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12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm 12:00 pm Omni Spring Cleaning Day @ Omni Commons Omni Spring Cleaning Day @ Omni Commons Feb 21 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Hello Everyone! Please help with our Cleaning Day. I hope everyone has been enjoying the early spring weather. In that spirit, we are planning a cleaning day on Sunday Feb 21st during the day and hope you can help out the building and everyone by supporting the Commons with your time. We would appreciate anyone and everyone to come on Sunday Feb 21st at 12PM. Part of the day will be cleaning the Kitchens which is a first and easy step. That means cleaning out the fridge, sweeping and wiping down the area. … Continued 1:00 pm “The Many Sides of Malcolm X: Honoring the Legacy of El Hajj Malik Shabazz” @ Oakland Islamic Community Center “The Many Sides of Malcolm X: Honoring the Legacy of El Hajj Malik Shabazz” @ Oakland Islamic Community Center Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Bismillah. Please join us for a special event for El Hajj Malik Shabazz (RA) Sunday February 21st, 2016. 51yrs to the day of his martyrdom. There will be presentations on the following topics: “Malcolm the Muslim” “Malcolm and the Youth” “Malcolm the Family Man” “Malcolm and the Media” “Malcolm the Internationalist” and a special tribute to his grandson, the late El Hajj Malcolm Shabazz (RA) Also OICC will be having a survival needs drive that will be distributed to houseless folks in West Oakland so please bring any hygiene items, … Continued 6:30 pm Fundraiser for Richard Perkins Family @ Eastside Arts Alliance Fundraiser for Richard Perkins Family @ Eastside Arts Alliance Feb 21 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Last year, on November 15th, 39-year-old Richard Perkins was tragically murdered by Oakland police near 90th and Bancroft. Richard Perkins is the 5th person to be killed by OPD this year. His murder has been extremely difficult for the family and they have put out a call to the community for support. We will be showing our support for the Perkins family at Eastside Arts Alliance where there will be performances, art, and speakers by the incredible voices of our community. We are asking for a $10 dollar donation at … Continued	6:00 pm Occupy Forum: Malcolm X: Make it Plain: The early articulation of the global, anti-colonial struggle @ Global Exchange, 2nd Floor, across from the 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: Malcolm X: Make it Plain: The early articulation of the global, anti-colonial struggle @ Global Exchange, 2nd Floor, across from the 16th St. BART Feb 22 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum presents… Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Malcolm X: Make it Plain The early articulation of the global, anti-colonial struggle Occupy Forum observes the 50th plus Anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with the screening of the film Malcolm X: Make It Plain. Articulating concepts of race pride and black nationalism Malcolm X was an African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and ’60s. Dynamic orator and … Continued	9:00 am Court Support for Nailah! @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse Court Support for Nailah! @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse Feb 23 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Come out and support our comrade Nailah who is currently facing charges after the wave of resistance in solidarity with Ferguson60486 11:00 am Oakland-Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement @ Outside Walgreens Oakland-Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement @ Outside Walgreens Feb 23 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Tickets #STOPsolitary#togetherOaklandPHSS#SleepDeprivationIsTorture Please join Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity folks in Oakland at lunchtime as we hold banners and signs, speak with passers-by, and share information about the torture in CA prisons. We are working to END solitary confinement and promote the Agreement to End Hostilities. For the past 6 1/2 months, people in Pelican Bay SHU (solitary) have been jarred awake 40-48 times a day, around the clock. We say, ” Stop the Sleep Deprivation Torture!” 60523 5:30 pm Apple is right. No government backdoor in our iPhones! @ Apple Store Apple is right. No government backdoor in our iPhones! @ Apple Store Feb 23 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Join us this Tuesday! People will be rallying at Apple stores around the country to fight the government’s attempt to put a backdoor into our iPhones, which would make all of us less safe. See the list of national events here LOGISTICS: 1. Show up on Tuesday at 5:30pm local time and gather in front of the store holding signs or phones, computers, and tablets open to ProtestSign.org (which turns your device into a handy protest sign!) You can also bring your own handmade sign too! Our basic message is: … Continued 6:00 pm Connecting Oakland: Tech, Equity and Community @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room #4 Connecting Oakland: Tech, Equity and Community @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room #4 Feb 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets On Feb 23 OpenOakland invites you to come and learn how technology can empower communities, and how you can use tech to get more civic too! Technology plays a vital role in connecting people and their government- Connecting Oakland is an interactive event where you will learn about how Oaklanders have used tech to: make city hall more accessible, to improve transparency; and promote civic engagement. You’ll see first hand how an app is built in Oakland- from an initial idea, to a concept, to the data scraping to app … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Feb 23 @ 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 7:00 pm “Solitary Man” : Solo Performance by Charlie Hinton @ Eric Quezada Center “Solitary Man” : Solo Performance by Charlie Hinton @ Eric Quezada Center Feb 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Prisoner Human Rights! Join Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition to END SLEEP DEPRIVATION TORTURE IN PELICAN BAY SECURITY HOUSING UNITS/SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Solitary Man Solo Performance by Charlie Hinton Charlie created Solitary Man based on his letters and visits with people in solitary confinement. The show is set in 2014, a year after the largest prisoner hunger strike in history. Charlie says, “I want this show to gain an audience and become one more voice calling for the end of mass incarceration and solitary confinement.” After the performance, we will discuss … Continued	5:00 pm Alex Nieto trial Organizing Committee (Save CCSF Coalition) @ City College, MUB room 160 (on Phelan Ave.) Alex Nieto trial Organizing Committee (Save CCSF Coalition) @ City College, MUB room 160 (on Phelan Ave.) Feb 24 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Meeting to plan for March 1 activities Alex Nieto and Amilcar Perez-Lopez were City College students when they were murdered by the SFPD, and Mario Woods went to Balboa High School: it could have been you! They are from the same communities being marginalized and evicted from San Francisco by gentrification, and from City College through downsizing and push-out policies. March 1st, WALK OUT, shout out for the opening of Alex’s trial 8AM:Ceremony at court, 450 Golden Gate Ave, SF 9AM: Assemble at City College Ocean Campus Ram Plaza, and … Continued 6:00 pm Meditation Happy Hour @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice Meditation Happy Hour @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice Feb 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Join us for free weekly meditation happy hour on Wednesdays. We will teach simple and easy guided meditation and breathing techniques to let go of stress and trauma, let your hair down, and celebrate!We believe that love is the universal language. We also believe that love is the universal cure to heal what ails societies worldwide. These meditation happy hours are our love offering to the community and are the result of a beautiful new & evolving partnership with Neelam Patil from The Art of Living. Neelam has been meditating … Continued 6:00 pm Special Showing Occupy The Farm Film @ Intertribal Friendship House Special Showing Occupy The Farm Film @ Intertribal Friendship House Feb 24 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Special Showing Occupy The Farm Film In Solidarity With The Indigenous Land Access Committee The Story of Community Efforts to Save Sacred Ohlone Land for Agriculture and Community Resilience Dinner at 6 p.m. With greens from the UC Gill Tract Community Farm Film at 7 p.m. After the film, a conversation with Ohlone, Indigenous and Community People Involved with this Struggle and Todd Darling, Director, Occupy The Farm Film Learn How You Can Join in the Struggle to Save the Land http://www.ilac-bayarea.net/ http://occupythefarmfilm.com/60543 6:30 pm The Future of Prejudice @ FUSION The Future of Prejudice @ FUSION Feb 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets How is your computer judging you? As we enter an age where who we are online is an aggregation of data, how that data gets interpreted is a matter of moral concern. Jacky Alciné will join us to talk about his personal experience with Google Photos tagging a photo of his friend as a ‘gorilla’ , and what we can do to change the way machines learn. We will also walk through some of the words that could get you surveilled as the government turns to tech companies to identify … Continued 7:00 pm Film: Merchants of Doubt @ David Brower Center Film: Merchants of Doubt @ David Brower Center Feb 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Based on the book by Naomi Orestes and Erik M. Conway, this documentary lifts the curtain on pundits-for-hire paid by large corporations to cast doubt on scientific studies and spread confusion about a range of public threats, from toxic chemicals to climate change. The film explores the illusions created by these corporations in order distract the public from the harm their products create. Purchase Tickets Pictured: Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson. Beginning in the late 1970s Exxon conducted climate research and then, without revealing what it had learned, worked at the … Continued 7:00 pm Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Feb 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Homes Not Jails is a consensus-based collective of squatters and squat supporters who believe housing is a human right. Our goal is to open as much vacant housing as possible and to keep it open as long as possible. HNJ is a place to organize mutual aid among squatters and squat supporters and housing rights advocates in the bay. We actively fight to make our space inclusive and safe for everybody and combat oppression in all forms.60489	8:30 am Court Support for Janye @ Rene Davidson Courthouse Court Support for Janye @ Rene Davidson Courthouse Feb 25 @ 8:30 am – 2:30 pm Tickets See here for some background. The case is moving into pretrial and court support is more important than ever. Please come support Janye and show the courts that we stand with him. Antirepression Crew will be doing Coffee not Cops outside Rene C. Davidson starting at 8:30.60441 5:00 pm No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Feb 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets We encourage all Oakland residents to attend the weekly No Coal in Oakland meeting. Up until its February 16th meeting, the position of a majority of Oakland City Council members on permitting coal shipment from the city’s port may have been in doubt. Even now the proposal remains on the table. But at that meeting, council members took concrete steps toward banning coal exports once and for all. Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Libby Schaff, local clergy, State Senator Loni Hancock, and community activists, the Council has signaled its … Continued 6:00 pm Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Meeting Feb 25 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The demand for justice is happening and needs you!60411	5:00 pm One-year Anniversary of Amilcar’s Killing by SFPD One-year Anniversary of Amilcar’s Killing by SFPD Feb 26 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets We’ll begin with a vigil at the site of his shooting (Folsom btw 24th and 25th), and then march to Mission Police Station. Afterwards, a free community dinner at St. John’s at 15th and Julian (between Valencia and Mission). FRIDAY, 5pm, #SanFrancisco: Justice for Amilcar Perez Lopez https://t.co/bxDQIj3cjU #justice4amilcar pic.twitter.com/5aRoAzBApv— Indybay (@Indybay) February 24, 2016 60527	11:00 am National Victim of Police Terrorism Panel “Policing in the 21st Century” @ First AME Church National Victim of Police Terrorism Panel “Policing in the 21st Century” @ First AME Church Feb 27 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Members of the Historic Original Black Panthers of Oakland, Ericka Huggins, Tarika Lewis, Clarence Thomas, and David Hilliard will join various National and Local families victimized by Police Terrorism to inspire, pass on wisdom, experience, and discuss Policing in the 21st Century, Theme “Where do we go from Here”. “If you want to hear the truth, you must let the suffering speak”. It is this truth that has fueled the Movement for Justice across the United States. These families will share their faith, strength and hope, while listening, learning, and … 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 27 @ 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 8:00 pm Late Night Mass Berkeley Copwatching @ See below Late Night Mass Berkeley Copwatching @ See below Feb 27 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: LATE NIGHT MASS COPWATCHING · February 12, 10 PM – 1 AM · February 27, 8 PM – 11 PM Since October 2015, Berkeley Copwatch has been holding “mass copwatch” events that invite folks to join us for a shift. It’s been fun and very empowering to have up to five cars full of copwatchers patrolling our city and on the scene when police stop people. This month we have two shifts scheduled. Please join us; we will train you in the essentials of copwatching, … Continued

Week of February 21

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.