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New Years Eve Block Party 6:00 am
New Years Eve Block Party @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Jan 1 @ 6:00 am – 8:30 am
Street block to cell block, lets ring in the New Year Oakland style – against the racist prison system! An uncompromising event organized by people of color in solidarity with all those behind bars and all those facing state repression. Poster and more info. Sponsorship unknown. 45849
Oscar Grant Vigil. “We Are All Oscar Grant.” 8:00 pm
Oscar Grant Vigil. “We Are All Oscar Grant.” @ Fruitvale Bart Station
Jan 1 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Come Meet us at the Grant Station for the 4th annual vigil for Oscar Grant to be held on New Year’s Day at the Grant Station (Fruitvale BART Station). Join Oscar Grant family on this Day of Remembrance! WE ARE ALL OSCAR GRANT SPEAK OUT • Family of murdered victims • Chairman Fred Hampton Jr • Community Activist LIVE Performances of • Libation • African-Native-Latino Ceremony • Poetry, music, spoken word • Candle lighting, Balloon Releasing • Words of inspiration Min. Keith Muhammad • Much More! Guest Appearances: Donald E. … Continued
Tell J. P. Morgan Chase Bank to STOP STEALING NELLS’ HOME!!! 12:30 am
Tell J. P. Morgan Chase Bank to STOP STEALING NELLS’ HOME!!! @ Chase Bank
Feb 1 @ 12:30 am – 1:30 am
Nell Myhand was locked out of her home on Tuesday 1/22/2013 after Chase foreclosed and sold her home to Freddie Mac instead of modifying her loan to make it affordable. Join us on Thursday 1/31/2013, from 4:30 -5:30 pm at 1330 Broadway St (12th St BART) to protest this injustice and send Chase the message to work with Nell. For regular updates go to www.nellmyhand.net Show your support – Sign Nell’s petition here; – phone/fax/e-mail blast Today! (sample RAP at end) Chase Bank CEO Jamie Dimon Tel: 212-270-1111; Fax: 212-270-1121; … Continued
OO Labor Solidarity Committee 2:00 am
OO Labor Solidarity Committee @ Ole Ole Burrito Express (between Clay & Jefferson)
Feb 1 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.” We will be brainstorming our next major action, an attempt to raise holy hell over the fact that the minimum wage in Oakland is still $8.00, while in San Francisco it is $10.55 and in San Jose it is $10.00. Plus the fact that Oakland is willing to insist on its own workers and those with contracts to the city being paid a living wage but not private sector workers. Please come join us and add your voice! We … Continued
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OCCUPY DENVER CALLS ON ALL AVAILABLE OCCUPY NETWORKS TO MOBILIZE AGAINST KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE JANUARY 7TH. 5:00 pm
OCCUPY DENVER CALLS ON ALL AVAILABLE OCCUPY NETWORKS TO MOBILIZE AGAINST KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE JANUARY 7TH. @ Southeast Texas
Jan 3 @ 5:00 pm – Jan 9 @ 2:00 am
Occupy Denver Calls On All Available Occupy Networks to Mobilize Against Keystone XL Pipeline January 7th. Join us for another mass action in Southeast Texas on Monday, January 7th, including a 3 day training camp leading up to the big event. Our trainings and events are open and include roles for everyone ready to defend our homes from toxic tar sands. More info here. RSVP right now so we can know how many people to expect. SCHEDULE (Jan. 3rd – 8th): Thursday, Jan. 3rd – Travel & Arrival Friday, Jan. … Continued
Web Committee Meeting 6:00 pm
Web Committee Meeting @ The Holdout
Jan 3 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
New schedule and additional location! Bi-Monthly meetings to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org. We meet the first Thursday of the month at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave Oakland,CA 94612 @ 6PM And the third Sunday of the month at 19th Street / Rashida Muhammad Street (one block away from 19th Street/Telegraph avenue) @ 2PM If interested on helping us out, please come and join us!   Web@occupyoakland.org  27484
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OO Labor Solidarity Committee 2:00 am
OO Labor Solidarity Committee @ San Francisco Pizza
Jan 4 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.” Topics may include labor support for Alan Blueford, the Airport Workers’ struggle, The Mi Pueblo workers’ struggle, ILWU and ILA happenings, Drone Coalition actions, what’s happening with the SF19, and whatever else might be happening. Please check back Wednesday night or Thursday for the location of our meeting45940
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Autonomous Prison Solidarity Action & Support 3:00 am
Autonomous Prison Solidarity Action & Support @ Outside the Santa Rita Jail
Jan 5 @ 3:00 am – 7:00 am
More information: Facebook Event. WHAT: Bring an open heart, and material support to offer inmates who may be released during this time and any loved ones who may be there visiting current inmates. HOW: Some suggestions include bringing food, drinks, smokes, cell phone to make calls, clothes, info/resources for both immediate and ongoing needs post-incarceration, ears to listen, BART/bus fare, an extra sweater/jacket/shirt, etc. WHY: FtP! Fuck the Prison industrial complex and all tools of oppression!!! Mutual aid, because “inside or outside, we’re all on the same side.” 45955
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting 7:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Hall, West Oakland
Jan 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
We will also be planning our actions for the new year in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us! Website. Please check back here closer to January 5th in case the location for this meeting changes!45910
IDLE NO MORE! Flashmob Dance. 10:00 pm
IDLE NO MORE! Flashmob Dance. @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Jan 5 @ 10:00 pm – Jan 6 @ 1:00 am
Facebook event. SPECIAL CALL TO ALL NATIVE DANCERS AND SINGERS! Please come with your drums, regalia, and songs in honor and prayerful support of Chief Spence and First Nation peoples. We will arrange for any gifts and offerings for Chief Theresa Spence to get to her. “Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water. Colonization continues through attacks to Indigenous rights and damage to the land and water. We must repair these violations, live … Continued
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Peace & Freedom Party has as Holiday Party 12:00 am
Peace & Freedom Party has as Holiday Party @ Niebyl-Proctor Library
Jan 6 @ 12:00 am – 4:00 am
Belated Holiday Party! Everyone invited! Of particular interest to those who support alternatives to the two capitalist Parties.45954
Occupy Oakland General Assembly 2:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ 19th and Telegraph
Jan 6 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Bay Area StrikeDebt Meeting — Help Plan our Debtor’s Assembly & Future Actions 12:00 am
Bay Area StrikeDebt Meeting — Help Plan our Debtor’s Assembly & Future Actions @ San Francisco Pizza
Jan 7 @ 12:00 am – 1:30 am
We are planning our Debtor’s Assembly, currently scheduled for February 2nd. We will also talk more about debt, The StrikeDebt Movement, the Rolling Jubilee (currently positioned to retire $10,000,000 in medical debt) and how we can help build a nationwide and even worldwide movement to fight the one percent’s stranglehold on the rest of us through debt obligations. If you’d like to help plan the fight against student debt, medical debt, consumer debt and/or mortgage debt, come join us.45859
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ICE Detention Policy Hearing. 9:00 pm
ICE Detention Policy Hearing. @ Board of Supervisors Chamber, 5th floor
Jan 10 @ 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors Public Protection Committee will be holding a hearing on immigration detainers (S-Comm). Background article. Keep our Families Together, End ICE Holds in Alameda County! Join us at the Alameda County Public Protection Committee Hearing on “ICE Detainers” Please join us on January 10th at the Alameda County Public Protection committee hearing on “ICE Detainers”. Community members with advocates and organizers will offer testimony on the devastating impacts of detention & deportation and urge Alameda County to adopt a new policy that ends the enforcement … Continued
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OO Labor Solidarity Committee 2:00 am
OO Labor Solidarity Committee @ UNITE HERE Offices, 2nd floor
Jan 11 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.” We will discussing what our next major action / effort / fight is to be. Please come join us and add your voice! We will also be discussing Labor related efforts such as the Mi Pueblo workers’ struggle, ILWU and ILA happenings, Drone Coalition actions, what’s happening with the SF19, and whatever else might be happening. To find the meeting go to the 2nd floor, down the hall off the elevator lobby, and left down another hall to the … Continued
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MISSION SOLIDARITY TO KEEP STREETS SAFE 12:00 am
MISSION SOLIDARITY TO KEEP STREETS SAFE @ 16th St Mission Bart
Jan 12 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 am
Last Saturday January 5th, a young woman was assaulted in an attempted rape on 23rd and San Jose streets in the Mission–the first attack of this nature in 2013. She narrowly escaped by fighting off her attacker. We are joining together in an act of SOLIDARITY. Women and in the Mission district of SF to alert the neighborhood of what has happened in order to promote increased VIGILANCE so that these crimes do not continue on our streets. Last year, several women were brutally raped on the streets of the … Continued
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting 7:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Hall, West Oakland
Jan 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
We will be planning our actions for the new year in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us! We are launching a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We will be making our presence known, along with other groups, at the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee meeting this coming Tuesday, where they will be discussing the hiring of William … Continued
Vigil & Speakout for the 100 plus murders in Oakland 11:00 pm
Vigil & Speakout for the 100 plus murders in Oakland @ San Antonio Park
Jan 12 @ 11:00 pm – Jan 13 @ 1:00 am
Saturday 12 January 2013 San Antonio Park 3:00pm; 1701 East 19th Street, Oakland, CA1701 East 19th Street, Oakland, CA Come out & celebrate MLK’s b-day by helping us stop the ignorance & STOP THE VIOLENCE!!! Too many are dying in our community and it’s gonna take a village to get us out of this. Refreshments will be provided. from facebook event45976
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Occupy Oakland General Assembly 2:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ 19th and Telegraph
Jan 13 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Bay Area StrikeDebt Meeting — Help Plan our Debtor’s Assembly & Future Actions 11:30 pm
Bay Area StrikeDebt Meeting — Help Plan our Debtor’s Assembly & Future Actions @ San Francisco Pizza
Jan 13 @ 11:30 pm – Jan 14 @ 1:00 am
We, Strike Debt Bay Area, are planning our Debtor’s Assembly, scheduled for February 2nd. We will also talk more about debt, The StrikeDebt Movement, the Rolling Jubilee (currently positioned to retire $10,000,000 in medical debt) and how we can help build a nationwide and even worldwide movement to fight the one percent’s stranglehold on the rest of us through debt obligations. If you’d like to help plan the fight against student debt, medical debt, consumer debt, mortgage debt, sovereign debt and more come join us. There will also be a … Continued
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Zero Tolerance is Zero Intelligence 1:00 am
Zero Tolerance is Zero Intelligence @ Oakland City Hall
Jan 16 @ 1:00 am – 6:00 am
Zero Tolerance is Zero Intelligence @ Oakland City Hall | Oakland | California | United States
Join the Justice for Alan Blueford Coalition and allies on Tuesday 1/15 to tell City Council that we reject Bill Bratton and his racist, fascist policies. Meet up at 5:00 for a rally with the meeting at 5:30. Make sure to fill out speaker cards online beforehand or at City Hall (http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/SpeakerCard/OAK032373). If you can’t attend in solidarity with the JAB Coalition, here’s a petition for you to sign, voicing your discontent with the cities plans: http://www.change.org/petitions/oaklanders-against-william-bratton-and-racial-profiling As some of you may have heard, OPD has a new strategy to reduce … Continued
Zero Tolerance is Zero Intelligence. Stop the ‘Stop&Frisk’ Cop. 1:00 am
Zero Tolerance is Zero Intelligence. Stop the ‘Stop&Frisk’ Cop. @ Inside and outside Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre area
Jan 16 @ 1:00 am – 3:00 am
Join the JAB Coalition and allies on Tuesday 1/15 to tell City Council that we reject Bill Bratton and his racist, fascist policies. Meet up at 5:00 for a rally with the meeting at 5:30. Make sure to fill out speaker cards online beforehand or at City Hall. As some of you may have heard, OPD has a new strategy to reduce crime in Oakland. This plan is to ask City Council for an additional $250,000 to hire Bill Bratton as a consultant for one year. Here’s what they’re not … Continued
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OO Labor Solidarity Committee 2:00 am
OO Labor Solidarity Committee @ Pacific Coast Brewing Company
Jan 18 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.” We will be brainstorming our next major action, an attempt to raise holy hell over the fact that the minimum wage in Oakland is still $8.00, while in San Francisco it is $10.55 and in San Jose it is $10.00. Plus the fact that the city is willing to insist on its own workers and those with contracts to the city being paid a living wage but not private sector workers. Please come join us and add your voice! … Continued
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Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting 7:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ Siegel & Yee
Jan 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
MEETING NOTE: THE MEETING IS NOT — NOT — AT THE USUAL PLACE. IT’S AT DAN SIEGEL’S OFFICE. We are planning our actions for the new year in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us! We are launching a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We are protesting the imminent imposition of Stop & Frisk within the confines of Oakland. … Continued
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Chowchilla Freedom Rally Benefit hosted by Occupy 4 Prisoners! 2:00 am
Chowchilla Freedom Rally Benefit hosted by Occupy 4 Prisoners! @ The Holdout
Jan 20 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
The benefit will feature “Fighting For Our Lives,” a short documentary about the history of resistance to medical neglect at CCWF & VSPW plus presentations by prison survivors, information about the protest and sign-making. We’re so grateful for the community support! More info at the Occupy 4 Prisoners website.46015
Web Committee Meeting 12:30 pm
Web Committee Meeting
Jan 20 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
New schedule and additional location! Bi-Monthly meetings to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org. We meet the first Thursday of the month at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave Oakland,CA 94612 @ 6PM And the third Sunday of the month at 19th Street / Rashida Muhammad Street (one block away from 19th Street/Telegraph avenue) @ 2PM If interested on helping us out, please come and join us!   Web@occupyoakland.org34357
Occupy Oakland General Assembly 2:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ 19th and Telegraph
Jan 20 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Bay Area StrikeDebt Meeting — Help Plan our Debtor’s Assembly & Future Actions 12:00 am
Bay Area StrikeDebt Meeting — Help Plan our Debtor’s Assembly & Future Actions @ San Francisco Pizza
Jan 21 @ 12:00 am – 1:30 am
We are planning our Debtor’s Assembly, scheduled for February 2nd. We will also talk more about debt, The StrikeDebt Movement, the Rolling Jubilee (currently positioned to retire $10,000,000 in medical debt) and how we can help build a nationwide and even worldwide movement to fight the one percent’s stranglehold on the rest of us through debt obligations. If you’d like to help plan the fight against oppresive student debt, medical debt, consumer debt, mortgage debt and government indebtedness to the one percent, come join us.46098
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COINTELPRO Discussion 3:00 am
COINTELPRO Discussion @ The Holdout
Jan 22 @ 3:00 am – 6:00 am
Counterinsurgency, Then & Now Legal Techniques of Repression: From the War on Crime & the War on Terror to the War on Dissent This month we will be discussing the application of unconstitutional techniques of repression beginning with an analysis of RICO laws (Racketeers Influenced & Corrupt Organizations) and gang injunctions, as well as the Patriot Act & the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) and how these legal tools and logics are being applied to social movements today.  45706
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Take Your Solutions to City Hall Day 1:00 am
Take Your Solutions to City Hall Day @ Oscar Grant Plaza outside City Hall, City Council Chambers
Jan 23 @ 1:00 am – 7:45 am
On Tuesday, January 22nd, join the JAB Coalition and allies and come on back out to City Hall as the full City Council weighs what to do now that the Public Safety Committee has recommended moving forward on the Wasserman/Bratton consultancy proposal. In addition, the 22nd will be the 2 year anniversary of the murder of Raheim Brown by OUSD police officers Barhim Bhatt and Jonathan Bellusa. Please join us to come together for a rally to honor the lives of all of Oakland’s sons and daughters murdered by the … Continued
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Bring Your Solutions to the Streets! Organize against Bratton, OPD and Stop and Frisk. 1:00 am
Bring Your Solutions to the Streets! Organize against Bratton, OPD and Stop and Frisk. @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater
Jan 25 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
We brought our solutions to city hall. The council heard the public loud and clear: NO MORE MONEY FOR OPD; invest the money in our schools, in our shuttered libraries, in youth centers and job programs. Unsurprisingly they have decided to hand more money in a broken and visibly racist police force. So in light of the recent and expected arrogance on the part of city council, we converge in the streets to voice our rage and to make it perfectly clear we will not allow ourselves to be further … Continued
OO Labor Solidarity Committee 2:00 am
OO Labor Solidarity Committee @ UNITE HERE Offices, 2nd floor
Jan 25 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.” We will be brainstorming our next major action, a livable wage campaign, part of which will be an attempt to raise holy hell over the fact that the minimum wage in Oakland is still $8.00, while in San Francisco it is $10.55 and in San Jose it is $10.00. Plus the fact that the city is willing to insist on its own workers and those with contracts to the city being paid a living wage but not private sector … Continued
The Healthcare Movie 2:00 am
The Healthcare Movie @ Humanist Hall
Jan 25 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
The Healthcare Movie Potluck at 6pm An entertaining 65 minute documentary explaining how Canada got their beloved healthcare system. The Healthcare Movie is full of lessons that we can use in our campaign for single payer healthcare. A discussion will follow the film. 46250
Memorial for Aaron Swartz in SF 3:00 am
Memorial for Aaron Swartz in SF @ Internet Archive
Jan 25 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
Dear Friends,Please join us as we gather to remember Aaron Swartz. Speakers will include Danny O’Brien, Lisa Rein, Peter Eckersley, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Cindy Cohn, Brewster Kahle, Tim O’Reilly, Elliot Peters, Alex Stamos, and Carl Malamud; there will be an opportunity for brief remembrances. RSVP.46603
Join non-union fast food workers in their fight for justice! 7:00 pm
Join non-union fast food workers in their fight for justice! @ Oakland Airport, Inside Terminals 1 and 2
Jan 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Non-union fast food workers at the Oakland Airport continue to seek a fair process to decide if they want to form a union. They have called for a boycott of their shops, and have participated in several rallies over the past few months to bring attention to injustices and retaliatory firings. Workers have filed grievances at all levels of government, and met directly with Port Commissioners to stress the urgency of the situation. This past week, the Port of Oakland concluded their investigation into alleged violations of the Living Wage … Continued
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WELCOME TO CLASS WARFARE: How We Fight on the Housing Front 2:30 am
WELCOME TO CLASS WARFARE: How We Fight on the Housing Front @ AK Press Warehouse. Upstairs in one of the studios.
Jan 26 @ 2:30 am – 4:30 am
A Foreclosure Defense Group Orientation and Training Foreclosures, evictions, gentrification, massive displacement… These are facets not of a “crisis” but of a targeted, ceaseless attack, an attack of one class and its institutions upon another with communities of color taking the brunt of the assault. The Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group forwards an anti-capitalist perspective built on community organizing, self defense and our experience and successes. This Friday, January 25th, we offer an orientation on the local political terrain, on the forces at play in this current attack and an … Continued
CHOWCHILLA FREEDOM RALLY 6:30 pm
CHOWCHILLA FREEDOM RALLY @ Pickup @ McArthur Bart, Oakland, CA
Jan 26 @ 6:30 pm – Jan 27 @ 5:00 am
Join our statewide mobilization to Chowchilla to protest the unconstitutional overcrowding in California’s women prisons and show our support for our loved ones inside who are struggling to survive as the conditions worsen. As a result of the conversion of Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW), one of the remaining women’s prisons has now reached 179% capacity. A woman recently transferred to CCWF informed us that they were given clothes and bedding that “you wouldn’t want even your dog sleeping on.” Another person confirmed, “Everything we rely on to survive, … Continued
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting 7:00 pm
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Hall, East Oakland
Jan 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
MEETING NOTE: THE MEETING IS NOT — NOT — AT THE USUAL PLACE. IT’S AT THE OTHER SEIU HALL IN EAST OAKLAND!!! We are planning our actions for the new year in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us! We are launching a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We are protesting the imminent imposition of Stop & Frisk within … Continued
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Occupy Oakland General Assembly 2:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ 19th and Telegraph
Jan 27 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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ANTIFORECLOSURE MUSIC PARTY 9:00 pm
ANTIFORECLOSURE MUSIC PARTY @ Gigi's house
Jan 27 @ 9:00 pm – Jan 28 @ 3:00 am
JOIN THE PARTY FOR DEFENSE OF WORKING CLASS RADICALS GG AND ORION’S HOME AGAINST THE ROTTEN INTERNATIONAL RULING CLASS CAPITALIST BANKS AND COURTS. ACOUSTIC MUSIC 1PM TO 4PM 4PM TO 7PM ORION/S JOY OF JAZZ WITH GUEST JAZZ MUSICIANS POT LUCK GALS BRING FOOD GUYS BRING DRINKS OR VICE VERSA.46288
Help Fight Patriarchy 10:00 pm
Help Fight Patriarchy
Jan 27 @ 10:00 pm – Jan 28 @ 12:00 am
Come together at the GA Sunday, January 27, to take a stand against sexual assault and to deconstruct the system of patriarchy that is so deeply entrenched in our society. This is a principal item on the agenda for our movement, and avoiding action against patriarchy, which is the root of capitalism and state bureaucracy, obliterates our chances of success. Come together to form the Men Against Patriarchy Assembly Sunday, January 27, at the Occupy Oakland GA, 19th St. and Telegraph Ave., Oakland, 2:00PM.46608
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#J28: Zipties, Stayaways and 909s 3:00 am
#J28: Zipties, Stayaways and 909s @ 19th & Telegraph
Jan 29 @ 3:00 am – 7:45 am
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” – Emma Goldman (supposedly) On Jan 28, 2012 Occupy Oakland activists planned “Oakland Rise Up! Move-in Day”, an action intended to result in the takeover of a large building to be converted into a community center. The Oakland Police Department responded to a jubilant show of community support and enthusiasm for community service by firing “less lethal” weapons and deploying explosives on a crowd which very clearly included children. … (complete writeup on Facebook page) Nearly a … Continued
YOU ARE NOT A LOAN: A BENEFIT FOR STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA 3:30 am
YOU ARE NOT A LOAN: A BENEFIT FOR STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA @ Big Roxie Theatre
Jan 29 @ 3:30 am – 5:30 am
Strike Debt is an arm of Occupy Wall Street, born from the need to foster “resistance to all forms of debt imposed on us by the banks.” One of its projects is the debt-buying-and-abolishing Rolling Jubilee, and another is the Debt Resistor’s Operations Manual, a publication best described as “half survivor guide, half exposé of the lending industry.” The benefit will feature a wide variety of local performers, including the Bay Area’s famously opinionated punk rock and spoken word legend, Jello Biafra, comics Sean Keane and Kevin O’Shea, and more! … Continued
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