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Speaker: João Romeiro Hermeto ZOOM LINK https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3OelectioNl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1 The energy crisis in Europe, proxy war in Ukraine, rebellion in the Global South, and expansion of the BRICS reflect the decline of Western imperialism and growing cracks in the capitalist world system. Based on his new book of the same name (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2024), João Romeiro Hermeto will address some historical developments of intellectual property. He asks what is ‘knowledge’ under capitalism, and how is it created and appropriated? Developments such as digitalisation and the convergence between big pharma and tech giants are … Continued

HCA – Contra Costa & Alameda County Members/Supporters Meeting Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4137479233?omn=87100996689 Meeting ID: 413 747 9233 Agenda • Introductions • Approval of Agenda and last meeting minutes • HCA-CCC Reports: Membership (Nel) Treasury (Janet) • HCA-CA – Activities (Jonee) • HCN, labor, candidate and legislative updates, discussion and voting on candidate support, status of SB770 (Dan and all) • HCA-CCC and HCA- Alameda County outreach (speaker event in Lafayette May 9th, tabling, letters to the editor, visits to legislators) • Other NEXT MEETING: December 1, 2024  77926

Our organization continues to educate and advocate to create a more equitable, efficient, effective, affordable health care system.We have a quarterly supporter and member meeting on Sunday, September 1st.Among our topics of discussion will be the upcoming election and which candidates we are supporting, a review of SB770 Health care: unified health care financing,and an overview of the Kaiser Permanente health care system. Links to May 5, 2024 Draft Meeting Notes and Agenda – including ZOOM link. 77910

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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Bay Area: please show up for the Global Monthly Vigils happening around the world on the first Wednesday of the month, every month, as we urgently tell President Biden: Close Guantánamo NOW and release the 16 Muslim men who have been cleared for release—some for well over a decade. Biden must follow his own words and CLOSE GITMO ASAP! “America will not torture. We will uphold the rights of those who we bring to justice. And we will close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay…. [W]e say to our friends … Continued

RSVP NOW The Green Party of California co-sponsors the Missouri Green Party’s Black & Green Wednesday Webinar Series, and we invite you to tune in to the September 4 webinar, Curing Electoral Dysfunction. From the organizers: We all see it, the election process is not working. But how can we fix it? How can Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) remove the “spoiler effect”? What’s the difference between “Approval voting” and RCV? How could “proportional representation” give us a voice, and how could it work combined with RCV? What about the backroom … 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

Assaults on refugee camps, including those in Jenin, Tubas, and Tulkarem, constitute the largest attack by Zionists on the West Bank in over 20 years. Bold-faced forced displacement exposes the genocidal intent of the Zionist entity. Join us Friday, September 6th, 6:30pm at San José City Hall to demand Hands Off the West Bank! Stop the Genocide on Palestine! No More Zionist Apartheid and Terrorism! Stop U.S. Aid to Israel! Victory to the Palestinian Resistance! Initiated by San José Against War (SJAW) For more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_TyObuS6D3/  77935

Suds, Snacks, and Socialism Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/2024DownBallot to receive your personal link to participate in this event online Here in California, there is no question about who will get the electoral votes. But there are a lot of issues and ballot measures that could have great consequence for the lives of working people. Will we finally repeal Costa-Hawkins and get the possibility of effective rent control? Will Alameda County’s progressive D.A. keep her job and continue prosecuting killer cops and corporate criminals? Join our speakers who will discuss … Continued

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Speaker: Gabriel Rockhill Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn, by Domenico Losurdoa, is a paradigm-shifting book that provides a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia. It reveals how its dominant ideological orientation�characterized by defeatism, utopianism, and anti-commuunism�is rooted in the political economy of imperialism. Internationnally acclaimed theorist Domenico Losurdo thus provides a fresh and challenging perspective on purportedly radical thinkers who have been widely promoted in the imperial core Our speaker, Gabriel Rockhill, is a philosopher and activist who has published … 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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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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Join us for a A Teach-In Introducing the Debt Collective – the nation’s first union of debtors. w/ local Bay Area organizers Maddy Clifford and Emily Birnbaum. Learn how debtor’s unions are organizing alongside labor unions and tenant unions to combat the financialization of our most basic needs like housing, education and healthcare. Share your personal story, your dream for an economically just future and build solidarity with other debtors and our allies. Plus, free resources to fight your eviction in California AND free copies of Debt Collective’s In These Times … Continued

Speaker: Radhika Desai To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1 The application of Neoliberal Economics had its beginning with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. It held its sway for almost four decades starting when China allowed G-7 capital to exploit a vast pool of labor power, but unlike in the past when it resulted in failed economics in the Third World, China rose as an economic giant in just three decades, with the Communist Party of China firmly controlling the process. The US workers largely lost good industrial wages … 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

On April 15, Bay Area people of conscience staged a powerful protest to demand an immediate ceasefire and an end to US military aid to Israel. 26 protestors were arrested on the Golden Gate Bridge and held in jail for days, where they faced harsh and discriminatory treatment.  On August 10, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that her office was filing a series of trumped up charges against these protestors, including felony conspiracy and 38 counts of false imprisonment per person. Warrants have been issued for their rearrests. Protestors are being forced to surrender themselves to the San Francisco … Continued

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Medical debt shouldn’t exist. More than 100 million people in the U.S. are actively struggling with medical debt. It’s an injustice that’s costing us our livelihoods, economic stability, and, in far too many cases, our lives. As election season ramps up and politicians pay lip service to the issue, we can’t make the mistake of accepting minor concessions and band-aid fixes as solutions. If we want to put an end to medical debt, we need to strike at the root of the problem – our predatory, prrofit-driven healthcare system. That’s … 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 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 and online tracking, 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 … 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

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

Community groups have long been pushing the California Air Resources Board to prioritize environmental justice.  Now CARB is at least asking for our input.  The powerful agency is holding a series of public meetings around California in the next few weeks to discuss how to “incorporate environmental justice into future research on air quality, climate change, health, and sustainable communities.”   It wants to hear about research needs and priorities.  Outcomes from the meeting will impact CARB’s 5-Year Strategic Research Plan and help guide potential research projects for the 2025-2030 time … Continued

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A diverse group of changemakers, knowledge-holders, and innovators, hosted by the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, will explore how we can “disrupt the corporation-enriching global extractive system that results in widespread injustice, poverty, hunger, climate change, and irreversible environmental destruction.” Forty years ago, Bhopal, India, experienced the world’s worst-ever corporation-caused disaster, resulting in the deaths and disabling of hundreds of thousands of marginalized people over multiple generations. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, corporations have been exploiting, polluting, and appropriating land and people for over a century. In this … Continued

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Please join the rally! “If you’ve been waiting to turn up for that one protest action for the unhoused, this’ll be it!  We need numbers, folks, as we want the city of Berkeley to here our outlay at their unjust actions!  See you there.” 77975

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ICSS Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library   The opinions expressed in our Sunday morning programs are those of the speakers only and do not necessarily represent any consensus by the members of ICSS. Our general practice is to allot at least half of the time to comradely discussion of the issues including as many voices as practical.  Open discussion on the upcoming U.S. election Bring your ideas, comments, and questions on the upcoming U.S. presidential election. To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1   77978

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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

After Zionist interference got the last Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission cancelled earlier this month, the commission is again set to vote on a resolution calling for an End of Military Aid, an End to the Occupation, and Support for Palestinian Self-Determination on Monday, September 30th. They need the community to show up and say, unequivocally, that Berkeley wants not only a permanent ceasefire, but an end to Israeli aggression in Occupied Palestine. Within 24 hours of the resolution’s publication, three zionists were quickly appointed to the commission and one … Continued