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We will serve a simple breakfast. 59802 1:00 pm Anti-Gentrification Block Party @ Qilombo / Afrikatown Anti-Gentrification Block Party @ Qilombo / Afrikatown Nov 8 @ 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets 59830 2:00 pm First Responders Training: Conducting People’s Investigations of Police Terror @ One Fam Community Event Center First Responders Training: Conducting People’s Investigations of Police Terror @ One Fam Community Event Center Nov 8 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets The purpose of this training is to share knowledge and skills with regards to conducting independent people’s investigations into cases of police terror. The topics covered will be: – Interviewing and protecting witnesses -Documenting interviews -Trauma informed approach to interviewing witnesses -Adhering to security practices -Protecting yourself when copwatching and filming the police: Know your rights The trainers are: Bilal Ali, Jacob Crawford, Daniela Kantorova, Nadia Kayyali, Walter Riley This training is FREE of charge. Next installment of the training will be scheduled in the future. This will include preparing … Continued 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Nov 8 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Community Democracy Project is your connection to direct democracy in Oakland! Convened out of Occupy Oakland in Fall 2011, we’re gathering steam on a campaign to bring the people back in touch with the city’s resources through participatory budgeting. Picture this: Across Oakland, Neighborhood Assemblies are regularly held in every community. People come together to tackle the important issues of their neighborhoods and of the city. At these assemblies, people don’t just have discussions–they learn from one another, from city staff, and they make fundamental decisions about how the … Continued	3:00 pm Amor and a Victory for Alex Nieto! @ Federal Courthouse Amor and a Victory for Alex Nieto! @ Federal Courthouse Nov 9 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets San Francisco’s Summary Judgment Motion Denied! We have received extremely positive news regarding the Alex Nieto case! Today a federal district judge denied San Francisco’s attempt to dismiss the case by way of summary judgment. The city attempted to obfuscate and distort the evidence and facts of this case, and the judge saw through their manipulation and flat out denied their elaborate motion for dismissal. The judge decided that we deserve a full-blown trial! Trial date: March 2016. There was no plausible reason for Alex Nieto to have been shot … Continued 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: The 2016 Election: Limited Choices? Or Other Possibilities? @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Occupy Forum: The 2016 Election: Limited Choices? Or Other Possibilities? @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Nov 9 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Information, discussion, community! Monday Night Forum!! OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Occupyforum presents Bernie Sanders and The Democratic Party: Limited Choices? Or Other Possibilities? With Members of The Peace and Freedom Party and Independent Panelists Here we are once again in another relentless election season, which has grown ever more tiresome and, in this case, outrageous. The two mainstream parties are interchangeable on much of their policy, and the results after millions are spent amounts to “same old same … Continued 7:00 pm Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Nov 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Berkeley Copwatch is tired of unjust policing and lack of accountability. We stand in solidarity with those protesting the murders of black people across the nation and say that this must end! We have our unique problems in Berkeley and the East Bay and we must take local action to stand up and demand justice! We Demand: End racial profiling in Berkeley! Get the statistics on who is really being detained and arrested and stop handcuffing men of color for no reason! No tasers in Berkeley! Spend money to study … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Nov 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	6:00 am Fight for $15 – National Day of Action – San Francisco @ McDonald's, across from BART Fight for $15 – National Day of Action – San Francisco @ McDonald's, across from BART Nov 10 @ 6:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets We’re standing together on November 10 to say, “We need a raise!” People across the country will be standing up with fast-food workers and all 64 million underpaid workers making less than $15, because it’s time for $15 for all workers. Together we’re turning the tide in favor of working people and our families. And we’ll need everyone’s help — including yours — to make this a reality. RSVP here to receive email updates: http://fightfor15.org/s-petition/november-10-rsvp/ —– We’ll call on corporate CEO’s to raise pay and respect our right to form … Continued 1:30 pm Black Lives Matter & Workers Tell DA O’Malley: Drop the Charges! Black Lives Matter & Workers Tell DA O’Malley: Drop the Charges! Nov 10 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join Black Workers, Labor Unions, the Fight for $15, and more to tell Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley: DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST THE BLACKFRIDAY14! Workers from across the Bay Area unite on this National Day of Action for the Fight for $15 to say: Black Workers’ Lives Matter, and ALL Black Lives Matter. We won’t stand for O’Malley’s racist prosecution and criminalization of Black folks. From the targeting of Black churches and African drummers, to the displacement of longtime Black Oakland communities, and police terror and murder of Black … Continued 4:30 pm Fight for $15 – National Day of Action – Oakland @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre Fight for $15 – National Day of Action – Oakland @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre Nov 10 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets We’re standing together on November 10 to say, “We need a raise!” People across the country will be standing up with fast-food workers and all 64 million underpaid workers making less than $15, because it’s time for $15 for all workers. Together we’re turning the tide in favor of working people and our families. And we’ll need everyone’s help — including yours — to make this a reality. RSVP here to receive email updates: http://fightfor15.org/s-petition/november-10-rsvp/ —– We’ll call on corporate CEO’s to raise pay and respect our right to form … Continued 5:30 pm PULLING BACK THE BLUE CURTAIN: Police, Privacy & Public Exposure @ San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium PULLING BACK THE BLUE CURTAIN: Police, Privacy & Public Exposure @ San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium Nov 10 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Please join the First Amendment Coalition and a panel of distinguished law-enforcement access experts for a discussion focused on the important issues of public oversight and access to law enforcement, including body cams; public access to emails on private electronic devices; the state of the law on whether the public has access to police disciplinary proceedings, and publc access to information about officer-involved shootings. RSVP59902 7:00 pm Special Berkeley City Council Mtg – Min Wage, Sick Leave & Public Financing of Elections @ Longfellow School Special Berkeley City Council Mtg – Min Wage, Sick Leave & Public Financing of Elections @ Longfellow School Nov 10 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets The city council meets to discuss the measure for $19/hour by 2020 on November 10! If this measure passes Berkeley will have the highest minimum wage ordinance in the country, paving the way for a higher minimum wage nation wide. This has become part of the National Day of Action for the Fight for $15, which has an event in San Francisco early morning and an event in Oakland at 4:30 PM. Then on to Berkeley at 7:00 ! a. Revisions to Minimum Wage Ordinance B.M.C 13.99 (Continued from September … Continued	6:30 pm Film Screening: The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz @ Humanist Hall Film Screening: The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz @ Humanist Hall Nov 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 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. Here’s a description of this film. Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street59864	1:00 pm Berkeley High Student Walkout @ Berkeley High School Berkeley High Student Walkout @ Berkeley High School Nov 12 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Last week Berkeley High students walked out en masse and marched to UC Berkeley over a racist notice at the Berkeley High school. They plan to do it again. Join them in solidarity.59943 1:30 pm MARCH & RALLY for CCSF @ CCSF Downtown MARCH & RALLY for CCSF @ CCSF Downtown Nov 12 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets During the accreditation crisis, City College students and workers fought alongside our community for CCSF. Now Administration intends to shrink classes by 26%, layoff more than a quarter of the faculty, and refuses to negotiate a fair faculty contract. Help us defend a City College for everyone! 1:30 PM: MARCH for CCSF from CCSF Downtown (88 4th St. @ Mission) to CCSF Civic Center (1170 Market St. @ UN Plaza) 2:00 PM: RALLY for CCSF 59835 2:00 pm #MillionStudentMarch (UC Berkeley) @ Sproul Plaza #MillionStudentMarch (UC Berkeley) @ Sproul Plaza Nov 12 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets A National Day of Action on November 12th. The #MillionStudentMarch demands three key things: 1 – Tuition-free public college 2 – Cancellation of all student debt 3 – $15/hr campus-wide minimum wage at every college in the country The United States is the richest country in the world, yet students have to take on crippling debt in order to get a college education. We need change, and change starts in the streets when the people demand it. Over 40 million Americans share a total of $1.2 trillion in student debt … Continued	7:00 pm Zara’s Faith: Somebody Has Got to Stand Up @ La Pena Cultural Center Zara’s Faith: Somebody Has Got to Stand Up @ La Pena Cultural Center Nov 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Newly revised: Zara’s Faith by Marc Sapir A collaboration with Lower Bottom Playaz and Director, playwright, actor: Ayodele Nzinga. Starring Cat Brooks as Zara and with Reginald Wilkins as Pastor Simms. Zara’s two grandsons have been stopped by cops–Daniel murdered, Dubois seriously wounded, an officer dead. Can the ancestors enable Zara to overcome her loss, calm her inner turmoil. and resist? Zara’s faith is a layered drama that explores the meaning of faith, love and community and how these play out for Zara in the face of an unfolding social conspiracy. Substantially … Continued 7:30 pm AN EVENING OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN PEOPLE AN EVENING OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN PEOPLE Nov 13 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Featuring Kenia Serrano Puig, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and Member of the Cuban Parliament. Others to speak, Dra. Laura Gomez recently graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba, Richmond Councilwoman Gayle McLaughlin and others. Door open at 6:30 PM.59713	10:00 am ColoradoCare (Single Payer) on the Nov 2016 Ballot! @ Fifth Floor - Room 5000 A&B ColoradoCare (Single Payer) on the Nov 2016 Ballot! @ Fifth Floor - Room 5000 A&B Nov 14 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Dear Healthcare Activist, I hope you can attend a presentation on ColoradoCare on Nov 14. ` The San Francisco & East Bay branches of the California Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program are proud to present journalist and health reform advocate T.R. REID well-known author of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care Speaking about ColoradoCare a citizen’s initiative to provide affordable, high quality health care for all Colorado residents going before voters of Colorado in November 2016 more info: http://coloradocareyes.co Refreshments will be … Continued 10:00 am Dance Disruption #1 + REAL Farmer’s Market Blitz @ Farmer's Market Dance Disruption #1 + REAL Farmer’s Market Blitz @ Farmer's Market Nov 14 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Join Gill Tract Farmers and Jasmine Fuego for a whirlwind day at the Grand Lake Farmer’s Market, to celebrate real farmers and help us call out greenwashers Sprouts “Farmers Market”! 10am-2pm: We’ll be photographing and taking testimony from real farmers and the eaters who support them, to highlight their successes, and to let them know about the imminent invasion of Sprouts “Farmers Market”, a national big-box that is not only anchoring the development project that threatens to pave the southern 7 acres of the historic Gill Tract, but also is … Continued 2:00 pm Alameda Renters Coalition Calls for Immediate Withdrawal of Eviction Notices @ Bayview Apartments Alameda Renters Coalition Calls for Immediate Withdrawal of Eviction Notices @ Bayview Apartments Nov 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Alameda Renters Coalition Calls for Immediate Withdrawal of Eviction Notices at 470 Central Avenue The Alameda Renters Coalition will hold a press conference Saturday, November 14, 2105 at 2:00 PM at the apartment complex with the families of the Bayview Apartments in attendance. —– The ink was barely dry on Alameda’s unanimously approved rent increase and eviction moratorium when all tenants of the Bayview Apartments, a 34-unit complex at 470 Central Ave. in Alameda, were told they were being kicked out. On Nov. 7th, residents at Bayview Apartments … Continued 2:00 pm Socialists Rising @ Omni Commons Socialists Rising @ Omni Commons Nov 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Come to this meeting to discuss Socialist politics, watch a special video from Kshama Sawant, and hear from local organizers of Socialist Alternative. “We need a new party of the 99%”59939 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area – Fighting Back Against Unjust Debt @ Omni Commons Strike Debt Bay Area – Fighting Back Against Unjust Debt @ Omni Commons Nov 14 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 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 staging Debtors’ Assemblies Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts saving the Berkeley Post Office, fighting Post Office privatization and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post … Continued 5:00 pm Dinner and a Movie: OLWA Presents “Salt of the Earth.” A Labor Film. @ SEIU 1000 Hall, 2nd floor Dinner and a Movie: OLWA Presents “Salt of the Earth.” A Labor Film. @ SEIU 1000 Hall, 2nd floor Nov 14 @ 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets We have a duty to fight. We have a duty to win. Salt of the Earth (1954) provides one of the best examples of blacklisted filmmaking in the 1950s. Few films were so affected, from every possible direction, by the House Un-American Activities Committees proceedings. For one thing, the movie focused on a highly controversial topic – labor relations – in its story of Chicano workers in a New Mexico zinc mine. When Anglo workers are given higher wages and safer conditions, the Chicanos go on strike to receive the … 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.