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						1 Revolutionary University 1:00 pm Revolutionary University @ Niebyl Proctor Library Oct 1 @ 1:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Tools for Changing Society Join us for two days of presentations and discussions on current world problems and possible solutions Sat. 10/1 1:00-3:00 pm Revisiting Black Marxism in the Wake of Black Lives Matter Robin D. G. Kelley, is Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, and current Chair of the Department of African American Studies and a prolific author and editor My talk reflects on the life and work of Cedric J. Robinson, who just passed this year, … Continued On Her Own Film Viewing and Discussion with Morgan Schmidt-Feng and Nancy Prebilich 3:00 pm On Her Own Film Viewing and Discussion with Morgan Schmidt-Feng and Nancy Prebilich @ University of the Pacific Center Oct 1 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets On Her Own tells the story of Nancy Prebilich and her family as they struggle to save their 5th-generation farm during the Great Recession. When both of Nancy’s parents suddenly pass away, Nancy, her sister, niece, and nephews fight to stay afloat in the face of loss and financial instability. On Her Own represents what is happening all across the U.S. as houses are foreclosed, families are forced to move for purely economic reasons, and small farms face ruthless competition from larger factory farms and land developers. Chronicling Nancy’s personal journey … Continued A Night to Urge Justice 4 Kayla Moore (featuring Cat Brook’s Tasha) 7:30 pm A Night to Urge Justice 4 Kayla Moore (featuring Cat Brook’s Tasha) @ Ashkenaz Oct 1 @ 7:30 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets Support the Moore family as they go to court to hold Berkeley police accountable for Kayla’s death. The event will feature a dramatic play performance, a vigil for Kayla and for all Black, Brown and Poor women killed by state-sanctioned violence, and will be followed by a transformational celebration of Black life and resilience. – 8 p.m. (doors at 7:30 p.m.) ~ Tasha Tasha is Cat Brooks’ one-woman play based on the 2015 murder of Natasha McKenna by Virginia police. -9:30 p.m. ~ A vigil for Kayla and all Black, … Continued Colorstruck! 8:00 pm Colorstruck! @ Laney College Theater, Laney College Oct 1 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets COLORSTRUCK! Written and performed by Donald E. Lacy Jr., BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND…. COLORSTRUCK! Written and performed by Donald E. Lacy Jr. In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party. 61645
2 Revolutionary University, Day 2 10:30 am Revolutionary University, Day 2 @ Niebyl Proctor Library Oct 2 @ 10:30 am – 8:30 pm Tickets Day One (Saturday, 10/1) Here Sun. 10/2 10:30am -12:30 pm How Capitalism Shreds Our Personal Lives Harriet Fraad, Harriet Fraad is a licensed mental health counselor and hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She has been an activist in the feminist movement and the journal Rethinking Marxism. For 40 years, she has been a radical committed to transforming US personal and political life. 1:30-3:30 pm Crisis: It’s How Capitalism Works Richard Wolff, Marxist professor of economics, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to … Continued U.S. Hands Off Haiti! – Public Meeting. 3:00 pm U.S. Hands Off Haiti! – Public Meeting. @ Eastside Arts Alliance Oct 2 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Join Haiti Action Committee to commemorate the 25th anniversary of a coup that continues to inform the present struggle of the Haitian people for democracy and justice. SEPTEMBER 30th – 4:30 PM DEMONSTRATION meets at 14th & Broadway in Oakland OCTOBER 2nd – 3PM EVENT at Eastside Arts, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland Why is it important to remember September 30, 1991? It is a battle of memory against forgetfulness, because we think that we cannot build the democracy we want for this country if we continue to erase what happened. … Continued 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 Protest Lack of Housing and Criminalization of the Homeless Protest Lack of Housing and Criminalization of the Homeless Oct 3 all-day Tickets Check here for location on Monday.61740 Occupy Forum: THE NEW COMMUNISM 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: THE NEW COMMUNISM @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Oct 3 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets T H E N E W C O M M U N I S M The science, the strategy, the leadership for an actual revolution, and a radically new society on the road to real emancipation Discussion with Bruce Neuberger Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! What is this NEW Communism? What is new about it? Does communism provide an answer to the deep questions that people have about this society … Continued Class: Structures of Radicalization 7:00 pm Class: Structures of Radicalization @ Omni Commons Oct 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets An invitation to a class on the Structures of Racialization At the Bay Area Public School A free university in the Omni Commons When the English first got to Virginia, in the early 1600s, they didn’t see themselves as “white.” It took a century for their colonialism to produce the concepts of race and white supremacy. We’ve been fighting racism, white privilege, white supremacy, and institutional racism since then. And still, a Trump can come along with his “dogwhistle” politics, and get an instant white following at varying degrees of … Continued 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 Court Support for Omar Shakir 9:00 am Court Support for Omar Shakir @ Rene C. Davidson Courthouse, Dept. 7 Oct 4 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Omar Shakir is a brother who was arrested during a pre-dawn paramilitary OPD raid for an assault on a police officer that the cops KNOW Mr. Shakir did not commit. People are encourage to attend to show support and encourage the prosecutor to drop the charges. Read more about this travesty.61659 CALL TO ACTION – Support Low-Wage State Workers 12:00 pm CALL TO ACTION – Support Low-Wage State Workers @ State Building Oct 4 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets SEIU Local 1000 employees are holding informational pickets in San Francisco and Oakland. We are looking for physical support and solidarity from our local labor and community groups at both of these events as we strive to uphold union labor in public service. We are State employees represented by SEIU Local 1000, standing along with our brothers and sisters of IUOE Local 3, State division, who have turned down insulting offers from Cal HR on behalf of Governor Brown that disrespects and devalues the important work that we do for our great … Continued Demand Accountability for OPD Shootings – Justice 4 Demouria Hogg 6:00 pm Demand Accountability for OPD Shootings – Justice 4 Demouria Hogg @ City Hall, 3rd floor Oct 4 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets City Council is set to give final approval to a $1.2M settlement with the family of Demouria Hogg, a 30-year-old father of three shot to death last year by Oakland police, the first in a new spate of questionable OPD homicides. The victim was unconscious in a car on a freeway offramp. He could not be roused by sirens, loudly amplified commands, the firing of beanbag rounds, or even the breaking of windows in his car. A pistol was on the passenger seat, but police could have finished clearing out … Continued	5 Oakland Green Jobs Summit 10:00 am Oakland Green Jobs Summit Oct 5 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets East Bay community leaders are organizing a dynamic one day summit to build a shared vision and strategy for an inclusive green economy in Oakland and the wider East Bay. Participants will hear from green businesses based in Oakland and East Bay, local officials, investors, faith leaders and more, and share input on how to bring more jobs and opportunity to our communities as we fight climate change. From clean tech to urban farming, green transportation to forestry, let’s build a local economy that works for everyone and protects the … Continued BERKELEY CLIMATE ACTION SOLAR FOR ALL CONVENING 5:00 pm BERKELEY CLIMATE ACTION SOLAR FOR ALL CONVENING @ South Berkeley Library Oct 5 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The time is right for rooftop solar! At our Solar for All Convening learn about opportunities for renters and time-limited discounts for homeowners through the Bay Area SunShares bulk purchasing program. Hear about financing options and tax credits from local solar advocate Doug McKenzie of SunWork Renewable Energy Project, and GRID Alternatives’ low-to-no-cost solar for qualified low-income homeowners. Solar vendors and zero-emission vehicle dealers participating in SunShares will be on hand to discuss their products and answer questions. Light refreshments served. Co-presented by the Berkeley Climate Action Coalition and the City … Continued No Selves to Defend: Bay Area #FreeBresha Day of Action 6:00 pm No Selves to Defend: Bay Area #FreeBresha Day of Action @ Asian Americans Advancing Justice Oct 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Bresha Meadows of Ohio was just 14 years old when she was incarcerated and charged with aggravated murder for defending herself and family against the unrelenting terror and abuse of her father. On October 6, Bresha has an important court hearing in which the prosecutor will determine if she will be prosecuted for a crime (possibly charged as an adult) instead of given the support & safety that she needs. We take action in solidarity with Bresha and demand that she is returned home to her family and that all … Continued Protest in Defense of Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca @ Berkeley School Board 6:30 pm Protest in Defense of Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca @ Berkeley School Board @ Berkeley Unified School District Oct 5 @ 6:30 pm Tickets (UPDATE: Note earlier time at more publicly visible place for the rally)Protest and Speak Out in Defense of Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca at the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Directors Meeting Wednesday, October 5, 2016 6:30pm Rally outside (march to school board meeting 7pm) 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) Contact the Berkeley school board and demand that the suspension of Yvette Felarca and harassment of her students be put … Continued Stop the Political Witch-Hunt Against Berkeley Teacher Yvette Felarca 6:30 pm Stop the Political Witch-Hunt Against Berkeley Teacher Yvette Felarca @ Berkeley School Board Oct 5 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Stop the Political Witch-Hunt Against Ms. Yvette Felarca Protest and Speak Out at the Berkeley School Board Meeting 7pm Rally outside 7:30 pm Speak Out inside Community members, parents, teachers and students plan to rally and speak at the the Berkeley School Board Meeting to defend Yvette Felarca, an anti-fascist middle school teacher in Berkeley under attack by the school district. After Ms. Felarca helped prevent the neo-Nazi/KKK rally on the steps of the capitol in Sacramento last June where she and 8 other anti-fascists were stabbed by the … Continued Sudo Room Weekly Party 7:00 pm Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Oct 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our weekly PARTY to get this hackerspace together, to provide a venue for those things that otherwise cannot be worked out through day-to-day practice. Potluck! – bring your own tasty dish! Sudo room, located in the southwast corner of the ground floor, is a creative community and hackerspace. We offer tools and project space for a wide range of activities: electronics, sewing/crafting, 3D and 2D manufacturing, coding, and good old-fashioned co-learning! Hours: The space is open whenever a member is present. Come visit! Best times to drop in are evenings between … Continued	6 EBOC: Fight 4 Fifteen – Press Conference at McDonald’s re Sexual Harassment at Work 11:30 am EBOC: Fight 4 Fifteen – Press Conference at McDonald’s re Sexual Harassment at Work @ McDonald's Oct 6 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets For over 4 years, we have been fighting to hold McDonalds accountable for driving wages and working standards down. They pay poverty wages, often are perpetrators of wage theft and turn a blind eye to the needs of their workers. Sexual harassment is widespread at fast-food companies like McDonald’s, which, too often, turn a blind eye to their workers’ complaints. Forty-percent of women working in the fast-food industry have been sexually harassed on the job – that’s 60% higher than other industries on average. Women who speak out about the … Continued 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 Listening Session With Wendy Still, Alameda County’s New Chief Probation Officer 6:00 pm Listening Session With Wendy Still, Alameda County’s New Chief Probation Officer @ Imani Church Oct 6 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets 61730 Carbon Pricing: Climate Game Changer 6:30 pm Carbon Pricing: Climate Game Changer @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Oct 6 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us for an evening with Citizens’ Climate Lobby members, Amy Gorman and Harry Chomsky for a presentation and discussion on CCLs’ legislative proposal for a comprehensive and effective solution to the climate crisis. Learn about tools on how to pass climate change legislation. CCL is a national organization that is committed to creating the political will for a sustainable planet. The presentation will include a specific nonpartisan proposal for pricing carbon emissions. CCL has an active chapter in Alameda County and will be talking about progress made locally toward … Continued	7 Press conference on the 6 Month Anniversary of Luis Gongora’s Murder by SFPD 10:00 am Press conference on the 6 Month Anniversary of Luis Gongora’s Murder by SFPD @ The Luis Góngora Pat Community Altar Oct 7 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets Press conference on the 6 Month Anniversary of Luis’s Murder by SFPD WHAT: Family of Luis Demetrio Góngora Pat —a Mayan indigenous father, husband,brother, son, uncle—, refute the biased autopsy report released by the San Francisco Medical Examiner on the six month anniversary of his murder by SFPD officers. They also plan a march to celebrate his life. WHERE: The Luis Góngora Pat Community Altar on Shotwell Street (east side), near 19th Street in the Mission District IMPORTANT NOTE: Afterwards, we will join the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition @ … Continued State of Emergency – Call To Action! Charge the Officers with Murder! 12:00 pm State of Emergency – Call To Action! Charge the Officers with Murder! @ DA's Office Oct 7 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets 61733 First Friday 5:00 pm First Friday @ Telegraph Ave, Grand to 27th Oct 7 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets ArtCar Fest celebrates their 20th year exhibiting around the San Francisco Bay Area! They will be displaying their elaborately decorated vehicles on 23rd between Valley and Telegraph. You can view the entertainment line-up for Friday here. And check out what artisan and food vendors we’ll be featuring here. As always, the First Friday street festival is free, but we appreciate your help to keep our community-art event affordable for vendors and accessible to our community. Please donate to Oakland First Fridays today to help us thrive and don’t forget to … Continued Arab Film Festival 2016 Opening Night \| US Premiere of CLASH 7:30 pm Arab Film Festival 2016 Opening Night \| US Premiere of CLASH @ Castro Theater Oct 7 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets This year, the Arab Film Festival is going bigger and bolder than ever: we are honored to host the US premiere of Clash, the Egyptian entry to the 2017 Oscars. Tickets are on sale, and bound to sell out, so snatch yours right away. And we will be making a special announcement on Opening Night, you won’t want to miss it! Described as “bravura filmmaking with a kick-in-the-gut message” by the Hollywood Reporter, Clash was widely praised after opening Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival just a few … Continued	8 Affordable Housing, Just What Does it Mean? 10:00 am Affordable Housing, Just What Does it Mean? Oct 8 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Renewed Hope Housing is putting on a forum on affordable housing. October 8, 10 to noon, at the United Methodist Church. 2311 Buena Vista. They have lined two speakers who have real knowlege of the problem and the power to do something about it- Victoria Johnson, Director for Housing and Community Development, and Debbie Potter, Community Development Director for the City of Alameda. The Alameda Renters’ Coalition will be there too!61724 Life is Living Festival 10:00 am Life is Living Festival @ Lil Bobby Hutton, Defemery Park Oct 8 @ 10:00 am – 7:00 pm Tickets THE 9TH ANNUAL LIFE IS LIVING FESTIVAL LEGACY: A TRIBUTE TO THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY The Coup will rock the Life Is Living festival. October 8th. Oakland. Defremery Park. It’s free. pic.twitter.com/96n5eOZpa6 — Boots Riley (@BootsRiley) September 16, 2016 This year marks the 9th Annual Life Is Living Festival in Oakland. Over the past 10 years, we have transformed deFremery Park (Little Bobby Hutton Park) from vacant to vibrant. We are indebted to the local West Oakland heroes and sheroes of The Black Panther Party for inspiring us to use … Continued Payday Loans, Panama Papers and Poverty 10:00 am Payday Loans, Panama Papers and Poverty @ Saint Columbo Catholic Church Oct 8 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Payday Loans, Panama Papers and Poverty Why the fight to end extreme poverty is global, local and winnable Keynote Speaker: Andrew Hanauer, Campaigns Director at Jubilee USA in Washington, D.C. We can heal our broken economy and build strong, safe and prosperous communities. Learn how predatory financial behavior from the East Bay to East Africa harms people and communities and what we can do about it. Workshops will discuss predatory payday loans, anonymous shell companies, and how East Bay organizations, congregations and individuals can help stop the damage they … Continued Black Panther Panel Retrospective & BBQ Lunch 11:00 am Black Panther Panel Retrospective & BBQ Lunch @ Oakland Museum Oct 8 @ 11:00 am – 2:30 pm Tickets Panelists: Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Steven Pits, Austin Long-Scott RSVP – seats are limited. Call 877-687-1021. Sponsored by SEIU 1021’s SEJ and Afram Solidarity Committees.61776 Beyond Occupy – Five Years Hence. 6:00 pm Beyond Occupy – Five Years Hence. @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 8 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Beyond Occupy! An art show with music and speakers, celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Occupy Movement, highlighting its achievements and the work that has continued since the heady days of October and November, 2011. GA. Kitchen. Info. Medics. Library. Garden. Media. Labor Solidarity. Anti-Repression. Occupy Forum. Foreclosure Defense. Occupy the Farm. Strike Debt. Anti-Surveillance. Berkeley Post Office Defense. And more! A bit of history: The Port Shutdown Video featuring Boots Riley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Ia-oQnZOo 61562
9 Dubh Nation Steps Up for Down Syndrome 10:00 am Dubh Nation Steps Up for Down Syndrome Oct 9 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets We are fundraising for an incredible local resource, the Down Syndrome Connection of the Bay Area. The Step Up for Down Syndrome walk is a 1/8th mile lap around a flat track in a wheelchair accessible location. Folks can donate online or collect pledges in real life and bring them to the event. Please donate, share the link, join the team as a virtual Walker, solicit donations offline, and/or come to the event as a refistered participant on October 9th, and generally support this fundraiser! https://www.firstgiving.com/team/33224361510 Help make A Community Quilt in Honor of Luis Góngora Pat! 11:00 am Help make A Community Quilt in Honor of Luis Góngora Pat! @ Alley Cat Bookstore Oct 9 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets WHAT: A community quilt making event in honor of Luis Góngora Pat. The family of Luis in San Francisco and our coalition in collaboration with our community allies at Praxis, Paseo Artístico and Alley Cat Bookstore invite you to help make a quilt in honor of Luis. The finished quilt will be taken to his hometown of Teabo, Yucatán and delivered on November 2nd Day of the Dead to his wife, parents, and children. This is a family friendly and community event! HOW: Just show up and if you want … Continued BBQ Benefit for Merced Hunger Strikers 1:00 pm BBQ Benefit for Merced Hunger Strikers @ Mosswood Park Oct 9 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets On Sunday, October 9th, join us at Mosswood Park near the ampitheater for a benefit BBQ and open discussion and update on the unfolding prison strike and how to support prison rebels in California. Organizers will discuss the September 9th strike, what has happened in the US and across the country, and talk about the situation in Merced county jails which joined the prison strike on the 9th giving a list of demands to the guards who proceeded to put the facilities on lock down. In response, the inmates went … Continued 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 Film Showing: Do Not Resist 5:45 pm Film Showing: Do Not Resist @ Rafael Film Center Oct 9 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Tickets Many have been alarmed by the recent spectacle of law enforcement in full riot gear and armored vehicles moving through peaceful demonstrations. At first glance, it’s easy to suspect our police forces are preparing for war or terrorism instead of protecting and serving citizens exercising their civil rights. In Craig Atkinson’s disquieting documentary, such suspicions are reinforced as we learn that since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has given police departments $34 billion in grants to purchase equipment, while the Department of Defense has contributed additional billions in free … 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 Film Screening: #OO (Occupy Oakland) 7:00 pm Film Screening: #OO (Occupy Oakland) @ Omni Commons Oct 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A message from Kevin Pina: Many of you are aware of my work in Haiti and the documentaries I produced about the struggle for justice by the Haitian people. While reviewing footage from the spectacle of violence created by the Oakland Police Department against Occupy Oakland protesters, I was often reminded of experiences in Haiti where I saw US Marines, and later UN military forces, draw their guns on those protesting against the 2004 coup. Many times a brutal Haitian police blatantly gunned people down in broad daylight in their … 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 Occupy Forum: Making a Killing – Guns, Greed and the NRA 6:30 pm Occupy Forum: Making a Killing – Guns, Greed and the NRA @ Global Exchange, 2nd Foor Oct 10 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum presents… Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA The Impact of Guns on America Since 2004, when he made Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, Robert Greenwald has become a vital and dogged investigator whose no-nonsense approach with its accent on digging up the profit motive is reflected in his titles: Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, Koch Brothers Exposed, and the eye-opening … Continued Class: Structures of Radicalization 7:00 pm Class: Structures of Radicalization @ Omni Commons Oct 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets An invitation to a class on the Structures of Racialization At the Bay Area Public School A free university in the Omni Commons When the English first got to Virginia, in the early 1600s, they didn’t see themselves as “white.” It took a century for their colonialism to produce the concepts of race and white supremacy. We’ve been fighting racism, white privilege, white supremacy, and institutional racism since then. And still, a Trump can come along with his “dogwhistle” politics, and get an instant white following at varying degrees of … Continued 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 March & Rally – Reentry Hiring Program Implementation 9:00 am March & Rally – Reentry Hiring Program Implementation @ Oakland Public Library Oct 11 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Join us at the Oakland Public Library to march over to the Board of Supervisor’s chambers to support the implementation of the reentry hiring program which allots 1400 quality, fulltime county jobs for formerly incarcerated people in Alameda County.61790 Stop Urban Shield! 9:30 am Stop Urban Shield! @ Board of Supervisors Chamber, 5th Floor Oct 11 @ 9:30 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Join us for Press Conference and to pack the Board Meeting 10am-11am Press Conference 11am-4pm Pack the Board Meeting We want to show our power and presence at the beginning of the meeting and encourage people to show up at any point and to stay as long as they can. Coalition members will be there until the very end with signage and ready to speak about the Coalition’s report on the impact and the alternatives to Urban Shield Urban Shield: Abandoning Hope not Building Hope . The S.F. Bay Area Stop Urban Shield Coalition … Continued #Justice4DialloNeal: Calling out the CHP for Hit and Run Murder! 4:00 pm #Justice4DialloNeal: Calling out the CHP for Hit and Run Murder! @ CHP Oct 11 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets WANTED FOR HIT AND RUN! On October 10, 2005 in Oakland, Diallo Neal was murdered when a CHP motorcycle officer struck the rear end of Diallo’s motorcycle, launching Diallo into a bus stop, pole, and concrete bench. The CHP fled the scene. OPD began an investigation, but CHP took it over and closed it saying there was no case because they were never there. Diallo would have turned 34 the next day, October 11th. Work is underway to revive the truth of this tragedy, regardless of legal statutes of limitations, … Continued The Cannabis Decision 6:00 pm The Cannabis Decision @ David Brower Center Oct 11 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 61721 Displacement & Gentrification: How did we get here and how do we stop it? 6:45 pm Displacement & Gentrification: How did we get here and how do we stop it? @ Sierra Club Oct 11 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets This training will put gentrification and displacement in an historical context so we understand the racialized political and economic drivers. We will use this historical analysis to discuss the ways we can challenge gentrification today. The analysis that we are presenting is based on the work of Causa Justa :: Just Cause and we are asking for $5-$20 donation, sliding scale, which will go to support CJJC’s work challegning gentrification and fighting displacement. However, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Our workshop has space for 66 … Continued Liberated Lens Film Screening: Crying Earth Rise Up 7:00 pm Liberated Lens Film Screening: Crying Earth Rise Up @ Omni Commons Oct 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets The protests at Standing Rock are still going strong and Indigenous People’s day is on October 10th! What a perfect time to screen this film: Directed by Suree Towfighnia (2015) When Debra White Plume’s drinking water tests high for radiation, she sets out to determine the cause. What she finds alarms her. A nearby uranium mining operation is extracting ore from deep in the ground by tapping the High Plains/Ogllala Aquifer, a huge underground cache of water covering 174,000 square miles from Texas to South Dakota which supplies drinking water … Continued Liberated Lens film Night: Crying Earth Rise Up! 7:30 pm Liberated Lens film Night: Crying Earth Rise Up! @ Omni Commons Oct 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Two native women on Pine Ridge reservation expose the human cost of uranium mining and its impact on the water, land and people of the Great Plains. When Debra White Plume’s drinking water tests high for radiation, she sets out to determine the cause. What she finds alarms her. A nearby uranium mining operation is extracting ore from deep in the ground by tapping the High Plains/Ogllala Aquifer, a huge underground cache of water covering 174,000 square miles from Texas to South Dakota which supplies drinking water to 82 percent … Continued	12 Vigil to End Deportations & Criminalization 11:00 am Vigil to End Deportations & Criminalization @ Santa Rita Jail Oct 12 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Vigil to End Deportations & Crimilization Join us in solidarity on indiginous resistance day. We will have activities for families who have been victims of deportation/crimilization. Vigilia para No Mas Deportaciones y Crimilizacion! Acompañe nos para un dia de solaridad en el dia de resistencia indigena. Tendremos actividades para las familias que han tenido un familiar que ha sido victim@ de la deportacion/crimilizacion.61727 Film Showing: Do Not Resist 2:15 pm Film Showing: Do Not Resist @ Sequoia Theater Oct 12 @ 2:15 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Many have been alarmed by the recent spectacle of law enforcement in full riot gear and armored vehicles moving through peaceful demonstrations. At first glance, it’s easy to suspect our police forces are preparing for war or terrorism instead of protecting and serving citizens exercising their civil rights. In Craig Atkinson’s disquieting documentary, such suspicions are reinforced as we learn that since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has given police departments $34 billion in grants to purchase equipment, while the Department of Defense has contributed additional billions in free … Continued Black Lives Matter – From Oakland to Stockton 2:30 pm Black Lives Matter – From Oakland to Stockton @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 12 @ 2:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets #JusticeForColbyFriday #JusticeForJamesRevera Transportation to a protest / rally in Stockton from Oakland, and back. Meet at OGP at 2:30 PM. 61786 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 Codepink’s Weekly Peace Vigil 5:30 pm Codepink’s Weekly Peace Vigil @ on the steps in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's office Oct 12 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner Theme this week is: “REFUGEES…” Feel free to bring your own signage, photos, flyers, …Additional signs and flyers provided. Stand (or sit) with us and the huge PEACE banner. 61795 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 Revolutionary Socialist Presidential Campaign Comes to Oakland 6:00 pm Revolutionary Socialist Presidential Campaign Comes to Oakland @ Workers World Oct 12 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Two Black revolutionary socialists from Workers World Party are running for president and vice president – Monica Moorehead & Lamont Lilly 2016. Both will be reporting back from the Nogales SOA Watch Convergence at the border with Mexico. Lamont Lilly just recently returned from a WWP campaign solidarity delegation to Standing Rock. We’re not running to win the elections – we’re running to help to build the struggle in the streets and connect with activists and freedom fighters doing the work in communities across the country – from Black Lives … 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 Sudo Room Weekly Party 7:00 pm Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Oct 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our weekly PARTY to get this hackerspace together, to provide a venue for those things that otherwise cannot be worked out through day-to-day practice. Potluck! – bring your own tasty dish! Sudo room, located in the southwast corner of the ground floor, is a creative community and hackerspace. We offer tools and project space for a wide range of activities: electronics, sewing/crafting, 3D and 2D manufacturing, coding, and good old-fashioned co-learning! Hours: The space is open whenever a member is present. Come visit! Best times to drop in are evenings between … Continued	13 Tenants Day of Action 11:30 am Tenants Day of Action @ California Apartment Association of Alameda County Oct 13 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets WHAT: Tenants and allies, rally against deceptive campaign and delivery of formal FPPC complaints WHO: Campaigns from Alameda, Burlingame, Mountain View, Oakland, Richmond, and San Mateo. Representing big landlords and sending misleading mailers to voters, the California Apartment Association (CAA) is running a deceptive campaign against renter protection ballot measures in cities throughout the Bay Area. The CAA recently sent literature that falsely claims the State Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) has taken a position on the 5 ballot measures for new rent control. Tenants will hold a day of action … Continued 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 Book Party for “Nuclear Heartland” 7:00 pm Book Party for “Nuclear Heartland” @ Fellowship Hall Oct 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Conscientious Projector Presents Book Party for “Nuclear Heartland” “Nuclear Heartland Revised Edition: A guide to the 450 land-based missiles of the United States” edited by Arianne Peterson and our guest speaker John M. LarFarge of Nukewatch, an educational project based in Wisconsin which raises public awareness of nuclear weapons, reactors and waste. Dr. Helen Caldicott states that every American should read this book, learn that under our farms and prairies are the ICBMs with nuclear warheads and take on the entities that imperil our survival. Much of the original content … Continued	14 Film Screening: A Really Inconvenient Truth 7:00 pm Film Screening: A Really Inconvenient Truth @ Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library Oct 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Bay Area System Change not Climate Change invites you to a showing of A Really Inconvenient Truth, a video by Cambiz A. Khosravi, featuring Joel Kovel. Kovel’s 2002 book, Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World (2002), argues that our global ecological crisis, including climate change, is due to the uncontrolled growth of a cancerous production and consumption system—capitalism.Join us for an evening of sharing how we face up to and transform this system so we can win a livable future for humanity and other life forms on our … Continued	15 Caravan from Oakland to Merced to Support Prisoner Hunger Strike 8:30 am Caravan from Oakland to Merced to Support Prisoner Hunger Strike @ West Oakland Bart Oct 15 @ 8:30 am – 7:00 pm Tickets ON SEPTEMBER 9TH, inmates at the county jail in Merced, California, located in the Central Valley, in conjunction with the nationwide prison strike that began on the 45th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, issued a set of demands to jail staff. Inmates were demanding the firing of a brutal sheriff, Lt. Moore, access to baseline calories per day and proper legal resources, an end to forced dress out in gang colors and classifications, an end to solitary confinement, and much more. Inmates at Merced county have long had to live … Continued Housing Rally – Fight Back 1:00 pm Housing Rally – Fight Back @ People's Park Oct 15 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 61564 People’s Park, Berkeley; Housing Crisis / Speak Out Event 1:00 pm People’s Park, Berkeley; Housing Crisis / Speak Out Event @ People's Park Oct 15 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Skandalism, Skank Bank, Funky Nixons, Old Pal, Andrea Prichett and Ayr(?,) Yukon Hannibal & Others. Homes Not Jails and other Housing Activist Groups. Direct Action at 6pm, bring sleeping bags. Full Moon Tour. 61739 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 CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN: Walking Tour: Occupy Oakland – Five Years Yence 1:00 pm CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN: Walking Tour: Occupy Oakland – Five Years Yence @ Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th St & Broadway area steps Oct 16 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN! Occupy Oakland (Five Years Hence) Walking Tour Sunday, Oct 16th, 1:00 PM Oscar Grant Plaza (meet up the steps at 14th & Broadway) Visit places Occupy happened and learn its history, or revisit and remember. Oakland Commune, Foreclosure Defense, Shields, Scott Olsen, Kettling, Port Shutdown, Alan Blueford, General Strike, Anti-Repression, DAC, Strike Debt, Lawsuits, Move-In Day, Kali, FTP, Occubus, OLWA, Occupy the Farm, FTP, Einstein 4 Oakland… so much more! 61752 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 Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! 8:00 am Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! @ Martin Luther King Jr Middle School Oct 17 @ 8:00 am – 8:30 am Tickets Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! Rally in front of King Middle School Monday, October 17, 2016 8-8:30 am 1781 Rose St. (at Grant), Berkeley, California(rally with signs and banners, and distribute flyers before school starts) Also: Protest and Speak-Out at School Board MeetingWednesday, October 19, 2016 6:30pm Rally outside2020 Bonar Street (at University), Berkeley California7:30pm Speak out inside (fill out speakers cards before)1231 Addison Street (around the corner from 2020 Bonar) Anti-fascist activist and teacher Yvette Felarca continues to be prevented from … Continued Pack the Court for Kayla! 9:00 am Pack the Court for Kayla! @ 17th Floor, Courtroom 6 (Breyer) Oct 17 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Support the Moore Family’s Fight or Justice! Pack the Courtroom! The judge will give an update on his decision about whether to let the City of Berkeley dismiss Kayla Moore’s family’s wrongful death lawsuit. We need to show up on October 17th to pack the courtroom to make it clear to the judge that we have NOT forgotten Kayla Moore, that her life and memory matter, and that we demand an end to racist, transphobic and ableist police violence! We can’t let the City and BPD escape responsibility for Kayla’s … Continued Occupy Forum: Haiti 6:15 pm Occupy Forum: Haiti @ Global Exchange, 2nd Floor Oct 17 @ 6:15 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum presents… Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Defiant Haiti Needs Our Solidarity… As the U.S. plots to steal yet another Haitian Election Over 200 years ago, Haitians rose and overthrew both slavery and colonial rule. Now, when the enemies of freedom and sovereignty are attempting to re-colonize and re-enslave Haiti, we need to act in solidarity with our Haitian comrades, in the spirit of their fierce resistance. The irresistible momentum … Continued Class: Structures of Radicalization 7:00 pm Class: Structures of Radicalization @ Omni Commons Oct 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets An invitation to a class on the Structures of Racialization At the Bay Area Public School A free university in the Omni Commons When the English first got to Virginia, in the early 1600s, they didn’t see themselves as “white.” It took a century for their colonialism to produce the concepts of race and white supremacy. We’ve been fighting racism, white privilege, white supremacy, and institutional racism since then. And still, a Trump can come along with his “dogwhistle” politics, and get an instant white following at varying degrees of … Continued	18 Film Screening: Merritt College – Home of the Black Panther Party 12:30 pm Film Screening: Merritt College – Home of the Black Panther Party @ Merritt College, L-127 Oct 18 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets 61757 American Justice on Trial – Book Discussion and Signing 7:00 pm American Justice on Trial – Book Discussion and Signing @ Modern Times Bookstore Oct 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Lise Pearlman, retired judge and legal expert, will speak about her new book American Justice on Trial at the bookstore, which outlines how the defense during the Huey Newton murder trial worked to lessen racial bias in jury selection and put into place legal and cultural precedents that still affect American jurisprudence, criminal law, and race relations. On the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, Pearlman’s new book American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton compares the explosive state of American race relations in 1968 to race relations today … Continued Turning Point for the Palestine Solidarity Movement: Can Israeli Apartheid Really Be Defeated? 7:00 pm Turning Point for the Palestine Solidarity Movement: Can Israeli Apartheid Really Be Defeated? @ First Congregational Church Oct 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian-American journalist and author of “The Battle for Justice in Palestine” — which won the 2014 Palestine Book Award — and “One Country, A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse.” He received the 2013 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship and has been an activist on these issues for over 20 years. Alice Walker calls him “a special voice to champion us, one that is… fierce, wise — a warrior for justice and peace — someone whose large heart, one senses, beyond his calm, is constantly on … Continued Discussion and Book Signing: Violent Borders 7:30 pm Discussion and Book Signing: Violent Borders @ Pegasus Books Oct 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Reece Jones: Violent Borders Reece Jones discusses and signs his new book Violent Borders: a major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are policed. About Violent Borders (Verso, 2016) Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. In Violent Borders, Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. ‘We may live … Continued	19 Project Homeless Connect 10:00 am Project Homeless Connect @ Bill Graham Auditorium Oct 19 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets 61827 RALLY AGAINST ABUSIVE POSTAL SERVICE MANAGEMENT 3:00 pm RALLY AGAINST ABUSIVE POSTAL SERVICE MANAGEMENT Oct 19 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets RALLY AGAINST ABUSIVE MANAGEMENT Union Shop Stewart Angela Bibb-Merritt is being threatened with a law off by the U.S. post office. Angela has been a participant in Occupy and would sometimes inform union members at her job site of activities of Occupy. Please join the rally to protest for our sister Angela. She has been active in the occupation of Staples which was threatening the lay off of postal employees. She was also a supporter of the … Continued Codepink’s Weekly Peace Vigil 5:30 pm Codepink’s Weekly Peace Vigil @ on the steps in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's office Oct 19 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner Theme this week is: “REFUGEES…” Feel free to bring your own signage, photos, flyers, …Additional signs and flyers provided. Stand (or sit) with us and the huge PEACE banner. 61795 Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! 6:30 pm Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! @ Berkeley Unified School District Oct 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! Protest and Speak-Out at School Board MeetingWednesday, October 19, 2016 6:30pm Rally outside2020 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) 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 … Continued Sudo Room Weekly Party 7:00 pm Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our weekly PARTY to get this hackerspace together, to provide a venue for those things that otherwise cannot be worked out through day-to-day practice. Potluck! – bring your own tasty dish! Sudo room, located in the southwast corner of the ground floor, is a creative community and hackerspace. We offer tools and project space for a wide range of activities: electronics, sewing/crafting, 3D and 2D manufacturing, coding, and good old-fashioned co-learning! Hours: The space is open whenever a member is present. Come visit! Best times to drop in are evenings between … Continued 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 CHRIS HEDGES UNSPEAKABLE: On the Most Forbidden Topics in America 7:30 pm CHRIS HEDGES UNSPEAKABLE: On the Most Forbidden Topics in America @ King Middle School Oct 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Project Censored present Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, by author & publisher David Talbot: “Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. The kinds of insights he provides into the deeply troubled state of our democracy cannot be found anywhere else. He is an intellectual heir to American radical heroes such as Thomas Paine and Noam Chomsky, and is dedicated to reigniting a shared commitment to radical equality and honesty.” Hedges speaks … Continued	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 Ars Live: #7: What’s it like in space? How will we live there? 7:00 pm Ars Live: #7: What’s it like in space? How will we live there? @ Longitude Oct 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our guest for episode 7 of Ars Technica Live is author and space activist Ariel Waldman! She’ll tell us about what it’s like to live in space, and how we’ll make that happen. Ariel is the founder of Spacehack.org, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration, and the global director of Science Hack Day, a 20-countries-and-growing grassroots endeavor to make things with science. Filmed before a live audience in tiki bar Longitude each episode of Ars Technica Live is a speculative, informal conversation between Ars Technica hosts and … 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 Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson 7:00 pm Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson @ Fellowship Hall Oct 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Conscientious Projector Presents “Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson” “Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson” is an exciting film packed with ideas on how we can overcome the fears that fuel endless war. It is also the heroic story of the courageous dedication of Brian, a longtime friend of the Fellowship, who lost his legs at the Concord Naval Weapons Station in 1986. www.payingthepriceforpeace.com61854	21 The Greatest Heist You Never Heard of: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI and the Unveiling of COINTELPRO 2:00 pm The Greatest Heist You Never Heard of: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI and the Unveiling of COINTELPRO @ Berkeley Repertory Theater Oct 21 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party, the National Alumni Association of the Black Panther Party (NAABPP), in association with the Berkeley Repertory Theatre ~ presents a special program ~ The Greatest Heist You Never Heard of: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI and the Unveiling of COINTELPRO Friday, October 21, 2016 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm With our democracy in the cross hairs of “G” Man #1, some courageous citizens stood up to defend our liberties. The program will feature the film, 1971: Before … Continued McKibben & the Millennials 7:00 pm McKibben & the Millennials @ San Rafael Community Center Oct 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets McKibben & the Millennials in Marin Don’t miss this cross-generational event! Renowned writer, climate activist and 350.org c0-founder and senior advisor Bill McKibben is the keynote speaker at “Bill McKibben and Bay Area Millennials: Reclaiming Our Climate Future.” Following his talk, Bill will participate in a lively panel discussion with Bay Area millennial activists about the climate work they are engaged in. The panel will be moderated by Joe Mueller, Professor of Environmental Science at College of Marin. Speakers include: Rose Strauss, leader of 350 Bay Area Youth Climate Action, … Continued	22 Oakland Freedom Fest 11:00 am Oakland Freedom Fest @ Caesar Chavez Park Oct 22 @ 11:00 am – 2:30 pm Tickets OAKLAND FREEDOM FEST: Building Beyond Police & Prisons October 22nd is the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality and the Take Bake Oakland Coalition and the Justice Reinvestment Coalition is collaborating to put on a Freedom Fest to end and amplify the entangled state violence of police terror, criminalization, and imprisonment. FREE FOOD \| COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS \| MUSIC \| CULTURAL PERFORMANCES \| RESOURCE FAIR The trauma and oppression our black, brown, immigrant, queer, trans, gender non-conforming, poor, and disabled communities face with police terror and imprisonment go hand … Continued Power to the People! Black Panther 50th Anniversary Rally and Concert 11:00 am Power to the People! Black Panther 50th Anniversary Rally and Concert @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 22 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets 61816 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 A Socialist Perspective on the Environment – With Carol Danserea 7:00 pm A Socialist Perspective on the Environment – With Carol Danserea @ Niebyl-Proctor Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Why are we losing our fight for the Earth? And what will it take to win? To answer these urgent questions, we must understand what’s blocking our way forward: an economic system based on exploitation of the earth and of its people. We must acknowledge that many of the strategies followed by environmental groups up until now have limited the possibility of real change. There are solutions for all of the world’s environmental problems. We can create the world we want and prevent the destruction of the planet when we … Continued Film Showing: Do Not Resist! “The increasingly disturbing realities of American police culture.” 7:00 pm Film Showing: Do Not Resist! “The increasingly disturbing realities of American police culture.” @ Elmwood Theater Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Do Not Resist Q&A with director Craig Atkinson Sat, Oct 22nd after 7pm show! To Purchase Tickets Click HERE DO NOT RESIST is director Craig Atkinson’s directorial debut. From the protests in Ferguson to disagreements on Capitol Hill — whether he is following a heavily armored SWAT team as they issue a no-call warrant or inside a police training seminar that teaches the importance of “righteous violence”– Atkinson delivers a unique and powerful image of the stories and characters surrounding an issue that has billions of dollars — and lives … 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 Community Democracy Project: 4th Sundays are 4 Sci-Fi 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project: 4th Sundays are 4 Sci-Fi @ Omni Commons Oct 23 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Every Sunday The Community Democracy Project and our supporters gather to imagine a society that functions differently. We organize and strategize to make Participatory Budgeting a reality in Oakland through a voter initiative that uplifts and values the voices of the most marginalized. Beginning August 28th every 4th Sunday will be dedicated to a work of Science Fiction that inspires us. We’re very excited to blast off with the short story, Bloodchild by Octavia Butler. Read (attached in the comments!) and join us to share your insight and inspiration. Future … 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 Black Panther Leader Kathleen Cleaver Speaks 11:00 am Black Panther Leader Kathleen Cleaver Speaks @ Merritt College, R-110 Oct 24 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets 61758 Black Panthers, Pop Art and the Sixties 6:00 pm Black Panthers, Pop Art and the Sixties @ 142 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Oct 24 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 61861 Occupy Forum: Report from The Homeless People’s Popular Assembly 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: Report from The Homeless People’s Popular Assembly @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, across from 16th St. BART Oct 24 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum presents… Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Report from The Homeless People’s Popular Assembly The Homeless People’s Popular Assembly (HPPA) is a gathering of the homeless, formerly homeless, and their supporters for self-determination to create solutions for encampments. Strategies involve: • Collectively develop a political analysis of the current homeless crisis and the systemic root causes of homelessness, • Come up with visions of the life we want and create … Continued Class: Structures of Radicalization 7:00 pm Class: Structures of Radicalization @ Omni Commons Oct 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets An invitation to a class on the Structures of Racialization At the Bay Area Public School A free university in the Omni Commons When the English first got to Virginia, in the early 1600s, they didn’t see themselves as “white.” It took a century for their colonialism to produce the concepts of race and white supremacy. We’ve been fighting racism, white privilege, white supremacy, and institutional racism since then. And still, a Trump can come along with his “dogwhistle” politics, and get an instant white following at varying degrees of … Continued	25 Stand Against Juvenile Fines and Fees 9:00 am Stand Against Juvenile Fines and Fees @ Room 107 Oct 25 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Support our new fundraising campaign for racial justice: https://t.co/M2WH12nKvL#Reparations4CoCoFamilies pic.twitter.com/BtftmaGm6b— CCCRJC (@cccrjc) October 17, 2016 61844 Protest the Raid on BackPage 11:00 am Protest the Raid on BackPage @ CA Supreme Court Oct 25 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets 61872 Black Panthers, Pop Art and the Sixties 3:00 pm Black Panthers, Pop Art and the Sixties @ 240 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley Oct 25 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets 61862 Investigative Journalism and Human Rights 6:30 pm Investigative Journalism and Human Rights @ Zellerbach Playhouse, UC Berkeley Oct 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism was established in 2011 to honor all those who fought against fascism during the Spanish Civil War by connecting the legacy with international activist causes today. This year’s winners, Lydia Cacho and Jeremy Scahill, discuss their work with Kate Doyle, director of the Evidence Project at the National Security Archive. Lydia Cacho is an award-winning Mexican journalist, author and human rights activist specialized in women and children’s rights. She has written a dozen books from poetry to fiction, nonfiction, and investigative reporting.Slavery Inc. … Continued 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 Two Anti-Fracking Films 7:00 pm Two Anti-Fracking Films @ New Parkway Oct 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join the Oakland Institute for two short films, focused on fracking and its resistance here in California. Dear Governor Brown looks at the contradictions of Gov. Jerry Brown—the “greenest” governor in the US (?), who’s encouraging the growth of fracking in California. The film also explores fracking in our state. Faith Against Fracking looks at the role of faith leaders from multiple backgrounds in forming alliances and contributing to the struggle to end fracking. Following the film, join the Oakland Institute’s Policy Analyst Elizabeth Fraser, along with Shannon Biggs of Movement Rights and David Braun … Continued Film Screening: The Brainwashing Of My Dad 8:45 pm Film Screening: The Brainwashing Of My Dad @ Ninth Street Independent Film Center Oct 25 @ 8:45 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets A one-time screening of The Brainwashing Of My Dad, a documentary by filmmaker Jen Senko about her Democratic dad and his slide into the world of hard right-wing media indoctrination. The film merges the personal story of her family with a look at the right-wing media machine and the sad state of the mainstream media – and could not be more timely in the middle of most bizarre election cycle in American history. Featuring interviews with Noam Chomsky, David Brock, Jeff Cohen, George Lakoff, Claire Conner, Frank Luntz and narrated … Continued	26 Down With Wells Fargo: Press Conference and Rally 4:30 pm Down With Wells Fargo: Press Conference and Rally @ Wells Fargo World Corporate Headquarters Oct 26 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Jail The Bankers At Wells Fargo Fellow Occupiers: Does the absence of real consequences for Wells Fargo – when caught in the act make you feel “tents”?? Wells Fargo, one of OccupySF’s favorite Bankster targets, is just waiting for our response to its massive criminal enterprise. They Are Not Too Big To Nail! Expropriate the Bank and Make It A Public Bank For working people and the public, and not the profiteers The massive criminal enterprise of Wells Fargo Executives and owners to bully workers to illegally open up accounts for … Continued 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 Codepink’s Weekly Peace Vigil 5:30 pm Codepink’s Weekly Peace Vigil @ on the steps in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's office Oct 26 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner Theme this week is: “REFUGEES…” Feel free to bring your own signage, photos, flyers, …Additional signs and flyers provided. Stand (or sit) with us and the huge PEACE banner. 61795 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 Sudo Room Weekly Party 7:00 pm Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Oct 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our weekly PARTY to get this hackerspace together, to provide a venue for those things that otherwise cannot be worked out through day-to-day practice. Potluck! – bring your own tasty dish! Sudo room, located in the southwast corner of the ground floor, is a creative community and hackerspace. We offer tools and project space for a wide range of activities: electronics, sewing/crafting, 3D and 2D manufacturing, coding, and good old-fashioned co-learning! Hours: The space is open whenever a member is present. Come visit! Best times to drop in are evenings between … 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 Come Here, Get Rich: Immigration, Upward Mobility and California Labor History 6:00 pm Come Here, Get Rich: Immigration, Upward Mobility and California Labor History @ UC Berkeley Labor Center Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Join us for a conversation with Fred Glass, longtime friend of the Labor Center and author of a new book, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement. The author will delve deep into the vibrant labor history of the Golden State where workers have engaged in politics, strikes, and a variety of organizing strategies to find common ground among its diverse communities to achieve a measure of economic fairness and social justice. About the book There is no better time than now to consider the labor … Continued Film Screenings: WEconomics and La Empresa es Nuestra 6:00 pm Film Screenings: WEconomics and La Empresa es Nuestra @ Impact HUB Oakland Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us as we welcome award winning filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin, co-directors of the PBS film Shift Change as they screen their latest documentaries, WEconomics and La Empresa es Nuestra. WEconomics was filmed in the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy which has one of the highest concentrations of cooperative businesses in the developed world. The capital, Bologna, is an industrial powerhouse, where prosperity is widely shared, and cooperatives of teachers and social workers play a key role in the provision of government services. La Empresa es Nuestra, filmed … Continued 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 Film on Sexual Assault: Audrie & Daisy 6:30 pm Film on Sexual Assault: Audrie & Daisy @ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse Oct 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets 6:30 pm reception, 7:00 film, 8:30 discussion in Piedmont Audrie & Daisy is an urgent real-life drama that examines the ripple effects on families, friends, schools and communities when two underage young women find that sexual assault against them has been caught on camera and distributed online. From acclaimed filmmakers Bonni Cohen and John Shenk, “Audrie & Daisy”– which made its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival — takes a hard look at America’s teenagers who are coming of age in this new world of social media bullying, … Continued FILM SCREENING: THE LAST CROP 6:30 pm FILM SCREENING: THE LAST CROP @ David Brower Center Oct 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets This screening is the Bay Area premiere of The Last Crop documentary. The Last Crop is an intimate exploration into the lives of small family farmers Jeff and Annie Main of California’s Central Valley. The film follows these organic pioneers’ ten-year pursuit to ensure that a farm need not be imperiled at the end of every generation. Theirs is a story that is being echoed on farms across our nation as our largely aging farming population faces retirement. What sets the Mains apart is their resolve to create an alternative … Continued POLICING IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE 6:30 pm POLICING IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE Oct 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Because policing fails to meet people’s needs, and puts people in danger of arrest, imprisonment, and/or even death, we must eliminate connections between policing and healthcare. Critical Resistance Oakland and The Oakland Power Projects present: The “Know Your Options: Chronic illness” workshop This workshop is designed to increase people’s understanding of mental health-related experiences, events, trauma, and conditions so that we don’t default to 911 or the cops when a baseline or escalated mental health-related event or experience happens. The “Know Your Options” workshop series aims to increase people’s access … Continued OUR PEOPLE, OUR FOOD: TURNING THE TABLES ON HUNGER 7:00 pm OUR PEOPLE, OUR FOOD: TURNING THE TABLES ON HUNGER @ Nile Hall at Preservation Park Oct 27 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Food First is the original food policy think tank, founded in 1975 by activist author Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins. Over the years, they’ve produced action-oriented research and analysis in order to help build the movement for food justice and food sovereignty around the world. Their projects range from working to stop ‘land grabs’ in the Americas to pollinator restoration and farmer to farmer education. Their Food Sovereignty tours to places such as Italy and Cuba are well known and sought after. The October gala gathering celebrates the work … Continued On The Hill: I Am Alex Nieto 7:30 pm On The Hill: I Am Alex Nieto @ Brava Theater Oct 27 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Thur-Sun, October 27-30 Loco Bloco, a non-profit performing arts organization and playwright Paul S. Flores announce their final full production of On The Hill, a play about the impact of the death of Alex Nieto. Directed by the renowned playwright Paul Flores, On the Hill tells the story of the impact that the death of Alex Nieto – at the hands of the SFPD- has had on youth of color residing in SF neighborhoods – neighborhoods that are currently being gentrified. The project uses music, dance and theater as a … Continued	28 DAPL Protest in San Francisco – Respond to the Madness 12:00 pm DAPL Protest in San Francisco – Respond to the Madness @ Dept. of Justice Oct 28 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets It’s Time to Escalate! For folks who can make a lunchtime demonstration in SF: Noon rally in SF, please share widely. #NoDAPL #MniWiconi #StandingRock Join AIM-WEST and others in an urgent call for a NOON RALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO When rubber bullets, tasers, bean bags and pepper spray fired, (dogs unleashed in the recent past), continued violation of treaties and human rights, protectors being jailed, media communications being jammed, it is time we stand together in the BAY AREA in solidarity with the Peoples of Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, and … Continued URGENT: Tell the City Again: No New Jails OR Jail-like Facilities in SF! 2:00 pm URGENT: Tell the City Again: No New Jails OR Jail-like Facilities in SF! @ Room 610 Oct 28 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets URGENT: Tell the City Again: No New Jails OR Jail-like Facilities in SF! Come to the Final Meeting of the SF Jail Replacement Project Work Group Friday, October 28, 2-5 PM, 25 Van Ness, Room 610 A huge grouping of community groups, service providers, and justice activists stopped a new SF jail last spring, but there’s a danger the City may try again. Last spring, the City set up the “Work Group to Re-envision the Jail Replacement Project” to decide what to do, or build, or plan INSTEAD of a … Continued 28 NoDAPL: Protest the Eviction of the Sioux People’s Camp! 5:00 pm 28 NoDAPL: Protest the Eviction of the Sioux People’s Camp! @ Wells Fargo Bank Oct 28 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Militarized police are gearing up to clear out the camps and arrest the water protectors who are defending their rivers and land – including Sioux sacred sites and burial grounds – against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Over 100 tribes have come together to fight back against this corporate encroachment. We will protest at the Wells Fargo building, one of a long list of banks responsible for funding the pipeline companies to the tune of $467 million. Capitalist expansion and the corporate drive for profit have caused untold suffering for native … Continued Cultivating Cooperative Community 6:00 pm Cultivating Cooperative Community @ Omi Gallery Oct 28 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 61871 Movie opening: COMPANY TOWN 7:00 pm Movie opening: COMPANY TOWN @ Roxie Theater Oct 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Friday night Oct 28 is co-presented with San Francisco Vision. IN PERSON: David Campos, filmmakers Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, and housing rights advocate, Christina Olague, after the show. Saturday night Oct 29: IN PERSON: Lisa Geduldig, and filmmakers Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, after the show. The once free-spirited city of San Francisco is now a “Company Town,” a playground for tech moguls of the “sharing economy.” Airbnb is the biggest hotel. Uber privatizes transit. And now these companies want political power as well. Meanwhile, middle class and ethnic communities are … Continued	29 Free Traditional Healing Clinic 10:00 am Free Traditional Healing Clinic @ Tassafaronga Rec Center Oct 29 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Tickets 61836 Harvesting the Fruits of the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program 11:00 am Harvesting the Fruits of the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program @ Phat Beets Saturday Market Oct 29 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Come join us for a free community celebration of the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program, as well as the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party. There will be collective storytelling and an interactive meal on food justice and the legacy of the Free Breakfast Program. Former Panthers Melvin Dickson and Aunti Frances will be hosting a celebration and “stone soup” meal with other food justice activists and community members from the east bay, who will share their experiences and their stories. Speakers (so far) include: Van, Qilombo Oakland … Continued Keep Alamedans in Their Homes! 12:00 pm Keep Alamedans in Their Homes! Oct 29 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 61893 Prop 61 Documentary Screening featuring Bernie Sanders, Panel Discussion 1:00 pm Prop 61 Documentary Screening featuring Bernie Sanders, Panel Discussion Oct 29 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Yes on 61, in partnership with California Nurses Association, presents Your Money or Your Life: A Free Documentary Screening & Panel. Join nurses, veterans, seniors, and community leaders as they sneak preview a new documentary film –featuring BERNIE SANDERS– about pharmaceutical greed and discuss the groundbreaking changes Proposition 61 will bring for many Californians who are struggling to afford their medications. Film trailer: https://youtu.be/G-7_EnatV50 Panel will include: – Martha Kuhl, RN, CNA Secretary-Treasurer – Jesse Brooks, AHF Patient Advocate – Other distinguished speakers, including Veterans & Seniors, TBA Light snacks … Continued Prostest War Crimes and UC Complicity 1:00 pm Prostest War Crimes and UC Complicity @ Room 105, Boalt Hall Oct 29 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets “Torture Memos” author John Yoo Belongs in Prison, Not Mentoring the Next Generation of Lawyers and Judges. Despite a worldwide outcry, UC has still not taken a single step to investigate John Yoo’s status on the faculty. A lawyer whose career hallmark is his stint in Bush’s Justice Department providing legal-sounding excuses so that illegal torture could be used under color of presidential power, can not be a role model mentoring students. https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/korea-law-center/mentoring-next-generation/ To volunteer, for details, and to suggest ideas for this protest, please contact World Can’t Wait to … Continued Could the Next British Prime Minister be a Socialist? 2:00 pm Could the Next British Prime Minister be a Socialist? @ Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Oct 29 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Jeremy Corbyn was just re-elected leader of the Labour Party in the UK by a landslide. In the process of electing a socialist leader, Labour has become the largest and fastest-growing party in Europe. At the same time, the election has sparked a civil war in the party, as the majority of Members of Parliament are right-wing and aiming to oust Corbyn. How will this critical moment be resolved? Will working class people win back their party, or will the Blairites find a way to squash the movement? Join Socialist … Continued Black Panther Party Perspectives from Richard Brown of SF8 4:00 pm Black Panther Party Perspectives from Richard Brown of SF8 @ Workers World, #411 Oct 29 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Hear Richard Brown of the Black Panther Party and the SF8 share his perspectives on their historic struggle. Also listen to a presentation on the current crisis in Syria by Judy Greenspan. Light refreshments will be served. The space is wheelchair accessible.61863 Movie opening: COMPANY TOWN 7:00 pm Movie opening: COMPANY TOWN @ Roxie Theater Oct 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Friday night Oct 28 is co-presented with San Francisco Vision. IN PERSON: David Campos, filmmakers Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, and housing rights advocate, Christina Olague, after the show. Saturday night Oct 29: IN PERSON: Lisa Geduldig, and filmmakers Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, after the show. The once free-spirited city of San Francisco is now a “Company Town,” a playground for tech moguls of the “sharing economy.” Airbnb is the biggest hotel. Uber privatizes transit. And now these companies want political power as well. Meanwhile, middle class and ethnic communities are … Continued
30 Halloween Harvest Festival 10:00 am Halloween Harvest Festival @ Gill Tract Oct 30 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets 61791 Post Salon Community Assembly 2:00 pm Post Salon Community Assembly @ Geoffrey's Inner Circle Oct 30 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Come to this week’s Post Salon Community Assembly to participate in a community discussion about what we can do now and after the election to affect the city’s economic direction. Some of the questions are: Could City Departments have different policies, priorities and personnel? How are department heads who make economic, workforce and planning decisions picked and what assumptions do they bring to the job? What is the ethnic make-up of these decision-makers? Could residents be more involved in making those decisions? Is it necessary that the Planning Commission approve … Continued Unity in the Community Interfaith Walk for Justice and Peace 2:00 pm Unity in the Community Interfaith Walk for Justice and Peace @ Kehilla Synagogue Oct 30 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets ponsored by The Lighthouse Mosque, Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area, Kehilla Synagogue & Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity We walk together in public witness to unity in the community in the season of US elections. We reject all forms of Islamophobia, racism and religious prejudice * We affirm the call from Standing Rock and over 100 tribes to protect Native people, land, water and sacred sites * We call for the end of mass incarceration and the militarization of our streets, skies, schools and borders * We celebrate … Continued 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.