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Speaker: Eugene E Ruyle Labor Day is more than just a holiday or a day for sales. From the first Labor Day March in 1882 in New York City to the the historic Pullman Strike of 1894, Labor Day has its roots in struggle. It was brought to you by the same folks who gave you the weekend: the Labor Movement. Labor Day is the twin of May Day! Let’s reclaim our history! Gene Ruyle is a retired union member with the California Faculty Association, a former delegate to the … Continued

The longest-running film festival on issues surrounding immigration, the San Francisco Immigrant Film Festival, SFImFF, is back with the selection of the best short films from all around the world that were shown during its five editions. The event where refugees, immigrants and exiles find their own voice will be held this Sunday 3rd (September) at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, MCCLA, in San Francisco. This edition will be a movie marathon with 18 short films divided into two screenings, at 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm and admission is … 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

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Prominent Agenda Items: 4. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – DOT – Mobile Parking Payment System a. Review and take possible action on the proposed use policy 5. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Fixed Wing Aircraft (with surveillance technology) a. Review and take possible action on a proposed use policy  75501

Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/LaborOnTheMove to receive your personal link to participate in this event online Following the Covid disruptions, we are seeing a new militancy among U.S. workers, with an uptick of labor organizing and activity that has not been seen in decades. President Biden was able to stop railway workers from striking last December. Now union members are choosing more progressive leadership. How can they assert themselves independently and throw off the stranglehold by the Democratic Party? Luna Osleger – UAW* member, academic researcher at UC Santa … Continued

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Speaker: Sara Flounders    President Obama famously announced the US foreign policy pivot to Asia: “To preserve US hegemony, we have to make sure that America writes the rules of the global economy or China will.” The US ruling class has pushed this topic of China to the top of our agenda. US imperialism’s hostility to China is increasing with military threats, new rounds of sanctions, and increasingly wild fabrications. The media have been saturated with allegations of human rights abuses, forced labor, religious persecution and “genocide.” Addressing these topics … Continued

Join us Sunday September 10! Stop by or hang out the whole time. Know Your Rights training 12-2pm. Share a meal in community 2-4pm! You are invited Sunday Sept 10! Delicious lunch grilled and prepped by your copwatch community. A training hosted by copwatch, for first-timers and those wanting a refresher course on their rights. All are welcome. Let’s talk about what’s going on in Berkeley, and beyond. We’ve got updates to share, and we wanna hear what you’re seeing and what you’re working on! RSVP! (RSVP so we can … 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

  This forum will reflect on the massive wave of current labor organizing, ranging from campaigns in major logistics (UPS) to industry (auto) to retail service (Trader Joe’s and Starbucks) to education (the University of California system, the Oakland Education Association, and United Teachers Los Angeles). It will be lead by Barry Eidlin, activist and scholar at McGill University, who is renowned for advocacy for, and analysis of, the “rank and file” strategy for building power from the base. Barry Eidlin is Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. He … 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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The Guaranteed Income Works national tour is coming to Oakland on Tuesday, September 12th, with a screening of the new film, It’s Basic. Featured in the Tribeca Film Festival, It’s Basic follows recipients of guaranteed income – monthly cash payments with no strings attached – as they experience the transformative effects of financial stabillity on their lives and families. After the film, Former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf will participate in a roundtable discussion with Michael D. Tubbs, founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, and Alisha Roe, a recipient of … Continued

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Online via Zoom (Register: https://forms.gle/3ndS1aHkPnudEXSHA) Join our community to discuss the impact of Shotspotter, an audio surveillance system used to detect gunshots, which was installed in Pasadena in 2022.  We will also hear experiences and lessons learned about Shotspotter from other cities across the nation. Speakers: Mohammad Tajsar, ACLU, Pasadena Ed Vogel, Lucy Parsons Labs, Chicago Tracy Rosenberg, Oakland Privacy, Oakland Aje “Je” Amaechi, Freedom to Thrive, Portland Moderated by Florence Annang, POP Pasadena 75541

New Copwatcher Orientation Wanna get involved in Berkeley Copwatch? Sign up for an orientation this month. Learn about how we do the work and find where you can plug in! Wed. September 13, 7:00-8:00pm Wed. September 21, 7:00-8:00pm There will be more new copwatcher orientations in the future, please email us if you can’t make the sessions above: berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com Do you want to get involved in Berkeley Copwatch? Learn more or contact us directly at berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com Donate 75500

Save the date for the next virtual summit from the Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force: Climate and Indigenous Leadership. This is the next in the series on Climate, Social Justice, and the Rights of Nature. Save the date.  Watch for program details Register here75558

Join in the Global Climate Strike with Fridays For Future Palo Alto and partners to demand: End Fossil Fuels! Protest the climate emergency by joining us for a climate action rally with speakers, music, and dance at Lytton Plaza in Palo Alto on Friday, September 15 at 4PM. This event is part of a worldwide weekend of climate action ahead of the UN Climate Summit 2023. More info: https://www.instagram.com/fridaysforfuture_paloalto/ FROM FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE WEBSITE: SEPT 15th GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE https://fridaysforfuture.org/september15/ We must end the Era of Fossil Fuels. Scientists have warned … Continued

Speaker: Raj Sahai The Modi led BJP is in its 10th year governing India. India is 5th largest economy, has landed a mobile land rover on Moon’s South pole, improved industrial infrastructure and has reduced absolute poverty. In 2023, India also surpassed China in population, but the per capita income remained low, with unemployment rising, and widened income and wealth disparity under the neoliberal economy. Social tensions have risen with its aggressive Hindutva ideology. India is in BRICS, SCO, and G20, of which it is the president in 2023. With … Continued

If you’re in the Bay Area, you can secure a spot in our charter bus, which will be leaving from the Ashby BART station at 8:30 AM, taking you to and from the action! The United Nations is calling on world leaders to take real steps to lead us off fossil fuels to protect people and the planet.   On September 20th in New York, the UN Climate Ambition Summit will gather world leaders to commit to phasing out fossil fuels.  The “ticket to entry” will be tangible action to keep fossil fuels … 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

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. For our August and September meetings we are reading End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin. For  our August meeting we’ll be reading the first two sections, which is about half of the book. For  the  September  meeting  we will finish the book. Back in 2010, when Nature magazine asked leading scientists to provide a ten-year forecast, Turchin used his models to predict that America was in a spiral of social disintegration that would lead to a … Continued

Members of our city council are pretending to do something about crime by proposing more of the same destructive policing approach that has never kept us safe instead of investing in our communities. There’s always more money for cops. Only for cops, not for schools or jobs or healthcare or parks or libraries — not for any of the things that actually make healthy and safe communities. Conservatives and moderate democrats are mobilizing to give public comment at tomorrow’s Oakland City Council meeting, on Tuesday, September 19, and your voice … 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. (THE JANUARY 17TH MEETING, 2024 WAS MOVED TO JANUARY 24TH) Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for privacy, surveillance regulation of both corporations and the state, and government transparency, 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,” … Continued

Bestselling author and Intercept contributing editor Naomi Klein’s new book, “Doppelganger,” dives deep into what she calls the “Mirror World”: our destabilized present rife with doubles and confusion, where far-right movements playact solidarity with the working class, AI-generated content blurs the line between genuine and spurious, and so many of us project our own carefully curated digital doubles out into the social media sphere. Klein will be in conversation with Annalee Newitz discussing “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” tomorrow, September 20 at 7 p.m. PDT at the First … Continued

New Copwatcher Orientation Wanna get involved in Berkeley Copwatch? Sign up for an orientation this month. Learn about how we do the work and find where you can plug in! Wed. September 13, 7:00-8:00pm Wed. September 21, 7:00-8:00pm There will be more new copwatcher orientations in the future, please email us if you can’t make the sessions above: berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com Do you want to get involved in Berkeley Copwatch? Learn more or contact us directly at berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com Donate 75500

Speaker: Laura Wells   The United States was a leading democracy two centuries ago. Now many other nations have leap-frogged over the US by developing better political/electoral systems. As a consequence, they also have better systems for healthcare, higher education, housing, and justice combined with increased personal safety. The locked-down two-party system has joined with the vast inequality of wealth and power in the US in order to raise hurdles to block solutions that people want, create, and support. We will take a good look at those hurdles, many of … Continued

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Register:  bit.ly/NicaSep24 How do the Nicaraguan police sustain one of the lowest crime rates, and highest levels of citizen trust, in all of Latin America?  A key answer is their much-heralded community-based model.  Please join us for this 90-minute webinar, with Spanish – English interpretation, focused on these key topics: What is the Nicaraguan Community Policing Model? What special programs and approaches are used to protect women from violence? What were the experiences and activities of the police during the 2018 coup attempt? Bring your questions!  There will be time to address them, after … 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

Register. Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing. Donate 75655

The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) is again seeking approval to increase ACSO’s stockpile of military equipment beyond what Sheriff Ahern had previously included in ACSO’s military equipment inventory.  On Thursday, the Board of Supervisors Public Protection Committee considers the sheriff’s proposal to acquire additional drones, ‘flashbang’ grenades, and ‘scattershot’ grenades and munitions. “Scattershot” munitions are indiscriminately fired “less lethal” munitions that cannot be aimed because they are designed to spray or scatter projectiles. The sheriff wants to acquire more than 500 more of them, for an arsenal of over … Continued

Welcome curious threads! This is an opportunity to learn threading ropes into patterns to make cozy plant holders! You get to use natural textiles and fibers~ Beginners welcome to this 3 hours workshop 2pm to 5pm! Only 8 seats open for this course! Sliding scale $30-$60 Please send payment to venmo @pallavi-kidambi to secure your spot! 75551

From Atlanta to the Bay Stop Police Militarization in our Communities The City of San Pablo plans to build a $43 million police training center and shooting range for cops around the Bay Area. The people of San Pablo and the Bay Area oppose this expansion of police power because of cops long history of harassing, abusing, incarcerating, and killing Black and Brown people. Show up and march with us against the construction. We need healthy communities not police! Together we can stop Cop Campus! ————————————————— ¡Marcha en contra el … Continued