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6:30 pm Defund OPD at Budget Forums @ Various locations (and times) on different dates - see below
Defund OPD at Budget Forums @ Various locations (and times) on different dates - see below
May 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
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Have you ever wondered: What do police really spend their time doing? How much do they make, and why do they get paid so much? Could we shrink OPD and make Oakland an even safer, better place to live? The process of allocating Oakland’s 2.6 billion dollar budget for 2017-2019 has begun.  We believe that the scandal-ridden and dysfunctional Oakland Police Department consumes far too many of our city’s resources.  It’s time to audit police spending and performance, and redirect wasted funds to community-building, constructive strategies for making Oakland a … Continued
7:00 pm East Bay Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons
East Bay Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons
May 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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Open as many homes as possible… Hold them as long as possible.62785
7:00 pm Film Screening: To the Ends of the Earth @ Roxie
Film Screening: To the Ends of the Earth @ Roxie
May 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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“To the Ends of the Earth” follows concerned citizens living at the frontiers of extreme oil and gas extraction, bearing witness to a global crossroads. They call for human ingenuity to rebuild society at the end of the fossil fuel era. The people we meet are uniquely positioned to watch this global crossroads unfold. For example, the mayor of an Inuit village in Canada’s high Arctic who is concerned that seismic testing for oil in the ocean is blowing up the eardrums of the animals that the Inuit hunt to … Continued
7:00 pm Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World @ City Lights Books
Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World @ City Lights Books
May 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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Whose Technology? Protest, Resistance, and the Reshaping of the Global Village Two groundbreaking critics and historians of technological effects on culture discuss a re-envisioning of the electronic commons. As reactionary corporate elites reshape our geo-political landscape, possibilities emerge for a radical re-accessment of our relationship to information technology and its use. Finn Brunton and Ramesh Srinivasan rigorously explore the possibilities for grassroots resistance to misinformation campaigns, invasions of privacy, trolling, and offer creative approaches for the rebooting of progressive agendas and effective techniques of re-appropriating technology into the service of … Continued
May 10, 2017