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10:00 am Interfaith Prayers for Healing @ Bahai Center
Interfaith Prayers for Healing @ Bahai Center
Jan 13 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to healing. The Bahá’í community of Oakland is organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing. Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us. Simple breakfast will be served. Doors open: 10:00 AM Refreshments served: 10:00-10:30 AM Prayers: 10:30-11:30 AM Discussion and socializing: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM “Thy name is my healing, O my God, and remembrance … Continued
10:30 am Liberation Psychology And The Refugee Question @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Liberation Psychology And The Refugee Question @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Jan 13 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
With Both Marx And Jesus: Liberation Psychology And The Refugee Question – Reflections By Adrianne Aron Derived from Liberation Theology and developed by a Jesuit priest in El Salvador, liberation psychology became the most effective of all methodologies for helping Central American refugees fleeing from state terrorism wrought by U.S. imperialism. The Catholic bishops’ “preferential option for the poor” that guided the radical religious movement of the 1970s and ‘80s in Latin America paved the way for psychology to break its attachments to the elites and bourgeois elements it had … Continued
1:00 pm DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons
DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons
Jan 13 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
East Bay DSA’s general meetings (GMs) are held on the second Sunday of each month. These meetings include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more. Volunteering at the GM is lively, easy, and low-commitment, and hugely benefits the meetings and thus our internal democracy. If you intend to come and would like to volunteer (!), let us know. Use this form, too, if you have child supervision or accessibility needs, including the need for an ASL interpreter. With our new regular schedule, member-submitted resolutions … Continued
1:00 pm SURJ: Supporting the M4BL Platform Part 1: Legislative Workshop
SURJ: Supporting the M4BL Platform Part 1: Legislative Workshop
Jan 13 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Join us for a legislative strategy session and workshop that will demystify the legislative process, build our legislative capacity, and highlight the legislative priorities and strategies of our people of color (POC) led partners! More Info: This workshop is the first of a two-part series for anyone who is passionate, curious, or wants to learn more about the ways that policy combined with grassroots organizing can be used as a tool in the movement for racial justice and collective liberation. This workshop will provide opportunities for participants to: – Learn … Continued
3:00 pm Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting @ Citizen Engagement Laboratory
Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting @ Citizen Engagement Laboratory
Jan 13 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The Poor People’s Campaign, A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC) focuses on fighting the four pillars of evil: poverty, systemic racism, the war economy and environmental devastation, and on shifting the moral narrative. PPC supporters in the Bay Area have come together to form the Bay Area PPC Steering Committee and hope you can join this effort and share this information with others who may be interested. AT THE UPCOMING MEETING WE WILL DISCUSS: – Plans for the March 2019 PPC Bay Area Hearing (dates, times, locations, format) – … Continued
3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Jan 13 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 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 the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph.  If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland.  (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM … Continued
5:00 pm Green Sunday: Visions of Unity @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Green Sunday: Visions of Unity @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Jan 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Visions of Unity panel: 5:00 – 6:30 pm Keynote Speaker: Gayle McLaughlin, former two-term mayor of Richmond.  Gayle is also co-founder and interim chair of the California Progressive Alliance (https://californiaprogressivealliance.org), whose Founding Convention will be held on March 30, 2019. Panelists to join Gayle and the attendees discussing their visions of progressive coalitions: Shawn McDougal, Community Democracy Project Marsha Feinland, Peace and Freedom Party Jack McShane, East Bay Democratic Socialists of America Dan Siegel, Oakland Justice Coalition Moderated by:  NONI SESSION!  Executive Director of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate … Continued