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February 2016

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	1	2 Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Feb 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Oscar Grant Committee was born from the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant, mudered by BART police on Jan 1, 2009. We organize working class resistance in support of families whose loved ones were murdered by police. We meet on the first Tuesday of every month.60326	3 Super Bowl Protest: Tackle Homelessness 5:00 pm Super Bowl Protest: Tackle Homelessness @ Sindbad's Restaurant Feb 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Mayor Ed Lee told the homeless they “have to leave” for the Super Bowl. Our response: “Hey Mayor Ed Lee, No Penalties for Poverty” We, the people of San Francisco, demand that Super Bowl City and Ed Lee pay and invest $5 million right now in housing – we could house 500 people immediately with that money. We also demand the use of publicly-owned assets, such as the empty Pier 29 or 80, or the land under the Freeway at 101/Cesar Chavez, and create monitored programs that support secure sleep, … Continued 1-year Anniversary Vigil for Yuvette Henderson 7:00 pm 1-year Anniversary Vigil for Yuvette Henderson @ Home Depot Feb 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets On Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015 Oakland Resident and mother of two, Yuvette Henderson was killed by Emeryville Police Department in West Oakland. She was 38 years old when her life was stolen. Yuvette leaves behind a 15 year old son and an 11 year old daughter. Please join us as we memorialize Yuvette’s murder. We will first gather at Home Depot at 7pm for a short rally, then move to a silent, candlelit march to the corner across the street from where she was killed, where we will stop to … Continued	4 Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting 6:00 pm Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting Feb 4 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The demand for justice is happening and needs you!60411	5	6 March with the People! – Justice 4 Mario Woods! 11:00 am March with the People! – Justice 4 Mario Woods! Feb 6 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets 60449 Welcome to the Bay Area – Remix 12:30 pm Welcome to the Bay Area – Remix @ San Francisco International Airport Feb 6 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets WELCOME TO THE BAY!! If you missed our Welcome to the Bay Event during #96 hours – join us for the REMIX. As thousands stream into the Bay Area for the Superbowl, let’s welcome them to the Bay Area that is killing Black, Brown and poor people with impunity and pushing us out of our native cities. We are asking you to bring your energy and passion to SFO on a very busy travel day! It is crucial that we continue to raise the realities of Amerikkka – particularly on … Continued Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area. 4:00 pm Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area. @ Omni Commons Feb 6 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! student debt resistance organizing for public banking. advocating for Postal banking. fighting modern day debtors’ prisons … Continued
7	8 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Feb 8 @ 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	9	10 Stop (racist) displacement of 139 Fillmore Families 4:00 pm Stop (racist) displacement of 139 Fillmore Families @ Mercy Housing Feb 10 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Stop (racist) displacement of 139 Fillmore Families Action/Rally Wednesday, February 10th 4 – 5pm Come stand with us to protect SF’s remaining (3%) Black population and to bring the Black Community back to our city. #blackhomesmatter #savemidtown 60474 Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting Feb 10 @ 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 Oakland Privacy Working Group: Fighting Against the Surveillance State! 7:30 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group: Fighting Against the Surveillance State! @ Omni Commons (check whiteboard for room) Feb 10 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against Stingrays being acquired by law enforcement agencies, against Urban Shield, and for various privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, especially by Alameda County and the Oakland City Council. We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments. OPWG originally came together to fight against the Domain Awareness … Continued	11 Rally Against New Project by Lawbreaking Employer 4:30 pm Rally Against New Project by Lawbreaking Employer Feb 11 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Chinatown Community & Workers Hold Lunar New Year Rally Against New Project by Lawbreaking Employer Balaji Enterprises, owner/operator of the Holiday Inn Express Oakland Airport, violated the Oakland minimum wage ordinance, manipulated time-card records, and withheld evidence from City investigators, according to a new report from the City of Oakland. Meanwhile, the City is poised to give Balaji Enterprises a permit to build a new Hampton Inn on a valuable downtown Oakland parcel – with no public process or community input. On Thursday, Chinatown high school students and hotel … Continued Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting 6:00 pm Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting Feb 11 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The demand for justice is happening and needs you!60411	12	13
14 CANCELLED: Open Circle: Now Meeting Once a Month on the 4th Sunday. 3:00 pm CANCELLED: Open Circle: Now Meeting Once a Month on the 4th Sunday. @ Omni Commons Feb 14 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Now meeting once a month, on the fourth Sunday, instead of twice a month. 59204	15	16	17 Coalition for Police Accountability 6:00 pm Coalition for Police Accountability Feb 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets We will feature on the agenda our brothers and sisters from SEIU 1021 who have experience in signature collection campaigns for successful ballot measures. They will engage with us on lessons learned and we will discuss ways in which we might collaborate in our efforts to get our respective measures on the November ballot. 60370 Homes Not Jails 7:00 pm Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Homes Not Jails is a consensus-based collective of squatters and squat supporters who believe housing is a human right. Our goal is to open as much vacant housing as possible and to keep it open as long as possible. HNJ is a place to organize mutual aid among squatters and squat supporters and housing rights advocates in the bay. We actively fight to make our space inclusive and safe for everybody and combat oppression in all forms.60489 Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Feb 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 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.60508	18 No Coal in Oakland Meeting 5:00 pm No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Feb 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets We encourage all Oakland residents to attend the weekly No Coal in Oakland meeting. Up until its February 16th meeting, the position of a majority of Oakland City Council members on permitting coal shipment from the city’s port may have been in doubt. Even now the proposal remains on the table. But at that meeting, council members took concrete steps toward banning coal exports once and for all. Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Libby Schaff, local clergy, State Senator Loni Hancock, and community activists, the Council has signaled its … Continued Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting 6:00 pm Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting Feb 18 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The demand for justice is happening and needs you!60411	19	20
21	22	23 Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Feb 23 @ 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	24 Alex Nieto trial Organizing Committee (Save CCSF Coalition) 5:00 pm Alex Nieto trial Organizing Committee (Save CCSF Coalition) @ City College, MUB room 160 (on Phelan Ave.) Feb 24 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Meeting to plan for March 1 activities Alex Nieto and Amilcar Perez-Lopez were City College students when they were murdered by the SFPD, and Mario Woods went to Balboa High School: it could have been you! They are from the same communities being marginalized and evicted from San Francisco by gentrification, and from City College through downsizing and push-out policies. March 1st, WALK OUT, shout out for the opening of Alex’s trial 8AM:Ceremony at court, 450 Golden Gate Ave, SF 9AM: Assemble at City College Ocean Campus Ram Plaza, and … Continued Homes Not Jails 7:00 pm Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Feb 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Homes Not Jails is a consensus-based collective of squatters and squat supporters who believe housing is a human right. Our goal is to open as much vacant housing as possible and to keep it open as long as possible. HNJ is a place to organize mutual aid among squatters and squat supporters and housing rights advocates in the bay. We actively fight to make our space inclusive and safe for everybody and combat oppression in all forms.60489	25 No Coal in Oakland Meeting 5:00 pm No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Feb 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets We encourage all Oakland residents to attend the weekly No Coal in Oakland meeting. Up until its February 16th meeting, the position of a majority of Oakland City Council members on permitting coal shipment from the city’s port may have been in doubt. Even now the proposal remains on the table. But at that meeting, council members took concrete steps toward banning coal exports once and for all. Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Libby Schaff, local clergy, State Senator Loni Hancock, and community activists, the Council has signaled its … Continued Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting 6:00 pm Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting Feb 25 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The demand for justice is happening and needs you!60411	26 Defend Homeless from SFPD 5:00 am Defend Homeless from SFPD @ Under the Freeway Feb 26 @ 5:00 am – 11:45 pm Tickets Be there at 5AM tomorrow (Friday) morning to help defend homeless people and their belongings:https://t.co/cy7zZBKJvM— AntiDisplacementCoup (@AsterZephyrIsis) February 26, 2016 60555	27 Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area. 4:00 pm Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area. @ Omni Commons Feb 27 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! student debt resistance organizing for public banking. advocating for Postal banking. fighting modern day debtors’ prisons … 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.