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Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us.60492 12:30 pm Bay Area premier of “Growing Resistance” and panel discussion @ New Parkway Theater Bay Area premier of “Growing Resistance” and panel discussion @ New Parkway Theater Mar 13 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Join us for the Bay Area premier of Growing Resistance and panel discussion Growing Resistance, takes you to ground zero of extraction in California and shows first-hand how the drought, fracking, and climate change are impacting communities and exacerbating existing health issues, water scarcity, and poor air and water quality. As the film shows, the Central Valley’s history of resistance hasn’t faded. Communities are rising up against the direct impacts they face and a hypocritical Governor who claims to be a “climate leader.” Don’t miss the premier of Growing Resistance … Continued 6:30 pm Solidarity with revolutionary Rojava! @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Solidarity with revolutionary Rojava! @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Mar 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In Rojava, Kurds brought a new life to an archaic communal form. Equality for women became a crucial aspect of a social revolution. See “Witnessing Revolution in Rojava” by Paul Z. Simons in current issue of News & Letters (newsandletters.org). It is a contrast to the crucible of death that Syria has become at the hands of old counter-revolutionary nationalisms and imperialisms, the most vile of which is the Islamic State. All state players are united in trying to erase the revolutionary humanist challenge to Assad awoken by Arab Spring. … Continued	12:30 am “Growing Resistance” Film Showing @ New Parkway Theater “Growing Resistance” Film Showing @ New Parkway Theater Mar 14 @ 12:30 am – 2:30 am Tickets In California’s Central Valley, there is a crisis. Not only are communities running out of water, but over the last few years, they’ve seen an increase in dangerous forms of drilling for oil and gas. To make matters worse, the historic drought fueled by climate change is exacerbating existing health issues, water scarcity, and poor air and water quality. Luckily, the Central Valley’s history of resistance hasn’t faded. Communities are rising up against a hypocritical Governor who claims leadership on issues that are hurting communities in California today. Join us … Continued 3:00 pm Documentary and Public Forum on Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities @ Ed Roberts Campus, across from Ashby BART Documentary and Public Forum on Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities @ Ed Roberts Campus, across from Ashby BART Mar 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:45 pm Tickets With filmmakers Emmitt Thrower and Leroy Moore, and also La Mesha Irizarry, Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia, and David Perry. The documentary “Where Is Hope: The Art of Murder” chronicles disabled victims murdered by police as well as the activists/artists who have fought and are fighting against police brutality against people with disabilities. Emmitt H Thrower, a retired NY City cop turned artist/filmmaker, Leroy Moore, founder of Krip Hop Nation, La Mesha Irizarry, founder of the Idriss Steeley Foundation, and Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia of Poor Magazine intend the film as a tool … Continued 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: Fascism: What It Is, and How to Fight It @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, across from 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: Fascism: What It Is, and How to Fight It @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, across from 16th St. BART Mar 14 @ 6:00 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!Fascism: What It Is, and How to Fight It With Gerald Smith Capitalism is in trouble. Therefore, conditions are being recreated that are nourishing a reborn fascist movement. This, in spite of the fact that internationally, the fascists were thoroughly defeated and discredited by the end of World War II. How is this possible? First, after several generations, participants and witnesses to the struggle against fascism … Continued	9:00 am APTP Press Conference for Richard Perkins APTP Press Conference for Richard Perkins Mar 15 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am Tickets Justice for Richard Perkins — Anti Police-Terror Project Successfully Demands Coroners Report for Perkins Family On November 15th, 2015, Richard Perkins became the final victim of an Officer Involved Shooting in Oakland last year. While watching a side show, Mr. Perkins attempted to show OPD officers that he had a replica toy pellet gun. He was shot to death in response. Four months later, the family of Richard Perkins had not received the coroners report – a critical piece of evidence that can either support, or dispute the claims of … Continued 5:00 pm E 12th St. City Council Vote – Rally @ Oakland City Hall E 12th St. City Council Vote – Rally @ Oakland City Hall Mar 15 @ 5:00 pm – 10:15 pm Tickets BREAKING #Oakland city council forwarding exclusive agreement with UrbanCore for E12th parcel to full city council for 3/15 vote. #SaveE12th — E12 Peoples Proposal (@PeoplesProposal) March 3, 2016 City Hall is failing too address Oakland’s housing crisis. While thousands of working class families of color see their rents rise or face eviction, our elected officials are selling off public lands to private developers. After a hundred people testified last week in support of A People’s Proposal in a public hearing on the future of the E 12th parcel, City Council … Continued	6:00 pm Berkeley Climate Action Coalition Dinner – Free @ Ed Roberts Campus, across from Ashby BART Berkeley Climate Action Coalition Dinner – Free @ Ed Roberts Campus, across from Ashby BART Mar 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join our keynote speaker, internationally acclaimed urban planner James Rojas of PLACE IT! for an interactive and inspiring evening re-envisioning our water infrastructure in response to climate change. We’ll use everyday objects and our creativity to design a different water future. Invite friends, colleagues, and neighbors and keep growing our local climate movement! RSVP HERE Dinner served at 6 PM. RSVP: Email rebecca@ecologycenter.org by Thursday, March 10 to reserve a meal. 60576	8:00 pm Film Screening: Shelter – Sponsored by Homes Not Jails @ Longhaul Film Screening: Shelter – Sponsored by Homes Not Jails @ Longhaul Mar 17 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Homes not Jails will be screening Shelter: a Squatumentary and hosting a panel of squatters 3/17 @ 8pm, @Longhaulinfo plz join us!— homesnotjailsSF (@SFHNJ) March 7, 2016 60608	7:00 am The Public Will Not Be Left Behind: Sunrise Ceremony at Lake Merritt @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater The Public Will Not Be Left Behind: Sunrise Ceremony at Lake Merritt @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater Mar 18 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am Tickets “City leaders were determined to push this (Urban Core proposal for a luxury housing tower with a segregated building with some nominally affordable units) forward, even if it meant leaving the public behind.” – KTVU Reporter after Tuesday’s City Council Meeting While the displacement of longtime Oakland residents has already reached crisis proportions (25% of Black Oakland has been displaced in the past 10 years alone), the corporate interests who are driving this crisis are just getting started. This week’s City Council meeting made it clear that our elected officials … Continued 11:00 am A Call For Justice! Black and Brown Unity Against Police Impunity @ San Francisco City Hall A Call For Justice! Black and Brown Unity Against Police Impunity @ San Francisco City Hall Mar 18 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets It is time for black and brown to come together and demand justice for our communities. The decision in the Alex Nieto Case was a travesty of justice. We must come together and tell SFPD, The Mayor and The City Attorney’s Office that we shall not be moved until we get justice for Alex Nieto, Amilcar Perez Lopez and Mario Woods. We are now one in this struggle! These officers have been joking about getting away with killing Alex Nieto and making threats against the Nieto family on Social Media. Unless … Continued 11:00 am Justice 4 Mario Woods & Alex Nieto March @ San Francisco City Hall Steps Justice 4 Mario Woods & Alex Nieto March @ San Francisco City Hall Steps Mar 18 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Tomorrow!! Justice 4 Mario Woods & Justice for Alex Nieto !!! pic.twitter.com/yV92Xm7uO3— Equipto (@EQUIPTO) March 17, 2016 60673 7:00 pm FCCO MOVIE NIGHT – KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON @ First Congregational Church of Oakland (United Church of Christ) FCCO MOVIE NIGHT – KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON @ First Congregational Church of Oakland (United Church of Christ) Mar 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets MOVIE NIGHT (Free Movie! Free Prizes! Free Popcorn!) Doors: 6:00PM – Event: 7:00PM KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON is an inspiring documentary which depicts the remarkable story of 93-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry. A living monument to the Golden Era of Jazz, having played in both the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands. He broke racial barriers on American television and mentored the likes of Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin Kauflin, a 23-year old blind piano prodigy. Justin, fighting a debilitating case of … Continued 7:00 pm Film: Here Come the Videofreex @ Big Roxie Film: Here Come the Videofreex @ Big Roxie Mar 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 3/18 – Q&A with Mary Curtis Ratcliff, moderated by BAVC 3/19 – Q&A with Mary Curtis Ratcliff, moderated by Gabriel Saloman, musician and artist In the 1960s and 70s, a group of renegade journalists known as the Videofreex democratized the future of the media as they deployed the first handheld video cameras to report and observe the world around them. In HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX, directors Jon Nealon and Jenny Raskin tap into a treasure chest of restored tapes shot by the Freex, including interviews with icons like murdered Black … Continued	11:00 am Richmond: Rally and Mobilization for Rent Control/Just Cause/Homeowner Protections @ Nevin Community Center Richmond: Rally and Mobilization for Rent Control/Just Cause/Homeowner Protections @ Nevin Community Center Mar 19 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Here’s our first opportunity to pick up petitions for the signature-gathering phase of the campaign!60638 2:00 pm Some Mother’s Daughter – No to Poverty, Violence and Criminalization @ Redstone Building, Rm 302 Some Mother’s Daughter – No to Poverty, Violence and Criminalization @ Redstone Building, Rm 302 Mar 19 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Hear now a campaign led by sex workers working with formerly incarcerated people and others, got the victim compensation law changed so sex workers can now get compensation for rape and other violence3 on the job, and people on probation or parole can get compensation if they are victims of crime. Learn how to press for implementation and further changes. Learn about exciting gains the local, national and international movement for decriminalization of sex work. Keynote speaker Margaret Prescod, host of Pacifica Radio’s “Sojourner Truth.” Speakers from All of Us … Continued 2:30 pm Alameda City Rent Control Ballot Initiative Petition Drive Training and Kickoff @ Firefighters' Hall Alameda City Rent Control Ballot Initiative Petition Drive Training and Kickoff @ Firefighters' Hall Mar 19 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets WE NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS to gather the THOUSANDS OF VOTER SIGNATURES required to put our Charter Amendment on the NOVEMBER BALLOT! THIS MEANS BOOTS ON THE GROUND! THIS MEANS YOU! IT’S TIME TO STEP UP and show your support. A HUGE THANK YOU to those who VOLUNTEERED last Saturday to serve as petition gatherers and receive training. WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED SO MUCH! For over two years ARC has advocated on behalf of RENTER PROTECTIONS AND COMMUNITY STABILITY. Countless hours have been invested in private meetings with City officials; researching public … Continued

Week of March 13

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.