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March 2015

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1 Free Maile Hampton! Arrested for “Lynching” ! 9:00 pm Free Maile Hampton! Arrested for “Lynching” ! @ Federal Bldg Mar 1 @ 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Facebook event. Join us as we stand up against the police repression of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Sacramento police have outrageously charged a young black woman for lynching. The police and county DA falsely claim that ANSWER Coalition activist Maile Hampton is guilty of obstructing justice and removing a person from police custody. In fact its the police who are guilty of obstructing justice, in this case and historically. These charges against Maile are in reality “revenge” charges against leading activists of the Black Lives Matter movement. … Continued	2	3	4 Corporate Coloniality and the Demotion of Capitalism 7:00 pm Corporate Coloniality and the Demotion of Capitalism @ OMNI Collective Mar 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The first of eight meetings is January 28th. This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control. 57909	5 Action-oriented Anti-policing Study Group 3:00 am Action-oriented Anti-policing Study Group @ Omni Commons Mar 5 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets We are having an orientation for our hands-on study group. The focus of the project is both analytical and activist. As a group, we will develop an understanding of the relationship between gentrification and police violence thru readings, workshops and discussions. At the same time, we will be developing and implementing strategies in our neighborhoods that seek to discourage other people that are new to Oakland from calling the cops. It will last about 3 months and we would love to host it all at the Omni if that works … Continued	6 Bay Area Public School General Meeting 2:00 am Bay Area Public School General Meeting @ Omni Commons Mar 6 @ 2:00 am – 3:00 am Tickets The BAPS General Meeting is where our core group of organizers come together. For those looking to get involved with the school, this is the best place to start. What happens at the General Meeting? Anyone can bring a proposal for new classes events organizational procedures lectures, talks, speakers workshops skill-shares Organizers vote on class proposals important financial expenditures use of space core values We meet each other make relevant announcements collaborate and coalesce new visions of the school distribute tasks and plan to take action learn how to build collectivity, a commons, … Continued	7
8 Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting 12:00 am Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater Mar 8 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 am Tickets Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt! Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! organizing for public banking in Oakland and elsewhere. advocating for Postal banking. saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs working with the City of Richmond and other municipalities for eminent domain seizure of underwater mortgages from the banksters ongoing study group student debt resistance helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk our famous … Continued	9	10 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 1:30 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Post Office steps Mar 10 @ 1:30 am – 2:30 am Tickets Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons. The postal service wanted to sell the post office to Hudson-mcdonald, a local developer. The City of Berkeley sued the post office to stop the sale. Hudson-mcdonald backed out of the deal in early december. Get an overview of the sale announcement here. Here’s a good more general overview piece. There was a … Continued	11 Help Defend AfrikaTown Help Defend AfrikaTown @ AfrikaTown Mar 11 – Mar 12 all-day Tickets If you can make it to #AfrikaTown today in #WestOakland at SanPablo and Brush that would be awesome. We need bodies to defend the garden. — Minister Flashes (@Federal_flashes) March 11, 2015 More information. Africatown pic.twitter.com/vLNQoFbDII— Bud (@buddrums) March 11, 2015 58276 Livable Wage Assembly 1:30 am Livable Wage Assembly @ SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 2nd floor Mar 11 @ 1:30 am – 3:00 am Tickets The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 1433 Webster Street, 2nd Floor in downtown Oakland. These assembly meetings occur from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Our work together encompasses: (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent and care workers; (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve … Continued Hands Off Afrika Town Garden – Physical Defense of the Garden 6:00 am Hands Off Afrika Town Garden – Physical Defense of the Garden @ Qilombo Mar 11 @ 6:00 am – Mar 12 @ 1:00 am Tickets Folks up at #AfrikaTown feeding the community this morning. This is beautiful. #WestOakland pic.twitter.com/csq99wMSL1— Minister Flashes (@Federal_flashes) March 11, 2015 58263 Corporate Coloniality and the Demotion of Capitalism 7:00 pm Corporate Coloniality and the Demotion of Capitalism @ OMNI Collective Mar 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The first of eight meetings is January 28th. This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control. 57909	12 Save CCSF Coalition: General Assembly Meeting. 12:30 am Save CCSF Coalition: General Assembly Meeting. @ Ocean Campus - MUB 150 Mar 12 @ 12:30 am – 2:30 am Tickets www.facebook.com/saveccsf www.saveccsf.org58157 Save CCSF General Assembly 12:30 am Save CCSF General Assembly @ Ocean Campus - MUB 150 Mar 12 @ 12:30 am – 2:00 am Tickets Help plan and build the March 24 day of action to remove the dictatorship and demand an end to downsizing, pushout policies, austerity, and attacks on diversity, and the cancellation of the construction of the Performing Arts Education Center.58246 Politics of Debt Reading Group. 2:30 am Politics of Debt Reading Group. @ Omni Commons (basement) Mar 12 @ 2:30 am – 4:30 am Tickets We’ll be discussing the Debt and Economic systems of the ancient world for this meeting, using an article written by Michael Hudson. Here’s the reading. Reconstructing The Origins of Interest-Bearing Debt… We’ll be talking about pages 1-30 this time. The Politics of Debt Reading Group is associated with the Bay Area Public School and Strike Debt Bay Area.58235	13 DAC Privacy Committee Meeting 1:00 am DAC Privacy Committee Meeting @ Oakland City Hall Mar 13 @ 1:00 am – 3:00 am Tickets We started hearing back from the implementers at the last meeting; OPD, PEC, Auditor, and the ER director talked. Now the committee has to decide what to do about what they said. See you at 6:00pm, Thursday, 12 March 2015, at Oakland City Hall.58231 RETALIATE AGAINST WORKER INTIMIDATION BY FAST FOOD CORPORATIONS AND POLICE 11:00 pm RETALIATE AGAINST WORKER INTIMIDATION BY FAST FOOD CORPORATIONS AND POLICE @ Jack in the Box Mar 13 @ 11:00 pm – Mar 14 @ 1:00 am Tickets RETALIATE AGAINST WORKER INTIMIDATION BY FAST FOOD CORPORATIONS AND POLICE Remember two Fridays ago in San Lorenzo, CA when Jack in the box fired a worker unjustly, then called the county sheriffs when she came back with her union comrades demanding her job back??? We are fighting back with a weekly “EFF YOU FRIDAY” picket at various local Jack stores. We gotta send the message to corporations and police that we will not back down from fighting to improve workers’ lives. WE WILL BE CONTINUING THESE ACTIONS EVERY FRIDAY AT … Continued	14 Picket line to support our union brothers and sisters at HS Lordships! 12:00 am Picket line to support our union brothers and sisters at HS Lordships! @ HS Lordships Mar 14 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 am Tickets FRIDAY THE 13TH: Good Luck Comes to Good Bosses! Join us for our picket line to support our union brothers and sisters at HS Lordships! Workers at HS Lordships have been bargaining for a contract for more than four years. These longtime workers are asking for a fair contract, but management continues to propose drastic cuts in medical benefits. Workers have offered to give up sick days and vacation time and participate in a new healthcare plan with an increased deductible and reduced benefits. The restaurant, however, continues to propose … Continued The Future of Railroads: Safety, Workers, Community & the Environment 4:00 pm The Future of Railroads: Safety, Workers, Community & the Environment @ Richmond Recreation Center Mar 14 @ 4:00 pm – Mar 15 @ 4:00 am Tickets You are invited to take part in this cutting edge conference that brings railroad workers, environmentalists, community activists and concerned citizens together in order to build the movement for a safer and greener railroad, one that is more responsive to the needs of workers, trackside communities, citizens in general, and society as a whole. In recent months, public attention has been focused on the railroad in a way that it has not been for decades. In the wake of Lac Megantic and other derailments and resulting fires and … Continued
15	16	17	18	19 Oakland Privacy Working Group 1:30 am Oakland Privacy Working Group @ Impact Hub Mar 19 @ 1:30 am – 3:00 am Tickets Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, surveillance systems from facial recognition to license plate readers, Urban Shield and other invasions of privacy by our militarized police and benighted City Government. We are currently pushing to get a strong privacy policy for the DAC enacted by the City Council, for the Council to create a privacy committee that will create a private policy for all of Oakland, and for a surveillance equipment acquisition ordinance which provides transparency and prior … Continued	20 Bay Area Public School General Meeting 1:00 am Bay Area Public School General Meeting @ Omni Commons Meetspace Mar 20 @ 1:00 am – 2:00 am Tickets The BAPS General Meeting is where our core group of organizers come together. For those looking to get involved with the school, this is the best place to start. What happens at the General Meeting? Anyone can bring a proposal for new classes events organizational procedures lectures, talks, speakers workshops skill-shares Organizers vote on class proposals important financial expenditures use of space core values We meet each other make relevant announcements collaborate and coalesce new visions of the school distribute tasks and plan to take action learn how to build collectivity, a commons, … Continued	21 Banner Drop: Animals Against Extinction 12:00 pm Banner Drop: Animals Against Extinction @ Sea Breeze Cafe Mar 21 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Next Saturday the art activists of Animals Against Extinction will unfurl a striking banner at the pedestrian overpass at University Avenue at I-80, Berkeley. The banner will focus the attention of thousands of drivers on the ongoing threats that climate change poses to all living species. If you’d like to be a part of this action, please gather at noon Saturday, March 21 at Sea Breeze Cafe at the foot of University and Frontage Road, immediately west of I-80. This action will also serve as a dress rehearsal for actions … Continued
22 Open Circle 10:00 pm Open Circle @ Omni Commons Mar 22 @ 10:00 pm – Mar 23 @ 1:00 am Tickets 7th Open Circle ~Connect & Collaborate on Ending Police Brutality, Systemic Racism and Disenfranchisement of Black People & People of Color Let’s kick this meeting off with a potluck at 3:00 pm followed by the Open Circle at 3:45 pm. Please bring a dish or snacks to share! Open circle will begin with report backs and announcements of upcoming actions followed by reflection and dialogue around the current state and thoughts or approaches on how to effect change. We will end with breakout group topics and time to connect … Continued	23 Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Meeting 6:00 pm Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Meeting @ 5th floor Mar 23 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Get involved with the fight against solitary confinement. Become a human rights pen pal: Contact cws@igc.org58414 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 6:30 pm Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Mar 23 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons. The postal service wanted to sell the post office to Hudson-mcdonald, a local developer. The City of Berkeley sued the post office to stop the sale. Hudson-mcdonald backed out of the deal in early december. Get an overview of the sale announcement here. Here’s a good more general overview piece. There was a … Continued	24 Livable Wage Assembly 6:30 pm Livable Wage Assembly @ SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 2nd floor Mar 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 1433 Webster Street, 2nd Floor in downtown Oakland. These assembly meetings occur from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Our work together encompasses: (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent and care workers; (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve … Continued	25	26 Politics of Debt Reading Group. 2:30 am Politics of Debt Reading Group. @ Omni Commons (basement) Mar 26 @ 2:30 am – 4:30 am Tickets We’ll be discussing the Debt and Economic systems of the ancient world for this meeting, using an article written by Michael Hudson. Here’s the reading. Reconstructing The Origins of Interest-Bearing Debt… Last time we read through page 30, and this we’ll cover the rest of the chapter. The Politics of Debt Reading Group is associated with the Bay Area Public School and Strike Debt Bay Area.58283	27 Defend the Trees at People’s Park! Defend the Trees at People’s Park! @ People's Park Mar 27 all-day Tickets Everyone is encouraged to come to People’s Park Friday, March 27th, beginning at 6:00 AM throughout the entire day, as the scheduled tree cutting will last until 3. At 6AM Thursday morning, the Professional Tree Care Company arrived at People’s Park accompanied by the Berkeley Police Department. They surrounded the area with orange fencing and brought their wood chippers in. Over the course of the day, the work crew proceeded to begin chopping down three oak trees and a few other trees including a plum sapling. A UC landscape architect … Continued Defend Knowland Park! 4:00 pm Defend Knowland Park! @ Knowland Park Mar 27 @ 4:00 pm Tickets 58388 Rally Against Downtown Berkeley Association for Beating of Homeless Person 4:00 pm Rally Against Downtown Berkeley Association for Beating of Homeless Person Mar 27 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets A Downtown Berkeley Association (DBA) employee (now fired) attacked a homeless person some days ago. The DBA has essentially declared war on the homeless in downtown Berkeley, pushing the City Council to enact and enforce ordinances meant to criminalize the homeless. A call has gone out to protest the DBA as a result of the incident caught on video below (trigger warning): 58447	28 Black / Brown / All Lives Matter Protest: Rip David Bremer 6:00 pm Black / Brown / All Lives Matter Protest: Rip David Bremer @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 28 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Original IndyBay listing. police killing is a problem…. and we are starting to realize it. but we need to come out and show that realization, show our frustration…. I don’t know were we’re marching exactly, something like the millions march, I just hope people show up and we take it from there. theres too many names to list here of all the dead but here are a few. RIP DAVID BREMER RIP OSCAR GRANT RIP ERIC GARNER AND ERIC DORNER, RIP THE WHITE N TRANSGENDER KILLED RIP THE MENTALLY … Continued
29 Planning for Creating PEOPLES ACTIONS around US Conference of Mayors 2:00 pm Planning for Creating PEOPLES ACTIONS around US Conference of Mayors @ UNITE / HERE (Local 2) Mar 29 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets SF and Mayor Ed Lee will be hosting the 83rd U.S. Conference of Mayors, June 19th – June 22nd, in San Francisco. SF Action Council is focusing on creating events around their meeting. This is an opportunity to raise issues locally and nationally that are of concern to us, THE PEOPLE, that the mayors have resisted and refused to act upon – or acted against the interest of The People. For instance: “Black Lives Matter”, police militarization and excessive use of force, gentrification of our communities, homelessness, racism, immigration, privatization … Continued	30 Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Meeting 6:00 pm Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Meeting @ 5th floor Mar 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Get involved with the fight against solitary confinement. Become a human rights pen pal: Contact cws@igc.org58414	31 March for the Oakland Schools Students Deserve 3:00 pm March for the Oakland Schools Students Deserve @ San Antonio Park Mar 31 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets March to OUSD HQ at 1000 Broadway. Better Contracts for Students and Teachers. Keep Public Schools Public. Hard Caps for Special Eduction. Money for School Sites not Upper Administration. Counselors not Cops. 58392 Which Way For the ILWU – Militant Unionism or Business Unionism? 7:00 pm Which Way For the ILWU – Militant Unionism or Business Unionism? Mar 31 @ 7:00 pm Tickets Which way for the ILWU- Militant Unionism or Business Unionism? — Hear ILWU Longshore Activists Speak on the Recent Longshore Contract Negotiations — Open Discussion on the Tentative Agreement –Longshore Members & Caucus delegates invited (EVERYONE IS WELCOME!) WHEN: TUESDAY, MARCH 31 @ 7PM WHERE: 1187 Franklin St., SF (across the street from ILWU International Headquarters) The ILWU has a proud history of class struggle and the fight for democratic principles codified in the Ten Guiding Principles of the ILWU. Today ILWU officials flaunt these union … 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.

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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.