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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

Agenda Packet: https://www.oaklandca.gov/files/assets/city/v/1/public-meetings/privacy-advisory-commission/2026/june-4-pac-agenda-packet.pdf Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85817209915 III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. CALL TO ORDER The Chair opens the meeting and officially begins proceedings. PUBLIC COMMENT During Public Comment, members of the public may comment on any agendized items within the Commission’s jurisdiction when called. OPD REQUEST (APRIL 2026) FOR SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE PURSUANT TO THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT’S SURVEILLANCE USE POLICY FOR ILLEGAL DUMPING CAMERAS Summary of OPD requests for surveillance footage related to a fatal hit-and-run investigation, including footage provided from multiple Public Works POD locations and timeframes on … Continued

Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/SSS-SeizeTime to receive your personal link to participate in this event online We are facing unprecedented perilous times in this country. However, the massive public response to the Trump administration’s attacks on the country’s normal politics offer us an unprecedented opportunity. To take advantage of that, the divided left in this country needs to focus on our points of agreement, not our differences. In this forum, we offer some different left perspectives on how we should move to unify the left and progressive forces in this … Continued

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.  All are welcome! For our June, 2026 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first four chapters of Here Comes the Sun, by Bill McKinnen (Amazon) (Norton).  For our July meeting we will finish the book. Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on 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

People are on hunger strike inside ICE concentration camps across the country right now, including at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and Adelanto in Southern California, risking their lives to force the world to pay attention. Just as ICE’s brutality in Minnesota shifted public opinion and brought communities together in resistance, these acts of courage demand our response and the deepening of our organizing. Dublin and Gilroy are in ICE’s sights for opening facilities that would impact all of us in Northern California. This is the moment to force a public reckoning with ICE … 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

  Speaker: Peter Fay Reassessing Lenin’s Theory in the Age of Global Capital Few political works have shaped anti-colonial and revolutionary movements more profoundly than Vladimir Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916). Written amid the collapse of the Second International and the support of many socialist parties for World War I, it condemned both monopoly capital and the social-democratic movements that accommodated it. More than a century later, the world has changed dramatically. Yet the work’s concepts of monopoly capital, colonial exploitation, labor aristocracies, and the parasitic tendencies of advanced … 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

The East Bay is rising up to stop a proposed coal terminal that would blanket our communities in toxic dust. Come learn how you can fight coal at a community meeting hosted by the Keep Coal Out – East Bay coalition, of which No Coal in Oakland is a founding member. We’ll catch you up on our decade-long campaign opposing a proposed coal terminal in West Oakland. We’ll share updates on the campaign, and meet in small groups to brainstorm ways to take action. The coal terminal would bring multiple mile-long coal … 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