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10:00 am Donate Supplies for Dakota Pipeline Resistance Camps @ Greenpeace Office
Donate Supplies for Dakota Pipeline Resistance Camps @ Greenpeace Office
Sep 19 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Greenpeace offices around the county will be collecting camping, cooking, art, medical, and other supplies for the thousands of  indigenous and other people gathered to resist the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline would carry almost half a million barrels of water a day, endangering the lands of native tribes and others in four states as well as the water of the Missouri River. Sacred Stone and Red Warrior camps have been blocking pipeline construction for weeks. Thousands of supporters from 100 native tribes and allies across the country have joined the … Continued
6:00 pm Occupy Forum: The History of Socialism in America: from Robert Owens to Bernie Sanders @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor
Occupy Forum: The History of Socialism in America: from Robert Owens to Bernie Sanders @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor
Sep 19 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
OccupyForum presents… The History of Socialism in America: from Robert Owens’ utopian experiment of 1825 to Bernie’s political revolution of 2016 By Eugene Ruyle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology,  Cal State, Long Beach Institute for the Critical Study  of Society in Oakland   As a democratic socialist, Bernie Sanders began a political revolution to transform a political system run by the billionaire class into one that represents working and middle class Americans and creates more opportunity for everyone. This workshop will take a closer look at Bernie’s socialism by placing it … Continued
7:00 pm Community Meeting to Stop Urban Shield @ West Oakland Youth Center
Community Meeting to Stop Urban Shield @ West Oakland Youth Center
Sep 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Friday’s powerful action was the beginning of a major organizing push that can end Urban Shield in Alameda County once and for all. Bring your people to get involved in the next steps to defund and end Urban Shield. We believe that we can defund and end Alameda County’s hosting of Urban Shield, but we need your support to win this fight. Sign the petition online – https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/stand-up-against-police-militarization-say-no-to-urban-shield Sign up for our email list at stopurbanshieldnow@gmail.com, and visit stopurbanshield.org to stay involved.  61673
7:00 pm Two Lectures: Cassie Thornton on Smashing Debt and Alessandra Saviotti on Art as a Tool @ Omni Commons
Two Lectures: Cassie Thornton on Smashing Debt and Alessandra Saviotti on Art as a Tool @ Omni Commons
Sep 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Please join us for two consecutive lectures by Cassie Thornton of the Feminist Economics Department and Alessandra Saviotti of the Asociación de Arte Útil. Sponsored by the Birdhouse Collective and WICAN Cassie Thornton, working under the Feminist Economics Department (FED), presents the three recent projects in Chicago, Halifax and New York. These projects involve (respectively) (a) encouraging children to use crowbars to destroy walls made out of debt-wracked adults’ imagination, (b) mobilizing citizens in a pub to use yoga to demand the economically depressed Nova Scotia be declared a postwork … Continued