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They will be introduced by Dr. … Continued 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Nov 15 @ 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	11:00 am Press Conference and Extended Action: Stop the Anti-Homeless Ordinance in Berkeley @ Old Berkeley City Hall Press Conference and Extended Action: Stop the Anti-Homeless Ordinance in Berkeley @ Old Berkeley City Hall Nov 16 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets New anti-homeless ordinances are being introduced to City Council at the November 17th meeting. Come and stand in solidarity with Berkeley’s homeless and against the ordinances. Stop Berkeley’s anti homeless laws. Old City Hall. Starting on 11/16 at 11am until… This photo is the heart breaking truth of too many people in this country. This is someone’s home. Every night this person builds this structure, and every morning they take it down. This has been going on for over a year here at the Berkeley Post Office Occupation. The person … Continued 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: First-hand report from the Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Occupy Forum: First-hand report from the Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Nov 16 @ 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 Only a Pawn in Their Game: First-hand report from the Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. Paul Kangas has been a private investigator for 41 years. He has just returned from a week-long investigation in Charleston, SC of the horrific mass murders of nine black men and women in the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. A young white man, Dylann Roof, was … Continued 6:00 pm Sing out/Rally for Justice and Human Rights – Against Anti-Homeless Laws Sing out/Rally for Justice and Human Rights – Against Anti-Homeless Laws Nov 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Rally Against New Anti-Homeless Laws Dear City Council, We don’t need a “two square foot” rule for personal belongings. It makes our community look silly, and makes it harder to get grant funding. The Department of Justice and Housing and Urban Development oppose criminalization and prioritize grants from which stop criminalizing unavoidable human conditions. They state such laws are unconstitutional. Monday 6:00 am: Prayer Circle and Fasting 11:00 am: Press Conference 6:00 pm: Sing out/Rally for Justice and Human Rights Tuesday 6:00 pm Rally and speak out before City Council … Continued ◢ 6:00 pm Sleep In and Rally for the Homeless: Stop Berkeley’s Anti Homeless Laws @ Old Berkeley City Hall Sleep In and Rally for the Homeless: Stop Berkeley’s Anti Homeless Laws @ Old Berkeley City Hall Nov 16 @ 6:00 pm – Nov 17 @ 12:00 am Tickets 6pm Protest will follow earlier events in the day. Bring your voices and instruments for a long night New anti-homeless ordinances are being introduced to City Council at the November 17th meeting. Come and stand in solidarity with Berkeley’s homeless and against the ordinances. 59972 7:00 pm Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Nov 16 @ 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	◤ 12:00 am Sleep In and Rally for the Homeless: Stop Berkeley’s Anti Homeless Laws @ Old Berkeley City Hall Sleep In and Rally for the Homeless: Stop Berkeley’s Anti Homeless Laws @ Old Berkeley City Hall Nov 17 @ 12:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets 6pm Protest will follow earlier events in the day. Bring your voices and instruments for a long night New anti-homeless ordinances are being introduced to City Council at the November 17th meeting. Come and stand in solidarity with Berkeley’s homeless and against the ordinances. 59972 10:30 am NO MORE JAILS IN ALAMEDA COUNTY! @ Alameda County Office, Rm 555 NO MORE JAILS IN ALAMEDA COUNTY! @ Alameda County Office, Rm 555 Nov 17 @ 10:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Yesterday, the Ella Baker Center, CURB, and other allies mobilized to Sacramento with over 50 community members across California to stop the funding stream for new jails. We also presented the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) with our community recommendations of formerly incarcerated leaders to guide the reinvestment of Proposition 47 funds. Our turnout was tremendous and we were able to make a huge impact in front of the BSCC! Despite major public outcry, the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) approved funding for a $54 million … Continued 1:00 pm Walkout in Solidarity Against Police Murder in Oakland Walkout in Solidarity Against Police Murder in Oakland Nov 17 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets 90th and Bancroft 1pm. Walkout solidarity against police murder in Oakland. Wear all black #FTP #ACAB— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) November 17, 2015 Today! #Oakland pic.twitter.com/HcbhWQq0NN— FireWorks (@FireWorksBAY) November 17, 2015 59976 2:00 pm No More Jails in San Francisco! @ SF City Hall, Legislative Chamber No More Jails in San Francisco! @ SF City Hall, Legislative Chamber Nov 17 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Things are moving fast around San Francisco’s disastrous proposal to build a new maximum security jail. Last week, despite public outcry and denunciation, state officials awarded an $80 million loan to San Francisco towards financing the proposed $246 million jail.With all of the debt payments over the years, building this new jail would divert nearly $600 million out of the City’s general coffers, away from programs and services like education, mental health services, and affordable housing. That doesn’t include the costs of operating the facility — or the enormous human and social resources it … Continued 4:30 pm DOWNTOWN OAKLAND FOR THE PEOPLE! DOWNTOWN OAKLAND FOR THE PEOPLE! Nov 17 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets DOWNTOWN OAKLAND FOR THE PEOPLE! Meet at 4:30 pm, march at 5 RSVP on Facebook! Send a letter to the mayor! What’s the future of downtown Oakland? Luxury condos and Uber offices for the rich, and poverty wages and displacement for workers and people of color? Or good jobs, affordable housing, schools, and arts spaces for ALL of Oakland’s communities? This fall, the Oakland Planning Department is considering approving a new Hampton Inn in downtown Oakland – behind closed doors with no public process. This is a terrible deal for … Continued 6:00 pm Rally Against New Anti-Homeless Laws @ Old City Hall Steps Rally Against New Anti-Homeless Laws @ Old City Hall Steps Nov 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Rally Against New Anti-Homeless Laws Dear City Council, We don’t need a “two square foot” rule for personal belongings. It makes our community look silly, and makes it harder to get grant funding. The Department of Justice and Housing and Urban Development oppose criminalization and prioritize grants from which stop criminalizing unavoidable human conditions. They state such laws are unconstitutional. Monday 6:00 am: Prayer Circle and Fasting 11:00 am: Press Conference 6:00 pm: Sing out/Rally for Justice and Human Rights Tuesday 6:00 pm Rally and speak out before City … Continued 6:00 pm Stop Berkeley’s Anti-Homeless Laws: Berkeley City Council @ Old City Hall Stop Berkeley’s Anti-Homeless Laws: Berkeley City Council @ Old City Hall Nov 17 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets A rally on the steps at 6:00 PM. Council meeting begins at 7:00 PM. Agenda item #28 (anti-homeless ordinances) Improve Conditions on Our Community Sidewalks; Amending Berkeley Municipal Code Chapters 13.36 and 14.4 may not be heard until after 9:00 PM. Also there will be agenda item #24 City Manager Referral: Implementation of Tier One Recommendations from the Homeless Task Force Also, check out the press conference the day before. #28 From: Councilmembers Maio, Capitelli, Droste, and Mayor Bates Recommendation: Discuss and refer the following services and ordinances to the City Manager for … Continued	5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ Nomad Cafe Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ Nomad Cafe Nov 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets SHORT NOTICE LOCATION AND TIME CHANGE! We intend to once again attend the Berkeley Police Review Commission Meeting at 7:00 PM, so we will meet beginning at 5:00 PM closer to the South Berkeley Community Center, at Nomad Cafe. Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against Stingrays being acquired by Alameda County agencies, against Urban Shield, 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 … Continued 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Movement Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Anti Police-Terror Movement Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Nov 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Anti Police-Terror Project is a group of concerned and committed institutions, organizations, and individuals dedicated to ending state-sanctioned murder and violence perpetuated against Black, Brown and Poor people. We are a Black led, multi-racial, multi-generational coalition. Join us as we organize to resist police terror and create a strong and sustainable community support system. 59856	8:00 am Black Lives Matter! BART Board: Drop the Charges! Black Lives Matter! BART Board: Drop the Charges! Nov 19 @ 8:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Nine months ago we flooded the BART Board meetings twice in a row, overwhelmed them with hours and hours of public comments, surprise banners, chanting, and general people power, and forced BART to drop the restitution against the Black Friday 14! Now, as we approach the one-year anniversary of the Black Friday action that was a call to action nationwide for people of conscience to step UP to end the state-sanctioned War on Black lives, it is time for us all to return to BART and demand that they urge … Continued 7:00 pm FIGHTING BACK: How Bay Area activists are defending our civil liberties @ St Cyprian's Church FIGHTING BACK: How Bay Area activists are defending our civil liberties @ St Cyprian's Church Nov 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets San Francisco Progressive Democrats of America FIGHTING BACK III How Bay Area activists are defending our civil liberties Our freedoms are being threatened more than at any time since the McCarthy period of the fifties. Not just by the antics of politicians, but directly in our living space: Massive surveillance with the latest technology; the militarization of the police; online monitoring of our messages; the unrestrained killing of African-American and other minority people; media self-censorship. As always, resistance and opposition are coming from activists on the ground. This is especially … Continued 7:00 pm Forum on East Bay Hills Deforestation @ The Oakland Center for Spiritual Living Forum on East Bay Hills Deforestation @ The Oakland Center for Spiritual Living Nov 19 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets PLEASE SHARE this so we pack the house with 200 new neighbors: A Panel Presentation by Experts is the next big opportunity, before the holidays, to inform and educate our community of the massive 450,000-tree deforestation plan in the Oakland and Berkeley Hills: Panelists include: 1) Dave Maloney, former Chief of Fire Prevention at Oakland Army Base; 2) Dan Grassetti, founder of The Hills Conservation Network; 3) Peter Gray Scott, 1991 Oakland hills fire survivor who instigated The Grand Jury investigation of that fire Moderator is Jack Gescheidt, TreeSpirit Project … Continued	7:00 pm Fight Back Against Oakland Killer Cops! @ Fruitvale BART Fight Back Against Oakland Killer Cops! @ Fruitvale BART Nov 20 @ 7:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets 7pm Action tomorrow! #FruitvaleBART to #OPD hq This Fri 11/20 fight back against #Oakland killer cops! pic.twitter.com/QgsgyQrZU6 — thc (@nysrene) November 19, 2015 59993 7:00 pm Mass Copwatching Event by Berkeley Copwatch @ Grassroots House Mass Copwatching Event by Berkeley Copwatch @ Grassroots House Nov 20 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets We observe and document all suspicious activities of our local law enforcement agencies. Come learn the art of copwatching and help out as we go out afterwards on our “neighborhood watch.” Pizza provided during debrief. 59948 7:00 pm The Spirit of Bandung: Black Liberation & Third World Solidarity @ East Side Cultural Center The Spirit of Bandung: Black Liberation & Third World Solidarity @ East Side Cultural Center Nov 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 59964	10:30 am NorCal Climate Mobilization: Challenging Climate Catastrophe @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater, then Oscar Grant Plaza NorCal Climate Mobilization: Challenging Climate Catastrophe @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater, then Oscar Grant Plaza Nov 21 @ 10:30 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Join other environmental activists from around the Bay Area in a Northern California mass mobilization in advance of the 2015 UN Conference of Parties in Paris (COP21). The demands are familiar but the urgency to act grows with each passing day: End all fracking, tar sands mining and pipelines, offshore drilling, arctic drilling. Stop expansion of the extractive economy. Wind, solar, geothermal power now. No coal exports or crude-by-rail bomb trains in Northern California. 10:30 am – Gather at Lake Merritt Amphitheatre (map) 12:00 noon – March 1:00 pm – Rally … Continued 11:00 am Totally Free Thanksgiving Meals @ New Parkway Theater Totally Free Thanksgiving Meals @ New Parkway Theater Nov 21 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets @EastBayExpress @0aklandish @Oakland @TheNewParkway RT? Free thanksgiving meals for the community Sat Nov 21 pic.twitter.com/coyPUUqzmH— Oak Life Church (@oaklifechurch) November 9, 2015 59947 2:00 pm General Meeting of the Alameda Renters Coalition @ Christ Episcopal Church General Meeting of the Alameda Renters Coalition @ Christ Episcopal Church Nov 21 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets General Meeting of Renters. Preparations toward elections of officers. News of the ARC. Policy discussions. More to come.59967 2:30 pm Alternatives to the Police & Prison: An Intro Workshop @ Berkeley South Library Alternatives to the Police & Prison: An Intro Workshop @ Berkeley South Library Nov 21 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Are you tired of racist, classist, ableist and anti-homeless policing? Want to deal with crisis and conflict in other ways? When the police fail to “protect and serve,” who can we turn to in moments of need? How can we respond to conflict and crisis without the punishment and violence that comes with policing and prisons? What would take to build and use alternative responses in our own lives and communities? Come out to talk about these questions and more. If folks want to share (optional, of course), there will … Continued 6:30 pm Fundraiser for Refugee Services. @ Station 40, across from BART Fundraiser for Refugee Services. @ Station 40, across from BART Nov 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Fundraiser for Soli-Kitchen Convoy, a radical group in Europe which travels to various border points providing direct services to refugees. Food, speakers, and discussion on the political and historical context of the current wave of Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Europe, and Central American refugees in North America, the policing of migration and the possibilities for resisting borders. Organized by the Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee.60013 7:00 pm Breaking through Borders – Oppression and Resistance at the Borders of Europe and the U.S. @ Station 40 Breaking through Borders – Oppression and Resistance at the Borders of Europe and the U.S. @ Station 40 Nov 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets What: Fundraiser, cafe, and discussion on the political and historical context of the current wave of Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Europe and Central American refugees in North America. We will discuss the policing ofmigration and the possibilities for resisting borders. Benefit for solidarity group providing material aid to migrants as they make their journey across Europe. *please note that Station 40 is up two flights of stairs and is unfortunately wheelchair inaccessible. 59950

Week of November 15

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.