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August 2015

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						1 Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater Aug 1 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt! Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! student debt resistance organizing for public banking. advocating for Postal banking. ongoing study group helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk our famous Strike Debt radio program staging Debtors’ Assemblies Reviewing our recent presentation on money and debt at the US Social Forum saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs and much more! … Continued
2	3	4 Coalition for Police Accountability 6:00 pm Coalition for Police Accountability Aug 4 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Agenda: · review the latest draft of our proposed ballot measure, · discuss proposals for how to ensure we get the best Commissioners · talk about the work that lies ahead: growing the Coalition, getting important endorsements, educating the public and meeting with our Council members. · We’ll also need to put on some community events and do some fundraising.59255 Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Aug 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality. In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and … Continued	5 Politics of Debt Reading Group: Greece, Debt and Austerity. 7:30 pm Politics of Debt Reading Group: Greece, Debt and Austerity. @ Omni Commons Aug 5 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets We discuss various monetary and debt-related topics. For our next meeting we will be discussing Greece, it’s debt, the recent referendum and its implications on the world monetary system, and Greece’s prospects. A continuation of our last meeting. See there for a list of background reading and please read the latest articles in the news about what is happening in Greece. The Politics of Debt Reading Group is affiliated with the Bay Area Public School and Strike Debt Bay Area.59228	6	7	8
9 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining Aug 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Tickets Normally OO holds its GA on the 2nd Sunday at 2 PM at the Omni to accommodate the Open Circle meeting there at 3:45 or so, but this week the Open Circle was rescheduled, so GA will be at it “normal” time and place, 4PM at OGP. -Special Ed ———————————————————————— The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway, often on the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just … Continued	10 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Aug 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	11 Coalition for Police Accountability 6:00 pm Coalition for Police Accountability Aug 11 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Location: Dorado’s Tax & Bookkeeping, corner of Davis St. Agenda: 1. Discuss most recent version of the ballot measure 2. Get updates from recent meetings with S.F. Commissioners, San Jose Police Auditor and City Council person Dan Kalb. 3. Review work plan for Sept – Dec 2015; break out into work groups59329 No Coal in Oakland: District 2 meeting. 6:00 pm No Coal in Oakland: District 2 meeting. @ Lakeshore Baptist Church Aug 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets No Coal in Oakland Help block the proposal to transport coal by rail through Oakland for export overseas. Join an educational and planning meeting for residents of District 2 (Abel J. Guillen’s district). This meeting is particularly relevant to residents of that area (see map) but this project could affect all East Bay residents, and all are welcome. You will learn what the Coal Free Oakland campaign has been doing and how you can help convince the City Council to ban coal in our city. A meeting for District 1 … Continued Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Aug 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage. The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. Our work together encompasses: (1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers, (2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and (3) Efforts by … Continued No Coal Oakland: District 3 meeting 7:00 pm No Coal Oakland: District 3 meeting @ St. Patrick's Church Aug 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Help block the proposal to transport coal by rail through Oakland for export overseas. Join an educational and planning meeting for residents of District 3 (including but not limited to West Oakland). This meeting is particularly relevant to residents of that area (see map) but this project could affect all East Bay residents, and all are welcome. You will learn what the Coal Free Oakland campaign has been doing and how you can help convince the City Council to ban coal in our city. 59312	12 Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting 7:30 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ Omni Commons (basement, check white board) Aug 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, and other invasions of privacy by our benighted City Government, to support privacy ordinances now being considered by the Oakland City Council emerging from the effort to fight the DAC, fight against Predictive Policing, Stingray and help in other fights to preserve and restore our privacy around the Bay Area, in California and nationwide. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network, and its members helped draft … Continued	13 Occupy the Farm Meeting 7:30 pm Occupy the Farm Meeting @ Omni Commons library Aug 13 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets No additional information available.59327	14	15
16 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining Aug 16 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway, often on the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. On second and fourth Sundays we meet at 2 PM at the Omni so we can also meet with the Open Circle folks at 3:45. There is a potluck at the Omni starting … Continued	17 No Coal in Oakland: District 1 meeting. 6:30 pm No Coal in Oakland: District 1 meeting. @ Sky Room, Piedmont Gardens Aug 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets No Coal in Oakland: District 1 meeting. Help block the proposal to transport coal by rail through Oakland for export overseas. Join an educational and planning meeting for residents of District 1 (Dan Kalb’s district). This meeting is particularly relevant to residents of that area (see map) but this project could affect all East Bay residents, and all are welcome. You will learn what the Coal Free Oakland campaign has been doing and how you can help convince the City Council to ban coal in our city. 59313	18 Stop Urban Shield Coalition Meeting 7:00 pm Stop Urban Shield Coalition Meeting @ 3rd Floor Aug 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets No other information.59367	19 Anti-Police-Terror Project Meeting 7:30 pm Anti-Police-Terror Project Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Aug 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Anti-Police Terrorism Project is a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee that in coalition with other organizations like the Alan Blueford Center for Justice, Workers World and Healthy Hoodz is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country. We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition. We meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month at Eastside Arts Alliance at 7:30 pm.59332	20 NorCal Climate Mobilization Planning Meeting 7:00 pm NorCal Climate Mobilization Planning Meeting @ Humanist Hall Aug 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Attend a planning meeting for the NorCal Mass Climate Mobilization, November 21st, the biggest Bay Area Climate demonstration of the year. The Mobilization is a lead-up event for the the Paris COP21 UN climate talks. By joining one of our planning committees you will have the opportunity to network with climate justice groups in our region. Learn more about the goals of the Mobilization at the event’s website. Rides back to BART available. Ask about when you arrive. Invite your friends to help with this. 59362 Occupy the Farm Meeting 7:30 pm Occupy the Farm Meeting @ Omni Commons library Aug 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets No additional information available.59327	21	22 No Coal in Oakland, District 4 meeting. 3:30 pm No Coal in Oakland, District 4 meeting. @ Oakland Public Library: Dimond Branch Aug 22 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Help block the proposal to transport coal by rail through Oakland for export overseas. Join an educational and planning meeting for residents of District 4, but all Oakland residents are welcome. This meeting is particularly relevant to residents of that area but this project could affect all East Bay residents, and all are welcome. You will learn what the Coal Free Oakland campaign has been doing and how you can help convince the City Council to ban coal in our city. 59363 Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting – Fighting Back Against Unjust Debt 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting – Fighting Back Against Unjust Debt @ Oscar Grant Plaza Amphitheater Aug 22 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt! Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! student debt resistance organizing for public banking. advocating for Postal banking. ongoing study group helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk our famous Strike Debt radio program staging Debtors’ Assemblies Restaging our recent presentation on money and debt at the US Social Forum Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts saving the Berkeley Post Office … Continued
23 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 2:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Omni Collective Aug 23 @ 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Tickets On the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month Occupy Oakland meets at the Omni Commons (4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland) basement at 2:00 PM sharp so folks can also attend the Open Circle at the Omni a little later at 3:45 PM. A potluck lunch normally precedes the Open Circle and postcedes GA at roughly 3 PM. On the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre at 14th Street & Broadway, often on the steps of City Hall. If … Continued	24 12th St Parcel: Community Engagement Meeting 5:30 pm 12th St Parcel: Community Engagement Meeting Aug 24 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets There meeting tomorrow night. #SaveE12th pic.twitter.com/bRlxUxMeFB— Bay Solidarity (@BaySolidarity) August 23, 2015 59407	25 Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Aug 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage. The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. Our work together encompasses: (1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers, (2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and (3) Efforts by … Continued	26	27 TELL CCSF TRUSTEES PUBLIC LAND SHOULD BE USED FOR PUBLIC GOOD 6:30 pm TELL CCSF TRUSTEES PUBLIC LAND SHOULD BE USED FOR PUBLIC GOOD @ Ocean Campus, MUB 14 Aug 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets . Board of Trustees Meeting The Agenda includes a discussion of audio-taping or videotaping the Board of Trustees’ meetings as well as an Affordable Housing Presentation by the Council of Community Housing Organizations. The Save City College Coalition is working with affordable housing advocates to fight for the principle that scarce and irreplaceable public land must go toward the public good, and truly affordable housing – not toward yet more luxury condos and profits for market rate developers! (See opinion editorial by Fernando Marti and Peter Cohen, Public land ideal … Continued BLM Cleveland Report Back 7:00 pm BLM Cleveland Report Back @ Oakstop, #202 Aug 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets 59419 Occupy the Farm Meeting 7:30 pm Occupy the Farm Meeting @ Omni Commons library Aug 27 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets No additional information available.59327	28	29 Organizing for people working to end solitary and for people to get involved. 10:00 am Organizing for people working to end solitary and for people to get involved. @ First Unitarian Church in Oakland, Wendte Room Aug 29 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Strategy/Organizing Training for people working to end solitary confinement and for people wanting to get involved. Free event, food included! Hosted by Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS)59397
30 Sunflower Alliance General Meeting 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance General Meeting @ Bobby Bowen Center Aug 30 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Public awareness of the need for aggressive climate action grows stronger as we approach of the COP21 Conference in Paris in December. Join us for reports and discussion of activities aimed at fossil fuel resistance and promoting climate justice in our region. At our next meeting, Steve Nadel will lead a discussion on the value of direct action in bringing about social and institutional change. Newcomers especially welcome. 59420	31 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 6:30 pm Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Aug 31 @ 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. Federal Judge William Alsup decided to dismiss the lawsuit in April because the Postal Service says it … Continued

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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.