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5:30 pm Codepink’s Weekly Peace Vigil @ on the steps in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's office
Codepink’s Weekly Peace Vigil @ on the steps in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's office
Aug 17 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
  JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner 61441
6:00 pm Coalition for Police Accountability – Ballot Initiative Campaign Formation @ PUEBLO
Coalition for Police Accountability – Ballot Initiative Campaign Formation @ PUEBLO
Aug 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
For those who are dismayed about the changes that were made and do not wish to continue to participate in the Coalition, we accept that and are grateful for the support you gave along the way. We will transition from a coalition into a campaign and discuss what that will mean in practical terms. We will look at a timeline and the need to create a budget, get endorsements, work on messaging, etc. I hope folks will join us to kick-off what promises to be an exciting moment in Oakland’s … Continued
6:00 pm David Dayen, Author of “Chain of Title” (San Francisco) @ Book Passage Bookstore
David Dayen, Author of “Chain of Title” (San Francisco) @ Book Passage Bookstore
Aug 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
David Dayen, Author of "Chain of Title" (San Francisco) @ Book Passage Bookstore | San Francisco | California | United States
In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose. Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn Szymoniak did not work in government or law enforcement. They had no history of anticorporate activism. Instead they … Continued
6:30 pm Oakland Privacy Meeting: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons
Oakland Privacy Meeting: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons
Aug 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Oakland Privacy Meeting: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons | Oakland | California | United States
Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the surveillance state,  against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, including the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the BART Board of Directors, and by the Oakland and Berkeley City Councils. We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, ALPRs, requirements for “backdoors” to your cellphone and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, … Continued
7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance
Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance
Aug 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance | Oakland | California | United States
Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month. Please join us for this important general meeting.  We will be working specifically on the four demands we put forth following the OPD Rape Scandal: 1) Nancy O’Malley must publicly state she intends to launch a full investigation into the police officers who raped and trafficked a 17 year old child and press charges against all officers involved. 2) Divest 50% of the Oakland Police Department’s budget and redirect those funds to career centers, job training programs, mental health … Continued