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FREE KALI! @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater Group Photo and Card-signing for Kali. FREE KALI! @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater Dec 15 @ 11:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT? DON’T KNOW WHO KALI IS? Here’s the not-so-short version: Monday will mark another year since a beloved part of our community was ripped away from us and locked up behind bars…because he dared to love and fight for a better life and something bigger than himself. WHY WAS HE ARRESTED? As absurd as it sounds even now, he was initially taken into custody for sitting on a public bench with a blanket. But we know the real reason they brutalized him and locked him away for … Continued 3:00 am Documentary Film Showing: Soweto to Berkeley at the LongHaul. @ Long Haul Infoshop, not far from Ashby BART Documentary Film Showing: Soweto to Berkeley at the LongHaul. @ Long Haul Infoshop, not far from Ashby BART Dec 16 @ 3:00 am – 4:30 am Tickets The Long Haul Infoshop will be showing the documentary ‘Soweto to Berkeley’ this week, and is welcoming anti-Apartheid activists to speak. From Soweto to Berkeley Documentary (1987), 50 min, dir. Scott Wiseman “Soweto to Berkeley” explores the student protests and debates at UC Berkeley in the 1980s which led to the Board of Regents decision to withdraw $3.1 billion in funds from companies doing business in South Africa. With the students’ tactics including occupations and direct actions, their organizing efforts, and their successes and failures, still resonate today. Discussion to … Continued	2:00 am Occupy Forum: The (Real – Really!) Trial of George Bush for the Iraq War. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: The (Real – Really!) Trial of George Bush for the Iraq War. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Dec 17 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! The Spirit of CODEPINK: More than Marches! with Nancy Mancias and Inder Comar On April 3, 2014, the class action lawsuit targeting six key members of the Bush Administration will come before the United States District Court in San Francisco. Sundus Shaker Saleh, an Iraqi single mother of four, is the lead plaintiff in the class action lawsuit. George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and Paul Wolfowitz … Continued	8:00 pm Singing on the Steps: Saving Berkeley’s Post Office and Remembering Mail Carrier Tyson Jerome Barnette. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Singing on the Steps: Saving Berkeley’s Post Office and Remembering Mail Carrier Tyson Jerome Barnette. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Dec 17 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Mail Carrier Tyson Jerome Barnette was killed recently while delivering mail after dark in Maryland. He would never have been delivering mail after dark but for USPS mismanagement, under staffing, and the mass closings of mail processing centers. Monetary reasons are the why of after dark mail delivery. Never again should the USPS “lose a life to save a dollar.” Join us for SINGING ON THE STEPS OF THE BERKELEY MAIN POST OFFICE with Hali Hammer, Dave Welsh & Anna DeLeon and remembering Tyson Jerome Barnette. (Event will be cancelling … Continued 12:00 am Gill Tract Tree Death Tour @ Gill Tract Gill Tract Tree Death Tour @ Gill Tract Dec 18 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am Tickets 100 trees on public community farmland are slated for destruction… to build a parking lot and supermarket! The Albany, CA Planning and Zoning Commission just approved a development plan for UC Berkeley’s Gill Tract, one that includes the destruction of these 100 beautiful trees and paving of acres of open green space to build a purely commercial development with no educational value. Jeff Bond, Albany’s “community development director” graciously agreed to give a tour of these trees to the public. Please come and bear witness yourself! We hope it will … Continued 1:00 am Rally and City Council Meeting: Support Richmond’s CARES Program Against Foreclosures and for Principal Reduction. @ Richmond City Hall Rally and City Council Meeting: Support Richmond’s CARES Program Against Foreclosures and for Principal Reduction. @ Richmond City Hall Dec 18 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets Strike Debt Bay Area has been working with ACCE and the Richmond Progressive Alliance against the Big Banks and for Richmond homeowners, attempting to create national awareness on the issue of principal reduction and the use of eminent domain to help. Read about the issue in an essay written by two SDBA’ers. Now another key vote is set on the issue at the Richmond City Council: Tuesday, December 17, 5 PM Critical Vote on Anti-Blight/Save Our Communities There will be national media coverage. We must show that the Council has … Continued 1:30 am “Happy Birthday Chelsea Manning! – FREE HER NOW!” @ Harvey Milk Plaza “Happy Birthday Chelsea Manning! – FREE HER NOW!” @ Harvey Milk Plaza Dec 18 @ 1:30 am – 2:30 am Tickets Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning is the US soldier sentenced to 35 years in jail for leaking thousands of documents to Wikileaks exposing US and other governments’ war crimes and corruption. She is 26 years old on this day. Ever since she was detained and tortured in 2010, international protests, including from LGBTQ people, have demanded her release. Demonstrate your support for her courageous whistleblowing, and for all who blow the whistle on corruption, dictatorship and dirty government secrets. 54386	8:00 pm “We Are Staying: Not One More Eviction!!!” (Mission Eviction Protest) @ In front of Revolution Cafe “We Are Staying: Not One More Eviction!!!” (Mission Eviction Protest) @ In front of Revolution Cafe Dec 18 @ 8:00 pm – Dec 19 @ 7:45 am Tickets Join Eviction Free San Francisco and all allies in the fight for housing justice in San Francisco as we take on a landlord (to be named at the action) in San Francisco’s Mission District. We Say “HELL NO” to the displacement of seniors, artists, immigrants, and workers from this vibrant, diverse, working-class Neighborhood and citywide! Join two long – time San Franciscans (one disabled senior) who refuse to leave the city they love! By standing up for this household, we stand up for all of our Mission homes…all of us … Continued	2:00 am Supper Club Pot Luck with the Public School @ Sudo Room (entrance on 22nd St, buzzer) Supper Club Pot Luck with the Public School @ Sudo Room (entrance on 22nd St, buzzer) Dec 20 @ 2:00 am – 3:00 am Tickets Bring a dish or just bring yourself, enjoy a potluck meal with our neighbors, The Public School! Getting there. 54391		9:00 pm Don’t Steal our Postal Services Rally! @ Staples, Downtown Berkeley Don’t Steal our Postal Services Rally! @ Staples, Downtown Berkeley Dec 21 @ 9:00 pm – Dec 22 @ 12:00 am Tickets Don’t Steal our Postal Services Rally In front of the Staples store 2352 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley The Berkeley Post Office and post offices all over the US are under threat of being fraudulently sold! In a new attack, US postal services have been snuck into 84 Staples stores all over the country – including Berkeley. Postal services are being provided by low-wage Staples employees, not living-wage Postal professionals. Please join us to: Oppose privatization of the US Postal Services and all public resources. Privatization brings higher prices and worse quality. … Continued

Week of December 15

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.