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We will serve a simple breakfast.58453 10:00 am Berkeley Arts Festival: Osha’s Not an Exhibition Berkeley Arts Festival: Osha’s Not an Exhibition Apr 12 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Osha Neumann will be making large black and white, brush and ink drawings on newsprint and maybe newspaper, maybe other stuff. Maybe some will have color. Osha will pin them to the wall, still wet and dripping. You get to take whatever you like. All this, in honor of the publication of his book, Doodling on the Titanic: the Making of Art in the World on the Brink, which will be available for sale, though there will be no obligation to buy. 58569 3:00 pm Yuvette Henderson Vigil and March @ Extra Space Storage Yuvette Henderson Vigil and March @ Extra Space Storage Apr 12 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Facebook event. Vigil and march in loving memory of Yuvette Henderson. All aspects of the action are planned to be peaceful. This event is organized by the Anti-Police Terror Project with permission from the family of Yuvette Henderson. The APTP demands an open and public investigation, while knowing that a fair investigation will never occur if that investigation is left solely in the hands of the police. We have continued to make the following demands: – Release of the video tapes that contain the shooting or any lead-up to the … Continued 5:00 pm Green Sunday: How militarism and war mess up everything else @ Niebyl-Proctor library Green Sunday: How militarism and war mess up everything else @ Niebyl-Proctor library Apr 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets * Take a quiz on military spending (you’ll be shocked!) * Discuss the connection between militarism and climate * Explore the increasing militarism of local policing * Learn about the Global Day Against Military Spending (Wedn, Apr 15/Tax Day) Panelists: Barry Hermanson, SF Green, long time opponent of military spending, former candidate for Congress, exploring a run for SF Mayor in Nov 2015 Susan Schacher, Oakland Green, active with the Bay Area New Priorities Campaign Barry’s website: http://www.notmypriorities.org/ Global Day Against Military Spending (April 15): http://demilitarize.org/ Bay Area New Prorities … Continued 7:00 pm Palestinian Noviolent Activist Iyad Burnat Speaks. @ Uptown Body and Fender Palestinian Noviolent Activist Iyad Burnat Speaks. @ Uptown Body and Fender Apr 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Iyad Burnat is the coordinator for the popular committee in Bil’in, Palestine, a small farming village 7 miles west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. For ten years Iyad and the Popular Committee have organized the people to Bil’in to participate in weekly non-violent demonstrations against the confiscation of their land, destruction of their olive trees, and Israel’s illegal Separation Wall and settlements. This past summer Iyad’s 15-year-old teenage son was shot in the leg by the Israeli military, severing a nerve and requiring ongoing medical care. This spring, … Continued	6:00 pm Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Meeting @ 5th floor Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Meeting @ 5th floor Apr 13 @ 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: BAAQMD Do Your Job @ Global Exchange, at 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: BAAQMD Do Your Job @ Global Exchange, at 16th St. BART Apr 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm 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! BAAQMD Do Your Job: Our Regulatory Agencies are letting us down bigtime California is the third largest oil refining state in the US. The Bay Area’s five refineries process 778,000 barrels of oil per day! Refineries produce a wide variety of pollutants, including greenhouse gasses that cause climate change and toxic chemicals that sicken the people living near the refineries. The Bay Area Air … Continued	6:00 pm Justice 4 James Rivera: Oakland to Stockton. BBQ, Rally to End Police Murder. @ Ride from OGP Justice 4 James Rivera: Oakland to Stockton. BBQ, Rally to End Police Murder. @ Ride from OGP Apr 14 @ 6:00 pm – Apr 15 @ 2:00 am Tickets Facebook event. Since April 10th 2012, Oakland and Stockton have become one in the fight against police brutality. Donnie Smith-Downs has gone coast to coast in support of victims of police killing. She has shown us that solidarity is an action word by her presence in the fight against police brutality and the militarization of local police departments. Her son James Rivera was shot with an AR-15, piercing his body leaving holes the size of tennis balls. Since 4/10 /12 Stockton has had a number of police killings, and momma … Continued 11:30 am #ShutItDownA14 at UC Berkeley @ Sproul Plaza #ShutItDownA14 at UC Berkeley @ Sproul Plaza Apr 14 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets HS student in #Oakland challenging you to #ShutDownA14 https://t.co/KAock7PZwy #WalterScott @mrdaveyd @Carl_Dix pic.twitter.com/3c1Nx2YK7P— Revolution Club (@RevClub_bay) April 11, 2015 58556 1:00 pm Stop Murder by Police #ShutdownA14 @ Oscar Grant Plaza Stop Murder by Police #ShutdownA14 @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 14 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Stop Business as Usual. No School! No Work! Say No More! To The System Giving a Green Light to Killer Cops!58432 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly Meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 2nd floor Oakland Livable Wage Assembly Meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 2nd floor Apr 14 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Our work together encompasses: (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent and care workers; (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life. At this meeting we will doing final planning for an action at 8:00 AM April 15th (4/15 = FOR … Continued	6:00 am STAND UP FOR $15 SAN FRANCISCO @ McDonald's STAND UP FOR $15 SAN FRANCISCO @ McDonald's Apr 15 @ 6:00 am – 7:30 am Tickets STAND UP FOR $15 JOIN THE LARGEST LOW-WAGE WORKER PROTESTS IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY. ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE’RE TAKING TO THE STREETS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! WE’RE FED UP WITH PEOPLE BEING FORCED TO SURVICE ON POVERTY WAGES, WHILE BEING EXPLOITED BY COMPANIES RAKING IN BILLIONS. 58582 9:30 am STAND UP FOR $15 OAKLAND @ McDonald's STAND UP FOR $15 OAKLAND @ McDonald's Apr 15 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am Tickets STAND UP FOR $15 JOIN THE LARGEST LOW-WAGE WORKER PROTESTS IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY. ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE’RE TAKING TO THE STREETS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! WE’RE FED UP WITH PEOPLE BEING FORCED TO SURVICE ON POVERTY WAGES, WHILE BEING EXPLOITED BY COMPANIES RAKING IN BILLIONS. 58583 12:00 pm Boycott Sprouts & Fight for Fifteen @ Sprouts, San Rafael Boycott Sprouts & Fight for Fifteen @ Sprouts, San Rafael Apr 15 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Sprouts is known for their low pay, labor violations and union-busting. Across the country, fast food and minimum wage workers are standing up and speaking out for their rights. On 4/15, we are shutting down Sprouts to protest their paving of historic farmland at the Gill Tract, and to stand with workers across the country demanding $15 and a Union. Join us on April 15th, as we protest the paving of historic farmland at the opening of a new Sprouts in San Rafael – sandwiched in the middle of a … Continued 1:00 pm Fight for Fifteen: Oakland to Berkeley. @ Oscar Grant Plaza Fight for Fifteen: Oakland to Berkeley. @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 15 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly and march to Berkeley for the giant FF15 assembly there. It’s forecast to be a perfect day for a march: 75F and partly sunny! The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly is holding the Oakland action leading up to the National Fight for $15 Rally and March noted below. Please join us at OGP (Frank Ogawa Plaza) for the Rally at 1:00pm followed by the March to UC Berkeley where we will join forces with Bay Area families, workers, people of faith, students, artists, leaders, and community … Continued 3:00 pm Fight for 15 March: Stand Up for $15 Fight for 15 March: Stand Up for $15 Apr 15 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Facebook event. On April 15, join the Fight for $15 and be part of the largest low-wage worker protests in modern American history. There is a crisis in America. Working families have endured decades of stagnant incomes. We are increasingly forced to choose between keeping a roof over our heads, paying our bills or feeding our kids. Meanwhile, the corporations we work for have record profits and their executives earn ever-increasing salaries. On April 15, here in the Bay Area, families, workers, people of faith, students, artists, leaders, and community … Continued 7:30 pm Anti-Police-Terrorism Project Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Anti-Police-Terrorism Project Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Apr 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Anti-Police Terrorism Project is a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee that in coalition with other organizations like the Alan Blueford Center for Justice, 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 communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition. We meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month. Facebook event.58554 7:30 pm Film Evening: Four Horseman of the Banking Cartel @ Humanist Hall Film Evening: Four Horseman of the Banking Cartel @ Humanist Hall Apr 15 @ 7:30 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. FOUR HORSEMAN OF THE BANKING CARTEL by PressTV based on books by Dean Henderson For this film, see YouTube Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street58572	7:00 pm BENEFIT FOR AK PRESS: Boots Riley and Dave Zirin: Hip Hop, Sports, & Struggle Under The New Jim Crow. @ Oakland Peace Center BENEFIT FOR AK PRESS: Boots Riley and Dave Zirin: Hip Hop, Sports, & Struggle Under The New Jim Crow. @ Oakland Peace Center Apr 16 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Join Boots Riley and Dave Zirin in a discussion about the role of mass culture in building resistance against racism and mass incarceration today. ALL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT AK PRESS to support recovery from the fire which devastated their Oakland building. (Details here http://bit.ly/19BBYDV) Tickets on sale next week or available at the door. Sponsored by: Haymarket Books, SoleSpace, Howard Zinn Book Fair and The Center for Sport & Social Justice @ Cal State East Bay Facebook event. 58540	6:00 pm Round table discussion: Black and Brown Resisting State Violence, Commemorating Palestinian Prisoners Day. @ Uptown Body and Fender, Across from Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural Round table discussion: Black and Brown Resisting State Violence, Commemorating Palestinian Prisoners Day. @ Uptown Body and Fender, Across from Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural Apr 17 @ 6:00 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. ART EXHIBIT: Friday April 3rd, Oakland First Friday, 5:30-9pm ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: Friday April 17th, Palestinian Prisoners Day, 6-9pm SPEAKERS: Rachel Herzing Sagnicthe Salazar, Xicana Moratorium Rabab Abdulhadi, AMED, Ethnic Studies, SFSU Kiwi Illafonte, Mass Bass, San Quentin ROOTS program Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Moderated by: Maisha Quint, Eastside Arts Alliance … Continued	8:00 am 2015 Refinery Healing Walks 2015 Refinery Healing Walks Apr 18 @ 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets 2015 Refinery Healing Walks Idle No More SF Bay and citizens from front-line refinery communities invite you to attend one of a series of four walks, one each month from April through July. The second annual Connect the Dots: Refinery Corridor Healing Walks begins with a Walk from Pittsburg to Martinez. The Walks bring attention and awareness to the environmental and health impacts of the five refineries along the Northeast San Francisco Bay. They are led by Native American elders and others in prayer, with those walking behind in conversation. … Continued 5:00 pm Richmond Town Hall Meeting on Crude By Rail @ To be announced Richmond Town Hall Meeting on Crude By Rail @ To be announced Apr 18 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets There will presentations about the history of dangerous Crude By Rail, the threat from the Kinder Morgan operation in Richmond and strategies to fight for our rights to safety. For more information contact: Andrés Soto, CBE Richmond Organizer at 510.282.5363 or at andres@cbecal.org 58270 2:00 pm People’s Park Anniversary Concert @ Starry Plough People’s Park Anniversary Concert @ Starry Plough Apr 18 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets @crustyrustyMAD 2:00 YukonHannibal 2:15 Hali Hammer&Friends 2:45 The Harbingers 3:15Carol Denney 3:45Clyde Leland 4:15 Cracker Family Circus— Russell Bates (@crustyrustyMAD) April 13, 2015 58573

Week of April 12

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.