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IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MARCH for Full Citizenship Rights for All! 7:00 pm
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MARCH for Full Citizenship Rights for All! @ Fruitvale
Apr 1 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Oakland will MARCH on California’s Cesar Chavez Holiday — Monday, April 1, 2013 — to demand FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL! These are our demands: FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS for all people who live here, go to school here, work here, and otherwise contribute to this society. Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab, Native American, white, immigrants with and without papers — we are ALL Americans. OPEN THE BORDERS — give people the same rights that NAFTA provides to the corporations for unrestricted passage across borders. NO RESTRICTIONS to gaining citizenship should be … Continued
Stop the BPD Cover Up in the Matter of the Death of Kayla Moore 1:00 am
Stop the BPD Cover Up in the Matter of the Death of Kayla Moore @ Berkeley City Hall
May 1 @ 1:00 am – 5:00 am
“We demand that BPD allow the release of the Coroner’s report and the police report of what happened that night.” “The city leadership has allowed the police to function without accountability…” Rally at 6:00 PM and speak out at 7:00 PM.48485
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StrikeDebtBayArea Presents at Occupy SF Forum 1:00 am
StrikeDebtBayArea Presents at Occupy SF Forum @ Global Exchange
Apr 2 @ 1:00 am – 3:30 am
StrikeDebtBayArea peeps will be talking about their projects at the Occupy SF Forum on April 1st. Cassie Thorton, of one SDBA’s founding members, will present three years of research and art making about debt and its relationship to contemporary notions of work, behavior, emotions and the unconscious. In this talk Cassie will explore the nature of debt as a tulpa, which, in Tibetan mysticism, is a being or object created out of a shared willpower, attention, focus, and ritual. If enough people think it, believe it, and have fear of … Continued
SEIU: Take on City Hall 11:30 pm
SEIU: Take on City Hall @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Apr 2 @ 11:30 pm – Apr 3 @ 1:00 am
Oakland City workers will take their message for a fair, no concessions contract to City Hall. The rally will be the highlight of a day-long hearing on the city’s budget, where we will tell city leaders to cut elsewhere than the hard-working members of SEIU Local 1021. Workers have given back wages, benefits and jobs since 2008, but now livelihoods are at risk. Enough is enough. Wear purple to show solidarity.47969
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Protest the Tarsands Pipeline, Protest President Obama’s Fundraiser in SF 12:30 am
Protest the Tarsands Pipeline, Protest President Obama’s Fundraiser in SF @ Outside the Getty Mansion in SF
Apr 4 @ 12:30 am – 2:00 am
“Join activists from CREDO, 350, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Center for Biological Diversity and others, to send President Obama a big message: Stop Keystone XL! The last time we protested the President’s San Francisco fundraiser we shocked the President with a huge crowd of 1,000 people. We know from insiders that we caused a big buzz in the White House, and our pressure worked. Now, with the President again considering Keystone XL, we need a huge crowd outside his San Francisco fundraiser to deliver the message: Stop Keystone … Continued
Web Committee Meeting 6:00 pm
Web Committee Meeting @ The Holdout
Apr 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
New schedule and additional location! Bi-Monthly meetings to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org. We meet the first Thursday of the month at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave Oakland,CA 94612 @ 6PM And the third Sunday of the month at 19th Street / Rashida Muhammad Street (one block away from 19th Street/Telegraph avenue) @ 2PM If interested on helping us out, please come and join us!   Web@occupyoakland.org  27484
Save GG’s House! Phone Blast Lunch Party! 6:30 pm
Save GG’s House! Phone Blast Lunch Party! @ GG's House
Apr 4 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Come to our phone blast AND ORGANIZING party! lunch – pot luck, bagels and cheese. beer, wine, and soda ACOUSTIC MUSIC LEARN HOW OR TEACH OTHERS THE TEDIOUS JOB OF PHONE BLASTING if u can/t make phone blast party do a phone blast on ur own and forward this u can phone blast any time on thursday april 4th. please help us to PHONE BLAST IT IS A SUCCESSFUL TACTIC call 10 times THAT DAY leaving a message we give u the script to read just like those annoying phone … Continued
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Austerity and its Discontents: A Public Forum with David Graeber 2:00 am
Austerity and its Discontents: A Public Forum with David Graeber @ Namaste Hall, California Institute of Integral Studies
Apr 5 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
Austerity and its Discontents: A Public Forum with David Graeber. David Graeber is an anthropologist operating out of Goldsmiths, University of London. He emerged as the organic intellectual of the Occupy movement, and has made important contributions to the renovation of antinomian thought. Among his books are “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology” and “Debt: The First 5000 Years.” CIIS Announcement. David Graeber Wikipedia entry.48172
Bank Action in Support of Occupier GG: Save Her House! 10:30 pm
Bank Action in Support of Occupier GG: Save Her House!
Apr 5 @ 10:30 pm – Apr 6 @ 12:00 am
You are invited to a FRIDAY BANK DEMO in oakland, april 5 330pm. we meet and decide which bank CALL me orion 510 541 3835 for meeting location. the demonstration will be run by ACCE: ALLIANCE OF CALIF0RNIANS FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT. I HAVE BEEN TO 5 acce BANK ACTIONS – NOBODY GETS ARRESTED AND IT/S TONS OF FUN AND extremely empowering . WE BASICALLY DEMAND TO TALK TO THE MANAGER TO restructure loans or stop the sale of homes etc. there will be 3 other home owners besides gg. Even … Continued
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Fuck the Police March #FTP April,5,2013 2:00 am
Fuck the Police March #FTP April,5,2013 @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Apr 6 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am
FUCK THE POLICE MARCH 14 and broadway 7:00pm FTP 3.0 – FUCK THE POLICE Take our pigs for a walk. They need the exercise. And it only costs the city $50K a week! *** This event is being called by the Occupy Oakland Tactical Action Committee. It might continue weekly. The Tactical Action Committee was approved by Occupy Oakland’s GA to perform autonomous actions at their discretion. In that sense it is not an “official” Occupy Oakland event, in the sense that it was not directly, but indirectly, approved through … Continued
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting 6:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Offices, East Oakland
Apr 6 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Offices, East Oakland | Oakland | California | United States
We are planning an outreach barbeque on April 13th! (Yum!) Expect delicious home-cooked food, great music, powerful speakers, kid-friendly activities, a nurse’s station – all donated to this community event in honor of Alan Blueford, a Skyline High School student who was murdered by OPD Officer Miguel Masso almost one year ago on May 6th, 2012. We will be holding a vigil on the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death, May 6th. We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso … Continued
A public forum to save the life and win the freedom of radical attorney Lynne Stewart 9:00 pm
A public forum to save the life and win the freedom of radical attorney Lynne Stewart @ Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
Apr 6 @ 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm
A public forum to save the life and win the freedom of radical attorney Lynne Stewart, suffering from Stage 4 lung cancer. • Victim of a government frame-up conviction on charges of aiding and abetting terrorism •Imprisoned for ten years for defending the civil liberties and democratic rights of the Egyptian cleric (the “blind sheik’) Omar Abdel Rachman • Lynne has Stage 4 lung cancer and is seeking “compassionate release” to the New York City hospital that treated her original and now metastasized breast cancer. Citing “prison regulations” at FMC … Continued
Strike Debt Bay Area: Ideas into Action 10:00 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area: Ideas into Action @ The Eric Quezada Center for Culture & Politics
Apr 6 @ 10:00 pm – Apr 7 @ 12:30 am
Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery. We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February). We are planning an action for Tax Day, April 15th. Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone. We will first meet all together and then divide up into groups that will look something like this: … Continued
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Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
Apr 7 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland 46745
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
Apr 7 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland47972
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JAB BBQ organizing meeting 2:00 am
JAB BBQ organizing meeting @ SF Pizza, Oakland
Apr 11 @ 2:00 am – 3:15 am
Meet to help plan the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition BBQ,  Sat. April 13 1:00 PM Arroyo Park.  We need help setting up, cooking, serving, with tables (buttons, literature), trash pick-up, etc. We are also meeting at the First Congregational Church of Oakland on Friday, April 12th at 11 AM to cook. 2501 Harrison Street at 27th, Oakland. We need more cooks spoiling the brew. Event: http://occupyoakland.org/2013/04/justice-4-alan-blueford-coalition-bbq-april-13-100-pm-500-pm-arroyo-park/  48210
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Help cook for the Justice 4 Alan Blueford BBQ (Sat.) 6:00 pm
Help cook for the Justice 4 Alan Blueford BBQ (Sat.) @ First Congregational Church
Apr 12 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
We are  meeting at the First Congregational Church of Oakland on Friday, April 12th at 11 AM to cook for the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition BBQ on Saturday, April 13th at 1 PM at Arroyo Park.  Come join us chopping and roasting our way to justice.  The cooks are meeting up the stairs from the stairway on the parking lot on the Harrison side of the complex. Event: http://occupyoakland.org/2013/04/justice-4-alan-blueford-coalition-bbq-april-13-100-pm-500-pm-arroyo-park/ NOTE: Due to a senior-moment by the poster this action was originally listed as happening from 1 PM on the … Continued
Join the Fight for a Livable Wage 10:00 pm
Join the Fight for a Livable Wage @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Apr 12 @ 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm
Join the Fight for a Livable Wage @ Oscar Grant Plaza | Oakland | California | United States
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PROTEST: U.S. Drones Out of Africa, Middle East, Asia and Here! 7:00 pm
PROTEST: U.S. Drones Out of Africa, Middle East, Asia and Here! @ Powell St. BART
Apr 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us for the April 13 National Day of Action to say, “U.S. Drones Out of Africa, Middle East, Asia and Here!” Having killed more than 4,700 people through U.S. drone strikes in Central Asia, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, the U.S. government is now putting all of Africa in the crosshairs… Inside the U.S., drones are being used by many police agencies. The U.S. government has deployed drones along the US-Mexico border as part of the campaign to arrest and deport over 1.5 million immigrants since … Continued
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition BBQ 8:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition BBQ @ Arroyo Park
Apr 13 @ 8:00 pm – Apr 14 @ 12:00 am
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition BBQ @ Arroyo Park | Oakland | California | United States
Free food! Facebook event. RSVP. The Justice 4 Alan Blueford coalition is hosting a community BBQ in Arroyo Park on Saturday, April 13th. We hope you’ll come out with friends and family to eat, play, and connect as we build the strength of our community. Expect delicious home-cooked food, great music, powerful speakers, kid-friendly activities, a nurse’s station – all donated to this community event in honor of Alan Blueford, a Skyline High School student who was murdered by OPD Officer Miguel Masso almost one year ago on May 6th, … Continued
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Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
Apr 14 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland47972
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
Apr 14 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland 46745
Strike Debt Bay Area Organizers Meeting: You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone… 11:30 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area Organizers Meeting: You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone… @ San Francisco Pizza
Apr 14 @ 11:30 pm – Apr 15 @ 1:00 am
Join us! All Are Welcome! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone. We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February), scheduled for May 18th in San Francisco (exact location TBA). We are planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on May 4th, place yet to be determined, probably in Oakland. Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with … Continued
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STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA STRIKES BACK ON TAX DAY!! 10:00 pm
STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA STRIKES BACK ON TAX DAY!! @ Federal Reserve Building
Apr 15 @ 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm
STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA STRIKES BACK ON TAX DAY!!  @ Federal Reserve Building | San Jose | California | United States
Banks don’t pay taxes but most people do! Banks don’t pay their debts but we are hounded if we don’t! Why must we pay income tax when banks and corporations don’t have to? They use accounting gimmicks, offshore headquarters and other scams to avoid paying their fair share. Is it fair that taxpayers bailed out the big banks, but they continue to profit at our expense? Why must we be crushed under the weight of debt for medical, educational, housing AND income tax obligations while those who have made a … Continued
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Rally to Demand the Prosecution of Vallejo Police Officer Dustin Joseph for the Murder of Mario Romero 10:00 pm
Rally to Demand the Prosecution of Vallejo Police Officer Dustin Joseph for the Murder of Mario Romero @ solano county district attorney's office
Apr 16 @ 10:00 pm – Apr 17 @ 12:00 am
RSVP via Facebook and more info Mario Romero was 23 years old ,Just 16 days shy of his 24th birthday.He and his brother-in-law had just returned home following the celebration of the two just getting new , promising jobs that would help them better support their families, wives and 3 three children between the both of them. upon returning home they placed a call to open the front door; upon ending the call Mario’s sister went outside to scare them like she always did but upon her arrival to the … Continued
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Remembering / Celebrating the life of Kayla (Xavier) Moore, Killed by Berkeley Police, on her Birthday 12:00 am
Remembering / Celebrating the life of Kayla (Xavier) Moore, Killed by Berkeley Police, on her Birthday @ Downtown Berkeley
Apr 18 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 am
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2013 CONTACT: Andrea Prichett (Berkeley Copwatch) Phone: (510) 229-0527 email: prichett@locrian.com Diana Bohn (Coalition for a Safe Berkeley) Phone: 510-525-5497 or 926-5871 email: nicca@igc.org Who: Berkeley Copwatch, Coalition for a Safe Berkeley Event Remembering/ Celebrating the life of Kayla (Xavier) Moore on her birthday What: Birthday Memorial Celebration When: 5:00pm, Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Where: 2116 Allston Way (near Shattuck Ave.) in Berkeley and What: Press Conference and delivery of the Public Records Act Request to the police station. Where: 2100 Martin Luther King Jr. … Continued
On May Day: Fight for Fifteen! 1:00 am
On May Day: Fight for Fifteen! @ The statues
Apr 18 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
Recently hundreds of fast food workers participated in a wildcat strike in New York City to demand $15/dollars per hour. Now it looks like workers in Chicago are going for it as well. We need to Fight for Fifteen in Oakland! Rampant gentrification and exploitation abounds in Oakland, with stores run by massively profitable corporations thriving off the labor of workers barely making minimum wage or more, but we know we can’t survive in this town on $8/hr. Bring this class tension to the forefront by fighting for a livable … Continued
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GG COUNTERATTACK: SHUTDOWN US BANK SAT APR 20. PHONE BLAST. 5:00 pm
GG COUNTERATTACK: SHUTDOWN US BANK SAT APR 20. PHONE BLAST. @ US Bank
Apr 20 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
SHUTDOWN US BANK SAT APR 20 MONCLAIR 10M TO NOONISH. Meet at US Bank in Montclair, 1998 Mountain Blvd, Oakland. If you cannot make it please call US Bank branches between 10:00 AM and noon that are open today in the Oakland area: Montclair: 510 339 5900 Alameda: 510 747 1657 I am ___________________, and I am calling on behalf of my friend, Gwen Winter, who you evicted from her home at gunpoint at 1415 Allman Street, Oakland, CA on Friday morning, April 19. I demand you call off the … Continued
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting 6:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Offices, East Oakland
Apr 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
We will be holding a vigil on May 5th on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death. We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th. We held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general. We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance … Continued
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Fundraiser Concert to Benefit Occupy the Farm 3:00 am
Fundraiser Concert to Benefit Occupy the Farm @ The Farmsprung
Apr 21 @ 3:00 am – 6:45 am
Scheduled artists include Voyaj, Upside Drown, Shake Your Peace!, Future Twin and Michael Zeligs. On Earth Day of last year, Occupy the Farm first broke into the Gill Tract to protest a proposed development neighboring land also owned by the university. Via Berkeley Patch.48491
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
Apr 21 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland 46745
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
Apr 21 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland47972
Web Committee Meeting 12:30 pm
Web Committee Meeting
Apr 21 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
New schedule and additional location! Bi-Monthly meetings to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org. We meet the first Thursday of the month at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave Oakland,CA 94612 @ 6PM And the third Sunday of the month at 19th Street / Rashida Muhammad Street (one block away from 19th Street/Telegraph avenue) @ 2PM If interested on helping us out, please come and join us!   Web@occupyoakland.org34357
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Earth Day Action for Environmental and Climate Justice 7:00 pm
Earth Day Action for Environmental and Climate Justice @ EPA REgion IX Office
Apr 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join many on Earth Day, 4/22, to tell the White House, Congress, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop protecting polluters. It is time to start protecting our climate, our health, and our communities! Meet in front of the U.S. EPA Region IX Office at 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco at noon on 4/22. March to State Department at 1:45 PM to protest the Keystone Pipeline. More info.48169
The Fight Continues for GG’s House. Action at US Bank! 7:00 pm
The Fight Continues for GG’s House. Action at US Bank! @ Montclair Branch of US BANK
Apr 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
GG is not being allowed into her home to get her possessions. She has only the clothes on her back. After an action on Saturday, GG and friends will be back again demonstrating at the Montclair, Oakland branch of U.S. Bank on Monday, April 22 from noon to 2pm. Phone Blast at the same time: Local U.S. Bank: 510 339-5900 I am ___________________, and I am calling on behalf of my friend, Gwen Winter, who you sent sheriff’s deputies to evict from her home at gunpoint at 1415 Allman Street, … Continued
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Keep Families Together, Restore Due Process and Put an End to Scomm in the County! 5:30 pm
Keep Families Together, Restore Due Process and Put an End to Scomm in the County! @ Alameda County Board of Supervisors, 5th floor
Apr 23 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us in Support of a resolution to Keep Families Together, Restore Due Process and Put an End to Scomm (Secure Communities, i.e., Deportation) in the County! We will gather to share food at 10:30am, will have a press conference/rally at 11am and at 12 Noon we will head inside to the 5th floor to give testimony in support of a resolution that the Board of Supervisors will be voting on calling for an end to S-comm in the County. Join us, together we can “Keep Families Together, Restore Due … Continued
Wells Fargo & US Bank Action – San Francisco. Help Save GG’s House! 6:00 pm
Wells Fargo & US Bank Action – San Francisco. Help Save GG’s House! @ Wells Fargo HQ
Apr 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Wells Fargo is Evil. Last year, over 2,000 folks took over the Wells Fargo Share holder’s meeting San Francisco. This year, Wells Fargo is on the run: to Salt Lake City Utah. But it doesn’t mean we can’t leave them a message for when they come back!!! Join ss and make sure John Stumpf, CEO of Wells Fargo, hears us all the way in Salt Lake City Utah, from San Francisco. gg and orion invite you to join the ACCE demo against Wells fargo and USBANK april 23 tuesday meet … Continued
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UNITE HERE Rally for Oakland Airport Workers 7:00 pm
UNITE HERE Rally for Oakland Airport Workers @ Oakland Airport, Terminals 2
Apr 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Non-union fast food workers at the Oakland Airport have been calling for justice on the job for over nine months. The Port of Oakland found that two worker leaders were FIRED in retaliation for speaking out – and that Jamba Juice and Subway weren’t following the Port living wage law. We told the Port Commission last Thursday that this injustice cannot stand at the Oakland Airport. Next Wednesday we will raise our voices so that everyone in the airport knows how unfair Subway and Jamba Juice are. We will also … Continued
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On May Day, Fight for $15! 1:00 am
On May Day, Fight for $15! @ The statues
Apr 25 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
Recently hundreds of fast food workers participated in a wildcat strike in New York City to demand $15/dollars per hour. Now it looks like workers in Chicago are going for it as well. We need to Fight for Fifteen in Oakland! Rampant gentrification and exploitation abounds in Oakland, with stores run by massively profitable corporations thriving off the labor of workers barely making minimum wage or more, but we know we can’t survive in this town on $8/hr. Bring this class tension to the forefront by fighting for a livable … Continued
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Reverend Billy and the Choir of Stop Shopping @ OGP 11:00 pm
Reverend Billy and the Choir of Stop Shopping @ OGP @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Apr 26 @ 11:00 pm – Apr 27 @ 12:00 am
Join Reverend Billy and the Choir of Stop Shopping for their performance of “Extinction Revolution”, the latest from the singing radicals. In the new song “Extinction Revolution” the choir, led by Musical Director Nehemiah Luckett, rejoices that the climate-changed killed Golden Toad returns from the dead to haunt Jamie Dimon’s dreams and regulate Wall Street. Special guests, Chalkupy. Facebook Event: RSVP More info. 48246
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Noise Demo – Solidarity with the Grand Jury Resisters! 2:00 am
Noise Demo – Solidarity with the Grand Jury Resisters! @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Apr 27 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
Earlier this month, a call to action* was made for a week of solidarity with the PNW Grand Jury resistors. This week is the week leading up to May Day, the day the FBI is using as an excuse to engage in their anarchist witch hunt. So Friday, April 26th we are calling for a rowdy noise demonstration/street party in solidarity with those facing repression from the Seattle grand jury (and everywhere else, too!) Repression will not keep us down! Bring noisemakers of all sorts, from fireworks to casseroles. Contact … Continued
Socialism Vs. Capitalism 2013 2:00 am
Socialism Vs. Capitalism 2013 @ Niebyl-Proctor Library
Apr 27 @ 2:00 am – 4:30 am
Friday: Challenging Capitalism’s Inherent Evils. Glen Ford, Vanessa Aldrich, Ann Montague, Jeralyn Blueford Saturday 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Capitalism’s Crises: The 99% vs. the Corporate Elite. Jack Rasmus, Bruce Pardoll, Nighsnow Vogt 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM: Civil Liberties Under Attack. The Emerging Police State. Ann Weills, Mark Ostapiak, Vanessa Aldrich 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Imperialist Wars. Glen Ford, Daniel Alley, Anthony Battey Sunday 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Leninist Theory Jeff Mackler 2:00 PM: BBQ ($5, no one turned away for lack of funds)48412
Wild Bill Bailout (Dave Lippman) concert at the BFUU Friday April 26th at 7PM 2:00 am
Wild Bill Bailout (Dave Lippman) concert at the BFUU Friday April 26th at 7PM @ Berkeley Unitarian Fellowship
Apr 27 @ 2:00 am – 3:45 am
Dave Lippman and his ego alter Wild Bill Bailout are singing Friday night April 26th at the Berkeley Fellowship Of Unitarian Universalists in Berkeley at 7 PM. Wild Bill, AKA George Shrub is the “Bard of the Bankers.” Check out some of his songs here. 1924 Cedar Street at Bonita, Berkeley, CA http://occupyoakland.org/2013/04/48673/48685
SAN FRANCISCO ACCE BANK ACTION & GG PHONE BLAST 5:00 pm
SAN FRANCISCO ACCE BANK ACTION & GG PHONE BLAST
Apr 27 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
SF ACCE BANK ACTION (LUPITA 503 816 4593) SAT APRIL 27. BANK AMERICA, CHASE AND US BANK. MISSION AND 30TH STREET 11 AM. GG CONTINGENT FROM EAST BAY WILL MEET AT WEST OAKLAND BART 10AM LEAVE 1030. IF U CAN/T MAKE DEMO CALL 10 TIMES TO SHUT DOWN US BANK AT 11 AM APRIL 27th. USE THIS SCRIPT AND DON/T FORGET TO VIRAL THE U TUBE VIDEO OF GG/S GUNPOINT EVICTION. PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO. THANKS ORION PHONE BLAST SCRIPT FOR GG’S US Bank: 2001 16th and mission Phone: … Continued
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting 6:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Offices, East Oakland
Apr 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
We will be holding a vigil on May 5th on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death. We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th. We held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general. We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance … Continued
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Benefit Show Featuring The Coup 5:00 am
Benefit Show Featuring The Coup @ Oakland Marriot City Center
Apr 28 @ 5:00 am – 6:45 am
Oakland-based, political hip-hop group, The Coup, are putting on a benefit show for the National Lawyers Guild. ALL ARE WELCOME! The Coup’s latest album, Sorry to Bother You, is available now. Prior to the show the NLG will be honoring Boots Riley’s father, Walter, at our Annual Testimonial Dinner. For more information about attending the dinner, visit nlgsf.org. Buy tickets RSVP via Facebook48250
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
Apr 28 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland 46745
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting 12:30 pm
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
Apr 28 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland47972
People’s Park 44th Anniversary 7:00 pm
People’s Park 44th Anniversary @ People's Park
Apr 28 @ 7:00 pm – Apr 29 @ 1:00 am
Hey, you’re People. So come celebrate YOUR park in Berkeley! People’s Park 44th Anniversary! Source: Facebook notice48687
Strike Debt Bay Area Organizers Meeting: You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone! 11:30 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area Organizers Meeting: You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone! @ San Francisco Pizza
Apr 28 @ 11:30 pm – Apr 29 @ 1:00 am
Join us! All Are Welcome! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone. We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February), scheduled for May 18th in San Francisco (exact location TBA). We are planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on May 4th, at ARC, 900 Alice St, Oakland, CA @ 3:00 PM on May 4th. Strike Debt … Continued
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Bradley Manning Supporters to Protest at SF Pride Office 12:00 am
Bradley Manning Supporters to Protest at SF Pride Office @ SF Pride office
Apr 30 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am
Facebook page, RSVP A group of gay activists has called a protest against the San Francisco Pride Committee’s rescinding of naming as a Grand Marshal openly gay whistleblower, Bradley Manning, a US Army soldier who was arrested in 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the website Wikileaks. Manning was charged with a number of offenses including communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source and aiding the enemy. The 25 year old’s trial is expected to begin in June 2013. The action is being organized … Continued
Occupy SF Forum Presents “Outing the Oligarchy Part II” with Victor Menotti 1:00 am
Occupy SF Forum Presents “Outing the Oligarchy Part II” with Victor Menotti @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor
Apr 30 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 am
What does it take to get millions into the streets? Last time, we began to discuss “unifiers” – What is the commonality uniting and mobilizing the movement? Ideas from “reclaiming our democracy” to “compassion and love for our brothers and sisters” to “fighting for the planet” and more are on the table as we consider the mandate to organize at this crucial time. A detailed description here. 48727