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All-day					2016 National Conference by Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & Family Movement 2016 National Conference by Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & Family Movement Sep 9 all-day Tickets Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples & Families Movement National Conference 2016 September 9-10, 2016 – Friday, September 9, 2016 at 9:00 AM – Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 5:30 PM (PDT) Oakland, California We are at very unique moment in our struggle. The public discourse is filled with talk about ending mass incarceration by elected officials, academics, correctional officials, and funders. We are organizing this conference to specifically strengthen the voices of formerly incarcerated people and our families and to ensure that our ideas are included in the discourse. As the Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & … Continued	2016 National Conference by Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & Family Movement 2016 National Conference by Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & Family Movement Sep 10 all-day Tickets Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples & Families Movement National Conference 2016 September 9-10, 2016 – Friday, September 9, 2016 at 9:00 AM – Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 5:30 PM (PDT) Oakland, California We are at very unique moment in our struggle. The public discourse is filled with talk about ending mass incarceration by elected officials, academics, correctional officials, and funders. We are organizing this conference to specifically strengthen the voices of formerly incarcerated people and our families and to ensure that our ideas are included in the discourse. As the Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & … Continued
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Amos Brown, said the church wanted to “give him all the support possible.” Kaepernick is expected to talk about his motivation for sitting and for kneeling during the playing of the anthem before recent 49ers games, Brown said. 61552 3:00 pm Potluck before Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Potluck before Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 4 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets We didn’t do our normal fin-de-mois feed on August 28th, so we’re making it up today. Well marbled super rich folks, mmmmm…that’s good eating. The last Sunday of every month attendees of the OO GA will get together a little earlier than usual, at 3 PM to share some food with each others and the community. There should be a table and utensils/plates courtesy of the Kitchen Committee (such at he is), so just bring a nosh to share… The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM … Continued 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 Sep 4 @ 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		10:00 am Stop Urban Shield: Call the Alameda Board of Supervisors Today! Stop Urban Shield: Call the Alameda Board of Supervisors Today! Sep 6 @ 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Tickets CALL THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON SEPTEMBER 6TH! From the Bay Area to the east coast and beyond, join us in letting the Alameda County Board of Supervisors know that their Sheriff’s war games are harming communities everywhere, and we demand that they put an end to it. On Tuesday, September 6 beginning at 10am Pacific Time, we are calling on people everywhere to call and email the Alameda County Board of Supervisors throughout the day. We are demanding that they use their leadership to rein in the Sheriff’s unchecked attempts … Continued 2:00 pm UpliftHerSafety: Women of Color Resisting State Violence in CA @ San Francisco City Hall UpliftHerSafety: Women of Color Resisting State Violence in CA @ San Francisco City Hall Sep 6 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Official Title: #UpliftHerSafety: An Art Protest & Self-Defense Rally Resisting State Violence Against Women of Color in California “We are women of color and allies committed to the safety and human rights of Black, Brown, Indigenous and API women and condemn the multi-layered state violence targeting women and girls of color in California such as police brutality, sexual assault, abuse in prisons/immigration detention centers, historical revisionism and institutional disregard for the deceased. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors return from recess for their first post-break Supervisors meeting on September 6th … Continued 7:00 pm Film: Paying the Price for Peace. The Story of Brian Willson. @ Grand Lake Theater Film: Paying the Price for Peace. The Story of Brian Willson. @ Grand Lake Theater Sep 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets 7:00 & 9:30 Q&A will follow the 7:00 show (at approximately 9pm) Attendees for the 9:30 show are invited to attend the Q&A (space permitting) Award winning independent documentary filmmaker Bo Boudart’s newest release is the feature documentary film, Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson . The film tells the story of S. Brian Willson’s courageous attempts to promote peace through nonviolent actions, as well as the struggles and activism of other American veterans and civilians. The documentary features other notable peace advocates such as … Continued 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Sep 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The 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. Note: At our November meeting we changed our meeting date from the first Tuesday of the month to the first Monday, starting December 5th61476 7:30 pm Liberated Lens film night: THE TAKE @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens film night: THE TAKE @ Omni Commons Sep 6 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets A group of 30 unemployed Argentinian auto workers attempt to kick-start their dead careers. Following in the footsteps of others throughout the country, they set up shop in the desolate auto factory where they used to work, announcing their intentions to re-start the plant as a cooperative business, without the aid of bosses. To keep their plan alive, these radical thinkers must battle the former owners of the company, the government and the police. 2004, by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis Free snacks and popcorn. 61541	7:00 pm Albert Woodfox of Angola 3 Speaks – 43 Years in Solitary @ Near 24th St. BART Albert Woodfox of Angola 3 Speaks – 43 Years in Solitary @ Near 24th St. BART Sep 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets You are invited to a special public event featuring Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 Finally free after 43 years in solitary confinement! Albert Woodfox, the last of the prisoners known as the Angola 3 was finally released from prison on his birthday, February 19, 2016, after serving 43 years in solitary confinement, most of those years in the infamous Angola State Prison in Louisiana. He and his comrades Robert King and the late Herman Wallace, were subjected to horrific abuse for decades for organizing a chapter of the Black … Continued 7:00 pm East Bay Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons East Bay Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Sep 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Open as many homes as possible… Hold them as long as possible…61467 7:00 pm Film Screening: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy @ Grand Lake Theater Film Screening: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy @ Grand Lake Theater Sep 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy The Bay Area premiere of Greg Palasts brilliant new documentary film, with live appearances by S.F. comic Will Durst, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, actress Rosario Dawson, producer Greg Palast and surprise guests single screening only!!! Grand Lake Theatre, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA advance tickets: $15 : at Books, Inc, Pegasus (3 sites), Moes, Walden Pond Bookstore, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloways. S.F. -Modern Times. $18 door, KPFA benefit www.kpfa.org/events Greg Palast is a New York Times bestselling … Continued 7:00 pm Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Sep 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our weekly PARTY to get this hackerspace together, to provide a venue for those things that otherwise cannot be worked out through day-to-day practice. Potluck! – bring your own tasty dish! Sudo room, located in the southwast corner of the ground floor, is a creative community and hackerspace. We offer tools and project space for a wide range of activities: electronics, sewing/crafting, 3D and 2D manufacturing, coding, and good old-fashioned co-learning! Hours: The space is open whenever a member is present. Come visit! Best times to drop in are evenings between … Continued	1:00 pm #NoDAPL Solidarity Rally/March – No Pipelines #NoDAPL Solidarity Rally/March – No Pipelines Sep 8 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Come be part of the #NoDAPL Global Weeks of Solidarity Action, supporting the frontline, indigenous led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. We will meet for a rally at 1 pm and then march in downtown SF. The Camp of the Sacred Stones and Red Warrior Camp, currently defending against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, are calling on allies across the world to take action from September 3-17 on the pipeline companies and financial institutions working to build the pipeline. Solidarity rally/march with Standing Rock against the Dakota … Continued 1:00 pm 9/11 Truth Film Festival – Exposing the Crime of the Century @ Grand Lake Theater 9/11 Truth Film Festival – Exposing the Crime of the Century @ Grand Lake Theater Sep 8 @ 1:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets 15 Years After 9/11, the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance presents the 12th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival Films include: Incontrovertible – British documentary produced by Tony Rooke that features his case, a refusal to pay fees supporting “Terrorism,” or the BBC, who announced the demise of WTC 7, before it happened. Rooke makes a strong case about the crime of 9/11 and the subsequent crimes that have hinged upon the unquestioned belief of the official narrative. Filmmaker, Tony Rooke will also speak. 9/11 Decade of Deception– Canadian documentary chronicling … Continued 7:00 pm Conscientious Projector Presents “Babel” @ Fellowship Hall Conscientious Projector Presents “Babel” @ Fellowship Hall Sep 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets “Babel” is a 2006 drama by Academy Award winning Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, considered a masterpiece by some critics. The film shows there are consequences and redemption for our actions. And though cultures differ in language and values, the multi-narrative stories highlight that we are all connected as one human family. Beautifully filmed over three continents. There are no heroes, just victims of fate and circumstance. Sponsored by the BFUU SJC.61505 7:00 pm Film screening and discussion: WHICH WAY HOME @ Revolution Books Film screening and discussion: WHICH WAY HOME @ Revolution Books Sep 8 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Director Rebecca Cammisa follows the struggles of these would-be “illegal aliens”— a group of young, unaccompanied Central American children fleeing violence and poverty, struggling to make their way through Mexico, riding on top of a train that crosses Mexico known as “La Bestia” (The Beast) to reach and cross the border into the United States. For more event information: http://www.revolutionbooks.org/2016/08/thu…61509	8:00 am STOP URBAN SHIELD: MASS MOBILIZATION @ Alameda County Fairgrounds STOP URBAN SHIELD: MASS MOBILIZATION @ Alameda County Fairgrounds Sep 9 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets STATEWIDE MOBILIZATION. On September 9, the Stop Urban Shield Coalition and communities from across the state will be mobilizing to Pleasanton, CA, where the Urban Shield weapons expo will be held. Join us in saying no to militarization and policing in our communities! We are organizing buses and travel from across the state for people everywhere to be able to attend. Please let us know if you would like travel support. Current pickup locations: Pleasanton, Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles Stop militarized policing. Stop #UrbanShield! Friday, September 9 in … Continued 6:00 pm Counterpoints: Stories and Data For Resisting Displacement @ Eastside Arts Alliance Counterpoints: Stories and Data For Resisting Displacement @ Eastside Arts Alliance Sep 9 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Come build community power for resisting displacement in Alameda County! The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) hosts a night of food, music, conversation, and insurgent art. AEMP reports back on a year of displacement data analysis and oral history in Oakland, Fremont, and Alameda. We are releasing a new narrative map along with project report writen with Tenants together. The event honors those who participated in oral history interviews and the work of community partners: Oakland Creative Neighborhoods Coalition, Fremont RISE, Alameda Renters Coalition, Bay Area Video Coalition, and more! AEMP … Continued 6:00 pm Prisons Are For Burning – Support the Prisoners’ Strike @ Mosswood Park Prisons Are For Burning – Support the Prisoners’ Strike @ Mosswood Park Sep 9 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets September 9th at Mosswood #Oaklandpic.twitter.com/q3tkOSYNkC — BlackOUT Collective (@blackoutcollect) August 11, 2016 Join us on Friday, September 9th at Mosswood Park (look for us by the amphitheater) for a BBQ, banner and sign making party, open discussion on the strike and the mobilization on the 10th, and also watch a film about the Attica Prison Uprising. Oakland IWOC also stands in solidarity with our comrades organizing the Urban Shield protest in Pleasanton the same day as well as the FICPFM Conference. We encourage people to attend these other events and … Continued 6:00 pm San Francisco Rocks Against the TPP! @ The Regency Ballroom San Francisco Rocks Against the TPP! @ The Regency Ballroom Sep 9 @ 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets On September 9, San Francisco Rocks Against the TPP! RSVP and reserve your free ticket now. San Francisco is set to Rock Against the TPP. This free concert is part of a nationwide uprising to sound the alarm about the biggest corporate power grab in history — the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. The San Francisco concert tour stop will feature legendary punk artist and former lead singer of the Dead Kennedys Jello Biafra, Grammy Award winning Latin Rock group La Santa Cecilia, Bay Area Indie Rock group Built for the Sea, … Continued 7:00 pm Boots Riley – Support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Boots Riley – Support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Sep 9 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets On Wednesday September 14th Bay Area activists will drive to North Dakota to bring needed supplies and solidarity to the 4,000 Sioux, Lakota and other Native Peoples camped at Standing Rock. They are resisting the construction of the Dakota Access Oil pipeline. Their water is at risk. Our air is at risk. All our futures are at risk. COME JOIN US for drinks and fundraising. BOOTS RILEY will speak briefly about this fight, as well as those who will be hitting the road. PLEASE BRING: Tents, blankets/sleeping bags, diapers, baby … Continued	12:00 pm SF: One Year of Tenant Struggle: Community BBQ and Fundraiser. @ Midtown Courtyard SF: One Year of Tenant Struggle: Community BBQ and Fundraiser. @ Midtown Courtyard Sep 10 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 61602 1:00 pm Take The Streets In Solidarity With The Prison Strike @ Latham Square Take The Streets In Solidarity With The Prison Strike @ Latham Square Sep 10 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets #Oakland September 10th at Latham square pic.twitter.com/kKJZgpsg0t — BlackOUT Collective (@blackoutcollect) August 11, 2016 #Oakland: Take The Streets In Solidarity With The September 9th Prison Strike pic.twitter.com/JphaoIByDw — Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) August 5, 2016 ORGANIZED BY THE OAKLAND CHAPTER OF IWOC: https://iwocoakland.wordpress.com/ ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH people across Oakland, the Bay Area, and Northern California in general, will converge in Downtown Oakland and rally and march in solidarity with the US wide prison work strike against prison slavery. Slavery is legal in America. Written into the 13th Admendment, it … Continued 2:00 pm Homelessness in Berkeley: a panel discussion @ Downtown Berkeley Public Library Homelessness in Berkeley: a panel discussion @ Downtown Berkeley Public Library Sep 10 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Join us at the downtown Berkeley Public Library for Homelessness in Berkeley: a Panel Discussion. There are exciting and viable programs that can house the homeless in Berkeley! Panelists will provide a broad background on homelessness as well as specific conditions in Berkeley in order to demystify this important community issue and share proven solutions that have already worked in other cities. We will hear about solutions that are happening now and those that can be applied in Berkeley. The panel includes experts on the subject, local service providers and … Continued 5:30 pm Say His Name! Justice For Pedie Perez BBQ-Richmond @ John F. Kennedy Park Say His Name! Justice For Pedie Perez BBQ-Richmond @ John F. Kennedy Park Sep 10 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Pedie Perez had been drinking when he was arrested by Richmond officer Wallace Jensen. After waiting on the floor for a while, he got up to walk away. He was gunned down. He was unarmed. There are several witnesses that attest that he didn’t attack the cop or try to seize his weapon, but in the follow up investigation NONE of the actual eye witnesses testimony was even mentioned and Jensen was allowed to continue on his merry way without so much as a reprimand. But folks are organizing and … Continued 7:00 pm Strangers In Their Own Land – Why Do People Fall Into The Arms Of Donald Trump? @ Neibyl-Proctor Strangers In Their Own Land – Why Do People Fall Into The Arms Of Donald Trump? @ Neibyl-Proctor Sep 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Arlie Russel Hochschild, a sociology professor emerita at UC Berkeley and author of The Second Shift and The Outsourced Self, will discuss her most recent book, Strangers in Their Own Land; Anger and Mourning on the American Right. Over five years, Hochschild got to know people in the Louisiana bayou country – stronghold of the conservative right. How, she wondered, could those in the poorest state in the nation disparage help from the federal government? How could residents of a highly polluted area resist the idea of regulating polluters? Most … Continued 7:00 pm With the Movement: Open Mic and Sistar Cypher at ABC4J @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice With the Movement: Open Mic and Sistar Cypher at ABC4J @ Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice Sep 10 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Peace Bay Area Fam: Artists, Hip-Hop Heads, Mothers, Lovers, Leaders, Healers – people of the movement. Tatu Vision & Sistar Cypher are coming through with another slammin’ collaboration… Second Saturday Open Mic / Dance Party / Sistar Cypher. First off, big Love and big Thanks to Kaye Sweat for leading us in a room full of dance last Second Saturday! That was almost too much fun lol! We still feel the rhythm in our bones and must express it forward! Who better to call than our dynamic dance organization ——–> … Continued

Week of September 4

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.