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Doors open at 1:30 p.m. https://bit.ly/SSS_ClimateCatastrophes to receive your personal link to participate in this event online The L.A. fires are a recent instance of the many disasters related to climate change that are occurring around the world. These include more frequent and harsher droughts, increasing flooding events, and more intense and destructive storms like hurricanes and tornadoes. Capitalist players, like the monopolistic fossil fuel and utilities corporations, are exacerbating this crisis. Our speakers are socialists who are involved in fighting this threat to humanity and the natural world. They … Continued

Speaker: John Perry To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1 Latin America Resists Trump � Deportations, Drugs, and Economic Waarfare The main difference between Donald Trump and his predecessors is that the current CEO of the empire better exposes naked imperialism. With an ever more aggressive and virulent projection of hegemony, the Yankees view problems such as migration and drug trafficking as simply coming from the south, ignoring some of the underlying made-in-the-USA causes. To reverse that narrative, our speaker will provide a view from the south and how resistance is building … Continued

Members of the public can view the meeting live on KTOP or on the City’s website at https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/ktop-tv-10. Relevant Agenda: 4. Federal Task Force Ordinance – OPD – Annual Reports: Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); Secret Service; United States Marshall Service (USMS); Federal Bureau of Investigation Violent Crimes – Safe Streets (FBI); Federal Bureau of Investigation Child Exploitation (FBI) 5. Privacy Advisory Commission – Annual Election of Chair/Vice-Chair a. Vote on nominee(s) for chair and vice-chair positions78149

As we suspected, the number of arrests of individuals under some form of ICE surveillance (via formal check-ins with ICE and/or through the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program/ISAP) has significantly increased since the start of the Trump Administration. CJE has connected with dozens of groups across the country about how these arrests have been carried out and have identified a few patterns that ICE appears to be following – most notably the use of ruse tactics to trick people and then arrest them. We are continuing to track these arrests so … Continued

International Women’s Day Actions, March 8 2025 Find more International Women’s Day events Click here to find a women’s march near you Oakland: Location: Avenida de La Fuente, Fruitvale, Oakland / Huchiun Territory San Francisco Date: Saturday, March 8, 2025 Time: 10am-12:30pm Location: Union Square, 18 Geary St. San Francisco, CA, 94108 RSVP here78153

Speaker: Jack Rasmus To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1 Professor Rasmus provides a distinction between primary and secondary exploitation from Marx. Primary exploitation is at the workplace, while secondary exploitation is beyond the workplace. Secondary exploitation can include deferred wage payments, like pensions, interest on household debt, price gouging and other ways of clawing back wage payments. These two forms of exploitation have intensified under neo-liberal capitalism, increasing the rate of surplus value. Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author … Continued

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88083342274   Laura Wells will open with reflections on what the words related to Women’s History Month even mean: feminist, female, woman. There are no easy answers in these times. The question is, how do we — women and all — proceed toward building the big movement that’s needed to move with strength and power toward the world we want? Marsha Feinland will address how the history of women’s struggles for their rights at the workplace and at the ballot box is intertwined with the history of … Continued

Join EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Eva Galperin, in conversation with Ron Deibert of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, to discuss Rons latest book: Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the Global Fight for Democracy. EFF in Conversation with Ron Deibert This event is free and all are welcome to join! Chasing Shadows provides a front-row seat to a dark underworld of digital espionage, dark PR, and subversion. The book provides a gripping account of how the Citizen Lab, the world’s foremost digital watchdog, has uncovered dozens of cyber espionage … Continued

We’re inviting you to an urgent We Are California movement meeting Tuesday, March 11th at 6:30 PM to share important updates about the Trump Administration’s plan to use the federal budget to attack our communities, and share upcoming actions you can take to block these efforts. Both the House and Senate will be working on budget proposals that would take away health care, food assistance, and child care from working families, while massively defunding our schools. If successful, these funding cuts will harm over 15 million seniors, children and families … Continued

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.  All are welcome! For our March, 2025 meeting we will be reading the first four chapters of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis  (Penguin Random House, Amazon). For our April meeting, we will be finishing the book. Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. The perfect Christmas gift for the political visionaries in your life. In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world’s … Continued

Nicaragua and Grassroots Organization Speaker: Sarah Woodard To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1 Sarah Junkin Woodard comes to us from Nicaragua, representing the work of the Jubilee House Community, a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit she helped form in 1979. Working with and on behalf of the poor in North Carolina for the first decade, the last 30 years have been spent in Nicaragua, with the project name of the Center for Development in Central America. The JHC-CDCA continues to respond to local needs, seeking resources to help the poor accomplish what they … Continued

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Third annual Women’s Herstory Month celebration, centering an urgent and vital conversation: “Know Your Rights: How to Deal with ICE. 78170

The Oakland Greens Present: FREE Dinner & a Movie Community Discussion Series  As we sip our multinational corporation coffee on the road to fascism, we turn our focus to the privatization of our health.  Money & Medicine examines the rising costs of healthcare in the United States. The film explores the dangers of over-diagnosis and over-treatment, investigates systemic waste within our medical system, and highlights hospitals striving to create affordable, high-quality alternatives to the current system.     Join the Oakland Greens for this free community event on Sunday, March 30.  Dinner starts at … Continued