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May 2019

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			1	2	3 Civilian oversight of law enforcement workshop Civilian oversight of law enforcement workshop @ Kaiser Center May 3 all-day Tickets In partnership with the BART Office of the Independent Police Auditor and the Berkeley Police Review Commission, NACOLE is excited to announce that it will be holding one of the 2019 Regional Training and Networking events in the Bay Area. We hope that you will be able to join us in Oakland, California on May 3, 2019 at the Kaiser Center. This event is geared toward a variety of audiences, including but not limited to community members, oversight practitioners, justice system stakeholders, and academics. It will seek to address many … Continued	4 Sunrise Bay Area Organizing Training 9:00 am Sunrise Bay Area Organizing Training @ Laney Bistro May 4 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Tickets Sunrise is building a movement of young people to make climate change an urgent political priority and support the #GreenNewDeal to safeguard our generation’s future, create good jobs and transform our economy. Check out more at www.sunrisemovement.org. Register here: https://forms.gle/LC7Ho9JGugEvq8eh9. > WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE TRAINING < 1. A deep dive into the Sunrise strategy, story, and structure that make up the movement’s 4-year plan (This is a 9 hour training, with breakfast and lunch provided. We ask people to attend the whole training to get the full experience, … Continued Build Your Own Internet! v6 – Spring 2019 – West Oakland Edition 2:00 pm Build Your Own Internet! v6 – Spring 2019 – West Oakland Edition @ West Oakland Library May 4 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets What if the internet wasn’t about connecting to Comcast, AT&T, Google, or Facebook? What if it meant connecting directly with your friends, neighbors, and community…? Come over to the Oakland Public Library West Branch’s auditorium for the Build Your Own Internet (BYOI) workshop. Let’s discuss how the internet works, and how you can be part of the People’s Open Network, an open, community-owned mesh network. * No technical expertise needed. Technical curiosity very necessary. *66417
5 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 5 @ 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	6 Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting May 6 @ 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	7 RALLY TO SAVE KAISER GARDENERS! 5:00 pm RALLY TO SAVE KAISER GARDENERS! May 7 @ 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets KAISER HAS LOST ITS WAY. IT’S ON US TO GET KAISER BACK ON TRACK. JOIN US FOR A RALLY TO SAVE KAISER GARDENERS! LABOR, COMMUNITY, ELECTED OFFICIALS AND INTERFAITH LEADERS WILL JOIN US AND SEIU-UHW FOR THEIR MAY 7TH/MAY 8TH ACTIONS AT ONE KAISER PLAZA, OAKLAND, CA AGAINST KAISER PERMANENTE. ONCE KNOWN AS A LEADER FOR GOOD JOBS, KAISER IS NOW AGGRESSIVELY OUTSOURCING JOBS TO LESS EXPERIENCED WORKERS FOR POVERTY WAGES AND NO BENEFITS. TUESDAY, MAY 7TH Â· 5PM: RALLY/PRESS CONFERENCE Â· 6PM: SET UP GARDENING AREA/SET UP TENTS … Continued Let Schaaf and City Council Know it’s Time to Defund OPD! 5:30 pm Let Schaaf and City Council Know it’s Time to Defund OPD! @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza May 7 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Let Libby Schaaf know how we can fix Oakland’s broken budget when she presents her budget at the Oakland City Council Meeting on May 7th. Tell her we need to Defund OPD and Invest in Community!! [Event] Defund OPD and Invest in Communityhttps://t.co/aEDPOYzE6Z— Indybay (@Indybay) May 6, 2019 66422	8 Uber/Lyft Strike Uber/Lyft Strike May 8 all-day Tickets Don’t use #uber, #lyft tomorrow! Drivers on strike! #LA, #SanDiego, #SanFrancisco, #Chicago, #Atlanta, #Connecticut, #WashingtonDC, #Philadelphia, #NewYork, #Boston pic.twitter.com/bd66vTVnGk— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) May 8, 2019 66490 Billionaires Can’t Teach Our Kids! 5:00 pm Billionaires Can’t Teach Our Kids! May 8 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets On May 8th, the NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) will hold its annual conference in Oakland. NSVF — funded by billionaire donors is a venture capital fund that works to expand charter school proliferation in local communities like Oakland. Unchecked charter growth already costs OUSD schools over $57 million a year. Oakland kids deserve better — and Oakland won’t let NSVF hold a conference in our Town without a response. Join us in the streets on May 8th as the conference begins, and we’ll tell NSVF to get out of … Continued Ella Baker General Meeting 6:00 pm Ella Baker General Meeting @ San Antonio Senior Center May 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Ella Baker Center’s monthly member meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 8th; the second week of May in order to accommodate for the May Day rally happening tomorrow, Wednesday, May 1st. This month’s member meeting will include a new member orientation. If you are interested in learning about our membership, the Ella Baker Center in general, or what is happening with criminal justice reform at a state level we invite you to join us. This is an open meeting and a free dinner will be provided. Please join … Continued Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons May 8 @ 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	9	10	11 ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group 4:30 pm ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons May 11 @ 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
12 Sunflower Alliance Meeting 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center May 12 @ 1:00 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! 66460 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 12 @ 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	13 Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance 6:30 pm Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance @ Omni Commons May 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Meeting of homeless activists and homed supporters from around the Bay Area. Resist!66465 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room May 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 Still Fighting for Justice: Saleem Tindle 1:00 pm Still Fighting for Justice: Saleem Tindle @ West Oakland BART May 14 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets 66458	15	16	17	18 Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance – You Are Not A Loan 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance – You Are Not A Loan @ Omni Commons May 18 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Come get connected with SDBA’s projects – we have exciting work to do in 2019! Our medical debt erasure campaign with RIP Medical Debt is doing well (but needs more signal-boosting). We joined another Alameda County campaign, and together we’re more than halfway to our minimum goal. Our donation page is here. The online version of our flyer, with live links, is here. Our FAQ is here. We can also link you to a printable version of the flyer if you have places to hand them out. Continuing our discussion group on new economic thinking. … Continued
19 Extinction Rebellion: East Bay general meeting 2:00 pm Extinction Rebellion: East Bay general meeting @ South Berkeley Senior Center May 19 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets We have taken your suggestions, reflections and feedback in order to craft an agenda for creating, together, a rebellious summer of nonviolent direct action. As many of you know, the UN just recently released a report showing that one million or more species are at risk of extinction due to a number of factors, not the least of which is climate change. We are in the midst of an emergency that requires us to rebel against business-as-usual. Are you ready? We need rebels of all kinds! Bring your energy, your … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 19 @ 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	20 Earth Strike Bay Area Meeting 6:00 pm Earth Strike Bay Area Meeting @ Longhaul May 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Twitter: @EarthStrikeSFBA Facebook: @EarthStrikeBA We, the people of the world, are striking to save our planet. Leading climate scientists have warned that we only have until 2030 to prevent global temperature increases from exceeding 1.5ºC. At that time, many effects of Climate Change will be irreversible, and the consequences will be dire. If the global average temperature increases reach 2°C, the results will be catastrophic; famine, droughts, floods, wildfires, the spread of infectious diseases and mass extinction– all on an unprecedented global scale. It would mean the collapse of the … Continued Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance 6:30 pm Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance @ Omni Commons May 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Meeting of homeless activists and homed supporters from around the Bay Area. Resist!66465 Terry Amons Rally & Speak Out at Pittsburg City Council 6:30 pm Terry Amons Rally & Speak Out at Pittsburg City Council @ Pittsburg City Council May 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Monday, May 20, 2019 6:30 pm SHARP Rally 7:00pm Speakout During Public Comment Period at the City Council Meeting Pittsburg City Council 65 Civic Ave Pittsburg, CA 94565 (One block North on Railroad Ave Exit off HWY 4) (Railroad Drive Stop at End of Line BART Extension Trolley) Contact Info: 510-674-8181 or 925-565-8393 or email: oscargrantcomittee.ogc@gmail.com Demand Number One: FIRE KILLER COP DILLON TINDALL The people of Pittsburg are NOT safe with trigger happy cop Dillon Tindall on the police force. He has shown bad judgement in killing Terry Amons … Continued	21 Anti-Chevron Day: Confronting Corporate Bullies 12:00 pm Anti-Chevron Day: Confronting Corporate Bullies @ Chevron Refinery, Gate 19 May 21 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Join Amazon Watch, Diablo Rising Tide, Greenpeace USA, Idle No More SF Bay, and Sunflower Alliance in Richmond at Chevron’s gates to protest its brutal violations of environmental and human rights at home and all over the world. Speakers include: Amazon Watch Idle No More SF Bay Stand.Earth Andres Soto and more More info (if details aren’t up yet, check back in a few hours) 66514 Public Bank of the East Bay 6:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ East Bay For Everyone May 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come join us make public banking happen! Local public banking bill moves ahead May update: AB 857 has cleared all Assembly committees and will be coming up for an Assembly floor vote in late May. Local public banking is coming to California! State Assembly Bill 857, which will enable cities and counties to more easily establish their own banks, passed two crucial votes this week: on Monday, the Assembly Banking and Finance committee voted to pass it, and on Wednesday, the Assembly Local Government committee did the same. Next, our … Continued Acquiring an Armored Vehicle – Oakland City Council 6:30 pm Acquiring an Armored Vehicle – Oakland City Council @ Oakland City Hall May 21 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Agenda Item 12 (Acquisition of Bearcat armored vehicle) The Josh Pawlik killing in March 2018 is a key event conditioning responses to this request to approve the acquisition of a second Bearcat. In that event, OPD deployed its existing Bearcat, as well as officers armed with AR-15 assault rifles. Compliance Director Robert Warshaw and the Executive Force Review Board pointed out that “officers did not use the armored vehicle as cover. They utilized it as a shooting platform.” (see attached, p. 2) The killing was wholly preventable. Yet OPD’s review … Continued	22	23 Toward a Regional Climate Emergency Mobilization 5:00 pm Toward a Regional Climate Emergency Mobilization @ New Berkeley City Hall, 6th Floor May 23 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Now that the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, and San Francisco have committed to emergency climate mobilization, regional action is the necessary next step. City council members in Berkeley and Richmond are leading an effort to organize a regional meeting next fall, to start planning specific Bay Area-wide strategies for a just transition to a green economy. The goals of this campaign are to: Pass Climate Emergency Declarations and Fossil Fuel Free Resolutions with explicit commitments to an emergency climate mobilization and just transition across municipalities and regulatory bodies of … Continued	24 Friday’s for the Future #FridaysForFuture 10:00 am Friday’s for the Future #FridaysForFuture @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre May 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets By Young Adults from St. Paul’s Episcopal School About #FridaysForFuture #FridaysForFuture is a movement that began in August 2018, after 15 years old Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish parliament every schoolday for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. She posted what she was doing on Instagram and Twitter and it soon went viral. On the 8th of September, Greta decided to continue striking every Friday until the Swedish policies provided a safe pathway well under 2-degree C, i.e. in line … Continued	25 Families Belong Together \| Peaceful Action Protest 11:30 am Families Belong Together \| Peaceful Action Protest May 25 @ 11:30 am – 4:30 pm Tickets The U.S. government lost track of some 1,475 immigrant children, perhaps more, who were placed in sponsor homes. At least 389 migrant children have been separated from their families since a federal judge ruled to stop the practice in June 2018. Families are still being separated at an alarming rate. Babies and young children continue to be exposed to inhumane conditions. WE MUST CONTINUE TO BRING AWARENESS OF THIS ISSUE TO OUR COMMUNITIES AND TO MAKE A STAND AGAINST THIS PRACTICE. Please join us for a PEACEFUL PROTEST on SATURDAY, … Continued Earth Strike: Now or Never Rally 3:00 pm Earth Strike: Now or Never Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 25 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Governments worldwide, especially the US, are failing to act on climate change. Hundreds of millions if not billions will face the wrath of natural disasters that an be prevented through cooperative action. They won’t listen – we need to force them. Rally the world for a general strike!66592
26 TANC General Assembly 3:00 pm TANC General Assembly @ Omni Commons May 26 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets TANC General Assembly! Our general assemblies are open and free for anyone to join. We’ll be discussing ongoing projects: tenant organizing, houseless organizing, public housing organizing and more. Rent is too high, and we’ve got to organize and fight against marketized housing. Come through and let’s get organized against the housing market! – – – – – – – – – – – – We are a group of Bay Area tenants who are fed up with rising rents, evictions, and harassment at the hands of landlords. We are fed … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 26 @ 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	27 Earth Strike Bay Area Meeting 6:00 pm Earth Strike Bay Area Meeting @ Longhaul May 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Twitter: @EarthStrikeSFBA Facebook: @EarthStrikeBA We, the people of the world, are striking to save our planet. Leading climate scientists have warned that we only have until 2030 to prevent global temperature increases from exceeding 1.5ºC. At that time, many effects of Climate Change will be irreversible, and the consequences will be dire. If the global average temperature increases reach 2°C, the results will be catastrophic; famine, droughts, floods, wildfires, the spread of infectious diseases and mass extinction– all on an unprecedented global scale. It would mean the collapse of the … Continued Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance 6:30 pm Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance @ Omni Commons May 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Meeting of homeless activists and homed supporters from around the Bay Area. Resist!66465	28	29 Chevron: Stop Plan for Oil Drilling in the Arctic! 9:30 am Chevron: Stop Plan for Oil Drilling in the Arctic! @ Chevron Park Auditorium May 29 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am Tickets Join the SF Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club — and many others — outside the annual Chevron shareholders meeting. We’ll tell Chevron not to move forward with a plan they’re considering to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There are no words. Just come. Please bring signs, water, and good energy. We will meet at the plaza across the street near Peet’s Coffee. There is no parking in front of Chevron Park, but there is parking at the plaza where we will convene. Carpool: If you … Continued	30 Earthstrike 10:00 am Earthstrike @ Downtown Berkeley Starbucks May 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Meeting tomorrow 10am @ Downtown Berkeley Starbucks til whenever just to hang out, do art, talk about general plans.— Earth Strike California (@EarthStrikeSFBA) May 30, 2019 66631	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.