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Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm
Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting
Dec 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting | Oakland | California | United States
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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Film: SEX WORK: IT’S JUST A JOB 7:00 pm
Film: SEX WORK: IT’S JUST A JOB @ New Parkway Theater
Dec 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  An ensemble of sex workers tells the story of their efforts to abolish the discriminatory laws that criminalize them. SEX WORK: It’s Just a Job takes viewers on a journey of why they entered sex work, their experiences with the criminal justice system, and why they became involved with the Decrim movement. The film challenges how sex work is viewed morally, culturally, and legally and shows that criminalization and rescue models fail to treat sex workers as human beings with dignity and political and personal agency. At the heart of the film … Continued
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Know Your Rights Training 11:00 am
Know Your Rights Training @ Grassroots House
Dec 6 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Know Your Rights Training @ Grassroots House
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The Fightback Against the Attack on Immigrants 2:00 pm
The Fightback Against the Attack on Immigrants @ Starry Plough
Dec 6 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Fightback Against the Attack on Immigrants @ Starry Plough
Suds, Snacks, and Socialismat the Starry Plough The Fightback Against                    the Attack on Immigrants Doors open at 1:30 p.m. Please register in advance athttps://bit.ly/SSS_Immigrantsto receive your personal link to participate in this event online While Trump sends masked goon squads to kidnap innocent workers, people are exercising true solidarity to defend them. Our speakers will talk about recent defense actions and how we can continue to organize and participate in these efforts. Manuel De Paz – Political/Community Organizer, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant [TBA] – Bay Area … Continued
Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis 5:00 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis @ Online
Dec 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: What's Left - 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis @ Online
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.  All are welcome! For our December, 2025 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first two chapters of What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis by Malcolm Harris (Amazon) (Hatchette).  For our January meeting we will finish the book. A vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling progressive intellectual Malcolm Harris—“a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacies of economic conditions supremely readable” (Vulture). Climate change is the unifying crisis of … Continued
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Mexico in Transformation: From AMLO to Claudia 10:30 am
Mexico in Transformation: From AMLO to Claudia @ Online
Dec 7 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
    Speaker: Rick Sterling To Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/87388824824?pwd=QTWNvr8cGeGo1ZDW7x9Y8W0sDaNxRc.1 Meeting ID: 873 8882 4824 Mexico is the US’ largest trading partner and has over three times the population of Canada. Strangely, there has been little news in the US about the immense changes taking place in Mexico. The transformation began in 2018 under President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and continues under President Claudia Sheinbaum. Both leaders represent the MORENA Party, which now holds a majority in the Mexican Congress and Senate despite having only been created in 2014. Mexico … Continued
The Alabama Solution – Screening 12:30 pm
The Alabama Solution – Screening @ Via registration
Dec 7 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
The Alabama Solution - Screening @ Via registration
you’re invited to our exclusive screening: The Alabama Solution, an HBO Documentary on Sunday, December 7 at 12:30 P.M. PT, followed by a Q&A with special guests! Space is limited so register below while you still can: REGISTER Join the Ella Baker Center for a free community screening of The Alabama Solution, a powerful new documentary exposing the violence and corruption inside America’s most dangerous prison system. Shot with contraband cell phones and first-hand testimony from those living inside, this film offers a rare, unfiltered view of America’s carceral crisis that resonates far beyond … Continued
The Alabama Solution, an HBO Documentary – Special Screening 12:30 pm
The Alabama Solution, an HBO Documentary – Special Screening @ Two Pitchers Brewing Company
Dec 7 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
The Alabama Solution, an HBO Documentary - Special Screening @ Two Pitchers Brewing Company
You’re invited to our exclusive screening: The Alabama Solution, an HBO Documentary on Sunday, December 7 at 12:30 P.M. PT, followed by a Q&A with special guests! Space is limited so register below while you still can: REGISTER Join the Ella Baker Center for a free community screening of The Alabama Solution, a powerful new documentary exposing the violence and corruption inside America’s most dangerous prison system. Shot with contraband cell phones and first-hand testimony from those living inside, this film offers a rare, unfiltered view of America’s carceral crisis that resonates far … Continued
Police Brutality – Author talk 2:30 pm
Police Brutality – Author talk @ Howard Zinn Book Fair, Room 215
Dec 7 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
“Police Brutality” An analysis of the culture of the local police in the US by Steve Martinot There will be a meeting on the book. The book will be discussed as a means of understanding and opposing what is being developed as our present police state. When did the US start to become fascist?   1913?   1945?     Or 1607? How do we understand the mind of the current police? From their history? From their economy? Or from their goal of power They build power through murders, averaging 1100 a year.   (That … Continued
Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Dec 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza | Oakland | California | United States
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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Free Flu and Covid-19 Clinic 11:00 am
Free Flu and Covid-19 Clinic @ Community Kitchens
Dec 8 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Free Flu and Covid-19 Clinic @ Community Kitchens
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Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State 6:30 pm
Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Online
Dec 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Online
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 November 2025 meeting has been moved from Nov 19th to Nov 12th!!!! (It may still be on the calendar for Nov 19th as well as Nov 12th due to technical difficulties) 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 … Continued
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Racial Justice Act Victory Celebration Workshop 12:00 pm
Racial Justice Act Victory Celebration Workshop @ Online
Dec 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Racial Justice Act Victory Celebration Workshop @ Online
Join the Ella Baker Center on Friday, December 12 at 12:00 – 1:00 P.M. PT to help us celebrate the passage of AB 1071 (Kalra) Racial Justice Act: Court Procedures! Register for the RJA Community Webinar Help us celebrate the passage of AB 1071 (Kalra) Racial Justice Act: Court Procedures by joining our community webinar on Friday, December 12 from 12:00-1:00 PM. Join American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty International, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, the California Public Defenders’ Association, Californians United for a Responsible Budget, the Ella Baker Center, Initiate Justice, Silicon Valley Debug, and USF School of Law to … Continued
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Green Party Holiday Party 2:30 pm
Green Party Holiday Party @ It’s Your Move Games & Hobbies
Dec 14 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
*****Green Party Holiday Party***** Celebrate the Holiday Season with old friends and new. We’ll have good fun, yummy food, and open dialogue at the 2025 Annual Potluck Holiday Party   Please bring a drink or dish of your choice to share!    **See you there!** (There will be no Green Sunday Program or Green County Council meeting in December. We’ll party instead.  The next regular Green Sunday program will be the second Sunday in January, 2026, followed as usual by the Alameda Green Party County Council.)78464
Take Back the Berkeley City Council 2:30 pm
Take Back the Berkeley City Council @ East Bay Community Space,
Dec 14 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
The Berkeley Council continues to shut out the residents of Berkeley City council members have consistently ignored the voice of the people in favor of powerful, well-resourced special interest groups — developers and foreign lobby groups who drown out community concerns. How much more can we tolerate? Hundreds of Berkeley residents show up, speak up, and stand up at city council meetings… And still the council votes against the will of the people. Whether it’s the unpopular upzoning ordinance they’re trying to ram through without community input, or other major … Continued
Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Dec 14 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza | Oakland | California | United States
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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Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Dec 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza | Oakland | California | United States
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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Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Dec 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza | Oakland | California | United States
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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