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Climate Strike: March 4 Our Future Against Chevron Corporation in Richmond @ Judge George D Carroll Park

Sep 25 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

March destination: Chevron Corporation building in Richmond

Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/events/3667524196605629/

Chevron has devastated our communities for decades. This powerful fossil fuel firm is responsible for mass pollution that hits predominantly Black and Brown residents the hardest. As a result of Chevron’s contributions, kids in Richmond are roughly twice as likely to have respiratory problems such as asthma.

March with us on Global Day of Climate Action (September 25th) at 1pm to demand a sustainable and livable future. We will start at Judge George D. Carroll Park and march to the Chevron Corporation building in Richmond. Youth leaders and climate activists will speaking both before and after the march.

Masks, water, and food will be provided. See you there!

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Categories: Protest

Shield Trainings for Black Lives Matter @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater

Sep 27 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Image may contain: one or more people, text that says 'SHIELD TRAININGS FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER We will be at the Lake Merritt ampitheater every Sunday 1-3pm ALL OPS OUT OF UNIONS! Free raffle for protective gear! IG: @GearUpOakland @GearUp @OaklandBuildersCollective'

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Categories: Workshop

UC Berkeley Cops off Campus Rally @ MLK Park

Oct 1 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Join us on October 1st for the kick-off rally for a statewide campaign demanding the total abolition of the University of California Police Department (UCPD). This is a coordinated day of action which will occur on all ten UC campuses.

Tens of thousands of UC students and staff come from Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Muslim, immigrant communities that are constantly overpoliced through harassment and baseless arrest. The removal of UCPD and ICE from campus is not the endpoint, but the condition of possibility for imagining safety over security. Nearly all full-time UCPD employees make more than $100,000 per year—in the midst of public austerity measures, we demand the $24 million UCPD budget be transferred to the wellness programs and equity initiatives we desperately require.

The Cops Off Campus coalition has emerged amidst a global pandemic, relentless state and vigilante violence and national calls for the abolition of police, prisons, and the carceral state. The movement to abolish UCPD by Fall 2021 is led by BIPOC community members, undergraduates, graduates and other workers across UC and CSU campuses. Our goal is an end to all policing, beginning with questioning the University of California’s role in the militarized surveillance of higher education and beyond.

Community Guidelines—
Do not speak to UCPD, City of Berkeley police, or university administrators.
Follow all COVID-19 safety protocols: masks on, socially distance outside of your social bubble, stay home if you’ve had any flu-like symptoms in the last 14 days.
Bring pots, pans, noisemakers.
Bay Area National Lawyers Guild #: 415 285 5067
This event will be live-streamed and close-captioned from our Instagram @cal.ftp. ASL interpreters will be present on-site. If you have any additional access needs, please contact us at ucwideabolition [at] gmail.com.

twitter.com/ucftp
instagram.com/uc_ftp
instagram.com/cal.ftp

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Categories: Protest

Fridays for the Future – Climate Change Protest @ Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley

Oct 2 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Global Day of Climate Action.

Demonstrations and manifestations will take place all across the globe, adjusted according to Covid-19 circumstances.

Weekly protests to follow.

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Categories: Protest

Shield Trainings for Black Lives Matter @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater

Oct 4 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Image may contain: one or more people, text that says 'SHIELD TRAININGS FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER We will be at the Lake Merritt ampitheater every Sunday 1-3pm ALL OPS OUT OF UNIONS! Free raffle for protective gear! IG: @GearUpOakland @GearUp @OaklandBuildersCollective'

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Categories: Workshop

SMC Tenants Council Car Rally – Oakland

Oct 4 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

🚨THIS SUNDAY🚨
October 4, 2pm
34th & Wood St

Our landlord SMC is serving illegal eviction notices, twisting CA’s new AB3088 to scare tenants into self-evicting or paying money they don’t have.

You better believe we’re responding to this! COME THRU, we need your support! pic.twitter.com/Iyn4gaDEzl

— SMC Tenants Council (@smc_tenants) October 1, 2020

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Categories: Protest

Protest Against McConnell-led Senate w/ Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign @ please RSVP for meet-up location

Oct 5 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

San Francisco Protest Against McConnell-led Senate w/ Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign

HOST: Bay Area Steering Committee of CA Poor People’s Campaign

WHAT: Bay Area Car Caravan or On-Foot Socially Distanced Protest to Stop the Senate’s Sins

WHERE: San Francisco (exact address to be announced–RSVP)

RSVP to join the car caravan here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/california-poor-peoples-campaign-bay-area-car-caravan-to-end-the-senates-sins

FACEBOOK POST: https://www.facebook.com/events/747404996115817/
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During the COVID-19 pandemic which is the greatest public health crisis in a century, the Mitch McConnell-led US Senate has refused to take up a full and comprehensive relief package to aid struggling Americans. What’s more, McConnell is now hypocritically rushing through a Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

We protest against the meanness, misery and mayhem of Mitch McMconnell and his Senate enablers, who have acted immorally by:

Stacking the Supreme Court, Suppressing the Vote, Sabotaging the USPS,
Stopping the Stimulus, Stealing Healthcare, Stifling Living Wages, Separating Families,
and their infection from the virus of greed, lust for power, and racism

Can you join us for a car caravan in San Francisco to demand a full and just relief package, a stop to the cynical hypocrisy of stacking the Supreme Court a few weeks from the election, and justice for Breonna Taylor?

Even if you don’t have a car, you’re still welcome to attend — we’ll have a contingent on the ground in front of a Senate office that you can join.

This action is part of a nationwide car caravan protest. The Poor People’s Campaign car caravans will be happening simultaneously in dozens of towns and cities across the country. By speaking out as one, we will send a message that our leaders cannot ignore.

Forward together — not one step back!
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SAFETY: Protocol for Risk/Harm Reduction While Protesting during COVID-19

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14aCsBMjlpFb7JwcF4kYo0oyFc3aXpN6jf0piDl6RtVA/edit

To control the spread of the novel coronavirus while in person protesting, PLEASE:

–Wear cloth face coverings/masks; they protect other people if the wearer is infected, even if they’re not showing symptoms.
–Practice physical distancing, staying more than six feet away from people who are not a part of your household, if possible.
–Use hand sanitizer often.
–Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
–Avoid touching surfaces.
–Minimize contact by multiple people with commonly used surfaces like water bottles, bullhorns, handrails, and barricades
–Minimize yelling and singing. Make noise with drums, tambourines.
–If you use a megaphone, it should be thoroughly sanitized between different speakers

If you have the following symptoms, please DO NOT participate in person. Even if you test negative for COVID-19 but have these symptoms, please refrain from in-person actions:
–Fever
–Shortness of breath
–Cough
–Headache
–Loss of smell or taste

CDC: Older adults and people who have severe underlying medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at higher risk for developing serious complications from COVID-19 illness.

CDC COVID-19 link: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html
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Categories: Protest

Oakland Encampment Management Policy Teach-In @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Oct 5 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Categories: Workshop

Fridays for the Future – Climate Change Protest @ Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley

Oct 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Global Day of Climate Action.

Demonstrations and manifestations will take place all across the globe, adjusted according to Covid-19 circumstances.

Weekly protests to follow.

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Categories: Protest

Berkeley Copwatch Presents “Know Your Rights: Defend the Unhoused” @ Online

Oct 10 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Train with us online on 10/10- Show up in person on 10/13! Solidarity and Unity with unhoused residents of Berkeley!

About this Event

The City of Berkeley plans to evict over 100 people on Tuesday, Oct. 13th from the Seabreeze homeless encampment at University and the I-80. There is no plan for the welfare of these citizens, only a desire on behalf of some City Officials to appear “tough on homelessness” during election season. In the middle of a global health crisis and a civil rights uprising, our most vulnerable residents are putting out a plea for solidarity.

This interactive training is meant as an introduction to your constitutional rights as they pertain to the police and strategies for filming and documenting the police. This is also meant to give you tools so you can better advocate for your rights and the rights of others.

The information in this training is meant to empower you and offer you choices when confronted by the police. The way that you choose to interact with the police is a very personal choice, carrying different risks based on your race, gender, class and more.

THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO LIVE. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO FILM.

Brought to you by Berkeley Copwatch (founded 1990). For more information on our history as an abolitionist and community-centered, all-volunteer organization, please visit our website.

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Categories: Workshop

Direct Action Training Series @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM'

Oct 10 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Register Here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSda2Tklr3_VSvoOPUIzVnMfRQy1vf19V80gw0Jnhw82z4uJVA/viewform

Hosted by East Bay DSA, DSA San Francisco, and Sunrise Bay Area

Do you want to learn how to plan and implement direct actions?

Do you want to develop direct action strategies in our organization?

Do you want to prepare for the November election results?

Comrades, we learn to organize through many means. Political education to sharpen our analysis, canvassing to practice skillful communication, art builds to creatively spread propaganda. We must also learn strategic direct action.

These past few months, we have seen a national uprising against racist police terror and fascist violence. We need to prepare not only for a continuation but an escalation.

It will take mass working-class action to combat fascism, police brutality and a capitalist class that will not hesitate to swiftly and violently crush any public demonstrations. As socialists, we must create coherent strategies, be equipped with reliable tactics, and confidently lead our own direct actions.

Join us for a two-day training led by Frailty Myths, an organization dedicated to building leadership skills for women, queers, and GNC folks. It is required that you sign up for both days, and strongly encouraged that you lead future training to share acquired skills.

When: Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11, 10 am-12 pm

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Categories: Workshop

Trash this Policy! @ Oscar Grant Plaza Amphitheater

Oct 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

The United Front Against Displacement is calling for a protest against the city of Oakland’s encampment management policy.

The policy creates no new housing opportunities for homeless Oaklanders and only further propagates their criminalization and displacement. The city has done next to nothing to address the various sanitation issues that people have experienced long before the start of the pandemic. This policy only seeks to exasperate the dire conditions homeless people are experiencing on a daily basis.

We Demand
*An end to current encampment sweeps, deep cleanings, and closures without providing free longterm housing.
*Cancel all back rent and civil debt.
*An end to criminalization and police brutality.
*Adequate sanitation services for all.

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Categories: Protest

Direct Action Training Series @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM'

Oct 11 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Register Here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSda2Tklr3_VSvoOPUIzVnMfRQy1vf19V80gw0Jnhw82z4uJVA/viewform

Hosted by East Bay DSA, DSA San Francisco, and Sunrise Bay Area

Do you want to learn how to plan and implement direct actions?

Do you want to develop direct action strategies in our organization?

Do you want to prepare for the November election results?

Comrades, we learn to organize through many means. Political education to sharpen our analysis, canvassing to practice skillful communication, art builds to creatively spread propaganda. We must also learn strategic direct action.

These past few months, we have seen a national uprising against racist police terror and fascist violence. We need to prepare not only for a continuation but an escalation.

It will take mass working-class action to combat fascism, police brutality and a capitalist class that will not hesitate to swiftly and violently crush any public demonstrations. As socialists, we must create coherent strategies, be equipped with reliable tactics, and confidently lead our own direct actions.

Join us for a two-day training led by Frailty Myths, an organization dedicated to building leadership skills for women, queers, and GNC folks. It is required that you sign up for both days, and strongly encouraged that you lead future training to share acquired skills.

When: Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11, 10 am-12 pm

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Categories: Workshop

Shield Trainings for Black Lives Matter @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater

Oct 11 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Image may contain: one or more people, text that says 'SHIELD TRAININGS FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER We will be at the Lake Merritt ampitheater every Sunday 1-3pm ALL OPS OUT OF UNIONS! Free raffle for protective gear! IG: @GearUpOakland @GearUp @OaklandBuildersCollective'

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Categories: Workshop

NO COAL in Richmond Protest @ 450 Civic Center Plaza

Oct 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

=> NO COAL ON THE RICHMOND CITY COUNCIL!

The Levin-Richmond Terminal has joined developers, several local building trades unions, and the Richmond police union in trying to buy seats on the Richmond City Council.

Levin has donated $25,000 to candidates opposing the Richmond Progressive Alliance candidates endorsed by No Coal in Richmond partners Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Communities for A Better Environment, Sierra Club, and Sunflower Alliance. The terminal is hoping that the new council will overturn the hardwon legislation phasing out coal and petcoke operations at the terminal, which the council adopted after a successful 2-year campaign by No Coal in Richmond and currently in litigation.

WHERE: ~~Levin Richmond Terminal, S. 4th St. and Wright Ave., one block south of Cutting Blvd. (Harbour Way S. Exit from I-580 West).~~
~~Meet at the Burger King on the south side of Cutting Blvd. at Hoffman Blvd.~~

City Hall Plaza
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Categories: Protest

Fridays for the Future – Climate Change Protest @ Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley

Oct 16 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Global Day of Climate Action.

Demonstrations and manifestations will take place all across the globe, adjusted according to Covid-19 circumstances.

Weekly protests to follow.

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Categories: Protest

Women’s March : Demand Equality, Repro Freedom, & Save SCOTUS @ Civic Center

Oct 17 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Saturday 10/17: Women's March SF: March for Our Rights! Demand Equality, Repro Freedom, & Save SCOTUShttps://t.co/xjKHySUaj4

— Indybay (@Indybay) October 8, 2020

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Categories: Protest

Shield Trainings for Black Lives Matter @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater

Oct 18 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Image may contain: one or more people, text that says 'SHIELD TRAININGS FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER We will be at the Lake Merritt ampitheater every Sunday 1-3pm ALL OPS OUT OF UNIONS! Free raffle for protective gear! IG: @GearUpOakland @GearUp @OaklandBuildersCollective'

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Categories: Workshop

Justice 4 Steven Taylor @ San Leandro High School

Oct 18 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Please join us for a march and vigil for Steven Taylor, on what is the six month anniversary since he was stolen from his loved ones by San Leandro Police Department officers Jason Fletcher and Stephan Overton. Steven should still be here! #Justice4StevenTaylor

Please share widely, come out if you can and if you can, bring candles, masks, and flowers, and join us for a powerful event led by students from San Leandro High School, where Steven was a student.

Image may contain: text that says 'STUDENT-LED MARCH FOR STEVEN TAYLOR OCTOBER 18, 2020 4PM I MEET @ SLHS YOUTH SPEAKERS KICK IT OFF! 6PM I END MARCH @ SLPD CANDLELIGHT VIGIL TO FOLLOW BRING CANDLES, FLOWERS, SIGNS, & MASKS. coNVICT OFFICER LETCHER NOW'

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Oppose the Displacement, er, Encampment Policy

Oct 19 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

there’s another protest against Oakland’s proposed Homeless People Displacement er i mean Encampment Management Policy this upcoming Monday and here’s a flyer about it… pic.twitter.com/DurVS0s9kR

— Zack Haber (@ZZZZZZZZZZZack) October 15, 2020

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Categories: Protest

September – October 2020 Sep – Oct 2020

About OccupyOakland.org

This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly met in-person weekly (with a rare skip) since October 10th, 2011 up until the pandemic, at which point we went to bi-weekly Zoom meetings. We do checkins, go over the activist events of the past meeting interval, and have general discussions on politics and revolution.

For many years, until the pandemic, we put on a Feed the People event monthly at Oscar Grant Plaza, where all were welcome to come and partake of a freshly cooked, savory meal, before our GA.

If you would like to participate while the pandemic is still amidst, send an email to occupyoakland-request@lists.riseup.net. Check the calendar or this text to see if we have resumed in-person meetings.