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All-day						No More Locked Doors- a conference on political prisoners and revolutionary prisoner support @ Qulombo No More Locked Doors- a conference on political prisoners and revolutionary prisoner support @ Qulombo May 16 all-day Tickets No More Locked Doors- a conference on political prisoners and revolutionary prisoner support- May16 Oakland pic.twitter.com/RDmWWQbcYQ— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) April 11, 2015 58553
12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm 9:30 am 25th Monthly Interfaith Prayers for Victims and Survivors of Violence @ Baha'i Center 25th Monthly Interfaith Prayers for Victims and Survivors of Violence @ Baha'i Center May 10 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am Tickets Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to survivors and victims of violence and police terror in Oakland. We are organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing. In April, it will be two years since we started holding these prayer meetings at the Baha’i Center. Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us. We will serve a simple breakfast. 58650 10:30 am Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library: The Communist Manifesto @ Neibyl Proctor Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library: The Communist Manifesto @ Neibyl Proctor May 10 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library Essentials of Scientific Socialism Part of an ongoing series “Clarity about the aims and problems of socialism is of greatest significance in our age of transition.” Einstein’s comment remains true in our Century, when the growing interest in socialism is matched by a growing confusion about socialism. This workshop, led by Gene Ruyle of the ICSS, will be part of an ongoing series seeking to overcome this confusion through study and discussion, focusing on the classics of scientific socialism: The Communist Manifesto, by Marx … Continued 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance General Meeting @ Bobby Bowen Center Sunflower Alliance General Meeting @ Bobby Bowen Center May 10 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Sunflower Alliance general meetings offer a great opportunity to learn more about fossil fuel resistance and climate justice efforts in our region. Your voice matters. We welcome newcomers.58753 7:00 pm Mariposa and the Saint: Solitary Confinement Comes to Life on Stage @ La Pena Cultural Center Mariposa and the Saint: Solitary Confinement Comes to Life on Stage @ La Pena Cultural Center May 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Sara Fonseca spends roughly 23 hours a day confined to a small concrete prison cell. The inmate, who is in her early thirties and goes by the nickname “Mariposa,” has been behind bars for nearly thirteen years, and since 2012 has been locked in a so-called “Security Housing Unit” — a highly restrictive setup commonly described as solitary confinement. That means she has extremely limited communication with anyone inside the prison — the California Institution for Women, located in Corona, forty miles east of Los Angeles — and virtually no … Continued	6:00 pm International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners @ Omni Commons Disco Room International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners @ Omni Commons Disco Room May 11 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets This will mainly be a letter writing event. There will be a brief case overview of political prisoners that have signed onto the June 11th event, and attendees will provide direct support for long-term anarchist prisoners by selecting a pen-pal and mailing them words of solidarity. There might be drinks and refreshments.58920 6:30 pm Occupy Forum: Planning for the Mayor’s Conference Protests @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Occupy Forum: Planning for the Mayor’s Conference Protests @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor May 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Occupy Forum devoted to planning and expanding the coalition event of “Listen Up Mayors…coming up June 19-22 at Union Square, SF and other locations nearby TBD. Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter Stop “Fracking” Mother Earth Stop Crude By Rail People Before Profits Homelessness is not a Crime Medicare for All Strike Against Student Debt Tax the Rich and Jobs Not Jails These essential demands have been opposed by most Big City US Mayors. So….Listen Up Mayors.. We are the 99% In the SF Bay Area, Gentrification and Home Foreclosures only serve … Continued 7:00 pm Benefit Play: Mariposa & the Saint: From Solitary Confinement, a Play Through Letters @ La Pena Benefit Play: Mariposa & the Saint: From Solitary Confinement, a Play Through Letters @ La Pena May 11 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Join California Coalition for Women Prisoners for a performance of Mariposa & the Saint and a conversation about the shocking conditions in California’s women’s prisons and what can be done to change them. In 2012, Mariposa was sentenced to fifteen months in solitary confinement. In 2015, she is still in a special confinement unit. Through letters with longtime friend Julia Steele Allen, who met her through a CCWP prison visiting team, Mariposa brings her experience to the stage. Written by Sara (Mariposa) Fonseca & Julia Steele Allen Directed by Noelle Ghoussaini … Continued 7:00 pm The Baltimore Rebellion: Revolt Against an American Nightmare. Talk/Discussion. @ Oakland Peace Center The Baltimore Rebellion: Revolt Against an American Nightmare. Talk/Discussion. @ Oakland Peace Center May 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets “It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society… And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. It turned out to be Baltimore. The police murder of Black, brown and poor people has not stopped despite the Black Lives Matter movement–if anything, instead it has accelerated. An escalation of … Continued	6:00 pm Oakland Public Safety Committee on DAC / Privacy Policy. @ Oakland City Hall Oakland Public Safety Committee on DAC / Privacy Policy. @ Oakland City Hall May 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets After a period of public comment, the Oakland Public Safety Committee will again take up recommendations from the ad hoc Committee on the Domain Awareness Center Privacy Policy. — a strong privacy policy in place for the DAC. — creation of a privacy policy for the City of Oakland — a surveillance equipment acquisition ordinance, demanding open and transparent processes before acquiring such devices. The Oakland Privacy Working Group asks you to come and stand and speak in support of these proposals, which will make Oakland a model for privacy … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall, Suite 200 Oakland Livable Wage Assembly @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall, Suite 200 May 12 @ 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. Facebook RSVP 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. We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build … Continued	4:00 pm Justice 4 Tony Robinson! Emergency Protest! @ Oscar Grant Plaza Justice 4 Tony Robinson! Emergency Protest! @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets #Anonymous #TonyRobinson #BlackSpring #BlackLivesMatter EMERGENCY PROTEST 4 PM, TODAY WED, MAY 13 OSCAR GRANT PLAZA 14TH/BROADWAY OAKLAND— TruthCasterTV (@TruthCastersTV) May 13, 2015 58781 5:00 pm Fight for $15 Tabling, Flyering and Door Knocking. @ Ashby Bart Fight for $15 Tabling, Flyering and Door Knocking. @ Ashby Bart May 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Join us for tabling, flyering, and door-knocking Wednesday May 13 @ 5 p.m. and Saturday May 16 @ noon. Both @ Ashby BART station. #15Now— 15 Now Berkeley (@15NowBerkeley) May 11, 2015 58776 5:45 pm Stop Sprouts From Paving Rare Historic Farmland in Albany CA @ Rides to Sprout's Farmers Market in Daly City Stop Sprouts From Paving Rare Historic Farmland in Albany CA @ Rides to Sprout's Farmers Market in Daly City May 13 @ 5:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us on May 13th, as the Boycott Sprouts campaign brings the ruckus to Sprouts in Daly City! Let’s make sure they get the message that we don’t want them building a big box Supermarket on OUR public farmland in Albany, CA. Meet up to coordinate rides and logistics at 5:45 at 3090 King Street in Berkeley, please be on time so we can depart at 6:00 pm!58778 7:00 pm Film Showing of “Let the Fire Burn” on 30th Anniversary of MOVE Bombing @ Omni Commons Film Showing of “Let the Fire Burn” on 30th Anniversary of MOVE Bombing @ Omni Commons May 13 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Commemorate the 30th anniversary of the horrific police bombing of the MOVE Organization in Philadelphia, by coming out to see the new film, ‘Let the Fire Burn.’ The film tells the story of the police attack on the group’s office which burned an entire neighborhood. The bombing was the culmination of an ongoing campaign against the radical Black ecological group. This event is part of a build up to the ‘No More Locked Doors’ Conference at Qilombo in Oakland on Saturday, May 16th.58773 7:00 pm Premier of “Faith Against Fracking” @ The Church By the Side of the Road Premier of “Faith Against Fracking” @ The Church By the Side of the Road May 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets “Faith Against Fracking” is an inspirational documentary exploring the intersection of various California communities and expressing our collective responsibility to move the planet off of toxic fossil fuels and onto a truly clean energy economy. Clergy from various faith traditions call on Governor Brown, as a person of faith himself, to ban deleterious extraction practices. Throughout the film, the faith leaders expound on a number of different spiritual themes that hold true across faith traditions, including protecting creation and honoring the Golden Rule. Download flyer (PDF) 58774 7:30 pm Politics of Debt Reading Group: Iceland’s Anti-Austerity Recovery & Monetary Reform Proposal @ Omni Commons basement Politics of Debt Reading Group: Iceland’s Anti-Austerity Recovery & Monetary Reform Proposal @ Omni Commons basement May 13 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Iceland bailed out its citizens and jailed the bankers. Now they are thinking of a new system for their monetary policy. Join us for a discussion about Iceland, this proposal, and their recovery from their financial collapse. Reading: Monetary Reform in Iceland The Politics of Debt Reading Group is affiliated with the Bay Area Public School and Strike Debt Bay Area. 58708	8:30 am No Coal Through Oakland! @ Oscar Grant Plaza, Rotunda Building No Coal Through Oakland! @ Oscar Grant Plaza, Rotunda Building May 14 @ 8:30 am – 10:00 am Tickets Phil Tagami, developer of the new Global Logistics Center at the former Oakland Army Base in West Oakland, promised in 2013 that “CCIG is publicly on record as having no interest or involvement in the pursuit of coal-related operations at the former Oakland Army Base.” Now, in 2015, Tagami is poised to allow four Utah Counties to use public money to invest $53 million to turn the new Oakland port project into a massive coal export terminal. If allowed to move forward, millions of tons of dirty, toxic, climate-killing coal … Continued 2:00 pm National Day of Action: “I Stand with Postal Workers.” Oakland Action. @ West Oakland Post Office National Day of Action: “I Stand with Postal Workers.” Oakland Action. @ West Oakland Post Office May 14 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets On May 14, just six days before the current contract expires, postal workers across the country will hold events organized around the theme, “I Stand with Postal Workers.” Join us! With the union’s Collective Bargaining Agreement with the U.S. Postal Service set to expire in less than a month, APWU negotiators and union members are turning up the heat. Postal workers are demanding Good Postal Service! Good Jobs! Good Contract! As negotiations draw to a close, postal workers need a strong demonstration of support. 58719	12:00 pm #BlackLivesMatter Forum: Civil Rights Social Justice in the 21st Century @ California State University, East Bay Old Student Union, Rms. 311 and 102 #BlackLivesMatter Forum: Civil Rights Social Justice in the 21st Century @ California State University, East Bay Old Student Union, Rms. 311 and 102 May 15 @ 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets CSU East Bay Department of Communication and the Graduate Communication Society Presents: #BlackLivesMatter: Civil Rights Social Justice in the 21st Century Featuring: Dr. Andreana Clay, Families Seeking Justice panel, three student panels, and a hosted reception. The Graduate Communication Society at CSU East Bay hosts a graduate student conference surrounding themes related to social justice issues in a 21st Century context. Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Andreana Clay, Associate Professor at San Francisco State University, Her book, The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth Activism and Post-Civil Rights Politics (NYU Press, 2012) … Continued 8:00 pm Stand Up Comedy Fund Raiser for Zapatista Children @ Omni Commons Stand Up Comedy Fund Raiser for Zapatista Children @ Omni Commons May 15 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets Bay Area comics perform STAND UP! Comedy: Featuring Natasha Muse, with Veronica Porras, Lalique D’Bruzzi and Emily Van Dyke. Natasha Muse is a performer and writer of comedy in the Bay Area. She is also a skeptic, an agnostic, and at least the second funniest trans-sexual you know––guaranteed. Come to the emerging and energizing OMNI COMMONS and laugh with us while you support autonomous education for indigenous Zapatista children.58745	12:00 pm Fight for $15 Tabling, Flyering and Door Knocking. @ Ashby Bart Fight for $15 Tabling, Flyering and Door Knocking. @ Ashby Bart May 16 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Join us for tabling, flyering, and door-knocking Wednesday May 13 @ 5 p.m. and Saturday May 16 @ noon. Both @ Ashby BART station. #15Now— 15 Now Berkeley (@15NowBerkeley) May 11, 2015 58777 12:00 pm Stop the War on Yemen! @ UN Plaza Stop the War on Yemen! @ UN Plaza May 16 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets No to the War on Yemen! No to Foreign Intervention! Yes to self determination of the Yemeni people! Stop the Saudi bombing! #HandsOffYemen UN Plaza Saturday, May 16th 12pm58785 2:00 pm Stop Shock Treatment at Herrick Hospital in Berkeley – Day of Worldwide Anti-ECT Protest @ Herrick Hospital Stop Shock Treatment at Herrick Hospital in Berkeley – Day of Worldwide Anti-ECT Protest @ Herrick Hospital May 16 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets STOP SHOCK TREATMENT NOW! Worldwide Protests Against Shock May 16, 2015 Demonstration at HERRICK HOSPITAL IN BERKELEY, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2PM-4PM, Dwight Way near Shattuck Avenue SHOCK TREATMENT IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY For more information: MAY16SHOCKDEMO [at] GMAIL.COM, (510) 703-6372 For a list of protests happening worldwide see http://ectjustice.com/protest.php If you don’t see a protest listed near you, organize one yourself! Let us know by sending an email to may16shockdemo [at] gmail.com Keep checking back, more are being added all the … Continued 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater May 16 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt! Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! student debt resistance organizing for public banking. advocating for Postal banking. ongoing study group helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk our famous Strike Debt radio program our next Debtors’ Assembly saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs and much more! Also check out our website, our twitter feed, and our Facebook page. Strike Debt Bay … Continued 7:00 pm Book Launch Party! “Like Water” by T. Thorn Coyle @ The Alan Blueford Center For Justice Book Launch Party! “Like Water” by T. Thorn Coyle @ The Alan Blueford Center For Justice May 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets PF Publishing invites you to celebrate T. Thorn Coyle’s first novel, dedicated to Alan Blueford, and to all victims of police violence. Like Water: a story of love and sudden violence. a story of a ghost and a city. a story for our times. Welcome to the streets of Oakland, CA. Meet Alex and Jonah. Best friends since childhood: one poet, one professor, one black, one white. One dead–killed by police with a Taser to the heart–and one bereft, trying to figure out how to go on living…and how to … Continued ◢ 9:00 pm Fundraiser for the Anti Police Terror Project @ The Legionnaire Saloon Fundraiser for the Anti Police Terror Project @ The Legionnaire Saloon May 16 @ 9:00 pm – May 17 @ 12:00 am Tickets Come out Saturday, 5/16 at Legionnaire for our 2nd Left Bass Dance Party! Last month, the club was packed by 10pm, the party went OFF, and we raised over $1,800 for BlackOUT Collective. Let’s do it in May for APTP! LEFT BASS is an Oakland Dance Party for all us activists, organizers, artists, and just plain MOVEMENT FOLKS to shake a tail feather together and continue to support local organizing. Get down with “Feminist/Panther/Hip-Hop Heroine” Coco Peila, featured DJs Camilo (Queer Qumbia) and Xander (Mondial Afrique) and resident DJs Baagi … Continued

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.