Intersectional Reading Room with Jupiter
Fri May 9th :: 2pm-4pm @ Berkeley Public Library Central (2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley)
••• Do you have books and/or essays piling up that you’ve been meaning to read? In the middle of a thiccque text that would be even richer read or reread and discussed with comrades? Got a niche theory about a random tv show? Bring all your media hot takes and literary inquiries to this unconventional interdisciplinary multimedia collective study space.

Writing with the Plants with Taylor Rose
Sat May 10th  :: 11am-12:30pm
@ Gill Tract Farm (1050 San Pablo Avenue, Albany)
••• Each session focuses on one plant in depth, and then invites folks into creative (writing) reflection. We’ll engage with the lessons plants can offer around inhabiting our ecologies in ways that generate more possibility for collective survival. Come get to know plants and imagine together.

Using Tech to Battle Tech: Learning Arduino, Sensors, Cameras, and Code with revolt
Mon May 12th :: 3:30pm-4:30pm
@ Remote, link to a signal group will be provided at bafs.noblogs.org 5 days before session
•••Technology can fee soul-destroying and all pervasive. Especially with how much it has been used in recent years to harm our communities, warp our relationship to nature and each other, and displace our friends and family. But technology itself does not have a politic; it can be used for freedom struggles as well, as we see it’s increasingly useful role in Palestine, Yemen, and Ukraine. Based on experience of attendees (it’s a co-creation!), this will be a beginner-friendly class to learn about the basics of how to program and build your own projects using sensors, robots, cameras, and even some AI . 3D printing and other tools of the trade will also be discussed. Even more importantly, this class aims to focus on encouraging an anti-fascist, anti-capitalist relationship with our technological world, sharing the joy and creativity that is possible with a different value system, rooted in community care, creativity, diversity, and environmentalism.

License Plates, Flock and Deflock
Tues May 13th :: 7:30pm-9pm
@ Hasta Muerte (2701 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland)
••• this class will cover key information about flock and license plate reading AI tech that is being installed and used around the bay area and the country. we will look at recent cases where this tech has led to arrests and cover ways to practice surveillance defense in this shifting landscape.

Tools in Hands with Throckmorton
Sat May 17th :: 11am-1pm
@ RSVP to signal username @laboon.72 for location
••• Hands on class to learn general wood construction techniques. Become familiar with using tools like hammers, drills, and saws. The goal of this class is to build familiarity and confidence operating tools and making building decisions. When our bodies are already friends with our tools, we can act quickly and comfortably in both calm and crisis settings! Any skill level welcome- intended for beginners.

Backyard Gardening and Food Sovereignty with Sticky and Zina
Sun May 18th :: 1pm-4pm
@ RSVP to wormstewgardens@proton.me for location
••• How do we feed ourselves and each other? How do we begin to make a world of many worlds? Learn how you can start with tending land you currently have access to with the people around you. We’ll learn together about sustainable farming in the summer season: growing food, restoring the land as needed, and setting intentions.

Park Circus Arts with Dante, Negra Hormiga, and Salva
Sun May 18th :: 3:30pm-6:30pm
@ North Lake Merritt, near McElroy Fountain (461 Perkins St, Oakland) – follow the purple signs
​​​​​​​••• Bringing pedagogies from the south, Park Circus Arts is an attempt to deinstitutionalize Circus Arts bringing them to open spaces as a tool for social transformation. There is no need to have previous experience, certain age or body to enjoy exploring what your body can do in community. Ages: 5 – 99 (minors please bring your adult with you). Practices: Grass Circus Movement, Hand to Hand, Juggling, stilts and Aerials. We encourage everyone to share knowledge and food. Please bring some food to share, and water.

DIY Humanure: The Merits of Small Scale Poop Composting
Wed May 21st :: 4pm-5:30pm
@ Snow Park (19th Street & Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• how can shitting become a daily ritual against industrial capitalism’s attempts to enclose and control the flow of water, nutrients and microorganisms through our bodies, the land, the rivers? this will be a show and tell about DIY humanure (poop composting) systems for households small and large, urban and rural.

DeEscalation Skills for Activists, Revolutionaries and Anyone Else! with Kangs and Pat
Thurs May 22nd :: 5pm-8pm
@ Unimatrix Zero in North Oakland (email DeEscalationForEveryone@proton.me for the address)
••• Join us to talk about hard situations with single and multiple people, how to best support them, take care of yourself and contribute to a safer community. We will go over ways to know get yourself into the conversation, build rapport, empathy and connection skills. And time to role play, rehearse and post-hearse scenarios.

Radical Healthcare Meetup
Thurs May 22nd :: 7pm-8pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• A monthly meetup for anarchists and radicals who are participating in healthcare– from the most autonomous to those employed by the medical industrial complex. Come offer mutual aid support, skill+resource share, grieve, commiserate, and build solidarity across divides. Can healthcare be a place of radical praxis? Loosely facilitated and horizontal collaboration encouraged.

Massage Skill Share with Priscilla and Dante
Fri May 23rd :: 1pm-4pm
@ The Spire (825 Athens Ave, Oakland) 
••• Pain and stress suck. They drain our energy and attention and alter our thought processes. We will go over clothed massage basics together to support each other in tending to our bodies muscle and nervous system health. We want to break out of self care into us care. Please bring a buddy you already know you are comfortable engaging in contact with if possible.

Packing a Go Bag & Making a Plan
Sat May 24th :: 2pm-4pm 
@ The Building at Gill Tract Farm (1050 San Pablo Avenue, Albany)
••• What do you pack in a go bag? We will assemble basic kits for emergency evacuations with donated and community-sourced supplies. We will also discuss how you can map your own network and create a disaster plan.​​​​​​​

Anarchist Family Meet Up
Sundays May 25th :: 11am-1pm
@ Dimond Park (3860 Hanly Road, Oakland)
••• Monthly meet-up for anarchist families and folks who want more kids in their lives! This will be a potluck style event to hang out, connect, and ideally develop some anarchists skillshare programming for kids and simultaneous discussion for adults. We’d love you to bring ideas for skills/topics you want to teach or see taught, and can work with you to develop age-appropriate material.

Our hope is to work against capitalism’s drive to disconnect and isolate families and inter-generational relationships. We aim to build community/network among anarchist families in the bay, as well as  incorporate non-parents who are interested in sharing experiences with future anarchists.

Harm Reduction Meetup
Mon May 26th :: 7pm-8pm
@ 1924 Union St. Unit 1, Oakland
••• We Take Care of Us. This is an ongoing monthly space for those interested or already participating in harm reduction. Come learn, share skills, offer support, collaborate, grieve, build solidarity, and discuss liberatory harm reduction practices. Loosely facilitated, collaborations encouraged.

Take Back The Town
Tues May 27th :: 6pm-8pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Informational sessions on tenant organizing. The first session (5/27) will cover the political landscape and history of housing in the East Bay. The second session (6/10) will detail how tenants can organize to gain rent reductions and enact repair-and-deduct to improve habitability.

DeEscalation Skills for Activists, Revolutionaries and Anyone Else! with Kangs and Pat
Thurs May 29th :: 5pm-8pm
@ Unimatrix Zero in North Oakland (email DeEscalationForEveryone@proton.me for the address)
••• Join us to talk about hard situations with single and multiple people, how to best support them, take care of yourself and contribute to a safer community. We will go over ways to know get yourself into the conversation, build rapport, empathy and connection skills. And time to role play, rehearse and post-hearse scenarios.

Tools in Hands with Throckmorton
Sat May 31st :: 11am-1pm
@ RSVP to signal username @laboon.72 for location
••• Hands on class to learn general wood construction techniques. Become familiar with using tools like hammers, drills, and saws. The goal of this class is to build familiarity and confidence operating tools and making building decisions. When our bodies are already friends with our tools, we can act quickly and comfortably in both calm and crisis settings! Any skill level welcome- intended for beginners.

Digital Security under Surveillance Capitalism: Phones with Pinyon and Karo
Thurs May 29th :: 6:30pm-9pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Mass data collection poses significant challenges to privacy, and affords enormous power to the corporations and states who possess it. What basic everyday practices can we adopt to counter such surveillance and keep our communities safer? Each class will discuss basic principles and specific tools, with time to work on your own devices.

Digital Security under Surveillance Capitalism: Computers with Pinyon and Karo
Sat May 31st :: 2pm-4:30pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Mass data collection poses significant challenges to privacy, and affords enormous power to the corporations and states who possess it. What basic everyday practices can we adopt to counter such surveillance and keep our communities safer? Each class will discuss basic principles and specific tools, with time to work on your own devices.

Holding and Tending Grief in Community and Intimately with Rayne
Sun June 1st :: 11am-1pm
@ ABO Comix (2520 Telegraph Ave, Oakland)
••• Grief and loss are fundamental parts of being human, and most of us don’t have cultural tools to navigate these effectively. Learn about grief and some ways of holding it both in our communities and with each other in smaller units. Bring a small significant item for the Altar of What is Lost and tissues or a handkerchief.

Tools in Hands with Throckmorton
Sat June 7th :: 11am-1pm
@ RSVP to signal username @laboon.72 for location
••• Hands on class to learn general wood construction techniques. Become familiar with using tools like hammers, drills, and saws. The goal of this class is to build familiarity and confidence operating tools and making building decisions. When our bodies are already friends with our tools, we can act quickly and comfortably in both calm and crisis settings! Any skill level welcome- intended for beginners.

Plant and Flower Essence Sits with Stascha
Sat June 7th :: 1pm – 3pm
@ Location TBD – check website for updates
••• A class on flower essences. We’ll talk briefly about flower essences – where they  originate, how people use them, and why they’re useful. The goal is to introduce participants to plant and flower essence sits in the hope of strengthening intuition and relationship to plants. We will do 2 sits: 10 minutes with a plant and another 10 minutes with an essence. After, we’ll discuss what came up.

Emergent Play for Divergent Beings: Play as a Community Organizing Tool with ishu & fritz 
Sun June 8th :: 11am-2pm
@ Marx Meadow in Golden Gate Park (at 25th Ave, San Francisco)
••• This experimental series draws on the community organizing ideas in adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy. It combines theater techniques with organizing tools to create a fresh approach to social justice that focuses on collective liberation and divergent ways of being. In these workshops, we’ll dive into activities that connect play, power, justice, resistance, and joy—challenging the usual ideas about who gets to play and how we relate with each other. We’ll be inspired by natural systems (things like mycelial networks, octopuses, dreams, dark matter, crystal formations, and fractals) where change emerges through collaboration and mutual support. Emergent Play welcomes all flavors and textures that you are. Together, we’ll co-create new spicy nourishing ones, no matter your background or experience. By reclaiming our ability to play in times of crisis, we can reimagine our own playfulness as a space of radical possibilities.

Navigating a Hostile Internet: (Re-)Learning to Use Computers with Py Writ
Sun June 8th :: 3pm-5pm
@ RSVP to signal username @rxw.20 for location
••• How do corporations make the Internet work for them, and how might we make it work for us instead? How does the Internet even work in the first place? Can I make those fucking pop-up ads go away and stop paying for five streaming services? We’ll answer the big infrastructural questions first, allowing us to see where/how corporations track and advertise to us. Then we’ll explore some low/zero-effort and free countermeasures to improve our daily Internet use. Finally, we’ll tackle piracy and torrenting: what does a peer-to-peer network look like? How might one access free books, movies, software, shows, etc.? For this part, we’ll try torrenting the presentation being given in the class. If you’d like to do this hands-on portion, please bring a laptop and a VPN subscription that allows P2P connections/torrenting.(If you’re unsure about a VPN, you can reach out: Signal rxw.20, email pywrit@proton.me. Or come to the first session!)

Take Back The Town
Tues June 10th :: 6pm-8pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Informational sessions on tenant organizing. The first session (5/27) will cover the political landscape and history of housing in the East Bay. The second session (6/10) will detail how tenants can organize to gain rent reductions and enact repair-and-deduct to improve habitability.

Primary Care Basics for Everyone (and when you need to go to your provider) with Tania
Thurs June 12th :: 5:30pm-7:30pm
@ Hasta Muerte (2701 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland)
••• Ever wonder if you actually need to go to urgent care/the hospital/your doctor? Hear from a primary care provider about each body system and what are the red flags we’re looking for.

Intersectional Reading Room with Jupiter
Fri June 13th :: 2:15pm-4:15pm @ Oakland Public Library West Branch (1801 Adeline Street, Oakland)
••• Do you have books and/or essays piling up that you’ve been meaning to read? In the middle of a thiccque text that would be even richer read or reread and discussed with comrades? Got a niche theory about a random tv show? Bring all your media hot takes and literary inquiries to this unconventional interdisciplinary multimedia collective study space.

Writing with the Plants with Taylor Rose
Sat June 14th :: 11am-12:30pm
@ Gill Tract Farm (1050 San Pablo Avenue, Albany)
••• Each session focuses on one plant in depth, and then invites folks into creative (writing) reflection. We’ll engage with the lessons plants can offer around inhabiting our ecologies in ways that generate more possibility for collective survival. Come get to know plants and imagine together.

Decolonization in Theory and Practice
Longform Series: 6 Sessions. Sat June 14th :: 3:30pm-5:30pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Many anarchists are committed to “decolonizing everything,” but what does this actually mean? This course will facilitate discussion around a focused collection of multimedia materials—from book chapters to zines to films—that frame the basics of decolonization in theory and practice. Participants don’t need to have any prior knowledge of this subject; they will be encouraged to bridge the past and present and adopt a transnational perspective on decolonization by considering mobilizations both within and outside North America.

Using Drip Irrigation for Water Scarcity with Amelia
Sun June 15th :: 10am-12pm
@ Bikini Bottom (545 32nd Street, Oakland)
••• A crash course in drip irrigation systems on a residential scale. We’ll learn about the hardware, installation, trouble-shooting, and programming of a simple battery-operated system. The first class will be an overview of how drip systems are useful, and discussion of hardware + materials. The second class will be an installation demo and opportunity to play around with the supplies.

Emergent Play for Divergent Beings: Play as a Community Organizing Tool with ishu & fritz
Sun June 15th :: 11am-2pm
@ Marx Meadow in Golden Gate Park (at 25th Ave, San Francisco)
••• This experimental series draws on the community organizing ideas in adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy. It combines theater techniques with organizing tools to create a fresh approach to social justice that focuses on collective liberation and divergent ways of being. In these workshops, we’ll dive into activities that connect play, power, justice, resistance, and joy—challenging the usual ideas about who gets to play and how we relate with each other. We’ll be inspired by natural systems (things like mycelial networks, octopuses, dreams, dark matter, crystal formations, and fractals) where change emerges through collaboration and mutual support. Emergent Play welcomes all flavors and textures that you are. Together, we’ll co-create new spicy nourishing ones, no matter your background or experience. By reclaiming our ability to play in times of crisis, we can reimagine our own playfulness as a space of radical possibilities.

Navigating a Hostile Internet: (Re-)Learning to Use Computers with Py Writ
Sun June 15th :: 3pm-5pm
@ RSVP to signal username @rxw.20 for location
••• How do corporations make the Internet work for them, and how might we make it work for us instead? How does the Internet even work in the first place? Can I make those fucking pop-up ads go away and stop paying for five streaming services? We’ll answer the big infrastructural questions first, allowing us to see where/how corporations track and advertise to us. Then we’ll explore some low/zero-effort and free countermeasures to improve our daily Internet use. Finally, we’ll tackle piracy and torrenting: what does a peer-to-peer network look like? How might one access free books, movies, software, shows, etc.? For this part, we’ll try torrenting the presentation being given in the class. If you’d like to do this hands-on portion, please bring a laptop and a VPN subscription that allows P2P connections/torrenting.(If you’re unsure about a VPN, you can reach out: Signal rxw.20, email pywrit@proton.me. Or come to the first session!)

Park Circus Arts with Dante, Negra Hormiga, and Salva
Sun June 15th :: 3:30pm-6:30pm
@ North Lake Merritt, near McElroy Fountain (461 Perkins St, Oakland) – follow the purple signs
​​​​​​​••• Bringing pedagogies from the south, Park Circus Arts is an attempt to deinstitutionalize Circus Arts bringing them to open spaces as a tool for social transformation. There is no need to have previous experience, certain age or body to enjoy exploring what your body can do in community. Ages: 5 – 99 (minors please bring your adult with you). Practices: Grass Circus Movement, Hand to Hand, Juggling, stilts and Aerials. We encourage everyone to share knowledge and food. Please bring some food to share, and water.

Digital Security Under Surveillance Capitalism: Class 3: Setting up my GrapheneOS Phone with Pinyon and Karo
Tues June 17th :: 6:30pm-9pm
@ The Building at Gill Tract Farm (1050 San Pablo Avenue, Albany)
••• Mass data collection poses significant challenges to privacy, and affords enormous power to the corporations and states who possess it. What basic everyday practices can we adopt to counter such surveillance and keep our communities safer? Each class will discuss basic principles and specific tools, with time to work on your own devices. (bring an unlocked Pixel phone with GrapheneOS installed: http://tinyurl.com/installgraphene)

Anika Grangle Teaches Tarot
Wed June 18th :: 7:30pm-9:30pm 
@ Long Haul (3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley)
••• Yes, it’s another Tarot class, but a it’s a pretty good one. A professional reader who has advised more than 200 clients will show you methods to: form a bond with the cards, increase mental receptivity, see the big picture, determine which questions are worthy of divination, ask the right question and understand why the question is as important as the answer, be faithful to your senses and the cards, mine confusing spreads for new information, and, vitally, to fulfill the sacred obligation of the reader to the client and avoid hurting people. This class is ideal for an intermediate-level reader, but beginners and experts will still learn something. Bring your favorite deck if you have one, and bring a question or two for the cards.

Backyard Gardening and Food Sovereignty with Sticky and Zina
Fri June 20th :: 3pm-6pm
@ RSVP to wormstewgardens@proton.me for location
••• How do we feed ourselves and each other? How do we begin to make a world of many worlds? Learn how you can start with tending land you currently have access to with the people around you. We’ll learn together about sustainable farming in the summer season: growing food, restoring the land as needed, and setting intentions.

Spaces to Grow with V and Tbo
Sat June 21st :: 4pm-7pm
@ RVSP to daturahoney@proton.me for location or to propose a site
••• Help us help you grow your garden. Two landscape professionals (designer/builder/gardeners) will guide you through an improvised design process at each of three unique locations on three separate days. Assess the conditions of the site, find resources, and make a plan. If you have a site in mind or would like to host one of these class sessions, we are looking for you. No place is too small, hostile, or out of reach. Show us your backyard, balcony, sidewalk/median strip, or underutilized public-ish space. Deadline for site proposals is 5/31.

Decolonization in Theory and Practice
Longform Series: 6 Sessions. Sat June 21st :: 3:30pm-5:30pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Many anarchists are committed to “decolonizing everything,” but what does this actually mean? This course will facilitate discussion around a focused collection of multimedia materials—from book chapters to zines to films—that frame the basics of decolonization in theory and practice. Participants don’t need to have any prior knowledge of this subject; they will be encouraged to bridge the past and present and adopt a transnational perspective on decolonization by considering mobilizations both within and outside North America.

Emergent Play for Divergent Beings: Play as a Community Organizing Tool with ishu & fritz
Sun June 22nd :: 11am-2pm
@ Marx Meadow in Golden Gate Park (at 25th Ave, San Francisco)
••• This experimental series draws on the community organizing ideas in adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy. It combines theater techniques with organizing tools to create a fresh approach to social justice that focuses on collective liberation and divergent ways of being. In these workshops, we’ll dive into activities that connect play, power, justice, resistance, and joy—challenging the usual ideas about who gets to play and how we relate with each other. We’ll be inspired by natural systems (things like mycelial networks, octopuses, dreams, dark matter, crystal formations, and fractals) where change emerges through collaboration and mutual support. Emergent Play welcomes all flavors and textures that you are. Together, we’ll co-create new spicy nourishing ones, no matter your background or experience. By reclaiming our ability to play in times of crisis, we can reimagine our own playfulness as a space of radical possibilities.

Writing for Us: A Workshop ​ with DB & Andi Rose
Sun June 22nd :: 10am-3pm
@ Location TBD – check website for updates
••• Communicating across differences with care and creativity is a challenge we all face in our processes of community forming, building, sustaining, and organizing. How might creative expression and writing help us learn how to talk to each other, tolerate discomfort, navigate conflict, and build community resiliency? What might be the role of poetry and creative writing in building toward a “we”? Through creative writing, can “we” expand our ideas of community and collective resistance? In this workshop, we will read some examples of poetry and creative prose that explore the perspective of “we.” Then, we will explore and discuss how writing from/for “us”—through collaborative writing, choral expression, dialog, and more—can help us develop empathetic, non-individualist approaches to being together in community.

Prisoner Solidarity: Why and How with M&E
Tues June 24th :: 6pm-8pm 
@ ABO Comix (2520 Telegraph Ave, Oakland)
••• We will talk through our correspondence and jail support programs (parts of Oakland Abolition and Solidarity). We are going to talk about a few things, including 1) the value of organized political work outside of non-profits and affinity group structures, 2) support and solidarity with prisoners as comrades and collaborators against the prison system, and 3) some pitfalls we continue to wrestle with in our work.

Radical Healthcare Meetup
Thurs June 26th :: 7pm-8pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• A monthly meetup for anarchists and radicals who are participating in healthcare– from the most autonomous to those employed by the medical industrial complex. Come offer mutual aid support, skill+resource share, grieve, commiserate, and build solidarity across divides. Can healthcare be a place of radical praxis? Loosely facilitated and horizontal collaboration encouraged.

Massage Skill Share with Priscilla and Dante
Fri June 27th :: 1pm-4pm
@ The Spire (825 Athens Ave, Oakland) 
••• Pain and stress suck. They drain our energy and attention and alter our thought processes. We will go over clothed massage basics together to support each other in tending to our bodies muscle and nervous system health. We want to break out of self care into us care. Please bring a buddy you already know you are comfortable engaging in contact with if possible.

Decolonization in Theory and Practice
Longform Series: 6 Sessions. Sat June 28th :: 3:30pm-5:30pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Many anarchists are committed to “decolonizing everything,” but what does this actually mean? This course will facilitate discussion around a focused collection of multimedia materials—from book chapters to zines to films—that frame the basics of decolonization in theory and practice. Participants don’t need to have any prior knowledge of this subject; they will be encouraged to bridge the past and present and adopt a transnational perspective on decolonization by considering mobilizations both within and outside North America.

Using Drip Irrigation for Water Scarcity with Amelia
Sun June 29th :: 10am-12pm
@ Bikini Bottom (545 32nd Street, Oakland)
••• A crash course in drip irrigation systems on a residential scale. We’ll learn about the hardware, installation, trouble-shooting, and programming of a simple battery-operated system. The first class will be an overview of how drip systems are useful, and discussion of hardware + materials. The second class will be an installation demo and opportunity to play around with the supplies.

Anarchist Family Meet Up
Sun June 29th :: 11am-1pm
@ Dimond Park (3860 Hanly Road, Oakland)
••• Monthly meet-up for anarchist families and folks who want more kids in their lives! This will be a potluck style event to hang out, connect, and ideally develop some anarchists skillshare programming for kids and simultaneous discussion for adults. We’d love you to bring ideas for skills/topics you want to teach or see taught, and can work with you to develop age-appropriate material.

Our hope is to work against capitalism’s drive to disconnect and isolate families and inter-generational relationships. We aim to build community/network among anarchist families in the bay, as well as  incorporate non-parents who are interested in sharing experiences with future anarchists.

Harm Reduction Meetup
Mon June 30th :: 7pm-8pm
@ 1924 Union St. Unit 1, Oakland
••• We Take Care of Us. This is an ongoing monthly space for those interested or already participating in harm reduction. Come learn, share skills, offer support, collaborate, grieve, build solidarity, and discuss liberatory harm reduction practices. Loosely facilitated, collaborations encouraged.

How to Run a Good Meeting with Bean and T
Tues July 1st :: 6:30pm-8:30pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• We’ll go over some different roles that help make a meeting run smoothly. We’ll talk about some different ways to inhabit these role and some basic responsibilities each one has to contribute to a successful meeting.

Canning and Food Preservation: Responding to Abundance!
Sat July 5th :: 1pm-4pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Come share your knowledge and experience with preserving foods as we practice some basic canning recipes! The summer time in California provides a fresh abundance through local farmers, back yard fruit trees, and wild foraged berries. Preserving these foods at the time of harvest can increase our communities capacity to store foods, makes distribution more accessible to people with out refrigerators or kitchens, and this age old tradition of putting up food can also make our communities more resilient in the face of natural disasters. Respond to the abundance that summer time offers us and come learn about canning!

Astrology of Social Upheaval with Erra
Mon July 7th :: 7pm-10pm
@ Hasta Muerte (2701 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland)
••• This class will look at astrology not on a personal level but as a narrative lens with which to analyze interlocking temporal cycles of social upheaval. How might upcoming astrological shifts provide useful ways to talk about and prepare for insurrections, wars, the rise of AI, and other events on earth? All levels of familiarity with astrological principles and terminology are welcome.

Knot a Problem — Practical Rope Skills for Beginners with Bean and Jonny
Tues July 8th :: 6:30pm-8:30pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Come play with some rope! Learn a few useful knots, some fun facts about rope, and leave with a pet rope. We will practice simple ways to tie things up, down, and together, to help expand possibilities in our physical environments. All skill levels welcome.

Knowing Your Rights in the Age of Monsters with Legal Solidarity Bay Area
Wed July 9th :: 6pm-8pm
@ Hasta Muerte (2701 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland)
••• Resistance to escalating state repression is a defining task of these tumultuous times. Knowing our rights and risks during encounters with law enforcement is essential. This KYR workshop aims to foster peer to peer legal support and education.

Intersectional Reading Room with Jupiter
Fri July 11th :: Time TBD
@ Location TBD – check website for updates
••• Do you have books and/or essays piling up that you’ve been meaning to read? In the middle of a thiccque text that would be even richer read or reread and discussed with comrades? Got a niche theory about a random tv show? Bring all your media hot takes and literary inquiries to this unconventional interdisciplinary multimedia collective study space.

Writing with the Plants with Taylor Rose
Sat July 12th :: 11am-12:30pm
@ Gill Tract Farm (1050 San Pablo Avenue, Albany)
••• Each session focuses on one plant in depth, and then invites folks into creative (writing) reflection. We’ll engage with the lessons plants can offer around inhabiting our ecologies in ways that generate more possibility for collective survival. Come get to know plants and imagine together.

Faraday Phone Wallet Making Class with Mai A
Sat July 12th :: 1pm-3pm
@ Long Haul (3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley)
••• Protect yourself and your data from cops and Stingray devices during big mass actions and protests. Build a DIY faraday cage for your phone to block signals. Supplies and instructions provided.

Decolonization in Theory and Practice
Longform Series: 6 Sessions. Sat July 12th :: 3:30pm-5:30pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Many anarchists are committed to “decolonizing everything,” but what does this actually mean? This course will facilitate discussion around a focused collection of multimedia materials—from book chapters to zines to films—that frame the basics of decolonization in theory and practice. Participants don’t need to have any prior knowledge of this subject; they will be encouraged to bridge the past and present and adopt a transnational perspective on decolonization by considering mobilizations both within and outside North America.

Cooking for Large Groups
Sun July 13th :: 3pm-7pm
@ Tamarack (1501 Harrison Street, Oakland)
••• Large group cooking, but make it tasty. Sourcing food, best practices in the kitchen, and inclusive cooking. Via Tamarack Community Dinner crew. We’ll cook and share a meal together for each session.

Massage Skill Share with Priscilla and Dante
Fri July 18th :: 1pm-4pm
@ The Spire (825 Athens Ave, Oakland) 
••• Pain and stress suck. They drain our energy and attention and alter our thought processes. We will go over clothed massage basics together to support each other in tending to our bodies muscle and nervous system health. We want to break out of self care into us care. Please bring a buddy you already know you are comfortable engaging in contact with if possible.

Our hope is to work against capitalism’s drive to disconnect and isolate families and inter-generational relationships. We aim to build community/network among anarchist families in the bay, as well as  incorporate non-parents who are interested in sharing experiences with future anarchists.