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All-day Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Apr 24 all-day Tickets Update 4/29 (via email) : This morning when the #Frisco5 were asked how they were feeling they replied: “ Let the press know that we are tired and bodies are getting weaker and that yesterday took a lot out of the five strikers – thousands of people stopping by to share their love to two dozen press outlets. They will be resting for much part of the day to conserve energy and sustain the through this journey that may continue for many more days.” They are on day nine of … Continued	Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Apr 25 all-day Tickets Update 4/29 (via email) : This morning when the #Frisco5 were asked how they were feeling they replied: “ Let the press know that we are tired and bodies are getting weaker and that yesterday took a lot out of the five strikers – thousands of people stopping by to share their love to two dozen press outlets. They will be resting for much part of the day to conserve energy and sustain the through this journey that may continue for many more days.” They are on day nine of … Continued Tell Gov. Brown: No Coal in Oakland, Tell Gov. Brown: No Coal in Oakland, Apr 25 all-day Tickets No Coal in Oakland asks our allies from throughout the state to join us in a statewide Call-in to Call-out Governor Brown on Monday, April 25th! We are fighting a plan to transport up to 9 million tons of coal from Utah to Oakland for export overseas. Last July at the Vatican, Governor Jerry Brown said to the Pope that 90% of coal must stay in the ground to avoid climate disaster. Brown said at the Paris climate conference, “We are really a crucial element in making the fundamental change from a carbon … Continued	Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Apr 26 all-day Tickets Update 4/29 (via email) : This morning when the #Frisco5 were asked how they were feeling they replied: “ Let the press know that we are tired and bodies are getting weaker and that yesterday took a lot out of the five strikers – thousands of people stopping by to share their love to two dozen press outlets. They will be resting for much part of the day to conserve energy and sustain the through this journey that may continue for many more days.” They are on day nine of … Continued	Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Apr 27 all-day Tickets Update 4/29 (via email) : This morning when the #Frisco5 were asked how they were feeling they replied: “ Let the press know that we are tired and bodies are getting weaker and that yesterday took a lot out of the five strikers – thousands of people stopping by to share their love to two dozen press outlets. They will be resting for much part of the day to conserve energy and sustain the through this journey that may continue for many more days.” They are on day nine of … Continued	Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Apr 28 all-day Tickets Update 4/29 (via email) : This morning when the #Frisco5 were asked how they were feeling they replied: “ Let the press know that we are tired and bodies are getting weaker and that yesterday took a lot out of the five strikers – thousands of people stopping by to share their love to two dozen press outlets. They will be resting for much part of the day to conserve energy and sustain the through this journey that may continue for many more days.” They are on day nine of … Continued	Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Hunger Strike Against Police Terror. @ Mission Police Station Apr 29 all-day Tickets Update 4/29 (via email) : This morning when the #Frisco5 were asked how they were feeling they replied: “ Let the press know that we are tired and bodies are getting weaker and that yesterday took a lot out of the five strikers – thousands of people stopping by to share their love to two dozen press outlets. They will be resting for much part of the day to conserve energy and sustain the through this journey that may continue for many more days.” They are on day nine of … Continued Omni Commons Fair @ Omni Commons Omni Commons Fair @ Omni Commons Apr 29 all-day Tickets The Omni Commons Fair is an all day event showcasing the power within interdisciplinary collaboration and grassroots community organizing. We will highlight the experimental and educational nature of social justice endeavors. The all day event will include a panel discussion about cooperatively organized arts groups featuring arts and cultural leaders in the Bay Area, an array of interactive booths which showcase Omni’s interdisciplinary, creative, and practical endeavors, and guided tours of the space. Light refreshments will be served.60697
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 10:00 am 4 Year Anniversary of Occupy the Farm @ Gill Tract 4 Year Anniversary of Occupy the Farm @ Gill Tract Apr 24 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Celebrating 4 years at the Gill Tract! Food, live music, holistic medicine, and farmin’! We would love your help in making the magic happen sign up to volunteer at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0b4faba729a3fe3-earth 60779 10:00 am Berkeley Anarchists Conference @ Omni Commons Berkeley Anarchists Conference @ Omni Commons Apr 24 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Tickets The BASTARD (Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory And Research & Development) conference promotes multiple approaches to anarchism. Come and share yours. Come and participate in a commerce-free event with other anarchists to talk about the philosophy and theory of where we’ve come from, where we are, and where we’re going. Every year we have a loose theme, to allow people who want a framework on which to base a workshop. The BASTARD Conference is an annual event and gathering organized by the Berkeley Anarchist Study Group, which is an open … Continued 12:00 pm 47th People’s Park Anniversary @ People's Park 47th People’s Park Anniversary @ People's Park Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets It’s time to celebrate our History of Struggle! Leave it to Diva Skank Bank Funky Nixons Hali Hammer Yukon Hannibal Bogues Tee Lewis Bay Area Harmonica Club Us Steven Lewis Max Ventura Chanel All Nations Singers DJ Soul Food Not Bombs Field Kitchen all day Tables Good Community Good Times…Details TBA60820 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance General Assembly @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance General Assembly @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Apr 24 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Join us to learn about fossil fuel resistance and climate justice action in our region. We welcome your participation and your voice! Steve Ongerth will present on “just transition” — ensuring that fossil fuel workers get support, training, and good new jobs as we eliminate fossil fuel. Potluck lunch before the meeting at 12:30 PM. 60838 1:00 pm Post Salon: Barbara Lee, Troy Williams @ Geoffrey's Inner Circle Post Salon: Barbara Lee, Troy Williams @ Geoffrey's Inner Circle Apr 24 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Congresswoman Barbara Lee & Troy Williams to Speak at Post Salon. Congresswoman Barbara Lee will discuss overcoming barriers for the formerly incarcerated to vote and find jobs at next week’s Post Salon. Troy Williams, former San Quentin inmate, will respond. The salon will also report on the housing moratorium, a local voter registration drive and the crisis of jobs and job training programs in Oakland, discussing the significance of what will be discussed at the Tuesday, April 26 Community and Economic Development Community Meeting. RSVP online60851 3:30 pm Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Apr 24 @ 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 Apr 24 @ 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 Apr 24 @ 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 24 @ 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 8:00 pm Prince Dance Party at the Hunger Strike @ Mission Police Station Prince Dance Party at the Hunger Strike @ Mission Police Station Apr 24 @ 8:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets Prince dance party at SFPD mission hunger strike at 8pm. #hunger4justicesf #FireChiefSuhr #BlackNBrownUnity#Justice4Luis— Anti Police-Terror (@APTPaction) April 24, 2016 60860	10:00 am Alameda Renters Coalition – Ballot Initiative Final Push! @ Various locations Alameda Renters Coalition – Ballot Initiative Final Push! @ Various locations Apr 25 @ 10:00 am – 8:00 pm Tickets URGENT!! We need 50 people to commit to collect 100 signatures over the next two weeks. Our petition drive is reaching the final leg and we need to sprint to the finish. We can do this! Most of our volunteers get about 10 signatures an hour, on average. So, if 50 people can give us just under an hour a day for the next two weeks, we will easily make it! Can you commit to 5 hours a week for two weeks? … Continued 5:00 pm Occupella: Tax the Rich Weekly Rally @ In front of the old Oaks Theater Occupella: Tax the Rich Weekly Rally @ In front of the old Oaks Theater Apr 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Sing for an hour on Solano Avenue at the old Oaks Theater, Berkeley.60835 7:00 pm Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Apr 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Berkeley Copwatch meets weekly. Also check out their “mass copwatching” events.60766	1:00 pm Tell the City of Oakland: Enforce the minimum wage! No poverty-wage hotels in downtown Oakland! @ Oakland City Hall Tell the City of Oakland: Enforce the minimum wage! No poverty-wage hotels in downtown Oakland! @ Oakland City Hall Apr 26 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets RSVP here! Last winter, workers at the Holiday Inn Express Oakland Airport told the City of Oakland that their boss was violating their rights under Measure FF, the new minimum wage law. The City investigated and issued a report identifying a number of alleged violations at the hotel – failing to pay the minimum wage for all hours, “rounding off” time-clock records to shave off time worked, requiring employees to give notice before using sick leave, taking away workers’ accrued vacation time, and other alleged violations. Then, the following month, … Continued 6:00 pm Justice for Luis Gongora – Pack the police meeting Justice for Luis Gongora – Pack the police meeting Apr 26 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Find out why police are killing more residents. Please pack the community meeting and ask questions of the captain, Captain Daniel Perea The Mission Station Commanding Officer holds a district related community meeting on the last Tuesday of each month at 6PM in the community room of the station. 60848 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Apr 26 @ 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 7:00 pm Know Your Rights! @ Grassroots House Know Your Rights! @ Grassroots House Apr 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Hosted by Berkeley Copwatch. Know Your Rights trainings are tools for learning how to deal with the police, how to safely assert your rights and how to safely and effectively observe the police in your community. Join us in this workshop at the Grassroots House at 7:00 PM on April 26! This is a free event; bring your bodies and your buddies, as well as questions, concerns, stories, resources. And in the meantime, check out the Berkeley Copwatch Know Your Rights Pocket Card.60861 7:00 pm Tell the Berkeley City Council to adopt a REAL Living Wage @ School District Board Room Tell the Berkeley City Council to adopt a REAL Living Wage @ School District Board Room Apr 26 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Tell City Council to adopt a REAL Living Wage Raise Berkeley’s minimum wage to $15 by Oct. 2017 Raise it each year by 3% + inflation until it’s in sync with Berkeley’s official “Living Wage” (now $16.37) Bring sick leave up to the standards set by Oakland, Emeryville and San Francisco There is a crisis in Berkeley and the Bay Area. Rents are out of control and the wage standards are so low families can’t work enough hours to keep their heads above water. Many are being pushed out of … Continued	6:00 pm ABC4J: Meditation Happy Hour @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice ABC4J: Meditation Happy Hour @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice Apr 27 @ 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 6:00 pm Ella Baker Membership Meeting @ La Cultura Cura Cultural Arts Cafe Ella Baker Membership Meeting @ La Cultura Cura Cultural Arts Cafe Apr 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come to our April member meeting to learn about our vision for Truth and Reinvestment and how to get involved in Alameda County’s local Justice Team. We will kick-off the meeting with free dinner and a panel discussion. All are welcome. The meeting will be at La Cultura Cura Cultural Arts Cafe, a social enterprise of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice that aims to employ and empower systems impacted youth and young adults. 60872 7:00 pm Homes Not Jails Meeting @ Omni Commons Homes Not Jails Meeting @ Omni Commons Apr 27 @ 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 7:30 pm Vandana Shiva: Feeding the World @ First Congregational Church Vandana Shiva: Feeding the World @ First Congregational Church Apr 27 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Vandana Shiva is a physicist, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, and a tireless crusader for economic, food, and gender justice. She has just compiled and edited a new book – Seed Sovereignty, Food Security; Women in the Vanguard of the Fight Against GMO’s and Corporate Agriculture – that is an extensive anthology of essays by women from around the globe. They write about the vital struggle to preserve small-scale farming, seed sharing, and local and indigenous knowledge. Seed keepers and community organizers, scientists and activists, mothers and scholars, the women … Continued	1:00 pm Oakland Janitors March @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Janitors March @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 28 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Oakland Janitors March demanding a tech economy that works for all! Contracted janitors are an integral part of daily operations at tech company offices, but the majority of janitors working at tech campuses across California are earning poverty wages. Our wages consistently trail behind the cost of living, especially in Oakland with the rising rents. In fact, there are more janitors living in poverty today in the Bay Area than there were in 1990. Janitors are working in a toxic environment where exploitation and abuses including rape, sexual assault, and … Continued 6:30 pm East Bay Housing Emergency Presentations and Discussions @ Wellstone Club @ Humanist Hall East Bay Housing Emergency Presentations and Discussions @ Wellstone Club @ Humanist Hall Apr 28 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Discussion to start at 7pm, potluck precedes. All are welcome. Representatives [from] … East Bay Housing Organizations, the Oakland Tenants’ Union, the Richmond Progressive Alliance, The Berkeley Progressive Alliance, The Alameda Renters’ Coalition and the Oakland Alliance[will] brief the club and all interested parties on their efforts-how to join, support each other, learn from each other, and to organize region-wide towards long term, state solutions. Please plan to attend, bring your friends, your organization, if not represented here, such as-small business and artist advocates who currently have few protections against the corporate … Continued	7:00 am Turn Up on Trump (PUBLIC CALL FOR EVERYONE IN THE BAY) Turn Up on Trump (PUBLIC CALL FOR EVERYONE IN THE BAY) Apr 29 @ 7:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets Hey Folks, This contingent is being organized/ called by the Anti-Police Terrorism Project, Black Lives Matter Bay Area and the BlackOUT Collective. Our groups are led by Black folks and People of Color, who have long connections to our communities in the Bay area, specifically SF and communities in the East. We have strong allies like Asians 4 Black Lives, Occupy Oakland, SURJ, Rising Tide, BASAT. We will operate as Affinity groups meaning: because there is a large mass of folks ready to hit the streets (on this page and … Continued 9:00 am Court Support for Mike & Casey, Liberty City Arrestees. Pack the Court! @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Rm 108 Court Support for Mike & Casey, Liberty City Arrestees. Pack the Court! @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Rm 108 Apr 29 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets “Today, Casey and I had court for our arrests at Liberty City. Trial begins April 29, 9 am, room 112. We want to pack the courtroom. What is at stake is the freedom to protest without government being able to say “that’s not a protest.” We want to challenge the ability of the state to use 647e, illegal lodging, in the commons. The law plainly states “without the permission of the owner” in it. Yet, this law has been used on public property to prevent homeless people from sheltering themselves. … Continued 9:00 am Turn Up on Trump: PUBLIC CALL FOR EVERYONE IN THE BAY @ Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Turn Up on Trump: PUBLIC CALL FOR EVERYONE IN THE BAY @ Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Apr 29 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Trump announced Wednesday that he will deliver the kickoff address for the California Republican Party convention on April 29. Cruz and Ohio governor John Kasich are also addressing the convention.” – Breitbart article Building a mass action wall to keep him out! Donald CHUMP thinks he’s going to give a speech in the bay. The republicans are meeting to build more facist power. The people will rise and shut it all down. California has the most prisons in the US and rates amoungst the lowest in education. We need systemic … Continued 10:00 am Omni Fair and Panel Discussion @ Omni Commons Omni Fair and Panel Discussion @ Omni Commons Apr 29 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Birdhouse Art Collective, in conjunction with Open Engagement, will be hosting an interactive, all-day art fair celebrating a variety of arts collectives and other collectively organized, non hierarchical organizations within the Omni Commons and in the Bay Area. Presentations from within the Omni will include ferrofluid demonstrations from Counter Culture Labs’ monthly event The Art of Science/The Science of Art, a film screening and lens dissection by Liberated Lens, a multimedia installation about the Zapantera Embroidery Project by the Chiapas Support Committee, medicine making demonstrations by Buried Seeds, a demonstration … Continued 12:00 pm Donald Trump is coming to the Bay Area- Protest @ Hyatt Regency Donald Trump is coming to the Bay Area- Protest @ Hyatt Regency Apr 29 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Donald Trump is coming to the Bay Area – let’s show him a real Bay Area welcome by protesting outside.60826 5:30 pm Public Forum on SFPD violence. March to Police Station. @ Mission Neighborhood Centers Public Forum on SFPD violence. March to Police Station. @ Mission Neighborhood Centers Apr 29 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Tomorrow evening, San Francisco Vision will be holding a public forum on police violence against the community. Afterwards, they will march to the Mission Police Station to hold a rally in support of the #Frisco5. People of San Francisco…enough is enough. Come to a public forum on police violence and how we can bring the SFPD under community control. Speakers include Sana Saleem, who recently covered the Alex Nieto trial and is following the #HungerforJusticeSF hunger strike for 48 Hills; Father Richard Smith, who will discuss the Amilcar Perez Lopez … Continued 6:00 pm Active Hope: the “Panama Papers”, drone warfare, the surveillance state, lots more @ Historic Fellowship Hall Active Hope: the “Panama Papers”, drone warfare, the surveillance state, lots more @ Historic Fellowship Hall Apr 29 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Ray McGovern, Joanna Macy “Active Hope: Going Forward” 6pm Potluck dinner; music 6:30 Program Codepink Women for Peace Golden Gate Chapter, BFUU Social Justice Committee, Peaceworkers present: Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and one of the most respected progressive activists in the United States, talking about the “Panama Papers”, drone warfare, the surveillance state, the CIA, and war criminal/ UC Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo. http://raymcgovern.com/ Keynote: Joanna Macy, beloved author of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy. http://joannamacy.net/ https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/04/19/18785372.php Also (so far; more … Continued 8:00 pm Mass Copwatch by Berkeley Copwatch @ Grassroots House Mass Copwatch by Berkeley Copwatch @ Grassroots House Apr 29 @ 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	12:00 pm #HungerForJustice Rally – Fire Chief Suhr @ Outside the Mission Police Station, 2 blocks from 16th St. BART #HungerForJustice Rally – Fire Chief Suhr @ Outside the Mission Police Station, 2 blocks from 16th St. BART Apr 30 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Bay Area – this Saturday 12-3PM #HungerForJusticeSF RALLY – @mayoredlee @jasiri_x @OccupyOakland @ajplus @cnnbrk pic.twitter.com/wA0O1b7Rac — Raw-G (Gina Madrid) (@RawwG) April 29, 2016 60880 1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition Ballot Measure Canvass @ Eastmont Mall Oakland Justice Coalition Ballot Measure Canvass @ Eastmont Mall Apr 30 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Join us to gather signatures for our three endorsed ballot initiatives! We’ll do a short training on how to get signatures and then hit the streets. Bring a car if you are able! We’re working to get these three measures on the ballot: From the Coalition for Police Accountability: Measure X turns the current Citizens’ Police Review Board into a Police Commission that has power to approve police policies and discipline officers who are found guilty of misconduct. From the Oakland Tenants Union: Oakland’s “Renters Upgrade” would expand Oakland’s current … Continued 4:00 pm MOVED TO NEXT WEEK: Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ World Ground Cafe MOVED TO NEXT WEEK: Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ World Ground Cafe Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets 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 housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s projects! organizing for public banking advocating for Postal banking helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting … Continued

Week of April 24

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.