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All-day CodePink vs Killer Drones: SHUT DOWN CREECH @ East Bay to Nevada CodePink vs Killer Drones: SHUT DOWN CREECH @ East Bay to Nevada Mar 27 all-day Tickets CodePink vs Killer Drones 3.27 to 4.2 SHUT DOWN CREECH Creech Air Force Base (“Creech” colloq.) is a United States Air Force (USAF) command and control facility used “to engage in daily Overseas Contingency Operations[7]…of remotely piloted aircraft systems which fly missions across the globe.”[8] In addition to an airport, the military installation has the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab,[9] associated aerial warfare ground equipment, and unmanned aerial vehicles of the type used in Afghanistan and Iraq 2 Vans headed to SHUT DOWN CREECH: Leaving from East Bay, funded by National CODEPINK Make Reservations … Continued
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 am 8th Annual Feed The People international weekend – SF 8th Annual Feed The People international weekend – SF Mar 27 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 am Tickets For the fourth year Kenneth Harding Jr Foundation will represent San Francisco for FTP weekend, this year Kiss My Black Arts collective will be co-hosting. More details to come please check the event website. KHJF will donate coats and is asking for community help to provide lunches, other food and hygiene products.60620 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance General Assembly @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance General Assembly @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join us to learn about fossil fuel resistance and climate justice action in our region. We welcome your participation and your voice! On Sunday, March 27, we’ll continue an exciting discussion on current and upcoming campaigns in Contra Costa County to counter fossil fuel industry expansion and develop local clean energy resources. How can the Sunflower Alliance contribute to county-wide organizing? RSVP 60698 3:30 pm Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Mar 27 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets 59100 4:00 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 27 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 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 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 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 Assembly is a … Continued 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Basement Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Basement Mar 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 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 … Continued 7:00 pm Liberated Lens Weekly Meetup @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens Weekly Meetup @ Omni Commons Mar 27 @ 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	5:00 pm Militarization, Mental Health and the Berkeley Police, with Maria Moore @ 247 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Militarization, Mental Health and the Berkeley Police, with Maria Moore @ 247 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Mar 28 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Militarization of Mental Health and the Berkeley Police Case Study of the Death of Kayla Moore presented by Maria Moore (Sister to Kayla) In February of 2013, BPD forcibly entered the home of Kayla Moore, an African American transgender woman with mental illness. In this all-too-familar story, a friend called police for help at 11:30pm when he thought Kayla was having a mental health crisis. Once police arrived, they attempted to forcibly take Kayla Moore into custody. Face down on a futon with five cops on top of her, Kayla … Continued 6:00 pm Occupy Forum @ Global Exchange, 2nd Floor Occupy Forum @ Global Exchange, 2nd Floor Mar 28 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum // We had a last-minute cancellation, but we will meet, program will be a surprise (to us all!) 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! Q&A and Announcements will follow. Donations to OccupyForum to cover our costs are encouraged; no one turned away! 60730 7:00 pm Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Mar 28 @ 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		◢ 9:00 am RightsCon Silicon Valley in San Francisco RightsCon Silicon Valley in San Francisco Mar 30 @ 9:00 am – Mar 31 @ 12:00 am Tickets Welcome to RightsCon Silicon Valley Preliminary session list. RightsCon is the world’s leading conference convened on the future of the internet. This year will see a bigger, brighter, and better RightsCon, more dynamic and outcome-oriented than ever before. Join us to shape the global conversation among human rights experts, business leaders, technologists, human rights experts, government representatives, investors, and advocates. Confirmed speakers Edward Snowden, David Kaye, Chris Riley, Nicole Wong, Salil Shetty, Nicole Karlebach, Uri Rosenthal, Eileen Donahoe, Esra’a Al Shafei, Yasmin Green, Cindy Cohn, Andrew McLaughlin, AND MORE. Up … Continued 7:00 pm Homes Not Jails Meeting @ Omni Commons Homes Not Jails Meeting @ Omni Commons Mar 30 @ 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.60728	◤ ◢ 12:00 am RightsCon Silicon Valley in San Francisco RightsCon Silicon Valley in San Francisco Mar 31 @ 12:00 am – Apr 1 @ 12:00 am Tickets Welcome to RightsCon Silicon Valley Preliminary session list. RightsCon is the world’s leading conference convened on the future of the internet. This year will see a bigger, brighter, and better RightsCon, more dynamic and outcome-oriented than ever before. Join us to shape the global conversation among human rights experts, business leaders, technologists, human rights experts, government representatives, investors, and advocates. Confirmed speakers Edward Snowden, David Kaye, Chris Riley, Nicole Wong, Salil Shetty, Nicole Karlebach, Uri Rosenthal, Eileen Donahoe, Esra’a Al Shafei, Yasmin Green, Cindy Cohn, Andrew McLaughlin, AND MORE. Up … Continued 12:00 pm Honoring Immigrant Workers: Cesar Chavez Day Action @ City Center Plaza Honoring Immigrant Workers: Cesar Chavez Day Action @ City Center Plaza Mar 31 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets The janitorial industry has gone off the rails with economic exploitation, wage theft, harassment, and abuse. 25 years ago, janitors broke the silence to clean up the industruct. In 2016, we’re breaking the silence again to stop the sexual assault of immigrant women. We fight in the streets and at the bargaining table to stand up against economic exploitation. On Cesar Chavez Day, immigrant women janitors are joining immigrant women farm workers to say !Ya Basta! and put a stop to the rampant exploitation and sexual assault of immigrant women … 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 31 @ 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 6:30 pm Film Screening: Dear Governor Brown: Why is Fracking Still Allowed? @ Center for Biological Diversity, 8th Fl Film Screening: Dear Governor Brown: Why is Fracking Still Allowed? @ Center for Biological Diversity, 8th Fl Mar 31 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Why is fracking still allowed in our county? What can we do to ban it once and for all? Join Alameda County Against Fracking for a free film screening of Dear Governor Brown, a game-changing new film about Californians living with extreme oil. Learn how you can play a crucial role in banning fracking and extreme oil extraction in Alameda county, and how a victory here will turn the tide on California’s toxic past, present, and future. Film followed by discussion. RSVP 60699 7:00 pm Voices of the Undocumented @ Revolution Books Voices of the Undocumented @ Revolution Books Mar 31 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Val Rosenfeld and Flor Fortunati present their book: “Voices of the Undocumented” Voices of the Undocumented brings to life the lives of people who have been forced to live in the shadows of this society because they have no legal status. These stories give a glimpse into the reality of the lives of the 11 million people who work and struggle to live in the U.S. who are subjected to deportation and exploitation. Nine immigrants tell their stories about their lives in Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala before coming here and … Continued	◤ 12:00 am RightsCon Silicon Valley in San Francisco RightsCon Silicon Valley in San Francisco Apr 1 @ 12:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Welcome to RightsCon Silicon Valley Preliminary session list. RightsCon is the world’s leading conference convened on the future of the internet. This year will see a bigger, brighter, and better RightsCon, more dynamic and outcome-oriented than ever before. Join us to shape the global conversation among human rights experts, business leaders, technologists, human rights experts, government representatives, investors, and advocates. Confirmed speakers Edward Snowden, David Kaye, Chris Riley, Nicole Wong, Salil Shetty, Nicole Karlebach, Uri Rosenthal, Eileen Donahoe, Esra’a Al Shafei, Yasmin Green, Cindy Cohn, Andrew McLaughlin, AND MORE. Up … Continued 9:00 am Court Support: First Hearing for the Land Action 4. @ Wiley Manual Courthouse, Dept 115 Court Support: First Hearing for the Land Action 4. @ Wiley Manual Courthouse, Dept 115 Apr 1 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Support Anti-Gentrification Activists Facing Political Repression & Trumped-Up Charges! The DA is aggressively prosecuting four Land Action organizers for their involvement in a recent adverse possession project. There are seven criminal charges, including three felony counts. Contrary to established precedent in Oakland in recent years, the DA has deliberately, and in violation of the law, pushed this civil dispute into criminal court. The case was brought to the DA’s attention because the property owner was personally connected to the DA’s office! On Wednesday January 20, 2016 the Alameda County District Attorney’s … Continued 12:00 pm Protest Big Pharma! Public Health, Not Corporate Wealth! @ Gilead Sciences’ Headquarters Protest Big Pharma! Public Health, Not Corporate Wealth! @ Gilead Sciences’ Headquarters Apr 1 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, together with the Oasis Clinic in Oakland, urges you to support this demonstration to protest the outrageous price-gouging of Big Pharma corporations, like Gilead Sciences! Corporations such as Gilead hike-up the cost for essential, life-saving medications such as the cure for the deadly Hepatitis-C disease (HCV), in order to reap huge profits. Public transportation is available — Take BART Richmond/Daly City line to Milbrae Station, transfer to Caltrain Shuttle to 353 Lakeside, then walk to 333 Lakeside Dr. One pill a day … Continued 5:00 pm Protest Bill Clinton’s Mass Incarceration! @ Haas Pavilion Protest Bill Clinton’s Mass Incarceration! @ Haas Pavilion Apr 1 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets “From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted—and Hillary Clinton supported—decimated black America.” – Michelle Alexander, The Nation, February 10th. On April 1st former US President Bill Clinton is speaking at UC Berkeley during the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference. His presidency engineered the structural racism of mass incarceration. The Welfare Reform Act (1996) pulled the rug out from under African American communities. The “Tough On Crime” Bill (1994) destroyed families as it incarcerated masses of jobless black men and barred them from employment, housing and welfare. … Continued 5:30 pm Boycott Wage Theft! Justice for Oakland Restaurant Workers! @ On Broadway outside BART-19th Street, In front of Future Uber HQ Boycott Wage Theft! Justice for Oakland Restaurant Workers! @ On Broadway outside BART-19th Street, In front of Future Uber HQ Apr 1 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Join restaurant workers and community allies in an autonomous picket of a fine dining restaurant in Uptown Oakland. Former employees are alleging widespread wage theft, among many issues of oppression. So we say Boycott! Oakland will no longer stand by and allow our restaurant industry to fail to care for so many thousands of our most low-income workers! No to racism, theft and abuse – food justice means worker justice! Join the Bay Area Restaurant Worker’s Movement and the Brass Liberation Orchestra for a family-friendly and spirited protest. Gather outside … Continued 6:30 pm Rally for Justice for ALL Victims of Racist Police Brutality Rally for Justice for ALL Victims of Racist Police Brutality Apr 1 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets From Akai Gurley to Mario Woods … Rally for Justice for ALL Victims of Racist Police Brutality Fire SFPD Chief Suhr! Stop Police Terror! As racist presidential candidate Donald Trump emboldens white supremacist groups to openly organize and lash out against the most oppressed sectors of society, the police in the United States continue to terrorize and murder Black, Brown, Native, immigrant, and poor and working people who are targeted by the same racist hate groups with impunity. These acts of racist police terror continue largely unchallenged by the so-called … Continued 8:00 pm Rooted Oakland: Holding On To Home Rooted Oakland: Holding On To Home Apr 1 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets A festive, mobile happening with art, giant projections, drumming and more! Be on time cuz we’ll be moving!!! Meet at 80 Grand Avenue (The plaza at the intersection of Broadway and Grand) Details: Oakland residents, community groups, organizations, arts groups and local small businesses facing the biggest housing and inequality crisis of our time are standing together in solidarity to block displacement. We are celebrating Oakland roots and collective power and raising our voices in rhythm and unison to demand a right to a roof and the city. Join us … Continued	9:30 am #‎ProtectOaklandRenters‬ Campaign Launch & Kick Off to ‪ @ CJJC offic #‎ProtectOaklandRenters‬ Campaign Launch & Kick Off to ‪ @ CJJC offic Apr 2 @ 9:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Campaign Launch & our FIRST Signature Gathering mobilization The “Protect Oakland Renters Act” & initiative campaign officially starts this Saturday and we want each and every one of you to be part this movement moment! This is the official launch of our effort to qualify a measure on the November 2016 Ballot to protect renters being displaced in droves by skyrocketing rents, unfair evictions, and unlawful practices. We will have a brief program and training on why the time is NOW to protect renters and take on Oakland’s growing displacement … Continued 10:00 am Raise the Wage in Berkeley: Community Mobilization @ Blue Door Cafe Raise the Wage in Berkeley: Community Mobilization @ Blue Door Cafe Apr 2 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Raise the Wage in Berkeley Community Mobilization Berkeley working families need your help. Join us in getting the few more signatures needed to qualify our initiative for the November ballot. The initiative will: � Raise Berkeley’s minimum wage to $15 by October 2017 � Raise it further each year by 3% + inflation till it gets in sync with Berkeley’s official “Living Wage” currently $16.37 � Bring sick leave up to the standards set by Oakland, Emeryville and SF � Prevent tip theft Everyone has probably heard by now of … Continued 11:00 am Oakland Justice Coalition Ballot Measure Canvassing Kickoff Oakland Justice Coalition Ballot Measure Canvassing Kickoff Apr 2 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets The Oakland Justice Coalition is a coalition of organizations and individuals that grew out of a series of public forums hosted by theOakland Alliance, and now includes the National Union of Healthcare Workers, the Oakland Education Association, the Anti Police-Terror Project, Block by Block Organizing Network, the Coalition for Police Accountability, the The Community Democracy Project (Oakland), the Oakland Green Party, the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly, the Oakland Tenants Union and Socialist Alternative Bay Area . This is the kickoff event for our plan to turn out hundreds of volunteers … Continued 12:00 pm A Street Mural Dedication Ceremony – Celebrate Art and Culture @ Place for Sustainable Living A Street Mural Dedication Ceremony – Celebrate Art and Culture @ Place for Sustainable Living Apr 2 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets North Oakland and other East Bay folks, come on out tomorrow for a very special culture and art event and show support for some ally org efforts! “With the help of folks from Ohlone Nation, we will be welcoming the finished creation of Oakland’s first intersection mural. After sharing lunch, we will convene talking circles on the themes of anti-gentrification, restorative justice and indigenous rights. We’ll finish with youth performances by Bay- Peace and hip hip show with Red Star and Anthony Sul. See you at noon tomorrow!” SCHEDULE IN … Continued 2:00 pm Suds, Snacks and Socialism: US Imperialism – Hands Off the World @ Starry Plough Pub Suds, Snacks and Socialism: US Imperialism – Hands Off the World @ Starry Plough Pub Apr 2 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The drive for greater profits by multi-national corporations which directs US foreign policy is a major cause of war. We stand for peace between nations and the right of all peoples to self-determination. We are inviting speakers to address issues of war, imperialism, revolution, and socialism in different regions of the world. Please buy food and drink at the pub. All ages welcome. Free. Doors open at 2; the program will start promptly at 2:30 PM. Peace and Freedom Party.60695

Week of March 27

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.