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Refreshments will also be present. 61143 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 Jun 19 @ 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 6:00 pm Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Community Democracy Project Meeting @ Omni Commons Jun 19 @ 6:00 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	7:30 am Solstice Summer Action at Shell Refinery in Martinez @ Shell Refinery Gates Solstice Summer Action at Shell Refinery in Martinez @ Shell Refinery Gates Jun 20 @ 7:30 am – 10:00 am Tickets RSVP: Signers of the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty, Idle No More SF Bay and our allies from Diablo Rising Tide invite you to a Summer Solstice Action: With love in your hearts for all you hold dear, we invite you to join us on the Summer Solstice to protect and defend the sacred system of life on Mother Earth’s belly by joining us at the gates of Shell in Martinez, California. The Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth (more at www.IndigenousWomenRising.org) calls upon … Continued 6:00 pm Freedom for Oscar Rally @ Lake Merritt, just south of I 580 Freedom for Oscar Rally @ Lake Merritt, just south of I 580 Jun 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets On June 20, activists from 35+ countries will be demanding FREEDOM FOR OSCAR. Join us in Oakland. Oscar is a community organizer, a Vietnam veteran and a political prisoner for 35 years. Join this international day of solidarity following the UN Decolonization Committee Hearings to demand Oscar’s immediate relase. Let us add our voices demanding that President Obama commute Oscar’s sentence!61174 6:30 pm Occupy Forum: Film: Harry Bridges and the Longshoremen @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Occupy Forum: Film: Harry Bridges and the Longshoremen @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Jun 20 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Occupy Forum Presents: Film Screening: Harry Bridges: A Man and his Union Film and Discussion with Ted Frazier Harry Bridges (July 28, 1901–March 30, 1990) was an Australian-born American union leader, first with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA). In 1937, he led several chapters in forming a new union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), adding warehouse workers to its membership, and led it for the next 40 years. Harry Bridges — A … Continued	10:00 am APTP Press Conference – OPD Is Rotten to the Core @ OPD Headquarters APTP Press Conference – OPD Is Rotten to the Core @ OPD Headquarters Jun 21 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets @sanasaleem OPD is rotten to its core and Libby’s got to go. Press conference on Tuesday 6/21 at 10 am in front of OPD HQ #byelibby — APTP First Response (@aptpresponse) June 21, 2016 OPD is rotten to its core and Libby’s got to go On Tuesday, June 21st at 10:00 AM, the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP), in coalition with Oakland Rising ACTION, Black Lives Matter, Causa Justa, Just Cause, Black Power Network, Ella Baker Center, Asians 4 Black Lives and the Oakland Alliance will hold a press conference in … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland City Council – Renters Protection and More Oakland City Council – Renters Protection and More Jun 21 @ 6:30 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets Speak up Oakland! Tell City Council how you feel. Ya’ll know that “rent is too damn high”. Community has been working hard this year to put into place measures to protect renters by asking the city to enact a ‪#‎HousingMoratorium‬ (which ends July 5th!) and additional ordinances on the November Ballot. Plus, given the recent upheaval with the policy, the Mayor and City Council are looking to reallocate funding from the police budget to other things. Key items are as follows: 1. Item 16 on the Agenda: The Renter’s Protection … Continued 7:00 pm Care Not Cages @ First Unitarian Church of Oakland Care Not Cages @ First Unitarian Church of Oakland Jun 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Get involved in the campaign to stop Solitary Confinement.61002	5:30 pm Code Pink’s Weekly Peace Vigil @ on the steps in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's office Code Pink’s Weekly Peace Vigil @ on the steps in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's office Jun 22 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner Feel free to bring your own signage, photos, flyers, …Additional signs and flyers provided. Stand (or sit) with us and the huge PEACE banner. On the steps facing Market Street, below Feinstein’s office, Directly above the Montgomery BART/Muni station.61071 6:00 pm Ella Baker Center Membership Meeting @ La Cultura Cura Cultural Arts Cafe Ella Baker Center Membership Meeting @ La Cultura Cura Cultural Arts Cafe Jun 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come to the Ella Baker Center’s June member meeting to learn how to get involved with our local campaigns to win jobs not jails, books not bars, and healthcare not handcuffs in Oakland. The meeting will now be held on June 22nd; the June 14th meeting has been canceled. Free dinner will be provided and all are welcome. The event is hosted 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 … Continued 6:00 pm Meditation Happy Hour @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice Meditation Happy Hour @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice Jun 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Join us for free weekly meditation happy hour on Wednesdays, 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 are the result of a beautiful new & evolving partnership w/The Art of … Continued 6:30 pm Film Screening: Justice and the Generals @ Roxie Theater Film Screening: Justice and the Generals @ Roxie Theater Jun 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets A film about the search for truth & justice for human rights crimes committed by the Salvadoran military during the Civil War in the 1980s. The film follows the efforts by the families of the four U.S. churchwomen raped and murdered in El Salvador in 1980 to bring two leading Salvadoran Generals into a U.S. courtroom. Several Salvadoran survivors of torture are also featured who confront the same Generals in the same Florida courtroom using the same legal concept: command responsibility. 90 min. Peter Stern, one of the attorneys, will … Continued 6:30 pm Tiny Houses for the Homeless Coalition meeting @ YSA Tiny Houses for the Homeless Coalition meeting @ YSA Jun 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Meet with community advocates in the fight against homelessness, those without houses, Berkeley City Councils staffers and interested citizens to discuss progress on Tiny Homes solutions to homelessness, and starting a Tiny Homes village.60958 7:00 pm Eastbay Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Eastbay Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Jun 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Open as MANY homes as possible… Hold them as long as possible… 61035	11:00 am Actions To End Solitary Confinement @ Oscar Grant Plaza Actions To End Solitary Confinement @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 23 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Oakland, CA: Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement Please participate in an informational demonstration on Thursday, in conjunction with actions all over California and throughout the U.S. Connect with family members, formerly incarcerated people, activists, and attorneys who struggle for prisoner human rights. Unity inside, unity outside! Get involved in the movement to end solitary confinement. Pass out leaflets. Promote the Agreement to End Hostilities. Take action to Stop Sleep Deprivation torture in Pelican Bay SHU and women’s death row. Become a Human Rights Pen Pal. 61192 4:00 pm Justice 4 Freddie Gray @ Oscar Grant Plaza Justice 4 Freddie Gray @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 23 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets #Oakland! Take it 2 the streets!- Justice 4 #FreddieGray 4pm at 14th and Broadway. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/JKU9B19VNg— StopMassIncarceratio (@StopMassIncNet) June 23, 2016 61195 6:00 pm Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Jun 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The demand for justice is happening and needs you!61072 7:00 pm Policing Oakland, California, What Is to Be Done? @ Humanist Hall Policing Oakland, California, What Is to Be Done? @ Humanist Hall Jun 23 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Please come to the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club on Thursday, June 23rd, 7pm, at Humanist Hall for a discussion on forming independent police commissions in Oakland and Berkeley. Excerpts: Full article here It’s not a surprise that Oakland finds itself in the middle of a new police scandal-we’re becoming a bit jaded to the police-chief-musical-chairs situation. But, even those of us who’ve been working on police accountability for years, are shocked and chagrined by what is being revealed about our costly department. We had thought they were on the road … Continued	12:00 pm Protest Violence Against Oaxaca Teachers @ Mexican Consulate Protest Violence Against Oaxaca Teachers @ Mexican Consulate Jun 24 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets MEDIA ADVISORY California Teachers Association June 23, 2016 Protest Violence Against Oaxaca Teachers ‪#‎Oaxaca‬ Contact: Lysa Sassman at 916-813-2319 or Toby Spencer at 530-867-0594 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Local Educators Protest Slaughter of Teachers in Mexico Outraged At June 21 Killings in Oaxaca, Protest Educators, labor council members, Hispanic advocacy supporters will protest the June 21 killing of unarmed teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico NATOMAS – Outraged by the killing of nine teachers, educators say they will protest at the Mexican Consulate in Sacramento tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. Reports indicate nine teachers were … Continued 6:30 pm Stop Urban Shield Townhall @ East Bay Media Center Stop Urban Shield Townhall @ East Bay Media Center Jun 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Stop Urban Shield coalition and Berkeley Copwatch will be facilitating an interactive forum to understand what Urban Shield is, its tactics to repress our communities through increased militarization of emergency medical services, and its place within the global context of policing and imperialism. Join us and get plugged in to the fight! Come through on Friday, June 24 to learn how to support the state-wide mobilization against Urban Shield on Sept. 9 in Pleasanton, CA! This is the second of three Town Halls that Stop Urban Shield is holding, and we encourage all … Continued	12:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ A Taste of Denmark Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ A Taste of Denmark Jun 25 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 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 1:00 pm A History of the Poor People’s Campaign in Real Time A History of the Poor People’s Campaign in Real Time Jun 25 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets May 14, May 21, May 28, June 4, June 11, June 18, June 25, 1-5pm Using news photographs, memorabilia, reconstructed objects, documentary fragments, and original documents, contemporary artist Kate Haug re-tells the story of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last monumental social protest prior to his assassination. The exhibition features images and objects culled from Haug’s extensive research in the archives of the Associated Press, the popular press, and eBay, which have not been seen together before, bringing to life the complex ambition of King’s vision. … Continued 1:00 pm No Coal in Oakland Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza No Coal in Oakland Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 25 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets We need a massive demonstration so the Council clearly hears the voice of the people. Let them know we want NOTHING SHORT OF A BAN.61005 3:00 pm United for Community Radio Garden Party Fundraiser @ Grassroots House United for Community Radio Garden Party Fundraiser @ Grassroots House Jun 25 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Meet UCR candidates for KPFA’s Local Station Board. Kris Stewart, LaTasha Warmsley, Jeremy Miller, TM Scruggs, Marilla Arguelles, Tom Voorhees. KPFA needs new people with new ideas and energy to bring more community news, public affairs, cultural programming and new technology to the KPFA and the Pacifica network. United for Community Radio is seeking candidates to run on our free speech radio slate which represents individuals and organizations throughout KPFA’s signal range and beyond. We particularly seek those with geographic, racial and cultural diversity to join in our campaign as … Continued 7:30 pm Talk by: USS Liberty Survivor Don Pageler @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Talk by: USS Liberty Survivor Don Pageler @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Jun 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Don Pageler will give his first hand account of how the USS Liberty, a virtually unarmed American navy ship, was attacked by Israeli planes and torpedo boats on June 8, 1967. 34 American sailors were killed and 174 injured that day, a casualty rate of 70%. This is among the highest casualty rates ever inflicted upon a U.S. naval vessel. President Lyndon Johnson recalled the planes that responded to the distress call, saying he didn’t care if they all died, he did not want to embarrass an ally. Hear about … Continued 8:00 pm Rally For Housing @ One Fam Community Event Ctr Rally For Housing @ One Fam Community Event Ctr Jun 25 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Rally for Housing! pic.twitter.com/WEzBx6hj8F— East Bay Forward (@EastBayForward) June 9, 2016 61202

Week of June 19

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.