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Get down with “Feminist/Panther/Hip-Hop Heroine” Coco Peila, featured DJs Camilo (Queer Qumbia) and Xander (Mondial Afrique) and resident DJs Baagi … Continued 8:00 am Refinery Corridor Healing Walk from Martinez to Benicia @ Martinez Shoreline Park Refinery Corridor Healing Walk from Martinez to Benicia @ Martinez Shoreline Park May 17 @ 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Idle No More SF Bay and citizens from front-line refinery communities invite you to attend the second of four walks. The Walk will begin near the Martinez Shoreline Park at the end of Ferry Street in Martinez, and will end at the 9th Street Park in the City of Benicia. 8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony & Registration 9:30 a.m. Walk Begins This walk is approximately 9.5 miles from beginning to end. There will be vehicles available for people who wish to take breaks during the walk. Medics will also be available. Water will … Continued 10:30 am Sunday at the Marxist Library: Malcolm X @ Niebyl Proctor Sunday at the Marxist Library: Malcolm X @ Niebyl Proctor May 17 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Malcolm X and Black Liberation In honor of the 90th birthday of Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), we have invited Gerald Smith, of the Oscar Grant Committee, to speak on the life and death of Malcolm X and his continuing relevance for the Black Liberation struggle. 58767 12:15 pm End Racism and Police Terror – San Francisco. End Racism and Police Terror – San Francisco. May 17 @ 12:15 pm – 2:15 pm Tickets From Oakland to Baltimore, police harassment and murder of poor Black, Brown and Native American women, men and transgenders is an epidemic. What will it take to bring justice for Freddie Gray, Oscar Grant, Mya Hall, Alex Nieto, Michael Brown and all those killed? How do we end the structural racism and brutality that warps the lives of the poor? Join a candid discussion that ranges from calling for civilian review boards over the police to replacing the whole rotten U.S. system. A home-cooked brunch is served at 12:15 pm … Continued 3:00 pm Open Circle Meeting ~ Addressing Police Terror & Systemic Oppression @ Omni Commons Open Circle Meeting ~ Addressing Police Terror & Systemic Oppression @ Omni Commons May 17 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Open Circle, first and foremost, is an opportunity to build community with one another. Secondly, it is a space to reflect and collaborate on strategies and actions to bring an end to these egregious crimes. Please join us for the Potluck at 3:00 pm followed by the Open Circle at 3:45 pm. Please bring a dish or snacks to share! Open circle will begin with speakers who have lost their loved ones to police violence. Then updates / announcements of upcoming actions followed by reflection and dialogue around the current … Continued	6:00 pm “To Our Friends” Reading Group. “To Our Friends” Reading Group. May 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets We will be reading the introduction and first chapter of To Our Friends, the newly released book from the Invisible Committee. Bring food and refreshments. Some will be provided. Hard copies of the first chapter will be available, but those with copies are encouraged to bring them. 58793 6:30 pm Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office steps Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office steps May 18 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons. The postal service wanted to sell the post office to Hudson-Mcdonald, a local developer. The City of Berkeley sued the post office to stop the sale. Hudson-Mcdonald backed out of the deal in early December. There was a hearing in Federal Court on December 11th. There was another hearing in March 26th. Federal Judge … Continued 6:30 pm Occupy Forum: Planning for the Mayor’s Council @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Occupy Forum: Planning for the Mayor’s Council @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor May 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets OccupyForum presents Action Council Forum to coordinate actions June 19-22, San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee is hosting the 83rd Annual Conference of Mayors. Around 200 Mayors, their families and corporate sponsors will be in attendance. 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 on against the interest of The People. For instance: “Black Lives Matter” ~ Police Militarization and Excessive Use of Force ~ Racism ~ Gentrification of … Continued	4:00 pm Discuss the Proposed Department of Race and Equity @ City Hall Discuss the Proposed Department of Race and Equity @ City Hall May 19 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets 58797 6:30 pm West Berkeley Forum – Construction and Development @ Finnish Hall West Berkeley Forum – Construction and Development @ Finnish Hall May 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets West Berkeley Forum Sponsored by the Berkeley Neighborhoods Council Following up on our very successful April 8, 2015, Forum at the Berkeley Media Center, the Berkeley Neighborhoods Council invites you to a community forum to discuss responses to the city’s construction and development plans. The purpose of the meeting will be to foster discussion among members of the community and to affirm the necessity of the community having a voice in these developments  a form of “modification-power” “We’re not against development. But it should be development in which people … Continued 7:00 pm Join the Coalition for Police Accountability at City Council @ City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza Join the Coalition for Police Accountability at City Council @ City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza May 19 @ 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets If OPD violates your rights, abuses you, or worse, murders your loved one, you should not have to go file a complaint against OPD to OPD. Please join the Coalition for Police Accountability on May 19th in support of agenda item 11 to demand that all walk-in complaints against OPD be moved from the Internal Affairs Dept of OPD and into the hands of the Citizens Police Review Board (CPRB). The vote at tomorrow’s city council meeting is a very important step towards the ultimate goal of a real functioning … Continued	9:00 am Court Support @ Wiley Manual Courthouse, Dept. 107 Court Support @ Wiley Manual Courthouse, Dept. 107 May 20 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets A comrade who was arrested in December is facing newly-filed charges. This person’s charges were not previously filed at a mass arraignment. Instead of going through this in solidarity with others, they were confronted through a letter from the DA, months later, alone. This is a reminder and a warning: though charges may not have been filed at a first arraignment, the DA may choose to press them within a year of arrest. Let’s show support for the long haul, beyond the moment of the protest, beyond the mass arraignment. … Continued 11:00 am Statewide Day of Action against Nestlé @ Nestle Waters North America Statewide Day of Action against Nestlé @ Nestle Waters North America May 20 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets At a time when California faces one of the worst droughts on record, Nestle is bottling water out of California’s springs, aquifers and national forests to sell for profit. Nestle is unwilling to stop this practice – and even pumped water using a permit that expired 25 years ago. We must ramp up the pressure on Nestle – the poster child for corporate water abuse in California. Nestle has two bottling plants in California – one in Sacramento, and one in Los Angeles. Please join us on Wednesday at 11:00 … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ Omni Commons May 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets LOCATION CHANGE: PREVIOUSLY THIS LISTING HAD THE IMPACT HUB AS THE LOCATION. NOW AT THE OMNI! Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, and other invasions of privacy by our benighted City Government, and to support privacy ordinances now being considered by the Oakland City Council emerging from the effort to fight the DAC. These pieces of legislation will be considered on May 26th by the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, and then later at a full City Council … Continued 6:45 pm SF Sex Worker Film and Art Festival (Film and Discussion Night–in La Commune) @ Omni Commons Ballroom SF Sex Worker Film and Art Festival (Film and Discussion Night–in La Commune) @ Omni Commons Ballroom May 20 @ 6:45 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Art Festival is a biennial cultural event that has been happening in the Bay Area since 1999. We started out as a film festival, but have expanded to become a vibrant venue for performances, workshops, visual arts, community building, political organizing, skill sharing and have collaborated with various organizations to expand into a multi-dimensional project. The Sex Worker Festival recognizes and honors prostitutes, dancers, porn performers and other sex workers from diverse communities, who have been dynamic and integral members of arts communities … Continued 7:30 pm Anti-Police-Terrorism Project Meeting April 10, 2015 at 10:16 pm.Posted by LaborSolidarityCommittee @ Eastside Arts Alliance Anti-Police-Terrorism Project Meeting April 10, 2015 at 10:16 pm.Posted by LaborSolidarityCommittee @ Eastside Arts Alliance May 20 @ 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. 58728	4:30 pm Invisible Victims: Black Women’s Lives Matter @ Home Depot Invisible Victims: Black Women’s Lives Matter @ Home Depot May 21 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets APTP is launching its campaign Invisible Victims of State Terror: Women of Color on 5/21. We have chosen this date for our launch in solidarity with the national call by The Black Youth Project to uplift the Black women who are murdered by law enforcement agencies across the country. The Invisible Victims campaign was born in February in response to the murder of #yuvettehenderson by the Emeryville Police Department on February 3, 2015. On 5/21, we will gather in the Home Depot parking lot (where the events leading to Yuvette’s … Continued 7:00 pm #JusticeForRekia and ALL Black women and girls. @ Oscar Grant Plaza #JusticeForRekia and ALL Black women and girls. @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The average life expectancy for Black trans women is 35 years. An estimated 25.1 percent of Black American women live in poverty – a higher rate than any other ethnic group. Black women and girls, trans* and cis, are routinely harassed by police and abused by the state. While we’ve witnessed entire cities rise up to resist the murders of Black men, the murders of Black women continue to go largely ignored. Silencing the pain of our sisters only perpetuates this violence. #BlackSpring is here: it’s time to remember and … Continued 7:00 pm ILWU Local 10 Labor Forum: Police Terror from South Africa to the U.S. @ ILWU Local 10 Henry Schmidt Room ILWU Local 10 Labor Forum: Police Terror from South Africa to the U.S. @ ILWU Local 10 Henry Schmidt Room May 21 @ 7:00 pm Tickets Police Terror from Marikana, South Africa to the US . Presentation By Dinga Sikwebu, Education Director of NUMSA, the National Union Of Metal Workers South Africa . . Thursday May 21, 2015 7:00 PM . ILWU Local 10 Henry Schmidt Room 400 North Point St. @ Mason San Francisco Transportation: Street car F, MUNI bus 47, 8, 88 . . When ILWU Local 10 stopped work on May 1, 2015 to protest police terror from Ferguson to Baltimore to the Bay Area, it received a statement of solidarity from the … Continued 7:00 pm Mass vigil at sunset against mass surveillance @ outside Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office Mass vigil at sunset against mass surveillance @ outside Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office May 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets WHAT: Mass vigil at sunset against mass surveillance – happening in 50 cities across the U.S BRING: A cell phone, laptop, tablet, and candles with the protestsign.org already pre-loaded. Make a big sunset sign and write “Sunset the Patriot Act”. WHY WE NEED YOU: This is the week when we have a chance to sunset the PATRIOT Act! The PATRIOT Act could end this week if Congress fails to reauthorize it by this Friday ahead of its June 1st expiration. So, on Thursday May 21st, people are organizing a mass vigil in … Continued 7:00 pm Public Financing of Campaigns in Berkeley @ North Berkeley Senior Center Public Financing of Campaigns in Berkeley @ North Berkeley Senior Center May 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The City of Berkeley’s Fair Campaign Practices Commission will consider whether to recommend that the Berkeley City Council establish a public financing system – one of the best tools we have at our disposal to fix our broken electoral process. As public officials are being bought and sold by billionaires and wealthy special interests, the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform is more urgent now than ever. Sign up to attend and testify in support of public financing! Public financing allows candidates to rely on small dollar donations and aims … Continued		11:30 am March Against Monsanto – Oakland @ Oscar Grant Plaza March Against Monsanto – Oakland @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 23 @ 11:30 am – 2:30 pm Tickets In solidarity with the global movement to take back our food, that is… REAL FOOD FROM REAL SEED as Mother Nature and human evolution intended… Please save the date and take part in the groundswell of PEOPLE RISING in defense of unadulterated SEEDS, PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY, RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP OF THE SOIL, ETHICAL PRACTICES, TOXIN FREE FOOD SYSTEM AND THE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE WE ALL WANT. Millions of years of natural evolution and diversity of seeds are being wiped out in a generation if we don’t leverage our collective outrage to DIVEST … Continued 12:00 pm March Against Monsanto @ Ferry Building March Against Monsanto @ Ferry Building May 23 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Global Unity for a Sustainable Future. Come dressed as your favorite pollinator (Bees, Butterflies, Etc) 58434 12:30 pm Stop The Torture: End Solitary Confinement @ Mosswood Park, Webster St. Side Stop The Torture: End Solitary Confinement @ Mosswood Park, Webster St. Side May 23 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Monthly rally to end Solitary Confinement. 58770 2:00 pm EFF Privacy Workshop @ Random Parts Gallery EFF Privacy Workshop @ Random Parts Gallery May 23 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Privacy Workshop It’s easy to succumb to privacy nihilism. That’s the idea that digital security and privacy are simply impossible. But that’s simply wrong. Better security and more privacy are possible. It is true that trying to protect yourself from 100% of the threats you face 100% of the time is a recipe for failure. But perfection is not the goal of digital security. Each person is faced with different threats—potential events that could undermine your efforts to defend your data. By determining what you need to protect and whom … Continued 3:00 pm Richmond Progressive Alliance Richmond Progressive Alliance May 23 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Talking Richmond, Talking Politics! Our focus this month: Talking Housing The RPA Housing Action Team reports. Learn about the work the HAT’s doing on affordable housing, in lieu fees, city planning & neighborhoods. And much more… Participate and guide RPA Standing Committees and possible new Action Teams. The Membership Committee wants your input Health Action Team (HAT: DMC/Health related), Education Action Team (EAT); Police/Community Action Team (P-CAT: Pedie Perez/Justice/Community Safety) , Global Campus. And we’ll revisit RPA’s mission statement: What’s our aim? 58837 7:00 pm Call to Action: We Will Not Bow Down; We Will Not Stop Marching! @ Oscar Grant Plaza Call to Action: We Will Not Bow Down; We Will Not Stop Marching! @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Facebook event. BYP100: Bay Area , in collaboration with The BlackOut Collective , #BlackLivesMatter Bay Area, Anti Police-Terror Project, The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, and Onyx Organizing Committee are putting out a call to action on the behalf of all Black women and girls everywhere! On the night of Thursday, May 21st, while marching and chanting, and standing up for the lives of all Black women everywhere, Oakland Police Department informed us that there was a new ordinance in place: not only were we told that we are not … 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.