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POSTS 60212 10:30 am The North Korea You’ve Never Seen @ Niebyl Proctor Library The North Korea You’ve Never Seen @ Niebyl Proctor Library Jan 10 @ 10:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Despite unparalleled demonization, military threats, and sanctions the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) opens an unprecedented window into life in cities and countryside alike, the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where the Cold War lives on, and how the country took a hitherto little-known path towards socialism.Gloria La Riva is a lifelong social activist and organizer with the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She visited North Korea in 1989 and 2015. Sharat G. Lin, PhD writes on global political economy, labor migration, and public health. He is … Continued 3:00 pm CANCELLED: Open Circle: Now Meeting Once a Month on the 4th Sunday. @ Omni Commons CANCELLED: Open Circle: Now Meeting Once a Month on the 4th Sunday. @ Omni Commons Jan 10 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Now meeting once a month, on the fourth Sunday, instead of twice a month. 59204 4:30 pm Active Hope in 2016 @ Berkeley Fellowship Hall Active Hope in 2016 @ Berkeley Fellowship Hall Jan 10 @ 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets 4:30 pm Program Part 1: Issues Roundtable, Gitmo, misc. topics 6:00 pm Vegetarian Potluck Dinner live music, Mike Rufo, Vic Sadot, Francis Collins 7:00-9:00pm Program, Part 2: Joanna Macy: Keynote on “Active Hope” Speakers/Facilitators Harvey Wasserman and Jon Simon: Clean Elections and Voting Machines Dennis Burnstein, KPFA host, poet Donald Goldmacher, “Heist” filmmaker/producer: the new Berkeley Progressive Alliance Linda Seeley, SLO Mothers for Peace: Shut Diablo Canyon Now! Shahid Buttar, Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation: Privacy Rights, Surveillance Cynthia Papermaster, No More Gitmos and Ann Fagan Ginger, Meiklejohn … Continued 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Jan 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 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 city … Continued 7:00 pm Free Movie: The Waiting Room (Documentary 2013) @ Long Haul Free Movie: The Waiting Room (Documentary 2013) @ Long Haul Jan 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A behind the scenes look at the Emergency Room at Highland hospital in Oakland.60253	12:10 am Court Support for Nailah- late charges from last year @ Wiley Manual Courthouse, Dept 104 Court Support for Nailah- late charges from last year @ Wiley Manual Courthouse, Dept 104 Jan 11 @ 12:10 am – 1:10 am Tickets Please come support Nailah, a comrade who was part of last year’s uprisings and is having charges filed against her in the last days before her statute of limitations is up60264 12:00 pm SUPPORT MUMIA ABU-JAMAL AND FREE QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL @ WESTIN ST. FRANCIS HOTEL SUPPORT MUMIA ABU-JAMAL AND FREE QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL @ WESTIN ST. FRANCIS HOTEL Jan 11 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets SUPPORTERS OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, AND FREE QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL : The Oasis Clinic in Oakland, CA, which treats patients with Hepatitis-C (HCV), is calling for a demonstration to protest the outrageous price-gouging of Big Pharma corporations, like Gilead Sciences, which hike-up the cost for essential, life-saving medications such as the cure for the deadly Hepatitis-C virus, in order to reap huge profits. The Oasis Clinic’s demand is: PUBLIC HEALTH, NOT CORPORATE WEALTH! The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal urges you to support this demonstration! … Continued 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: The Militarization of Police: Arming a Racist System and Killer Cops @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: The Militarization of Police: Arming a Racist System and Killer Cops @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART Jan 11 @ 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!OccupyForum presentsThe Militarization of Police: Arming a Racist System and Killer Cops OccupyForum will focus on the militarization of police with a panel from Stop Urban Shield Coalition, Open Circle, (representing families of murdered black children); and Susan Harman, (representing Oakland Privacy Working Group and CodePink). Besides addressing the current national emergency, these groups seek creative alternatives to traditional notions of police practices and the role … Continued 7:00 pm MLK Day March Committee Meeting @ Suite 411 MLK Day March Committee Meeting @ Suite 411 Jan 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Description: MLK Day (1/18/16) March planning committee meeting. 60235 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Jan 11 @ 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	8:00 am Killer Drone Protestor Trial and Beale AFB Protest @ US Federal Court, 8th Floor, #27 Killer Drone Protestor Trial and Beale AFB Protest @ US Federal Court, 8th Floor, #27 Jan 12 @ 8:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets After 5 years of persistent protests at Beale AFB, opposing drone killing and global militarization, and many dozens of arrests over the years with very few trials, the U.S. military & gov’t are now preparing to prosecute, as they grow weary of our continued resistance. Next week, 10 defendants will bring the illegal drone program to Sacramento courts again and welcome supporters! January 12, Tuesday: 8:00 am – Anti-drone rally in front of courthouse, to include mock drone attack street theater 9:00 am – Arraignment, U.S. Federal Court, 501 I … Continued 1:00 pm TELL THE PRESIDENT NO TO TPP @ Federal Building TELL THE PRESIDENT NO TO TPP @ Federal Building Jan 12 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets RALLY The President will be delivering his State of the Union Address on Jan. 12th in the evening. Join with other senior and disability organizations, labor unions, and environmental activists to let the President know that California opposes the TPP (and let Congresswoman Pelosi hear us too!). Events like this will be happening around the country on this day –prior to the President’s speech. Stand up and be counted. If you can’t attend the rally on the Jan. 12th – please be sure to make these calls: (you don’t need … Continued 7:00 pm SpokesCouncil Meetings to Plan 96 Hours of Action Over MLK Weekend @ Omni Commons SpokesCouncil Meetings to Plan 96 Hours of Action Over MLK Weekend @ Omni Commons Jan 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr. Spokescouncil Meetings are scheduled to take place: January 5th @ 7pm at the OMNI January 9th @ 7 pm @ the OMNI January 12th @ 7pm @ the OMNI January 14th @ 7pm @ the OMNI The MLK weekend will once again culminate in a King Day march that embodies the true spirit of King’s resistance to capitalism, imperialism and racism. Over the last year, in … Continued 7:30 pm Berkeley Progressive Alliance Meeting @ Live Oak Park Berkeley Progressive Alliance Meeting @ Live Oak Park Jan 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets The Sustainable Berkeley Coalition is working for open, transparent governance that supports our diverse community with appropriate development, housing and protected environment. Meetings are planned for the second Wednesdays of the month at 7:30 pm Our Berkeley Progressive Alliance will join other civic groups and communities to help create a united voice and vision to elect 2016 Berkeley leadership. We need a city council and mayor that will represent the true vision of our city’s people. We need affordable housing and community-oriented development projects, green developers, innovations to help the … Continued 7:30 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group: Fighting Against the Surveillance State! @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy Working Group: Fighting Against the Surveillance State! @ Omni Commons Jan 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against Stingrays being acquired by law enforcement agencies, against Urban Shield, for various privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, especially by Alameda County and the Oakland City Council. We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments. OPWG originally came together to fight against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OPWG was … Continued	6:00 pm Coalition for Police Accountability Meeting Coalition for Police Accountability Meeting Jan 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets The CPA is creating a charter amendment ballot initiative to create an accountable, civilian-controlled, police commission. The ONLY agenda item will be a discussion of whether or not we should file a petition with the City Clerk’s Office to declare our intention to collect signatures to independently place our item on the Nov 2016 ballot. We will discuss the pros and cons, including logistic challenges but also organizing opportunities. In the interim, we will try to assemble as much information about what signature initiatives involve, what the needed capacity looks … Continued 6:00 pm Mental Health Resources for Alameda County @ Ed Roberts Campus Mental Health Resources for Alameda County @ Ed Roberts Campus Jan 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Do you know about mental health resources in Alameda County? Learn more on Jan 13! RSVP https://t.co/dhxKdzr8Lb . pic.twitter.com/R4WGMsu2ua— Keith Carson (@Keith_Carson) January 11, 2016 60270 6:00 pm Occupy the Farm Movie Showing at New Oakland Sprouts: Protests All Day @ Oakland's newest Sprouts Occupy the Farm Movie Showing at New Oakland Sprouts: Protests All Day @ Oakland's newest Sprouts Jan 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets The Occupy The Farm documentary will be screened on the Sprouts grocery building @ 30th & Broadway today 6pm; protests outside store all day— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 13, 2016 Go to grand opening of Sprouts grocery 30th & Broadway, #Oakland today & tell shoppers to boycott until company stops paving Gill Tract farm— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 13, 2016 60279 7:30 pm Michael Schermer: Skeptic – Viewing the World with a Rational Eye @ St. John's Church Michael Schermer: Skeptic – Viewing the World with a Rational Eye @ St. John's Church Jan 13 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets 60254	◢ 12:00 am SECOND ANNUAL #96HOURS OF DIRECT ACTION AND RECLAIMING KING’S RADICAL LEGACY MARCH SECOND ANNUAL #96HOURS OF DIRECT ACTION AND RECLAIMING KING’S RADICAL LEGACY MARCH Jan 14 @ 12:00 am – Jan 15 @ 12:00 am Tickets “Equality demands dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week.” “When you have mass unemployment in the Negro community it’s called a social problem. When you have mass unemployment in the white community it’s called a depression” “We refuse to believe the bank of justice is bankrupt” — Martin Luther King, Jr– Last year, during MLK weekend, The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) answered a national call by initiating #96Hours of Direct Action that culminated in an historic march from Fruitvale Station to Coliseum City … Continued 4:30 pm CANCELLED: East Bay Children Speak Out Against Gentrification CANCELLED: East Bay Children Speak Out Against Gentrification Jan 14 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets @OccupyOakland This event has been cancelled.— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 14, 2016 Gil Tract Farm Slated For Development Against the Will of the Community: Local Berkeley and Albany Elementary School Children Speak out Elementary School-aged students from Berkeley and Albany will speak out about the further development of the Gil Tract, located on the corner of San Pablo Ave and Marin Ave. in Albany. They will assemble to discuss their feelings about the development of this land which is one of the last viable pieces of farm land left in the … Continued 6:00 pm Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition Meeting @ SEIU Local 1020 Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition Meeting @ SEIU Local 1020 Jan 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Our next meeting will be on Thursday at SEIU local 1020 at 6 pm. Enter at 350 Rhode Island . Enter on Kansas Street side between 16 th and 17th street side.60232 6:00 pm Lowrider Lawyers: Putting a City on Trial, Encore Screening! Justice 4 Alex Nieto @ Brava Lowrider Lawyers: Putting a City on Trial, Encore Screening! Justice 4 Alex Nieto @ Brava Jan 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Because of great public demand, we will provide an encore showing of “Lowrider Lawyers: Putting a City on Trial” this coming Thursday, January 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the Brava Theater in San Francisco’s Mission district! If you attended the premiere, then you know how powerful of a film this is, both for its art and its honest evaluation of the Alex Nieto case. Now you can bring more friends or come for the first time. Read the reviews and know that you are in store for an unprecedented experience. … Continued 7:00 pm Screening of: Pray the Devil Back to Hell @ BFUU Screening of: Pray the Devil Back to Hell @ BFUU Jan 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A film by Abigail E. Disney and Gini Reticker The untold story of the everyday women who brought a warring nation to its senses, armed only with the courage of their convictions is an uplifting and inspiring as well as enraging story of a group of Muslim and Christian women, rich and poor, urban and rural, who bring peace to their beloved but war-torn Liberia. This unsung achievement is gripping suspenseful and ultimately incredibly satisfying. Touching and even funny this film will stay with you for years. In the words … Continued 7:00 pm SpokesCouncil Meetings to Plan 96 Hours of Action Over MLK Weekend @ Omni Commons SpokesCouncil Meetings to Plan 96 Hours of Action Over MLK Weekend @ Omni Commons Jan 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr. Spokescouncil Meetings are scheduled to take place: January 5th @ 7pm at the OMNI January 9th @ 7 pm @ the OMNI January 12th @ 7pm @ the OMNI January 14th @ 7pm @ the OMNI The MLK weekend will once again culminate in a King Day march that embodies the true spirit of King’s resistance to capitalism, imperialism and racism. Over the last year, in … Continued	◤ ◢ 12:00 am SECOND ANNUAL #96HOURS OF DIRECT ACTION AND RECLAIMING KING’S RADICAL LEGACY MARCH SECOND ANNUAL #96HOURS OF DIRECT ACTION AND RECLAIMING KING’S RADICAL LEGACY MARCH Jan 15 @ 12:00 am – Jan 16 @ 12:00 am Tickets “Equality demands dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week.” “When you have mass unemployment in the Negro community it’s called a social problem. When you have mass unemployment in the white community it’s called a depression” “We refuse to believe the bank of justice is bankrupt” — Martin Luther King, Jr– Last year, during MLK weekend, The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) answered a national call by initiating #96Hours of Direct Action that culminated in an historic march from Fruitvale Station to Coliseum City … Continued 1:00 pm No Sprouts In Oakland: Stop Gentrification of Local Food Economy @ New Sprouts Store No Sprouts In Oakland: Stop Gentrification of Local Food Economy @ New Sprouts Store Jan 15 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Come protest the new Sprouts “Farmers Market,” a racist, sexist, corporate, big box grocery store chain that has just moved into Oakland. Sprouts is NOT a farmers’ market, but in fact imports food from around the world and doesn’t treat their workers well. Stand against the gentrification of Oakland, in solidarity with Occupy the Farm and the Gill Tract Community Farm, and in support of local food economies and the real farmers markets and local markets owned and operated by the people of Oakland.60289 4:00 pm “Can You See Me?” Interfaith Procession in Remembrance of Black Lives @ Oscar Grant Plaza, Oakland City Hall “Can You See Me?” Interfaith Procession in Remembrance of Black Lives @ Oscar Grant Plaza, Oakland City Hall Jan 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets The newly emerging “Interfaith Committee in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter–Bay Area” is hosting a vigil and candle-lit funeral procession on the Friday afternoon preceding Martin Luther King Day weekend. This solemn action will call on Oakland city officials and residents alike to see, connect with, and mourn the Black and Brown lives lost to police violence as well as the losses born by communities of color in Oakland as a result of over-policing, displacement, and gentrification. It will also put City Hall on notice that they can expect continued … Continued 4:30 pm Reclaim SF! Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! @ St. John's Church Reclaim SF! Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! @ St. John's Church Jan 15 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets 60284	◤ ◢ 12:00 am SECOND ANNUAL #96HOURS OF DIRECT ACTION AND RECLAIMING KING’S RADICAL LEGACY MARCH SECOND ANNUAL #96HOURS OF DIRECT ACTION AND RECLAIMING KING’S RADICAL LEGACY MARCH Jan 16 @ 12:00 am – Jan 17 @ 12:00 am Tickets “Equality demands dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week.” “When you have mass unemployment in the Negro community it’s called a social problem. When you have mass unemployment in the white community it’s called a depression” “We refuse to believe the bank of justice is bankrupt” — Martin Luther King, Jr– Last year, during MLK weekend, The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) answered a national call by initiating #96Hours of Direct Action that culminated in an historic march from Fruitvale Station to Coliseum City … Continued 9:00 am March on Libby Schaaf’s House. 96 Hrs of Action March on Libby Schaaf’s House. 96 Hrs of Action Jan 16 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Meet in the Dimond district Safeway parking lot. Organized by SURJ60267 10:00 am SF Forum On The Danger Of Tasers @ SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY, MAIN BRANCH, LATINO ROOM SF Forum On The Danger Of Tasers @ SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY, MAIN BRANCH, LATINO ROOM Jan 16 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets PUBLIC PANEL DISCUSSION DANGERS OF TASERS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE Jeremy Miller, anti-Taser activist, Idriss Stelley Foundation (moderator) Aram James, activist and former Palo Alto Public Defender, and expert on nation-wide dangers of Tasers La Mesha Stelley, Idriss Stelley Foundation Marion Jackson, founder Officers for Justice, retired Inspector, San Francisco Police Department Jennifer Friedenbach Executive Director, Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco Steve Zeltzer, United Public Workers For Action Sponsored by Idriss Stelley Foundation60283 10:45 am Fast Food Worker Action – #ReclaimMLK #96Hours @ Walgreens, Temescal Fast Food Worker Action – #ReclaimMLK #96Hours @ Walgreens, Temescal Jan 16 @ 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Tickets TODAY: 10:45 meet @ Walgreen's, 51st&Tel to join us for Fast food worker action! #96Hours #RECLAIMMLK— Bay Solidarity (@BaySolidarity) January 16, 2016 60303 11:00 am Street Convos for Racial Justice in Oakland – 96 Hrs of Action @ Lake Merritt BART Street Convos for Racial Justice in Oakland – 96 Hrs of Action @ Lake Merritt BART Jan 16 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Sponsored by: COMMUNITY DEMOCRACY PROJECT Street Convos for Racial Justice in Oakland We will reach out and talk to people about racial justice, MLK, policing, and the city budget.60268 11:30 am Sprouts: Carnival of Resistance @ New Oakland Sprouts Sprouts: Carnival of Resistance @ New Oakland Sprouts Jan 16 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Carnival de Resistance happening at 30th & Broadway gentrifying Sprouts 'Farmers Market' 11:30am-1pm drums, costumes, stilts #FreeTheLand— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 16, 2016 60302 6:00 pm ‘Say Their Names’ by Anti Police-Terror Project – 96 Hrs of Action @ Oakland International Airport, Terminal 1 ‘Say Their Names’ by Anti Police-Terror Project – 96 Hrs of Action @ Oakland International Airport, Terminal 1 Jan 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets “Oakland is being touted as a #1 tourist destination spot. Under the Mayorship of Libby Schaaf, a mandate has been issued to make the City pretty for tourists and developers. This has meant an upsurge in police terror and murders in Oakland. In what we have dubbed Libby’s Bloody Era, string of Black men were murdered in Oakland in 2015. All of them declared “justifiable”. As part of the 96 Hours of Direct Action, Join APTP at Terminal One of Oakland Airport where we will welcome people to Oakland – … Continued

Week of January 10

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.