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6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons
Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons
May 16 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons | Oakland | California | United States
Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay. We fight against “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” spy drones, facial recognition, police body cameras and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones, to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government. We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no … Continued
7:00 pm Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment @ Green Arcade Bookstore
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment @ Green Arcade Bookstore
May 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz talks about her latest book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment Introduced by James Tracy From the author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Loaded is a deeply researched and deeply disturbinghistory of guns and gun laws in the United States.  From Daniel Boone and Jesse James, to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has colored the lore, shaped the law, and protected the market that arms the nation. In Loaded, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz peels away the myths of gun culture to … Continued
7:30 pm YANIS VAROUFAKIS Adults In The Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley
YANIS VAROUFAKIS Adults In The Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley
May 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
The most interesting man in the world — Business Insider One of the greatest political memoirs of all time. —The Guardian In this blistering memoir and expose, Varoufakis blows the lid off the world’s deep establishment, exposing what actually goes on behind the scenes through the corridors of real power. He offers a fascinatingly candid I-was-there account of his meetings with Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, and European leaders. He exposes the hypocrises, power plays, and frustrated good intentions that control the fate of nations large and small. While he was … Continued