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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

Our trainings are offered free to the public. We encourage all people, with any amount of prior knowledge or experience, to attend these trainings and contribute your questions and experience. We will meet in the back room of the Grassroots House. There is a ramp at the front of the house. Masking recommended but not required. Basic Copwatching Techniques and Intro to Copwatch and Your Rights TUE JULY 2 at 7-9pm Copwatching at Protests and Preparing for Arrests WED JULY 10 at 7-9pm Trainings are offered in a series but … Continued

Earlier this year the Anti Police-Terror Project proudly launched The People’s Clinic with scheduling options every 1st and 3rd Friday at The People’s House in West Oakland. We created The People’s Clinic as an abolitionist healing space for communities affected by police terror and state violence, frontline organizers, and our West Oakland neighbors. We offer free services for community like acupuncture, herbal consultations, massage, healing tools library, monthly workshops, and more. Our Healing Justice framework invites community to envision and manifest a life beyond the violence we survive everyday. Without … Continued

Speaker: Greg Godels Greg Godels returns to the Marxist Library to speak on the threat of fascism currently in the US and the uses to which that threat is put. Where do the threat(s) of fascism exist in light of the upcoming US presidential election? Our speaker, Greg Godels, grew up in a working-class family in a rural coal mining community. He joined the Communist Party in 1975 and served on the party’s Economics Commission until Vic Perlo’s death. He wrote frequently for the Daily World and other party papers … 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

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

In a San Francisco action connected to the Summer of Heat civil disobedience campaign on Wall Street, a lively, peaceful parade and rally in downtown San Francisco will tell Citibank – the biggest funder of fossil fuel expansion in the past eight years — that the future of the world’s children and grandchildren matter more than Citi’s profits. Summer of Heat on Wall Street is a 13-week sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience to end financing for fossil fuels. The second week of July is Elders Week, but Third Act Bay Area … Continued

Relevant Agenda Items: 5. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Automatic Resource Locator (CAD GPS) Impact Statement and Proposed Use Policy 6. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – 1) Amended Automated License Plate Reader Use Policy, 2) Memorandum of Understanding For Automated License Plate Readers (Flock), 3) Memorandum of Understanding For Automated License Plate Readers (CA Highway Patrol) 7. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPW – Report on OPD Request for Video Footage from Illegal Dumping Cameras 8. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPW – Illegal Dumping Camera Program Annual report Members … Continued

Our trainings are offered free to the public. We encourage all people, with any amount of prior knowledge or experience, to attend these trainings and contribute your questions and experience. We will meet in the back room of the Grassroots House. There is a ramp at the front of the house. Masking recommended but not required. Basic Copwatching Techniques and Intro to Copwatch and Your Rights TUE JULY 2 at 7-9pm Copwatching at Protests and Preparing for Arrests WED JULY 10 at 7-9pm Trainings are offered in a series but … 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

Via Zoom: To receive the Zoom info, please register on the LaborFest website, here:  https://laborfest.net/event/the-fight-to-save-peoples-park/   The ongoing battle to prevent the development by UC of People’s Park in Berkeley continues. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and an important Court of Appeal victory was won. However, UC appealed the court decision to the State Supreme Court and simultaneously subverted the court victory by getting the legislature to pass a bill to undermine it. Construction is halted until the court issues its decision. Organizing strategies … Continued

Speaker, Jose Luis Granados Ceja General elections were held in Mexico on June 2, 2024. Claudia Sheinbaum, a member of the left-wing political party Morena, won a majority with over 60% of the vote. She is the first woman and the first person of Jewish descent to be elected president of Mexico. The presentation will focus on the role that public policies favoring the interests of the working class played in the landslide victory for Morena and its allies that resulted in the election of Mexico’s first woman president and … 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

It’s not too late, if we act fast enough now! Even as emissions increase and treaties collapse, we can still stop these twin existential crises from becoming catastrophic. We already have all the solutions we need to stop burning fossil fuels and to abolish nuclear weapons once and for all. How can environmentalists and peace activists work together to overcome propaganda, problematic “solutions,” and political agendas that threaten our very survival? Author Timmon Wallis will share new insights and fresh strategies. The corporate profiteers who corrupt our legislators are surprisingly … Continued

Details our main source of truth is the morning math page for this event: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Morning_math/Circles_with_Swift We’ll be going over radians, circles, and some basics over mate on a relaxing, no pressure morning math session! This session is for adults, people ages 18 and over! ### Links Trigonometry in Rust – https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/science/mathematics/trigonometry.html Trigonometry in Swift – game programming trig (kodeco) Take a look at the Swift Numerics project – https://github.com/apple/swift-numerics 77879

DID YOU KNOW? The city spends almost $1,500 per hour evicting folks living on the streets? Affordable” housing in Oakland is for “low income” folks who make $84,600 per year and “extrememly low income” are folks who make $32,700? The City of Oakland’s blueprint to end homelessness (the PATH Plan) has zero units of permanent extrememly affordable housing? Let’s talk about what has worked and what hasn’t worked in the City of Oakland’s homeless industrial complex. Its the last day that city council will be meeting. The point of the … Continued

The California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) and Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) are co-sponsoring an important webinar about the potentially negative cumulative health concerns of hydrogen infrastructure, and the environmental justice solutions. While the state of California plans to expand its use of hydrogen as fuel, each stage of its life cycle—production, delivery, storage, and end use—presents a unique risk to environmental justice communities.  CEJA and CBE will deconstruct the greenwashing of hydrogen and its impacts, which include air pollution, pipe embrittlement, and gas line leaks and explosions.   Join … Continued

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“Climate and Biodiversity” is the next topic in the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force’s fifth series of summits, this series focusing on “Climate, Colonization, and Rights for Humans and Nature.” Online. Register here Program: 9:00 AM Land Acknowledgement 9:10 AM Welcome Cheryl Davila, Founder, CEMTF & Former Councilmember, City of Berkeley Speakers: 9:15 AM Advancing Social Justice in Marginalized Communities & Among University Students Leonida Odongo, Founding Director, Haki Nawiri Afrika 9:40 AM The Importance of Microbial Diversity in California Estuarine Ecosystems Karis Polfer, Steering Committee Member, CEMTF 10: 05 AM From the Grassroots to the … Continued

Earlier this year the Anti Police-Terror Project proudly launched The People’s Clinic with scheduling options every 1st and 3rd Friday at The People’s House in West Oakland. We created The People’s Clinic as an abolitionist healing space for communities affected by police terror and state violence, frontline organizers, and our West Oakland neighbors. We offer free services for community like acupuncture, herbal consultations, massage, healing tools library, monthly workshops, and more. Our Healing Justice framework invites community to envision and manifest a life beyond the violence we survive everyday. Without … Continued

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  WAS DEMOCRACY JUST A DREAM? The American Dream. It used to mean a job, a house, a car, a spouse, 2.5 kids, and a .4 dog. But what does it mean now? For Gabriel Pearce, a Black man tired of liberal failures, on the day after the presidential election it means victory! Giving up on progressivism wasn’t easy, but casting his vote for a Conservative who promises to be grateful could mean a dream come true. However, for his daughter Paine – a teacher at a university caught between … Continued

Speaker: Richard Becker Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1 Our speaker will discuss the new edition of his book, Palestine, Israel, and U.S. Empire. This is  an essential book for the current moment, providing a sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine, updated following the events of October 7, 2023. Taking an anti-Zionist perspective on the history of Palestine and Israel, Becker traces the movements of resistance from the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the founding of Israel and its role as a … Continued

  WAS DEMOCRACY JUST A DREAM? The American Dream. It used to mean a job, a house, a car, a spouse, 2.5 kids, and a .4 dog. But what does it mean now? For Gabriel Pearce, a Black man tired of liberal failures, on the day after the presidential election it means victory! Giving up on progressivism wasn’t easy, but casting his vote for a Conservative who promises to be grateful could mean a dream come true. However, for his daughter Paine – a teacher at a university caught between … 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

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Speaker: Kenneth Hammond Socialists in the Euro-American left have never really understood the dialectics of the Chinese Revolution from the formation of the People’s Republic, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, to the present. Just what is going on with the Communist Party of China (CPC)? Our speaker will help us better understand the dynamics of modern China.​ Our speaker, Kenneth Hammond, is a professor in East Asian Studies & Global History at New Mexico State University. He earned his PhD in History and East Asian Studies and was … Continued

National Day of Mourning: Justice for Sonya Massey & Alexander Antonio Lopez On July 6, a 36-year-old Black woman, Sonya Massey, called 911 to report a suspected intruder at her home. Her first words when she opened her front door to them were “don’t hurt me.” Instead of protecting her, Springfield, Illinois police shot and murdered her inside of her own home. The sheriff who killed her, Sean Grayson, was on duty in his 6th policing job of his career after being disciplined in five previous police departments. Sonya 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

Hardware hack night – each Tuesday, we welcome sudoers new and old to bring their hardware projects to the space, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, 7pm til… whomever’s left standing! ​Special Workshop Presentation and Explorations: XR in Art ​What fine arts are doing with virtual reality / augmented reality and XR in general, and how can we make exhibits and virtual reality Art at SudoRoom and Beyond? We’ll be looking especially closely at the Venice Biennial Immersive and the Cannes XR Virtual Festival. ​Also, how can you mix virtual … Continued

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Richmond Town Hall Meeting: “Climate and Community Health” Our Richmond ACCE Chapter is proud to invite you for a very special Richmond Clean Energy and Healthy Homes Town Hall Meeting: “Climate & Community Health”. We will be joined by our special guest Dr. Bret Andrews, former Associate Chief of Neurology at Kaiser Permanente Oakland, who will lead a discussion about how climate change is impacting the health of our community! Together we can build a future where our appliances do not give our children asthma, where local industries do not … Continued