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FREE – but hat will be passed for donations to NPML About Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library A weekly discussion series inspired … Continued 2:00 pm Housing for the Rest of Us – Berkeley @ South Berkeley Senior Center Housing for the Rest of Us – Berkeley @ South Berkeley Senior Center Mar 6 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Join us to work on Housing for the Rest of Us Introducing the Berkeley Progressive Alliance and our Affordable Housing Platform There is a solution to the Affordable Housing CrisisBerkeley could build at least 100 units of affordable housing a year, if we raise funds for the Housing Trust Fund. Hear about practical solutions that will raise the money needed. Prepare for the 2016 Election by making plans to elect a mayor, city council members, and rent board commissioners who will represent all of us, not just the 1%.Speakers include: … Continued 2:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining Mar 6 @ 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Tickets During the Winter the Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 2 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 2:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 1 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome. OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General … Continued 7:00 pm Slingshot: New Volunteer Meeting @ Long Haul Slingshot: New Volunteer Meeting @ Long Haul Mar 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Issue #121 is due out on April 22, 2016 (Article Deadline for Issue #121 is April 9, 2016) Brainstorm articles for next issue Orientation on how you can submit articles, art, photographs * Help us discuss our audience and themes for the next issue * Discuss fundraising and distribution * Your chance to comment on Slingshot 60570	6:30 pm Occupy Forum: What’s in the Water? From Flint Michigan to the Bayview. @ Global Exchange, 2nd fllor, across from 16th St BART Occupy Forum: What’s in the Water? From Flint Michigan to the Bayview. @ Global Exchange, 2nd fllor, across from 16th St BART Mar 7 @ 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! What’s in the Water? From Flint Michigan to the Bayview: Environmental Injustice’s Cause and Genocidal Outcomes in Communities of Color With Steve Zeltzer and Dr. Raymond Tomkins Lead poisoning is irreversible. Pediatricians such as Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha (who discovered the Flint water crisis) fear the Flint children who tested with elevated levels will suffer lifelong consequences. “If you were to put something in … Continued 7:00 pm Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Meetings held Mondays at 7:00 PM Excepting Monday March 7, when we will meet at 8:15 PM. Come one, come all! VOLUNTEER NOW!!! If you would like to go out on Copwatch shifts, work in our office, create art, become a Know Your Rights Trainer or help us out in other ways, WE NEED YOU! Send us an e-mail, subscribe to our email list, call our office or just come to our weekly meetings on Mondays, 2022 Blake Street, Berkeley or our weekly office hours on Wednesdays from 6:00pm – … Continued 7:00 pm Solidarity With Anaheim: No KKK in the Bay! @ Oscar Grant Plaza Solidarity With Anaheim: No KKK in the Bay! @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Meet at 14th and Broadway and take the streets in solidarity with the three anti-racists who were stabbed in Anaheim when confronting a KKK rally on February 27th. The klansman that stabbed the three comrades is reportedly from San Francisco. He was later let go while counter protesters are still held in jail. This is unacceptable! Let’s take a stand against the KKK and white supremacy in the Bay and everywhere! This is happening at the same time as riots and demonstrations in the streets of Salt Lake City, Utah … Continued	2:00 pm International Working Women’s Day Action! @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater International Working Women’s Day Action! @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater Mar 8 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 2016 International Working Women’s Day: Fight the Right, Deportations are Violence against Women! This March 8th, join working women across the world to celebrate the resistance of immigrant women and stand up against right-wing attacks against immigrant families! 2 PM: Art and cultural Celebration [Lake Merritt Amphitheater, Lake Merritt Blvd & 12th St.] March to the Federal Building [1301 Clay Street, Oakland] Vans provided to drive those with mobility needs Rally: Immigrant Women speak out against Deportations and to stop the right wing attacks to immigrant women’s rights and survival! … Continued 6:00 pm COPS Hearing (Federal Listening Session about SFPD) @ Mission High School COPS Hearing (Federal Listening Session about SFPD) @ Mission High School Mar 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The second of three community “listening sessions” to be conducted by the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, known by its acronym COPS, which was called in by police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee following the fatal shooting of Mario Woods on Dec. 2. Background article. 60553 7:00 pm Berkeley’s 2nd Annual Women’s Film Festival: Salt of the Earth @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Berkeley’s 2nd Annual Women’s Film Festival: Salt of the Earth @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Mar 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our first film this year will be Salt of the Earth (1954), which was produced, directed and written by victims of U.S. Congressional blacklisting, (aka redlisting). Originally banned in the U.S., it was directed by Herbert Biberman, one of the Hollywood Ten. The cast is almost entirely workers who participated in the real-life strike that the film is based upon. In a gritty mining town in New Mexico, Mexican-American workers go on strike to protest their dangerous working conditions and low wages. They meet with fierce opposition from company thugs … Continued 7:00 pm White Allies and the Movement for Black Lives @ First Congregational White Allies and the Movement for Black Lives @ First Congregational Mar 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets What is the role of white allies in the movement for racial justice? The Future of Solidarity: How White People Can Support the Movement for Black Lives creates a space for this conversation. Clare Bayard of Catalyst Project will moderate a panel with members of the Bay Area Chapter of Black Lives Matter: Robbie Clark, Housing Rights Campaign Lead Organizer, Just Cause/Causa Justa Devonté Jackson, Bay Area Organizer, Black Alliance for Just Immigration Janetta Johnson, Executive Director, Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project The evening is sponsored by Catalyst Project, … Continued	6:00 pm Black Lives Matter Women Activists and Documentary Screening @ Laney College, Room D-200 Black Lives Matter Women Activists and Documentary Screening @ Laney College, Room D-200 Mar 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join us for an amazing panel discussion with four women activists with Black Lives Matter and associated organizations. Plus a documentary screening of “We Have Nothing to Lose But Our Chains!”60598 6:30 pm A Berkeley for Working Families – What Kind of City Do You Want to Live In? @ Berkeley Community College, Rm 451 A Berkeley for Working Families – What Kind of City Do You Want to Live In? @ Berkeley Community College, Rm 451 Mar 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The future is up to us. Join with activists, community, labor, students and faith-based groups to begin to formulate a vision, priorities and a plan of action for A BERKELEY FOR WORKING FAMILIES. Berkeley can lead the way on expanding affordable housing, strengthening rent control, and creating livable wages, a healthy environment and expanded city services. Sponsored by the Berkeley Minimum Wage Coalition.60602 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting Mar 9 @ 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	9:30 am BLM Court Support @ Wiley Manuel Court House BLM Court Support @ Wiley Manuel Court House Mar 10 @ 9:30 am – 11:15 am Tickets Department 110 on the 5th Floor. This is the last day of court for the incident with the CHP from last September.60643 9:30 am Court Support for Protester Assaulted by CHP Undercover in Famous Photo @ Wiley Manual Courthouse, Dept 110 Court Support for Protester Assaulted by CHP Undercover in Famous Photo @ Wiley Manual Courthouse, Dept 110 Mar 10 @ 9:30 am – 3:00 pm Tickets URGENT: Court support is needed TOMORROW (Thursday March 10th) for comrade being charged in the incident where undercover CHP officer drew a gun on protesters in December 2014. His trial resumes tomorrow morning at 9:30 at Wiley courthouse, department 110. It’s expected to be the last day of the trial, so let’s flood the courtroom in solidarity… The District Attorney is currently prosecuting via a jury trial someone who was arrested by undercovers on December 10, 2014 after a protest. They are charging him with, among other things, resisting arrest. These … Continued 3:00 pm Climate Protection: Today’s Labor Solidarity? With Jeremy Brecher @ ESC-IFPTE Local 20 Climate Protection: Today’s Labor Solidarity? With Jeremy Brecher @ ESC-IFPTE Local 20 Mar 10 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets “Good, stable jobs protecting the climate can help challenge the growing inequality and injustice of our society, but only if policy is designed to do so.” Join us for a conversation with Jeremy Brecher, cofounder of the Labor Network for Sustainability and author, most recently, of the just-published Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival. He has received five regional Emmy Awards for his documentary film work and holds a PhD from the Union Graduate School. “Good, stable jobs protecting the climate can help challenge the growing inequality and injustice of … Continued 5:00 pm No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Mar 10 @ 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 COPS Hearing in SF @ Gates High School auditorium COPS Hearing in SF @ Gates High School auditorium Mar 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The US DoJ wants to hear your perspectives, concerns and suggestions concerning the San Francisco Police Department. Pizza is being served for free provided by SEIU (Union). San Francisco residents don’t miss our next community mtgs 3/8 & 3/10! We want to hear from you regarding the #SFPD. pic.twitter.com/A5dUpv4MD9 — COPS Office (@COPSOffice) March 2, 2016 60588	7:00 am CANCELLED: Justice 4 Richard Perkins – Release the report! @ Coroner's Office CANCELLED: Justice 4 Richard Perkins – Release the report! @ Coroner's Office Mar 11 @ 7:00 am – 10:00 am Tickets THEY RELEASED THE CORONER’S REPORT. PRESS CONFERENCE ON TUESDAY. Previous event notice: —– Richard Perkins’ family needs our support! Richard Perkins’ family has asked for APTP’s help in obtaining the coroner’s report of his death. Perkins was killed by the Oakland Police Department on November 15, 2015, and the report still hasn’t been released – 3 and a half months later. The Alameda County Sherriff’s office refused our demand letter on March 1st, 2016 asking the Sheriff’s office/Coroner to release the report to Perkins’ family or attorney. Law enforcement are … Continued 2:00 pm Workgroup to Re-envision the Jail Replacement Project @ Room 60 Workgroup to Re-envision the Jail Replacement Project @ Room 60 Mar 11 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets In December, we celebrated an enormous victory when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected plans for a new jail. But last week, on the deadline for officially returning state financing for the jail, we were shocked to learn that San Francisco city officials had covertly requested a 180-day extension for their decision, arguing that they may still build the new jail “as proposed”. The jail pushers — the City’s conservative governmental block and their wealthy base — are doing everything they can to cirvumvent the will of San … Continued 3:00 pm Rally-Speak Out On 5th Anniversary Of Fukushima @ Japanese Consulate Rally-Speak Out On 5th Anniversary Of Fukushima @ Japanese Consulate Mar 11 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets March 11, 2016 is the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe that is still reverberating in Japan and around the world. The nuclear plants are still releasing thousands of tons of radioactive water and over 1000 tanks filled with contaminated radioactive water surround the broken nuclear plants. The children and families continue to have a rising level of thyroid cancers and this uptick is taking place in other places in Japan. Despite these dangers the Japanese Abe government has said that the problem has been solved. They are demanding … Continued 6:00 pm Panel discussion and presentation on the state of our Democracy @ David Brower Center, Panel discussion and presentation on the state of our Democracy @ David Brower Center, Mar 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Please join Friends of the Earth & Common Cause for a discussion about the growing national movement to reclaim a people centered democracy. From Presidential candidates to Oscar winners, everybody is talking about the negative impact unlimited campaign money is having on our democracy. Sometimes it feels like there’s nothing we can do about it. But the truth is, we can reclaim our political system so that it represents our concerns for the environment, and not just those of corporations and the super-rich. Now is the time to take action. It … Continued 8:00 pm Berkeley Copwatch: JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: MASS COPWATCHING Berkeley Copwatch: JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: MASS COPWATCHING Mar 11 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: MASS COPWATCHING · Friday March 11, 8 PM – 11 PM · Thursday March 17, 5 PM – 7 PM · Saturday March 26, 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 a group of copwatchers patrolling our city and on the scene when police stop people. This month we have three shifts scheduled. The Thursday shift will likely be … Continued	1:00 pm Speak Out Now 2016 Revolutionary University @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Speak Out Now 2016 Revolutionary University @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Speak Out Now 2016 Revolutionary University Tools for Changing Society Join us for two days of presentations and discussion on some of the major questions of our time. Come to all sessions or choose the ones that interest you. (Note: Sunday is the first day of Daylight Savings time) Saturday 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Syria and the Conflict in the Middle East Prof. As’ad AbuKhalil, Professor of political science at CSU Stanislaus and author of Saudi Arabia and the U.S. ——————————————- 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm The Life of … Continued

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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.