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Music, food, short talks by two famous activists and political philosophers – George Caffentzis (a founder of the Midnight Notes Collective) and Silvia Federici – and the opportunity to purchase the 2nd edition DROM at a sliding scale are all “on the agenda.” This manual—written by an anonymous collective of resistors, defaulters, … Continued 10:30 pm PARTY: Strike Debt Bay Area ‘Coming Out’ Party For the DROM II @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice PARTY: Strike Debt Bay Area ‘Coming Out’ Party For the DROM II @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice Mar 23 @ 10:30 pm – Mar 24 @ 1:00 am Tickets 55162 2:00 am Carework: From Crisis to Common A talk and discussion with Silvia Federici @ Station 40, Apt B, up a flight of stairs Carework: From Crisis to Common A talk and discussion with Silvia Federici @ Station 40, Apt B, up a flight of stairs Mar 24 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets Lack of time, resources, and communal support is responsible for an unprecedented reproduction crisis that is affecting all aspects of our lives. In her presentation, Federici discusses its causes, its social effects, and the struggle we must make to “commonize” care work. Federici is a longtime feminist activist, teacher, and writer. She is an emerita professor at Hofstra University, and has authored many essays on feminist theory, women’s history, political philosophy, and education. Her published books include: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation; Enduring Western Civilization: … Continued	1:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Mar 25 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 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. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against Staples; we need to support them. We are starting a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard. The Berkeley City … Continued 1:00 am OccupyForum SF presents… What is Money? @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART OccupyForum SF presents… What is Money? @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Mar 25 @ 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! OccupyForum presents… What is Money? Part II With Jane Smith and Spencer Veale, members of Politics Of Debt Reading group from Strike Debt Bay Area We use money every day. We spend most of our time working in order to get money. Many of us are in debt and the only way to repay is with money. For something that is so commonplace and so powerful, we spend very little time … Continued			11:00 pm The Town Hella Needs a Raise!!!!! The Town Hella Needs a Raise!!!!! Mar 27 @ 11:00 pm – Mar 28 @ 1:00 am Tickets East Bay Hotel & Food Service Workers Take It to the Streets of Oakland! Facebook event page East Bay hotel, restaurant and stadium workers are marching for our jobs, our rights and OUR POWER! We are fighting for a higher minimum wage and good jobs that pay us what we need to survive and thrive in the Bay Area in 2014! Join hotel housekeepers, hot dog vendors from the Coliseum, and airport restaurant workers who are fighting for good contracts – along with fast food workers fighting for $15 an … Continued 2:30 am A Sliver of Light: Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal. @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley A Sliver of Light: Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal. @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley Mar 28 @ 2:30 am – 4:00 am Tickets Three young Americans captured by Iranian forces and held in captivity for two years tell their story. “Riveting and necessary and illuminating in countless unexpected ways. The hikers have pulled off the almost impossible task of making from their hellish experience something of beauty and grace.” Dave Eggers In summer 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were captured by a border patrol. Accused of espionage, the three Americans ultimately found themselves in Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison, … Continued	2:00 am Fourth Friday: Interfaith Prayers for Healing from Violence @ Baha'i Center Fourth Friday: Interfaith Prayers for Healing from Violence @ Baha'i Center Mar 29 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets Fourth Friday prayer meeting for healing, dedicated to the survivors and victims of violence and police brutality in Oakland. We get together to: Share prayers, spiritual writings and poems from all spiritual traditions Reflect and recharge Connect with others concerned about violence and interested in healing Build community Please feel free to bring quotes or passages to share All are welcome Simple vegetarian dinner will be served.55252	6:45 pm Public Banking at the Post Office With Laura Wells. Updates on the Post Office Defense. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Public Banking at the Post Office With Laura Wells. Updates on the Post Office Defense. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Mar 29 @ 6:45 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets At noon Laura Wells, candidate for California State Controller, endorsed by the Green Party of California, will speak on the issue of public banking. She will be followed by comments on recent happenings around the possibility of Post Office banking and financial services, updates on where things stand with the (possibly imminent) sale of the Berkeley Post Office, the campaign against the outsourcing of Post Office jobs to Staples, music, letter-writing and more. The first item in Wells’ platform is Implement a Publicly-Owned State Bank for California Determine the best … Continued 9:00 pm Justice for Alex Nieto! March Against Police Violence and the Takeover of Our Communities. @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Justice for Alex Nieto! March Against Police Violence and the Takeover of Our Communities. @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Mar 29 @ 9:00 pm – Mar 30 @ 12:00 am Tickets Gather at 2pm, then we will take to the streets at 3pm. Bring your body down. Bring a friend or a hundred. We will march to honor Alex Nieto and all the countless many black and brown young men murdered by those thugs in uniform. We will march for our friends and families getting kicked out of their homes. We will march to stand up and fight back against the takeover of our communities by the forces of capital and their human agents who have too much money for how … Continued 10:00 pm Protest “Sit/Lie” in front of Macy’s. “First they came for the Homeless…” @ Macy's San Francisco, Geary Side Protest “Sit/Lie” in front of Macy’s. “First they came for the Homeless…” @ Macy's San Francisco, Geary Side Mar 29 @ 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets Protest SIT / LIE A revisit to Macy’s to thank them for their support of the inhumane sit/lie ‘law’ which criminalizes our homeless sisters and brothers – we have the signs, cardboard & sharpies, bring yourself / friends / family & sit for your human & civil right to sit down – 55309

Week of March 23

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.