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						1 May Day Oakland – Car Caravan and Rally 2:30 pm May Day Oakland – Car Caravan and Rally @ Lake Merritt BART Parking Lot May 1 @ 2:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets From copy violence to military violence to workers’ rights, SOLIDARITY is our strength! People Over Profit! Educate! Agitate! Organize! 5pm Rally in West Oakland at a to-be-disclosed location. 68998 Abolish The Police Rally 8:00 pm Abolish The Police Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 1 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets No Livestreaming. No Pictures. No Snitches. Wear All Black. Group Up, Mask Up. Bring Some Soup for your Family. 😉 68975
2	3 UC Cops Off Campus UC Cops Off Campus @ UC Berkeley May 3 all-day Tickets https://twitter.com/_vicne/status/138676293826697216068995	4	5	6 Hey MTC! Stop starving our transit! Unlock our transit money NOW! 12:30 pm Hey MTC! Stop starving our transit! Unlock our transit money NOW! @ Transbay Terminal Entrance by the Gondola May 6 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Bay Area transit services are passing up thousands of riders each day and yet the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is holding back $1.67 billion in federal stimulus funds which could be used right now to restore service. They intend to hold back the American Rescue Plan (ARP) instead of using this money for its intended purpose: to restore transit service and the economy and hire more union drivers. Not only is this a misuse of the stimulus funds, but MTC’s actions will also lead to a self-created crisis in transit … Continued	7 #DefundLine3 Day of Action 9:00 am #DefundLine3 Day of Action May 7 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets For years, Indigenous communities and allies have been opposing the construction of the Line 3 pipeline, which would transport nearly one million barrels of dirty tar sands oil – every single day. Enbridge Energy, the company building the pipeline, has a terrible environmental track record, and this pipeline would violate several treaties with indigenous communities. Indigenous-led water protectors and allies in Minnesota are taking action every day to stop the construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline – confronting bulldozers, decision-makers, and the politicians that are putting profit before people. Pipelines … Continued	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15 All Out for Palestine 2:00 pm All Out for Palestine May 15 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 69038 Justice 4 Mario Gonzalez – Rally 5:00 pm Justice 4 Mario Gonzalez – Rally May 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Please bring your signs and face masks to stand in solidarity against police terror. 69023
16	17	18 Solidary Action for Palestine 4:00 pm Solidary Action for Palestine @ Israeli Consulate May 18 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/DSAEastBay/status/139439260713696870569042	19 Berkeley Press Conference & Protest: This is NOT a re-imagining budget 12:00 pm Berkeley Press Conference & Protest: This is NOT a re-imagining budget @ New City Hall May 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets “This is NOT a re-imagining budget” Berkeley Copwatch * Berkeley Tenants Union * Berkeley Community Safety Coalition * Cops off Campus * Where Do We Go Berkeley * Members of the Re-Imagining Public Safety Task force and the Specialized Care Unit Task Force * South Berkeley Mutual Aid Project * Latinos Unidos de Berkeley * Friends of Adeline Berkeley community organizations will collectively oppose the City Manager’s budget proposal at a press conference this Wednesday, May 19th at 12 noon on the steps of City Hall We’ve got something to … Continued	20	21 Richmond Anti-Chevron Day Protest 12:00 pm Richmond Anti-Chevron Day Protest @ Chevron Richmond Refinery, Castro St. gate May 21 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Join frontline neighbors and many thousands of others around the globe for the 8th annual Global Anti-Chevron Day. Communities from Richmond to Ecuador to Myanmar will come together in advance of Chevron’s annual shareholders’ meeting to share stories about the impact of Chevron’s environmental destruction, human rights violations, and corruption of our politics. For over a century, Chevron has poisoned residents of Richmond and the whole S.F. Bay Area with deadly air pollution from its refinery. Its influence over Richmond politics and nonprofits is legendary—but we’re winning victories in fighting it! … Continued	22 Resistance Until Liberation: Rally & Protest 11:00 am Resistance Until Liberation: Rally & Protest May 22 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets 11 am 16th & Mission St, SF March to Civic Center 1 pm Rally Civic center, SF SPONSORED BY: NorCal Islamic Council Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) American Muslims for Palestine, Bay Area Islamophobia Studies Center Jewish Voice for Peace – Bay Area Palestinian Youth Movement International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network Al-Awda US Palestinian Community Network Answer Coalition WWP ICNA Council for Social Justice Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance QUIT! CODEPINK-SF 69051
23	24	25 Defend People’s Park Kitchen! 7:00 am Defend People’s Park Kitchen! @ People's Park May 25 @ 7:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets 69054	26 Protest at Chevron HQ! Free Myanmar! 11:00 am Protest at Chevron HQ! Free Myanmar! May 26 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets May 26 is the Chevron (US) annual shareholder meeting date and May 28th is the Total (France) annual shareholder meeting date. Activists in the US and France have declared those dates as global days of action against oil companies in Myanmar. In the US, activists in San Francisco Bay Area are protesting at the Chevron headquarters during the Chevron sharing holder’s meeting on May26th to pressure Chevron to stop paying Myanmar Military due to the coup in the country. There will be protests in other Chevron facilities across the US … Continued	27 DSA: Defund OPD/Refund Oakland Phonebank! 6:00 pm DSA: Defund OPD/Refund Oakland Phonebank! @ Online May 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Oakland budget is currently being negotiated in City Hall and we have until June 30th to make sure elected officials support defunding the police and refunding of services, housing, education, arts, mental health services, and other programs that enhance Black lives and Oakland’s working class communities. No experience is necessary! Making calls is easy, and there will be zoom training before you start. This is a great event for anyone whether you’re new to political campaigns or a seasoned organizer! Phone banking is also a great activity you can … Continued	28	29 Block the Boat Action Block the Boat Action May 29 all-day Tickets https://twitter.com/AROCBayArea/status/139652895611587789369056
30 Love, Heal, Transform: One year memorial of the San Quentin COVID19 Outbreak 2:00 pm Love, Heal, Transform: One year memorial of the San Quentin COVID19 Outbreak @ an Quentin East (Main) Gate May 30 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Join the interfaith community and loved ones impacted by incarceration in prayer and reflection on the 1st Anniversary of the San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, the largest outbreak in the nation leading to the deaths of 28 people incarcerated inside San Quentin and over 222 deaths in California jails, prisons and detention centers. This will be a sacred space for grief, mourning, healing, and acknowledgment. They will memorialize lives lost and offer prayers for those still incarcerated and their families, who continue to live at risk of COVID and other infectious … Continued	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.