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September 2015

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		1 SAVE CCSF COALITION GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING 5:30 pm SAVE CCSF COALITION GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING @ Ocean Campus, MUB 240 Sep 1 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets No agenda or other information provided. 59405 OptikAllusions weekly meeting and Video workshop 7:00 pm OptikAllusions weekly meeting and Video workshop @ Omni Commons Basement Sep 1 @ 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets OptikAllusions is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. Join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually, meet briefly and then work on projects. It’s open to all! 59422	2 BACE Timebank General Meeting 6:30 pm BACE Timebank General Meeting @ Omni Commons: Treatment Room Sep 2 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets BACE Timebank General Meeting Every 1st Wed of the Month @ the Omni. The Bay Area Community Exchange (BACE) Timebank promotes and facilitates the use of Time instead of money in the exchange of goods and services. The foundation of the Timebank is a free, open source online directory, reputation and accounting system. These exchanges help develop stronger, more resilient connections between individuals and community service organizations which participate in them, by improving communication and the distribution of skills and resources among our participants. We work to help people meet their … Continued Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ Omni Commons Sep 2 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 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, oppose Urban Shield, 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 … Continued	3	4	5
6 Protest Whole Foods Beating of Man by Security Guard 1:00 pm Protest Whole Foods Beating of Man by Security Guard @ Whole Foods Oakland Sep 6 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Interfaith prayer & rally TODAY @WholeFoods (27th & Harrison, Oakland) @1PM in response to Black man attacked by security guards on Friday— Nicole Deane (@sassmasterdeane) September 6, 2015 Help us let @WholeFoods know that we won't accept this in our neighborhood or in our city. Rally TODAY at 1 PM at the 27th & Harrison store— Nicole Deane (@sassmasterdeane) September 6, 2015 59484	7	8 PROTEST FOR ENVIRONMENTAL & CLIMATE JUSTICE! 12:00 pm PROTEST FOR ENVIRONMENTAL & CLIMATE JUSTICE! @ SF Federal Building Sep 8 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets TAKE ACTION Tell Congress and the White House: Keep the Ban on Crude Oil Exports & Stop Exports of All Fossil Fuels Protect Our Climate, Health and Environment! No More Fracking or Tar Sands Mining! No More Crude Oil Rail Shipments Through Our Communities! Stop the Utah – Oakland Coaal Export Scheme! Support Renewable Energy! Bring Signs! The Oil Industry is currently working with their friends in Congress in an effort to lift the decades-old ban on shipping crude oil abroad. In late July, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural … Continued	9 WHOLE FOOD ACTION COMMUNITY GROUP MEETING 7:00 pm WHOLE FOOD ACTION COMMUNITY GROUP MEETING @ Show Map First Congregational Church of Oakland (United Church of Christ) Sep 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets We need to come together and talk, work out where to go from here with these issues around the brutalization of the young black man at Whole Foods. Please join us and please bring your ideas so we can keep moving forward. (We will be meeting in the Atrium Area) Look for signs59494	10 PICKET WHOLE FOODS! STOP ANTI-BLACK VIOLENCE!! 5:00 pm PICKET WHOLE FOODS! STOP ANTI-BLACK VIOLENCE!! @ Whole Foods Oakland Sep 10 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets On Thursday Sept. 4th a Black man who was attempting to make a purchase with his EBT, was beaten and bloodied by armed security guards at the Lake Merritt Whole Foods. This man was left unconscious in a large pool of his own blood out front of the store, while employees called for more back-up rather than sending for paramedics. This inhumane beating adds to the national narrative around a crisis of anti-Black violence. Currently, every 28hrs a black person is murdered by police, vigilantes, or security guards.* This latest … Continued	11 Stop Urban Shield! 4:00 pm Stop Urban Shield! @ Alameda County Sheriff's Office Sep 11 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Protest Alameda County Sheriff Ahern’s militarized police exhibit and exercises Urban Shield is the largest SWAT training & war-weapons expo in the world. We will gather on September 11th, across communities, to end it & resist police militarization around the world! Join the Stop Urban Shield Coalition to say NO to policing, militarization and state violence! While Urban Shield is just one front in the fight against the state’s attempt to militarize every aspect of our lives – from its war-making here and abroad, to the increasing presence of … Continued CANCELLED: Urban Shield Protest in Pleasanton. 6:00 pm CANCELLED: Urban Shield Protest in Pleasanton. @ Doubletree Hotel Sep 11 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets There is an event in Oakland.59333	12 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 Sep 12 @ 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
13	14 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Sep 14 @ 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	15	16 Anti-Police-Terror Project Meeting 7:30 pm Anti-Police-Terror Project Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Sep 16 @ 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. Subcommittees / action teams include First Response, Media, Santa Rita Jail, Yvette Henderson/Emeryville and more. We meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month at Eastside Arts Alliance at 7:30 pm.59390	17 Omni Commons General Assembly 7:00 pm Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Basement Hall Sep 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Omni General Assembly omni working group meeting Come by our open Delegates Meetings every Thursday evening at 7pm! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom59539	18 Slingshot at the Long Haul All-Night Meeting 8:00 pm Slingshot at the Long Haul All-Night Meeting @ Long Haul Sep 18 @ 8:00 pm – Sep 19 @ 6:00 am Tickets Come to the Long Haul this Friday for the Slingshot all night meeting and help us make the new issue! 8pm-midnight. Comrades and cookies.— Slingshot collective (@Slingshotnews) September 14, 2015 59537	19
20	21	22 Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Sep 22 @ 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	23 Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ Omni Commons Sep 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 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, oppose Urban Shield, 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 … Continued	24 Bay Area Public School General Meeting 6:00 pm Bay Area Public School General Meeting @ Omni Commons, Blue Classroom Sep 24 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The BAPS General Meeting is where our core group of organizers come together to deal mostly with administrative issues, planning, fundraising, organizing the school, etc. We could use your help. Attending these meetings is how you become a member of the collective. For those looking to get involved with the school, this is a good place to start. What happens at the General Meeting? relevant announcements collaborate and coalesce new visions of the school distribute tasks and plan to take action learn how to build collectivity, a commons59538	25	26 Flood Wall Street West Non-Violent Direct Action Prep 1:00 pm Flood Wall Street West Non-Violent Direct Action Prep @ Greenpeace Warehouse Sep 26 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The Flood Wall St. West Welcoming Committee will be hosting two non-violent direct action preps on Sept. 26 & 27 (both 1pm-4pm). These preps will take participants through the philosophy and tools used in non-violent direct action. These preps will include discussions on the concept of affinity groups, give participants an opportunity to form one or more, a legal briefing and an overall plan for Sept. 28th. These preps will be an important place to get plugged into for Flood Wall St. West. WHAT’S FLOOD WALL STREET WEST? One year … Continued
27 Flood Wall Street West Non-Violent Direct Action Prep 1:00 pm Flood Wall Street West Non-Violent Direct Action Prep @ Greenpeace Warehouse Sep 27 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The Flood Wall St. West Welcoming Committee will be hosting two non-violent direct action preps on Sept. 26 & 27 (both 1pm-4pm). These preps will take participants through the philosophy and tools used in non-violent direct action. These preps will include discussions on the concept of affinity groups, give participants an opportunity to form one or more, a legal briefing and an overall plan for Sept. 28th. These preps will be an important place to get plugged into for Flood Wall St. West. WHAT’S FLOOD WALL STREET WEST? One year … Continued Community Democracy Project 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons, Basement Hall Sep 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Community Democracy Project is your connection to direct democracy in Oakland! Convened out of Occupy Oakland in Fall 2011, we’re gathering steam on a campaign to bring the people back in touch with the city’s resources through participatory budgeting. Picture this: Across Oakland, Neighborhood Assemblies are regularly held in every community. People come together to tackle the important issues of their neighborhoods and of the city. At these assemblies, people don’t just have discussions–they learn from one another, from city staff, and they make fundamental decisions about how the city … Continued	28 Flood Wall Street West– Mass March & Action to Shut Down Climate Profiteers 8:00 am Flood Wall Street West– Mass March & Action to Shut Down Climate Profiteers @ Chelsea Manning Plaza Sep 28 @ 8:00 am – 10:00 am Tickets Flood the institutions that are profiting from the climate crisis. Wear Blue. More Info: FloodWallStWest.org #FloodTheSystem One year ago, thousands of us flooded Wall Street in New York, taking mass direct action in the heart of a global financial system that’s fueling the climate crisis. Now, a year later, people across the continent are preparing and organizing for #FloodTheSystem, a continental uprising against the economic and political systems threatening our survival. To kick off #FloodTheSystem, we’re going to Flood Wall Street West: San Francisco’s financial district. Flood Wall Street West will … Continued Picketing SF Hotels with Unite Here, Mayoral Candidate 12:00 pm Picketing SF Hotels with Unite Here, Mayoral Candidate @ Le Méridien Sep 28 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets The Le Méridien and Hyatt on Fisherman’s Wharf are not respecting the right of workers to choose a union. UNITE HERE Local 2 has called for actions on those days. Join the Francisco for Mayor Campaign on the picket line on Monday, Sept. 28, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. and from 4 – 6 p.m. at Le Méridien, 333 Battery Street, between Clay and Sacramento. If you are willing to engage in a civil disobedience action, call 415-863-1225 or email sflivingwage@riseup.net59580 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 6:30 pm Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Steps Sep 28 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office, other Post Offices in the area, 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 … Continued	29 Press Conference: Berkeley PD Stop Data Reveals Stark Racial Disparities 11:00 am Press Conference: Berkeley PD Stop Data Reveals Stark Racial Disparities @ City Hall Steps and Cypress Room, 1st Floor Sep 29 @ 11:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Sponsored by: Berkeley NAACP; UCB Black Student Union; Berkeley Copwatch: ACLU Berkeley/ NorthEastBay Chapter: National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Newly released data on police stops confirms local activists’ and communities’ of color charges of racial profiling in Berkeley. Data collected by the Berkeley Police Department reveals a pattern of discriminatory conduct against African American and Latino civilians. Stops: Though Black people constitute less than 8% of Berkeley’s population, they were 30.5% of those stopped by police; whites, comprising 60% of Berkeley, were 36.7% of those stopped. Disposition: … Continued Drum Circle Protest Outside City Hall 5:30 pm Drum Circle Protest Outside City Hall @ Oscar Grant Plaza, City Hall steps Sep 29 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets A drum circle protest is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. tonight outside Oakland City Hall. See background information here in this East Bay Express article by San Levin.59594 Optik Allusions Meeting and Workshop 7:00 pm Optik Allusions Meeting and Workshop @ Omni Commons Sep 29 @ 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets OptikAllusions is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. Join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually, meet briefly and then work on projects. It’s open to all! https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Optik_Allusions 59574	30

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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.