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11:00 am Oakland Teachers Strike Solidarity Sick-Out @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oakland Teachers Strike Solidarity Sick-Out @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Feb 28 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Oakland Teachers Strike Solidarity Sick-Out @ Oscar Grant Plaza
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6:30 pm OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION: OPD Report on Pawlik Investigation @ City Council Chambers, Oakland City Hall
OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION: OPD Report on Pawlik Investigation @ City Council Chambers, Oakland City Hall
Feb 28 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Chief Anne Kirkpatrick will provide all publicly reportable information on the investigation and findings in the police involved shooting of Joshua Pawlik on March 11, 2018. Full agenda for meeting.65760
7:00 pm Expert Panel Discussion: Homelessness in the Bay Area @ Oakstop
Expert Panel Discussion: Homelessness in the Bay Area @ Oakstop
Feb 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join the Junior League of Oakland-East Bay, Alameda Point Collaborative, Beyond Emancipation, Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc., Contra Costa Health Services, Operation Dignity, and BOSS for an expert panel discussion on Homelessness in the Bay Area The panelists will touch on particularly vulnerable groups like foster youth, veterans, and the mentally ill. They will also discuss the changing face of poverty. We will examine the state of homelessness and what nonprofit organizations are doing to address it through technology, advocacy, cross-collaboration, outreach, and volunteer work. We will also talk about … Continued
7:00 pm PDA-CA forum on PUBLIC BANKING @ Park Branch Public Library Community Room
PDA-CA forum on PUBLIC BANKING @ Park Branch Public Library Community Room
Feb 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
PDA-CA forum on PUBLIC BANKING WHAT’S IN A BANK?   WHY WE NEED PUBLIC BANKS & HOW WILL WE GET THEM SOON?        Having learned how the “big banks” take our money and oft-times invest in things we don’t want, like fossil fuel businesses and corporations who create the mechanisms of war, we are in the midst of a movement to create public banks so we can invest in affordable housing, renewable energy, and other essentials of a society that shares and cares. Our forum explores the history and progress … Continued
7:30 pm Astra Taylor: What is Democracy? @ Nourse Theater
Astra Taylor: What is Democracy? @ Nourse Theater
Feb 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Astra Taylor: What is Democracy? @ Nourse Theater
City Arts & Lectures Presents ASTRA TAYLOR Film screening and discussion with director Astra Taylor Astra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy, democracy, and political organizing transcends form, emerging through documentary films, books, essays, and social activism. Her feature documentaries include Zizek! (2005) and An Examined Life (2008). Her most recent film, What is Democracy? (2018), collapses time and space, doggedly pursuing the eponymous question, while exploring a conglomeration of threads that refuse to be constrained by the camera’s frame, continuing the conversation rather than offering decisive answers. The film has been called “a deliberate challenge to complacency” (The … Continued