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This workshop, led by Gene Ruyle of the ICSS, will be the first in a series seeking to overcome this confusion through study and discussion, focusing on the classics of scientific socialism: The Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, … Continued	1:00 am Occupy Forum: “THE HIDDEN ENEMY” — THE COVERT OPERATION BEHIND MILITARY SUICIDES @ Global Exchange, near 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: “THE HIDDEN ENEMY” — THE COVERT OPERATION BEHIND MILITARY SUICIDES @ Global Exchange, near 16th St. BART Mar 17 @ 1:00 am – 3:00 am Tickets Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occup yForum presents “THE HIDDEN ENEMY” THE COVERT OPERATION BEHIND MILITARY SUICIDES In early 2013, the official website of the United States Department of Defense announced the startling statistic that the number of military suicides in 2012 had far exceeded the total of those killed in battle: an average of nearly one a day. A month later camee an even more sobering statistic from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: veteran suicide was running at 22 a day – about 8000 a year. Some have … Continued	12:00 am Justice 4 Pedie Perez @ Richmond City Council, Civic Center Plaza Justice 4 Pedie Perez @ Richmond City Council, Civic Center Plaza Mar 18 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am Tickets There will be a rally, starting at 5pm, on March 17, in front of the Richmond City Council, demanding justice for Pedie Perez, who was shot and killed by Richmond Police Officer Wallace Jensen on September 14, 2014 shortly after midnight. He had been asked to leave Sam’s Liquor Store, due to alcohol intoxication and sit on the curb outside on the sidewalk. The officer had searched him and found no weapons. After some time, Pedie started to walk away without permission, then the cop wrestled him to the ground … Continued 12:00 am March and Rally for Berkeley’s Homeless March and Rally for Berkeley’s Homeless Mar 18 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 am Tickets On March 17th, the Berkeley City Council will consider passing laws that would prohibit panhandling within 10 feet of a parking pay station placing object within three feet of a tree well using bedding or blankets on the sidewalk between 7:00 AM and 10:00 PM attaching objects to public fixtures unpermitted cooking on the sidewalks They want to up the enforcement against people who are homeless. We can stop them if we unite. STREETS ARE FOR EVERYONE (SAFE) COALITION58264 12:00 am Speak out for Strong New BAAQMD Rules (For Air Quality in the Bay Area) @ Whittlesey Room, Main Library Speak out for Strong New BAAQMD Rules (For Air Quality in the Bay Area) @ Whittlesey Room, Main Library Mar 18 @ 12:00 am – 1:30 am Tickets Speak out for Strong New BAAQMD Rules. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) is in the process of adopting new rules to improve monitoring of refinery emissions and to require at least a 20% reduction in CAP (criteria air pollutants) emissions (PM, SOx, NOx, CO, ROG) within five years. They have scheduled a Town Hall style meeting for public input: After a presentation by Board staff members, comments will be invited. The room is relatively small and the meeting will be brief. Nevertheless, let’s use this opportunity to … Continued	4:00 pm Court Date for Black Friday 14 Court Date for Black Friday 14 Mar 18 @ 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Court update: demur about constitutionality was filed. New date march 18 9am set to continue. #blackfriday14 #DropTheCharges— Bay Solidarity (@BaySolidarity) February 4, 2015 motion to dismiss case called demur was made today: statute is unconstitutional-it's too broad-anyone cld be charged 4 interfering with BART— Bay Solidarity (@BaySolidarity) February 4, 2015 Atty Walter Riley: the law could arrest anyone for having too baggy pants or too dark skin on Bart platform. #DropTheCharges #BlackFriday14— Bay Solidarity (@BaySolidarity) February 4, 2015 58059 5:30 pm Protest Apartheid at Hewlett-Packard @ Hewlett-Packard Protest Apartheid at Hewlett-Packard @ Hewlett-Packard Mar 18 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Protest genocidal apartheid #HP March 18th, 10:30am #HewlettPackard Headquarters, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA. pic.twitter.com/BrsHuqBG60— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) March 9, 2015 58262 12:00 am Save the E12th Parcel for the People! @ Oakland City Hall Save the E12th Parcel for the People! @ Oakland City Hall Mar 19 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 am Tickets In the midst of a housing affordability crisis in Oakland, the City is proposing to sell publicly owned land to create a 24 story, 300 unit luxury high-rise apartment tower right by Lake Merritt, where the median rent will be 3k per month. The development will have no affordable units and no real community benefits. The property is on E12th and 1st Ave street, right by the new pedestrian bridge at the end of Lake Merritt. Long-time residents are being pushed out of Oakland every day because of skyrocketing housing … Continued 1:30 am Oakland Privacy Working Group @ Impact Hub Oakland Privacy Working Group @ Impact Hub Mar 19 @ 1:30 am – 3:00 am Tickets Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, surveillance systems from facial recognition to license plate readers, Urban Shield and other invasions of privacy by our militarized police and benighted City Government. We are currently pushing to get a strong privacy policy for the DAC enacted by the City Council, for the Council to create a privacy committee that will create a private policy for all of Oakland, and for a surveillance equipment acquisition ordinance which provides transparency and prior … Continued 2:00 am Oakland Film Premiere: Tales of the Grim Sleeper. Black Women’s Lives Matter. @ Omni Commons Oakland Film Premiere: Tales of the Grim Sleeper. Black Women’s Lives Matter. @ Omni Commons Mar 19 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets Black Women’s Lives Matter (A Women’s History Month Event). Did you know that: as many as 200 Black women are missing in Los Angeles, maybe 100 killed? Police referred to the murders as No Humans Involved (NHI)? A new film by Nick Broomfield that highlights the devaluation of Black women’s lives and the lives of sex workers. The film shows the: — criminal neglect or worse in law enforcement’s handling of the investigation and the efforts of the community based Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders to win justice and … Continued 2:30 am Anti Police Terror Project Meeting @ East Side Arts Alliance Annex Anti Police Terror Project Meeting @ East Side Arts Alliance Annex Mar 19 @ 2:30 am – 4:30 am Tickets Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month. Please note that this is held in the Eastside Arts Alliance Annex. The entrance is to the left of the main Eastside Entrance. The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, the Idriss Stelley Foundation, Workers World and Healthy Hoodz, is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country. We are led by the most impacted … Continued 2:30 am Tom Hayden: Why Cuba Matters @ First Congregational Church Tom Hayden: Why Cuba Matters @ First Congregational Church Mar 19 @ 2:30 am – 4:00 am Tickets 58343	1:00 am Bay Area Public School General Meeting @ Omni Commons Meetspace Bay Area Public School General Meeting @ Omni Commons Meetspace Mar 20 @ 1:00 am – 2:00 am Tickets The BAPS General Meeting is where our core group of organizers come together. For those looking to get involved with the school, this is the best place to start. What happens at the General Meeting? Anyone can bring a proposal for new classes events organizational procedures lectures, talks, speakers workshops skill-shares Organizers vote on class proposals important financial expenditures use of space core values We meet each other make relevant announcements collaborate and coalesce new visions of the school distribute tasks and plan to take action learn how to build collectivity, a commons, … Continued 2:00 am Elias Castillo – “A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians” @ Revolution Books Elias Castillo – “A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians” @ Revolution Books Mar 20 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets Elias Castillo discusses “A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions” Author Elias Castillo shatters the image of California’s Missions as idyllic places where Franciscan friars and Indians lived in an environment of mutual respect. In reality, the Missions were death camps where more than 60,000 Indian workers died, many as a result of whippings, disease, and malnutrition. The book is the result of more than six years of research and study of original documents including eyewitness accounts by early travelers, records kept by the … Continued	3:00 pm Peacewalk for a Nuclear Free Future @ Richmond BART Peacewalk for a Nuclear Free Future @ Richmond BART Mar 20 @ 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Peacewalk for a Nuclear Free Future to start here A group of dedicated activists is walking from Richmond to the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations in New York City in April. One of the organizers writes: “We are starting in Richmond because we want to bring the energy of all of the good things happening there with us as we walk.” The walk will be led by Reverend Jun Yasuda, (affectionately known as “Junsan”) a Nipponzon Myohoji Buddhist nun who has been walking around the … Continued	11:00 am Her Resilience Part I: Mural Unveiling & Ceremony @ Park Garden Her Resilience Part I: Mural Unveiling & Ceremony @ Park Garden Mar 21 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Her Resilience Part I: Mural Unveiling & Ceremony presented byMamacitas Cafe and Her Resilience: A Mural for Women Affected by Violence in Oakland Featuring Mona Webb as Emcee Nuri Nusrat & Robert Castro – Circle Facilitators – Calpulli Huey Papalotl Danza Opening Ceremony -Community Dialogues on Safety and Resiliency -Childcare by Liliana Hurtado of YOLOTL COLLECTIVE – Face painting by Melody Sage – Healing Circles for All Genders – Tamales by Tamales La Oaxaqueña – Coffee, Drinks, and Donuts by Mamacitas Cafe Special thanks to Akonadi Foundation for event support … Continued 12:00 pm Banner Drop: Animals Against Extinction @ Sea Breeze Cafe Banner Drop: Animals Against Extinction @ Sea Breeze Cafe Mar 21 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Next Saturday the art activists of Animals Against Extinction will unfurl a striking banner at the pedestrian overpass at University Avenue at I-80, Berkeley. The banner will focus the attention of thousands of drivers on the ongoing threats that climate change poses to all living species. If you’d like to be a part of this action, please gather at noon Saturday, March 21 at Sea Breeze Cafe at the foot of University and Frontage Road, immediately west of I-80. This action will also serve as a dress rehearsal for actions … Continued 7:00 pm FifteenNow Rally at Whole Foods in Berkeley. Demand a Living Wage! @ Whole Foods Berkeley FifteenNow Rally at Whole Foods in Berkeley. Demand a Living Wage! @ Whole Foods Berkeley Mar 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join us at Whole Foods. We’ll be rallying for higher minimum wages at noon in front of the store. Drop by if you’re interested in helping out or if you have any questions. An increase in the Berkeley minimum wage doesn’t just make economic sense—it’s a necessity for workers, who literally can’t afford to pay rent in this city on less than $15/hour! @15NowBerkeley 58275 12:00 pm Gardening at the Berkeley Post Office @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Gardening at the Berkeley Post Office @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Mar 21 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets The planting was in January. Now the garden is in full bloom. The gardening work continues. Join us! More information on the Berkeley Post Office Defense against the sale and privatization here. More pictures here.58391 7:00 pm We Say NO to War: Rally In SF We Say NO to War: Rally In SF Mar 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join ~20 Bay Area activist groups on Saturday, 12th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, to say no to endless war. pic.twitter.com/aReDdWLFmQ— Not Frantz Fanon (@violentfanon) March 16, 2015 58352 12:00 am Justice 4 Alex Nieto: Premier of “Amor for Alex.” Justice 4 Alex Nieto: Premier of “Amor for Alex.” Mar 22 @ 12:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets The premier of “Amor for Alex.” The one year anniversary of the unlawful killing by SFPD of Alex Nieto. 58186

Week of March 15

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.