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September 2018

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						1 Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! 2:30 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Sep 1 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 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! Presenting debt and inequality related topics at forums, workshops and in radio productions. Promoting single-payer / Medicare … Continued
2 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 2 @ 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	3	4	5	6 Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 6 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Agenda: 4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – staff status update regarding department outreach for survey of existing equipment 5. 5:20pm: Sanctuary Contracting Ordinance – staff status update regarding review and introduction to Council 6. 5:25pm: Sanctuary “non-cooperation” Ordinance – staff status update on introduction of ordinance to Council. 7. 5: 40pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Department of Transportation – UAV/Drones. Review Anticipated Impact Report and take possible action on proposed Use Policy.65036 Omni General Assembly 7:00 pm Omni General Assembly @ Omni Commons Sep 6 @ 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.64992	7	8
9 DSA General Membership Meeting 12:00 pm DSA General Membership Meeting @ Omni Commons Sep 9 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Beginning in September, East Bay DSA will hold general membership meetings (GMs) every month. This is the first such GM. If you intend to come and would like to volunteer (!), or if you have child supervision or accessibility needs, let us know. Finally, the Meetings Committee is seeking members with A/V experience to help with the GMs. Training and subsequent work will not be overwhelming, and it will be an indispensable service to our dear organization. Please write us at meetings-committee@eastbaydsa.org. 64991 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 9 @ 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	10 Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland 5:30 pm Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland @ Xolo, back courtyard Sep 10 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets We’ll spend most of the time discussing our strategy for Tuesday morning’s meeting. Other items on the agenda: Introduction of our new social media person (!) Outreach/fundraising report (Leah) Reportback from Sunday’s event (Sylvia) Reportback on California Public Banking Alliance meetings (Susan, etc.)65067 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Sep 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	11	12 Protest to Stop Financing of Oakland Coal Terminal 12:00 pm Protest to Stop Financing of Oakland Coal Terminal Sep 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Come protest the Bank of Montreal’s involvement in financing Oakland’s unwanted coal terminal. We will be demonstrating outside the conference of Principles for Responsible Investment, running concurrently with Global Climate Action Summit. Inside the conference, bankers and investors will be discussing responsible investment. Outside we will be asking why the Bank of Montreal won’t renounce its plan to finance the Oakland coal terminal. The Bank of Montreal has been instrumental in attempting to raise the $$ to finance the proposed coal terminal on the Oakland waterfront. They lobbied to get … Continued	13 End Climate Capitalism: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations! 7:00 am End Climate Capitalism: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations! @ Jesse Square Sep 13 @ 7:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Mass Action: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations! In September, Governor Jerry Brown is convening the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco to promote his “real climate leadership” credentials on a global stage. But Jerry Brown’s promotion of continued fossil fuel production, carbon trading markets and other incentives to oil, gas and other polluting corporations, perpetuates climate change and decimates Indigenous communities and Native nations, communities of color and other working class peoples throughout California and around the world. Such perverse subsidies for “climate capitalism” will turn frontline … Continued San Francisco Public Bank Task Force Meeting 3:00 pm San Francisco Public Bank Task Force Meeting @ San Francisco City Hall Room 305 Sep 13 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets No agenda published yet.65039	14	15 Justice for Terry Amons, Jr. 2:00 pm Justice for Terry Amons, Jr. @ Pittsburg Police Station Sep 15 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Terry Amons, Jr. was shot and killed by Pittsburg, CA police on January 12, 2018, while eating dinner inside his car outside of Nations Burgers in Pittsburg. We hold the Pittsburg PD responsible for murdering an innocent Black man. Terry’s family deserves justice. Please join Terry’s family to rally together and unite as a collective force against police terror. For those coming from the Oakland area, we will try to help with rides and carpooling. If you’re able to provide a ride or if you need one, please direct message … Continued
16 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 16 @ 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 Sep 16 @ 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 usually meet in the basement, unless otherwise noted. ~ Liberated Lens ~65048	17	18	19 APTP General Membership Meeting 7:30 pm APTP General Membership Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Sep 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets APTP meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. For this meeting, the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective will present information about their work and how they are building and supporting TJ. The presentation will talk about TJ and what it is, covering some of the core concepts of TJ. For those who would like to learn more, attendees will be invited to a more in-depth TJ Intro later in the fall, Here are links to the BATJC website: https://batjc.wordpress.com and here is an intro from an interview with BATJC: … Continued	20	21	22 Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Sep 22 @ 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. Relieving Medical Debt through … Continued
23 Oakland Justice Coalition 1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition @ ACCE Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Our Agenda is as follows: 1PM – Brief introductions and agenda check in 1:15 to 2:30PM – Candidate oral statements and Q & A 2:30PM – Ranked-Choice Voting discussion 3:00PM – Endorsement Vote 3:15PM – Fall Strategy Conversation 4PM – Adjourn65087 Sunflower Alliance Meeting 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets We’re canceling the Sunflower Alliance meeting for November 18th because of the toxic air. Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing eco-campaigns and plans for the future. Newcomers and old friends welcome — we need your participation and your voice. Come early to hang out and share a potluck lunch. Potluck lunch: 12:30 PM 65078 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 23 @ 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	24 Occupy Whole Foods 7:00 am Occupy Whole Foods @ Whole Foods Berkeley Sep 24 @ 7:00 am – 7:00 pm Tickets As Whole Foods continues to exploit and kill millions of animals, we are occupying the Berkeley Whole Foods for an entire week from 7am until 10pm. We will be doing outreach, running workshops, playing music and taking nonviolent action together. We will end this week-long occupation on Saturday September, 29th with a dramatic demonstration. We will put pressure on Whole Foods to show us the farms and give customers the right to know! “As an act of protest, occupation is a strategy often used by social movements and other forms … Continued	25 Cancel the ICE Contract: Dreamforce 9:00 am Cancel the ICE Contract: Dreamforce @ Moscone Center Sep 25 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets Last week, one of the largest consulting and management firms in the world cut ties with ICE. McKinsey and Company showed just how easy it is to stay true to its values. McKinsey’s contract did not deal directly with immigration enforcement but the company still took a stance stating they, “will not, under any circumstances, engage in any work, anywhere in the world, that advances or assists policies that are at odds with our values.” McKinsey’s move to cancel their ICE contract comes amid growing outcry over company’s contracts with ICE, … Continued	26 Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Sep 26 @ 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 NEVER SURRENDER PEOPLE”S PARK! 7:00 pm NEVER SURRENDER PEOPLE”S PARK! @ Art House Gallery Sep 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Please attend! Tell people. Spread the word. Challenge this. UC must not be allowed to expand at the expense of rising rents and to displace homeless people!!! This year they admitted 2000 more students into a city that already has a huge affordable housing shortage! Are they manipulating the market just to KEEP RENTS HIGH? People’s Park Project – An overview & planning steps for development presented by Ruben Lizardo, Director of UC’s Government & Community Relations You’re invited to the Le Conte Neighborhood Association meeting: People’s Park Project – … Continued	27 Vigil for Marcellus Toney 7:00 pm Vigil for Marcellus Toney Sep 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets On September 27 it will be one year since OPD brutally murdered Marcellus Toney, a Black man who had gotten into a car accident. We will meet to honor his memory and provide support to his wife. Here is more information about the murder: https://oaklandnorth.net/2017/11/09/protestors-demand-answers-to-death-of-man-tased-by-oakland-police/ For more event information: http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/65086	28 Stop Kavanaugh Emergency Rally 1:00 pm Stop Kavanaugh Emergency Rally Sep 28 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets We're sad. We're angry, And we won't give up. Join us in SF at 1:00 p.m. today, Friday Sept 28 in front of One Post Street (above Montgomery Bart) as we rally to #StopKavanaugh and thank @SenKamalaHarris and @SenFeinstein for their work. Wear black and please come. pic.twitter.com/Ryufjq0TDO— Indivisible East Bay (@IndivisibleEB) September 28, 2018 65118 Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting 6:00 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting @ Omni Commons Sep 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance: Regional meeting of landless activists of the San Francisco Bay Area65092	29 Cancel Kavanaugh Stand-Out at UC Berkeley 12:00 pm Cancel Kavanaugh Stand-Out at UC Berkeley @ UC Berkeley Sep 29 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Thanks to the power of the #MeToo movement and the courage of Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, and now Julie Swetnick, the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, appearing only days ago to be a virtual lock, is now hanging by a thread. Kavanaugh, having amassed a thoroughly reactionary anti-woman, anti-worker, and pro-corporation record as a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, was already the most unpopular Supreme Court nominee since Robert Bork in 1987. Come on out on Saturday to build a movement to #CancelKavanaugh and halt these … Continued Richmond Progressive Alliance 2:30 pm Richmond Progressive Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sep 29 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets RPA fall membership meeting (a big one) Please mark your calendars for the quarterly RPA membership meeting. Since the election is just around the corner, it is going to be a big meeting – not only will we be talkiing about critical election stuff, including voting on school board endorsements; but there will be important business to conduct, such as formally incorporating the RPA as a 501c4 organization. (Don’t know that that is? We’ll explain what it is and why it’s important!)65084
30 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 30 @ 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

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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.