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					1	2 East Bay DSA General Membership Meeting 4:00 pm East Bay DSA General Membership Meeting @ Omni Commons Feb 2 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets East Bay DSA’s general meetings (GMs) are typically 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 will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please … Continued Strike Debt Bay Area: You Are Not a Loan! 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: You Are Not a Loan! @ Omni Commons Feb 2 @ 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
3 SURJ Bay Area Lobby Visit Workshop 1:00 pm SURJ Bay Area Lobby Visit Workshop Feb 3 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets The Policy Working Group is excited to invite you to our upcoming, SURJ Bay Area Lobby Visit Workshop, part two of our legislative workshop series! Workshop participants can expect to… -Learn about lobby visits and how they fit into SURJ’s larger framework -Practice speaking about policy to a legislative staffer -Hear about new opportunities to engage in the legislative process with SURJ -Hear from Essie Justice Group on their 2019 policy priorities Tickets are sliding scale, $0 – $10. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. This … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 3 @ 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	4 Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Feb 4 @ 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	5	6 Intro to SURJ Meeting (Show Up for Racial Justice) 6:45 pm Intro to SURJ Meeting (Show Up for Racial Justice) @ Sierra Club Feb 6 @ 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.65518 Bread for Ed Organizing Meeting 7:00 pm Bread for Ed Organizing Meeting @ Oakland Education Association Feb 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Oakland teachers are gearing up for a likely strike to win the schools their students deserve! But they need your support to win—and you can help through the Bread for Ed campaign. Bread for Ed will provide meals at solidarity schools, food trucks at picket lines, and more. There are 37,000 students and around 3,000 members of the Oakland Educators Association in this fight to defend the public school in Oakland. The vast majority of these students depend on free or reduced lunches, so this project is a critical show … Continued	7	8 Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting 6:30 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting @ Omni Commons Feb 8 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Please be on time, so we can start the meeting early. We’ll be discussing and planning our next direct action for the month of February, and sharing community updates.65608	9 ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group 4:30 pm ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons Feb 9 @ 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
10 Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting 3:00 pm Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting @ Citizen Engagement Lab Feb 10 @ 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. In the PPC, people directly impacted by the 4 pillars of evil are central in our work. We look forward to your … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 10 @ 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 Prep Meeting for March to Oily Wells for Fossil Fuel Freedom 3:00 pm Prep Meeting for March to Oily Wells for Fossil Fuel Freedom Feb 10 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Join 350 Silicon Valley in a San Francisco meeting to prepare for its two-day, 34-mile March for Fossil Fuel Freedom, starting in Palo Alto and ending with direct action against Oily Wells (Fargo), one of the biggest funders of fossil fuel. Get march updates, and join Action Teams to plan entertainment and meals for our “Stagecoach Stops”; work on march and rally logistics; begin implementing outreach and publicity strategy; and more. Partners, please plan to send a representative – all hands on deck! Note that this meeting will be in a … Continued Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly 7:30 pm Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Feb 10 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets John Lindsay-Poland will be addressing the Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors Task Force Recommendations for reconstituting Urban shield. Doors open at 7. We start promptly at 7:30. Questions? Email info@indivisibleberkeley.org.65603	11 Public Bank East Bay General Membership Meeting 5:30 pm Public Bank East Bay General Membership Meeting @ East Bay for Everyone Feb 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Next Organizers’ Meeting: Come Get Involved in the Effort to Create a Regional Public Bank! Working Group Meetings: Some of our working groups meet between organizers’ meetings, and others just confer by phone and email. You can plug into any one of these: Outreach to Organizations Outreach to Individuals Digital Outreach Advocacy (working with politicians) Governance California Public Banking Alliance Operations Just send us a note and we’ll help you get connected to the work you want to do. The Advocacy Working Group meets with public officials, government staff and other stakeholders … Continued Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Feb 11 @ 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	12	13 Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Feb 13 @ 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 7:00 pm No Coal In Richmond @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Feb 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Coal outta Richmond! Mile-long coal trains of 100 open railcars run through Richmond’s residential neighborhoods and are unloaded at the Levin-Richmond Terminal, only a few blocks from homes, schools, and workplaces. As we transition to a fossil-free future, the coal industry is maintaining its profits by increasing exports. Coal-burning power plants in China, Korea and Japan make West Coast ports such as Richmond prime targets for coal exports. These power plants have been cited as being a main reason for the increase in the carbon that is accelerating our climate … Continued	14	15 Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting 6:30 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting @ Omni Commons Feb 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Please be on time, so we can start the meeting early. We’ll be discussing and planning our next direct action for the month of February, and sharing community updates.65608	16
17 Sunflower Alliance 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Feb 17 @ 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 future plans and identify upcoming actions we can take to fight fossil fuels and work for a just and sustainable world. 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 potluck lunch Meeting 1-3 65614 Morality, Christianity, and the History of Policing 1:30 pm Morality, Christianity, and the History of Policing @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Feb 17 @ 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets ALTERNATIVES TO POLICING WORKSHOP 2 Let’s talk about the “common sense” ideas about crime, morality, and safety that shape and limit how we think about policing and community safety. Many of these ideas are profoundly influenced by a particular brand of Christianity that has dominated in this country, a version of the faith that served to justify genocide and slavery and continues to uphold white supremacy in ways that are sometimes overt but more often subtle and even innocuous-seeming. How can we begin to call these “common sense” ideas into … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 17 @ 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 #129 7:00 pm Slingshot new volunteer meeting / article brainstorm for issue #129 @ Longhaul Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Kick-off meeting to create Slingshot issue #129. Slingshot is an independent radical newspaper published in Berkeley since 1988. * Brainstorm articles for next issue * Discussion forum for your article ideas * 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 #129 is due out on April 20, 2019 Deadline for Issue #129 is April 6, 2019 65630	18 Northern California No Coal Alliance 6:00 pm Northern California No Coal Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Feb 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Help launch a Bay-Area-wide movement to keep coal out of our communities! Oakland, Richmond, and Vallejo residents have been fighting coal export terminals — already operating or threatening to open — for years. Now the “No Coal” movement is coming together on a regional level to keep coal out of Northern California. People from the communities fighting coal will come together to share experiences and make plans. Everyone is welcome. 65649	19 Socialist Night School: Strikes! 7:00 pm Socialist Night School: Strikes! @ East Bay Community Space Feb 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets East Bay DSA’s Socialist Night School continues its 2019 Winter Session with a class examining strikes. Over the last year there has been a wave of successful teacher strikes, and our local Oakland Education Association recently voted to authorize a strike. But how do strikes figure into the larger picture of class struggle and building working class power? And what lessons can we learn from historical strikes? Please join us on Tuesday, February 19 to discuss these questions and more! Details and readings coming soon! Accessibility: Wheelchair-accessible entrance and restrooms … Continued	20 Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Feb 20 all-day Tickets UC Berkeley is hosting influential scholars and social movement leaders from Brazil and the United States—homes to the two largest Black populations outside the continent of Africa. Guest Speakers include: Cat Brooks (Anti Police-Terror Project) Ericka Huggins (Black Panther Party) Vilma Reis (Movimento de Mulheres Negras) Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter) Asha Ransby-Sporn (Black Youth Project 100) Djamila Ribeiro (Movimento de Feministas Negras) Andreia Beatriz & Hamilton Borges dos Santos (Reaja ou Será Mort@) Christen Smith (UT Austin) Tina Sacks, Leigh Raiford & john a. powell (UC Berkeley) Camila de … Continued APTP General Meeting 7:30 pm APTP General Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Feb 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Come out to our next general meeting to celebrate the volunteers who made Reclaim MLK Day possible and to get a recap of the highlights from that day!65632 Indivisible Berkeley: Economic Justice Team 7:30 pm Indivisible Berkeley: Economic Justice Team Feb 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join our team as we plan more individual divestment workshops, talk about CA state legislation, and more! RSVP65722	21 Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Feb 21 all-day Tickets UC Berkeley is hosting influential scholars and social movement leaders from Brazil and the United States—homes to the two largest Black populations outside the continent of Africa. Guest Speakers include: Cat Brooks (Anti Police-Terror Project) Ericka Huggins (Black Panther Party) Vilma Reis (Movimento de Mulheres Negras) Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter) Asha Ransby-Sporn (Black Youth Project 100) Djamila Ribeiro (Movimento de Feministas Negras) Andreia Beatriz & Hamilton Borges dos Santos (Reaja ou Será Mort@) Christen Smith (UT Austin) Tina Sacks, Leigh Raiford & john a. powell (UC Berkeley) Camila de … Continued	22 Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Feb 22 all-day Tickets UC Berkeley is hosting influential scholars and social movement leaders from Brazil and the United States—homes to the two largest Black populations outside the continent of Africa. Guest Speakers include: Cat Brooks (Anti Police-Terror Project) Ericka Huggins (Black Panther Party) Vilma Reis (Movimento de Mulheres Negras) Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter) Asha Ransby-Sporn (Black Youth Project 100) Djamila Ribeiro (Movimento de Feministas Negras) Andreia Beatriz & Hamilton Borges dos Santos (Reaja ou Será Mort@) Christen Smith (UT Austin) Tina Sacks, Leigh Raiford & john a. powell (UC Berkeley) Camila de … Continued	23 Waffles & Zapatismo 10:00 am Waffles & Zapatismo @ Omni Commons Feb 23 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Waffles & Zapatismo is a free space for learning about and discussing the history, ideas, values and practices of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, EZLN or Zapatistas. We serve waffles at the start of the class to those who want them.65047 Richmond Progressive Alliance Meeting 2:00 pm Richmond Progressive Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Feb 23 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets RPA membership meeting Mark your calendars for the next RPA membership meeting! All RPA members are welcome. Join here. Membership can be renewed online or at the door. Agenda will be emailed prior to the meeting. 65625 Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting 6:30 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting @ Omni Commons Feb 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Please be on time, so we can start the meeting early. We’ll be discussing and planning our next direct action for the month of February, and sharing community updates.65608
24 Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting 3:00 pm Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting @ Omni Commons Feb 24 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 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. In the PPC, people directly impacted by the 4 pillars of evil are central in our work. We look forward to your … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 24 @ 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 TANC General Assembly 3:00 pm TANC General Assembly @ Omni Commons Feb 24 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets This month we’re continuing to try out a new day/time for our assembly: Sunday afternoon! For this February assembly, we’ll be preparing to protest: TANC is planning a rally for sometime in the next couple months. We’ll also be brainstorming a longer-term project to work with the public housing. We’ll also be checking up on other projects, including tenant councils. Let’s get organized against the Bay Area housing market! Our general assemblies are open and free for anyone to join. We’ll be discussing ongoing projects: tenant organizing, houseless organizing, public … Continued	25	26	27 Focus Group on Homelessless 1:00 pm Focus Group on Homelessless Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets 65740	28

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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.