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3 Reclaiming the Militant Legacy of Labor Day 10:30 am Reclaiming the Militant Legacy of Labor Day Sep 3 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Eugene E Ruyle Labor Day is more than just a holiday or a day for sales. From the first Labor Day March in 1882 in New York City to the the historic Pullman Strike of 1894, Labor Day has its roots in struggle. It was brought to you by the same folks who gave you the weekend: the Labor Movement. Labor Day is the twin of May Day! Let’s reclaim our history! Gene Ruyle is a retired union member with the California Faculty Association, a former delegate to the … Continued The Best of San Francisco Immigrant Film Festival at MCCLA 2:00 pm The Best of San Francisco Immigrant Film Festival at MCCLA @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Sep 3 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets The longest-running film festival on issues surrounding immigration, the San Francisco Immigrant Film Festival, SFImFF, is back with the selection of the best short films from all around the world that were shown during its five editions. The event where refugees, immigrants and exiles find their own voice will be held this Sunday 3rd (September) at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, MCCLA, in San Francisco. This edition will be a movie marathon with 18 short films divided into two screenings, at 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm and admission is … Continued	4	5 Author Reading: Fight Like Hell 6:00 pm Author Reading: Fight Like Hell @ UC Berkeley Labor Center Sep 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets 75518	6 Care 4 Community Action Monthly Assembly 7:00 pm Care 4 Community Action Monthly Assembly Sep 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The public safety system has enormous consequences on the quality of life for Oakland residents, but have you ever wondered why the public safety system works as it does, and who really is in charge? At this month’s Virtual Assembly, we’ll be learning about how the Oakland public safety system works, making sense of the different players, from the Oakland Police Department, the District Attorney, City Council, and more. We’ll break down who they are, their responsibilities, duties, and powers, to understand what they legally can, and cannot, do. Join … Continued	7 Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, 1st Floor Sep 7 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Prominent Agenda Items: 4. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – DOT – Mobile Parking Payment System a. Review and take possible action on the proposed use policy 5. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Fixed Wing Aircraft (with surveillance technology) a. Review and take possible action on a proposed use policy 75501	8	9 Suds, Snacks, and Socialism: Labor on the Move: Prospects and Challenges 2:00 pm Suds, Snacks, and Socialism: Labor on the Move: Prospects and Challenges @ Starry Plough Sep 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/LaborOnTheMove to receive your personal link to participate in this event online Following the Covid disruptions, we are seeing a new militancy among U.S. workers, with an uptick of labor organizing and activity that has not been seen in decades. President Biden was able to stop railway workers from striking last December. Now union members are choosing more progressive leadership. How can they assert themselves independently and throw off the stranglehold by the Democratic Party? Luna Osleger – UAW* member, academic researcher at UC Santa … Continued
10 Solano Stroll 10:00 am Solano Stroll Sep 10 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets 75407 The Role of China in the Anti-imperialist Struggle 10:30 am The Role of China in the Anti-imperialist Struggle @ Online Sep 10 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Sara Flounders President Obama famously announced the US foreign policy pivot to Asia: “To preserve US hegemony, we have to make sure that America writes the rules of the global economy or China will.” The US ruling class has pushed this topic of China to the top of our agenda. US imperialism’s hostility to China is increasing with military threats, new rounds of sanctions, and increasingly wild fabrications. The media have been saturated with allegations of human rights abuses, forced labor, religious persecution and “genocide.” Addressing these topics … Continued Copwatch Community Cookout! 12:00 pm Copwatch Community Cookout! @ Grassroots House Sep 10 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Join us Sunday September 10! Stop by or hang out the whole time. Know Your Rights training 12-2pm. Share a meal in community 2-4pm! You are invited Sunday Sept 10! Delicious lunch grilled and prepped by your copwatch community. A training hosted by copwatch, for first-timers and those wanting a refresher course on their rights. All are welcome. Let’s talk about what’s going on in Berkeley, and beyond. We’ve got updates to share, and we wanna hear what you’re seeing and what you’re working on! RSVP! (RSVP so we can … Continued Green Sunday: The upsurge in labor militancy, from UPS drivers to Starbucks baristas 5:00 pm Green Sunday: The upsurge in labor militancy, from UPS drivers to Starbucks baristas @ Online Sep 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets This forum will reflect on the massive wave of current labor organizing, ranging from campaigns in major logistics (UPS) to industry (auto) to retail service (Trader Joe’s and Starbucks) to education (the University of California system, the Oakland Education Association, and United Teachers Los Angeles). It will be lead by Barry Eidlin, activist and scholar at McGill University, who is renowned for advocacy for, and analysis of, the “rank and file” strategy for building power from the base. Barry Eidlin is Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. He … Continued	11	12 No Funding Reduction for Dept of Violence Prevention 5:30 pm No Funding Reduction for Dept of Violence Prevention @ Oakland City Hall Sep 12 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets 75573 Guaranteed Income Works: Oakland 6:30 pm Guaranteed Income Works: Oakland @ Grand Lake Theater Sep 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Guaranteed Income Works national tour is coming to Oakland on Tuesday, September 12th, with a screening of the new film, It’s Basic. Featured in the Tribeca Film Festival, It’s Basic follows recipients of guaranteed income – monthly cash payments with no strings attached – as they experience the transformative effects of financial stabillity on their lives and families. After the film, Former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf will participate in a roundtable discussion with Michael D. Tubbs, founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, and Alisha Roe, a recipient of … Continued Protest Vallejo Police @ City Council 6:30 pm Protest Vallejo Police @ City Council Sep 12 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/savage_esquire/status/170136907166793349275567	13 Let’s Talk, Let’s Learn Community Series: Shotspotter Gunshot Detection System 6:30 pm Let’s Talk, Let’s Learn Community Series: Shotspotter Gunshot Detection System @ Online Sep 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Online via Zoom (Register: https://forms.gle/3ndS1aHkPnudEXSHA) Join our community to discuss the impact of Shotspotter, an audio surveillance system used to detect gunshots, which was installed in Pasadena in 2022. We will also hear experiences and lessons learned about Shotspotter from other cities across the nation. Speakers: Mohammad Tajsar, ACLU, Pasadena Ed Vogel, Lucy Parsons Labs, Chicago Tracy Rosenberg, Oakland Privacy, Oakland Aje “Je” Amaechi, Freedom to Thrive, Portland Moderated by Florence Annang, POP Pasadena 75541	14	15 CEMTF Climate and Indigenous Leadership 9:00 am CEMTF Climate and Indigenous Leadership @ Online Sep 15 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Save the date for the next virtual summit from the Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force: Climate and Indigenous Leadership. This is the next in the series on Climate, Social Justice, and the Rights of Nature. Save the date. Watch for program details Register here75558	16 Screening: A RISING TIDE: A look at homelessness in Alameda County 2:00 pm Screening: A RISING TIDE: A look at homelessness in Alameda County @ Tara Pitman Library Sep 16 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Through the eyes of children, their families, and the helping industry that has developed from the housing crisis, A Rising Tide follows the strategies of families and service providers struggling with homelessness. The film results from a conversation between the filmmaker and Dr. Christine Ma. Dr. Ma is the Medical Director of two clinics working with houseless children and their families. 75602 Corporate Cannabis and the Economic Divide 6:00 pm Corporate Cannabis and the Economic Divide @ Online Sep 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Presented by The Oakland Greens So weed is legal all over, proving again that profit wins over conservative morality. Are small independent growers, manufacturers, and dispensaries receiving a level playing field? The Green Party has long been an advocate for ending the war on drugs. We also support and encourage from our candidates an economic equalization position when it comes to the economics of cannabis. For September we deep dive into what solutions are out there to balance the playing fields with new systems to promote an economic lift up … Continued
17 India in the Era of Multiipolarity 10:30 am India in the Era of Multiipolarity @ ONLINE Sep 17 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Raj Sahai The Modi led BJP is in its 10th year governing India. India is 5th largest economy, has landed a mobile land rover on Moon’s South pole, improved industrial infrastructure and has reduced absolute poverty. In 2023, India also surpassed China in population, but the per capita income remained low, with unemployment rising, and widened income and wealth disparity under the neoliberal economy. Social tensions have risen with its aggressive Hindutva ideology. India is in BRICS, SCO, and G20, of which it is the president in 2023. With … Continued Massive National Action to End Fossil Fuels 11:00 am Massive National Action to End Fossil Fuels Sep 17 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets If you’re in the Bay Area, you can secure a spot in our charter bus, which will be leaving from the Ashby BART station at 8:30 AM, taking you to and from the action! The United Nations is calling on world leaders to take real steps to lead us off fossil fuels to protect people and the planet. On September 20th in New York, the UN Climate Ambition Summit will gather world leaders to commit to phasing out fossil fuels. The “ticket to entry” will be tangible action to keep fossil fuels … Continued Art & Soul 12:00 pm Art & Soul @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 17 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/Victory4Oakland/status/170343884693399996075611 Omni Commons Tour 3:00 pm Omni Commons Tour @ Omni Commons Sep 17 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 75543 Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: ‘End Times’ by Peter Turchin 5:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: ‘End Times’ by Peter Turchin @ Online Sep 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. For our August and September meetings we are reading End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin. For our August meeting we’ll be reading the first two sections, which is about half of the book. For the September meeting we will finish the book. Back in 2010, when Nature magazine asked leading scientists to provide a ten-year forecast, Turchin used his models to predict that America was in a spiral of social disintegration that would lead to a … Continued	18	19	20 Naomi Klein: “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” 7:00 pm Naomi Klein: “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” @ First Presbyterian Church Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Bestselling author and Intercept contributing editor Naomi Klein’s new book, “Doppelganger,” dives deep into what she calls the “Mirror World”: our destabilized present rife with doubles and confusion, where far-right movements playact solidarity with the working class, AI-generated content blurs the line between genuine and spurious, and so many of us project our own carefully curated digital doubles out into the social media sphere. Klein will be in conversation with Annalee Newitz discussing “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” tomorrow, September 20 at 7 p.m. PDT at the First … Continued	21 Screening: A RISING TIDE: A look at homelessness in Alameda County 3:30 pm Screening: A RISING TIDE: A look at homelessness in Alameda County @ Grand Lake Theater Sep 21 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Through the eyes of children, their families, and the helping industry that has developed from the housing crisis, A Rising Tide follows the strategies of families and service providers struggling with homelessness. The film results from a conversation between the filmmaker and Dr. Christine Ma. Dr. Ma is the Medical Director of two clinics working with houseless children and their families. 75603 Screening: A Clockwork Orange 9:00 pm Screening: A Clockwork Orange @ New Parkway Theater Sep 21 @ 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets A CLOCKWORK ORANGE In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn’t go as planned. Stanley Kubrick’s controversial adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s dystopian nightmare of youthful mayhem and madness remains just as provocative now as it did upon first release. It creates its own language both literally and cinematically, a dark satire of one possible future that seems more likely every day. 75503	22	23 Democracy 101 in Need of an Update and the Role of Third Parties 10:30 am Democracy 101 in Need of an Update and the Role of Third Parties @ Online Sep 23 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Laura Wells The United States was a leading democracy two centuries ago. Now many other nations have leap-frogged over the US by developing better political/electoral systems. As a consequence, they also have better systems for healthcare, higher education, housing, and justice combined with increased personal safety. The locked-down two-party system has joined with the vast inequality of wealth and power in the US in order to raise hurdles to block solutions that people want, create, and support. We will take a good look at those hurdles, many of … Continued Celebrating The Legacy of Eugene Norman “Gus” Newport 1:00 pm Celebrating The Legacy of Eugene Norman “Gus” Newport @ Paramount Theater Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets A memorial service celebrating the legacy of Eugene Norman Newport lovingly known as Gus Newport. Gus Newport dedicated his life to protecting the rights of all people to live in peace and realize their full potential. Gus is best remembered for serving two terms as mayor of Berkeley, where he championed progressive causes — from police reform to rent control — that drew national attention. But Gus fought for social justice long before he was elected to office — and long after his tenure. He was a crusader, both at … Continued Memorial services for Gus Newport 1:00 pm Memorial services for Gus Newport @ Paramount Theater Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/jeanquan/status/170509145213578056875660
24 Mental Health First Volunteer Training 10:00 am Mental Health First Volunteer Training @ Online Sep 24 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets In her journal Octavia E. Butler wrote “All good things must begin.” Abolitionist alternatives to police must begin somewhere, but alternatives can only be sustained when individuals like you come together to build them together. Mental Health First (MH First) is a project of APTP and Oakland’s first and only non-police, non 9-1-1 crisis response line for mental health crises, including but not limited to psychiatric emergencies, substance use support and intimate partner violence safety planning. We are currently dispatching on a case-by-case basis, and have volunteers on the hotline … Continued The Nicaraguan Community Policing Model 12:00 pm The Nicaraguan Community Policing Model @ Online Sep 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Register: bit.ly/NicaSep24 How do the Nicaraguan police sustain one of the lowest crime rates, and highest levels of citizen trust, in all of Latin America? A key answer is their much-heralded community-based model. Please join us for this 90-minute webinar, with Spanish – English interpretation, focused on these key topics: What is the Nicaraguan Community Policing Model? What special programs and approaches are used to protect women from violence? What were the experiences and activities of the police during the 2018 coup attempt? Bring your questions! There will be time to address them, after … Continued	25	26 Screening: HOME IS A HOTEL 7:00 pm Screening: HOME IS A HOTEL @ New Parkway Theater Sep 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets HOME IS A HOTEL From a single mother trying to find her missing daughter to an elderly woman who is going blind and facing eviction, the low-income residents of San Francisco’s single room occupancy housing tell their stories. Across America, cities are struggling with homelessness and housing affordability. How does one decades old solution – cramped Single Room Occupancy units – impact the lives of those who live in them? Home Is a Hotel takes you inside San Francisco’s SRO housing through intimate portraits of their residents filmed over five … Continued	27 Grey Panthers MONTHLY MEETING: AFFORDABLE HOUSING & HEALTH CARE ACTIVISM 1:30 pm Grey Panthers MONTHLY MEETING: AFFORDABLE HOUSING & HEALTH CARE ACTIVISM @ Online Sep 27 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Register Today we highlight our affordable housing and health care activism! we do with two groups: the grassroots California Long Term Supports and Services for All Coalition and East Bay. LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE: PROGRESS IN CALIFORNIA California Long Term Supports and Services Coalition (LTSS4All) – Juan Guerrero (right), Manager of Regional Organizing at Caring Across Generations, will catch us up on the coalition members progress on the designs for a long-term home care and services insurance program coming before the Legislature and the Governor in December. He aims to uplift the care agenda so that … Continued	28	29	30 Omni Commons: Intro to Macrame! 2:00 pm Omni Commons: Intro to Macrame! @ Omni Commons Sep 30 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Welcome curious threads! This is an opportunity to learn threading ropes into patterns to make cozy plant holders! You get to use natural textiles and fibers~ Beginners welcome to this 3 hours workshop 2pm to 5pm! Only 8 seats open for this course! Sliding scale $30-$60 Please send payment to venmo @pallavi-kidambi to secure your spot! 75551

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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.

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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.