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We’d also like to have speakers, email jehan.tremback@gmail.com if you’d like to present.60534 3:00 pm Stealing Democracy-Haiti Fights Back! @ Eastside Arts Alliance Stealing Democracy-Haiti Fights Back! @ Eastside Arts Alliance Feb 28 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets STEALING DEMOCRACY – HAITI FIGHTS BACK FEB 28th 3-5PM at EASTSIDE ARTS ALLIANCE, OAKLAND Join Haiti Action Committee to mark the 12th anniversary of the February 29, 2004 U.S.-backed coup d’état that overthrew the progressive, democratically-elected Lavalas government headed by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and to stand with Haiti’s popular movement at a critical moment in its longstanding struggle for democracy.Eastside Arts Alliance Sunday, Feb 28th, 3-5PM2277 International Avenue, Oakland See the statement issued by 68 grassroots organizations in Haiti calling for solidarity with their struggle for free and fair elections, … Continued 3:30 pm Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Feb 28 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets 59100	4:30 pm E 12th Street Affordable Housing Proposal @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater / City Hall Steps E 12th Street Affordable Housing Proposal @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater / City Hall Steps Feb 29 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Will Oakland City Council prioritize the E 12th proposal with the most affordable housing, or will they build more luxury condo towers? This will be a critical moment for Oakland to stand for public land for public good and against displacement. As a direct result of incredible community organizing over the past year, Oakland City Council is holding a special hearing of the Community Economic Development Committee, where the three proposals for development on E 12th – including A People’s Proposal – will be presented publicly. A People’s Proposal is available … Continued 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream” a Documentary and Discussion. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, across from 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream” a Documentary and Discussion. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, across from 16th St. BART Feb 29 @ 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 presents “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream” a Documentary, and discussion with director Donald Goldmacher “Heist traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled “Attack on American Free Enterprise System”. Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell at the behest of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a … Continued	4:30 am Early Morning Picket to Defend San Francisco’s Leeville Tent City! @ SoMa StrEat Food Park Early Morning Picket to Defend San Francisco’s Leeville Tent City! @ SoMa StrEat Food Park Mar 1 @ 4:30 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Early Morning Picket to Defend San Francisco’s Leeville Tent City! 4:30 AM @ division and 11th in SF. We just got confirmation from the homeless outreach team that riot police are going to be trying to arrest and throw out homeless folks possessions at early in the morning on tuesday at the division underpass. We call on the entire working class to stand with the Leeville Tent City and together build a movement to build housing and community autonomy for working class, working poor, and homeless people. Please bring pickett … Continued 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Mar 1 @ 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	9:00 am Court Support: Support the Farm Defenders! Fill the Courthouse! @ Wiley Manual Courthouse Court Support: Support the Farm Defenders! Fill the Courthouse! @ Wiley Manual Courthouse Mar 2 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Come fill the court to show love for Jean and Jean, who put their bodies on the line for the land at the #GillTract! Let’s show the judge it’d be best to dismiss all charges! 60544 10:00 am Help Raise the Minimum Wage in Berkeley! @ Blue Door Cafe Help Raise the Minimum Wage in Berkeley! @ Blue Door Cafe Mar 2 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets $15 by October, 2017. Sick leave standards equivalent to Oakland and Emeryille. Prevent tip theft. Learn about the initiative and how you can help. Brief training for signature gathering. Join a team to go out and gather signatures. Get additional petitions.60582 5:30 pm Candlelight Vigil for #OurThreeBrothers @ Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley Candlelight Vigil for #OurThreeBrothers @ Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley Mar 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets On Wednesday, February 24th, 2016, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, three young men, Adam Mekki, Muhannad Tairab, and Mohamed Taha Omar, were killed in a horrific act of violence. Please join us on Wednesday to remember them and recognize the injustice that was committed against them. Please note that this event is meant to be a healing space for Black Muslims and their communities. In addition to attending, please sign this petition to bring justice to our three brothers: http://act.mpowerchange.org/sign/justice-ourthreeboys/, and message the Fort Wayne Police Department demanding a full investigation … Continued 7:00 pm Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Mar 2 @ 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	10:45 am Oakland Stand Up: Protect Our Residents @ Rules Committee, City Council Chambers, Oakland City Hall Oakland Stand Up: Protect Our Residents @ Rules Committee, City Council Chambers, Oakland City Hall Mar 3 @ 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Tickets Time to stop the large increases in rents and out of control evictions. In 2015 rent for a two bedroom in Oakland increased 40% to an average of $2950/month. Join us to present a resolution to the Oakland City Council demanding a moratorium on Evictions and Rent Increases.60577 5:00 pm No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Mar 3 @ 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 Ella Baker Center Prisoner Mail Writing Night @ Ella Baker Center Ella Baker Center Prisoner Mail Writing Night @ Ella Baker Center Mar 3 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets n March, EBC will begin hosting mail nights at our office to respond to the increase amount of correspondence we’ve been receiving from people in prison across the Country. We are getting lots of questions about upcoming ballot initiatives, Prop 47, requests for pen pals and EBC’s work at large. Please RSVP to emily@ellabakercenter.org60589 6:30 pm Screening of : Tiny: A Story About Living Small @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Screening of : Tiny: A Story About Living Small @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Mar 3 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Join us for a film and discussion about the tiny home movement. A screening of “Tiny: A Story About Living Small” will be followed by a panel discussion led by members of Tiny House In My BackYard (THIMBY), an interdisciplinary collaboration of UC Berkeley students designing and building a zero-net-energy tiny house on the Berkeley Global Campus. About the film: “The film follows one couple’s attempt to build a “tiny house” from scratch, and profiles other families who have downsized their lives into homes smaller than the average parking space. TINY … Continued	8:30 am Alex Nieto Trial: Join Us in Solidarity @ federal building room 15 b 15th floor Alex Nieto Trial: Join Us in Solidarity @ federal building room 15 b 15th floor Mar 4 @ 8:30 am – 4:00 pm Tickets The time that we need you is now. Please join us in solidarity every day of the trial at the federal court building on 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco. BREAKING BREAKING NEWS! Witness Justin Fritz apologizes to the Nietos for calling the police on Alex Nieto! Fritz claims Alex Nieto had done nothing wrong that day. Witness Antonio Theodor testifies that police officers killed Alex Nieto in cold blood! Full news tomorrow morning. Amor for Alex! http://missionlocal.org/2016/03/witness-testified-alex-nieto-never-drew-weapon/ The federal civil action filed by Refugio and Elvira Nieto v. SFPD … Continued 4:00 pm Cultural Equity and Anti-Displacement Rally and March @ Oscar Grant Plaza Cultural Equity and Anti-Displacement Rally and March @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 4 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets 60592 6:30 pm Documentary Screening: Spotlight California @ New Parkway Theater Documentary Screening: Spotlight California @ New Parkway Theater Mar 4 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Free with RSVP. Spotlight California follows comedian and filmmaker Kiran Deol as she travels across the state investigating environmental, social and economic issues. She meets people taking on the drought, water contamination in farm country, air pollution and potential gas price manipulation. Finding refuge in moments of levity along the way, Kiran takes us on a California road trip unlike any we’ve experienced. Program: 6:30 – Doors Open 6:45 – 7:30: Screening 7:30 – 8:00: Discussion 8:00 – 8:30: Reception Following the screening, we’ll have a 25-minute panel conversation featuring: … Continued 7:00 pm Qilombo Art Showcase & Gallery Night @ Qilombo Qilombo Art Showcase & Gallery Night @ Qilombo Mar 4 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets The first thing you need to know is that Qilombo is having its FIRST of MANY Art Showcase and Gallery Nights. Our first event is March 4th at 7pm, right around the time when you are winding down (or up) from First Fridays. There will be hella dope art and music, food and beverages, as well as performances. The main goal is to have artists submit their work to get more recognition and the chance to win large cash prizes. Submission fee is $15-25 sliding scale (you can submit more … Continued 7:00 pm Tatu Vision Presents: March First Friday Show @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice Tatu Vision Presents: March First Friday Show @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice Mar 4 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets While 1st Fri out on the street may be getting more & more co-opted by blah from Mayor Libby Schaaf, it’s still ‪#‎bythepeopleforthepeople‬ up in Alan’s house at 2434 Telegraph Ave ‪#‎Oakland‬. We plan to turn up more and more every month! So, in March, we on a whole nother level. Surprise Line Up Coming Soon! 60518	9:30 am Berkeley Town Hall on Homelessness @ North Berkeley Senior Center Berkeley Town Hall on Homelessness @ North Berkeley Senior Center Mar 5 @ 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Your voice is needed! Breakfast will be provided! You will be reimbursed for transit (keep your receipt). 60591 10:00 am Community Mobilization to Raise the Wage in Berkeley @ Blue Door Cafe Community Mobilization to Raise the Wage in Berkeley @ Blue Door Cafe Mar 5 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets The Bay Area is an expensive place to live and Berkeley is even higher, yet a majority on City Council are sitting on their hands, while families are forced to work and work and work yet can’t make ends meet. People in Oakland, SF and Emeryville have successfully pushed the wages higher. It is our turn now. We are gathering signatures to get an initiative on the November Ballot that will:  Raise Berkeley’s minimum wage to $15 by October 2017  Raise it further each year by 3% + … Continued 10:30 am Film Screening: This Changes Everything @ Rialto Cinemas Cerrito Film Screening: This Changes Everything @ Rialto Cinemas Cerrito Mar 5 @ 10:30 am – 2:30 pm Tickets What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. After the film, join us for light refreshments at nearby Nong Thon Restaurant and mingle with representatives from local environmental and social justice organizations. Learn how to get involved and take action now. Take low-carbon transport (bike, transit or walk) and enter a drawing for green giveaways! Film Screening: 10:30am … Continued 4:00 pm Taking Power for the People: A New Electoral Strategy for the Oakland Left Part 4 @ First African Methodist Episcopal Church Taking Power for the People: A New Electoral Strategy for the Oakland Left Part 4 @ First African Methodist Episcopal Church Mar 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 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) Ballot initiatives as an organizing strategy – tenant protections, living wage and police accountabiity 2) The process for selecting candidates, 3) Developing a progressive campaign platform 4) Which races to focus on At our last meeting we also announced the formation of a new coalition with members including … Continued 6:30 pm Rasmea Fights Back: The Struggle of Women, Immigrants and Political Prisoners Rasmea Fights Back: The Struggle of Women, Immigrants and Political Prisoners Mar 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets 60597 6:30 pm Rasmea Fights Back: The Struggle of Women, Immigrants, and Political Prisoners Rasmea Fights Back: The Struggle of Women, Immigrants, and Political Prisoners Mar 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets In honor of International Women’s Day Rasmea Fights Back: The struggle of Women, Immigrants & Political Prisoners Featuring: Nadine Naber, University of Illinois at Chicago & Rasmea Odeh Defense Committee #Justice4Rasmea Hosted by: The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) Rasmea Odeh is a 67 year old Palestinian American community leader who was tortured and falsely convicted by an Israeli military court. As a direct result, years later the US government convicted her of Unlawful Procurement of Naturalization, sentenced her to 18 months in prison and imminent deportation. The appeals … Continued

Week of February 28

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.