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OCCUPY World AIDS Day Candlelight Vigil and Open (People’s) Mic
7:30 pm
OCCUPY World AIDS Day Candlelight Vigil and Open (People’s) Mic
Dec 1 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
In honor and remembrance of those who have lost their lives to HIV/AIDS, we are holding a candlelight vigil on Thursday Dec 1, 2011 at Oscar Grant Plaza. In honor of those still suffering with HIV/AIDS we hold a candlelight vigil and open (people’s) mic and ask that the governments and people of this world recognize the need for Universal Healthcare as one of our basic rights. We encourage people to come share their experience of how this virus has affected you or the people you are close to. We … Continued
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Hoodstoccupy Fundraiser for Legal Defense
12:00 pm
Hoodstoccupy Fundraiser for Legal Defense
Dec 3 @ 12:00 pm – Dec 4 @ 12:00 am
This year’s hoodstock will be a fundraiser for legal defense for people arrested at occupy oakland.It will be donation based with no one turned away for lack of funds… Follow us on Twitter to be the first to know about any event changes: http://twitter.com/#!/HoodStock510 Bands: Joey Casio Bobby Joe Ebola Casey and Brian Mortar and Pestle Moderate excess bad coyotes Buttons Chump Change cycloptopus Bob Ross Band Pony Loco Burning Monk Rnb Millionaires Turbo Sonidero x MexTape Yacob traces hellllllla more…. Facebook Invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/231359070261660/ 8605
Silencing the Witnesses: Government Attack on the Right to Observe Police
2:00 pm
Silencing the Witnesses: Government Attack on the Right to Observe Police
@ Humanist Hall
Dec 3 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
You have the right to remain observant! Learn how to protect that right! Come and learn: The History of Copwatching National Attacks on Civilians Observers Videos of Police Abuse Against People Filming Cops Local Issues Concerning the Right to Observe Know your Rights Training Information Event hosted by Oscar Grant Committee and Berkeley Cop Watch Suggested donation of $5-10 (No one will be turned away for lack of funds)5913
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Trauma Healing Workshop
3:00 pm
Trauma Healing Workshop
@ Next to Interfaith Tent at OGP
Dec 4 @ 3:00 pm – Dec 4 @ 4:30 pm
A workshop of simple practices for stress relief, trauma healing, and wellness that anyone can learn. It is based on Capacitar(Capacitar International) work and also on other trauma healing work. Please come out!8743
Library committee meeting
5:00 pm
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Garden Workday Event
12:00 pm
Garden Workday Event
@ Private home
Dec 5 @ 12:00 pm – Dec 5 @ 4:00 pm
Hi everyone, we will be meeting up this coming monday the 5th from noon-4pm to help two garden friends with their plot on the corner of 37th and West, Oakland. We are linking up with community gardens and they are excited to receive support from us. We will mainly be filling in the planter beds with starts, basic upkeep, elaborating on the edges near the fence line, possibly planning a green house and bee hive for the space, enjoying company, and snacking. bring food or drinks if you’d like. We … Continued
Rally Against AIPAC
5:30 pm
Rally Against AIPAC
@ Marriot Hotel
Dec 5 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
The Lobby for War and Apartheid in Oakland! Join us to welcome AIPAC, the “Apartheid Israel Public Affairs Committee”, as they celebrate their occupation of Congress and misappropriation of $3 Billions each year to oppress Palestinians and constantly fan the flames of war and conflict. They are the 1%. Rally at 5:30 pm @ Marriott Hotel 9409
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Occupy Our Homes
9:30 am
Occupy Our Homes
Dec 6 @ 9:30 am – Dec 6 @ 6:00 pm
On Tuesday, December 6th ACCE, Occupy Oakland, Labor, Community Groups and families facing foreclosure are coming together once again to continue our call for stopping Foreclosures and Making Banks Pay! Please join us in this National Day of Action called by Occupy Wall St. Here’s a partial list of the “Occupy Our Homes” events happening next Tuesday: 9:30am: ACCE & The Home Defender’s will be meeting @ Snow Park (20th & Harrison by the Lake) for a “Speak out on Foreclosures” to stop the sale of homes prior to the … Continued
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Occupy Writing Workshop
1:00 pm
Occupy Writing Workshop
Dec 7 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop. North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza 8238
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Scott Olsen Benefit Show
8:00 pm
Scott Olsen Benefit Show
@ The Stork Club
Dec 8 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
 This Thursday, December 8th, The Stork Club in Oakland is hosting a benefit show for Scott Olsen. Suggested donation is $6 (more if you can afford it) and there will be drink specials all night long. Five great Bay Area bands will be playing: Surveyor, The Dangs, One Punch Machine Gun, Machine Zero, and Golda Supernova. Doors @ 8pm. All proceeds go to the Veterans for Peace Scott Olsen Support Fund. Come out to hear some great local bands and raise some money for Scott as he continues his recovery.10067
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Community BBQ and Door-to-Door Outreach
10:00 am
Community BBQ and Door-to-Door Outreach
@ DeFremery Park
Dec 10 @ 10:00 am – 3:30 pm
co-sponsored by Occupy the Hood, People of Color Caucus and Occupy Oakland’s West Coast Port Shutdown Committee BY the West Oakland community FOR the West Oakland community 10:00 am-11:00am: Activists and community members from across West Oakland and beyond will gather in DeFremery park for outreach training about the Port Blockade Action. 11:00 am-1:00 pm: Groups will disperse from the park to engage Oakland community members in real conversation around why the West Coast Port Blockade is crucial to achieving solidarity with the working class who live next to and … Continued
Kittens Action
12:00 pm
Kittens Action
@ OG Plaza
Dec 10 @ 12:00 pm – Dec 10 @ 5:00 pm
As a mass action on Saturday, December 10th, we will take the movement to the people and do the “Kittens Action” (named so because kittens–unlike sheep–are not herd animals; they can’t be herded or corralled). 12:00 pm- 4:00 pm: We will converge at Oscar Grant Plaza at 12 pm, form teams or affinity groups of say 2-5 people, do mini-trainings and share materials–surveys, flyers, posters, chalk, scripts, etc.–choose neighborhoods, and then fan out around the city, to engage the community in thinking and talking together about the realities we share … Continued
The Indigenous Solidarity Teach In
3:00 pm
The Indigenous Solidarity Teach In
Dec 10 @ 3:00 pm – Dec 10 @ 5:00 pm
Indigenous Solidarity Planning Meeting and Teach-Ins will explore some of the questions raised at the “Occupy Oakland” General Assembly on October 28 when the Memorandum of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples passed by a 97% voting majority. It will also examine subsequent discussions about a proposed name change of Occupy Oakland to Decolonize/Liberate Oakland as well as the politics of another effort to establish a teepee at OGP to honor “historic struggles of the Sioux Indians on the Plains of the U.S…. and the redwood occupations of Judi Bari and Running … Continued
Conversations on Non-Violence and Resistance
5:00 pm
Conversations on Non-Violence and Resistance
@ Amphitheater OGPlaza
Dec 10 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
A weekend of presentations and discussions on non-violent movements and diversity of tactics at Oscar Grant Plaza Saturday December 10th 4-5pm Former Black Panther discusses the Civil Rights Movement and black liberation. 5-6pm Workshop on non-violence and diversity of tactics 6-7pm “Gandhi and the Politics of Nonviolence” a lecture by UT Austin professor Snehal Shingavi, filmed at Occupy Austin Sunday December 11th 6:00 Strikes, Occupations, Rebellions– Historical uses of diversity of tactics within struggles in the U.S. and beyond 7:00 “Black Bloc Tactics-10 Quick Points!” filmed presentation by Harsha Walia, South … Continued
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West Coast Port Shut Down
West Coast Port Shut Down
Dec 12 all-day
Occupy Oakland calls for a coordinated port shut down in solidarity with Longshoremen Against EGT and Port Workers and Occupy L.A. Against Goldman Sachs Together we are unstoppable! 12.12.2011 Coordinating Meetings at 5pm, Mon Wed Fri and Sun at Oscar Grant Plaza6806
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Grand Lake Theater Special Benefit Film Night for Occupy Oakland
7:30 pm
Grand Lake Theater Special Benefit Film Night for Occupy Oakland
@ Grand Lake Theater
Dec 13 @ 7:30 pm – 11:45 pm
Oakland’s Grand Lake Theater announced today that it will hold a special benefit film night for Occupy Oakland on December 13. This is the first time that a local business has hosted a major fundraiser for the Occupy Oakland movement. The movie “V for Vendetta” will be shown at 7:35 p.m. and 10:00 p.m on Tuesday, December 13. The film is a 2006 sci-fi thriller depicting freedom fighters battling a totalitarian state. There will be free popcorn and the organ will be played before this special benefit event. All ticket … Continued
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Occupy Writing Workshop
1:00 pm
Occupy Writing Workshop
Dec 14 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop. North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza 8238
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Self Defense Class for Women and Queer People – Ongoing
12:30 pm
Self Defense Class for Women and Queer People – Ongoing
@ Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza, north plaza (near flower shop)
Dec 18 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Ongoing class covering verbal, physical and emotional skills for self defense and intervening in violence. Class on Sunday 12/18 will be 12:30-2pm, Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza, north plaza (near flower shop) To RSVP or for information on future class dates: girlarmyoakland@gmail.com.11140
Interactive Theatre for Racial Justice
1:00 pm
Interactive Theatre for Racial Justice
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Dec 18 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Drama games and Theatre of the Oppressed for community building, working through dynamics with “isms” within the movement, and practicing embodying our ideals together. A great warm up for the GA. All are welcome, including shy people! *no class on Dec. 25, Jan. 1, and on the weekends when there is the Anti-racist/decolonization teach-in on Saturdays because we will support their work those days instead of our Sunday Workshop10102
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Occupy Writing Workshop
1:00 pm
Occupy Writing Workshop
Dec 21 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop. North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza 8238
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Interactive Theatre for Racial Justice
1:00 pm
Interactive Theatre for Racial Justice
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Dec 25 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Drama games and Theatre of the Oppressed for community building, working through dynamics with “isms” within the movement, and practicing embodying our ideals together. A great warm up for the GA. All are welcome, including shy people! *no class on Dec. 25, Jan. 1, and on the weekends when there is the Anti-racist/decolonization teach-in on Saturdays because we will support their work those days instead of our Sunday Workshop10102
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Occupy Writing Workshop
1:00 pm
Occupy Writing Workshop
Dec 28 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop. North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza 8238
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