Pretty easy place to protest (not that there are no fascists anywhere in the East Bay), but thought I'd still link it because it's not like the media is doing a lot of coverage of protests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFqfpQmVY9A #USpol #Oakland #Protest
Lake Merritt Amphitheater, Tuesday, March 18 at 12:00 PM PDT
Slug World (the not-GDC community meetup for punks and queers in games and art) is returning for our 4th year in a row!
Slug World is a DIY social event run by local queer feminists.
If you’re a lil freak and you work in or around videogames or the arts, come kick it with us by the lake!
Whether you're an industry-outsider or a veteran, this is a place you can be yourself and connect with like-minded games people. It's a place to discuss the things that matter to you, make friends, and build solidarity.
If you find the usual GDC stuff alienating, cliquey, overstimulating, corporate, clout-obsessed and/or gross – girl I feel you, come hang out w us instead.
No sponsorships. No gatekeepers. No climbers. No decorum. Everything is free.
FEATURES
Casual Meetup Centering Queers, Women, and PoC
Good Discourse Only
Free Snacks
Free Drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic)
Free Local Weed (!!!)
Music (at normal volume so u can still talk)
Outdoors
Lots of Seating
Sex Worker-Friendly
Autism Friendly
All snacks + drinks are sealed for drink/food safety
Join our discord group to get updates, ask questions, or volunteer 
https://discord.com/invite/hrmyM3JdJw
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/slug-world-2025-registration-1143495689389
Today in Labor History March 6, 1978: President Jimmy Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley law to quash the 1977-78 national contract strike by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). The UMWA had been on strike since December 1977, but rejected a tentative contract agreement in early March, 1978. Carter invoked the national emergency provision of Taft-Hartley and ordered strikers back to work. They ignored the order and the government did little to enforce it. By late March, they reached a settlement. Taft-Hartley was enacted in the wake of the strike wave of 1945-1946 and was designed to prevent solidarity strikes and General Strikes. The last General Strike in U.S. history (Lancaster, PA; Stamford, CT; Rochester, NY; and Oakland, CA) occurred just prior to Taft-Hartley.
Letterpress posters by David Fullarton from The Compound Gallery (just acquired for @letterformarchive) https://shopcompound.com/collections/david-fullarton #Letterpress #Fascism #EatTheRich #DeathToFascism #Oakland #Emeryville #CompoundGallery #LetterformArchive
RIP to an ICON.
Dude opened the door for Black anchors. Especially on the West Coast.
Yeah,he was an imposing guy in person,but when you watched him on THE 10 O'clock News,you knew you would get the news in a straight,yet comforting manner.
Watched him all the time during my visits to San Francisco over the years.
He's STILL Mr. KTVU.
Rest easy,Dennis.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QB78JMdPK_c&si=DczDLcQRvUZs7oPw
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by Kwame Beans Shakur, Co-founder and Chairman of New Afrikan Liberation Collective (NALC) and National Director of Prison Lives Matter, Spirit of Mandela Coalition and The People’s Senate
In previous articles, We spoke about developing The New Afrikan People’s Center for Decolonization on ancestral and liberated land in my hood. This changed when NALC was able to purchase a building around the corner from said land in the summer of ’22. This building has a long history of being owned and operated by the New Afrikan Community, dating back to the ‘50s. It was the only Black-owned grocery store in the community. It would later become a New Afrikan motorcycle club in the ‘70s. In the ‘80s it became the first location for the restaurant known as The Black Skillet, and my earliest memory of it in the early 2000s was again that of a grocery/corner store.
So, it is with great revolutionary spirit and continuing the legacy that We have been renovating the property while reintroducing it to the community as the People’s Programs for Decolonization building. The building and programs are based on the theory and practice laid forth in the FROLINAN (front for the liberation of the New Afrikan Nation) National Strategy/Handbook and Our 10 programs for Decolonization.
As we continue raising funds to fully renovate and furnish the building to host these programs, We have been able to utilize the space for temporary mutual aid to meet the immediate needs of the people. At the same time, We were able to implement one of the first tangible FROLINAN programs in the Nation on the above-mentioned land where I grew up.
In April of ’24, comrades traveled from New York and Philly to help Us break ground for the Booker T Washington Community Garden under the banner of the New Afrikan Food Co-Op Program. The food co-op/community garden has a space for community members and comrades to engage in political education or host community events and other formations throughout 2024. The garden includes an indoor greenhouse and a grape arbor.
In the first year We were able to harvest potatoes, squash, collard greens, okra, corn, tomatoes, green beans, cantaloupe, eggplant, zucchini and a variety of peppers and plant over 30 fruit trees that have been named after current or former political prisoners or freedom fighters as a way to also educate the people as we feed them. In fact, the entire process of food sovereignty and agricultural independence is an educational, economic, political and social development process for the people. It is one of the most important forms of decolonization that we must all adopt next to political education and security.
We tend to overlook this fundamental process because We are so Neo-colonized within the belly of the beast. We happen to be colonized and held captive inside one of the wealthiest empires in the world, and just like all other forms of capitalist Neo-colonialism, Our captor provides these things for Us at a cost. So, We continue to depend on massa instead of being trained on how to grow and harvest Our own nutritional resources.
As a nation, We are equated to that of a fetus in the womb with an umbilical cord or a young dependent who doesn’t have to think about where Our food comes from. I’ve said it before: We have to start acting like a Nation of people who actually want liberation and independence and not just an organization or movement of radical amerikans.
Any nation or group of people who cannot feed themselves naturally become dependent and at the mercy of others. Also, you cannot look back at any successful liberation struggle throughout history where all layers of revolutionary forces didn’t form a united front to carry out the aims and objectives or collective strategies for the people.
Frantz Fanon talked about the colonized people needing to go through the “fundamental transition period” between being colonial/captive subjects and the “new” people becoming an independent nation. What does this mean? Right now, We are not in control of Our own destiny, We are not in control of Our own day to day affairs. We depend on someone else for food, security, healthcare, technology, clothing, education, political, and governmental policy that dictate Our social reality.
Again, it’s the umbilical cord. If We just cut it and tried to separate Ourselves fully as it stands right now, We would starve off and die. We have been here before; they claim that We were “freed” from chattel slavery in 1865, but that was only the transition from colonialism into neo-colonialism. For hundreds of years, We had been dependent on Our captors, We weren’t allowed to own anything, We didn’t have any educational, economic, or agricultural autonomy.
So, with no “fundamental transition period,” one day we’re enslaved and the next day they say We are free. We still had to depend on the colonists for food, shelter, employment and We haven’t recovered to this day from that continued codependency.
In terms of what this means in 2024 for New Afrikans seeking national liberation and self-government, that transitional decolonization period has to mean Our political organizers, legal body, underground formations, medical cadre, student unions, farmers, and the prison movement all coming together to establish infrastructure that will sustain Us in the future.
Let’s say the u.s. or united nations honored international law and allowed Us to separate RIGHT NOW! No depending on their food sources, no using their medical facilities, no sending Our children to their schools, etc. What would We do? Where would We be as a people? We would look like the many underdeveloped nations in the motherland who gained their independence during anti-colonial wars over half a century ago. They had the military resistance but failed to establish agriculture, medical or economic structure to sustain the new nation.
Following the 2021 International Tribunal, the Spirit of Mandela Coalition and those of Us under that umbrella have been taking the fundamental steps towards transitioning the people into various forms of decolonization and implementing strategic measures to guide New Afrikans, Chicanos and Indigenous nations/tribes as national panel and webinars to lay the foundation for the People’s Senate.
Prison Lives Matter is getting back to the core of its organizing capabilities and Our initiatives to build state chapters and regional organizing committees to strengthen the overall national structure as well as the collective aims/objectives within the movement. We called upon people to become field marshals or general members to start inside-out coordination in their state between captive individuals and outside formations, family members, lawyers, students etc. We were receiving all this national mail to one P.O. box in Chicago.
The original mission was to distribute the mail to comrades/organizations in the state or region from which the inside person wrote and help develop the necessary correspondence to start calls and meetings in that area. Once a statewide chapter is developed, it would then become the responsibility of the outside members to start its own P.O. box or destination for mail in that state.
We were encouraged by the overwhelming amount of people who tapped in wanting to develop structure in their state or learn more about PLM; however, the lack of organizational structure and coordination within the united front made it hard for one person to respond to all this mail from across the nation. PLM has monthly calls with the National Coordinating Committee (NCC) to discuss the progress of the movement, onboard new individuals, plan upcoming events, and report the status of Our Political prisoners and their campaigns.
The last three meetings have been focused on rebuilding the internal structure of Our sub-committees, and making sure that We are clear on coordination, communication and capacity that will ultimately help Us properly network and reach Our goals. As I’ve always stressed, despite the name, PLM is not solely about prisoners or the conditions in these kamps. It is a vehicle for decolonization, a united front based on the blueprint of FROLINAN and the concept of We Are Our Own Liberators.
If properly organized and utilized, it will galvanize the entire movement as We connect the dots between inside-outside struggles and unite New Afrikan, Chicano, Indigenous and poor working-class people in Our international fight against capitalist-imperialism. Along this same call to action, we are calling upon conscious citizens of the Republic of New Afrika, who are vetted in the line of the New Afrikan Independence movement to join the New Afrikan Liberation Collective (NALC) in order to help strengthen and develop FROLINAN.
So, again We are calling on those who are serious about building infrastructure to step up, reach out and help implement a base in your area. For the role of field marshal, We need those who are experienced organizers, have an existing network in your state or region and have the ability to educate/train others. For those inside, i refer you to your April issue of the San Francisco Bay View. For those outside, search “Kwame Beans Shakur: Call to Action for National Unification.” There you will find the transcription of the Prison Lives Matter: Liberate Our Elders webinar and panel discussion that took place in August of 2023 in
Oakland, Chicago and New York in order to refresh or gain an overstanding of where We are in Our efforts and what you are stepping into.
Remember: WE ARE OUR OWN LIBERATORS! REBUILD TO WIN!! FREE THE LAND!!!
PLM Midwest, P.O. Box 9383, Chicago, IL 60609
Link-tree: https://linktr.ee/kwame.shakur Links to both the PLM and NALC national websites can be found here, as well as links to select articles written by Kwame, podcast episodes he is featured on, and his music.
Instagram: @free_kwameshakur
Facebook: Kwame Shakur Freedom Campaign
source: SF Bayview [sfbayview.com]
Today is #FredKoramatsuDay
#TodayInOaklandHistory January 30, 1919, Fred Korematsu was born. When Executive Order 9066 came down in 1942, the Castlemont HS grad refused instead of reporting with others of Japanese ancestry.
He was arrested, and his case went all the way to the US Supreme Court. The case lost.
It was later shown the government had suppressed data showing Japanese Americans were not a threat, and the case was formally vacated.
He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery, and his grave marker bears a replica of his Presidential Medal of Freedom. One of the last things Korematsu said was, "I'll never forget my government treating me like this. And I really hope that this will never happen to anybody else because of the way they look, if they look like the enemy of our country."
https://localwiki.org/oakland/Fred_Korematsu
To learn more about Fred Korematstu, listen to the East Bay Yesterday podcast episode, "They knew it was a lie"
https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/they-knew-it-was-a-lie/
@mastodonmigration There's a reclaim MLK day march in Portland, Oregon tomorrow. This link has more info on that along with some other suggestions:
There are also marches in other locations (can't remember all but I remember #Oakland was one) but folks can check to see if one is nearby.
There's also a march in Oakland, and other events planned before MLK day:
I'm looking for a manual machining or fabrication job.
I'm also available to help your org build a simple web presence as you get off of Facebook Pages or want a fallback.
Events listed from #Kansas to #Oakland!
Check them out here: https://itsgoingdown.org/j18-festivals-of-resistance
"San Pablo’s Cop City is slated to be built this Spring: it’s time to agitate and organize!"
Meeting tonight, 7:30, East Bay DSA Office, 1610 Harrison St #Oakland and Online.
#StopCopCity #BlockCopCity #StopCopCampus #SanPablo
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/01/10/18872078.php
@murodegrizeco@toad.socialBut then we saw some electro-wheat.
@murodegrizeco@toad.socialgood night, sun!
At "Glowfari", at the Oakland Zoo
Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war
#Oakland #Calif #American #Franklin #PearlHarbor #Japanese #WestCoast #IAMANAMERICAN #WorldWarII #California #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
This video is making me want to learn in-line skating. Is there a beginner's group in #Oakland
Oh good grief.
Most of the bus shelters in #Oakland aren't the responsibility of the city or Alameda County Transit.
They were maintained by Clear Channel as 'platforms for advertising.'
That is, until they weren't.
That's why so many of them are wrecks now. The ones on 14th Street Downtown are really sad. The city's planning to remove them because they are a safety hazard.
We gotta stop letting our elected outsource public infrastructure to the private sector.
