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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 10:30 am Venezuela: Eyewitness Report @ Niebyl Proctor Library Venezuela: Eyewitness Report @ Niebyl Proctor Library Jan 17 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Venezuela: Eyewitness ReportWhat happened in Venezuela’s parliamentary elections on December 6? This report will convey the impressions and first observations from two recent trips to Venezuela by Rick Sterling. What were the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution over 17 years? Why and how was it under attack?What are the prospects in the coming year?60206 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance General Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Center Sunflower Alliance General Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Center Jan 17 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join us for reports of activities aimed at resisting the multiple fossil fuel expansion projects in our area. At this meeting we will also take up an extended discussion on strategies for movement building. Newcomers always welcome. 60272 6:00 pm Say Their Names at SFO @ SFO - International Terminal Say Their Names at SFO @ SFO - International Terminal Jan 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Our Oakland airport action was very successful! The police were a no show and we had the run of the airport, and there were no arrests. Saturday is a light travel day and Oakland is a smaller airport…. So we’re going to try it again at SFO on a very busy travel day! Please bring signs this time! Lets make this even bigger. We’ll meet at the International terminal, at the BART fare gates. Try to be on time, we may move around the airport. BART goes right to the … Continued 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Jan 17 @ 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 6:30 pm Visions for Racial Justice in Oakland: A Community Conversation – 96 Hrs of Action @ Omni Commons Visions for Racial Justice in Oakland: A Community Conversation – 96 Hrs of Action @ Omni Commons Jan 17 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets A facilitated group discussion about racial justice, MLK, policing, and the city budget. 60269 7:00 pm Liberated Lens Weekly Meetup @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens Weekly Meetup @ Omni Commons Jan 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Liberated Lens is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, and organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. Join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually meet in our editing suite (2nd floor in the ballroom, to the left of the stage) and then work … 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 18 @ 12:00 am – 6:00 pm 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 9:30 am Planting Justice Vigil for Economic Justice & Empowerment (In Solidarity with #ReclaimMLK) @ Fruitvale BART plaza Planting Justice Vigil for Economic Justice & Empowerment (In Solidarity with #ReclaimMLK) @ Fruitvale BART plaza Jan 18 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am Tickets Planting Justice is teaming up with Community Check Cashing right outside of CCC in Fruitvale Plaza Monday, Jan 18th, 9:30 AM as part of the #ReclaimMLK 96 Hours of Action Weekend: https://www.facebook.com/events/1678077069118027/ Join us as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision around ending poverty in America. The brothers and sisters of Moving Forward (an association of Planting Justice Staff) are teaming up with Community Check Cashing to create space on this sacred day around economic justice and empowerment in our community.60319 9:30 am Planting Justice Vigil for Economic Justice & Empowerment (In Solidarity with #ReclaimMLK) – 96 Hrs of Action @ Fruitvale BART Plaza near Powderface Planting Justice Vigil for Economic Justice & Empowerment (In Solidarity with #ReclaimMLK) – 96 Hrs of Action @ Fruitvale BART Plaza near Powderface Jan 18 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am Tickets Join us as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision around ending poverty in America. The brothers and sisters of Moving Forward (an association of Planting Justice Staff) are teaming up with Community Check Cashing to create space on this sacred day around economic justice and empowerment in our community. Meet us at Community Check Cashing We will read excerpts of Dr. King’s speeches around poverty eradication, enjoy a brief meditation and hear from members of the community around their journey to regaining control of their finances and economic resources. … Continued 10:00 am RECLAIM MLK DAY! Join the HAITI SOLIDARITY Pre-March Contingent @ Oakland Federal Bldg RECLAIM MLK DAY! Join the HAITI SOLIDARITY Pre-March Contingent @ Oakland Federal Bldg Jan 18 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets Pre-march protest in solidarity with the fighting people of Haiti: Black Lives Matter from Haiti to the Bay · Drummers · Report from Haiti – By Pierre Labossiere A part of the 96 Hours of Direct Action to Reclaim the Radical Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere!” We will march to join the 11AM rally and march at Oscar Grant Plaza Haiti is in the streets almost every day – as tens of thousands turn out to demand that the stolen … Continued 11:00 am Second Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy @ Oscar Grant Plaza Second Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 18 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Reclaiming King’s Legacy “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 … Continued 11:00 am Second Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy @ Oscar Grant Plaza Second Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 18 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Facebook event with description here. We are marching from Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th & Broadway, to the Bay St Mall in Emeryville. WE DEMAND: The resignation of Mayor Libby Schaaf The immediate termination of Chief Sean Whent The immediate termination of Chief Greg Suhr The immediate termination of the officers involved in the murders of Richard Perkins, Mario Woods, Yuvette Henderson, Amilcar Lopez, Alex Nieto, Demoriah Hogg and Richard Linyard The immediate reallocation of city budgets: reduce police budgets and reallocate those funds to provide for affordable housing that allows … Continued 11:00 am Second Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy / Culmination of #96Hours of Direct Action Weekend @ Oscar Grant Plaza Second Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy / Culmination of #96Hours of Direct Action Weekend @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 18 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 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. This invitation is for the March on Monday,the culmination of the #96Hours of direct actions over the MLK Day weekend. We are marching from Oscar Grant Plaza to the Bay St Mall in Emeryville.Over the last year, in the Bay Area alone, there have been dozens of police murders. In San Francisco, we have most recently seen the brutal execution of Mario Woods, in addition to police … Continued	1:00 pm UNwelcome Sprouts Oakland this week! @ Sprouts, Oakland UNwelcome Sprouts Oakland this week! @ Sprouts, Oakland Jan 19 @ 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Thank you for coming out to the movie showing and flyering party last week to UNwelcome Sprouts to Oakland. Join Occupy The Farm, Boycott Sprouts, and our Bay Area friends and allies again this week to let them know “no business as usual until you pull out of paving over the Gill Tract farm.” Help us to let all the new shoppers know that Sprouts Farmers Market is planning to pave over the Gill Tract farm, where the local community has been proposing a community center for regenerative agriculture, education, … Continued 6:00 pm Police Accountability Forum #2 at Fellowship Hall @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist Police Accountability Forum #2 at Fellowship Hall @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist Jan 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Tuesday, Jan 19 with 6 pm potluck (list ingredients!); CSAI Accountability Forum 2 at 7 PM. This is the follow-up to our October 30, 2015 Forum at which the gathering called for the Berkeley City Council to address nine specific points. This time we will address “who” enters the Police Academy in the first place, and how to improve the Police Review Commission. That subject will be on the City Council agenda the following week at Berkeley City Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 26th.60328 6:00 pm Speak Out! Stop the Pedie Perez Coverup! @ Richmond City Hall steps Speak Out! Stop the Pedie Perez Coverup! @ Richmond City Hall steps Jan 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets The Oscar Grant Committee and the family of Pedie Perez will hold a Press Conference and Speak Out to Stop the Pedie Perez Killing Cover-Up! We will then attend the regular meeting of the Richmond City Council and. speak during the Public Comment period. After sixteen months of secrecy and hypocrisy, the family of Richard “Pedie” Perez III is still seeking truth and justice in the killing of their son by Richmond Police Officer Wallace Jensen in the early morning hours of September 14, 2014. The police falsely claimed that … Continued	2:00 pm UNwelcome Sprouts Oakland this week! @ New Oakland Sprouts UNwelcome Sprouts Oakland this week! @ New Oakland Sprouts Jan 20 @ 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Thank you for coming out to the movie showing and flyering party last week to UNwelcome Sprouts to Oakland. Join Occupy The Farm, Boycott Sprouts, and our Bay Area friends and allies again this week to let them know “no business as usual until you pull out of paving over the Gill Tract farm.” Help us to let all the new shoppers know that Sprouts Farmers Market is planning to pave over the Gill Tract farm, where the local community has been proposing a community center for regenerative agriculture, education, … Continued 6:00 pm SF Police Commission: Justice 4 Mario Woods – We must be there to speak up! @ The Salvation Army Kroc Center SF Police Commission: Justice 4 Mario Woods – We must be there to speak up! @ The Salvation Army Kroc Center Jan 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets San Francisco’s police union has called on its members to show up at Wednesday’s police commission in force to support the officers who were involved in the December shooting death of Mario Woods. A letter was sent to all active Police Officers Association members Jan. 16 asking for a strong showing Wednesday night to ensure the commission remains impartial despite attacks on law enforcement from some politicians and others. “I am writing to all active POA members to request a show of support by officers at the next police commission … Continued 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Coalition @ Eastside Arts Alliance Anti Police-Terror Coalition @ Eastside Arts Alliance Jan 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month. The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community Ready Corps and Workers World is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country. We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition.60216	6:02 am Liberated Lens Film Screening: Chicago Confessional, documentary @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens Film Screening: Chicago Confessional, documentary @ Omni Commons Jan 21 @ 6:02 am – 7:02 am Tickets Chicago Confessional, documentary by Bryan Gibel Inmate Stanley Wrice was subject to a police torture squad that operated in Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s. The injustices were led by Jon Burge, Chicago Police Department detective and commander who gained notoriety for torturing more than 200 criminal suspects between 1972 and 1991 in order to force confessions. Stanley Wrice seeks to overturn his conviction for a horrible crime he insists he didn’t commit. as always, free snacks and popcorn 60362 10:00 am “Use of Force” SF Board of Supervisors Rules Committee Meeting @ SF City Hall, Room 250 “Use of Force” SF Board of Supervisors Rules Committee Meeting @ SF City Hall, Room 250 Jan 21 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Justice 4 Mario Woods The Rules Committee — made up of Sups. Avalos, Tang, and Cohen — is having a special meeting on Thursday and the first item on the agenda is addressing alternatives to use of force in policing. http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=54804 1. 151263 [Hearing – Alternatives to Use of Force in Policing] Sponsors: Cohen; Yee, Avalos, Breed and Campos Hearing on alternatives to the use of force in policing, and re-evaluating San Francisco Police Department General Orders 2.07, 5.01, and 5.02; and requesting the Police Department to report.60347 5:30 pm Film Screening: Dream On, Sponsored by Common Cause @ North Berkeley Library Film Screening: Dream On, Sponsored by Common Cause @ North Berkeley Library Jan 21 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets California Common Cause is committed to reforming our democracy. We believe that democracy should work for all of us and it does that better when the voices of everyday Americans are being heard by our government. The documentary Dream On puts a spotlight on those voices – from fast-food workers to single mothers, from undocumented immigrants to community organizers, and from inmates to retirees. Their dreams, their hopes, and their struggles. Join us on Thursday, January 21, for a free screening of the documentary! This poignant new documentary features political … Continued 6:00 pm Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition Meeting @ SEIU Local 1020 Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition Meeting @ SEIU Local 1020 Jan 21 @ 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 7:00 pm Kurdish Film Series – The Guerrillas of the PKK @ Tamarack Kurdish Film Series – The Guerrillas of the PKK @ Tamarack Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Kurdish Film Series in #Oakland coming up in solidarity w #Rojava first one Dec 20th 5:30pm @ 1501 Harrison St pic.twitter.com/u2CnfVpbFC— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 17, 2015 60156 7:00 pm The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Kickoff @ The Octopus Literary Salon The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Kickoff @ The Octopus Literary Salon Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, in collaboration with Tenants Together, is engaging in a year-long project in Oakland, Fremont, and Alameda to center the stories of collectives facing rapid displacement in the Bay Area. Through oral history, data analysis, and data visualization, this project supports artists, activists, and community members organizing to survive and thrive in the East Bay. Join us to learn more and get involved! Our kickoff event is this Thursday the 21st from 7-9pm at the The Octopus Literary Salon in downtown Oakland. From 7-8, we will be … Continued	7:00 pm Solitary Man – Solo Performance Followed by Discussion of Sleep Deprivation at Pelican Bay @ Omni Commons Solitary Man – Solo Performance Followed by Discussion of Sleep Deprivation at Pelican Bay @ Omni Commons Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 60271	12:00 pm Tenant Power Now! A Renter’s Rights Workshop @ ACCE Oakland Tenant Power Now! A Renter’s Rights Workshop @ ACCE Oakland Jan 23 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Join us for food, music, and to learn your rights! 60327 1:00 pm Taking Power for the People: A New Electoral Strategy for the Oakland Left Part 3 @ First African Methodist Episcopal Church Taking Power for the People: A New Electoral Strategy for the Oakland Left Part 3 @ First African Methodist Episcopal Church Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets For far too long, our political leaders have failed to represent Oakland’s true values. It is time for the Oakland Left to unite, recruit our own candidates and build political power to achieve meaningful change. At our last meeting we discussed: 1) A possible ballot initiative as an organizing strategy, 2) The process for selecting candidates, 3) Developing a progressive campaign platform 4) Which races to focus on. Oakland Alliance seeks to unite the progressive movement in Oakland behind a slate of candidates who will challenge the institutional power structure … Continued 3:00 pm The Role of Police & State Terror Under Capitalism …and BUILDING the MOVEMENT to FIGHT BACK! @ Workers World The Role of Police & State Terror Under Capitalism …and BUILDING the MOVEMENT to FIGHT BACK! @ Workers World Jan 23 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Can we end police terror under capitalism? Can police structure be dismantled? What about community defense guards? How can we organize in the movement against police terror to be more effective, and to involve more people? Looking to history: Robert F. Williams, Deacons for Defense, and the Black Panther Party. Meet John Parker, West Coast leader of Workers World Party, member of the National Committee of Workers World and its presidential candidate in 2004. He organizes in Los Angeles to build a unified movement against police terror, war, against racism … Continued 6:00 pm Spaghetti Dinner & Environmental Justice Program for Social Justice Action @ Unitarian Universalist Center Spaghetti Dinner & Environmental Justice Program for Social Justice Action @ Unitarian Universalist Center Jan 23 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Spaghetti Dinner & Program for Social Justice Action! You are invited to attend this year’s annual Spaghetti Dinner and Program at the Unitarian Universalist Center in San Francisco. This year’s event will focus on environmental justice and feature climate activist Tim DeChristopher, founder of the Climate Disobedience Center, who will speak on “Where We Stand on Climate Justice.” Three outstanding local activists will be honored and the event will include poetry, music and inspiring presentations. 6:00 pm: No-host bar, Delicious Spaghetti Dinner, Caesar Salad, Dessert, Poetry and Music 7:00 pm: … Continued 7:00 pm Poetry for the People – Fundraiser for Police Accountability Ballot Initiative @ Eastside Arts Alliance Poetry for the People – Fundraiser for Police Accountability Ballot Initiative @ Eastside Arts Alliance Jan 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets This is the ‘kick off’ for the campaign to establish a police commission in Oakland that has ‘teeth’ and will oversee and monitor the Oakland Police Department. It’s time to come together for real, sustainable change and police accountability. 60175

Week of January 17

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.