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The direct linkage to the League of Human rights on the one hand … Continued 1:00 pm Fundraiser for Jabari Shaw. @ Eastside Arts Alliance Fundraiser for Jabari Shaw. @ Eastside Arts Alliance Mar 29 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Jabari Shaw, a well-known Oakland activist, his daughter and friend were nearly killed by US Marshalls and Oakland Police in a case of “mistaken identity.” Come show your support for Jabari! Check out this video for more info. And these articles: http://www.crc4sd.org/blog/2015/3/17/the-6-phases-of-engagement-of-power http://www.crc4sd.org/blog/2015/3/16/black-oakland-activist-attacked-by-opd-feds 58379 2:00 pm Planning for Creating PEOPLES ACTIONS around US Conference of Mayors @ UNITE / HERE (Local 2) Planning for Creating PEOPLES ACTIONS around US Conference of Mayors @ UNITE / HERE (Local 2) Mar 29 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets SF and Mayor Ed Lee will be hosting the 83rd U.S. Conference of Mayors, June 19th – June 22nd, in San Francisco. SF Action Council is focusing on creating events around their meeting. This is an opportunity to raise issues locally and nationally that are of concern to us, THE PEOPLE, that the mayors have resisted and refused to act upon – or acted against the interest of The People. For instance: “Black Lives Matter”, police militarization and excessive use of force, gentrification of our communities, homelessness, racism, immigration, privatization … Continued	4:30 pm Justice 4 O’Shaine Evans: Press Conference. @ Hall of Justice Justice 4 O’Shaine Evans: Press Conference. @ Hall of Justice Mar 30 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets O’Shaine Evans was shot and killed by SFPD Officer David Goff October 7th. Join his family as they file for damages! O’Shaine was a Caribbean immigrant raised in Oakland, an aspiring boxer, an enthusiastic uncle, and a beloved community member whose life was tragically cut short just five months ago. Since O’Shaine’s death, his mother Angela, his sister Cadine, and his brother and brother-in-law Troy and Raheim, have become incredibly active in the anti-police brutality movement–attending rallies and marches, speaking to draw connections between immigrant rights, racial discrimination, and police … Continued 6:00 pm Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Meeting @ 5th floor Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Meeting @ 5th floor Mar 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Get involved with the fight against solitary confinement. Become a human rights pen pal: Contact cws@igc.org58414 6:30 pm Occupy Forum: DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE @ Global Exchange, at 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE @ Global Exchange, at 16th St. BART Mar 30 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets OOPS!!! After consideration of the wishes of members of the trans community, Deep Green Resistance will not be presenting at OccupyForum on Monday March 30th. I apologize to the trans community for insensitivity and ignorance about these issues. We offer the trans community the opportunity to schedule an OccupyForum to explain their position. On Monday, we will open the Forum to discussion about how we can work together as a movement to strengthen our understanding of each other, and persevere in our work. We also appreciate the unique understanding of … Continued	3:00 pm March for the Oakland Schools Students Deserve @ San Antonio Park March for the Oakland Schools Students Deserve @ San Antonio Park Mar 31 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets March to OUSD HQ at 1000 Broadway. Better Contracts for Students and Teachers. Keep Public Schools Public. Hard Caps for Special Eduction. Money for School Sites not Upper Administration. Counselors not Cops. 58392 1:30 am Palestine: A laboratory for global repression. A Presentation by journalist Rania Khalek @ 105 NorthGate Hall Palestine: A laboratory for global repression. A Presentation by journalist Rania Khalek @ 105 NorthGate Hall Apr 1 @ 1:30 am – 3:00 am Tickets 58279 7:00 pm Occupy The Farm: The Film @ New Parkway Theater Occupy The Farm: The Film @ New Parkway Theater Mar 31 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets PolicyLink and Food First present “Occupy The Farm”, the story of 200 urban farmers who plant 2 acres of crops on a publicly owned research farm in order to save the land from becoming a real-estate development. The Village Voice calls the film, “Riveting from start.” The New Parkway Theater screening is for one night only. Q&A to follow screening will include Effie Rawlings from Occupy the Farm Facebook event.58454 7:00 pm Which Way For the ILWU – Militant Unionism or Business Unionism? Which Way For the ILWU – Militant Unionism or Business Unionism? Mar 31 @ 7:00 pm Tickets Which way for the ILWU- Militant Unionism or Business Unionism? — Hear ILWU Longshore Activists Speak on the Recent Longshore Contract Negotiations — Open Discussion on the Tentative Agreement –Longshore Members & Caucus delegates invited (EVERYONE IS WELCOME!) WHEN: TUESDAY, MARCH 31 @ 7PM WHERE: 1187 Franklin St., SF (across the street from ILWU International Headquarters) The ILWU has a proud history of class struggle and the fight for democratic principles codified in the Ten Guiding Principles of the ILWU. Today ILWU officials flaunt these union … Continued	8:00 am Protest: Stop Detentions, Deportations & Murders of Immigrants! @ ICE Offices Protest: Stop Detentions, Deportations & Murders of Immigrants! @ ICE Offices Apr 1 @ 8:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets Since October 2014 the bodies of 55 immigrants were found in the Rio Grande River Valley in Texas and 15 other bodies were pulled from the waters of the Rio Grande River. These were people trying to cross one of the most militarized borders in the world. Amilcar Perez-Lopez, Guatemalan immigrant was unjustly killed by SFPD on February 26. Antonio Zambrano was brutally executed by Pasco, Washington police on February 10. 2059 immigrants were arrested nationwide by ICE agents in “Operation Cross Check”. 58473 5:00 pm The Bay Area OurWalmart April 1st National Day Of Action @ Walmart, Oakland The Bay Area OurWalmart April 1st National Day Of Action @ Walmart, Oakland Apr 1 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets On WED APRIL 1st we will be getting out the message on the VICTORY and WAGE INCREASES at Walmart! Over 500,000 Walmart Associates will get a WAGE INCREASE! BUT WALMART ASSOCIATES STILL NEED HIGHER WAGES! Join us in front of Walmart Stores where we will be getting out the message. Oakland Walmart 5-7pm! 8400 Edgewater Dr Oakland, CA San Leandro Walmart 3-430pm 15555 Hesperian Blvd San Leandro, CA Richmond Walmart 5-7pm (Hilltop mall)1400 Hilltop Mall Rd, Richmond, CA Help spread the Historic Victory and to make $15 and Full Time … Continued 6:00 pm Picket Lines & Produce Stands: Worker Power in Food Justice @ Omni Commons Picket Lines & Produce Stands: Worker Power in Food Justice @ Omni Commons Apr 1 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Facebook event. Join Movement Generation us for a Meal & Conversation Behind that delicious #2 Burger & Fry Combo is a billion dollar fast food industry that not only erodes our soil, contaminates our water and destroys our health, but also serves up poverty wages and deadly working conditions to millions of fast food workers. As food justice activists fighting to transition our food system away from industrial farming toward local, sustainable agriculture, how do we unite our frontlines with the very workers who plant, harvest, pack, transport, cook, serve, … Continued 6:30 pm Film Showing: Century of Enslavement @ Humanist Hall Film Showing: Century of Enslavement @ Humanist Hall Apr 1 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments & social hour at 6:30 pm, followed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by optional discussion after the film. CENTURY OF ENSLAVEMENT by James Corbett Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street58468 7:00 pm Action-oriented Anti-policing Study Group @ Omni Collective Action-oriented Anti-policing Study Group @ Omni Collective Apr 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets We are having an orientation for our hands-on study group. The focus of the project is both analytical and activist. As a group, we will develop an understanding of the relationship between gentrification and police violence thru readings, workshops and discussions. At the same time, we will be developing and implementing strategies in our neighborhoods that seek to discourage other people that are new to Oakland from calling the cops. It will last about 3 months58427	2:00 pm Caravana 43: BERKELEY con AYOTZINAPA (Disappeared Mexican Students) @ Martin Luther King Civic Center Park Caravana 43: BERKELEY con AYOTZINAPA (Disappeared Mexican Students) @ Martin Luther King Civic Center Park Apr 2 @ 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Facebook event. We’re all very honored to be having 2 parents from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero and 2 surviving students come to UCBerkeley from April 2nd to April 3rd. We’ve been working very hard planning events where everyone can come and see the parents speak on their journey and on their continuous fight to find their missing children. We want the whole community, non-students and students, to come out and come together to welcome them to UCBerkeley and show them what international solidarity looks like. We are asking you all to spread … Continued 6:30 pm Screening of : American Revolutionary – The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Screening of : American Revolutionary – The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Apr 2 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Transition Berkeley invites you to join us for an award winning film about Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese American philosopher, writer and activist in Detroit with a thick FBI file and a surprising vision of what an American revolution can be. Rooted for 75 years in the labor, civil rights and Black Power movements, she challenges a new generation to throw off old assumptions, think creatively and redefine revolution for our times. American Revolutionary has won six Audience Awards from film festivals around the world, including the 2013 Los Angeles … Continued 7:30 pm WiFi Mesh Meeting Thursdays 7:30pm-11:30pm @ Sudoroom at Omni Commons WiFi Mesh Meeting Thursdays 7:30pm-11:30pm @ Sudoroom at Omni Commons Apr 2 @ 7:30 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets WiFi Mesh General Meeting When: Every Thursday @ 7:30pm – 11:30pm Where: 4799 Shattuck Avenue – Oakland, CA (corner of 48th and Shattuck) Contact: Jenny Ryan – email – We’re building a community wireless mesh network! A wireless mesh network is a network where each computer acts as a relay to other computers, such that a network can stretch to cover entire cities. Our goal is to create such a free mesh network that is entirely controlled and operated by the community! Want to help create an alternate means of … Continued	7:00 am Liberation Day: Save AfrikaTown! @ Qilombo Liberation Day: Save AfrikaTown! @ Qilombo Apr 3 @ 7:00 am – 11:45 pm Tickets We need the voices, bodies and the love of the local community to stop developers from destroying the vision of a successful African counterculture movement. AfrikaTown has provided the community with fresh fruits and vegetables, a comfortable environment to interact with one another, barbecues and a place to gain political awareness. We are asking for folks to show up, bring your bodies, signs and stand in solidarity with one of the last black-ran community spaces in West Oakland. With your help, AfrikaTown has the power to prevent the complete displacement … Continued 5:30 pm Art Exhibit: Black and Brown Resisting State Violence, Commemorating Palestinian Prisoners Day. @ Uptown Body and Fender, Across from Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural Art Exhibit: Black and Brown Resisting State Violence, Commemorating Palestinian Prisoners Day. @ Uptown Body and Fender, Across from Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural Apr 3 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets FRIDAY, APRIL 3rd 5:30-9pm: Art exhibit opening FRIDAY, APRIL 17th 6-9pm: Round table discussion Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), Art Forces, Eastside Arts Alliance and Critical Resistance present an art exhibit and discussion, Re-Visions: Black and Brown Resisting State Violence, Commemorating Palestinian Prisoners Day. Re-Visions art exhibit and round table discussion draws connections between community struggles and cultures of resistance to challenge state violence, policing and prisons. Re-Visions will be used to inform curriculum that will be made accessible to the community as part of the Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural Project’s “Off the Wall” programming. … Continued 7:00 pm The Struggle for Justice in Mexico Continues! The Struggle for Justice in Mexico Continues! Apr 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The struggle for justice for the 43 disappeared students of Ayotzinapa continues. Protesters around the world are demanding justice for the students who disappeared in September 2014 at the hands of the mayor of Iguala in Guerrero, the police and the “Guerreros Unidos” gang. Many in Mexico are demanding the resignation of President Enrique Peña Nieto and an end to the impunity of the Mexican government towards murderous criminal gangs that have killed more than 100,000 people in recent years. But the U.S. government and banks are not let off … Continued	8:30 am Conscious Eating Conference @ David Brower Center Conscious Eating Conference @ David Brower Center Apr 4 @ 8:30 am – 5:30 pm Tickets The Conscious Eating Conference brings expert speakers to Berkeley, California to share their ideas about the best food choices we can make for the planet, ourselves, and animals. This conference will feature a fearless investigator who went undercover to document the inside story of animal farming. We will reveal little known facts about fish and the fishing industry and explore how plant-based eating is going mainstream. You don’t want to miss this exciting day of information exchange! Registration includes vegan continental breakfast and lunch. http://upc-online.org/forums/2015/58470 12:00 pm Discussion: The Future of Cuba @ Community Room, South Branch, Berkeley Public Library Discussion: The Future of Cuba @ Community Room, South Branch, Berkeley Public Library Apr 4 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets The Future of Cuba Karen Wald, longtime Cuba resident and scholar, reports on her just-completed two and a half month visit to the island, where she studied the new non-agricultural cooperative enterprises. Karen will be joined by Matt Rinaldi, a member of the National Lawyers Guild delegation to the International Conference of Labor Lawyers in Havana in March. Readings: ALEJANDRO CASTRO ESPIN and LASONAS PIPINIS VELASCO, ‘The Future of Cuba – Communism is an Aspiration’ http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/27/the-future-of-cuba/ 58509 1:30 pm March and Forum for Ayotzinapa March and Forum for Ayotzinapa Apr 4 @ 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets March and Forum for Ayotzinapa Community March: Mission and 16th Sts. 1:30pm- Danzantes welcome the community 2pm- Start of the rally 2:30pm- March starts towards 24th St. Community Forum: Buena Vista Horace Mann Elementary 3351 23rd St., between Bartlett and Valencia Sts. 4-6pm Saturday, April 4th, San Francisco welcomes the families of the 43 students disappeared by the Mexican government this past September, 2014, joining with their demand for justice with their caravan throughout the US. We are in solidarity with their struggle and welcome everyone to a community and … Continued 4:00 pm Memorial for Amilcar Perez-Lopez, killed by SFPD @ St. John the Evangelist Memorial for Amilcar Perez-Lopez, killed by SFPD @ St. John the Evangelist Apr 4 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets THIS SAT: Memorial for Amilcar Perez-Lopez, killed by SFPD. 4:00 PM, St. John the Evangelist, 1661 15th Street, SF pic.twitter.com/M998n9iXRI— هدهد (@thehoopoe) April 3, 2015 58513 7:00 pm Lyrical Revolt: Open Mic for the People’s Struggle Lyrical Revolt: Open Mic for the People’s Struggle Apr 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets As part of the Mission District MAPP events, the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition will be hosting LYRICAL REVOLT, a political-artistic space to express oneself through any vocal medium. Join us as we use the power of our words and art to battle the injustices that face the world today. This open mic is dedicated to all of those who are struggling all around the world against the hands of an oppressor. We also remember the victims of racist police terror. The program will start at 7pm sharp, sign ups will start at … Continued

Week of March 29

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.