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Our General Assembly is a … Continued 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Basement Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Basement Apr 3 @ 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 Apr 3 @ 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	9:00 am Justice 4 Hernan Jaramillo @ Federal Court, Courtroom 2, 17th floor Justice 4 Hernan Jaramillo @ Federal Court, Courtroom 2, 17th floor Apr 4 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Hernan Jaramillo was murdered by OPD in July 2013. The family has decided not to accept a settlement, and will be pursuing a trial. The official announcement will be made on this day. Please come out and support! The hearing will be at the Courtroom 2, 17th Floor at the United States District Court, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, in San Francisco. More information: ACLU Northern California Statement https://www.aclunc.org/blog/aclu-northern-california-statement-hernan-jaramillo-s-death-oakland-police-custody60757 6:00 pm Alameda Fracking Ban Hearing @ Room 160, Alameda County Offices Alameda Fracking Ban Hearing @ Room 160, Alameda County Offices Apr 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets After two years and much behind-the-scenes work by Alameda County Against Fracking (ACAF), a comprehensive ordinance that would ban all extreme oil and gas extraction methods is coming up for approval by the Alameda County Planning Commission. The proposed Zoning Ordinance Amendment would: Modify the Alameda County Zoning Ordinance (ACZO) to prohibit high intensity oil and gas operations in the unincorporated area, including Well stimulation by increasing the permeability of the formation; enhanced recovery wells that are injected with brine, water, steam, polymers, carbon dioxide, or other gasses into oil-bearing … Continued 6:30 pm Occupy Forum: Squatters’ Rights @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, across from 16th St BART Occupy Forum: Squatters’ Rights @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, across from 16th St BART Apr 4 @ 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! Steve DeCaprio: Activist for Squatter Rights At the end of 2011, there were 3.5 million homeless people in America and 18.5 million vacant homes, according to Amnesty International. Oakland’s Steven DeCaprio is doing his part to fix that disparity. A musician by trade, DeCaprio toured Europe in the late ’90s. “There was a huge movement in Europe to take over abandoned buildings and use … Continued 7:00 pm Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Apr 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Berkeley Copwatch meets weekly. Also check out their “mass copwatching” events.60766	12:00 pm Martin Luther King Readings “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence” @ Oscar Grant Plaza Martin Luther King Readings “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence” @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 5 @ 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Martin Luther King Memorial Inter-Generational Community Readings “Beyond Vietnam:A Time to Break the Silence” The day after the anniversary of this prophetic speech (1967) and his assassination (1968) Public, Shared Readings 12 noon, 2 pm and 4:30 pm Be part of a mosaic of voices, reawakening King’s power for the here and now Sign up for a certain time at <bit.ly/MLKReaderReg> or just show up. There are 16 segments for each reading. This event is part of the Global Day Against Military Spending (GDAMS), April 5 to 18 <demilitarize.org> Link … Continued 5:00 pm Documentary Film: Earthlings @ Main San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium, Lower Level. Documentary Film: Earthlings @ Main San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium, Lower Level. Apr 5 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, EARTHLINGS chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit.60726 6:00 pm Eviction and Rent Increase Moratorium – Oakland City Council @ Oakland City Hall Eviction and Rent Increase Moratorium – Oakland City Council @ Oakland City Hall Apr 5 @ 6:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets The community coalition — The Oakland Post Sunday Salon, Oakland Tenants Union, Oakland Alliance, Block By Block Organizing Network, John George Democratic Club, Wellstone Democratic Club — that sponsored the request to declare a “Housing State of Emergency” with Moratoriums on Rent Increases (above CPI), and on No-Cause Evictions, named a volunteer Action Committee at the Mar 13 meeting. The Committee met last week and developed a suggested list of actions (attached) that City Council could consider implementing during the moratorium period. The “Moratorium Resolution” will be heard and acted … Continued 6:30 pm APTP Direct Action! Who’s at War, Emeryville! / #Justice4YuvetteHenderson @ Home Depot APTP Direct Action! Who’s at War, Emeryville! / #Justice4YuvetteHenderson @ Home Depot Apr 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets TURN UP FOR APTP’s DIRECT ACTION against Emeryville PD’s use of AR-15s in our communities! Why does a police department require the use of military-style assault weapons when serving its community? We believe that the police should not be at war with the people. TURN UP for this DIRECT ACTION that will begin at the Home Depot in Emeryville at 6:30pm and we will go from there…WE COMIN! #Justice4YuvetteHenderson Background: —First, an offering: We affirm the existence, beauty, brilliance, and right of black, brown, and indigenous folk to self determine … Continued 6:30 pm Film Screening: First Friday @ Omni Commons Film Screening: First Friday @ Omni Commons Apr 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets TODAY, 6:30pm, #Oakland: Liberated Lens Local Filmmaker Series presents: FIRST FRIDAY https://t.co/AkPloe2DSR pic.twitter.com/bQv8zUOmAb— Indybay (@Indybay) April 5, 2016 60773 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Apr 5 @ 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 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Apr 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets he Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality. In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize … Continued 7:00 pm Sarah Schulman and Lucy Jane Bledsoe In Conversation @ Laurel Books Sarah Schulman and Lucy Jane Bledsoe In Conversation @ Laurel Books Apr 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Laurel Book Store welcomes Sarah Schulman, author The Cosmopolitans, and Lucy Jane Bledsoe, author of the forthcoming A Thin Bright Line, who will discuss queer life in midcentury Greenwich Village through the eyes and stories of their new novels’ characters. The Cosmopolitans is a novel set in Greenwich Village in 1958. Earl, a black, gay actor, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other for thirty years, building a relationship of trust and caring. Then Hortense, a wealthy young actress from Bette’s past appears to “make it” … Continued	6:00 pm ABC4J: Meditation Happy Hour @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice ABC4J: Meditation Happy Hour @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice Apr 6 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Join us for free weekly meditation happy hour on Wednesdays from 6-7pm at The Alan Blueford Center For Justice 2434 Telegraph Ave in Oakland, co-hosted by the Art of Living Eastbay Berkeley/Oakland.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 … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons Apr 6 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against Stingrays (cell phone interceptors) being acquired by law enforcement agencies, against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, especially by Alameda County and by the Oakland City Council. We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, requirements for “backdoors” to your cellphone and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and … Continued 7:00 pm Homes Not Jails Meeting @ Omni Commons Homes Not Jails Meeting @ Omni Commons Apr 6 @ 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 7:00 pm Stop the Bomb Trains @ Benicia City Hal Stop the Bomb Trains @ Benicia City Hal Apr 6 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Benicia’s City Council is about to make a decision that could put our communities at risk. Valero Energy Corporation wants to build an oil-by-rail terminal at their Benicia refinery — meaning more dangerous oil trains coming through the Bay Area. If approved, this terminal would allow trains carrying over 2.5 million gallons of toxic, explosive crude oil to travel through the area every day. We don’t need more fossil fuel infrastructure that puts communities and our climate at risk. Greenlighting fossil fuel infrastructure is the last thing our … Continued	6:00 pm Fire Chief Suhr! TownHall Meeting @ Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Auditorium Fire Chief Suhr! TownHall Meeting @ Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Auditorium Apr 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets FIRE CHIEF SUHR! CHARGE THE OFFICERS WITH MURDER! INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION! Justice 4 Mario Woods. Justice 4 Amilcar Perez Lopen. Justice for Alex Nieto. Join us at a townhall meeting to make our voices heard. Refreshments will be available.60754 7:00 pm Book Discussion: China on Strike @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Book Discussion: China on Strike @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Apr 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The new book, China on Strike, is based on dozens of interviews with workers in Pearl River Delta factories, an industrial region of region of 60 million people that has become the “workshop of the world,” as China has become the fastest growing major economy in the world over the last three decades. Pearl River Delta factories supply the world’s most profitable corporations, like Apple, Nike, Hewlett Packard, and many others. These interviews document the processes of internal migration in China, changing employment relations, worker culture, and other issues related … Continued	6:30 pm AROC Presents: Palestine Before 1948 AROC Presents: Palestine Before 1948 Apr 8 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets AROC Presents: Palestine Before 1948 Sherene Seikaly on her new book, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine. Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of free trade, profit accumulation, and private property. And in so doing, it positions Palestine and Palestinians in the larger world of Arab thought and social life, moving attention away from … Continued 8:00 pm Mass Copwatch by Berkeley Copwatch @ Grassroots House Mass Copwatch by Berkeley Copwatch @ Grassroots House Apr 8 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Starting in April, Berkeley Copwatch is kicking off our ongoing weekly copwatching shifts! We’ll be out in the streets most Fridays and Saturdays witnessing and documenting police activity and doing outreach. Please join us! No experience required — any experience welcome. We’ll train you in the essentials for documenting police activity and staying safe in the process. If you are able to bring a car and be a shift driver, that would be GREAT! Please let us know in the “discussion” section or by sending Berkeley Copwatch a message. APRIL … Continued	10:00 am Put Your Feets on the Streets! Richmond Rent Control Signature Gathering. @ Bobby Bowens Center Put Your Feets on the Streets! Richmond Rent Control Signature Gathering. @ Bobby Bowens Center Apr 9 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Sometimes you’ve just got to take it to the streets, and this is one of those times. Sunflower Alliance is sponsoring a canvassing day to put rent control and just cause for eviction on the Richmond ballot in November. Bring a friend, or partner up with another canvasser when you get here. And if walking isn’t your thing, you can man (or woman) a table outside FoodsCo, Walgreens or Target. We’ll provide juice, coffee, and snacks at the Bobby Bowens Center to get you jump-started or tide you over. Come … Continued 11:00 am A Fair Chance to Advance @ Imani Community Church A Fair Chance to Advance @ Imani Community Church Apr 9 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Please join us on Saturday, April 9th for “Fair Chance to Advance,” a community resource fair! Free services include: Proposition 47 lawyer consultation, DMV vouchers, job training, EBT and Medi-Cal Support, veteran services, immigration consultation, and housing assistance services. There will be a bouncy house and childcare services for kids. – Do you have a felony that is keeping you from securing housing, employment or public assistance? – Do you have questions about your immigration status? – Would you like information about the new DMV amnesty program? If you or … Continued 12:00 pm A Crowdsourced Surveillance Sweep, Sponsored by the EFF @ Anywhere with Internet Access A Crowdsourced Surveillance Sweep, Sponsored by the EFF @ Anywhere with Internet Access Apr 9 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Join EFF on Saturday, April 9 for a first-of-its-kind crowdsourcing campaign to hold California law enforcement agencies accountable for their use of surveillance technologies. Please pre-register here. Volunteers like you will help us track down the privacy and useage policies of law enforcement agencies across California and add them to our database. We’ll show you how to do it, and you can be anywhere with an Internet connection to participate. Last year, the California legislature passed two key transparency bills. S.B. 34 requires anyone uses automated license plate recognition (ALPR) systems, as … Continued 1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition General Meeting Oakland Justice Coalition General Meeting Apr 9 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets We will have our first vote on candidate endorsements and on our final document outlining our expectations for our endorsed candidates. We’ll also do a training on how to gather signatures for our three endorsed ballot measures and connect with our neighbors district by district to create canvassing teams. Please remember that if you would like to vote at this and future Oakland Justice Coalition membership meetings, you must join as a voting member. Contact info@oaklandjustice.org to join. Check out the new OJC information flyer. The Oakland Justice Coalition is … Continued 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Mudracker's Cafe Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Mudracker's Cafe Apr 9 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets IF YOU CAN’T FIND US IN MUDRAKER’S, LOOK FOR US AT WILLARD PARK, ONE BLOCK EAST ON STUART AND A HALF BLOCK NORTH ON REGENT. WE WILL GO THERE IF MUDRAKER’S IS TOO CROWDED OR TOO NOISY. BRING A BLANKET OR SOMESUCH TO SIT ON THE GRASS. 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 … Continued 5:30 pm Boots Riley et al: Toward Justice: The Black/Palestine Solidarity Tour @ Oakland Peace Center Boots Riley et al: Toward Justice: The Black/Palestine Solidarity Tour @ Oakland Peace Center Apr 9 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets When heavily militarized police in Ferguson, Missouri, confronted African American protesters angry at the police murder of Mike Brown in 2014, Palestinians watching events unfold from Gaza began sending tweets about how to cope with the teargas filling the streets. Such an act of solidarity was more than a mere expression of support from people who, though half a world away, know firsthand about state repression. Police in cities across the U.S. – including police in Ferguson and Baltimore – have turned to Israel for training in how to deploy … Continued 5:30 pm Toward Justice: The Black/Palestine Solidarity Tour @ Oakland Peace Center Toward Justice: The Black/Palestine Solidarity Tour @ Oakland Peace Center Apr 9 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets When heavily militarized police in Ferguson, Missouri, confronted African American protesters angry at the police murder of Mike Brown in 2014, Palestinians watching events unfold from Gaza began sending tweets about how to cope with the teargas filling the streets. Such an act of solidarity was more than a mere expression of support from people who, though half a world away, know firsthand about state repression. Police in cities across the U.S. – including police in Ferguson and Baltimore – have turned to Israel for training in how to deploy … Continued

Week of April 3

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.