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				1 Omni General Assembly 6:00 pm Omni General Assembly Mar 1 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Come by our open Orientations every First and Third Thursday of the month at 6pm! We’ll introduce you to the variety of ways you can get involved at the Omni, whether through joining a working group or a collective—or starting one of your one. Write our Communications Working Group with questions: comms@omnicommons.org 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 … Continued Oakland Green Party 6:30 pm Oakland Green Party @ It's Your Move Games Mar 1 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets The Oakland Green Party will hold its monthly meeting in Oakland’s Temescal District. All are welcome to attend. Please join our movement to recruit candidates to run for local offices, especially for City Council and School Board seats in Districts #2, #4, and #6 and connect with those working on Saied Karamooz’s campaign for Oakland Mayor. The Oakland Greens are a local subgroup of the Green Party of Alameda County that is committed to a just and sustainable Oakland. Our principles are aligned with the ten key values of the … Continued	2	3 Oakland Justice Coalition General Meeting 1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition General Meeting @ ACCE Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets General Meeting: 2018 Endorsement Process Join us SATURDAY as we set our endorsement process in place for the 2018 election cycle. Agenda: Orientation Proposal for endorsement process (click below to review the materials the Steering Committee has approved) Proposed Process and Questions for the Interview Create endorsement timeline Moment with the Candidates Discuss tiered endorsement What capacity does OJC have? What is the range of “offerings” OJC can make to any given candidate (from “full package: fundraising, volunteers, phone banking, door knocking, etc.) Presentation, Discussion, and Endorsement vote on Costa … Continued
4 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 4 @ 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. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM … Continued Slingshot new volunteer meeting / article brainstorm for issue #127 7:00 pm Slingshot new volunteer meeting / article brainstorm for issue #127 @ Longhaul Mar 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Kick-off meeting to create Slingshot issue #127. Slingshot is an independent radical newspaper published in Berkeley since 1988. This issue will mark the 30th year in print. * Brainstorm articles for next issue * Orientation on how you can submit articles, art, photographs * Help us discuss our audience and themes for the next issue * Discuss fundraising and distribution * Your chance to comment on Slingshot Everyone is welcome. Issue #127 is due out on April 27, 2018 Deadline for Issue #127 is April 14, 201864379	5 Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland 5:30 pm Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland @ Xolo, back courtyard Mar 5 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Preliminary Agenda: Reportbacks (25 min) Governance (Debbie, Susan, Lou, Margy, Sylvia) First Presbyterian Church (Debbie, Lou) Anything else? General news (10 min) � Upcoming conference in Colorado (Susan) � RFI for California task force (Susan) Repeating items (25 min) Treasurer’s report/budgeting and meeting place issues introductions of new attendees overview of public banking for new attendees set next meeting time and place Upcoming (20 min) Student debt forum (Emily, Susan) Potential community group meetings (discussion) 64376 Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Mar 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82809764186?pwd=eWtjcXlsKzU1QkdSdk5xOUxseFl0Zz09 Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186 If you wish to get the password please subscribe to the Oscar Grant Committee mailing list by sending an email to: oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net 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 … Continued	6	7 Ella Baker Center Meeting – When We Fight, We Win 6:00 pm Ella Baker Center Meeting – When We Fight, We Win Mar 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets When We Fight, We Win is EBC’s second member meeting of 2018! Come through to learn about the criminal justice legislation that has been introduced in Sacramento, help us prioritize which allied bills to support and plug into our policy agenda for 2018. We hope you can join us in growing a strong grassroots movement to end mass incarceration. Together, we can chart a new future for California by prioritizing positive, community-based, public health solutions rather than punishment. 6:00pm New Member Orientation. General meeting starts at 6:30pm. Vegetarian dinner will … Continued	8 March 8th Planning Meeting – Bay Area for Reproductive Justice 7:00 pm March 8th Planning Meeting – Bay Area for Reproductive Justice @ The Womens' Bldg Mar 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets On January 27th, we gathered hundreds to confront the right-wing, religious fundamentalists trying to further limit access to reproductive healthcare and abortion. Our fight is not over! Join us and organize future events to fight for reproductive justice and women’s rights. Including nationally-coordinated actions on International Women’s Day on March 8th.64253	9	10
11 Sunflower Alliance 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Mar 11 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing campaigns and plans for the future. Newcomers and old friends welcome — we need your participation and your voice. Come early to share a potluck lunch. 64313 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 11 @ 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. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM … Continued Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly 7:00 pm Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Mar 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us on March 11 for the next Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly. Doors open at 7. We start promptly at 7:30. On the agenda at our General Assembly Sunday 7:30 @ Finnish Hall: – action for Sanctuary CA (cc @iceoutofca) – our plan for the 3/24 @AMarch4OurLives – Mark Chekal-Bain on #GunReformNow – IB Economic Justice Team & @FossilFreeCA on “Break Up w Your Bank Day” ADA Accessibility: The Finnish Hall has stairs leading up to the entrance so is not ADA accessible. Please email us at info@indivisibleberkeley.org with questions. T-Shirt Distribution … Continued Liberated Lens general meeting 7:00 pm Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Mar 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We document current events, make films together, steward an editing suite and share a film equipment library. We also host film screenings, often with local directors, and put on an annual short film festival for independent Bay Area filmmakers. Our goal is to make the digital filmmaking accessible – no overpriced college degree or certificate program required! We are also a good group to reach out to if you’d like to screen a film at the Omni. We can be reached at [ liberatedlens@lists.riseup.net ]. We usually meet in the … Continued	12 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Mar 12 @ 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	13	14	15 Omni General Assembly 6:00 pm Omni General Assembly Mar 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Come by our open Orientations every First and Third Thursday of the month at 6pm! We’ll introduce you to the variety of ways you can get involved at the Omni, whether through joining a working group or a collective—or starting one of your one. Write our Communications Working Group with questions: comms@omnicommons.org 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 … Continued	16	17 Medicare For All Open Strategy Meeting 10:00 am Medicare For All Open Strategy Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Mar 17 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets East Bay DSA hosted its first ever Medicare-for-All strategy meeting in February, where we generated ideas for tactics to expand our healthcare campaign. Now we’re hosting a follow up meeting to continue developing these ideas into actionable plans that can make us an even stronger force in the struggle to decommodify healthcare! Please join us on March 17 to keep the momentum going as we develop specific tactical plans around four areas of interest that emerged at the first meeting. Labor Outreach (e.g. presenting at union meetings, joint town … Continued Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Mar 17 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 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! Presenting debt and inequality related topics at forums, workshops and in radio productions Promoting single-payer / Medicare … Continued
18 Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library READING CAPITAL VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER ONE 10:30 am Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library READING CAPITAL VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER ONE @ Niebyl Proctor Library Mar 18 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Before we even start, let’s remember Marx’s warning to “those readers who zealously seek the truth. There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.” Our discussion will get as for into Chapter One as possible. We will read, paragraph by paragraph from the Penguin edition (translated by Ben Fowkes, 1976).) Seating is limited, so plan to come early. We start promptly. FREE – but hat will be passed for … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 18 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net 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 for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to … Continued Liberated Lens general meeting 7:00 pm Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Mar 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We document current events, make films together, steward an editing suite and share a film equipment library. We also host film screenings, often with local directors, and put on an annual short film festival for independent Bay Area filmmakers. Our goal is to make the digital filmmaking accessible – no overpriced college degree or certificate program required! We are also a good group to reach out to if you’d like to screen a film at the Omni. We can be reached at [ liberatedlens@lists.riseup.net ]. We usually meet in the … Continued	19	20	21 Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Mar 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay. We fight against “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” spy drones, facial recognition, police body cameras and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones, to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government. We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no … Continued Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Mar 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Special guest speaker for January: Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. Don’t miss this! APTP meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. The Anti Police-Terror Project began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee. We are a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. Founding coalition members include the Black Power Network, Community Ready Corps, Workers World, and the Idriss Stelley Foundation.64171	22	23 Capture the Movement Workshop 4:00 pm Capture the Movement Workshop @ Oakland Peace Center Mar 23 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Join us for a two hour photography workshop by activist and photographer Brooke Anderson. Whether you’re using your iPhone or a DSLR, through this workshop you will have the opportunity to: • reflect on the role of photography in social movements and visual storytelling • learn key principles of composition, lightening, exposure • explore the settings and various “tips and tricks” on your camera phone • practice taking portraits and get feedback • discuss key issues around consent, representation, legal rights, etc. Brooke Anderson is a social movement organizer and … Continued	24 Oakland Justice Coalition General Meeting 1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition General Meeting @ ACCE Mar 24 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets We’ll hear about alt-right activities in Oakland, learn about the Make-It-Fair campaign and discuss our strategy for the next few months. Proposed Agenda: Welcome and Brief Orientation (Deb Avery) Agenda Approval Report regarding finalized endorsement process and current requests (Carroll Fife) FInal Endorsement Process Present and discuss our Interim Strategy (Helen Duffy) Present for endorsement: Make It Fair Campaign (read about it here) (Carroll Fife) Update on Alt-Right activity in Oakland (Tur-Ha Ak) ANNOUNCEMENTS 64470
25 Indivisible East Bay All Member Meeting 1:00 pm Indivisible East Bay All Member Meeting @ Sports Basement Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join us for our March All Member Meeting. This special California-themed meeting features speakers from the Alameda County Food Bank and Evolve California, the Prop 13 reform initiative. Plus, we will have our usual updates and breakouts with current calls to action and upcoming events. Please come and bring a friend!64453 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 25 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net 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 for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to … Continued Liberated Lens general meeting 7:00 pm Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Mar 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We document current events, make films together, steward an editing suite and share a film equipment library. We also host film screenings, often with local directors, and put on an annual short film festival for independent Bay Area filmmakers. Our goal is to make the digital filmmaking accessible – no overpriced college degree or certificate program required! We are also a good group to reach out to if you’d like to screen a film at the Omni. We can be reached at [ liberatedlens@lists.riseup.net ]. We usually meet in the … Continued	26	27	28	29	30	31 Criminal Conviction Reduction & Cannabis Business Resource Fair 10:00 am Criminal Conviction Reduction & Cannabis Business Resource Fair @ Golden Gate University School of Law Mar 31 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Come join Students for Sensible Drug Policy at GGU Law for a day of Education and Opportunities for Communities Unfairly Burdened by the War on Drugs. The first component is an equity expungement clinic hosted by law students and supervised by volunteer attorneys. This first step is crucial to removing the stigma that a criminal convictions has on a person seeking to find employment or start a new business. We will be helping individuals fill out applications on Clearmyrecord.org. Second, is the education component. During this section we will educate … 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.