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Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members … Continued 6:00 pm MLK JR Day of Service, Sponsored by Phatbeets. @ Edible Park MLK JR Day of Service, Sponsored by Phatbeets. @ Edible Park Jan 19 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Garden Project Workday. Free Pancake Potluck Breakfast. Sign up to Plant a Fruit Tree in your Yard. Restorative Justice Community Healing Circle. Source: Facebook announcement.54515 6:30 pm Sunday at the Marxist Library: Reclaiming Finance. @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Sunday at the Marxist Library: Reclaiming Finance. @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Jan 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Reclaiming Finance: How Time is Stolen and can be Taken Back In The Thief of Time Terry Pratchett imagines time as a substance that can be moved from place to place. In his novel monks guard giant jars of time and make sure it flows just how it is supposed to. Though intended as humor Terry Pratchett’s novel mirrors the reality of banking. In the current global capitalist order central banks and large financial institutions direct the flow of time through currencies and credit in order to reserve it for … 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 21 @ 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. We’ll be reviewing our Festival of Celebration and Resistance on the 18th. Come help us plan our next steps. Come help us plan our action for the 25th. Come help us prepare for the City Council meeting soon at which the Zoning Overlay Ordinance will be considered. WE MAY BE WINNING! AND CHECK OUT OUR SPIFFY NEW … Continued 2:00 am Occupy Forum: Berkeley to Soweto. The Fight Against Apartheid at UC Berkeley. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: Berkeley to Soweto. The Fight Against Apartheid at UC Berkeley. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Jan 21 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets OccupyForum presents the film� � “Berkeley to Soweto” The film will be followed by Q&A and discussion led by Andrea Pritchett, one of the key people in the “Divestment Movement” to end Apartheid in South Africa. Announcements to follow. 54617 2:30 am Discussion of “Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal” by author Andrew Ross @ California College of the Arts, Oakland Campus, B1 in the B Building Discussion of “Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal” by author Andrew Ross @ California College of the Arts, Oakland Campus, B1 in the B Building Jan 21 @ 2:30 am – 4:30 am Tickets Join NYU Professor and activist Andrew Ross for a discussion of his new book: Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal (He will also be speaking on the UC Campus on Tuesday.) We are living in the cruel grip of a creditocracy—where the finance industry commandeers our elected governments and where the citizenry have to take out loans to meet their basic needs. The implications of mass indebtedness for any democracy are profound, and the historical record shows that whenever a creditor class becomes as powerful … Continued 3:00 am The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement: Who is the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra? @ The Holdout The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement: Who is the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra? @ The Holdout Jan 21 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Hear histories and current news about one of today’s strongest grassroots social movements, the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST). The MST is a movement of 1.5 million landless women, men and children, who have forced the Brazilian government to redistribute 20 million acres of farmland in Brazil through the occupation of large unproductive land estates. This year marks the 30 year anniversary of the MST’s founding, and in February there will be a one-week gathering of over 20,000 MST activists to discuss the future of the movement. The MST has invited … Continued	1:00 am Andrew Ross, Author of Creditocracy, Will Speak at UC Berkeley. @ Wheeler Hall, Room 300 Andrew Ross, Author of Creditocracy, Will Speak at UC Berkeley. @ Wheeler Hall, Room 300 Jan 22 @ 1:00 am – 3:00 am Tickets Andrew Ross just wrote a “movement book” for Strike Debt – Creditocracy. He has been super active in working against student debt and in Strike Debt NY. We are living in the cruel grip of a creditocracy where the finance industry commandeers our elected governments and where the citizenry have to take out loans to meet their basic needs. The implications of mass indebtedness for any democracy are profound, and the historical record shows that whenever a creditor class becomes as powerful as Wall Street, the result has been debt bondage. … Continued 2:00 am City Council DAC protest date changed to Feb. 4 @ Oscar Grant Plaza City Council DAC protest date changed to Feb. 4 @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 22 @ 2:00 am – 3:00 am Tickets ATTENTION: The #DAC WILL NOT be on the agenda for the 1/21 #oakmtg. Admin plans to bring to Public Safety on 1/28, then to Council on 2/4. per Dan Kalb https://twitter.com/DanKalb/status/421360306829279232 So we won’t be holding a big demonstration on Tuesday the 21st, but a few folks will probably show up with a bit of chow for those that didn’t get the change-of-date message. If folks are interested we’ll show a movie at the Plaza at 7ish. Please join us to tell the City Council what you think on February … Continued	2:00 pm Anit-Fracking Rally in Sacramento at Brown State of the State Speech, Bus Rides Available @ Food and Water Watch Oakland Office Anit-Fracking Rally in Sacramento at Brown State of the State Speech, Bus Rides Available @ Food and Water Watch Oakland Office Jan 22 @ 2:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Rally at Governor Brown’s State of the State California State Capitol Building Food & Water Watch team at the Global Frackdown in Oakland (October 2013) Governor Brown will be laying out his priorities at the 2014 State of the State Address on January 22. Banning fracking should be at the top of his list. Reserve a space on the Food & Water Watch bus leaving from San Francisco, Oakland and Vallejo and join us at a rally outside the State of the State to tell the Governor to Ban Fracking … Continued 2:00 am Public Safety and Private Lives. Debating the DAC. @ Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Boardroom Public Safety and Private Lives. Debating the DAC. @ Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Boardroom Jan 23 @ 2:00 am – 3:30 am Tickets Sponsored by the League of Women Voters Oakland: How does a city like Oakland respond to residents’ demands for more effective crime prevention and reduction while protecting everyone’s civil liberties? What is the Domain Awareness Center and how will it impact Oakland? How much surveillance is enough — or too much — to enhance our law enforcement capabilities? Bring your ideas and a friend or neighbor to discuss these important issues with knowledgeable resource people and fellow Oaklanders. 54636 2:00 am Teach-In and Art Party: Surveillance, Policing and Corporate Complicity @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, near 24th St. BART Teach-In and Art Party: Surveillance, Policing and Corporate Complicity @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, near 24th St. BART Jan 23 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Hewlett Packard is developing and supporting a biometric ID system installed in Israeli checkpoints in the Occupied West Bank which categorizes citizens by their ethnic background. In the United States, HP is profiting from work with the US prison system and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through a contract with the US Department of Homeland Security ICE Law Enforcement Support Center (LESC) to speed up the internal process of deciding a person’s documentation status. Come and learn from art activists about how to make creative and effective art installations … Continued 2:30 am Anti-DAC planning meeting for Feb 4 City Council demo @ The Sudoroom Anti-DAC planning meeting for Feb 4 City Council demo @ The Sudoroom Jan 23 @ 2:30 am – 3:45 am Tickets The Oakland Privacy Working Group will meet at the Sudoroom Wednesday Jan. 22nd at 6:30 to organize an action for February 4th at City Hall to stop the planned building of the DAC, an Oakland-wide surveillance grid to monitor the citizens of the East Bay. The City Council will be voting on selecting a contractor to take over Phase II of the DAC contract from SAIC (who was dismissed for violating Oakland’s Nuclear Free Zone Ordinance, which prohibits the city from knowingly doing business with any entity that is engaged … Continued 3:00 am Free session on access to public records. @ Marin County Office of Education Free session on access to public records. @ Marin County Office of Education Jan 23 @ 3:00 am – 4:30 am Tickets Have you ever needed a document and not known where to find it? Have you ever been told you can’t access a document that you need? Or perhaps you want to request documents from a government agency but don’t know how or what you have a right to ask for. Don’t fret, we have just the person to answer your questions. Join the Bay Area News Group’s award-winning investigative reporter and author, Thomas Peele, for a free session on how to access public records. The workshop will provide information about … Continued 3:00 am The Square: A Film About the Egyptian Revolution. @ Roxie theater The Square: A Film About the Egyptian Revolution. @ Roxie theater Jan 23 @ 3:00 am – 6:00 am Tickets Jehane Noujaim’s THE SQUARE is a gripping portrait of the Egyptian revolution and the way it has been fought on the front lines with the game-changing weapons of cameras and social media. It is an epic documentary that captures the immediacy and intensity of the protests in Tahrir Square— from the 2011 overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, to the ousting of Mohammed Morsi in 2013— through the eyes of the movement’s young activists. The Square will be showing all week at the Roxie Theater. After the movie screening, we will be … Continued	9:00 pm Come Speak Out Against the SF jail @ City Hall Room 250 Come Speak Out Against the SF jail @ City Hall Room 250 Jan 23 @ 9:00 pm – 11:30 pm 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! The first was on January 18th. This one: Thursday, January 23rd: Speak … Continued 3:30 am Daniel Ellsberg et al: NSA Surveillance and Our “Almost Orwellian” State @ St. John's Presbyterian Church Daniel Ellsberg et al: NSA Surveillance and Our “Almost Orwellian” State @ St. John's Presbyterian Church Jan 24 @ 3:30 am – 5:30 am Tickets The discussion will be led by a formidable cast of advocates including: Cindy Cohn, Legal Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Ms. Cohn serves as counsel in First Unitarian Church v. NSA and Jewel v. NSA, each seeking to stop the ongoing dragnet warrantless surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans. Daniel Ellsberg, the iconic whistleblower and national hero described by President Nixon as “the most dangerous man in America,” and co-founder of Freedom of Press Foundation. Norman Solomon, Journalist, media critic, anti-war activist, co-founder of RootsAction.org, founding … Continued	11:00 pm #Jan25, Egypt: 3 years later. An educational day long program on #Egypt @ Sudo Room (entrance on 22nd St, buzzer) #Jan25, Egypt: 3 years later. An educational day long program on #Egypt @ Sudo Room (entrance on 22nd St, buzzer) Jan 24 @ 11:00 pm – Jan 25 @ 7:00 am Tickets A full day educational program to mark the anniversary of the ongoing Egyptian revolution. In Egypt, the 25th of Jan this year is going to be a day of action against the continuity of military rule and the atrocities committed by the coup regime. The program will start from 3 pm and will be all night long until the last person leaves, so you’re welcome to stop by any time! Program details: -Film screening of rare footage highlighting different stages of the Egyptian struggle. – Skype conversations with Egyptians in … Continued 11:00 pm UC Berkeley General Assembly Returns @ Sproul Plaza, Mario Savio Steps UC Berkeley General Assembly Returns @ Sproul Plaza, Mario Savio Steps Jan 24 @ 11:00 pm – Jan 25 @ 1:00 am Tickets THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY RETURNS TO UC BERKELEY ON THE MARIO SAVIO STEPS JOIN US Tweeted out by @OccupyUCBerk54644 3:00 am Strike Debt Study Group: Politics of Debt. @ Sudo Room (entrance on 22nd St, use buzzer) Strike Debt Study Group: Politics of Debt. @ Sudo Room (entrance on 22nd St, use buzzer) Jan 25 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Our next meeting for Politics of Debt will be next Friday, January 24th at the public school room. We’ll take on the Keen vs. Krugman debate about the significance of banking for economics. It’s something like a Modern Money Theorist vs. a high profile Keynesian. See you there! Here’s the article containing links to most of the articles and blog posts – lots of them, too many to list, but they are presented in the chronological order that the debate took place, so they’re easy to follow. http://www.cnbc.com/id/46944145 There’s a … Continued	7:30 pm Sinnin’ Sunnin’ and Savin’ At the Berkeley Post Office @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Sinnin’ Sunnin’ and Savin’ At the Berkeley Post Office @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Jan 25 @ 7:30 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Come hang out with the coolest people around: The Berkeley Post Office Defenders. We’ll be continuing to gather signatures to Save the Post Office from privatization (we already got more than 1200…), talk to people, hand out literature and maybe listen to some cool bands. Lie down on the grass at MLK park, get yourself a bite to eat at the Farmer’s Market, and make your day complete with a visit next door at All of Our’s Post Office. 54642 9:00 pm Rebuild the Albany Bulb Library! @ Meet at the Albany Bulb Parking Lot Rebuild the Albany Bulb Library! @ Meet at the Albany Bulb Parking Lot Jan 25 @ 9:00 pm – Jan 26 @ 1:00 am Tickets Meet at the parking lot area first bench and “keyhole area” to rebuild the Albany bulb library which was mysteriously burned down recently. The Bulb community and supporters will rebuild the Albany Bulb library 1pm to 3pm. At 4pm we’ll have a pot luck and fire More info on this issue sharethebulb.org 54664

Week of January 19

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.