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November 2016

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		1 Anarchist Study Group 8:00 pm Anarchist Study Group @ LongHaul Nov 1 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Tonight Long Haul hosts the anarchist study group. 8-10 PM.https://t.co/l5lSwoHk6X— Long Haul Infoshop (@Longhaulinfo) November 1, 2016 61911	2	3 First They Came for the Homeless General Assembly 5:00 pm First They Came for the Homeless General Assembly @ Just South of Ashby BART Nov 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets In case of BPD eviction, a new location will be sent-out! Please share this announcement with sympathizers of First They Came for the Homeless The proposal of First They Came for the Homeless to create an intentional community of people without housing options was rejected by Berkeley’s City Council last night (Nov. 1). This means we remain subject to police raids and evictions, which makes it more difficult for us to provided a place for Berkeley’s homeless where they can safely sleep and get food and assistance for their critical … Continued Omni Commons General Assembly 7:00 pm Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Ballroom Nov 3 @ 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	4	5 Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baguette Nov 5 @ 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
6 Sunflower Alliance General Assembly 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance General Assembly Nov 6 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Where would you like to see Sunflower Alliance go next? Join us for brainstorming and visioning. With two big recent victories under our belt — keeping coal out of Oakland and oil-by-rail out of Benicia — we’re ready to think about the future. What campaigns should we take on? How should Sunflower Alliance grow? We need your participation and your voice! Come early to hang out and share a potluck lunch. 61881 Occupy Oakland Visits the Oakland Musuem – Black Panther Exhibit 2:00 pm Occupy Oakland Visits the Oakland Musuem – Black Panther Exhibit @ Oakland Musuem Nov 6 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The first Sunday of every month admission is free to the Oakland Museum. The Occupy Oakland General Assembly will meet at 2:00 PM on the steps of the museum to visit the Black Panther’s 50 year anniversary exhibit. Afterwards, we will hold our weekly General Assembly outside of the museum. 61895 Occupy Oakland General Assembly (today at Oakland Museum) 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly (today at Oakland Museum) @ Oakland Museum of California Nov 6 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Tickets This Sunday we will be having a little field trip to the Oakland Museum at 2 PM to see the Black Panthers At 50 exhibit. At 4 PM we will hold our weekly General Assembly meeting at the museum. We will meet just inside the entrance, there are some chairs there where we can meet. If they hassle us I guess we can retreat to the courtyard on 10th across from Laney near the Benny Bufano statue of nursing bear cubs. The Occupy Oakland General Assembly normally meets every Sunday at … Continued	7	8	9 Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons Nov 9 @ 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 and San Francisco County Boards 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 … Continued	10	11	12 Standing Rock Ready: Training for Water Protectors Going to SR 10:00 am Standing Rock Ready: Training for Water Protectors Going to SR @ Place For Sustainable Living Nov 12 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Tickets For all people heading to Standing Rock, come get trained and prepared to be an effective water protector and stand in solidarity with indigenous people defending their land. This training will also be useful for folks organizing local direct actions in the Bay Area in solidarity with Standing Rock, and otherwise. All are invited to attend. While folks are invited to come for any part of the training or for the entire thing, we ask everyone coming to please make it a point to be there if at all possible … Continued
13 Occupy Oakland General Assembly: Occupy 2.0: Resistance and Transformation in the Age of Trump 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly: Occupy 2.0: Resistance and Transformation in the Age of Trump @ Oscar Grant Plaza Nov 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Can some of the lessons we learned from Occupy be useful for the coming Age of Trump? You are invited to attend the Occupy Oakland General Assembly at Oscar Grant Plaza (in front of City Hall), this coming Sunday at 4:00 pm to help start the discussion! A draft schedule is below. 4:00 pm – Gather together, review draft schedule 4:05 pm – Review of the past week’s events of interest 4:20 pm – The coming week’s events of interest 4:30 pm – Discussion about Occupy 2.0: Resistance and Transformation … Continued	14 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Nov 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	15	16 Coalition to Free Mumia Planning Meeting 6:00 pm Coalition to Free Mumia Planning Meeting @ Omni Commons Nov 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Plan for the December 9th Day of Action.61923 Support Immigrant Students Suing Berkeley School District for Racially Targeted Interrogations 7:00 pm Support Immigrant Students Suing Berkeley School District for Racially Targeted Interrogations @ Berkeley Unified School District Nov 16 @ 7:00 pm Tickets Tell the Berkeley School Board: No More Racially Targeted Interrogations of Students! Immigrant Students and Families Announce Lawsuit Against the Berkeley School District: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 7pm Press Conference 7:30pm Speak out inside (fill out speakers cards before) 1231 Addison Street, Berkeley, California Please join us this Wednesday as we return to the Berkeley School Board to support Yvette Felarca’s ELD (English as a Second Language) students, whose families will be announcing their lawsuit against the Berkeley Unified School District for racially targeting them for interrogation and … Continued Anti Police-Terror Project Meeting 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Nov 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month. The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like 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.61985	17 Omni Commons General Assembly 7:00 pm Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Ballroom Nov 17 @ 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	18	19
20 Sunflower Alliance General: How Benicia Blocked Oil by Rail: 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance General: How Benicia Blocked Oil by Rail: @ Bobby Bowens Center Nov 20 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Benicia residents who helped win the battle against Valero’s plan to bring crude oil by rail into their town will talk with us about how they did it. Plus updates on our campaigns. We need your participation and your voice! Come early to share a potluck lunch. 61988 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Nov 20 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (In prior years we have agreed … Continued	21	22 Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Nov 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage. The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. Our work together encompasses: (1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers, (2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and (3) Efforts by … Continued	23	24	25	26 Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baguette Nov 26 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets (Backup location if Paris Baguette has no seating: Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, 14th & Broadway, 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 … Continued
27 Bay Area LGBTQ Town Hall Meeting on Strategic Responses to Trump 1:00 pm Bay Area LGBTQ Town Hall Meeting on Strategic Responses to Trump @ Omni Commons Nov 27 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Bay Area LGBTQ Town Hall Meeting and Strategy Session in response to the incoming Trump administration’s agenda and threats to our community. This facilitated Town Hall meeting will focus on needed strategic community organizing and solidarity, and will feature speakers providing updates on the likely impact of Trump’s agenda on LGBTQ lives in the areas of law, legislation, healthcare, immigration and the growing sanctuary movement. Organized by the ad-hoc Bay Area Queer Anti-Fascist Network. Find us at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1770059716578820/62058 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Nov 27 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (In prior years we have agreed … Continued	28	29 Prisoner Work Strike – Oakland IWOC chapter meeting 6:00 pm Prisoner Work Strike – Oakland IWOC chapter meeting @ One Fam/7th St. Cafe Nov 29 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Hey IWOCers and supporters, We’re having our next meeting on Tuesday. We’ll be reporting on the work ongoing at the national level as well as the local level. Plus we will be sorting through all that we have in motion for future work, outreach, inreach, mutual political education, and more. Come plug in and shape what’s in the works! 62071 Anarchist Study Group 8:00 pm Anarchist Study Group @ Longhaul Nov 29 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets The ASG tonight at 8pm.https://t.co/UA5L6mTVGD For the readings.— Long Haul Infoshop (@Longhaulinfo) November 29, 2016 62076	30 Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons Nov 30 @ 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 and San Francisco County Boards 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 … Continued

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About OccupyOakland.org

This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly met in-person weekly (with a rare skip) since October 10th, 2011 up until the pandemic, at which point we went to bi-weekly Zoom meetings. We do checkins, go over the activist events of the past meeting interval, and have general discussions on politics and revolution.

For many years, until the pandemic, we put on a Feed the People event monthly at Oscar Grant Plaza, where all were welcome to come and partake of a freshly cooked, savory meal, before our GA.

If you would like to participate while the pandemic is still amidst, send an email to occupyoakland-request@lists.riseup.net. Check the calendar or this text to see if we have resumed in-person meetings.