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Nov 22 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Protests nationwide on the 1-year anniversary of the killing of Tamir. One year and still NO CHARGES against his murderers.59941 2:00 pm Teach-In on the housing affordability crisis in Berkeley @ Berkeley Arts Festival Space Teach-In on the housing affordability crisis in Berkeley @ Berkeley Arts Festival Space Nov 22 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Teach-In on the housing affordability crisis in Berkeley and what can be done about it. Facilitator: Paola Laverde, Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner Speakers: Stephen Barton, Ph.D., Former Director of the Housing Department and Deputy Director of the Rent Stabilization Program in Berkeley Moni Law, Affordable Housing Activist Rick Lewis, Executive Director, Bay Area Community Land Trust and former Housing Advisory Commission Member Austin Pritzkat, President, Berkeley Student Cooperative Katherine Harr, Berkeley Tenants Union Panelist will address * What are the dimensions of this crisis and what … Continued 3:30 pm Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Nov 22 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets 59100 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Nov 22 @ 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 7:00 pm Sunday Night @ Long Haul Free Movie: This is What Democracy Looks Like @ Longhaul Sunday Night @ Long Haul Free Movie: This is What Democracy Looks Like @ Longhaul Nov 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Free Movie: This is What Democracy Looks Like (2000 Documentary Directed by Jill Friedberg and Rick Rowley – 72 minutes.) Filmed during the WTO protest in Seattle, November 30, 1999. Plus WTO shorts and discussion.60020 7:00 pm World in Danger: From Fukushima to California @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall World in Danger: From Fukushima to California @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Nov 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Fukushima nuclear plant disaster remains very dangerous. What might we still be able to do about it? Who’s monitoring radiation levels? What about California’s last nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, surrounded by a dozen earthquake faults, and San Onofre, closed in 2013 but containing tons of nuclear waste? Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen and Fairewinds Director Maggie Gundersen; with Joanna Macy, environmental activist, author, scholar of Buddhism, deep ecology, whose work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age; Gar Smith, author “Nuclear Roulette”; Mary Beth Brangan, EON-Ecological Options Network; … Continued	3:45 pm Protest the War on Black People: Drop the Charges on Black Friday 14 @ Snow Park Protest the War on Black People: Drop the Charges on Black Friday 14 @ Snow Park Nov 23 @ 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Stand against the war on black people on Monday Nov. 23rd! Protest global displacement, policing and repression! Protest state Violence! One of the many weapons of State sanctioned violence is displacement. The gentrification we see in the Bay Area is an extension of land theft, exploitation, colonial expansion, and forced migration seen all across the world. Communities impacted by displacement will be coming together to raise their voices in support of the Black Friday14! While the State attempts to criminalize Black activists for demonstrating their power, we will demonstrate our … Continued 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: The Foundations of Racism in America @ Global Exchange, 2nd Floor Occupy Forum: The Foundations of Racism in America @ Global Exchange, 2nd Floor Nov 23 @ 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 The foundations of racism in America: “Race” is not a noun, it is a verb (“to racialize”) with Steve Martinot “White supremacy is not just racism, or an ideology; it is the core of a culture. “Race” is produced by cultural structures and not just by psychological aberrations, or by attributing characteristics to human beings. These structures emerged in the Virginia colony during the … 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 Nov 23 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come learn about continuing developments in the battle to save the Berkeley Post Office, other Post Offices in the area, 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. Since Federal Judge William Alsup’s ruling in April, 2015 after the Postal Service told the judge it is not currently selling the building, the Postal Service has remained silent and no further attempts at a sale have been attempted. But we’re not fooled. They could … Continued 7:00 pm Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Nov 23 @ 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 Writing to Prisoners @ 3rd Floor Conference Room Writing to Prisoners @ 3rd Floor Conference Room Nov 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets As part of our monthly Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHHS) folks will be writing cards to prisoners. Although this is short notice, we invite you to join us. We’ll be writing cards from 7pm til around 9-9:30pm, so come for as short or as long a time as you’re able. The 3rd floor Conference Room is on the left side of the corridor as you exit left out of the elevator, a few doors down (near the bathrooms). Please note that the front … Continued	6:00 pm Film Screening: Standing Silent Nation @ Omni Commons Film Screening: Standing Silent Nation @ Omni Commons Nov 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm Tickets Standing Silent Nation (2006), Directed by Suree Towfighnia. From the hemp fields of Pine Ridge to the US Federal Court of Appeals, this one-hour documentary tracks one family’s effort to create economic independence for themselves, their reservation, and their future generations. When the Oglala Sioux tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, marijuana, Alex White Plume and his family glimpsed a brighter future. They never dreamed they would find themselves swept up in a struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights, and common sense. The hemp plant … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Nov 24 @ 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	1:30 pm Interfaith Service and Rally in Support of the Black Friday 14 @ Wiley Manual Courthouse Interfaith Service and Rally in Support of the Black Friday 14 @ Wiley Manual Courthouse Nov 25 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets The pressure is on for District Attorney Nancy O’Malley to drop the charges against the Black Friday 14, but we can’t let up now. This gathering, part of a campaign that began with the Fight for $15/Labor action on November 10, brings together people of faith, faith communities, and people of conscience across the spectrum to ask the district attorney “Which side are you on?” and to call on her to end the selective prosecution of these Black activists. (The white activists who committed civil disobedience during the same period … Continued 3:00 pm Dance Disruption by at Sprouts in Defense of the Gill Tract @ Sprouts Walnut Creek Dance Disruption by at Sprouts in Defense of the Gill Tract @ Sprouts Walnut Creek Nov 25 @ 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The developers have annouced that in less than ONE WEEK they’ll break ground on the historic Gill Tract! Bring the ruckus! Bring the noise! No business as usual until Sprouts pulls out of plans to develop on our Gill Tract farmland. We’ll meet at the Walnut Creek store on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, one of the nation’s busiest grocery shopping days, and we’ll make sure that everyone knows to Boycott Sprouts! We’ll have a Dance Disruption lead by Jasmine Fuego, and beautiful examples of what a REAL farmer’s market … Continued	1:00 pm Share your Thanksgiving Meal With the Homeless @ Old Berkeley City Hall Share your Thanksgiving Meal With the Homeless @ Old Berkeley City Hall Nov 26 @ 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Many homeless people are gathered in protest at Old Berkeley City Hall this week demanding human services and opposing the anti-homeless ordinances about to be passed by the Berkeley City Council. On Thanksgiving Day, save a dish or two from your Thanksgiving feast and bring it down to Old City Hall! Of course it will be appreciated on Friday and over the weekend too!60033	9:00 am Oakland Black Friday Walmart Action 2015 @ Walmart Oakland Oakland Black Friday Walmart Action 2015 @ Walmart Oakland Nov 27 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets Please join workers and community members as we continue to challenge Walmart for $15 and Full Time. You can find more information on the national actions at www.protests.blackfriday. See you on Black Friday.60025 11:00 am Funeral of Richard Perkins @ First Morning Star Baptist Church Funeral of Richard Perkins @ First Morning Star Baptist Church Nov 27 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Funeral of Richard Perkins, killed by Oakland police The mother of Richard, Ada Perkins Henderson,extends an invitation to all supporters to attend the funeral of her son. Richard was killed by the Oakland Police on Sunday, Nov. 15. Richard was shot 16 times by 4 police officers. More Info.60050 12:00 pm 16th Annual Shellmound Protest/Emeryville 16th Annual Shellmound Protest/Emeryville Nov 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Plz join us for the 16th anniversary of our annual protest. In 1999, the City of Emerryville built the Mall that now sits on the corner of Shellmound St and Ohlone Way. This space was once a Ohlone village site and it was one of the largest Shellmounds in the Bay Area. The sacred Shellmound once stood over 60ft high and 350 ft in diameter and it was considered the largest funerary complex of the Ohlone people. When the mall was built, we petitioned the city council and asked them … Continued 2:00 pm Occupy the Sidewalks: Stop the war on the poor @ In Front of Macy's Occupy the Sidewalks: Stop the war on the poor @ In Front of Macy's Nov 27 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE HOMELESS IS ORGANIZING Occupy the Sidewalks DON’T STAND FOR SIT LIE Stop the war on the poor Section 168 of the San Francisco Police Code, makes it unlawful, with certain exceptions, to sit or lie on a public sidewalk, or on an object placed on a public sidewalk, between 7AM and 11PM. (4) participating in or attending a parade, festival, performance, rally, demonstration, meeting or similar event conducted on a sidewalk under and in compliance with a street use or other applicable permit; Protesting the … Continued 5:00 pm Solidarity Rally With the Resistance in Chicago and Minneapolis @ Oscar Grant Plaza Solidarity Rally With the Resistance in Chicago and Minneapolis @ Oscar Grant Plaza Nov 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Join us for a speakout and rally against the recent white supremacist shootings against #4thPrecinctShutDown and #BlackLivesMatter demonstrators in North Minneapolis and in solidarity with the ongoing protests in Chicago in the wake of Laquan MacDonald horrific murder by police in 2014. From the growing white nationalism of Trump’s campaign to the now over 1,000 people shot down by law enforcement in 2015 alone, such systemic white supremacy has ushered in a new phase of the black liberation struggle. Now is the time to take sides and get organized. Big … Continued	6:17 am Occupy Forum @ PUERTO ALLEGRE Occupy Forum @ PUERTO ALLEGRE Nov 28 @ 6:17 am – 7:17 am 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 Night Out… Reassessing and Recommitting To Your Activism in Dire Times We are coming to the end of another year of our activism, which invites us to reassess and hopefully recommit. This year has seen a surge of resistance: Black Lives Matter, anti-incarceration, climate justice and environmental justice locally and globally, immigration activism, anti-gentrification and protection of those victimized by it, Indigenous leadership, peace activism — … Continued 10:00 am Burn Pie Not Oil – Alameda March for the Planet @ Crab Cove Visitor Center Burn Pie Not Oil – Alameda March for the Planet @ Crab Cove Visitor Center Nov 28 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Family friendly bike ride and rally for a renewable energy economy Locally: We ask city government, business leaders, and everyone to commit to smart resource use (reduce, reuse, recycle, rot), safe bike and pedestrian routes, and a swift transition to clean energy (solar, wind, geothermal) Globally: This event is part of the Global Climate March asking world leaders who meet in Paris on November 30th to commit to 100% clean energy as part of the next global climate deal 60053

Week of November 22

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.