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October 2016

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2 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining Oct 2 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near 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 every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome. OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a … Continued Liberated Lens Collective 7:00 pm Liberated Lens Collective @ Omni Commons Oct 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Liberated Lens Collective is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images! We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at … Continued	3 Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Oct 3 @ 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. Note: At our November meeting we changed our meeting date from the first Tuesday of the month to the first Monday, starting December 5th61476	4	5	6 Taking on Money Bail in California 12:00 pm Taking on Money Bail in California @ ACLU NorCal Oct 6 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets The ACLU of CA has prioritized working on bail reform and we are currently setting meetings with folks across the state to work through some critical issues as we begin to pull together this campaign as well as a coalition of folks who are interested in working on it with us. As an organization doing critical work in the bay area, we very much need your input and would love to have you come to our first bay area meeting (You don’t have to agree to join the coalition to … Continued Alameda Jail Fight Coalition Meeting 5:00 pm Alameda Jail Fight Coalition Meeting @ 3rd Floor Oct 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Help fight the plan to build more jail space at Santa Rita!61781 Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission. 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission. @ Oakland City Hall Oct 6 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Oakland Advisory Privacy Commission meets monthly, addressing the surveillance technology OPD and the City of Oakland already possess and wish to possess. It’s first task is to develop a generalized Surveillance Equipment Regulation Ordinance governing how such equipment is to be assessed and procured. Scroll to the bottom here for agendas and video of previous meetings: 61546	7	8
9 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining Oct 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near 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 every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome. OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a … Continued Community Democracy Project 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Oct 9 @ 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 Liberated Lens Collective 7:00 pm Liberated Lens Collective @ Omni Commons Oct 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Liberated Lens Collective is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images! We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at … Continued	10 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oct 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	12 Community organizing meeting: Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! 5:00 pm Community organizing meeting: Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! @ Berkeley Public Library, North Branch Oct 12 @ 5:00 pm Tickets Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! . . Community Organizing Meeting Wednesday, October 12, 2016 5pm North Branch – Berkeley Public Library 1170 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA . . Anti-fascist activist and teacher Yvette Felarca continues to be prevented from returning to her classroom at Martin Luther King Jr Middle School after being placed on administrative leave.After she helped stop a neo-Nazi recruitment rally in Sacramento this summer, and was stabbed in the process, terror threats were made against Ms. Felarca and the school if she’s not fired, … Continued Let’s Re-ignite the Movement to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! 6:00 pm Let’s Re-ignite the Movement to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! @ Omni House Oct 12 @ 6:00 pm Tickets The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal has called for: An organizers meeting, 6 pm Wed. Oct.12th At: the Omni House 4799 Shattuck (between 47th & 48th Sts), Oakland . In the midst of on-going struggles which unite us all: opposition to rampant police killings of Black men; freedom for political prisoners including former Black Panthers, Oscar Lopez Rivera and Leonard Peltier; opposition to the death penalty, life without parole, solitary confinement; big pharma price-gouging; immigrant deportations; the Standing Rock resistance to the destruction of both … Continued Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons Oct 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the surveillance state, against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, including the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the BART Board of Directors, and by the Oakland and Berkeley City Councils. 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, ALPRs, requirements for “backdoors” to your cellphone and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, … Continued Intro to SURJ Bay Area Meeting 7:00 pm Intro to SURJ Bay Area Meeting @ Oakstop Oct 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Bay Area is a local chapter of a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. There are over 150 chapters and affiliates nationwide. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. Come learn about our current work and activities much of which focuses on police violence, displacement and dismantling white supremacy. You’ll also hear about what SURJ’s committees are currently working on: Basebuilding, … Continued	13 Alameda Jail Fight Meeting 5:00 pm Alameda Jail Fight Meeting @ CURB Oct 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Help stop new jail construction in Alameda County!61828	14	15 Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baguette Oct 15 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Backup location if Paris Baguette has no seating: Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, outside of City Hall. 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 projects! organizing … Continued
16 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining Oct 16 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near 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 every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome. OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a … Continued Community Democracy Project 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Oct 16 @ 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 Liberated Lens Collective 7:00 pm Liberated Lens Collective @ Omni Commons Oct 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Liberated Lens Collective is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images! We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at … Continued	17	18	19 Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ East Bay Arts Alliance Oct 19 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 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 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.61794	20 Alameda Jail Fight Meeting 5:00 pm Alameda Jail Fight Meeting @ CURB Oct 20 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Help stop new jail construction in Alameda County!61828 Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – Special Meeting on Stingray (Cell Tower Simulator Spying Device) Privacy Policy 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – Special Meeting on Stingray (Cell Tower Simulator Spying Device) Privacy Policy Oct 20 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Oakland Police Department’s future use of a cell-site simulator, known as Stingray, hinges on the policy’s approval by the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission and the Oakland City Council. The Stingray, and its upgraded version, the Hailstorm, poses as a cellular tower and tricks cell phones into giving up data like unique ID numbers and location. The police use it to locate a suspect or victim in an investigation, but critics have long voiced concerns about privacy and potential abuse of the powerful tool. The commission and OPD representatives will … Continued Omni Commons General Assembly 7:00 pm Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Ballroom Oct 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month 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/omninom61760	21	22 Making Solidarity With BLM Visible in East Bay Neighborhoods 3:00 pm Making Solidarity With BLM Visible in East Bay Neighborhoods Oct 22 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Are you outraged by recent attacks by police upon unarmed Black men and women in Baltimore, Tulsa, Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, and Charlotte, NC? Are you angry that as brutal as the attacks have been, almost no officers have been charged or held accountable for their actions? Join SURJ – Bay Area for an initial coordination meeting to discuss bringing our support for the Movement 4 Black Lives to neighborhoods across the East Bay. As non-Black allies, we witness these injustices and know that it is critical to make our empathy … Continued
23 Sunflower Alliance General Assembly 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance General Assembly @ Bobby Bowen Progressive Center Oct 23 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join us for an in-depth look at rent control measures on the ballot in Richmond and Oakland — two of the key Bay Area cities where rising costs are pushing working- and middle-class people out of their communities. Plus updates on our campaigns. We need your participation and your voice! 61850 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining Oct 23 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near 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 every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome. OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a … Continued Community Democracy Project 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Oct 23 @ 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 Liberated Lens Collective 7:00 pm Liberated Lens Collective @ Omni Commons Oct 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Liberated Lens Collective is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images! We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at … Continued	24	25 Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Oct 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 Defend Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca – Community Organizing Meeting 5:00 pm Defend Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca – Community Organizing Meeting @ North Branch - Berkeley Public Library Oct 26 @ 5:00 pm Tickets Defend Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca! Community Organizing Meeting Wednesday, October 26, 2016 5pm North Branch – Berkeley Public Library 1170 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA Protest and Speak-Out at School Board Meeting Wednesday, November 2, 2016 6:30pm Rally outside 2020 Bonar Street (at University), Berkeley California 7:30pm Speak out inside (fill out speakers cards before) 1231 Addison Street (around the corner from 2020 Bonar) Berkeley School Board Persecutes Teacher For Helping Stop Neo-Nazis: Stop the Witch Hunt Against Yvette Felarca and Interrogation of Her … Continued Ella Baker Center’s October Member Meeting 6:00 pm Ella Baker Center’s October Member Meeting @ CompassPoint Nonprofit Services Oct 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come to our monthly member meeting for a discussion of our 2016 voter guide, updates on our local campaigns, and opportunities for plugging in to our work! Organize with us to win jobs not jails, books not bars, and healthcare not handcuffs. Every member meeting is a little bit different, with topics and agendas that range from campaign planning, outreach, and political education. Since it’s election season, tonight we will be discussing state and local ballot initiatives. We’ll also give a campaign update for our fight against the expansion of … Continued	27 Alameda Jail Fight Meeting 5:00 pm Alameda Jail Fight Meeting @ CURB Oct 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Help stop new jail construction in Alameda County!61828 MEETING TO: FREE MUMIA ABU – JAMAL. 6:00 pm MEETING TO: FREE MUMIA ABU – JAMAL. @ Omni Commons Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets A meeting is being held to join Bay Area organizations with the national struggle in December to free Mumia: Many of us in the Bay Area have been fighting against the racist murders by police, and racist policies by those in Administrative Positions, (City Councils, School Boards, Boards of Supervisors, etc.) for a long time. Unfortunately many of our protests have been small and separate despite our common agreement on the issues. Those of us fighting back in the Bay Area include: -Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal … Continued	28	29
30 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining Oct 30 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near 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 every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome. OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a … Continued Community Democracy Project 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Oct 30 @ 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 Liberated Lens Collective 7:00 pm Liberated Lens Collective @ Omni Commons Oct 30 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Liberated Lens Collective is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images! We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at … Continued	31

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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.