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What: The multimedia book launch will include a discussion on solidarity, extraction, and Indigenous sovereignty and climate change, with panel of frontline activists fighting … Continued 11:00 pm Open Circle Against Police Militarization, State Violence and Racism @ OMNI Collective Open Circle Against Police Militarization, State Violence and Racism @ OMNI Collective Jan 25 @ 11:00 pm – Jan 26 @ 3:00 am Tickets Our 4th open circle to connect and organize toward the end of police militarization, state violence and systemic racism. RSVP and invite folks to the Facebook event This open circle will continue the dialogue and planning around support, goals, and long-term strategy in addressing the long-standing issues of the extremely disproportionate degrees of police brutality and killings of black people and people of color, systematic racism, state violence, militarization of police, and more that have been brought to the forefront once again due to the recent surge of such atrocities. Let’s … Continued 2:00 am Carl Dix & Sunsara Taylor: We Need a Revolution and a Revolution is Possible! @ Revolution Books Carl Dix & Sunsara Taylor: We Need a Revolution and a Revolution is Possible! @ Revolution Books Jan 26 @ 2:00 am – 4:30 am Tickets We Need a Revolution and a Revolution is Possible! Come hear Carl Dix & Sunsara Taylor speak on why. They will take questions. Sunsara Taylor is a writer for Revolution Newspaper, an initiator of Stop Patriarchy, and sits on the Advisory Board of World Can’t Wait. She has written on the rise of theocracy, wars and repression in the U.S., police murder and mass incarceration, and more. She has led in building resistance to these crimes as part of building the movement for revolution to put an end to all … Continued 3:00 am Movie Screening: Fruitvale Station @ Longhaul, 2 blocks from Ashby BART Movie Screening: Fruitvale Station @ Longhaul, 2 blocks from Ashby BART Jan 26 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Free Movie: Fruitvale Station (Drama 2013) explores the killing of Oscar Grant by a white BART policeman 57901	5:00 pm Court Support: CANCELLED. Powell St Kettle Arraignments SF @ San Francisco Superior Court Court Support: CANCELLED. Powell St Kettle Arraignments SF @ San Francisco Superior Court Jan 26 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Always check Antirepression website and facebook for last minute changes. Good news! As of today, word is out that the SF court appearances are not scheduled. No need to come out for court support in SF 01/26 – 01/28!57932 2:00 am Occupy Forum: Surviving Climate Chaos: Reframing the Climate Question @ Unitarian Universalist Center, MLK Room Occupy Forum: Surviving Climate Chaos: Reframing the Climate Question @ Unitarian Universalist Center, MLK Room Jan 27 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets a special presentation on climate change with author and environmentalist Mark Hertsgaard Surviving Climate Chaos: Reframing the Climate Question “Over the next 50 years, climate change will transform our world in ways we have only begun to imagine. Humans have changed the weather on the planet, and the battle to prevent climate chaos has become the race to survive it. Climate change worsens already existing conflicts over water supplies, energy sources, weather-induced migration — and it undermines the very ecosystems that make life possible. Besides striving to lower the global … Continued 2:00 am Surviving Climate Chaos: a talk by Mark Heertsgaard @ First Unitarian Universalist Center Surviving Climate Chaos: a talk by Mark Heertsgaard @ First Unitarian Universalist Center Jan 27 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Over the next 50 years, climate change will transform our world in ways we have only begun to imagine. Herstgaard will address how these changing conditions especially affect peoples living around the equator and in low-lying countries as the oceans rise. What does this mean for them? What will it mean for us? How can we begin to prepare for these inevitable mass migrations? Mark Hertsgaard has spoken and written about global warming for more than 20 years. An environmental correspondent for NPR, The Nation, the New Yorker and other media organizations, Hertsgaard travels … Continued 3:00 am Cops, Class, and Race: How Police Protect the 1% @ Oakland Peace Center Cops, Class, and Race: How Police Protect the 1% @ Oakland Peace Center Jan 27 @ 3:00 am – 4:30 am Tickets As communities around the nation have taken to the streets in the ongoing movement against police brutality the question of the police and their role in society has taken on new importance. With the police killing a Black person every 28 hours a movement is emerging that challenges the idea of who they protect and who they serve. The very origins of their institution is saturated in racism and violence. From their beginning as a force to quell strikes, urban riots, and the threat of slave insurrection they have always … Continued	12:30 am Santa Cruz: TANKS, NO THANKS! GIVE BACK THE BEARCAT! @ Santa Cruz City Council Santa Cruz: TANKS, NO THANKS! GIVE BACK THE BEARCAT! @ Santa Cruz City Council Jan 28 @ 12:30 am – 2:30 am Tickets TANKS, NO THANKS GIVE BACK THE BEARCAT ARMORED MILITARY VEHICLE (Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck) Let city council know how you feel SAY NO TO THE MILITARIZATION OF THE POLICE Organized by SCRAM ! ( Santa Cruz Resistance Against Militarization !) 57952 2:00 am Extra OccupyForum: SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Extra OccupyForum: SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Jan 28 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Extra Occupy Forum OccupyForum hosts Harvey “No Nukes” Wasserman and allies SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON JOIN US in the accelerating campaign to shut California’s last nukes: the two reactors at Diablo Canyon, near San Luis Obispo. Citizen activism has closed the reactors at Humboldt, Rancho Seco and San Onofre, and stopped proposed projects at Bakersfield, Bodega and elsewhere. We believe we can force this deadly, dangerous and disastrous plant shut if you will join with us. PG&E’s Diablo is two 1200+ megawatt monsters surrounded by earthquake faults, in a tsunami zone, out of compliance with clean … Continued	12:30 am All out to stop the Privatization of OUSD @ Escuelita Elementary School All out to stop the Privatization of OUSD @ Escuelita Elementary School Jan 29 @ 12:30 am – 2:30 am Tickets On Wednesday OUSD will be discussing proposals to privatize Fremont HS, Castlemont HS, McClymonds HS, Frick MS and Brookfield Elementary and make it easier for charter schools to recruit public school families. This is tied to changes the district is pushing to the teacher union contract that will make these turnarounds easier to implement. OEA is fighting for the resources needed to create stable schools and bottom-up school transformation! Let’s show up unified as teachers, students, parents and community members to shut down the Superintendent Wilson’s proposals to continue the … Continued 3:00 am Radical Women Meetup San Francisco Radical Women Meetup San Francisco Jan 29 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Event for radical women in San Francisco,: discussion about the importance of women of color being involved and given a voice. 57863	5:00 pm Court Support: New Year’s Even kettle arrests. @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107 Court Support: New Year’s Even kettle arrests. @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107 Jan 29 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets The folks in this kettle rang in the New Year with arrests. Let’s show them 2015 will be full of solidarity! Come out to Wiley Manuel on both Thursday, 01/29 and Friday, 01/30 at 9am in Department 107 for their arraignments! Always check Antirepression website and facebook for last minute changes. 57968 2:00 am KPFA Fundraiser Film Screening: THE THROWAWAYS @ International House KPFA Fundraiser Film Screening: THE THROWAWAYS @ International House Jan 30 @ 2:00 am – 6:00 am Tickets 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm screenings KPFA Radio 94.1FM and International House, UC Berkeley, present: THE THROWAWAYS An award winning documentary film With Bhawin Suchak (Director/Producer) & Ira McKinley (ex-felon & homeless filmmaker) Tickets: 800-838-3006 or at independent bookstores, student discount at door, KPFA benefit The Throwaways is a timely and provocative look at the impact of mass incarceration and police brutality on black men in America. Told through the eyes of homeless ex-felon Ira McKinley, the film documents his struggle to bring positive changes to his community in inner-city … Continued 3:00 am A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice. @ The Green Arcade A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice. @ The Green Arcade Jan 30 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Come hear about the struggles of many people and organizations to fight the huge corporations and governments behind the tar sands projects as Joshua Kahn Russell, editor of A Line in The Tar Sands: Struggles For Environmental Justice, reads from the book and discusses the latest progress in the effort to stop this giant carbon bomb. More details below….. it’s happening at The Green Arcade (maybe San Francisco’s coolest book store and one that supports critical thinking about, well, everything) at 1680 Market Street @ Gough – 7pm, this Thursday … Continued	9:00 am Court Support: New Year’s Even kettle arrests. @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107 Court Support: New Year’s Even kettle arrests. @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 107 Jan 30 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets The folks in this kettle rang in the New Year with arrests. Let’s show them 2015 will be full of solidarity! Come out to Wiley Manuel on both Thursday, 01/29 and Friday, 01/30 at 9am in Department 107 for their arraignments! Always check Antirepression website and facebook for last minute changes. 57968 3:00 am Film Screening: The Throwaways. Discussion Re Police Terror and Related Activism. @ OMNI Collective Film Screening: The Throwaways. Discussion Re Police Terror and Related Activism. @ OMNI Collective Jan 31 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am Tickets Screening of ‘The Throwaways’ w/ discussion around police terrorism and related activism. Note: Time is uncertain. Not listed in the original posting on the #BlackLivesMatter calendar, and not currently on the Omni calendar. 57864 3:30 am Long time occupier Kyle is having benefit show to raise funds for cancer treatment @ Amnesia Long time occupier Kyle is having benefit show to raise funds for cancer treatment @ Amnesia Jan 31 @ 3:30 am – 5:30 am Tickets Long time occupier Kyle is having benefit show to raise funds for cancer treatment tomorrow night https://t.co/EbXGK41c2c Amnesia, SF 7:30pm— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 30, 2015 ALL $ FROM THE DOOR & some proceeds from the bar as well will be donated to Kyle to help him fight cancer. 58016	12:00 pm Continue Work on the Berkeley Post Office Community Garden. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Continue Work on the Berkeley Post Office Community Garden. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Jan 31 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets The planting was a few weeks ago. The gardening work continues. Join us! More information on the Berkeley Post Office Defense against the sale and privatization here. Pictures and videos of the soil preparation and planting here. 57902 8:00 pm Security/Privacy/Surveillance Workshop for Activists @ Liberating Ourselves Locally Security/Privacy/Surveillance Workshop for Activists @ Liberating Ourselves Locally Jan 31 @ 8:00 pm – Feb 1 @ 1:00 am Tickets LOL will be hosting a free Security and Privacy Workshop which will include practical sessions on phone security apps, operational security, risk assessment, and other tools you can use to enhance your safety and privacy across your devices. Facebook event & RSVP.57991 8:00 pm Anti-Eviction Protest. @ Harvey Milk Plaza Anti-Eviction Protest. @ Harvey Milk Plaza Jan 31 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Come protest landlord/speculator Ann Kihagi-Swain to get her to stop pushing out tenants in over 10 buildings, with harassment, fake notices, and multiple Owner Move Ins. Lease violations evictions for minor things are way up in SF, especially from new building owners. Landlord Ann Kihagi-Swain is one of the worst; using multiple names she bought up over 10 buildings this last summer and fall. Soon after buying the buildings she has giving most tenants 3 day notices: for everything from shoes in the hallway, to illegal roommates for partners who … Continued 8:00 pm Global Day Against Torture @ Everywhere Global Day Against Torture @ Everywhere Jan 31 @ 8:00 pm – Feb 1 @ 7:45 am Tickets Facebook page. In late November the Senate Report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of Torture was released. This report has since been swept under the rug and nearly forgotten. The Mainstream media, the government and a complicit American public are prepared to forget about the Senate Report on CIA torture AND WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN! Join organizations and individuals from across the political spectrum for protests, rallies, and gatherings on Saturday January 31st to make sure America and the US government do not go unchallenged. WAKE UP THE … Continued 10:00 pm NLG Training on Prison Visitation. NLG Training on Prison Visitation. Jan 31 @ 10:00 pm – Feb 1 @ 12:00 am Tickets Learn how to visit people incarcerated in California prisons. Participants will leave knowing how to request and conduct legal visits and social/family visits, and access support that exists for people traveling to prisons. Please RSVP & complete this poll so we can customize the training: http://tinyurl.com/Walls-Pre-Training-Survey For upcoming trainings in the series, and Materials from previous training, click here http://caitlinkellyhenry.com/support/ This training series will focus on practical skills development for loved ones, activists, legal workers, and lawyers to understand the nitty gritty methods and best practices for supporting people on the inside. Facebook … Continued 1:00 am Action for Worker Justice in Berkeley! Restaurant Workers Rising! @ HS Lordships Restaurant Action for Worker Justice in Berkeley! Restaurant Workers Rising! @ HS Lordships Restaurant Feb 1 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am Tickets Join us for our upcoming action to demand worker justice at HS Lordships! As workers all across the U.S. and Bay Area are standing up to demand living wages and fair working conditions, restaurant workers in Berkeley are also defending their right to respectful treatment and healthcare in order to live dignified lives. At HS Lordships, workers have been without a contract for more than four years. At the restaurant, servers make $10 an hour and pay more than $500 per month for family insurance. The company is now proposing … Continued 2:30 am From NYC to Ferguson to Oakland, Imani Henry Talks on Nationwide Fight Against Police Terror @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice From NYC to Ferguson to Oakland, Imani Henry Talks on Nationwide Fight Against Police Terror @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice Feb 1 @ 2:30 am – 4:30 am Tickets Imani Keith Henry is a longtime activist in the anti-police brutality, anti-war and LGBTQ movements in the US. He is an organizer with The Peoples Power Assembly, which helped to coordinate emergency day of/day after actions in NYC and nationally in response to the Ferguson grand jury decision. Imani has travelled to Ferguson, MO twice and most recently took part in a 36-person civil disobedience action on December 4th in response to the Garner grand jury decision. He is also the founder of The Equality for Flatbush Project (E4F), which does … Continued

Week of January 25

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.