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President Ces Butner called the 5,337th Civic Thursday meeting of the Oakland Rotary Club to order at 12:31 p.m. As the 3rd oldest club with over 300 men and women mem24bers, we have been meeting for over 111 years.

Rotarian Stephanie Casenza shared the thought of the day by mentioning a comment from the supreme court chief Earl Warren from in 1959 "the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that in the end life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves."

Rotarian Renea Webb introduced this week's Civic Thursday Speaker 'LeRonne Armstrong - Oakland Police Chief'. Mr. Armstrong has bravely served Oakland on the police force for 22 years and counting. He shared the status of public safety and Public Safety Reform in Oakland.

Oakland Rotary Endowment president Mike Mowry called to order the annual meeting to vote on new trustees. ORE trustees elected for therm beginning from July 1st, 2021 are Ken Benson, CJ Hirschfield, Kim Johnson, and Ruth Stroup.

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President Ces Butner called the 5,335th Civic Thursday meeting of the Oakland Rotary Club to order at 12:31 p.m. As the 3rd oldest club with over 300 men and women members, we have been meeting for over 111 years.

Ruth Stroup gave the thought for the day with quotes from Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Oprah Winfrey. All of the quotes were about children to coincide with our speaker today.

Past President & Past District Governor Ed Jellen welcomed visiting Rotarian Dianne Dorn, past president of the San Leandro Club; former club member Dagmar Serota; Steve Heike, guest of Sandeepa Nayak; and McKinney-Vento program interns who are students at Cal State East Bay.

Kinder Prep Chair John Holmgren introduced Dagmar Serota who thanked us for the grant we recently gave to Friends of the Oakland Public Schools Library to be used for the Oakland Public Schools Digital Library and primarily focused on Trans Kindergarten students.

Kathy Dwyer introduced our Civic Thursday speaker, Trish Anderson. Trish is the McKinney-Vento Liaison for Oakland Unified School District. Trish addressed the problems that homeless children and youth face while enrolling, attending, and succeeding in school. She shared how many OUSD students are included in the program, how Covid-19 has made a tough situation even harder, and how Rotary may be able to help these students.

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President Ces Butner called our Civic Thursday Zoom meeting to order at 12:30 p.m. noting this is the 5,333rd meeting in our 111-year-old Club and invited us to recite our vision statement.

Rotarian Zeydi Gutierrez shared the thought for the day and dedicated it to International Women's Month - March. She highlighted that this month celebrates the historical, cultural, and political achievements of women across the world. It also stands for gender inequality against women.

Rotarian Maude Pervere introduced our speaker of the day - Abby Ginzberg. Abby is an independent documentary film director, producer, and founder of Ginzberg Productions. Abby spoke about Waging Change, her inspiring film about the One Fair Wage movement, which aims at raising the federal minimum wage for tipped workers from a shocking $2.13 an hour.

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President Ces Butner called our Civic Thursday Zoom meeting to order at 12:30 p.m. noting this is the 5,331st meeting in our 111-year-old Club and invited us to recite our vision statement.

Rotarian Lewis Griggs gave us the thought of the day. In honor of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, he presented three quotes: Malcolm X – “You can’t teach what you don’t know. You can’t take people where you won’t go.” James Baldwin – “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Angela Davis – “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

Rotarian Allison Bliss announced today’s speaker, Michael Tchong. Michael is a well-known American entrepreneur, author, and futurist. His most recent book Uber Trends was extremely popular and is currently working on a 4th book about the COVID lockdowns. Michael is a futurist who says forecasting the future can be extremely difficult. Who could have guessed a worldwide pandemic would happen in 2020? The past year has been crazy and very few could have predicted the COVID pandemic, transition to Zoom or the necessity of wearing masks. Michael rattled off dozens of upcoming trends including a new social medial platform, Clubhouse.

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