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Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.  All are welcome! For our October, 2025 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first three chapters of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures) by Astra Taylor (Amazon) (Verso Books).  For our November meeting we will finish the book. Finalist, 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist, 2024 Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status … 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

To ensure you are fully prepared to take action safely, confidently, and powerfully, ACLU is hosting a crucial pre-action training: RSVP Today This training will cover key information and strategies, including: Knowing your rights during protests and encounters with law enforcement Practical tools and techniques for safety and de-escalation in tense moments Building the knowledge and strength to support others in the streets and beyond When we know our rights, we can defend them. Let’s get ready to protect our community and freedoms together. Spanish translation and American Sign Language … 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

Sing for Justice and Peace Songs, Poems, Chants!     Bay Area Peace & Justice Activists join Singers, Drummers: 2nd Fridays   5-6:00 pm Outdoors beside “The Way” 1305 University Ave between Acton & Bonar Open Mic: Songs, Poems, Chants for Peace & for Palestine Bring signs/ banners, instruments, rattles, drums and your Voice   Ceasefire Now, Break the Siege, Lift the Blockades.  Let in Food & Humanitarian Relief SPARE IRAN.  STOP WW III! Our taxes fund massive weapons of mass destruction in the US & Israel. That money is needed for US healthcare, education, housing! … Continued

With so many urgent social and political crises unfolding every day, are you feeling uncertain about how to take climate action? You’re not alone. Let’s put our heads together and figure out how to bring inspiring and relatable climate crisis messaging into a multi-crisis world. At the XRUS All-Chapter Gathering on Saturday, October 11, we will explore how to bring climate crisis messaging to large-scale anti-authoritarian events in a way that does both of the following effectively: Recognizes the immediacy of the many brutal human crises. Connects the dots between fossil fuel interests, … Continued

Role of China & Russia in the Anti-imperialist Struggle Speaker: Sara Flounders To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87388824824?pwd=QTWNvr8cGeGo1ZDW7x9Y8W0sDaNxRc.1 Meeting ID: 873 8882 4824 Passcode:  042428   ****************************       China’s emergence as an economic powerhouse is a game-changer on a world scale today, with its Belt and Road Initiative, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BRICS+ trade alliance and numerous bilateral trade agreements. China is the top trading partner of over 120 countries and has become an alternative to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and their brutal structural adjustment, deregulation … 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

Green Sunday: Join Zoom Meeting:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85449203697 Karl Grossman and Harvey “Sluggo” Wasserman will join California safe energy activists in a deep dive into how to shut the Diablo Canyon nukes and convert the state to 100% renewables. Gavin Newsom has sabotaged the 2018 omnibus agreement to do just that.  We want to plan here how to revive that agreement & make it happen. We hope to have representatives from the Mothers for Peace & others at this event, which will be aimed at tangible results. Also, here is a link … Continued

What’s the Earth’s greatest enemy?  This new documentary expose by director Abby Martin makes the case that it’s the world’s biggest—and most unaccountable—polluter: the US military. The film argues that “exempt from international climate agreements and rarely scrutinized in mainstream reporting, the Pentagon is the world’s single largest institutional polluter — spewing carbon, contaminating water, and scarring landscapes across the globe. . . this film challenges audiences to rethink the hidden costs of a global military empire and its planetary consequences” Director Abby Martin will appear at the Bay Area … Continued

With the ever growing threat of authoritarianism and attacks on our communities, it’s time to get even more organized! We are excited to announce that going forward Bay Resistance is now hosting open monthly resistance meetings, regularly on the 2nd Monday of the month in Oakland. These meetings are a place for all pods and community members to connect with grassroots community organizations, local organizing and campaigns. We are also sharing the next rapid response network training for Alameda county. Volunteers from Hayward and the southern part of Alameda county … 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

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

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