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You are invited to the Municipalism and Labor panel, hosted by the Municipalism Learning Series. Workers are rising up and taking back cities from capitalists and corporations. Unions are negotiating for benefits for the community and not just members, emerging from behind the fortress. This moment of labor insurgency in the aftermath of the pandemic, which laid bare the disposability of the working class, has echoes in historical struggles to make cities more livable and democratic. RSVP to receive the Zoom link at http://municipalism.org Panelists: BIANCA CUNNINGHAM, Bargaining for the … Continued

May Day 2023 For Workers Struggle Victories In The US & Around The World Join Labor Troubadour Mike Stout From Pittsburgh, PA and Others Who Will Perform & Sing Out. The world is on fire from the general strikes in France, in Greece and struggles around the world to defend public services, against privatization, to stop union busting, to protect the planet and to stop the growing repression, racism, fascism and danger of world war. Workers are fighting for unions throughout the country from Amazon, Starbucks. From the railroads, airlines, … 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

An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit, climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it’s an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. Not To Late is latest in the … Continued

May 3 is the annual World Press Freedom Day. Throughout the world journalist are being targeted, tortured and murdered and there is growing censorship by governments & corporate media. In the United States, the two most world known journalists are Julian Assange who was also publisher of Wiki-leaks and Mumia Abu-Jamal. Julian Assange is member of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance in Australia and has been imprisoned in the UK for “espionage” and Mumia was a member of CWA NABET and working as a journalist on Philadelphia’s NPR (National … Continued

AGENDA ITEMS: 4. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – DPW – Illegal Dumping Cameras a. Third party sharing (Use Policy Sec. H) notice and report b. Review and take possible action, including to receive the report and possibly make recommendations to the City Council. 5. Dept. of Transportation – Speed Safety System Pilot Program a. DOT will present on AB 645 and request a motion of support for the bill. The SOS Initiative aims to prevent severe and fatal traffic crashes, eliminate injury inequities, and carefully assess and mitigate any equity impacts … Continued

Rally and Discussion  Kshama only takes an average worker’s wage, donating the rest to a solidarity fund to support working class people fighting for their rights. Through Kshama’s office, we’ve won: – the first $15/hr minimum wage in the country, launching the 15 now movement nationally – a tax on Amazon’s profits to build affordable, green housing in Seattle – the nation’s first ban on caste discrimination – caps on late fees for renters in Seattle Now Workers Strike Back, initiated by Kshama and Socialist Alternative, is building a movement … Continued

Join Us to Celebrate People’s Park! Join the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group for a moment of refreshments and celebration of the recent appellate court victory and People’s Park’s placement on the National Register of Historic Places. We want to thank the historians, writers, gardeners, everyone who came together and continues to work toward the longevity of Berkeley’s most famous landmark. Tom Dalzell, author of “1969; the Struggle for People’s Park”, will speak, and we’ll have additional speakers to clarify where we are now in our effort to educate … Continued

David Bacon will speak about the struggle for housing in rural and urban California. For background, see David’s latest Photoessay, Wood Street Commons Final Stand. https://capitalandmain.com/wood-street-commons-final-stand Join Zoom Meeting 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 (San Jose) Dial by your location +1 669 444 9171 US +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdVC04xvn9 74863

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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

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

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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WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch. 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 … Continued

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Get your tickets here Big Oil has bullied California for too long. This spring the Big Oil Resistance Tour will conduct hold seven events across California, to build our movement’s power to end neighborhood drilling and stop issuing new fossil fuel permits NOW. Governor Newsom talks tough about taxing their excess profits. But his administration continues to hand out drilling permits within the safety buffer zone recently passed into law. While Big Oil has put that law on hold by pouring some of those excess profits into a referendum campaign … Continued

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 Climate Chaos: An Existential Crisis — With Ted Franklin (talking about the challenges facing the climate crisis movement), Eugene Coyle (talking about the question of de-growth), and (probably) Steve Ongerth (talking about the efforts to join the struggle within the labor movement). Co-sponsored by the Oakland Greens.  A hybrid event, at the Starry Plough and on Zoom, via:  https://bit.ly/ClimateChaos-230506 74828

Goldman Sachs bank research this past week published a report that 300,000,000 jobs worldwide will be impacted by the now accelerating introduction of Artificial Intelligence software (machines) that will either eliminate or sharply reduce the hours of work for workers involved in simple decision-making tasks like customer service reps, paralegals, receptionists, retail services, human resources reps, copywriters, basic software coders, and countless other occupations. Its report updates that of five years ago by McKinsey Consultants that estimated 5 million jobs impacted. Academics hail the news that it will mean a … 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

The climate crisis is a global emergency. Government action is beginning to turn things around, and yet the pace is still much too slow. Tonight Dr. Bernadette Rodgers will talk about the current state of the climate crisis, and what we can do. She’ll tell us about her own path to activism, the many ways to engage, what activists call the “Ladder of Engagement”, the rise of Scientist Rebellion (among others), and the surprising personal rewards of direct action. We are living in an “all hands on deck” moment, so … Continued

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

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Info/RSVP Join Sunflower Alliance, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, and other climate justice advocates in an action demanding stronger federal and state rules to protect us from the toxic pollution and greenhouse gas emitted by ocean-going vessels. Governor Newsom and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently announced they would delay implementation of a rule that CARB passed in 2020. It requires most ocean-going vessels to plug into onshore electricity rather than burning fossil fuels while at port. The rule was supposed to go into effect early in 2023 — … Continued

East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee is holding a joint social with San Francisco DSA’s Labor Working Group. Meet rank and filers in local unions, workers organizing their workplace, and other labor activists from the City, the Town, and beyond. Learn about the exciting work our members are doing in both chapters and build solidarity across the bay. Bring your union swag and come with any announcements and events you’d like to share with committee members and comrades!74873

WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch. 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 … 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

Online. Register here Extreme heat is the deadliest—and fastest-growing—climate-related health hazard, especially for the most vulnerable patients, workers, and lower-income and frontline communities. Physicians for Social Responsibility SF Bay Chapter is hosting a discussion on ways we can advocate for achievable protections against the health threats of extreme heat,  including “equitable access to medical care, health info, and warning systems during extreme heat events; affordable cooling such as heat-cooling pumps; affordable and protected access to electricity; community cooling centers; labor laws to protect workers; and the phase out of fossil fuels … Continued

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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

Once a year we come together to discuss and debate priorities, and set the trajectory for our chapter! Join us as we plan how to build powerful working class organization in the year to come. More details coming soon. We encourage everyone to attend in person! RSVP If you need to join by Zoom, here is the info: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86302212922?pwd=V3U1b3JjNFN3U0Rsd1JLL1F6RW83Zz09 Meeting ID: 863 0221 2922 Passcode: 700851 One tap mobile +16694449171,,86302212922# US +16699006833,,86302212922# US (San Jose)74843

On the eve of Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting, frontline communities—in Richmond and around the world—have a message for Chevron’s senior management, board of directors, and shareholders:  clean up your act, and stop profiting off the destruction of communities and the environment! The event in Richmond is part of a global day of action by the True Cost of Chevron Network, a global alliance of affected communities and environmental and human rights organizations that has been protesting Chevron’s criminal activities around the world for over a decade.   SPONSORS Communities for … Continued

Online.  Register here. Join the Sunflower Alliance May webinar featuring a presentation by longtime energy expert Greg Karras on the six proposed hydrogen projects in Contra Costa County, their current status, and the reality behind the clean energy hype. These new H2 projects are joining the four already operating in the county.  None of them uses sun or wind for producing the hydrogen, and each of them poses its own dangers to the community and the climate. The communities of Richmond, Rodeo, Martinez and Pittsburg are all directly impacted. Two of these “renewable” … 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

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

On Zoom.   Register here. In spite of our climate-friendly reputation, California is still a major oil and gas producer. This Climate Center webinar will explore opportunities for developing an equitable, statewide plan to phase out oil and gas extraction, imports, refining, end-use, and exports in a managed decline.  Managed decline means that facilities closest to sensitive receptors (like schools and homes) are the first to shut down, and ensures a truly just transition that benefits workers, families, and communities who depend on the oil and gas industry for their livelihoods.  Presenters … Continued

Electrification of buildings and transportation is necessary to addressing the climate crisis, but lithium used in the batteries needed to store that energy comes at a huge cost for communities living near sites of lithium mining. Local Clean Energy Alliance presents “Lithium Mining Behind the Curtain: What is Equity in an Extractive Energy Transition?” Speakers will describe the devastating effects of lithium extraction; struggles of people in the US (including California), Chile, and Argentina against the harm done by lithium extraction in their communities; and strategies for reducing the harm—public … Continued

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WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch. 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 … Continued

Want to learn techniques for documenting cops? Want a refresher on your rights when interacting with police? Have other questions for Berkeley Copwatchers? Join us in person at the Grassroots House4! Accessibility: In person, ramp access via the front of the house. The training is in the back room. Request a training for your group 74971

Rick will speak about his recent trip to Russia and especially Crimea. In 2014, following the coup in the Ukrainian capital, Crimea had a referendum and decisively decided to secede from Ukraine and “re-unify” with Russia.  In many ways, the situation in Crimea is emblematic of the Ukraine conflict.  Rick will describe what he saw and learned on this trip. Rick Sterling is a Bay Area journalist, active with Mt Diablo Peace and Justice Center, Task Force on the Americas, and Veterans For Peace, East Bay Chapter. Join Zoom Meeting … 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

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

WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch. 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 … Continued

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