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Suds, Snacks, and Socialism at the Starry Plough The War on Immigrants, and How We Fight Back Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/SSS_WarOnImmigrants to receive your personal link to participate in this event online Most immigrants come to this country to escape violence and persecution and to work to support their families. While Trump is virulent in his threats against them, politicians of both capitalist parties spew the rhetoric and advocate various policies including detention and deportation to ban immigrants, even while they and their allies benefit from their labor. … Continued

Speaker: Roger D. Harris To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1 Forecasts are favorable for Venezuela’s quarter-century-old Bolivarian Revolution. Initiated by Hugo Chávez and seamlessly carried forward by Nicolás Maduro, it is threatened by an increasingly aggressive Yankee hegemon. Venezuela’s regional role will be pivotal with key left-leaning presidents in Brazil and Colombia up for reelection in the next two years. Our speaker, Roger D. Harris, accompanied the January 10 presidential election in Venezuela and the concurrent antifascist conference. He will report back on what happened there as well as on Washington’s campaign … Continued

We are living in a time like no other, with incredible challenges to our democracy and to communities. Thankfully, our strong values continue to drive productive work, with common goals. Health Care for All – California’s work is focused on helping create an equitable, efficient, cost-effective healthcare system for all Californians, from birth to death. Given the current political climate, we realize that there are major challenges right now to such changes. But great progress has been made over the years in educating the public, producing studies that validate the … 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

Join us in this critical fight and secure your spot at our upcoming town hall by RSVPing now. ACLU Town Hall: Fighting Trump’s First Attacks RSVP The town hall will focus on the ACLU’s response to the Trump administration’s very first actions in office, including attempts to end birthright citizenship, shut down the southern border to asylum seekers, ban health care for transgender youth, and dismantle the core principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. AJ Hikes, ACLU Deputy Executive Director for Strategy & Culture, will be the moderator, joined by … 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

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88083342274 A second Trump administration will push U.S. policy in the Middle East in a very dangerous direction. Already, Trump has thrown his weight behind the most extremist elements in Israel while effectively renouncing international legal precedence, embracing Arab dictatorships, and making the U.S. very much of an outlier even among our pro-Western allies. However, the Biden administration pursued many of these dangerous policies as well. As a result, supporters of Palestinian rights–and proponents of human rights and international law in general–must be willing to challenge the … 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

The Friends of Public Bank East Bay host general organizing meetings every Wednesday at 6pm via zoom If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch. We can match your interests and skill set to our needs! Public Bank East Bay hopes to open by 2025, as a transformative institution that keeps our money local, allowing local governments to divest from Wall Street and reinvest its profits back into our community. Public Bank East Bay’s initial loan policies will support … 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

Debtors of the world, unite! Alone, our debts are a burden. Together they give us power. When we share our experiences of debt and economic pressure with each other, we begin to see our collective power to change the systems that exploit us. Everyone is welcome to participate in this debtors assembly, whether or not you are currently debt-burdened. This is a 100 Days to Build Debtor Power event. Over the first 100 days of the new presidential administration, we’re embarking – together – on an intensive campaign of organizing trainings, political education, and … Continued

Where do we go from here? Come to the next All-Chapter Gathering and join the discussion! RSVP HERE One by one and in groups, people are peacefully resisting. An Episcopal bishop, mayors of sanctuary cities, states’ attorneys general. What is the role of a grassroots climate group dedicated to non-violent civil disobedience? Our newly-formed Strategy and Action Circle, working with break-out room ideas from our last All -Chapter Gathering, will report on their developing recommendations for the Spring Rebellion and gather your input. We need your experiences, wisdom, expertise, and energy … Continued

REAFFIRMING SANCTUARY Join the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity next Wednesday, for a press conference, procession, and day of remembrance vigil. We gather to reaffirm sanctuary, a sacred tradition across many faiths of welcoming immigrants and standing against actions that would tear families and communities apart. RSVP HERE 78138

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.  All are welcome. For our January, 2025 meeting we will be reading the first seven chapters Making Sense of Chaos by by J. Doyne Farmer (Yale University Press, Amazon). For our February meeting, we will be finishing the book. We live in an age of increasing complexity—an era of accelerating technology and global interconnection that holds more promise, and more peril, than any other time in human history. The fossil fuels that have powered global wealth creation now threaten to … Continued

Speaker: Dan Kovalik https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1 Our speaker, international human rights advocate and lawyer Dan Kovalik just returned from Syria, once a beautiful country and the cradle of civilization. He visited so that we could speak out for people there who can’t speak out because they fear violent repression. Dan will report back on the current situation in light of historical developments. The new de facto government was in large part brought to power by the US and other foreign entities and does not have a mandate or right to rule. Multiculturalism … Continued

Invite Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86411768499?pwd=UitCdlJuWFR2QkZZTDVOQ2w0anVZUT09 At 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at Harvard and put to work at Los Alamos in 1944. Assigned the job of testing and refining the complex implosion system for the plutonium bomb, Hall was described as “amazingly brilliant” by his superiors on the project, many of whom were Nobel Prize winners. But what Hall’s colleagues didn’t know was that the teenaged Hall was also the youngest spy taken on by the Soviet Union in … 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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The bellicose foreign policy of the U.S. continues to fuel instability and war worldwide in misguided efforts to attain global hegemony. In Europe, the Mideast, and the Pacific, U.S. covert and overt actions are undermining political stability and endangering peace. The webinar will explain how this process works, review the historic record, and address the dangers posed by continuation of covert and overt U.S. actions that harm other nations and threaten our own national security. You must pre-register for the webinar HERE or click on the link below https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nG2cJo_3SG2ODCL4ojfFMQ Panelists: Matthew … Continued

On February 19th, federal workers and supporters are gathering to say NO to Elon Musk’s push to gut federal services and impose mass layoffs. Join us at La Peña Cultural Center for a quick photo op to support this push back against the coup! There will be singing! We’ll gather at 2:30–take and share some photos of all of us with our signs. Make your own or just show up! We’ll be done before 3 PM. Our demands: NO cuts to vital services NO mass layoffs: respect union workers’ contracts … Continued

The Friends of Public Bank East Bay host general organizing meetings every Wednesday at 6pm via zoom If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch. We can match your interests and skill set to our needs! Public Bank East Bay hopes to open by 2025, as a transformative institution that keeps our money local, allowing local governments to divest from Wall Street and reinvest its profits back into our community. Public Bank East Bay’s initial loan policies will support … Continued

This event is a part of the 100 Days of Debtor Organizing and in particular is for those a part of the Debt Collective’s 50 Over 50. This call is open to anyone and will serve as a training to supporting student debtors in your community with information on the current avenues to debt cancellation. We will be sharing how we hosted events in local communities to educate and support folks on these methods of debt cancellation. This is through existing programs such as Total and Permanent Disability Discharge, Public … Continued

East Oakland Collective is hosting a community service day to give back to our unhoused neighbors across Oakland! Let’s come together to make a difference to feed and provide immediate resources to hundreds of our Unhoused brothers and sisters. How You Can Help: Volunteer // Sign up at Link in BIO or bit.ly/feedthehood32 Donate // Support the cause at bit.ly/feedthehood Let’s show up for our community and spread some love and warmth. Together, we can make a big impact! 78119

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 Oakland Greens’ movie this month is from our first season, the 2005 film “500 Years Later”. This Independent film by M.K. Asante and Owen Alik Shahadah examines the “Why”, 500 years later, from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, people of the African Diaspora are still struggling for basic freedom. Join your community members on Sunday, February 23, with doors open at 6:15 PM, dinner at 6:30 PM and movie promptly at 7 PM. Discussion will happen afterwards, where your thoughts are greatly appreciated.   The Oakland Greens Free Dinner & … Continued

Sending care to everyone as we continue our efforts to resist indebtedness and create the space for collective liberation and social transformation!! Our organizing and collectivizing efforts are crucial to systemic changes and the Bay Area has a rich history and population of folks putting it all on the line for each other. As we continue to look to our Debt Collective National Team and campaigns for guidance, as the Bay Area branch we have the ability to strategize locally and inform National on ways to engage and encourage our … Continued

The Friends of Public Bank East Bay host general organizing meetings every Wednesday at 6pm via zoom If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch. We can match your interests and skill set to our needs! Public Bank East Bay hopes to open by 2025, as a transformative institution that keeps our money local, allowing local governments to divest from Wall Street and reinvest its profits back into our community. Public Bank East Bay’s initial loan policies will support … Continued

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