In a dark auditorium, a white screen is lit with words about non cooperation. We see the backs of the full audience, with someone in the foreground holding up five fingers in their left hand and two in their right.

Training session teaches Oaklanders how to resist President Trump

Hundreds of people — from toddlers to teenagers to seniors and everyone in between — spilled into Oakland Technical High School’s auditorium Sunday to learn how to resist the rise of authoritarianism under President Donald Trump. Nearly 1,000 people attended Get Ready: Noncooperation Training by Bay Resistance, a group advocating for racial, economic, climate and gender justice. Some participants sat on the floor or filed into overflow rooms. The sessionwas meant to energize and inspire people as well as to…

By on October 8, 2025