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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

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

 Nationwide “We the People” protests.  Locally, there are protests at Oakland City Hall (Oscar Grant Plaza, Broadway &14th) starting at 5:30 pm and at Berkeley City Hall (2180 Milvia) starting at 6:00 pm.  Here are links to a little more info about the Oakland event:  https://www.mobilize.us/lightfordemocracy/event/759932/  and about the Berkeley event:  https://www.mobilize.us/lightfordemocracy/event/759839/ Under the headline, “Light for Our Democracy”, they’re urging that, “At a time when democracy is under threat, we’re asking you – and folks across the country – to come together to defend it.” See you in front of … 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

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

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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

Join a  STAND UP FOR SCIENCE rally in San Francisco or Sacramento (and nationwide) to defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress. Organizers are calling on policymakers, institutions, and the scientific community to uphold the integrity of science, protect its accessibility, and ensure its benefits serve all people.   Stand Up for Science proposes the following policy actions: 1. Secure and Expand Scientific Funding Publicly funded science drives innovation, strengthens the economy, and improves lives.  We demand: Restoration of Federal Research Funding: Reinstate federal funding for scientific … 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

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   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

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

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

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

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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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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

SAN FRANCISCO: EMERGENCY PROTEST! STOP THE GENOCIDE!! HANDS OFF GAZA! HANDS OFF PALESTINE! HANDS OFF YEMEN! HANDS OFF LEBANON! Israel has resumed its brutal genocide and all out war on the Palestinian people in Gaza with full backing of the US Government. The US administration has confirmed that they were consulted on Israel’s latest aggression. The US government, with its unwavering political and economic support, is directly responsible for this escalation against Gaza and the ongoing genocide. Join us to demand an arms embargo against apartheid Israel. We can, we … 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

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 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

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