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Presenters: Steve Martinot, author of an extensive essay, The Need to Abolish the Prison System: An Ethical Indictment Marie Levin, sister of a man … Continued	8:00 pm Crimes of Police: A Documentary of Police Brutality. @ Student Center Building R, 4th Floor, Huey P. Newton Lounge Crimes of Police: A Documentary of Police Brutality. @ Student Center Building R, 4th Floor, Huey P. Newton Lounge Sep 30 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets A film directed by Ansar Muhammad (ZAR THE DIP). Screening followed by a panel discussion. Sponsored by the Merritt College Black Student Union. 52597 1:00 am Occupy Forum: Movie Night: The Secret of Oz @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: Movie Night: The Secret of Oz @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Oct 1 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Come join us for this compelling documentary which uses the metaphor of The Wizard of Oz to explain the history of the monetary system, how it has gotten us into our current economic malaise, and how we can get out of it. The movie was created by Bill Still, a documentary film maker that has been exploring monetary issues in movies since 1996. The movie … Continued 2:30 am HEIDI BOGHOSIAN / Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance; in conversation with ROBERT SCHEER @ Hillside Club HEIDI BOGHOSIAN / Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance; in conversation with ROBERT SCHEER @ Hillside Club Oct 1 @ 2:30 am – 4:30 am Tickets “Heidi Boghosian’s Spying on Democracy is the answer to the question, ‘if you’re not doing anything wrong, why should you care if someone’s watching you?'” — Michael German, Senior Policy Counsel, ACLU and former FBI agent Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every … Continued	6:00 pm Banner-Holding Rally Against Napolitano @ Upper Sproul Plaza Banner-Holding Rally Against Napolitano @ Upper Sproul Plaza Oct 1 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets As head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano implemented programs such as Secure communities and 287g which have deported almost 2 million undocumented immigrants. Her only background on education is getting rid of in-state tuition for undocumented youth in Arizona. We’ll be having a rally on Tuesday at 11:00AM on Upper Sproul to protest Napolitano’s nomination. At 12:00PM students from the Multicultural coalition are going to meet with Napolitano and present their demands. It’s important that we show that we are one! Napolitano thinks this will be … Continued 1:30 am Oakland City Council: Defeat Urban Shield Funding! @ Oakland City Hall, City Council Chambers Oakland City Council: Defeat Urban Shield Funding! @ Oakland City Hall, City Council Chambers Oct 2 @ 1:30 am – 3:30 am Tickets From October 25th -28th, 2013 in Oakland, California, Urban Shield – a trade show and training exercise for SWAT teams and police- will bring together more than 150 local, state, federal, int’l and private sector partners and defense contractors. Urban Shield has taken place over the past six years, and is hosted by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. Last week at the city of Oakland’s public safety meeting, community groups challenged the notion of funding for Urban Shield – being hidden in the language and process, by requesting a mere … Continued	1:00 am Solidarity CampOut at The Albany Bulb @ Albany Bulb (Buchanan west of I80) Solidarity CampOut at The Albany Bulb @ Albany Bulb (Buchanan west of I80) Oct 3 @ 1:00 am – 6:45 am Tickets To prevent the eviction of its current residents and explore solutions. POTLUCK + DOCUMENTARY SCREENING. Bring your own water, camping gear, and love of the land.52723 2:00 am Public Hearing to Save the Berkeley Post Office! @ North Berkeley Senior Center Public Hearing to Save the Berkeley Post Office! @ North Berkeley Senior Center Oct 3 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets The Berkeley Planning Commission will be holding a public hearing on a proposed Zoning Ordinance that would preclude the downtown Berkeley Historic District (which includes the Post Office building) from being used for commericial purposes. While this sounds incredibly boring it is also very important. The Post Office is very scared about the potential for this ordinance to inhibit their imminent sale of the the 2000 Allston Way Post Office building to private developers. Come make your voice heard for a strong zoning ordinance, against the sale of the Post … Continued	1:00 am The Untold Story of Oscar Grant’s Father @ Student Center, Laney College The Untold Story of Oscar Grant’s Father @ Student Center, Laney College Oct 4 @ 1:00 am – 3:30 am Tickets As millions around the country flock to theaters to watch the acclaimed film, ‘Fruitvale Station’, there is little said about the role of Oscar Grant’s father in his life. But stepping forward for the first time to tell this tale is Oscar Grant’s cousin, Samuel Morris, who will discuss the wrongful imprisonment of Oscar Grant’s father for the past 27 years and the outrage felt by many who see an innocent relative held behind bars while the man who clearly murdered Oscar walks free after a miniscule 11 month jail … Continued	5:00 pm Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity @ Outside Jerry Brown's condo. Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity @ Outside Jerry Brown's condo. Oct 4 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets People will be staffing a table with information about California solitary confinement conditions in solidarity with the suspended prisoners’ hunger strike. Come on down and hang out and help pass out literature.52574 7:00 pm Support the ACAC 19! @ San Francisco Courthouse Support the ACAC 19! @ San Francisco Courthouse Oct 4 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Your support is needed, all out for a critical day for the ACAC 19: anti-colonial, anti-capitalist comrades arrested last Columbus Day weekend in San Francisco. All Out for a Settlement Hearing on Friday, October 4th! All 19 defendants have been ordered to appear at a “settlement hearing” on Friday, October 4 at 850 Bryant St., Department 23. Rally at noon on the steps and fill the courtroom for the hearing immediately following. This will be a key moment where the case could be settled – let’s pack the court and … Continued 12:00 am 100% Ceasefire: First Friday in Oakland @ Oakland Police HQ 100% Ceasefire: First Friday in Oakland @ Oakland Police HQ Oct 5 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am Tickets We will read the names of those killed by police in Northern California. We remember. Please join us. Stand against systemic racism and violence that cost us the lives of too many young black and brown men causing long-lasting, detrimental affects on all our communities. The Interfaith Tent for Justice grieves with all victims of violence and their families. Whether victims of drone attacks, bombings, torture, oppression, gang shootings, domestic violence, rape culture, systemic racism, or increased violence from police and security forces, we stand with you. No one is … Continued 12:00 am First Friday: Justice 4 Alan Blueford. @ JAB Headquarters First Friday: Justice 4 Alan Blueford. @ JAB Headquarters Oct 5 @ 12:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets Come check out the Justice 4 Alan Blueford table as we interact with the readily available masses of people, spreading the word about JAB’s upcoming work & direction, which is to: •continuing to raise awareness about what Masso did to Alan & the associated coordinated cover-up • mounting a campaign demanding Kamala Harris to prosecute Masso • opposing Gallo’s proposed youth curfew • educate the community & help build JAB’s base of support • spread the word about Oct 22nd–National Anti-Police Brutality Day. • standing in solidarity w/local labor struggles … Continued 12:00 am First Fridays in the Plaza! Art Out! @ Oscar Grant Plaza First Fridays in the Plaza! Art Out! @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 5 @ 12:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets The ONYX Organizing Committee, Healthy Hoodz, Young Oakland, oakland artists, cultural workers and families invite you to continue cultural resistance in the plaza! OCTOBER ART OUT! FROM COLUMBUS, TO OAKLAND TO SYRIA Full description of the event on Facebook & RSVP. WHY 14TH AND BROADWAY/OSCAR GRANT PLAZA? A town plaza is a central meeting place for the people of the community. OG Plaza is our town center, our neutral meeting place for free speech and public dialouge. it was the epicenter of a bay area youth movement in the ’90s … Continued 3:00 am Debt Into Space @ Royal Nonesuch Gallery Debt Into Space @ Royal Nonesuch Gallery Oct 5 @ 3:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets The Debt2Space Program is going to be shooting debt to space, (aiming to break through this debt ceiling) quickly and nicely. Your debt will be turned into a sonic material (when you scream about it) and the recording will be mixed and put onto a record with other screams from other people with financial hardships. This record will be played at various radio stations across the US. The radio waves will arrive at or near the sun in about 8 minutes from the time the DJ plays them, allowing the … Continued	9:00 pm Suds, Snacks and Socialism: Peace & Freedom Presents ‘You R Not A Loan!’ @ Starry Plough Pub Suds, Snacks and Socialism: Peace & Freedom Presents ‘You R Not A Loan!’ @ Starry Plough Pub Oct 5 @ 9:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets The Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party and Movement presents You Are Not A Loan Strike Debt Bay Area As individuals, families, and communities, most of us are drowning in debt for the basic things we need to live, including housing, education, and health care. All of us are affected by predatory lending and the effects of speculative Wall Street gambling. Our essential public services are cut because our cities and towns are held hostage by the same big banks that have been bailed out by our government. All of … Continued

Week of September 29

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.