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		1	2	3 One Year Later…We Still Want Justice 4 Sahleem Tindle 4:00 pm One Year Later…We Still Want Justice 4 Sahleem Tindle @ West Oakland BART Jan 3 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets We don’t celebrate the death or the day Sahleem was murdered, but we want to let them know on the same day that he was tragically taking from us,Jan 3rd 2018,that we still want JUSTICE, We STILL WANT ACCOUNTABILITY, and REMEMBRANCE of the life that is no longer here with ourselves. We love Sahleem,we miss Sahleem and we want to remind them that we will never forget the day Joseph Mateu took him away! Join us for a protest in Sahleem’s Honor followed by a Candlelight Vigil… (Please Wear All … Continued Privacy Advisory Commission Meeting 5:00 pm Privacy Advisory Commission Meeting @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 3 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Agenda 3. 5:10pm: Open Forum 4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OFD – Discuss with staff existing equipment capabilities, report and policy drafting sequence 5. 5:25pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Body Worn Camera Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy – (continued from December 6) review and take possible action 6. 6:00pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Automated License Plate Reader Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy – review and take possible action 7. 6:25: Unapproved Use of Surveillance Technology Report—OPD-take action on Report.65444 Planning meeting for the 5th Annual People’s March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy 7:30 pm Planning meeting for the 5th Annual People’s March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy @ The Greenlining Institute Jan 3 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Help us plan for a mass mobilization to reclaim King’s legacy Our 5th Annual People’s March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy is coming up quickly on January 21, 2019! Thanks to all who attended our first planning meeting earlier this month. At that meeting we were able to establish several committees to begin the work of planning this major event. Even if you couldn’t make it to the first meeting, we invite you to join us for our 2nd big planning meeting to #ReclaimMLK! We’ve established committees working on policy … Continued	4	5 Strike Debt Bay Area: You Are Not a Loan! 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: You Are Not a Loan! @ Omni Commons Jan 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Come get connected with SDBA’s projects – we have exciting work to do in 2019! NEW: Relieving millions in local Medical Debt through pennies-on-the-dollar buyback programs. NEW: A book group and seminar focused on Economic Inequality and Economic Theory for the modern age. Presenting debt and inequality related topics at forums, workshops and in radio productions. Promoting single-payer / Medicare for All to end the plague of medical debt Money bail reform and fighting modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitative ticketing and fining schemes Tiny Homes and other solutions for the … Continued
6 Sunflower Alliance Retreat 10:00 am Sunflower Alliance Retreat @ Sports Basement Jan 6 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Whether you come to meetings regularly or just value the Sunflower Alliance as a part of your life, please join us for a short, one-day retreat to plan our direction in 2019. Please come prepared to share your thoughts about the Sunflower Alliance’s strengths and how we can leverage them to evolve and grow. We’ll have a veteran community organizer lead us in a training on developing strategy. Coffee, tea, snacks, and lunch will be part of the experience, of course. Please bring your own refillable water bottle. The more … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 6 @ 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	7 OEA Solidarity Committee Open Meeting 6:30 pm OEA Solidarity Committee Open Meeting @ Sports Basement Jan 7 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The teachers strike wave is sweeping California—and likely coming to Oakland next. Join East Bay DSA’s OEA Solidarity Committee for an open meeting to learn how we can help support the teachers of the Oakland Education Association as they struggle for smaller class sizes, better resources, and a livable wage. All East Bay DSA members are welcome—come join the movement against austerity and school privatization and defend public education with the OEA!65436 Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Jan 7 @ 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	8 Stop Chase, Bank of Doom 12:00 pm Stop Chase, Bank of Doom @ The Westin, Union Square Jan 8 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Join the Rainforest Action Network and allies to tell JPMorgan Chase to stop funding climate destruction! Chase Bank is the biggest Wall Street funder of fossil fuels. They finance the Keystone XL pipeline, toxic tar sands oil expansion, and abuses of indigenous rights, profiting from worsening climate chaos. Demand that they stop funding fossil fuel expansion, starting with tar sands Info/RSVP 65451	9 Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Jan 9 @ 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 No Coal in Richmond meeting 7:00 pm No Coal in Richmond meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Jan 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Richmond City Council took its first step on December 18, 2018 toward ending the shipment of coal and petroleum coke (pet coke) through the city. These toxic commodities are shipped overseas from the privately-owned Richmond Levin terminal. The Richmond City Council is considering legislation to phase out and ultimately end the use of the terminal for coal and pet coke. At the council meeting yesterday, about a dozen people spoke in support and no one spoke in opposition to an initial draft of the legislation. Council members voted unanimously … Continued	10 Intro to SURJ Meeting 6:45 pm Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Sierra Club Jan 10 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.65417	11 Call for closing Gitmo and prosecution of John Yoo for torture 12:30 pm Call for closing Gitmo and prosecution of John Yoo for torture @ UC Berkeley Law School Jan 11 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Prisoners started arriving at Guantanamo on Friday, Jan. 11 2002. This Friday, on the 17th Anniversary of Guantanamo Prison, DRAD will join Codepink and allies at a rally and press conference at UC Law School to call for closing Gitmo and prosecution of John Yoo for torture. Join us to speak out against the injustice! Meet up in front of the law school, rain or shine. Gitmo now holds 40 men, including 5 who have long been cleared for release, and it continues to be a moral stain on our … Continued Speak Out At Japan Consulate Against Restarting Of Japan NUKES 3:00 pm Speak Out At Japan Consulate Against Restarting Of Japan NUKES @ Japanese Consulate Jan 11 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The Japanese Abe government continues to restart nuclear plants throughout the country. At the same time they have accumulated over 1 million tons of radioactive water at the Fukushima plant which they want to release into the Pacifica ocean. It contains tritium which the government is saying is safe in “small amounts”. The government has also covered up the statistics of thyroid cancer in children in order to continue the cover-up of the dangers of Fukushima. 3.11 Fund for Children With Thyroid Cancer has said that children who have cancer … Continued	12 ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group 4:30 pm ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons Jan 12 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Doughnut Economics Reading Group: Creating a world with neither human suffering nor planetary peril Doughnut Economics: 7 ways to think like a 21st century economist By Kate Raworth Chelsea Green Publishing (2017) The capitalist economic system defines every aspect of our lives: the schooling and medical care we get, where we live, and how we sustain ourselves. The system works for a lucky few and exploits everyone else. And it’s a real threat to the survival of our species (and many others) on this planet. We know the system needs to change—but we … Continued
13 DSA General Meeting 1:00 pm DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons Jan 13 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets East Bay DSA’s general meetings (GMs) are held on the second Sunday of each month. These meetings include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more. Volunteering at the GM is lively, easy, and low-commitment, and hugely benefits the meetings and thus our internal democracy. If you intend to come and would like to volunteer (!), let us know. Use this form, too, if you have child supervision or accessibility needs, including the need for an ASL interpreter. With our new regular schedule, member-submitted resolutions … Continued Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting 3:00 pm Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting @ Citizen Engagement Laboratory Jan 13 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets The Poor People’s Campaign, A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC) focuses on fighting the four pillars of evil: poverty, systemic racism, the war economy and environmental devastation, and on shifting the moral narrative. PPC supporters in the Bay Area have come together to form the Bay Area PPC Steering Committee and hope you can join this effort and share this information with others who may be interested. AT THE UPCOMING MEETING WE WILL DISCUSS: – Plans for the March 2019 PPC Bay Area Hearing (dates, times, locations, format) – … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 13 @ 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	14 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Jan 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 APTP General Meeting: Organize for #ThePeoplesMarch on MLK Day 7:30 pm APTP General Meeting: Organize for #ThePeoplesMarch on MLK Day @ EastSide Arts Alliance Jan 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Thanks to all who attended our previous planning meetings! We’ve established several committees who are working hard to plan this major event. There’s still lots more work to do and plenty of room for you to join in, if you’ve not yet been able to get involved. We’d like to invite back those of you who are already plugged into a committee and all those who were unable to make it, but would like to help us make this a powerful action. Working committees are policy & program, outreach, logistics … Continued	17	18 Solidarity Action Against Destruction of the Amazon 10:00 am Solidarity Action Against Destruction of the Amazon @ Brazilian Consulate Jan 18 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Join this solidarity rally against the attacks by Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, on the environment, human rights, and social justice, including closing the Environmental Ministry ending indigenous people’s rights removing protections against deforestation of the Amazon labeling activists as terrorists and more. This rally at the Brazilian consulate will emphasize our solidarity with people and all living beings in Brazil and around the world fighting to stop these devastating policies. Info/RSVP 65469	19
20 Sunflower Alliance Meeting 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Jan 20 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Please join us for a special Sunflower Alliance meeting to follow up on our inspiring retreat and make plans for 2019. Old friends and newcomers are equally welcome. We need your participation and your voice! Come early to hang out and share a potluck lunch. 12:30 PM — potluck lunch 1 – 3 PM — meeting65510 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 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. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM … Continued	21	22 Hands Off Our Park: Defend People’s Park From Cops And Chainsaws 11:30 am Hands Off Our Park: Defend People’s Park From Cops And Chainsaws @ People's Park Jan 22 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Last week, over 150 heavily armed police officers came with guns and chainsaws to cut down our trees and trash our homes. Six people – community members and students – were violently awoken and handcuffed at 5 am, on charges of “illegal camping” – because they had put up tents and tarps as shelter from the rain. All of their belongings were seized or trashed. We reject the UC’s claim that this is about sick trees. This is about razing one of Berkeley’s few public spaces to turn it into … Continued	23	24 Rally Against The Attack On The Poor 12:00 pm Rally Against The Attack On The Poor @ San Francisco City Hall Jan 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets As DPW continually confiscates property at the behest of the city govt, the BOS appears poised to enact SB-1045, a dangerous bill meant to conserve homeless folks with a prior history of 5150 holds in mental institutions without their consent. The city puts these efforts into attacking the poor while the Bayview is still without even a full service shelter after decades of broken promises. The people of SF demand housing and appropriate services. Join the Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance in exposing these actions of the city of SF, … Continued Wellstone Club Meeting – Urban Shield, Green New Deal, More 6:00 pm Wellstone Club Meeting – Urban Shield, Green New Deal, More @ Humanist Hall Jan 24 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The topic for the meeting is Looking to 2019. We’ll be having some speakers who will give us an overview of some of the issues that we’ll be addressing in this coming year. The Agenda for the meeting is attached. These include: a. Looking toward 2019/2020; The View from Indivisible Berkeley Daron Sharps b. Update on Urban Shield and Audit the Sheriff John Lindsay Poland, AFSC c. The Oakland Teacher’s Strike “ Jeremy Wolff, Chair of Political Involvement Committee of OEA d. An Environmental Agenda for California … Continued	25 Say NO to the U.S.-orchestrated Coup in Venezuela 5:00 pm Say NO to the U.S.-orchestrated Coup in Venezuela Jan 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Join us 5pm Friday Jan. 25 at 24th & Mission to say NO to the U.S.-orchestrated coup in Venezuela #HandsOffVenezuelaEvent page: https://t.co/KOWQOM5kmZ@answercoalition @MLNow @SFGate @Indybay @elteco @CubaVenezCte pic.twitter.com/KMo3aVV0MS— ANSWER Coalition-SF (@sfANSWER) January 24, 2019 65538	26 Oppose the “Walk for Life”: Stand Up for Women! Trump/Pence Must Go! 12:30 pm Oppose the “Walk for Life”: Stand Up for Women! Trump/Pence Must Go! Jan 26 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets This Saturday he so-called “Walk for Life” – which should be called the March for Female Enslavement & Forced Motherhood – will organize tens of thousands to march down Market Street to demand the end of the right to abortion for women. We call for everyone to join with Refuse Fascism to oppose the “Walk for Life,” to stand up to the anti-abortionists, and to raise the demand that the Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! These people march every year – this year, the stakes are very high. We are two … Continued
27 Oakland: Protest Against Kamala Harris for President Campaign Launch Rally 12:00 pm Oakland: Protest Against Kamala Harris for President Campaign Launch Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 27 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Kamala Harris for President has chosen Oakland for her initial Campaign Launch Rally on January 27, 12:00pm. What are you going to do, Oakland, when Kamala Harris sets up shop in our town to push her phony “progressive prosecutor” schtick? Her campaign slogan at this point is “Kamala Harris for the People,” but we know she is anything but a candidate for the people, all of the people, those who lost their homes to predatory banks, for instance. She claims to be “tough, principled, fearless,” but we know none of that is true. … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 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. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM … Continued	28 CPUC Emergency Hearing re PG&E 2:30 pm CPUC Emergency Hearing re PG&E Jan 28 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Say NO to the CPUC! The California Public Utilities Commission has scheduled a surprise emergency hearing to allow PG&E to pursue debtor-in-possession financing. Please come to the CPUC Auditorium at 505 Van Ness to speak against giving PG&E a $6 billion bailout and allowing it to duck its debts from last year’s Camp Fire. The first item is to determine an emergency situation under which the normal 10-day agenda notice can be waived according to Gov’t Code 11125.5(b). The second and third items grant exemptions from PUC Code sections to … Continued Stop OUSD from voting to close “Roots” Middle School! 6:00 pm Stop OUSD from voting to close “Roots” Middle School! @ La Escuelita Jan 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Oakland School Board has just scheduled a special meeting (less than 72 hours notice) for 6pm on Monday with only one item on the agenda, a final vote in the closure of ROOTS Middle School. The school board can not be allowed to displace our students and families from their neighborhood school. We are asking everyone to help, even if you don’t live in Oakland. 1. Please email the Oakland School Board and ask them to keep ROOTS open and demand that any “redesign” of the school can not … Continued	29 Sunrise Movement General Meeting 6:30 pm Sunrise Movement General Meeting @ Sierra Club Jan 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join the next meeting of the Sunrise Movement, an army of young people fighting to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs. And/or attend one of their Bay Area Green New Deal launch parties to kick off the local Green New Deal campaign. NOTE: If you no longer qualify as a youth, please pass this on to young people you know. S 65550	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.