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Smith, Matthew Zapruder, Jenny Offill, Novella Carpenter, and others Panels with Paul Beatty, Astra Taylor, Vikram Chandra, Elaine Brown, Leo Hollis, Anthony Marra, and many more Rick Prelinger with Lost Landscapes of Oakland Children’s Area by Fairyland, MOCHA, and Oakland Public Library Music by HipHop4Change, Oakland Youth Chorus, and Oakland School for Arts58827 2:00 pm Celebrate the Life of Leslie Feinberg, Revolutionary Transgender Warrior @ Humanist Hall Celebrate the Life of Leslie Feinberg, Revolutionary Transgender Warrior @ Humanist Hall May 31 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets For over 50 years Leslie Feinberg, revolutionary activist, transgender warrior in the LGBTQI community fought for justice. Leslie, who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist, died on November 15. She succumbed to complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections, including Lyme disease, after decades of illness. Feinberg’s 1993 first novel, Stone Butch Blues, won the Lambda Literary Award and the 1994 American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award. Feinberg authored Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue and Transgender Warriors: Making History; the novel Drag … Continued 2:00 pm Planning Meetings for ‘Listen Up Mayors’ Actions During Annual Conference of Mayors @ United Here Planning Meetings for ‘Listen Up Mayors’ Actions During Annual Conference of Mayors @ United Here May 31 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets San Francisco is hosting the 83rd Annual Conference of Mayors June 19th, 2015 – June 22nd.. Around 250 Mayors will be in attendance. This is an opportunity to raise issues locally and nationally that are of concern to us. Black Lives Matter Gentrification Homelessness Privatization Homophobia and Transphobia Immigration The Environment Corporate Greed Wars not People All are welcome to help plan for actions. 58894 3:00 pm FUN FUN FUN @ OMNI @ La Commune Cafe & Bookstore FUN FUN FUN @ OMNI @ La Commune Cafe & Bookstore May 31 @ 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Re-Animinate, Break Bread and Celebrate. Potluck! Dancing! Open Mic! Community Circle! Imagination Station! 58892 3:45 pm Open Circle @ Omni Commons Open Circle @ Omni Commons May 31 @ 3:45 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, followed by reflection and dialogue around the current state and thoughts or approaches on how … Continued 3:45 pm Press the Police – With Ali Winston @ Laurel Bookstore Press the Police – With Ali Winston @ Laurel Bookstore May 31 @ 3:45 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Presented by Mother Jones From Baltimore to Ferguson to the streets of Oakland, unjust shootings by cops have put law enforcement under the microscope. How is the media covering a changing police force? This panel will explore how reporting and activism can help hold cops accountable to those they are charged to protect. JAEAH LEE is a reporter at Mother Jones. Her recent work includes investigations into police shootings and officer accountability, and a multimedia package on the cost of gun violence. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Wired, among others. … Continued	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 Jun 1 @ 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: Understanding the Role of Cyberspace and Social Change @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Occupy Forum: Understanding the Role of Cyberspace and Social Change @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Jun 1 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! 2011: Understanding the Role of Cyberspace and Social Change In 2011 demonstrations, direct action, revolt, and revolution swept the world. This wave of revolt, the largest since 1989 and 1969, was in part a product of ongoing technological changes and how people used them to bring about social change.Â Beginning in Tunisia and ending in Hong Kong the wave of revolt was born in a digital sea. How cyberspace and digital technology facilitated … Continued	6:00 pm EXTRA Occupy Forum: DON’T FRACK / NUKE OUR MOTHER EARTH @ Local 2 EXTRA Occupy Forum: DON’T FRACK / NUKE OUR MOTHER EARTH @ Local 2 Jun 2 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets EXTRA OccupyForum DON’T FRACK / NUKE OUR MOTHER EARTHJoin the coming together of two great clean energy movements! David Braun of CALIFORNIANS AGAINST FRACKING, Linda Seeley and Harvey Wasserman of the movement to SHUT DIABLO CANYON, (California’s last two reactors), will join together to facilitate a union of these two great campaigns. This unique, pathbreaking collaboration will allow us to join forces and free our state of its addiction to technologies that destroy our water supply and threaten us all. —– The movements for No Nukes and an end to fracking … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland City Council – 12th St. Parcel Fire Sale – Item 17 @ City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater Oakland City Council – 12th St. Parcel Fire Sale – Item 17 @ City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater Jun 2 @ 6:30 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Note: This is the topic that caused activists to shut down the City Council meeting last month. Sign the petition against the sale! Subject: DDA For 12th Street Remainder Parcel From: Economic & Workforce Development Department Recommendation: Adopt An Ordinance Authorizing: (1) The City Administrator, Without Returning To The City Council, To Negotiate And Execute A Disposition And Development Agreement And Related Documents Between The City Of Oakland, And A Development Entity Comprised Of Urbancore Development, LLC, And UDR, Inc., (Or Its Related Entities Or Affiliates) For Sale Of The … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland City Council – DAC Privacy Policy. Item S-20 @ City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza amphiteater Oakland City Council – DAC Privacy Policy. Item S-20 @ City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza amphiteater Jun 2 @ 6:30 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets The Domain Awareness Center Privacy policy is up for a vote, along with related measures to be discussed. For background see The Oakland Privacy Working Group blog post “All Out for the Oakland City Council Meeting” and other posts on that site. Note: This item is late on the agenda as it stands. Agenda items can be moved around. There is no real way to know approximately what time it will come up, as there are other controversial items on the agenda. OPWG has a few talking points specific to … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland City Council – FBI-OPD Joint Workspace – Item S-22 @ City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater Oakland City Council – FBI-OPD Joint Workspace – Item S-22 @ City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater Jun 2 @ 6:30 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets Note: This item is last on the City Council Agenda. There is no good estimate of what time it will come before the Council. This item has raised many questions, among them being why the FBI needs an office inside OPD when they have offices in downtown Oakland already; whether they are really installing a mini-DAC and not telling anyone, whether Oakland would be implicitly or explicitly cooperating in FBI investigations of marijuana operations, spying on Muslims and undocumented immigrants, harassing and tracking protesters and activists, and why such sophisticated … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland City Council – the Toxic Destruction of the East Bay Hills – item S-21 Oakland City Council – the Toxic Destruction of the East Bay Hills – item S-21 Jun 2 @ 6:30 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets “Please come speak out against the toxic destruction of the East Bay Hills at Tuesday’s Oakland City Council meeting, where they will decide whether to accept the FEMA grant for the project.” check out these websites for more information about the project: http://www.saveeastbayhills.org/ http://milliontrees.me/ http://www.eastbaypesticidealert.org/ (especially: http://www.eastbaypesticidealert.org/wildfire.html and http://www.eastbaypesticidealert.org/wpad.html for the decade long history of this project) http://hillsconservationnetwork.org/ http://treespiritproject.com/sfbayclearcut/ (sign up to participate in the July 18 nude photo shoot in the threatened forest) Via email alert: There’s been a lot of activity recently on the FEMA vegetation management front. … Continued 7:00 pm Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg. @ Omni Commons Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg. @ Omni Commons Jun 2 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets OptikAllusions is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. If you’d like to make videos or want to become a member, join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually, meet briefly and then work on projects. It’s open … Continued 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Jun 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality. In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and … Continued	6:30 pm BACE Timebank General Meeting @ Omni Commons: Treatment Room BACE Timebank General Meeting @ Omni Commons: Treatment Room Jun 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Every 1st Wed of the Month @ the Omni. The Bay Area Community Exchange (BACE) Timebank promotes and facilitates the use of Time instead of money in the exchange of goods and services. The foundation of the Timebank is a free, open source online directory, reputation and accounting system. These exchanges help develop stronger, more resilient connections between individuals and community service organizations which participate in them, by improving communication and the distribution of skills and resources among our participants. We work to help people meet their needs regardless of … Continued	6:00 pm Fund Raiser for the Stop Mass Incarceration Network @ Awaken Cafe Fund Raiser for the Stop Mass Incarceration Network @ Awaken Cafe Jun 4 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets 58847	1:00 pm Rally: Tell the ACCJC to treat our colleges fairly! @ Hilton Oakland Airport Hotel Rally: Tell the ACCJC to treat our colleges fairly! @ Hilton Oakland Airport Hotel Jun 5 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Do you think the ACCJC treats California’s Community colleges unfairly? The next ACCJC meeting will be on Friday, June 5th in Oakland. You can bet that AFT 2121 and CFT leaders from across the state will be there to tell them what we think! Want to help? Invite your friends and come out to join us! ACCJC, TREAT OUR COLLEGES FAIRLY! Rally and press conference Friday, June 5th at 1pm Hilton Oakland Airport Hotel 1 Hegenberger Rd, Oakland RSVP and invite on Facebook ACCJC will host meetings at this hotel … Continued 5:00 pm First Friday First Friday Jun 5 @ 5:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets The Oakland First Fridays street festival is here once again June 5th from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. This month’s event will feature one-of-a-kind arts and crafts vendors, delectable eats, and unique entertainment to bring the diverse Oakland community together in a way only First Fridays can. Five blocks of Telegraph Avenue, from West Grand to 27th Street, will be closed to through traffic making room for 30 food vendors, musical acts, and community groups and over 75 artists, makers, crafters and performers of all sorts. The music stages will … Continued 7:00 pm Ras Ceylon at the Open Mic & Cypher at The Alan Blueford Center for Justice @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice Ras Ceylon at the Open Mic & Cypher at The Alan Blueford Center for Justice @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice Jun 5 @ 7:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets Open mic & cyphers happen EVERY 1st Friday & EVERY 2nd Saturday of the month at The Alan Blueford Center for Justice 2434 Telegraph Ave Oakland, CA 94612. Show starts at 7pm-ish, give or take an hour or so 😉 depending on the time of the year–we probably start later in the summer & earlier in the winter. All ages are welcome. ____________________________________________________________________ Prisoners of Consciousness Committee: http://chairmanfredjr.blogspot.com/ Ras Ceylon: https://www.reverbnation.com/rasceylon Ras Ceylon: https://rasceylon.bandcamp.com/ The Alan Blueford Center for Justice on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE?… The Alan Blueford Center for Justice on … Continued 7:00 pm Whose Streets? Our Streets! @ Oscar Grant Plaza Whose Streets? Our Streets! @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 5 @ 7:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets Our streets have been stolen from us, our rights have been stolen from us, our PEOPLE have been stolen from us. It is time to take them back! It is unconstitutional to repress our right to hold space in the very place that was built on the backs of our ancestors. We’ve been told too many times that we don’t belong here: through the over-policing and criminalization of our communities, through the militarization of the police force, through gentrification, through unlawful curfews and state sanctioned violence against our communities. The … Continued 8:00 pm Fuck the Curfew! @ First Friday Fuck the Curfew! @ First Friday Jun 5 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Note: A recent callout suggests meeting at 19th & Telegraph. See below. 58864	9:00 am #Fuckthecurfew #Fuckyoursummit: We also revolt in the day! @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater #Fuckthecurfew #Fuckyoursummit: We also revolt in the day! @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater Jun 6 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am Tickets #Fuckthecurfew #Fuckyoursummit AKA We also revolt in the day! #SUNBLOC The morning after the #fuckthecurfew march the city is hosting “The 2015 Oakland Summit” where “Mayor Libby Schaaf and Chief of police Sean Whent will share their vision of Oakland through “Community Policing” We are strongly opposed to their “vision of Oakland” and seek to abolish the police as well as the state. As an alternative we hope to organize our hoods to build community and push out the police who have always brutalized us. The People will gather 9 … Continued ◢ 10:00 am Bay Area Book Festival @ Downtown Berkeley Bay Area Book Festival @ Downtown Berkeley Jun 6 @ 10:00 am – Jun 7 @ 12:00 am Tickets Schedule here. The festival is free, including the keynotes, interviews and panels on various downtown stages during the day. But we expect many of those indoor sessions to be full. How to make sure you get in? Stand in line for a couple of hours? Who wants to spend valuable festival time doing that when you could be exploring exhibitors, visiting the 50,000-book Lacuna installation, or having lunch? Solution: Tickets! By two means: (1) Best is to get single tickets in advance. Reserve single tickets. There is a button next … Continued 10:00 am Uphold Berkeley’s need for affordable housing! Uphold Berkeley’s need for affordable housing! Jun 6 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Balloons Aloft! Uphold Berkeley’s need for affordable housing! Balloons Aloft! Come to downtown Berkeley to see balloons aloft at 194 feet, marking the height and dimensions of this LA developer’s monstrous 18-story luxury condo high rise for 2211 Harold Way: Demolish the Shattuck Cinemas and Habitot Museum and terminate their 50 employees for an 18-story luxury condo high rise across the street from the Berkeley Public Library?! Turn Downtown into a construction site for three years, intensifying traffic congestion and harming businesses? Make a mockery of Berkeley’s need for affordable housing? … Continued 2:15 pm Debtors’ Assembly: You Are Not a Loan! @ Omni Commons Ballroom Debtors’ Assembly: You Are Not a Loan! @ Omni Commons Ballroom Jun 6 @ 2:15 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets You are not a loan! Are you in debt? Are you outraged by the debt system? Join the growing resistance! Attend the 4th Strike Debt Bay Area’s Debtors’ Assembly. Come to the Assembly to learn about tools for escaping the closing walls of debt, to share resources and skills, and to magnify our assembled energy. As we share our experiences we can begin to take back from the financiers what they have taken from us….. our freedom and our future. Organized by Strike Debt Bay Area. Facebook, Website, Twitter More information: strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com Strike … Continued 8:00 pm Vigil in the OPD killing at Lake Merritt @ Pergola / columns Vigil in the OPD killing at Lake Merritt @ Pergola / columns Jun 6 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Calling for a peaceful vigil, no fine print, at #LakeMerritt pergola/columns tonight, 8 pm #OIS #Oakland— Pamela Drake (@Bethpikegirl) June 6, 2015 @TruthCastersTV @violentfanon Calling for a peaceful vigil, no fine print, at #LakeMerritt pergola/columns tonight, 8 pm #OIS #Oakland— Russell Bates (@crustyrustyMAD) June 6, 2015 No other information available about the event itself. This morning OPD shot and killed a man who they found sleeping or unconscious in a car on the 580 Westbound offramp at Lake Merritt.58983 8:00 pm Zara’s Faith: “Someone Must Stand Up.” A Play. @ Oak Stop Zara’s Faith: “Someone Must Stand Up.” A Play. @ Oak Stop Jun 6 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets 58979

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.