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Bay Area Troublemakers School 9:00 am
Bay Area Troublemakers School @ Oakland Technical High School
Apr 8 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Bringing together union members, labor activists, and local officers, a Troublemakers School is an incredible space for networking, building solidarity, and sharing successes, strategy, and inspiration. It’s a real shot in the arm for newbies and seasoned activists alike. You will be inspired. Hear speakers from the front lines of recent struggles. You will learn new skills. The one-day conference features interactive workshops, panels and meetings, ranging from crucial basic skills like helping your colleagues beat apathy to advanced topics like winning first contracts and running for union office. Registration (scroll down … Continued
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Wood Street Eviction Support 8:30 am
Wood Street Eviction Support @ Wood St. Commons
Apr 10 @ 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
First – we need you to show up to support our unhoused nneighbors in West Oakland who are being displaced starting next Monday, April 10! We got word last week that unfortunately the City of Oakland will be moving forward with evicting the last remaining residents of the Wood Street community in West Oakland. They claim to be clearing this lot to build “affordable” housing, but the reality is no one who is currently living there will be able to afford the proposed housing. The expansive Wood Street settlement at … Continued
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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber 5:00 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber @ Online
Apr 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber @ Online
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. For our March, April and May meetings we are reading Debt: The First 5000 Years  by David Graeber (Warwick, Amazon). For  our March meeting we’ll be reading the first five chapters. For  the  April  meeting  we  are  reading  chapters  6 through  9. For our May meeting will are reading the remainder of the book. Before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems … Continued
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Tenants’ Rights Workshops 3:00 pm
Tenants’ Rights Workshops @ Online
Apr 24 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
The Debt Collective: Our weekly online Tenants Rights Workshops for California renters. During these training sessions, we talk about the eviction process, reasons so many tenants are facing eviction, and what tenants can and are doing to defend themselves. These meetings are held on Zoom every 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Monday of the month. The next meeting will be held on April 24th at 3 PM Pacific time – you can register here for the meeting. Register for Meeting 74792
he People Vs. Wells Fargo Action 7:00 pm
he People Vs. Wells Fargo Action @ Wells Fargo HQ
Apr 24 @ 7:00 pm – 12:00 pm
At the end of April, three of the world’s largest funders of fossil fuels will hold their Annual General Meetings: Wells Fargo, Citibank, and Bank of America. These three banks alone have loaned more than $789 billion to coal, oil, and gas companies since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015. With allies across the country – we are going to shut down, occupy, and disrupt business at the global headquarters of all three banks the day before their annual shareholder meetings. their most important meetings of the year. Citi’s … Continued
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Save E. 12th Coalition: Public Land for Public Good 1:30 pm
Save E. 12th Coalition: Public Land for Public Good @ Oakland City Hall
Apr 25 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
WE NEED YOU to keep us winning, to secure our Exclusive Negotiating Agreement (ENA) for E12th which will be voted  at Oakland City Council’s CED meeting. We hear there may be turnout to throw curve balls at our project, so we’d love your voices of support. Our project is committed to the diversity that won this campaign as outlined in the ENA from the BIPOC neighbors who most risk displacement to those we want to hire to build this housing. We want council members of the CED to: pass the … Continued
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