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			1 Bay Area Mobilization for Climate, Justice, Jobs and Peace 7:00 pm Bay Area Mobilization for Climate, Justice, Jobs and Peace @ California Nurses Association Mar 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The next general assembly/meeting of the April 29 Bay Area Mobilization for Climate, Justice, Jobs and Peace. The meeting on February 11th was attended by nearly 120 people from more than 90 organizations. We committed to bring an even more diverse group of activists together at the next meeting to make decisions about what kind of activity and where actions will be taken on April 29. THOSE DECISIONS WILL BE MADE AT THIS MEETING. Please use the time until March 1st to reach out to other organizations.Invite them to attend … Continued Food Not Bombs Monthly Meeting 7:30 pm Food Not Bombs Monthly Meeting @ Longhaul Mar 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets For 22 years East Bay Food Not bombs has been providing free foods to the public in People’s Park and various locations in Oakland, AND bringing food to protests and encampments. Our message: you’re not poor and homeless because you suck, it’s because a sick society prioritizes war and greed over basic human needs. We can’t keep this up without your help. Come to our monthly meeting first Wednesday of the month. 62372	2 Oakland Women’s Strike Planning Meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Women’s Strike Planning Meeting @ Omni Commons Mar 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A call has gone out. It asks us to begin organizing a general strike on March 8, in response to Donald Trump’s oppressive administration and the neoliberal attack that threatens our livelihood. We are heeding the call. Given the short amount of time, we are not planning for a strike in the traditional sense. We are instead planning a 5 pm demonstration. By organizing this, we hope to create the tools and infrastructure necessary to organize a women’s bloc for the national general strike called for May 1 in Oakland. … Continued	3	4 Counter-Protest of the Pro-Trump Berkeley Rally 12:00 pm Counter-Protest of the Pro-Trump Berkeley Rally @ Civic Center Park Mar 4 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Counter protest planned for noon today 2 hours ahead of Berkeley #March4Trump pic.twitter.com/NmdeoGyzoo— Scott Morris (@OakMorr) March 4, 2017 62543 Bay Resistance Mass Meeting 1:30 pm Bay Resistance Mass Meeting @ Mission High School Mar 4 @ 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets As Trump and the far right attempt to consolidate power and intimidate and harm our communities, Bay Resistance is a powerful new network that will defend our movements, our earth and most importantly, each other. The Bay Resistance network is committed to loving, defending and being in solidarity with those under immediate threat by Trump’s agenda. Join us MARCH 4TH for Bay Resistance’s first mass meeting and training. Learn about the network and the powerful actions you can take to resist, defend and support. The afternoon will include trainings and … Continued
5 Sunflower Alliance General Assembly 12:00 pm Sunflower Alliance General Assembly @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Mar 5 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Kathy Dervin of 350 Bay Area will update us about this year’s state legislative activity on climate and environmental justice issues. Plus updates on our campaigns and ways you can get involved. We need your participation and your voice! 12 PM — Introductory meeting for people new to Sunflower Alliance 1-3 PM — Sunflower Alliance General Assembly 62515 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 5 @ 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 Open Circle – Monthly Meeting 3:00 pm Open Circle – Monthly Meeting Mar 5 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Families directly impacted by police murder and people of the community who attend Open Circle have decided to take the necessary steps to repeal the California Police Officers’ Bill of Rights. As we know, trump believes the country needs more law enforcement, more community engagement, and more effective policing. We understand what this means for People of Color and have already begun to feel the consequences. We must unitedly intensify our efforts to put an end to this corrupt system, bring justice for the lives already lost to police murders, … Continued Community Democracy Project 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Basement Mar 5 @ 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 … Continued	6 Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Mar 6 @ 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	7 Resist Trump Tuesday: Climate/Environmental Justice 11:45 am Resist Trump Tuesday: Climate/Environmental Justice Mar 7 @ 11:45 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Resist attacks on climate and environmental justice — from the Dakota Access Pipeline to the ongoing push to export coal from Oakland. This march through downtown Oakland will visit Wells Fargo, Citibank, and Chase to tell them to divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline and the office of Phil Tagami, to ask him to drop his lawsuit against Oakland for banning coal exports. We want to tell Tagami to find a better use for the West Gateway property. We’ll end up at City Hall to thank the city council for their resolution asking … Continued Oakland Women’s Strike Planning Meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Women’s Strike Planning Meeting @ Omni Commons Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A call has gone out. It asks us to begin organizing a general strike on March 8, in response to Donald Trump’s oppressive administration and the neoliberal attack that threatens our livelihood. We are heeding the call. Given the short amount of time, we are not planning for a strike in the traditional sense. We are instead planning a 5 pm demonstration. By organizing this, we hope to create the tools and infrastructure necessary to organize a women’s bloc for the national general strike called for May 1 in Oakland. … Continued	8 Gender Strike! Shut Down ICE! 12:00 pm Gender Strike! Shut Down ICE! @ Chelsea Manning Plaza Mar 8 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The rally kicks off at noon at Chelsea Manning (Justin Herman) Plaza. There will be speakers, free childcare at the plaza park, and materials for making signs – please bring extra materials to share if you can! PARTICIPATE WITH YOUR CREW – SELF-ORGANIZATION, SELF-DETERMINATION! At 2pm we will march from Justin Herman Plaza to I.C.E headquarters. In the spirit of direct action and participation, we encourage folks to form affinity groups: come with your family or friends, form your own bloc, or join one of the several blocs that will … Continued Oakland Women’s Demonstration 5:00 pm Oakland Women’s Demonstration @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 8 @ 5:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets WOMEN’S DAY – It is not enough to oppose Trump and his aggressively misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic and racist policies. We must also target the ongoing neoliberal attack on social provision and labor rights. The assault on our dignity, livelihood, friends, lovers, and neighbors is only just beginning. We can expect the repeal of our healthcare, the widening of any wage equity, the elimination of overtime protections, the destruction of already weak student loan provisions. And all of this while waging a militarized police war against immigrants, black and brown communities … Continued Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State in the Age of Trump. 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State in the Age of Trump. @ Omni Commons, usually downstairs Mar 8 @ 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 Intro to SURJ Meeting 7:00 pm Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Oakstop Mar 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Want to get involved with SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. You’ll also hear about SURJ committees, as well as upcoming workshops and events. We’ll answer your questions, and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice. Intro to SURJ Meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday of each month. 62358	9 Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 9 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Presentations by John Crew and Pastor McBride. Discussions of ALPR, CAIR and participation in the JTTF.62507 Healthcare For All: Alameda Co Chapter March Meeting 7:00 pm Healthcare For All: Alameda Co Chapter March Meeting Mar 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We’re ramping up for SB562, universal health care for all Californians! Come to the meeting to learn about the bill and the campaign to get it passed and how you can get involved. The Alameda County chapter of Health Care for All – California will hold an organizing meeting in Oakland. Everyone is cordially invited! We’ll be discussing the new bill, the campaign to pass the bill, and how you and we can work to get this bill passed. So bring your friends and neighbors, and your passion and your … Continued	10	11
12 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 12 @ 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 Community Democracy Project 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Basement Mar 12 @ 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 … Continued Indivisible Berkeley 7:30 pm Indivisible Berkeley @ Finnish Hall Mar 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Come organize with us! Doors open at 7, and the meeting starts at 7:30. Please bring healthy snacks and drinks to share. We are progressives in Berkeley, CA working hard to resist the Trump agenda.62547	13 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Mar 13 @ 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	14 Women’s Strike Planning Meeting for May 1st General Strike 7:00 pm Women’s Strike Planning Meeting for May 1st General Strike @ Omni Commons basement Mar 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Continue the momentum of the Women’s March in January and the Women’s Strike March 8th, planning towards a May 1st General Strike! All welcome! 62567	15 Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Mar 15 @ 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, multi-generational coalition.62378	16	17	18 Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Fortune Restaurant Mar 18 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s projects! organizing for public banking in Oakland! We made the first steps happen… now we have to keep … Continued
19 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 19 @ 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 Community Democracy Project 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Basement Mar 19 @ 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 … Continued	20	21 Women’s Strike Planning Meeting for May 1st General Strike 7:00 pm Women’s Strike Planning Meeting for May 1st General Strike @ Omni Commons basement Mar 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Continue the momentum of the Women’s March in January and the Women’s Strike March 8th, planning towards a May 1st General Strike! All welcome! 62567	22	23	24	25 Oakland Justice Coalition Meeting 1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition Meeting @ Siegel & Yee Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets We hope you’ll join us for our monthly General Membership Meeting. Things are heating up in organizing spaces across Oakland. Come to learn and connect to work within our coalition and beyond. Agenda Welcome, introductions Learn About Immigration/Refugee Work on the Ground: Where is there room for initiative? How can we be involved to help develop strategy? Where can we invite people to engage with work already underway? Structure Committee Report APTP Update: Brief Report + Connection Opportunities Education Committee: Brief Report + Connection Opportunities. We’ll hear about the #WeChoose … Continued
26 Indivisible East Bay – All Members Meeting 1:30 pm Indivisible East Bay – All Members Meeting @ Elmhurst Community Prep Mar 26 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join us for our March all-members meeting at the Elmhurst Community Prep auditorium. Group meeting: 1:30 – 2:30 Breakouts to follow Indivisible East Bay is a chapter of the Indivisible movement. We are a grassroots organization focused on stopping the Trump administration’s policies by: Lobbying our group’s Members of Congress (MoCs) with office visits, calls, emails, and rallies. Lobbying our MoCs on topics of laws, policies, and nominations. Collaborating with other Indivisible groups and sharing resources for meetings and events. https://indivisibleeb.org62624 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 26 @ 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 Green Sunday 5:00 pm Green Sunday @ Niebyl Proctor Library Mar 26 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Special March 26 Green Sunday: Emeryville Mayor Scott Donahue Registers Green, and Talks About Local Issues Also, a Report-Back on the March 11-12 State Green Party Meeting Emeryville Mayor Scott Donahue has decided to register Green at our next Green Sunday, on March 26 – please join us to celebrate! (Note: due to the March 11-12 state Green Party meeting, we will not be holding Green Sunday this month on the second Sunday – instead, it will be held on the 4th Sunday of March). Four years after graduating art … Continued Community Democracy Project 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Basement Mar 26 @ 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 … Continued	27 Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland Organizers’ Meeting 5:00 pm Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland Organizers’ Meeting Mar 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets With Special Guests: Tom Sgouros and Matt Stannard62632	28 Intro to SURJ Meeting 7:00 pm Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Oakland Asian Cultural Cente Mar 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. You’ll also hear about SURJ committees, as well as upcoming workshops and events. We’ll answer your questions, and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice. Beginning this month, we are holding intro meetings twice a month. ccessibility Information: We ask that attendees please refrain from wearing scented or fragranced body products or laundry detergent, to support access for people with chemical sensitivities. See https://eastbaymeditation.org/resources/fragrance-free- at-ebmc/ for more info on … Continued The Peoples Climate Movement-Bay Area: General Assembly 7:00 pm The Peoples Climate Movement-Bay Area: General Assembly @ Greenlining Institute Mar 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Come to this General Assembly to hear reports from the working groups and committees, to make decisions that will guide our work going forward, and to take part in building turnout for the events. Three events are being planned. A working group has been established to work on each. On April 29th from 11am until late afternoon we will gather in the Amphitheater at Lake Merritt for music and spoken word performances, speakers, climate scientists, information booths and hands-on activities for all ages throughout the afternoon. A processional march around … Continued Women’s Strike Planning Meeting for May 1st General Strike 7:00 pm Women’s Strike Planning Meeting for May 1st General Strike @ Omni Commons basement Mar 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Continue the momentum of the Women’s March in January and the Women’s Strike March 8th, planning towards a May 1st General Strike! All welcome! 62567	29 Support an East Oakland Family’s Right to Stay – No Evictions! 3:00 pm Support an East Oakland Family’s Right to Stay – No Evictions! Mar 29 @ 3:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets As many of you know, the foreclosure crisis claimed over 12,000 homes throughout Oakland since 2006, wiping out generations of wealth built by predominantly people of color & paving the way for outside investors to purchase unprecedented numbers of properties, driving up rents and driving out families. One of the latest victims of this type of economic violence and racist, predatory lending practices, was Dorothy Debose and her family. Ms. Dorothy, now 76 years old, and the family moved into their home @ 6521 Bancroft Ave in the 1960’s, to … Continued Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State in the Age of Trump. 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State in the Age of Trump. @ Omni Commons Mar 29 @ 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	30	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.