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All-day						24 Hours to Save the Post Office! A Festival of Celebration and Resistance. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office 24 Hours to Save the Post Office! A Festival of Celebration and Resistance. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Jan 18 – Jan 19 all-day Tickets The Postal Service is still trying to sell the downtown Berkeley Post Office (and privatize the entire USPS). We’re still trying to save it. The Berkeley City Council will be considering a proposal in late January to help that effort, a Zoning Overlay Ordinance that will make the entire Historic District Area (including the Post Office) less attractive to private, commercial development. To keep up the pressure on all concerned, and let them know that the people STILL do not want Post Offices sold, Berkeley Post Office Defenders invite you … Continued
12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm 2:00 pm OO General Assembly: Moved to SUDOROOM through January @ The Sudoroom OO General Assembly: Moved to SUDOROOM through January @ The Sudoroom Jan 12 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Through the end of January we will have General Assembly at the sudoroom on 2141 Broadway, Oakland, CA. Here are instructions to access the room, the entrance is on 22nd Street: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Getting_there This Sunday will be a Cryptoparty at the sudoroom, along with the third Sunday in January, these will be opportunities to update your digital profile so the government can’t easily track your every move. More blather on this to follow this afternoon when I have a moment. Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members … Continued	2:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. Help Plan Our Next Steps! @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. Help Plan Our Next Steps! @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Jan 14 @ 2:00 am – 3:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. Come and help plan our next actions in defense of our Post Office and against privatization and non living-wage jobs: 24 Hours to Save the Post Office! A Festival of Celebration and Resistance. It’s happening Saturday starting at 11:00 AM at the Post Office and going for 24 hours. In November the Planning Commission passed on to … Continued 2:00 am Occupy Forum: “What’s that Stench?” Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Expansion in the Bay Area. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: “What’s that Stench?” Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Expansion in the Bay Area. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Jan 14 @ 2:00 am – 3:00 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! OccupyForum presents What’s That Stench??? Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Expansion in the North Bay / Pittsburg and the Campaign to Stop it in its Tracks The WesPac Pittsburg Energy Infrastructure Project would transform Pittsburg CA into a major crude oil receiving, storage and shipping facility. WesPac develops, constructs, owns and operates infrastructure throughout North America for petroleum products handling, and Pittsburg is the next target … Continued 3:00 am Craig Dilworth, Author: Too Smart For Our Own Good. @ Humanist Hall Craig Dilworth, Author: Too Smart For Our Own Good. @ Humanist Hall Jan 14 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets CRAIG DILWORTH in person Author of the profound 2010 book: TOO SMART FOR OUR OWN GOOD The Ecological Predicament of Humankind Our ecologically disruptive behavior – which is the same as our explosive technological know-how — is rooted in the nature of Homo Sapiens. Humankind’s development consists of an accelerating movement from situations of scarcity, to technological innovation, to increased resource availability, to increased consumption, to population growth, to resource depletion once again — in a vicious circle from the dawn of humanity and continuing today. Craig Dilworth amasses enormous … Continued	3:00 am The 2014 Close Guantánamo NOW Speaking Tour: Film screening “Doctors of the Dark Side.” @ Revolution Books (at Telegraph, under parking structure) The 2014 Close Guantánamo NOW Speaking Tour: Film screening “Doctors of the Dark Side.” @ Revolution Books (at Telegraph, under parking structure) Jan 15 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets January 11, 2014 marks the 12th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo. This month as Andy Worthington and Debra Sweet tour cities and campuses raising the call, Close Guantánamo NOW! – they’ll be joined at various events by other powerful speakers including Jeffrey Kaye, Jason Leopold, Michael Kearns, and Todd Pierce. The new documentary film Doctors of the Darkside will also be shown at some events. All three Bay Area events are open to the public including at the Stanford and Hastings campuses. Contact World Can’t Wait … Continued	1:30 am Rally in Richmond: We demand Safety First! No new Permits w/o the Safety Case!! @ Civic Center Plaza Rally in Richmond: We demand Safety First! No new Permits w/o the Safety Case!! @ Civic Center Plaza Jan 16 @ 1:30 am – 2:30 am Tickets The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has chosen Richmond as the location for voting on its final report on the August 6, 2012, Chevron Richmond Toxic Explosion and Fire. The hearing will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Richmond City Council Chambers at 440 Civic Center Plaza. Please join Communities for a Better Environment, APEN, RPA, ACCE, 350.org Chevron Watch and Bay Area, the Richmond Environmental Justice Coalitionand community representatives from Pittsburg, Rodeo/Crockett and Benicia at 5:30 p.m. for a rally in the Civic Center Plaza. This is a MAJOR … Continued 2:00 am San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Meeting @ Redstone Building, Room 301 San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Meeting @ Redstone Building, Room 301 Jan 16 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Meeting. The Living Wage Coalition is building a grassroots movement of low-wage workers and their allies to win economic justice. Anyone who works full time should be able to survive on what they earn and support themselves and their children. Come to be a part of discussing next steps in pursuing an economic justice agenda.54577 2:30 am Organize Against the DAC @ The Sudoroom (entrance on 22nd St, buzzer) Organize Against the DAC @ The Sudoroom (entrance on 22nd St, buzzer) Jan 16 @ 2:30 am – 3:45 am Tickets The Oakland Privacy Working Group will meet at the Sudoroom Wednesday Jan. 15th at 6:30 to organize to stop the planned building of an Oakland-wide surveillance grid to monitor the citizens of the East Bay. Approval for a contractor to take over Phase II of the DAC contract from SAIC – summarily dismissed months ago for violations of Oakland’s Nuclear Free Zone Ordinance – is supposed to take place at the January 21st City Council meeting. For more information on the insidiousness of the DAC and how it came to … Continued 3:30 am Richard Wolff on his New Book: Capitalism Hits the Fan. @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley Richard Wolff on his New Book: Capitalism Hits the Fan. @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley Jan 16 @ 3:30 am – 5:00 am Tickets $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com :: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus (3 locations), Marcus Books, Moe�s, Walden Pond, Diesel a Bookstore, and Modern Times. $15 /door Radical economist Richard Wolff recently exploded into the forefront of progressive thinking in the United States with his brilliantly insightful book Capitalism Hits the Fan, which chronicled Wolff’s growing alarm and insights as he watched the economic crisis build, burst, and dominate world events. His analysis differs sharply from explanations offered by politicians, media commentators, and other academics. While he retains many Marxist contentions, Wolff rejects the … Continued		◢ 12:00 am Share The Bulb! Rally, March, Campout and Art Festival Day of Action! @ Albany City Hall & Albany Bulb Share The Bulb! Rally, March, Campout and Art Festival Day of Action! @ Albany City Hall & Albany Bulb Jan 18 @ 12:00 am – 8:00 am Tickets Please join Share The Bulb for a weekend of actions against the pending eviction of more than 50 people from the Albany Bulb! January 17th ————— Residents and allies of the Albany Bulb will rally at Albany City Hall at 4PM, before marching up Solano Avenue. We will stage an overnight campout on Solano Avenue, illustrating the plight of the more than 50 residents of the Albany Bulb, who, if evicted, would be forced onto Albany’s streets. January 18th ————– Artists will flock to the Bulb for a day of … Continued	◤ 8:00 am Share The Bulb! Rally, March, Campout and Art Festival Day of Action! @ Albany City Hall & Albany Bulb Share The Bulb! Rally, March, Campout and Art Festival Day of Action! @ Albany City Hall & Albany Bulb Jan 18 @ 8:00 am – Jan 19 @ 1:00 am Tickets Please join Share The Bulb for a weekend of actions against the pending eviction of more than 50 people from the Albany Bulb! January 17th ————— Residents and allies of the Albany Bulb will rally at Albany City Hall at 4PM, before marching up Solano Avenue. We will stage an overnight campout on Solano Avenue, illustrating the plight of the more than 50 residents of the Albany Bulb, who, if evicted, would be forced onto Albany’s streets. January 18th ————– Artists will flock to the Bulb for a day of … Continued 5:00 pm Foreclosure Defense Meetup @ Sudo Room (entrance on 22nd St, use buzzer) Foreclosure Defense Meetup @ Sudo Room (entrance on 22nd St, use buzzer) Jan 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets If you’re interested in direct action related to local foreclosure defense, show up early and learn more. Original notice.54552 8:00 pm Share The Bulb! Rally, Art Festival and Day of Action at the Bulb! Share The Bulb! Rally, Art Festival and Day of Action at the Bulb! Jan 18 @ 8:00 pm – Jan 19 @ 1:00 am Tickets January 18th ————– Artists will flock to the Bulb for a day of participatory art, live demonstrations, workshops, and art tours. Join us for an Art Festival at the Bulb from 12-5PM! ***** The campout on Friday is part a West Coast Day of Action to fight the criminalization of homelessness, sponsored by the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP). Cities in the Bay Area and around the country have passed laws making it impossible for homeless people to live within the law. It has become a crime to sit or … Continued 10:00 pm Come Speak Out Against the SF jail @ Redstone Building Come Speak Out Against the SF jail @ Redstone Building Jan 18 @ 10:00 pm – Jan 19 @ 12:00 am Tickets The San Francisco Gray Panthers are very concerned about issues of mass incarceration, prison expansion, profiling of minorities and youth, and the criminalization of poverty. Particularly in San Francisco, with such extremes of wealth and poverty, it seems outrageous to build more jail space, when three-quarters of prisoners are there because they’re too poor to make bail. We are helping to organize two important upcoming events to stop the new jail and we hope you will join us! Here’s the details: Saturday, January 18th: Attend our Town Hall meeting to … Continued 11:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Ideas Into Action. @ Applied Research Center Strike Debt Bay Area: Ideas Into Action. @ Applied Research Center Jan 18 @ 11:00 pm – Jan 19 @ 1:30 am Tickets Join Strike Debt Bay Area in working on some exciting projects locally and nationally to fight unjust debt. – The latest on our coalition efforts to Save the Berkeley Post Office and fight the privatization of our commons. – The latest on our efforts to help Richmond and NGO allies push for principal reduction for Richmond’s homeowners. Read an article written by two Strike Debt Bay Area members on the Richmond principal reduction / eminent domain case. In addition, we are exploring the use of a public bank to help Richmond, CA … Continued

Week of January 12

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.