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March 2014

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						1 Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting. 7:00 pm Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting. Mar 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets JAB is currently focused on the demand that California Attorney General Kamala Harris do her job & prosecute ALL killer cops. Everyone is welcome, we will meet at The Alan Blueford Center for Justice at 2434 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, please check here for late changes. Our latest action was a civil disobedience “standin” at Oakland’s State Building that resulted in eight people being arrested, but the good news is that all the charges are being dropped. Upcoming events we will be discussing include – April 8 – Families United March on … Continued Don’t stand for Sit/Lie in SF!! 11:00 pm Don’t stand for Sit/Lie in SF!! @ In front of Macy's Mar 1 @ 11:00 pm – Mar 2 @ 12:30 am Tickets “First they came for the homeless…” Occupy / Sit-in against Sit/Lie law in front of Macy’s This is the second action of this campaign Don’t stand for Sit/Lie!! After the March Against Corruption this Saturday, join us in front of Macy’s SF Store on Union Square 54994 1:00 am @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Apr 1 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against Staples; we need to support them. We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard. The Berkeley City Council … Continued Occupy Forum: Fukushima: Facts and Fiction 1:00 am Occupy Forum: Fukushima: Facts and Fiction @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Apr 1 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! OccupyForum presents� Fukushima: Facts and Fiction During the three long and frightening years since the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, the world has heard less and less about this manmade industrial disaster. Money, power, and engineering hubris were put ahead of the lives and health of the people of Japan and the northern hemisphere as radiation releases continue to leave the site and migrate into the environment. Decommissioning and dismantling the reactors will take decades, and complete cleanup is not even possible. … Continued
2	3	4 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 2:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office (inside if it is really cold) Mar 4 @ 2:00 am – 3:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The City Council is on a path to pass some sort of Zoning Overlay which may protect the Post Office against various commercial uses, or be totally ineffective. We need to stay on top of it. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against … Continued	5	6 Pack Albany City Hall, Defend the Gill Tract 2:15 am Pack Albany City Hall, Defend the Gill Tract @ Albany City Hall Mar 6 @ 2:15 am – 5:00 am Tickets Dearest friends, family and fellow farmers, We need your voices and bodies in Albany this Wednesday! Despite a successful referendum, citizen appeal, 2 current lawsuits, and 15 years of public comments against the commercial development of the Gill Tract Farm, Albany City Council will be voting on a development plan to place a large parking lot and chain grocery store (“Sprouts”) on the south side of the Gill Tract. The city council moved this vote up from the original date of March 17th, so please help us get the word out about the … Continued Strike Debt Bay Area Reading Group: Politics of Debt. 3:30 am Strike Debt Bay Area Reading Group: Politics of Debt. @ Xolo Cafe, one block from the 19th St. BART Mar 6 @ 3:30 am – 5:00 am Tickets We meet on a once-every-two-week-or-so schedule, discussing debt, money, how our financial system does (and usually does not) work, and the politics of it all. Here is the PDF for chapters 2 & 3 for Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. These are the chapters we will discuss next meeting: Shock Doctrine Ch2-3 Here is a link to the scan for the preface of Michael Hudson’s The Bubble and Beyond. Please read it and come with an idea for which chapters you would like the class to read. Michael Hudson’s ‘The … Continued	7	8 Strike Debt Bay Area: Politics of Debt Reading Group. 6:15 am Strike Debt Bay Area: Politics of Debt Reading Group. @ Xolo Cafe, one block from the 19th St. BART Mar 8 @ 6:15 am – 7:15 am Tickets We’ll be discussing chapters 6 & 7 from Michael Hudson’s The Bubble and Beyond. Here’s a PDF. HudsonCh6-7.55082 International Women’s Day SF: From Kabul to Fukushima, Women united for: PEACE, EQUALITY & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 6:00 pm International Women’s Day SF: From Kabul to Fukushima, Women united for: PEACE, EQUALITY & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE @ Golden Gate Bridge Mar 8 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Massive Women’s Convergence on the Golden Gate Bridge Activists from Bay Area CodePink, No Nukes Action Committee and Fukushima Response will form a united front on the Golden Gate Bridge in recognition of women’s global effort for a better world. 10:00 Rally, Music, Dance, S.F. side of Golden Gate Bridge. 11:00 March across the eastern walkway, starting on either side of the bridge, to meet in middle for convergence for peace, equality and environmental justice. 12:00 (SF side) Honoring women activists, past & present. All are encouraged to represent a … Continued Drop the Charges Against Marissa Alexander! 10:00 pm Drop the Charges Against Marissa Alexander! @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 8 @ 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets Prosecuting Attorney Angela Corey is planning to push for consecutive sentencing in Marissa’s upcoming re-trial, pushing for a 60 year sentence for firing a warning shot, causing no injury, to protect herself from her abusive husband. We cannot allow this to happen! It’s time to drop the charges against Marissa Alexander and let her get back to the work of raising her children and living her life. This Saturday, International Women’s Day, at 2pm we will gather in Oscar Grant Plaza for a march into West Oakland to bring awareness … Continued Strike Debt Bay Area General Meeting: Ideas Into Action! 11:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area General Meeting: Ideas Into Action! @ ARC, downtown Oakland, small door to left of main doors Mar 8 @ 11:00 pm – Mar 9 @ 1:30 am Tickets New to Strike Debt?? Don’t walk cold turkey into a bunch of radicals talking about debt! Show up a half hour early—at 2:30 PM—for an informal pre-meeting intro session. If you’d like to attend this pre-together please email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com and let us know you’re coming. Join Strike Debt Bay Area in working on some exciting projects locally and nationally to fight unjust debt. – The latest on our coalition efforts to Save the Berkeley Post Office and fight the privatization of our commons. – The latest on our efforts to help Richmond and … Continued
9 We Are Still Here Albany Bulb Event 12:00 am We Are Still Here Albany Bulb Event @ Albany Bulb Mar 9 @ 12:00 am – 11:00 pm Tickets GG’s statement on homelessness at the Albany City Council: http://www.youtube.com/user/orionorion99?feature=watch 55061 Occupy the Farm: Community Strategy Meeting. 9:00 pm Occupy the Farm: Community Strategy Meeting. @ Albany Senior Center Mar 9 @ 9:00 pm – Mar 10 @ 12:00 am Tickets On March 5th, we are sorry to report that Albany City Council chose to ignore the overwhelming crowd of farm supporters, and instead approved the UC’s development plan for the southern half of the Gill Tract. This public farmland is an invaluable and rare resource, but if the UC Administration has its way, it will be developed it for purely commercial uses that have nothing to do with Berkeley’s mission and responsibilities as a public land grant university. After the meeting, many of the people who had come to speak … Continued	10	11 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 1:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Mar 11 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The City Council is on a path to pass some sort of Zoning Overlay which may protect the Post Office against various commercial uses, or be totally ineffective. We need to stay on top of it. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against … Continued Occupy Forum (SF): Got Water? 1:00 am Occupy Forum (SF): Got Water? @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Mar 11 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets This Monday, we will start promptly at 6!! � Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! OccupyForum presents Got water? Our water commons is leaking away, next thing you know they’ll be selling us air Water is essential for life. We are 65% water and are not likely to survive more than three days without it. Water is not just for drinking, but for other essential processes like growing food and for … Continued	12	13 Picket & Protest: Veolia: Rehire the Fired Boston School Drivers Now! 5:30 pm Picket & Protest: Veolia: Rehire the Fired Boston School Drivers Now! @ Veolia para transit Mar 13 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets The San Francisco School Bus Drivers (UTU 1741) are inviting you to a picket of Veolia’s para-transit office. This protest is in support of the 4 Union leaders fired by Veolia in Boston. Veolia’s anti-Union record is as bad as its environmental and human rights record. Steve Gillis, Vice President of Boston School Bus Drivers Union, was one of the fired Union leaders. He was a featured speaker at the anti-Veolia Conference in SF on 2/8. Veolia locked out 800 drivers and fired the leadership of the Union (USW 8751) … Continued Tristan Anderson: 5 Year Anniversary of His Being Shot and Severely Injured. 11:00 pm Tristan Anderson: 5 Year Anniversary of His Being Shot and Severely Injured. @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 13 @ 11:00 pm – Mar 14 @ 3:00 am Tickets Support Tristan and loved ones as we mark five years since the shooting of Bay Area activist, Tristan Anderson. Tristan was severely injured when he was shot in the head with a (American made) tear gas grenade by Israeli Military Police during a protest in Occupied Palestine in 2009 in the village of Ni’ilin. Tristan became paralyzed on about half his body and lives with severe permanent injury to his brain. We honor Tristan and rage at our own government for it’s direct role in the misery of Gaza, the … Continued	14	15 Recovery From the Dominant Culture. 5:00 pm Recovery From the Dominant Culture. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Mar 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets We are a fellowship of people wanting to find aliveness, connection and survival in the face of social-political-economic overwhelm. We do this by recognizing and addressing our unspoken submission to historically entrenched, institutions and influences of the dominant culture. We observe cunning, baffling and powerful social ills perpetuated through inequities involving race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age and ability. We explore how these impact our thoughts feelings and personal habits. We hope that as each of us becomes free from acquisition driven, socially divisive, militarized forces, we can catalyze change … Continued
16	17	18 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 1:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Mar 18 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against Staples; we need to support them. We are starting a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! The City Council is on a path to pass … Continued	19 Fight for $15: Raising the Minimum Wage in Richmond, CA 2:30 am Fight for $15: Raising the Minimum Wage in Richmond, CA @ Richmond City Hall Mar 19 @ 2:30 am – 5:00 am Tickets Minimum Wage Before Council Richmond Needs a Raise! Raise the Minimum Wage! Join the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, the Richmond Progressive Alliance, SEIU 1021, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, the Restaurant Opportunities Center, CCISCO, Somos Richmond, BMOER and the rest of our community ;who are uniting to lift up our City by raising the minimum wage. The proposal is to raise the minimum wage to $11, $12.30, or $15 an hour and includes a cost of living adjustment annually! Businesses with 10 or fewer employees would be exempted. It’s … Continued Strike Debt Bay Area Reading Group: Politics of Debt. 2:30 am Strike Debt Bay Area Reading Group: Politics of Debt. @ Xolo Cafe, one block from the 19th St. BART Mar 19 @ 2:30 am – 4:00 am Tickets We will be reading chapters 6 & 7 from Michael Hudson The Bubble and Beyond. Here they are. HudsonCh6-755214	20	21	22
23	24	25 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 1:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Mar 25 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against Staples; we need to support them. We are starting a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard. The Berkeley City … Continued	26	27 The Town Hella Needs a Raise!!!!! 11:00 pm The Town Hella Needs a Raise!!!!! Mar 27 @ 11:00 pm – Mar 28 @ 1:00 am Tickets East Bay Hotel & Food Service Workers Take It to the Streets of Oakland! Facebook event page East Bay hotel, restaurant and stadium workers are marching for our jobs, our rights and OUR POWER! We are fighting for a higher minimum wage and good jobs that pay us what we need to survive and thrive in the Bay Area in 2014! Join hotel housekeepers, hot dog vendors from the Coliseum, and airport restaurant workers who are fighting for good contracts – along with fast food workers fighting for $15 an … Continued	28	29 Justice for Alex Nieto! March Against Police Violence and the Takeover of Our Communities. 9:00 pm Justice for Alex Nieto! March Against Police Violence and the Takeover of Our Communities. @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Mar 29 @ 9:00 pm – Mar 30 @ 12:00 am Tickets Gather at 2pm, then we will take to the streets at 3pm. Bring your body down. Bring a friend or a hundred. We will march to honor Alex Nieto and all the countless many black and brown young men murdered by those thugs in uniform. We will march for our friends and families getting kicked out of their homes. We will march to stand up and fight back against the takeover of our communities by the forces of capital and their human agents who have too much money for how … Continued Protest “Sit/Lie” in front of Macy’s. “First they came for the Homeless…” 10:00 pm Protest “Sit/Lie” in front of Macy’s. “First they came for the Homeless…” @ Macy's San Francisco, Geary Side Mar 29 @ 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets Protest SIT / LIE A revisit to Macy’s to thank them for their support of the inhumane sit/lie ‘law’ which criminalizes our homeless sisters and brothers – we have the signs, cardboard & sharpies, bring yourself / friends / family & sit for your human & civil right to sit down – 55309
30	31 Organize for Earth Day to May Day Direct Action Assembly meeting 1:00 am Organize for Earth Day to May Day Direct Action Assembly meeting @ The Sudoroom Mar 31 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am Tickets On Sunday, March 30, 6:00PM @ the Sudo Room (2141 Broadway Ave. Entrance on 22nd St.) We will be having a meeting to prepare for the Earth Day to May Day Direct Action Assembly. https://www.facebook.com/events/423104754459669/ We are currently inviting people to help spread the word, make proposals, and to facilitate the assembly. On the agenda: Facilitators: Currently we have a facilitator but could use additional facilitators in case of a problem. Proposals: There are proposals for a mass labor rally and march, several job actions, an … Continued

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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.