janken In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500,000 in property damage, and the firebombing of a white-owned corner grocery store, before the National Guard restored an uneasy peace.  Despite glaring irregularities in the subsequent trial, ten young persons were convicted of arson and conspiracy and then … Continued

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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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