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October 2015

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				1	2	3 Strike Debt Bay Area – Fighting Back Against Unjust Debt 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area – Fighting Back Against Unjust Debt @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater Oct 3 @ 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
4	5	6 Nurses on the Picket Line 12:00 pm Nurses on the Picket Line @ Contra Costa Medical Center Oct 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Please join nurses in their demand that Contra Costa County Supervisors invest in the health and wellbeing of county residents. This is a matter of life and death. Every budget cycle in the last few years Contra Costa County Supervisors have attempted to divest from the Contra Costa County Health System. Last year 63,000 Contra Costa County residents visited the ER, and 100 nurses left the System, leaving short staffing. Nurses are scrambling to provide appropriate patient care. Please join the nurses on their picket line. Any time is fine, … Continued Optik Allusions Meeting and Workshop 7:00 pm Optik Allusions Meeting and Workshop @ Omni Commons Oct 6 @ 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	7	8	9	10 CANCELLED: PROTEST PARTY BY THE LAKE: It’s No Longer Possible to Have Fun in Oakland 2:00 pm CANCELLED: PROTEST PARTY BY THE LAKE: It’s No Longer Possible to Have Fun in Oakland @ Lake Merritt Amphitheatre, Btwn 12th St. & 1st Ave Oct 10 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets APPARENTLY CANCELLED BY THE PERSON WHO ORIGINALLY CALLED FOR IT AND MADE THE FACEBOOK EVENT. THIS EVENT WILL NOT BE GETTING A PERMIT! RSVP We have probably all seen the sign on Lakeshore advising us that barbecues, amplified music, beer, and fun in general are no longer allowed in the parks around the lake without a permit from the city. Now the City has decided that musical instruments are also not allowed without prior acquisition of a permit. What this means is that our public spaces are only truly accessible … Continued
11 Occupy Oakland 4th Anniversary Lunch and Party! 12:30 pm Occupy Oakland 4th Anniversary Lunch and Party! @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 11 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Sunday, October 11th, 12:30 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza. Come remember the raising of tents at Oscar Grant Plaza on October 10, 2011, the date Occupy Oakland manifested itself to the world. This is a pot-luck, no one turned away chance to visit old friends and make new ones. The Occupy Oakland General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for four years. Currently we meet at Oscar Grant Plaza at 4:00 PM on Sundays (or at the Omni, in rain or severe cold). We report back on meetings and … Continued	12 Gill Tract ReOccupation of Indigenous Land Gill Tract ReOccupation of Indigenous Land @ Gill Tract Oct 12 all-day Tickets All have been invited to sit in ceremony w Ohlone and indigenous leaders on the Gill Tract tomorrow (Monday) and ongoing @San Pablo & Monroe — Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) October 12, 2015 Indigenous Land Access Committee reclaiming Ohlone land on the Southside of the Gill Tract Farm Sunday evening! ILAC will be holding ceremonial space with native folks and non-native supporters throughout the week and as long as possible until UC Berkeley meets their demands. PLEASE COME DOWN AND SUPPORT! Update: The Indigenous Land Action Committee – a group … Continued LET’S GO OAKLAND! protest The New Lake Merritt rules And Columbus! 5:00 pm LET’S GO OAKLAND! protest The New Lake Merritt rules And Columbus! @ Lake Merritt, near I580 Oct 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets This is bullshit and we know it! Gentrification is trying to take your cultural space, from churches to your beautiful lake oakland. It’s time to be heard. Come and discuss these new park laws created to keep POC people in the margins of society, while supporting white supremacy. Everything you’ve ever done with your people IS under attack. We must draw the line. Let’s meet at the steps closest to the freeway by where the farmers market is on Saturdays. Please invite anyone who is willing and please share this … Continued Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 6:30 pm Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office steps Oct 12 @ 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 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oct 12 @ 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	13 Optik Allusions Meeting and Workshop 7:00 pm Optik Allusions Meeting and Workshop @ Omni Commons Oct 13 @ 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	14	15 CALL TO ACTION: EMERGENCY PROTEST FOR PALESTINE! 6:00 pm CALL TO ACTION: EMERGENCY PROTEST FOR PALESTINE! Oct 15 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets We, the General Union of Palestine Students, declare Palestine in a state of emergency and urge all of our community organizers and leaders to come forth as we rise with the uprisings, as we rise with Palestine in front of the Israeli Consulate. As you may have heard recently, the situation in Palestine has been deteriorating. Within the past few weeks, Zionist forces have shut down Al-Aqsa and Al-Aqsa compound, forbidding all Palestinian and Muslim worshippers from their homes of prayer and restricting their rights to practice their religion in … Continued	16	17 Down With Geese! Protest Party at Lake Merritt 2:00 pm Down With Geese! Protest Party at Lake Merritt @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater Oct 17 @ 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets We’ve all seen the hordes of Canadian geese around the lake. They are an invasive, non-native species that have taken up residence, are shitting all over everything, and are depriving local wildlife of resources. The City has installed a bird sanctuary on the west side of the Lake, but it is not sufficient to make up for the displacement of the indigenous bird population by the relative newcomers, the Canadian geese, especially since several Canadian geese have taken up residence in and around the housing previously designated for native species. … Continued
18 Picket KFC: Demand Labor Organizer Shonda Be UnFired 12:00 pm Picket KFC: Demand Labor Organizer Shonda Be UnFired @ Kentucky Fried Chicken Oct 18 @ 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Shonda, a member of the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly and otherwise cool labor organizer was fired Saturday from the KFC at 28th & Telegraph in Oakland. People shut down the KFC for many hours on Saturday with a picket and will continue the action today (Sunday). KFC 28th & Telegraph is now closed for today. WE’LL BE BACK tomorrow at noon – a normally big day for KFC purchases. SHUT IT DOWN! — Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) October 18, 2015 A statement from EBOC about Shonda and the action: Shonda Roberts, … Continued	19 15Now Berkeley Meeting 6:00 pm 15Now Berkeley Meeting @ Au Coquelet Oct 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Fight for a $15 minimum wage to come to Berkeley sooner, not later. Help plans for the City Council meeting on November 10th which will consider minimum wage proposals, and help with other projects.59732	20 Coalition for Police Accountability Meeting 6:00 pm Coalition for Police Accountability Meeting Oct 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join in our attempts to create an effective Citizens’ Police Review entity with real powers. We will have many important matters to discuss: please try to attend if you can. � Debrief Oct 11 event � Promote November fundraiser: we will need all hands on deck! � Report on NACOLE conference and expert feedback on our ballot measure � Develop work plan for remainder of 2015. � Report on outreach efforts thus far59618 Optik Allusions Meeting and Workshop 7:00 pm Optik Allusions Meeting and Workshop @ Omni Commons Oct 20 @ 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	21 Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting 5:30 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ Zing Cafe, right across from Ashby Bart Oct 21 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Note: We are meeting at Zing’s Cafe at 5:30 instead of at the Omni at 6:30 this time to allow members to go to the Berkeley Police Review Commission Meeting at 7:00 PM to advocate that Berkeley opt out of participating in Urban Shield police militarization exercises. —– Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against Stingrays being acquired by Alameda County agencies, for various privacy ordinances to be passed by the Oakland City Council, against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, and against other … Continued Anti Police-Terror Project Monthly Meeting 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project Monthly Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Oct 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month. The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community Ready Corps and Workers World 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.59553	22	23 VICTORY! PICKET CANCELLED!! Fight KFC to Unfire Labor Organizer Shonda! 3:00 pm VICTORY! PICKET CANCELLED!! Fight KFC to Unfire Labor Organizer Shonda! @ KFC Oct 23 @ 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets After relentless actions, petitioning and calls, Shonda’s regional manager (Sal) sat down with the union and Shonda to discuss the terms of her return to work! Sal said the KFC management team met and decided the best move would be to offer Shonda her job back, and is set to return on Sunday with back-pay… Community pickets! Shonda Roberts, a dedicated original member of EBOC (for over 2 years) and the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly was unjustly terminated Saturday afternoon. She has an impeccable track record in her former place … Continued	24 Strike Debt Bay Area – Fighting Back Against Unjust Debt 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area – Fighting Back Against Unjust Debt @ Omni Commons Oct 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 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 Fighting for amnesty for and reduced in cost police tickets for the impoverished, who effectively go into debt to pay these off. Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of … Continued
25	26	27 Protest: Oakland City Council to approve $127k for 121 OPD shotguns 9:30 am Protest: Oakland City Council to approve $127k for 121 OPD shotguns @ Oscar Grant Plaza / City Hall Oct 27 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am Tickets There is a good chance that the only reason this is even appearing on a committee meeting agenda is because the sum is more than $100,000 otherwise the citizens would not have known of this. One might wonder if this purchase came out of the recent Urban Shield vendor weapons display. The Oakland Police Dept will say the shotguns they already have are old and overused – which is a tired argument. Municipal police departments are not supposed to be firing weapons aside from on the firing range and these … Continued Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Oct 27 @ 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	28 Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ Omni Commons Oct 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against Stingrays being acquired by Alameda County agencies, for various privacy ordinances to be passed by the Oakland City Council, against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, and State Governments. We are also engaged in the fight against Urban Shield, and Predictive Policing. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network, and its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts further restrictions … Continued	29 Support Sandra, Fired from McDonald’s For Taking Sick Leave! 11:00 am Support Sandra, Fired from McDonald’s For Taking Sick Leave! @ Outside McDonald's in Temescal Oct 29 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Long-time McDonald’s shift lead and fast food union organizer Sandra Roman, who has worked at the McDonald’s at 4514 Telegraph Ave. in Oakland for over 2 years, was fired yesterday, Oct. 27th. In response, fast food workers, union organizers community supporters and clergy staged a 3 hour protest to demand that Ms. Roman be reinstated immediately. Despite heavy police presence, the demonstrators forced McDonald’s to close its doors for the rest of the night. EBOC will be holding an action tomorrow to keep the pressure on, we are winning and … Continued	30	31 Halloween Rally to Save People’s Park 12:00 pm Halloween Rally to Save People’s Park @ The Oak Grove at Memorial Stadium Oct 31 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Halloween at Noon – Come to the Cal Bears football game and help build public support for People’s Park as a California State Park. Help save People’s Park and stop the housing plan. Bring Signs! Bring your memories of People’s Park! Bring your aspirations for People’s Park! SAVE CALIFORNIA HISTORY! SAVE PEOPLE’S PARK! RALLY AGAINST THE STUDENT HOUSING PROJECT The UC Berkeley Department of Architecture and Chancellor Nick Dirks has announced their housing plan to replace People’s Park. The Dept of Architecture has been trying to build student support for … 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.