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As a militant teacher, she was very active in the … Continued 11:30 am Join the Climate Mobilization @ Humanist Hall Join the Climate Mobilization @ Humanist Hall Jun 26 @ 11:30 am – 4:30 pm Tickets Join The Climate Mobilization for an afternoon of activism, entertainment, education, refreshment and fellowship. Become a first responder to the greatest public health emergency that humankind has ever faced. Stop the lethal fossil fuel pollution now plaguing our communities. We demand a World War II scale peaceful mobilization to battle climate change and achieve full employment in transitioning to a renewable energy economy. Learn how we can all join in peaceful combat on behalf of life. PRESENTERS INCLUDE: ANDRES SOTO (Communities for a Better Environment) Reverend KEN CHAMBERS (Westside Baptist Church) MICHAEL … Continued 3:30 pm Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Open Circle ~ Families Fighting for Justice @ Omni Commons Jun 26 @ 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 Jun 26 @ 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 26 @ 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 6:00 pm Jazz Fundraiser for the Oakland Justice Coalition @ Geoffrey's Inner Circle Jazz Fundraiser for the Oakland Justice Coalition @ Geoffrey's Inner Circle Jun 26 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Support the Oakland Justice Coalition, have a great soul food buffer dinner, and listen to Jazz. Putting people committed to economic, social, racial, and environmental justice into power in Oakland. Advocating for policy and legislation to implement an Oakland People’s Agenda. Putting people committed to economic, social, racial, and environmental justice into power in Oakland. The Oakland Justice Coalition is a coalition of organizations and individuals that came together around common goals for the 2016 Oakland elections. Our aim is to build people power and advance radical change through the … Continued	9:30 am Jobs 4 Freedom Final Push @ Alameda County Bldg Jobs 4 Freedom Final Push @ Alameda County Bldg Jun 27 @ 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Join us for the final push to get the #Jobs4Freedom approved by the Alameda Board of Superviors at the next BOS meeting. We will be meeting at 9:30am for a press conference and then heading into the meeting to speak up and show support for the more than 1400 county jobs the #Jobs4Freedom re-reentry hiring program will bring to the area. If you have not already done so, please sign our Change.org petiton:http://chn.ge/25GcwZU \ The Jobs for Freedom Initiative provides needed solutions to the employment barriers formerly incarcerated residents face … Continued 4:00 pm BAN Coal in Oakland – Special City Council Meeting BAN Coal in Oakland – Special City Council Meeting Jun 27 @ 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets First vote on a Coal Ordinance. Rally at 4:00 PM, Fill the Council Chambers at 4:30 PM. Come to the special City Council meeting and speak out for a complete ban! Will the Council vote to ban coal storage and export from Oakland? Or will they compromise and allow coal with some phony “mitigtions” that won’t protect Oakland from coal dust and won’t stop the global climate impact of the coal burned overseas? 61004 6:00 pm NO Homeless Sweeps in Oakland! @ Lobot Gallery NO Homeless Sweeps in Oakland! @ Lobot Gallery Jun 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets The Jack London Square Business Improvement District (JLID) is organizing through the Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council to clear Oakland homeless encampments. They are having a meeting specifically about the encampments with Oakland police on Tuesday, June 28th at 5pm at 333 Broadway. JLID is aggressively gentrifying Oakland and relies on the lack of public accountability to continue operating as the shady entity it is. We will be meeting at Lobot Gallery on Monday, June 27th at 6pm to plan a community response and tell them that the ONLY acceptable way … Continued 7:00 pm Justice for Kayla Moore Organizing Meeting @ Grassroots House Justice for Kayla Moore Organizing Meeting @ Grassroots House Jun 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets By ANDREA PRICHETT So it has been more than three years since Kayla was killed by Berkeley police. And yes, I believe that she was killed by the police. Perhaps unintentionally, but with an arrogance that should be considered criminal nonetheless: they killed her. Six cops participated in the killing of Kayla Moore. This transgender, African American woman who weighed almost 350 pounds, found herself underneath about 1,200 pounds of agitated police. By the time they got off of her enough to realize that she wasn’t breathing, it had also … Continued	4:00 pm Antioch March for Justice @ the corner Mahogany and Manzanita Way Antioch March for Justice @ the corner Mahogany and Manzanita Way Jun 28 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets IN THE PAST YEAR, THE ANTIOCH POLICE HAVE KILLED TWO PEOPLE IN THEIR CUSTODY… THIS IS INEXCUSABLE!!.. IT WAS ONE YEAR AGO ON JUNE 25th 2015 A STILL NAMELESS MAN WAS KILLED IN THE APARTMENTS AT THE END OF CLAUDIA CT. THE OFFICERS INVOLVED, OFFICERS BROGDON AND KIDD. AND MOST RECENTLY, ON FEBRUARY 5TH THIS YEAR, WENDELL CELESTINE, JR. WHO WAS APPARENTLY SLEEPING IN A CAR WAS CONFRONTED BY CORPORAL MORTIMER AND OFFICER MORAGA. AFTER WHAT THE OFFICERS CLAIM WAS A “VIOLENT STRUGGLE” WENDELL CELESTINE, JR. WAS DEAD. THESE ARE … Continued 5:00 pm NO Homeless Sweeps in Oakland! NO Homeless Sweeps in Oakland! Jun 28 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Jack London Square Business Improvement District (JLID) is organizing through the Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council to clear Oakland homeless encampments. They are having a meeting specifically about the encampments with Oakland police on Tuesday, June 28th at 5pm at 333 Broadway. JLID is aggressively gentrifying Oakland and relies on the lack of public accountability to continue operating as the shady entity it is. We will be meeting at Lobot Gallery on Monday, June 27th at 6pm to plan a community response and tell them that the ONLY acceptable way … Continued 5:30 pm No Housing in Peoples Park! @ Berkeley Old City Hall No Housing in Peoples Park! @ Berkeley Old City Hall Jun 28 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets As part of the new economic development plan for Telegraph Avenue, aka the “Telegraph Public Realm Plan”, the economic development manager for the city of Berkeley (Michael Caplan) is recommending that Berkeley city council support new student housing in People’s Park. Show up to the city council special session at 5:30PM (this is not the regular meeting which starts at 7PM) and speak during the public comment period. Show your support for keeping People’s Park as an open space. 2019 will be the 50th anniversary of People’s Park. In 2019, … Continued 6:00 pm Tell Regulators to Stop Subsidizing Dirty Energy @ Oakland City Hall, Third floor Tell Regulators to Stop Subsidizing Dirty Energy @ Oakland City Hall, Third floor Jun 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Come to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Rate Design Forum and tell them our tax dollars should not subsidize natural gas, but support clean energy generation and storage. This forum, one of eight held throughout the state, is intended to explain CPUC’s new structure of electricity rates. The agency says the new rates will more closely reflect costs and promote cleaner electricity. Some of the changes modify the Self-Generation Incentive Program, which is intended to provide subsidies for “distributed” (decentralized) electricity generation and storage projects that help reduce greenhouse … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting @ SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall Jun 28 @ 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 Film Screening: AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS @ Omni Commons Film Screening: AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS @ Omni Commons Jun 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Directed by Grace Lee What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs (June 27, 1915 – Oct. 5, 2015) was a Chinese American woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution will surprise you. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America’s past and its potentially radical future. The documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, plunges us into Boggs’s … Continued	12:00 pm Protest the Deforestation and Poisoning of the East Bay Hills by UC Berkeley @ UC Berkeley (Southside Entrance) Protest the Deforestation and Poisoning of the East Bay Hills by UC Berkeley @ UC Berkeley (Southside Entrance) Jun 29 @ 12:00 pm Tickets Protest the Deforestation and Poisoning of the East Bay Hills by UC Berkeley . Wednesday, June 29, 2016 – 12 Noon UC Berkeley (Southside Entrance) Bancroft Way and Telegraph Ave Berkeley, California (Black areas: Targeted East Bay forests – From: FEMA EBH EIS) . STOP THE DEFORESTATION AND POISONING OF THE EAST BAY HILLS! . UC Berkeley, the East Bay Regional Park District, the City of Oakland, and others, with funding from FEMA and other public moneys, plan to kill over 450,000 healthy trees in the East Bay hills, some … Continued 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 29 @ 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 Coalition for Police Accountability @ PUEBLO Offices Coalition for Police Accountability @ PUEBLO Offices Jun 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets This should be a short meeting – we need to prepare for the Councilvote on the Kalb/Gallo measure. 61217 6:00 pm Meditation Happy Hour @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice Meditation Happy Hour @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice Jun 29 @ 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 Dogtown Redemption, with post-film discussion @ New Parkway Theater Dogtown Redemption, with post-film discussion @ New Parkway Theater Jun 29 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Dogtown Redemption, with post-film discussion A surprising number of Americans make their living off America’s vast rivers of trash. They are America’s unseen. DOGTOWN REDEMPTION tells the story of one river, and the humanity of its inhabitants in Dogtown, West Oakland, a lively, bustling yet invisible corner of California. We follow the lives of three recyclers: Jason Witt, the titan of recycling, Landon Goodwin, a former minister, who struggles with his own fall from grace, and Miss Hayok Kay, the ultimate outsider, formerly a punk rocker from a prominent … Continued 7:00 pm Eastbay Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Eastbay Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Jun 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Open as MANY homes as possible… Hold them as long as possible… 61035	9:30 am Court Support for Leeloo! @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 104 Court Support for Leeloo! @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Dept 104 Jun 30 @ 9:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Leeloo is an artist and musician living with mental illness. She is also a trans woman of color. Leeloo had a crisis situation that was mishandled by John George Hospital, resulting in an irresponsible discharge that left her on the streets of San Leandro without a phone, glasses, or money. As a result, she allegedly acted out of her own self preservation and as a result is jailed in ‘protective custody’ at Santa Rita. We are fighting for her to get her case seen in Behavioral Health Court. Please come … Continued 12:00 pm Stand With Us Against Eviction: Stand With Us At City Hall Stand With Us Against Eviction: Stand With Us At City Hall Jun 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets “WE HAVE NO PLACE ELSE TO GO.” Like thousands of other Oakland residents, our family was evicted by a slumlord after we reported him to the City. After 6 months of living out of our car, searching three counties for housing or even shelter services with no help in sight, we have decided to take our struggle directly to City Hall. Since we cannot find shelter, we will take shelter in this public building until our city officials provide relief for us and the thousands of other families who have been displaced. … Continued 5:00 pm Stop the New Alameda County Jail @ Ella Baker Center Offices, suite 1125 Stop the New Alameda County Jail @ Ella Baker Center Offices, suite 1125 Jun 30 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets The Sheriff wants to build a new $55 million jail expansion at Santa Rita for treating mentally ill inmate. It needs to be stopped in its tracks and the money redirected to mental health treatment outside of jail. We’ve got some momentum to re-invigorate and have a lot to discuss with the decarceration plan. Here a tentative agenda for 7/28, feel free to add additional items by directly replying to me. Check in What’s happening, what’s coming up in the community LeeLoo Update Individual and org commitments Shared leadership structure … Continued 6:00 pm Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Justice for Mario Woods Coalition Jun 30 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The demand for justice is happening and needs you!61072 8:00 pm Fundraiser for Survivors of Mission Fire on Mission St & 29th @ El Rio Fundraiser for Survivors of Mission Fire on Mission St & 29th @ El Rio Jun 30 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets A fundraiser for survivors of the fire that burned down the homes of 58 people on Mission and 29th. Door fee will be $10 USD (but no one turned away). We’ll also do a raffle (please message if you have suggestions for raffle prizes). El Rio are kindly donating all bar proceeds from 8-12 to the fund. All proceeds will go directly to the familes and will be matched 1-1 by a corporate sponsor. The Mission Economic Development Agency will process all donations and won’t be charging a fee.61189	5:00 pm Celebration of Food Worker Resistance @ Calavera Restaurant Celebration of Food Worker Resistance @ Calavera Restaurant Jul 1 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Please join ex-Calavera restaurant workers and the Bay Area Restaurant Worker’s Movement (BARWM) for a rally, community meal and celebration of resistance across the food system! On July 1st, BARWM will be scaling up our #BoycottCalavera campaign, giving voice to ex-Calavera employees fighting wage theft! We’ll be serving up delicious, free tamales made with love from Tamales La Oaxaqueña! Come hungry, and help us turn away customers with our irresistible community meal. We will host a rally with ex-Calavera employees, community organizers and other food workers sharing stories of resistance … Continued	1:30 pm SF Mime Troupe: Schooled @ Cedar Rose Park SF Mime Troupe: Schooled @ Cedar Rose Park Jul 2 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe opens in Berkeley July 2 & 3, then San Francisco July 4 with its 57th season premiering “Schooled“ Education. It’s like the weather: everyone has an opinion but nobody does anything about it. That’s how Livina Jones feels about her son Tom’s new school, Eleanor Roosevelt High. With it’s old textbooks, crumbling classrooms, and racist treatment of kids just like hers Livina believes Roosevelt is exactly the sort of school that can benefit from a little free-market common sense. The nanny-state government has … Continued 3:00 pm Dogtown Redemption, with post-film discussion @ New Parkway Theater Dogtown Redemption, with post-film discussion @ New Parkway Theater Jul 2 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Dogtown Redemption, with post-film discussion A surprising number of Americans make their living off America’s vast rivers of trash. They are America’s unseen. DOGTOWN REDEMPTION tells the story of one river, and the humanity of its inhabitants in Dogtown, West Oakland, a lively, bustling yet invisible corner of California. We follow the lives of three recyclers: Jason Witt, the titan of recycling, Landon Goodwin, a former minister, who struggles with his own fall from grace, and Miss Hayok Kay, the ultimate outsider, formerly a punk rocker from a prominent Korean … Continued 4:00 pm Occupation – Liberty City 2 We’re Back! @ Berkeley Old City Hall Occupation – Liberty City 2 We’re Back! @ Berkeley Old City Hall Jul 2 @ 4:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets Yes we are going back to demand our right to rest, housing we can afford, ending 647e. Donations always needed tents, blankets,food, propane stove and housewares.Cash is always welcome so we can buy the survival stuff we realy need. Got big furniture you don’t need? Drop it off especially that big ratty sofa the dog sleeps on. Sorry Fido homeless people need it more then you do.61198 5:00 pm Spaghetti Party for the People @ Liberty City (Old Berkeley City Hall Grounds) Spaghetti Party for the People @ Liberty City (Old Berkeley City Hall Grounds) Jul 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets This dinner (of spaghetti and a sweet red sauce with grilled garlic bread) is being held in conjunction with First They Came for the Homeless’ re-establishment of Liberty City in an effort to demonstrate peaceful, communal living and self-sufficiency. https://www.facebook.com/events/294334184246214/ A homeless person is still a person, but in America the homeless are less than Untouchables: they are invisible to most of us, and a nuisance to others. In Berkeley the homeless not only have to live on some of the most dangerous streets in America, they have to constantly … Continued

Week of June 26

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.