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All-day		Stand in Solidarity: Bay Area No Dakota Access Pipeline Actions @ Various Stand in Solidarity: Bay Area No Dakota Access Pipeline Actions @ Various Sep 13 all-day Tickets Stand in solidarity with thousands of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Actions around the Bay Area will be part of a national day of solidarity Tuesday, Sept. 13. BAY AREA ACTIONS SEPT 13 More actions are still being added. Find a current list of local events and RSVP here 12 PM San Anselmo: Creek Park-San Anselmo Hub, Sir Francis Drake Blvd @ Center Blvd Fremont: Jamba Juice, Fremont Plaza Shopping Center, 3962 Mowry Ave. 4 PM Berkeley: I-80 overpass at the Berkeley Marina 5:30 PM Oakland: Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza 6 PM Palo Alto: Lytton … Continued
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 9:30 am 41st Monthly Interfaith Prayers for Victims and Survivors of Violence @ Bahai Center 41st Monthly Interfaith Prayers for Victims and Survivors of Violence @ Bahai Center Sep 11 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am Tickets Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to survivors and victims of violence and police terror in Oakland. The Baha’i community of Oakland is organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing. Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us. Simple breakfast will be served.61448 10:30 am Inside U.S. Imperialist Policy Today: Syria, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Beyond @ Niebyl Proctor Inside U.S. Imperialist Policy Today: Syria, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Beyond @ Niebyl Proctor Sep 11 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library Inside U.S. Imperialist Policy Today: Syria, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Beyond Speaker, Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action and Socialist Action’s 2016 candidate for President; Author, Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt; The Tragedy of Libya; Syria 2014; Marx Was Right: The Capitalist Crisis Today and Capitalism Damns the Environment; Director, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal 61545 2:00 pm Post Salon: Jobs and African Americans @ Geoffrey's Inner Circle, Post Salon: Jobs and African Americans @ Geoffrey's Inner Circle, Sep 11 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The panelists and community discussion will focus on what Oaklanders are doing to fight displacement by struggling for African-Americans to obtain a fair share of the jobs in the city. African Americans at present make up 28 percent of the city and have three times the unemployment rate of whites. Black people are only getting 5 percent of the hours on city-funded construction projects. Speakers will discuss: Winning decent paying warehouse jobs at the new Port of Oakland logistics project; Ensuring city-funding of the job resource centers that are the … 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 11 @ 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 7:00 pm Liberated Lens Collective @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens Collective @ Omni Commons Sep 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Liberated Lens Collective is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images! We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at … Continued	12:00 pm Tell The Mental Health Advisory Board-No New Jail! @ Redwood Conference room - Right across from BART Tell The Mental Health Advisory Board-No New Jail! @ Redwood Conference room - Right across from BART Sep 12 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets The Alameda County Jail Fight Coalition is calling health care workers and community members to attend the Alameda County Mental Health Advisory Board meeting where they will be discussing the Sherffis proposal to build a new “mental health unit” at the Santa Rita Jail. The sheriff thinks he can get the Mental Health Adviory Board to rubberstamp his proposal – join us as we demand real accountability and real solutions to our county’s needs. We need to let the Mental Health Adviory Board know that the community and healthcare workers … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Sep 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	5:30 pm NoDAPL: No Keystone By Any Name – Rally at OGP @ Oscar Grant Plaza NoDAPL: No Keystone By Any Name – Rally at OGP @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 13 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets The “Dakota Acces” Pipeline (DAPL) is a $3.8B, 1,100 mile fracked-oil pipeline currently under construction from the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota to Peoria, Illinois. DAPL is slated to cross Lakota Treaty Territory at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation where it would be laid underneath the Missouri River, the longest river on the continent. Construction of the DAPL would engender a renewed fracking-frenzy in the Bakken shale region, as well as endanger a source of fresh water for the Standing Rock Sioux and 8 million people living downstream. DAPL … Continued 5:45 pm Coalition for Police Accountability – YES on Measure LL Campaign Meeting @ Lakeview Public Library (across from the Grand Lake Theatre) Coalition for Police Accountability – YES on Measure LL Campaign Meeting @ Lakeview Public Library (across from the Grand Lake Theatre) Sep 13 @ 5:45 pm – 7:45 pm Tickets Come at be part of making Oakland history! Agenda: Update on communications Update on budget Discuss canvassing/events staffing: what’s working, what isn’t Welcome new volunteers to the campaign Discuss enabling legislation coming forward 61628	6:00 pm Know Your Rights for Social Movement Photographers @ Asian Resource Gallery Know Your Rights for Social Movement Photographers @ Asian Resource Gallery Sep 14 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Photographers! Know your rights when you cover marches, demonstrations and other movement actions. Know how to protect yourself, who is on your side, and where the lines are in the real world. Have you ever wondered: * Can police confiscate my camera or images? * What are my rights to photograph or film police themselves? * Is it safe to stay after a dispersal order? * What additional rights, if any, does a press pass confer? We’ll hear from activist photographers, seasoned photojornalists, and movement lawyers on these questions and … Continued 7:00 pm East Bay Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons East Bay Homes Not Jails @ Omni Commons Sep 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Open as many homes as possible… Hold them as long as possible…61467 7:00 pm Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Sep 14 @ 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	5:00 pm Santa Rita Jail Fight @ Ella Baker Center Office Santa Rita Jail Fight @ Ella Baker Center Office Sep 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Draft agenda: Alameda County Mental Health Advisory Board Meeting report back and next steps Turnout for Friday’s meeting Outreach 61648 6:30 pm Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment, by Wenonah Hauter, Food and Water Watch @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment, by Wenonah Hauter, Food and Water Watch @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sep 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets This is a great opportunity to meet Wenonah Hauter, the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, as she tours to promote her important new book, Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment. Wenonah will discuss one hundred years of political influence-peddling by the oil and gas industry and the resulting deregulation that has devastated communities across the country. But her vision is not bleak: she reminds us of the groundswell of public support for a clean energy revolution, and the ascendance of a grassroots movement … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy Meeting: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy Meeting: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons Sep 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets NOTE DAY CHANGE – ONE TIME ONLY. MEETING IS ON THURSDAY INSTEAD OF WEDNESDAY. Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the surveillance state, against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, including the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the BART Board of Directors, and by the Oakland and Berkeley City Councils. 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, ALPRs, requirements for … Continued 7:00 pm How UC Berkeley’s System Lets You Down @ Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley, Room 54 How UC Berkeley’s System Lets You Down @ Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley, Room 54 Sep 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets You’re invited to join us tonight to discuss justice and injustice at UC Berkeley, and how to build a student organization on campus. The ISO will hold a discussion about UC Berkeley’s history of complicity with sexual harassment, and its censorship of a student-run course on Palestine, and plan how to expand socialist organization on campus. 61647 7:30 pm Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood @ Hillside Club Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood @ Hillside Club Sep 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Nicolas Schou, award-winning investigative journalist, author of “Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb,” exposes government operatives altering media stories and films. He names names and spotlights flagrant examples of collusion, of respected reporters selling out to powerful agencies. For the first time, Schou gets CIA officers, Hollywood consultants, reporters, and entertainment executives to go on record about the ways “true stories” come about and how the CIA has embedded itself in Hollywood to ensure that the agency gets the hero treatment on-screen. We … Continued	1:30 pm National Day of Action for Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) @ Lil Bobby Hutton Park National Day of Action for Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) @ Lil Bobby Hutton Park Sep 16 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets 61563 5:30 pm Justice 4 Colby Friday – Vigil for Answers Justice 4 Colby Friday – Vigil for Answers Sep 16 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets We are asking if anyone in the community has any information, eyewitness accounts or video showing the unjust killing of Colby Friday, shot in the back by Stockton Police Officer David Wells. The community can no longer tolerate Stockton police officers shooting their citizens in the back – it is the same tired narrative that repeats time and time again. From Luther Brown, James Cook and James Rivera Jr., all shot and yet these officers all still work, are promoted and are allowed to stalk the streets for their next … Continued	11:00 am Abolition of Policing @ Omni Commons Abolition of Policing @ Omni Commons Sep 17 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Want to learn how to work toward eliminating the cops? Want to hear how we challenge the notion that policing keeps us safe? CR Oakland regularly offers this workshop that looks at the role and history of policing in the U.S., the way it has impacted various communities, and how people have resisted and challenged its inherent violence. This workshop also goes over how we can reduce our reliance on policing by highlighting the various ways that building up community strength and practices lead to true safety that does not … Continued 11:00 am Know Your Options: Chronic Illness Workshop Know Your Options: Chronic Illness Workshop Sep 17 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Tickets The space is accessible with no stairs and has an accessible bathroom. Please come scent free to accommodate those with chemical sensitivities. This Saturday, Critical Resistance Oakland and the Oakland Power Projects will be hosting an important workshop, “Know Your Options: Chronic Illness.” It is designed to increase people’s understanding of how policing, imprisonment, and gentrification drive health inequalities manifest as chronic illnesses and to empower people who live with them to access the care they need with minimal contact with law enforcement. The workshop ends with the problem of … Continued 12:00 pm OccupySF 5th Anniversary Picnic and Open Mic @ Sue Bierman Park OccupySF 5th Anniversary Picnic and Open Mic @ Sue Bierman Park Sep 17 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets OccupySF 5th Anniversary picnic and open mic. Bring your own food. Bring your own drink. Bring instruments. Bring megaphone. Bring sings and banners!61471 12:00 pm Rally Against the TPP @ Vallejo Ferry Terminal Rally Against the TPP @ Vallejo Ferry Terminal Sep 17 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets 61643 1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition @ Siegel & Yee, 3rd floor (across 14th, back, and diagonally left from City Hall) Oakland Justice Coalition @ Siegel & Yee, 3rd floor (across 14th, back, and diagonally left from City Hall) Sep 17 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets This will be the last meeting of the Oakland Justice Coalition before the elections on November 8. The meeting will focus on the work we must do to elect our candidates to the Oakland City Council and Board of Education. After a long process of creating our organization, establishing a platform, and interviewing prospective candidates, we have created a great slate to work for progressive change in Oakland: City Council District 3: NONI SESSION City Council District 7: NEHANDA IMARA School Board District 1: DON MACLEAY School Board District 3: … Continued 2:00 pm Film: Remember the International Hotel. Alameda Renters Coalition. @ t. Buena Vista United Methodist Church Film: Remember the International Hotel. Alameda Renters Coalition. @ t. Buena Vista United Methodist Church Sep 17 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Join Alameda Renters Coalition and Filipino Advocates for Justice for an intimate screening of “The Fall of the I-Hotel” documentary, as well as special showings of two short videos produced by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project about the signature drive to put M1 on the ballot. In 1977, tenants at San Francisco’s International Hotel — mostly Filipino elders — fought a mass eviction. Students, activists, poets, and politicians joined their cause, and while the residents were eventually forced out by sheriff’s deputies, the campaign helped catalyze the Filipino-American community and the … Continued 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baugette Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baugette Sep 17 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Backup location if Paris Baugette has no seating: Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, outside of City Hall. 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 … Continued

Week of September 11

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.