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Facebook event & RSVP. 57805 10:00 pm Open Circle Supporting #BlackLivesMatter @ OMNI Collective Open Circle Supporting #BlackLivesMatter @ OMNI Collective Jan 11 @ 10:00 pm – Jan 12 @ 1:00 am Tickets Facebook event. This is the third in a series of meetings described below. This meeting will continue the reflection and conversation around support and long-term strategy and goals of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Report backs are encouraged which can help inform as well as provide networking opportunities. This might also provide opportunity to form affinity groups as people find others interested in similar pursuits. *Meeting logistics: 1. This is an inclusive event. Please spread the word, create flyers, or any other means you wish. 2. We want everyone to be heard … Continued 3:00 am GATHER @ Omni Commons @ OMNI Collective GATHER @ Omni Commons @ OMNI Collective Jan 12 @ 3:00 am – 7:00 am Tickets Come gather at Omni Commons for a night of feast, performances and fellowship! This monthly gathering and potluck brings together the Omni Commons community as well as anyone else in the surrounding Oakland/Bay Area. Strictly positive vibes all night! Please bring a food dish between 6pm and 7pm. We will break bread by 7! Come with a friend, an instrument, or just a smile! Facebook event & RSVP57793 3:15 am Occupy Forum: City College Update from John Rizzo, Board of Trustees President @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: City College Update from John Rizzo, Board of Trustees President @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Jan 12 @ 3:15 am – 4:15 am Tickets OccupyForum presents Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! President of the Board of Trustees, San Francisco City College, John Rizzo The City College of San Francisco board of trustees met for the first time since losing power a year and a half ago after the state’s accrediting body threatened to strip CCSF of its accreditation. “This is the first opportunity in a year and half that the board will be together officially … Continued	5:00 pm Court Support: Arraignments for Remaining Emeryville Arrestees @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107 Court Support: Arraignments for Remaining Emeryville Arrestees @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107 Jan 12 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Arraignments for Remaining Emeryville Arrestees. Come out to show your solidarity in court on Monday 9am at Wiley Manuel Courthouse Dept 107 for people kettled in Emeryville! Out of your beds and into the courts! Check the AntiRepression website and facebook for last minute changes! 57789 3:00 am Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing @ First Presbyterian Church Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing @ First Presbyterian Church Jan 13 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets : : : : : : Reclaiming King’s Legacy : : : : : : “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr. Facebook event & RSVP There is a state-sponsored war on Black lives in the United States and people across the country are demanding that it comes to an end. As long as it remains business as usual to gun down Black women, men and children in the streets of this country, … Continued 5:00 am Direct Action Training @ First Presbyterian Church Direct Action Training @ First Presbyterian Church Jan 13 @ 5:00 am – 6:30 am Tickets DIRECT ACTION TRAINING: The Ruckus Society will be hosting a training Monday eve (1/12) immediately following the spokescouncil meeting (~8:30pm-10pm), at the First Presbyterian Church at 27th and Broadway. This training is for any and all participants in MLK weekend actions! 57810	8:00 pm Bye, Bye, American Spies. A Lecture at UC Davis. @ King Hall, Room 1001 Bye, Bye, American Spies. A Lecture at UC Davis. @ King Hall, Room 1001 Jan 13 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Tomorrow @ @ucdavislaw I'm talking about the things NSA does in the name of surveillance that make us less secure. pic.twitter.com/RMCM2bbVfj— Jennifer Granick (@granick) January 13, 2015 57852 2:00 am San Francisco says KXL No! @ San Francisco State Department Office San Francisco says KXL No! @ San Francisco State Department Office Jan 14 @ 2:00 am – 3:00 am Tickets President Obama is on the brink of making his final decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Last Friday, the Nebraska Supreme Court validated the pipeline’s risky route through the state, moving the pipeline decision onto the President’s desk. That makes the coming weeks a critical period — this campaign has been sustained by action in the streets and now we need to show that we still stand strong against this climate disaster. Tomorrow the climate movement is mobilizing coast-to-coast to tell the President to reject Keystone XL now, … Continued	3:00 am Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing @ OMNI Collective Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing @ OMNI Collective Jan 15 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets : : : : : : Reclaiming King’s Legacy : : : : : : “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr. Facebook event & RSVP There is a state-sponsored war on Black lives in the United States and people across the country are demanding that it comes to an end. As long as it remains business as usual to gun down Black women, men and children in the streets of this country, … Continued 5:00 am KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING @ OMNI Collective KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING @ OMNI Collective Jan 15 @ 5:00 am – 6:30 am Tickets KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING: the MLK spokescouncil’s legal working group will be hosting a training Wednesday eve (1/14) immediately following the spokescouncil meeting (~8:15pm-10pm) 57813	5:00 pm Court Support: Arraignments for Commonwealth Kettle @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107 Court Support: Arraignments for Commonwealth Kettle @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107 Jan 15 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come support folks arrested in a kettle outside the Commonwealth club at their arraignment. Check the AntiRepression website and facebook for last minute changes!57790	3:00 pm #BARTFriday Reclaiming King’s Legacy action @ Montgomery BART Station platform #BARTFriday Reclaiming King’s Legacy action @ Montgomery BART Station platform Jan 16 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Mass convergence at the Montgomery BART platform, demanding: Drop the Charges and the Ransom on the Black Friday 14 Disband the BART Police Department Institute a low income discount ticket program Be on time and bring a spoon! Part of the Anti Police-Terror Project-initiated MLK weekend of action. Reference event notice. Facebook page & RSVP. “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.” — Martin Luther King There is a state-sponsored war on Black lives in the United States … Continued 4:45 pm BAY AREA LAWYER DIE-IN FOR RACIAL JUSTICE @ California Supreme Court BAY AREA LAWYER DIE-IN FOR RACIAL JUSTICE @ California Supreme Court Jan 16 @ 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets BAY AREA LAWYER DIE-IN FOR RACIAL JUSTICE Facebook page & RSVP. The Bay Area legal community (attorneys, legal staff, law students, professors, and allies) are invited to participate in a “Die-In” calling for an end to the use of excessive force, police brutality, and racial profiling in communities of color. This direct action is in response to recent grand jury decisions not to indict police officers in the killing of unarmed civilians, Mr. Eric Garner, Mr. Michael Brown, and Mr. John Crawford. Their deaths and the subsequent grand jury decisions … Continued 5:00 pm Court Support for Cesar Aguirre @ Rene Davidson Courthouse, Courtroom 10 (7th floor) Court Support for Cesar Aguirre @ Rene Davidson Courthouse, Courtroom 10 (7th floor) Jan 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Facebook page & RSVP Cesar was originally arrested Nov 2, 2011 and falsely convicted of a vandalism charge August 13, 2012 after the jury deliberated the evidence for only 15 minutes, without even looking at photographic evidence collected by Aguirre’s defense attorneys. Since then Cesar has been appealing his case. There is a possibility that Cesar will be remanded into custody for another 2 months. It is crucial that we show our support for Cesar and stand against this wrongful conviction. Check out his support page for more info: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Cesar/352661321480603?fref=photo … Continued 5:00 pm Court Support for OPD Shutdown Protesters @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107 Court Support for OPD Shutdown Protesters @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107 Jan 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come support folks who were arrested shutting down OPD at their arraignment. Check the AntiRepression website and facebook for last minute changes!57845 ◢ 8:00 pm Reclaiming King’s Legacy. @ All over the Bay Area. Reclaiming King’s Legacy. @ All over the Bay Area. Jan 16 @ 8:00 pm – Jan 17 @ 8:00 am Tickets “You may well ask: ‘Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?’ You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work … Continued 2:00 am Keep it Wild! Kickoff Benefit Show to Defend Knowland Park! @ OMNI Collective Keep it Wild! Kickoff Benefit Show to Defend Knowland Park! @ OMNI Collective Jan 17 @ 2:00 am – 6:00 am Tickets Join us for a night of performances to benefit the kickoff the direct action campaign to Defend Knowland Park – Huchiun Territory of the Ohlone Tribe. Facebook page & RSVP. We will have performances by: RedStar (Indigenous Hip Hop) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQA0EfdWO-8 Jabari Shaw (Political Hip Hop) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IR-tB24teQ Grupo Puyakan (Colombian Cumbia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTcU9dRb3N0 Rosanonymous (Folk Punk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP8lvyqXgIg We would like to raise a couple thousand dollars for gear and bail funds… Knowland Park (Ohlone Territory called Huchiun) is a 500-acre wildland open space in the Oakland hills, deeded to the City by the State in … Continued 4:30 am #MLKshutitdown Guerrilla Theater Actions @ Mission Dolores Park #MLKshutitdown Guerrilla Theater Actions @ Mission Dolores Park Jan 17 @ 4:30 am – 6:30 am Tickets Guerrilla Theater, meet @ Dolores Park. Wear Black! (PartyPatrol) 57890 6:30 am #MLKShutitdown Rally @ 16th St. BART #MLKShutitdown Rally @ 16th St. BART Jan 17 @ 6:30 am – 7:30 am Tickets ALL OUT! Wear Black! Rally at 16th BART Station. (PartyPatrol) 57891	◤ ◢ 8:00 am Reclaiming King’s Legacy. @ All over the Bay Area. Reclaiming King’s Legacy. @ All over the Bay Area. Jan 17 @ 8:00 am – Jan 18 @ 8:00 am Tickets “You may well ask: ‘Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?’ You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work … Continued 5:00 pm Tell Berkeley City Council: End the War on Black Lives! Black Lives Matter! Black Disabled Lives Matter! @ Ed Roberts Campus Tell Berkeley City Council: End the War on Black Lives! Black Lives Matter! Black Disabled Lives Matter! @ Ed Roberts Campus Jan 17 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets On Saturday Jan 17 the Berkeley City Council will be holding a special meeting to discuss “Improving Police/Community Relations.” This meeting will be held at the Ed Roberts Campus, a community facility for disabled people. We demand an end to the war on black lives! Berkeley Police regularly profile black people with disabilities! Black disabled people have died in Berkeley Police custody! About the organizers: We are a group of mostly white, mostly fat, mostly disabled, mostly queer activists. We are responding to a call from the Anti Police-Terror Project … Continued 6:00 pm Berkeley City Council Workshop on Improving Police/Community Relations. Berkeley City Council Workshop on Improving Police/Community Relations. Jan 17 @ 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets AGENDA Worksession: 1. Improving Police and Community Relations: Discuss possible ways to improve community and police relations and addressing our response to what occurred in Ferguson, Missouri and beyond that will result in positive steps the City Council can pursue. A. Public Comment B. Facilitated Panel Discussion C. Legislative Panel Discussion (Invited: Congresswoman Lee, State Senator Hancock, Assemblymember Thurmond, and Supervisor Carson) D. City Council Discussion E. Public Comment Adjournment Reference: Berkeley City Council announcement57826 8:00 pm For MLK’s birthday, take to the streets! – San Francisco @ 24th St. BART For MLK’s birthday, take to the streets! – San Francisco @ 24th St. BART Jan 17 @ 8:00 pm – Jan 18 @ 7:45 am Tickets In our case, to the buses! In SF, we will be having a rally and speak out starting at 12pm at 24th and Mission Sts. At 1pm, we will split into groups and get on buses, BART and through the neighborhood in order to inform our community about the real legacy of MLK and why his struggle is still so important today. Please read the ANSWER Coalition’s “Call to Action” below for our orientation towards the commemoration of Dr. MLK: The political establishment, from the White House to City Halls … Continued 8:00 pm Help Start the Berkeley Post Office Community Garden! @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Help Start the Berkeley Post Office Community Garden! @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Jan 17 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Help us create a garden on the west side of the Berkeley Post Office. Hummingbird flowers, winter vegetables, vertical gardening, heirloom seeds, organic non-GMO and medicinal plants are in the chat… We also need good soil, garden tools, resources food and most of all people who want to garden! The pre-planting get together will have been held on January 10th. The Downtown Berkeley Post Office will have been Occupied 75 days on January 17th.57775 11:00 pm East Oakland March for Justice for Mike Brown @ Fruitvale Bart Station Plaza East Oakland March for Justice for Mike Brown @ Fruitvale Bart Station Plaza Jan 17 @ 11:00 pm – Jan 18 @ 4:00 am Tickets March on the MLK Day weekend to demand: Jail Darren Wilson Reject the Grand Jury Decision! Drop Charges Against All Protesters! Create More Jobs and Educational Opportunities! Down with the New Jim Crow Down with the Police State! The coming of winter has not cooled the anger of the black community of Ferguson, Missouri–it has only fanned the flames of the demand for justice that is spreading throughout the nation. Like Ferguson, East Oakland, CA is a community with a strong history of fighting for justice against racist police … Continued

Week of January 11

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.