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ICSS member Gene Ruyle will explore the implications of Marx’s insight that labor is “the universal condition for the metabolic interaction between man and nature, the everlasting nature-imposed condition of human existence, and it is therefore independent of every form of that existence, or rather … Continued 2:00 am David Rovics In Concert: Benefit for Tristan Anderson. @ Art House Gallery & Cultural Center David Rovics In Concert: Benefit for Tristan Anderson. @ Art House Gallery & Cultural Center Nov 17 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets This is a benefit for Tristan Anderson! Free food will be served at 6 PM, the music begins at 7 pm…this will be an acoustic concert. Sunday, November 16th Art House Gallery & Cultural Center 2905 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, California David Rovics is a great, revolutionary folk singer of songs of social significance. You can download most of his music at his web site or over at Soundclick and other places Tristan Anderson is an activist and photographer who was critically injured by an Israeli tear gas canister in 2009 … Continued 2:00 am Fighting Jim Crow from Ferguson to the Bay Area – Black and Brown Lives Matter @ Humanist Hall Fighting Jim Crow from Ferguson to the Bay Area – Black and Brown Lives Matter @ Humanist Hall Nov 17 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Fighting Jim Crow from Ferguson to the Bay Area – Black and Brown Lives Matter A Night of Healing for the Community Oakland CA, November 16, 2014: We are Fighting Jim Crow from Ferguson to the Bay Area with knowledge and unity! Open to the community a night of sharing, entertainment, Food, and so much more! The Event is hosted by Anita Wills, Executive Director of the Inter Council for Mother’s of Murdered Children. Speakers include Alex Salazar, Dionne Smith, Anita Wills, and others from the community whose lives … Continued	12:00 am David Rovics in Concert on the Berkeley Post Office Steps @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office steps. David Rovics in Concert on the Berkeley Post Office Steps @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office steps. Nov 18 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am Tickets David Rovics is a great, revolutionary folk singer of songs of social significance. You can download most of his music at his web site or over at Soundclick and other places. Come and hear him play a set in our common space, the Post Office! You will not be disappointed. David will give (or will have given) a benefit concert for Tristan Anderson on Sunday, November 16th at the Art House in Berkeley. Check it out here.57248 2:00 am Occupy Forum: Film: The Black Road — on the Front Line of Aceh’s War @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: Film: The Black Road — on the Front Line of Aceh’s War @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Nov 18 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Monday, November 17th at Global Exchange from 6 – 9 pm 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 Film: The Black Road — on the Front Line of Aceh’s War — the struggle for independence The 2004 tsunami suddenly turned the isolated Indonesian province of Aceh into a household name. Yet the deeper story of the Acehnese and their long struggle for independence has been untold… until now. The Black Road is the … Continued 2:30 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Nov 18 @ 2:30 am – 3:30 am Tickets THE POSTAL SERVICE HAS THE BERKELEY POST OFFICE “UNDER CONTRACT.” !!!!!!!!!!! THE POSTAL SERVICE WANTS TO SELL THE POST OFFICE TO HUDSON-MCDONALD DEVELOPMENT GROUP. THE CITY OF BERKELEY HAS SUED THE POST OFFICE TO STOP THE SALE. A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER IS IN PLACE UNTIL DECEMBER 17th. A hearing will take place in Federal Court on December 11th. Come learn about continuing developments and help us plan our next steps in opposition to this theft of our public commons. Get an overview of the sale announcement here. Here’s a good more general … Continued	8:00 pm UC Davis Pepper Spray Commorative Action Against Tuition Hikes @ UC Davis Quad UC Davis Pepper Spray Commorative Action Against Tuition Hikes @ UC Davis Quad Nov 18 @ 8:00 pm – Nov 19 @ 12:00 am Tickets On November 18, the third anniversary of Pepper Spray, ASUCD and a coalition of student organizations and labor unions are staging a CAMPUS-WIDE action to fight the impending 5% tuition increases every year for the next 5 years. We believe these tuition increases are a callous threat to the promise of public higher education, and we, as students, are ready to fight back. This action will also be a platform to recognize the intersectional dimensions of the privatization and decreasing affordability of higher education, as well as an opportunity for … Continued 2:30 am Defend Knowland Park! @ Oakland City Hall Defend Knowland Park! @ Oakland City Hall Nov 19 @ 2:30 am – 5:30 am Tickets Oakland’s beautiful and wild Knowland Park is under threat, and we need your help at an important City Council vote. Right now, the free public park is home to a range of wildlife, including threatened species, native grasslands, and woodlands. However, the Oakland Zoo is trying to take over the heart of the park’s 77 acres! – which would displace local wildlife…for an exhibit about species that are regionally extinct due to development. What?! This would also mean privatizing our public park, and since the zoo has been working … Continued	1:00 am CAL Progressives General Assembly @ Sather Gate, Sproul Plaza CAL Progressives General Assembly @ Sather Gate, Sproul Plaza Nov 20 @ 1:00 am – 3:00 am Tickets FIGHT THE FEE-HIKE! SATHER GATE. (At the tree between Dwinelle and Wheeler) The Regents (the administration of the UC) will vote on a $3,300 tuition increase on Wednesday by 2pm. * We will discuss actions whether or not they approve fee hikes that day, so that we can proactively organize to roll-back our tuition, and prevent further attempts to raise fees. * GA hosted by Cal Progressive Coalition Twitter: @CalProgressives #MoveTheMoney #OurUniversity #FundTheUC57321 3:00 am Capitalism vs. the Climate: Naomi Klein on the Need for a New Economic Model to Address the Ecological Crisis @ Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library Capitalism vs. the Climate: Naomi Klein on the Need for a New Economic Model to Address the Ecological Crisis @ Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library Nov 20 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Capitalism vs. the Climate: Naomi Klein on the Need for a New Economic Model to Address the Ecological Crisis Join the Northern California System Change not Climate Change chapter in watching the film interview of Naomi Klein by Amy Goodman from Democracy Now (September 18, 2014). After the film we will discuss her ideas and her recent book, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, by Naomi Klein. From http://thischangeseverything.org: “Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we … Continued 4:00 am Politics of Debt Reading Group. @ OMNI Collective in the basement Politics of Debt Reading Group. @ OMNI Collective in the basement Nov 20 @ 4:00 am – 5:30 am Tickets We’re currntly reading about our banking system, what’s wrong with it and alternative ways of having one. This time, we’re reading Positive Money’s proposal for an alternative banking system. Parts 1-4. 57195	1:30 am Bay Area Speaks: A People’s Hearing on the Future of the Internet @ Room 305 Bay Area Speaks: A People’s Hearing on the Future of the Internet @ Room 305 Nov 21 @ 1:30 am – 5:00 am Tickets You are invited to join EFF next Thursday, November 20, for a free public event on the quickly unfolding national debate on net neutrality, to be hosted at San Francisco City Hall. The event is Bay Area Speaks: A People’s Hearing on the Future of the Internet, where you are invited to testify at City Hall about why net neutrality matters to Bay Area communities. Attendees will also receive an update from the lawyers, policy analysts, and activists who have been working on the front lines to make sure the … Continued 4:00 am Recipe: A new comedy about the Morning Glory Baking Circle for Revolutionary Self Defense. @ Berkeley City Club Recipe: A new comedy about the Morning Glory Baking Circle for Revolutionary Self Defense. @ Berkeley City Club Nov 21 @ 4:00 am – 6:00 am Tickets Autumn brings Recipe, a profoundly funny new work by Michael Gene Sullivan, resident playwright for the Tony award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. Central Works serves up the laughs in this delicious take on a circle of sweet old grandmotherly bakers, who just happen to be dedicated to the armed overthrow of the United States government. But baking pies and cakes isn’t enough to satisfy these four intrepid refugees from the 60’s (and 50’s, and 40’s), and their burning desire to “Up the Revolution!” Watch the trailer! Read the Radical Recipe Blog! Pay-what-you-can … Continued	3:00 am Javier Arbona on the Architecture of Surveillance @ Gallery of California History, Oakland Museum Javier Arbona on the Architecture of Surveillance @ Gallery of California History, Oakland Museum Nov 22 @ 3:00 am – 3:30 am Tickets Pop-up Talk: Javier Arbona on the Architecture of Surveillance Join geographer and artist Javier Arbona for a brief talk in the Gallery of California History. Arbona will discuss infrastructure and surveillance in the port city of Oakland. Using a foreboding downtown telecommunications building as jumping-off point, he will make connections between the long history of the telegraph in Oakland and state surveillance in our midst today. This in-Gallery pop-up talk takes place during Friday Nights @ OMCA, featuring Off the Grid food trucks, live music, and more. Included with Museum admission. … Continued 3:00 am STATE V. REED: An Award Winning Documentary About an Innocent Man on Death Row @ Sundiata Bookstore STATE V. REED: An Award Winning Documentary About an Innocent Man on Death Row @ Sundiata Bookstore Nov 22 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets A documentary about Rodney Reed – an innocent man the State of Texas is preparing to “legally” lynch by execution on January 14th, 2015. #Justice4Rodney Campaign to End the Death Penalty.57336 5:00 am Free Occupy the Farm Screening at Wheeler Hall @ Wheeler Auditorium, Wheeler Hall Free Occupy the Farm Screening at Wheeler Hall @ Wheeler Auditorium, Wheeler Hall Nov 22 @ 5:00 am – 7:00 am Tickets An inspiration film about the recent occupation of UC Berkeley land that saved 10 acres from the clutches of privatization. This film is still in theaters but we are hosting a FREE SCREENING in the Open University in Wheeler Hall! http://occupythefarmfilm.com/ OCCUPY THE FARM tells the inspiring story of a community taking direct action to create a healthier and more just food system and question the stewardship of a precious resource: publicly owned urban farmland. 200 farmers occupy a last piece of farmland in California’s urban East Bay, plant 15,000 … Continued	◢ 5:30 pm Earth At Risk 2014: Justice and Sustainability Conference, Nov. 22 – 23 @ Palace of Fine Arts Earth At Risk 2014: Justice and Sustainability Conference, Nov. 22 – 23 @ Palace of Fine Arts Nov 22 @ 5:30 pm – Nov 23 @ 8:00 am Tickets Earth At Risk 2014: Justice and Sustainability Conference, Nov. 22 – 23 From the Conference website: “This November, some of the world’s preeminent strategists in environmental defense, social justice, and grassroots activism will come together to share their insights and speak toward ONE goal: crafting game-changing responses to address the converging crises we face. Species extinction, racism, sexual warfare, deforestation, global warming, corruption — all stem from the same root. For too long environmentalism has hinged on conformity to capitalism and the status quo. For too long social justice work … Continued 10:00 pm Socialist Alternative Political Day School @ Oakland Public Library, Cesar Chavez Branch Socialist Alternative Political Day School @ Oakland Public Library, Cesar Chavez Branch Nov 22 @ 10:00 pm – Nov 23 @ 1:00 am Tickets Why Does Capitalism Breed Inequality? What’s the Socialist Alternative? Organizing to Win. 57205 3:00 am STATE V. REED: An Award Winning Documentary @ OMNI Collective STATE V. REED: An Award Winning Documentary @ OMNI Collective Nov 23 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets A documentary about Rodney Reed – an innocent man the State of Texas is preparing to “legally” lynch by execution on January 14th, 2015. #Justice4Rodney Campaign to End the Death Penalty.57306 4:00 am Wheeler Hall Occupation General Assembly @ Wheeler Hall lobby Wheeler Hall Occupation General Assembly @ Wheeler Hall lobby Nov 23 @ 4:00 am – 6:00 am Tickets #OccupyWheeler GA happening at 8 tonight! Big decisions to be made! #occupycal #FightTheHike #takebackyourtuition @theopenuc @bpoffcampus— OCCUPY CAL (@OccupyCalCampus) November 23, 2014 57364

Week of November 16

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.