Anarchist Family Meetup 
••• This is a monthly meetup for anarchist families and chosen family. Our intention is to build connections and break down the isolation of parenting under capitalism. Kid-centered skillshares for DIY and anti-civ activities.

Anarchist Organizational Models 
••• As state oppression intensifies, how can we mobilize larger numbers, coordinate our efforts and have more impact? Come and work with others to envision your anarchist organizing group / structure. What does it take to build lasting infrastructure/groups, small or large, without hierarchy? Mike E will talk about recent historical examples of anarchist groups and pose questions to help everyone present explore what such groups could look like for them. The goal is not to arrive at the perfect organizing model, but to understand how to collaborate with others based on what you hope to achieve and need, while considering the pros and cons of different models.
While the debate between individualist anarchist tendencies and those wanting more organization can be interesting, this workshop will not be the space for that. The assumption, if you’re attending, is that you’re interested in creating a greater level of organization for yourself and others.

Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
••• Radical publishers & community organizations. Workshops & skill sharing. This year focus on anarchist infrastructure and interdependence.

Ben Morea FULL CIRCLE
••• Lifelong anarchist and member of Up Against the Wall Motherfucker Ben Morea discusses his new book Full Circle, his life in anarchy, and the deep connections between art, politics, and spirituality.

BikeMD: Fix It Clinic
•••  BikeMD is a place for people to come fix their own bike with professional instruction to ensure all work is done safely. Bring your own bike. Spaces limited.

Combat Sports for Community Defense
••• During this 4 week course participants will explore their bodies thru movement based games that are aimed at coordinating and adapting skills taken from various combat sports (Kickboxing, Judo, Ju Jitsu, etc.) to build the skills to better defend our communities from the myriad threats of authoritarianism. Classes are cumulative, so please plan to come to all 4.

Debate, Argumentation, and Rhetoric
••• Led by a speech and debate coach, this discussion class will cover the two concepts of care and attack through active listening and argumentation. In the care section, we will discuss the elements of ideas and arguments, paraphrasing others’ viewpoints, and expressing responses to others. In the attack section, we will discuss best practices for engaging with ideological opposition, such as refuting reasoning, isolating values behind arguments, and zooming out to compare values between opposing worldviews.

DIY Bike Repair! 
•••In these sessions, we’ll go over how brakes and gears work on your bike and how to fix them yourself.

From Protest to Prosecution: Mapping the Legal Landscape of Dissent in the Trump Era
•••Join us for a presentation on the what we can learn from identifying trends in and support for defendants in protest-related cases in 2025. We summarize state and federal charges against protesters to contextualize individual criminal cases, identify broader patterns, assess risk, and analyze how overcharging and federalization function as prosecutorial tools to suppress dissent and advance authoritarian objectives.
This talk also examines the political context, including how the Trump administration’s rhetoric cast immigrants and protestors as national security threats to justify military and legal escalation. We trace the repurposing of federal statutes originally intended for insurrection-related offenses that may be used to criminalize anti-deportation activism. We will discuss recent Executive Orders, including labeling “Antifa” as a “terrorist organization.”
CKH is an Oakland based educator, attorney, and organizer conducting research on the Administration’s Policies.
La Defensa is a femme-led advocacy organization dedicated to shifting Los Angeles County’s reliance on criminalization and incarceration towards systems of care that center human dignity. It defend the presumption of innocence through policies that challenge pretrial detention, we advocate for local and state budgets that reflect our values and we challenge judicial power by building public resources and electoral power. Our work is informed by the legacy of the communities we belong to: Multi-racial, queer, immigrant, undocumented, working class people with incarcerated loved ones.

Grafting the Future: Cactus Care, Kinship, and Resiliency 
••• This is a two-part session on cactus, native plants, and land defense. First, we’ll break down the role of cactus and California natives in local ecosystems, how to actually take care of them, and why they matter for land back struggles and conservation efforts in West Oakland and around the world. If we lose our connection with plants and don’t know how to keep them alive, we’re already behind. Part two is hands-on: cactus grafting skills anyone can learn, plus the first vision-mapping meeting for XERITOPIA, a greenhouse in west Oakland and collective-in-progress focused on building local power through plant stewardship. Come ready to cut, splice, and plot.

Holding Grief in the Storm: A Community Holding Ritual 
••• All the intensity of feeling that come up as we witness and participate in the human costs of decaying empire is both expected and overwhelming. Come practice holding grief in community with us! We will hold a structured space for you to feel what needs feeling with each other. Bring a small item for the altar that is related to your grief, tissues or hankies, and any comfort items that help you feel your feelings.

Holistic Community Mental Health for Protesters and Activists
••• Although protesting can bring out our strongest selves, it can also leave us carrying stress, exhaustion, grief, and fear. This class is about learning how to carry those weights together. We’ll explore the different kinds of stress that arise in activist spaces and practice ways to transform them into resilience, connection, and community care.

Immigrant Rights & Advocate Training
••• In this Know Your Rights training, we will cover the rights of immigrants when encountering ICE. We will discuss rights and best practices across a range of scenarios, for both immigrants and bystanders. Additionally, we will cover common tactics that ICE uses; the sanctuary laws in California and the Bay Area; court watch & accompaniment, and how immigrants can proactively prepare. This training is intended for both immigrants and non-immigrant community members who want to become KYR advocates. [Taught in English and Spanish]

Intro to the Alexander Technique
••• We will explore posture as an inborn system of support, give ourselves a chance to release muscle tension, and seek to experience ease and freedom within everyday life.

Liberation in Care and Health: A Retrospective of Radical Healthcare
••• What are the shapes of care+health+healthcare that exist outside of industrialized medical systems? We will go over some examples of novel and successful systems of care, then invite you to experientially imagine ways of caring that exist outside our current context. This space is hoping to generate imaginative momentum in building the care+health/healthcare spaces that we need going into the future.

Meshtastic is a wireless off-the-grid text messaging system. What’s next after sending your first message?
••• Meshtastic enables wireless text messaging without cellular service, WiFi, or internet. Ready to go beyond the basics?**Session 1: Advanced Features**
Topics:
– End-to-end encryption and custom group chats
– Selective location sharing
– Software applications for Meshtastic devices
– Technical deep dive: how and why it works
– Real-world case studies from large 2025 events with hundreds of nodes
Bring: Your Meshtastic hardware; laptop optional
Leave with: A configured device and skills to customize settings

Radical Moves: Interactive Public Art & Learning Zone
••• Radical Moves is an interactive public art & learning zone, with collective visioning. Stories of activism, radical change-makers, and successful social-change movements from every country in the world will be shared, celebrating the awareness of these movements, the people, and their contributions. Then participants can share their own experiences, ideas, and solutions together, envisioning possible actions, and forming collective possibilities.

Repair Stuff with Other Stuff
••• There are some really basic principles that can be used to fix all kinds of things. We’ll can go over basic electricity, mechanics, plumbing, and materials compatibility in three or four sessions. Come with curiosity.

Revolt and Repression: a Galleanist History
••• The goal of this history class is to contextualize and explore the ideas and actions of galleanist anarchists in the early 1900s. We’ll think together about Italian-American anarchist responses to anti immigration legislation and deportations.

Rich City Rays Action Camp
••• Environmental justice/ kayaktivism group hosting a weekend of workshops including: Critical Ecology, How to Stay Safe in Protests on Water and Land and Digital Security for All Activists, Racial Capitalism and the Climate Crisis, How to Plan a RCR Paddle, and Bringing our Voices to the Water: How to see our waterways as places for non violent direct action.

Spaces To Grow
••• A class about planning your garden for those who want to begin and those who need direction with their next steps. We’ll start a with a beloved space from the community – a backyard, a median strip in front of an apartment, a balcony or a corner of a favorite park – and we’ll come together with the class to observe, plan, and suggest resources to turn any space into a garden, or make moves in an existing garden. Three class sessions with rotating locations.

Stop the Bleed Training
••• Learn info about the body’s circulatory system, signs of hemorrhage, and shock. Get hands-on practice with techniques like pressure, tourniquets, and junctional packing. No prior medical or first aid experience required, all supplies provided.

Tenants’ Rights & Tenants’ Wrongs: Defending Your Tenancy
••• Join a tenant’s rights expert to learn how to defend your tenancy, keep your rent control, and switch roommates with ease. Oakland tenants’ rights for beginners.

Triage Basics & Chemical Weapons Defense 
••• Come learn the basics of assessing injuries and illnesses, street medic ethics, plus practical treatment for pepper spray + tear gas exposure. No prior medical training required! This is not a complete street medic training.

Understanding the Self, Ethical Romantic Relations, and Regulation in Community
•••  Join us for a three part workshop exploring exercises from Dean Spade’s radical self help book, ‘Love in a Fucked Up World.’ You do not need to read the book to participate and can show to any workshop individually; worksheets and friends provided!

Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Concept of History”
••• We will read through Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Concept of History” together during the class and discuss its relevance to anarchist and anti-colonial praxis. To quote the text itself, “then it will become clear that the task before us is the introduction of a real state of emergency; and our position in the struggle against Fascism will thereby improve.”

Wildfood: Autumn Urban Foraging Wildfood: Persimmon Processing and Uses
••• We will be discussing ways to explore your local urban landscape and to source produce from public spaces or from your local community, with emphasis on creating connections based around seasonal harvest. In November, the Bay Area is in full persimmon season. We will be centering our urban foraging knowledge and efforts on identifying, harvesting, and storing persimmon fruit. In the second session, we will be covering preservation techniques and food safety considerations with respect to the fruit foraged in the first session. We will go over vinegar making, and the slow drying of hachiya persimmons, also known as Hoshigaki. To complete the series, we will explore the culinary possiblities of our urban bounty.

You & Your Future Commune
••• So many of us dream about moving into a house or a piece of land with our friends. What does it really mean? How can we do this with care on stolen land under a hostile, inequitable system designed to crush and alienate us in a region with some of the highest cost of living in the country? This class will be a panel discussion with a handful of folks who are deep in the planning phase or who have engaged in collective property ownership and land stewardship. What resources did they need to start? How did they form their collective? What hurdles and opportunities did they encounter? How is it going or how did it go? There is no “how-to” to find the perfect way to do this, because each situation is so particular to the individuals involved. The hope for this class will be that by sharing individual experiences, class attendees may come away with some idea of what the realities of navigating these projects might look like.