Karla Zombro came to offer more than activist skills. She had a framework.

Hundreds of East Bay residents descended on Oakland Tech on Sunday, Oct. 5, and by 9:30 a.m., a line stretched halfway down the block . People in sneakers and Dr. Martens and flip flops, in keffiyehs and hoodies and bike helmets and cat t-shirts, were waiting to check in for Bay Get Ready , a day-long session on how to “get trained and organized to fight back.” First they filled a 950-seat auditorium, then hundreds spilled into an overflow room. Then, after an opening song, they settled in for a briefing on authoritarianism.

The old expectations, of flawed but functioning government systems, were rapidly falling away, Zombro, the movement training director for We Are California , said, and that called for new

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