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SHALLOW WATERS is a documentary film that deconstructs the events of that hour in an attempt to … Continued 2:00 pm Haiti Action Study Group @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Haiti Action Study Group @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Jan 31 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets DISCUSS HAITI’S ONGOING REVOLUTION! HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE STUDY GROUP TOPIC: The Ongoing Haitian Revolution January 1st marked the 211th anniversary of Haiti’s independence. Join us as we analyze how Haiti gained its independence and discuss the connections to today. We invite you to be apart of our monthly study group. We use films, texts, and speakers to explore Haiti’s history, current political situation, and make connections to parallel struggles throughout the U.S. and around the world. Come to this month’s meeting! 60133 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Jan 31 @ 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 Liberated Lens Weekly Meetup @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens Weekly Meetup @ Omni Commons Jan 31 @ 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	1:00 pm Rally Against the Torture of Prisoners! @ pin Show Map California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Rally Against the Torture of Prisoners! @ pin Show Map California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Feb 1 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Join us to tell CDCr that their “security/welfare checks” are torturing the men in Pelican Bay SHU and need to stop NOW!! Learn more here about the checks and how you can further support by sharing information and making phone calls: Since August 2, 2015, men in Pelican Bay SHU have been awakened every 20-30 minutes, 48 times a day, due to so-called “security/welfare checks” by guards. The architecture of the Pelican Bay SHU (PB SHU) amplifies the loud noise of the ‘checks’ -metal pod doors opening and slamming closed, … Continued 6:30 pm Occupy Forum @ Across from 16th St. BART Occupy Forum @ Across from 16th St. BART Feb 1 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum presents Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Cecile Pineda Apology to a Whale Cecile Pineda has the nerve to ask the one simple question that eludes our public posturing and computations. It is the one questions that could save us: What has happened to our mind that we are killing the world? What is it, at the root of our culture, that sets us against the rest of creation? Pineda’s … Continued	7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Feb 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Oscar Grant Committee was born from the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant, mudered by BART police on Jan 1, 2009. We organize working class resistance in support of families whose loved ones were murdered by police. We meet on the first Tuesday of every month.60326	5:00 pm Super Bowl Protest: Tackle Homelessness @ Sindbad's Restaurant Super Bowl Protest: Tackle Homelessness @ Sindbad's Restaurant Feb 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Mayor Ed Lee told the homeless they “have to leave” for the Super Bowl. Our response: “Hey Mayor Ed Lee, No Penalties for Poverty” We, the people of San Francisco, demand that Super Bowl City and Ed Lee pay and invest $5 million right now in housing – we could house 500 people immediately with that money. We also demand the use of publicly-owned assets, such as the empty Pier 29 or 80, or the land under the Freeway at 101/Cesar Chavez, and create monitored programs that support secure sleep, … Continued 7:00 pm 1-year Anniversary Vigil for Yuvette Henderson @ Home Depot 1-year Anniversary Vigil for Yuvette Henderson @ Home Depot Feb 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets On Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015 Oakland Resident and mother of two, Yuvette Henderson was killed by Emeryville Police Department in West Oakland. She was 38 years old when her life was stolen. Yuvette leaves behind a 15 year old son and an 11 year old daughter. Please join us as we memorialize Yuvette’s murder. We will first gather at Home Depot at 7pm for a short rally, then move to a silent, candlelit march to the corner across the street from where she was killed, where we will stop to … Continued 7:30 pm The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses @ First Congregational Church The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses @ First Congregational Church Feb 3 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets This is going down tonight w/ the homie @alpha1906 …His book on campus racism is a must read.. pic.twitter.com/kg2HPVnpOe— Davey D (@mrdaveyd) February 3, 2016 60413	12:00 pm Protest the TPP! @ Outside Feinstein's Office Protest the TPP! @ Outside Feinstein's Office Feb 4 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Thur Feb. 4 nationwide mobilizations re TPP – Noon PROTEST outside Feinstein’s office, One Post St., SF near Montgomery St. BART Sta. STOP the biggest corporate power grab ever! Whether or not the Trans-Pacific Partnership is signed by then, rain or shine, we’ll protest, because Congress will still have to pass enabling legislation so enough public outcry CAN still stop it! Pls click “going” or “interested now on our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/events/461850570682429/ Organizations can leave a message at 510-595-5575 to co-sponsor this protest, which means they help publicize as able … Continued 6:00 pm Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting Feb 4 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The demand for justice is happening and needs you!60411 8:00 pm Free the Tree Concert and Rally for Ganja Legalization in Santa Cruz @ Downtown Free the Tree Concert and Rally for Ganja Legalization in Santa Cruz @ Downtown Feb 4 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets We would like to invite anyone in the Bay Area to a special concert to rally CCHI 2016 supporters called “Free the Tree Concert and Rally for Ganja Legalization” on February 4, 2015 in downtown Santa Cruz, CA, beginning at 8 p.m. This special event continues the effort to mobilize and inform the public about qualifying the CCHI 2016 for the Nov. 8, 2016 California ballot and is generously supported by Waverider Nursery Monterey Bay. The cost is $10.00 at the door. This event is not a benefit for CCHI … Continued	12:00 pm Stand with UC black students list of demands! @ UC Office of the President Stand with UC black students list of demands! @ UC Office of the President Feb 5 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets This Friday, February 5th, Janet Napolitano (UC President) has invited Black Student Union leadership from all of the UC campuses to have a discussion with her about campus climate. This meeting was called to downplay the severity of anti-Blackness on UC campuses and to silence Black leaders on campus. Janet and her staff have designed this meeting to crowd out any substantive discussion about anti-Blackness and how the University of California engages in a wide range of policies and practices that are unethical and anti-Black. The students have asked the … Continued 7:00 pm Debating the 2016 Presidential Elections & the Key Issues of Our Time @ Humanist Hall Debating the 2016 Presidential Elections & the Key Issues of Our Time @ Humanist Hall Feb 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Debating the 2016 Presidential Elections & the Key Issues of Our Time Hear: Special guest Glen Ford, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report (Coming from NYC) For Bernie Sanders: Tom Gallagher, Chair SF Progressive Democrats of America; former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; author, “The Primary Route: How the 99 Percent Take On the Military Industrial Complex” Peter Olney, Retired Organizing Director, ILWU; Labor organizer in Massachusetts and California for over 40 years. Activist, Labor for Bernie national network. (for Saturday only) For Peace & Freedom Party candidate: Marsha … Continued	11:00 am March with the People! – Justice 4 Mario Woods! March with the People! – Justice 4 Mario Woods! Feb 6 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets 60449 12:30 pm Welcome to the Bay Area – Remix @ San Francisco International Airport Welcome to the Bay Area – Remix @ San Francisco International Airport Feb 6 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets WELCOME TO THE BAY!! If you missed our Welcome to the Bay Event during #96 hours – join us for the REMIX. As thousands stream into the Bay Area for the Superbowl, let’s welcome them to the Bay Area that is killing Black, Brown and poor people with impunity and pushing us out of our native cities. We are asking you to bring your energy and passion to SFO on a very busy travel day! It is crucial that we continue to raise the realities of Amerikkka – particularly on … Continued 2:00 pm Honor Black History @ Starry Plough Honor Black History @ Starry Plough Feb 6 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Peace and Freedom Party presents Honor Black History In celebration of Black History Month and the struggles of Black students and activists which created it, we are inviting two scholar/activists James Garrett, and Ray Tompkins, to join former Black Panther Gerald Smith, to discuss these historic struggles including the 5-month student strike at San Francisco State University in 1968-69 which led to the first Black Studies Program in the country. CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every … Continued 4:00 pm Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area. @ Omni Commons Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area. @ Omni Commons Feb 6 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! student debt resistance organizing for public banking. advocating for Postal banking. fighting modern day debtors’ prisons … Continued

Week of January 31

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.