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All-day ‪‎Law for the People‬ Convention ‪‎Law for the People‬ Convention Oct 25 all-day Tickets Calling all activists, allies, and legal professionals! Join us for the NLG’s annual ‪‎Law for the People‬ Convention, October 21-25 in Oakland, CA for 5 days of panels, workshops, CLEs and camaraderie. REGISTRATION IS OPEN! Register now at early bird rates, available through September 10. Current NLG members receive 20% off! Sliding scale rates are available* This year, our Keynote Speaker will be Alicia Garza, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, and programming will address topics including housing and labor rights, racial justice, police accountability, international law, and much more. We’ll be updating nlg.org/convention regularly with updates and other news, so be sure to … Continued
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 3:00 pm Black Radical Oakland Walking Tour @ Marriott Hotel Black Radical Oakland Walking Tour @ Marriott Hotel Oct 25 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Travel with members of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the NLG through Oakland, visiting key sites of struggle for the Black Panther Party and other Black radical movements in the historic Town. From the site of Huey P. Newton’s trial and Bobby Hutton’s murder to the location of major demonstrations against the Vietnam War and the killing of Oscar Grant, you’ll see the history of Black radical movements in Oakland from the 1960s to the present. The tour is wheelchair and stroller accessible. Meet: Lobby of Oakland Marriott City … Continued 3:30 pm Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Oct 25 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets 59100	6:00 pm Occupy Forum: How the Other Half Isn’t Allowed to Bank. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor. across from 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: How the Other Half Isn’t Allowed to Bank. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor. across from 16th St. BART Oct 26 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Occupy Forum presents Strike Debt Bay Area: How The Other Half Isn’t Allowed to Bank Strike Debt Bay Area (SDBA) is dedicated to fighting unjust debt. Our latest project: Human Interest Lending Right now there are more predatory payday lenders in the US than McDonald’s and Starbucks combined. And new ones keep popping up! In fact, payday lenders are often owned by the same banks that … Continued	6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Oct 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage. The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. Our work together encompasses: (1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers, (2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and (3) Efforts by … Continued 7:00 pm Help stop suspicious activity reports from Berkeley to local spy center @ Old City Hall Help stop suspicious activity reports from Berkeley to local spy center @ Old City Hall Oct 27 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Item 23 on the Berkeley City Council Agenda. (2nd on the Action agenda) Do you want a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) on you to be lodged in the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) because you chalked a political message on the sidewalk, or put a poster or two on a building’s wall? In BPD’s General Order N-17, for NCRIC, VANDALISM is defined as a criminal activity with a potential terrorism nexus, to be reported. Do you want a SAR sent on you to NCRIC because you took a picture … Continued 7:00 pm Refineries to Renewables @ David Browder Center Refineries to Renewables @ David Browder Center Oct 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets In conjunction with an exhibit of industrial landscapes by acclaimed photographer Edward Burtynsky, Sunflower Alliance and the David Brower Center are co-sponsoring a forum, “A Just Transition: From Refineries to Renewables,” to highlight the human stories that drive the shifting energy paradigm. Most Bay Area residents are unaware of the extent to which their homes, workplaces and local communities are affected by local refineries and refinery-related transport. In this interactive conversation, Bay Area refinery corridor residents and energy visionaries will offer testimony about their shared work toward a sustainable energy … Continued	4:00 pm Heal Don’t Hurt: Invest in Community Care, Not Cops and Cages @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater & Alameda County Offices Board of Supervisors Heal Don’t Hurt: Invest in Community Care, Not Cops and Cages @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater & Alameda County Offices Board of Supervisors Oct 28 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets November 4, 2015, marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of Proposition 47, The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. Thousands of people have been released from prison and jail. More than 150,000 have already applied to erase old felonies from their records, unlocking opportunities for jobs, education, and more. An estimated one million Californians are eligible for relief under this new law and only have two more years to apply. But we can’t rest now. There is a growing threat that the savings from releasing people from prison might be … Continued 6:00 pm Public Forum on Proposed Berkeley Fair Elections Act (Public Financing) @ Valley Life Science Building, Room 2040 Public Forum on Proposed Berkeley Fair Elections Act (Public Financing) @ Valley Life Science Building, Room 2040 Oct 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets We hope you will join us tomorrow evening to learn about the Berkeley Fair Elections Act, a proposal that would create a small donor public financing system in our city. In Berkeley, we need a system where candidates can successfully run for office even if they don’t have connections to wealth. The Berkeley Fair Elections Act, which is being put to a city council vote on November 10, would allow candidates to do exactly just that! Learn what you can do to help make sure this proposal makes it to … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ Omni Commons Oct 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against Stingrays being acquired by Alameda County agencies, for various privacy ordinances to be passed by the Oakland City Council, against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, and State Governments. We are also engaged in the fight against Urban Shield, and Predictive Policing. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network, and its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts further restrictions … Continued 6:30 pm People Power: A Conversation About the Saul Alinksy Organizing Tradition @ ILWU Board Room, 4th Floor People Power: A Conversation About the Saul Alinksy Organizing Tradition @ ILWU Board Room, 4th Floor Oct 28 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 59695 7:00 pm Film Screening: Concerning Violence @ Omni Commons Film Screening: Concerning Violence @ Omni Commons Oct 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets This award winning film documents African struggles vs colonialism. It is based on the writing of Franz Fanon and narrated by Lauryn Hill. The film: • Has documentary footage of African anti-imperialist liberation movements. • Shows rare interviews and footage from Angola to Zimbabwe, to coercive measures used to stop employees from striking in a Liberian town to women’s participation in the struggle for liberation in Mozambique. • It is timely given the questions movements for change are grappling with now. The screening is a fundraiser to help get a … Continued 7:30 pm An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates @ First Congregational Church An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates @ First Congregational Church Oct 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT there will be no tickets available at the door. Coates is recently famous for his cover story in The Atlantic, “Between the World and Me” – now a book, hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States.” This KPFA benefit will be hosted by Greg Williams. 59718	12:00 pm Press Conference for Yuvette Henderson – Federal Lawsuit to be Filed @ Oakland Federal Building Press Conference for Yuvette Henderson – Federal Lawsuit to be Filed @ Oakland Federal Building Oct 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Please join with us, the family of Yuvette Henderson, thier legal team and supporters as we show solidarity and make public legal steps to bring justice in the case of Yuvette Henderson who was killed by Emerville Police on the Oakland/Emeryville border in February of this year. Media Alert: Fed Lawsuit to be filed on behalf of #YuvetteHenderson. Press conf 10/29 at noon, #Oakland Federal Bldg https://t.co/JiL94E9zlP— APTP First Response (@aptpresponse) October 28, 2015 59767 6:30 pm How California Can End Fossil Fuel Extraction and Embrace 100% Wind and Solar @ David Browder Center How California Can End Fossil Fuel Extraction and Embrace 100% Wind and Solar @ David Browder Center Oct 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Ditch and Switch: How California Can End Fossil Fuel Extraction and Embrace 100% Wind and Solar is sponsored by Center for Biological Diversity and features Stanford scientist Mark Jacobson and Center for Biological Diversity climate law expert Kassie Siegel. They will discuss how and why California—the country’s third-largest oil-producing state—must halt fracking, move away from dirty fossil fuel extraction, and quickly embrace a clean-energy future. To avoid climate change’s worst dangers, most fossil fuels must stay in the ground. Yet Californians remain dependent on an industry that is killing us. … Continued 7:00 pm 49th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party @ Oakland Islamic Community Center, Suite 4400 49th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party @ Oakland Islamic Community Center, Suite 4400 Oct 29 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets 59769	7:00 pm Forum: Police Responsibility and Accountability @ BFUU Fellowship Hall Forum: Police Responsibility and Accountability @ BFUU Fellowship Hall Oct 30 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets BFUU-Escalating Inequality Forum: Define Accountability. Who trains the Police to serve the public (is public defined)? Who selects the Police Academy candidates? What is the Police Academy syllabus? Use of Force or Use of Words? How do we end race-based policing! Who allocates funding for your PD? How many Police Academy candidates are ex-military? How many served in Iraq or Afghanistan…how many of those have PTSD? Should a Social Worker Degree be required for all Police Officers Is karma relevant? Every action has a consequence. Should living in Berkeley be … Continued	11:00 am Celebrate the legacy of the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program @ Feel the Beet! Farmers Market Celebrate the legacy of the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program @ Feel the Beet! Farmers Market Oct 31 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Celebrate the legacy of the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program and hear stories of how this legacy has inspired various food justice activists from around the Bay Area. This workshop will feature collective storytelling and interactive meal preparation by activist panel members. We will be cooking a “stone soup” with the ingredients that symbolize each activists’ struggle and how it was inspired by the Panther’s Free Breakfast Program. We will break bread together afterwards. In partnership with Destiny Arts Center, part of the Ruckus n’ Resiliency Series. There will … Continued 12:00 pm First Collabazaar at the Omni Commons! @ Omni Commons First Collabazaar at the Omni Commons! @ Omni Commons Oct 31 @ 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets We’ll be hosting our first of a potentially bi-monthly pop-up bazaar featuring local artists, artisans and craftmakers. Stop by anytime between 12-8pm and peruse a phantasmagorical cornucopia of objects and imbibements to titillate the tongue, warm the belly, inspire the mind and adorn the body! The mission of these Collabazaars is to create a sustainable model for fundraising for the Omni’s monthly expenses while simultaneously providing local makers in our community with income and visibility to support their continued creative / artistic / crafty / culinary endeavors. As the sun … Continued 6:00 pm Day of the Displaced – SF @ Notable House, Bernal Heights Day of the Displaced – SF @ Notable House, Bernal Heights Oct 31 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join The Commons SF in celebrating the spirits and spirit of those who have been displaced from San Francisco by the real estate boom. Inspired by the clarion voices and acerbic, puckish humor of Earth Firsters! Daryl Cherney and Judi Bari (R.I.P.), we’ll renew our commitment to claiming the earth as the birthright of all . . . and that means claiming the socially-generated value of “location, location, location” as a community property right. So, bring your tales of those who have departed, and we’ll honor those good folk, … Continued

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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.