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All-day	Protest Lack of Housing and Criminalization of the Homeless Protest Lack of Housing and Criminalization of the Homeless Oct 3 all-day Tickets Check here for location on Monday.61740
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 10:30 am Revolutionary University, Day 2 @ Niebyl Proctor Library Revolutionary University, Day 2 @ Niebyl Proctor Library Oct 2 @ 10:30 am – 8:30 pm Tickets Day One (Saturday, 10/1) Here Sun. 10/2 10:30am -12:30 pm How Capitalism Shreds Our Personal Lives Harriet Fraad, Harriet Fraad is a licensed mental health counselor and hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She has been an activist in the feminist movement and the journal Rethinking Marxism. For 40 years, she has been a radical committed to transforming US personal and political life. 1:30-3:30 pm Crisis: It’s How Capitalism Works Richard Wolff, Marxist professor of economics, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to … Continued 3:00 pm U.S. Hands Off Haiti! – Public Meeting. @ Eastside Arts Alliance U.S. Hands Off Haiti! – Public Meeting. @ Eastside Arts Alliance Oct 2 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Join Haiti Action Committee to commemorate the 25th anniversary of a coup that continues to inform the present struggle of the Haitian people for democracy and justice. SEPTEMBER 30th – 4:30 PM DEMONSTRATION meets at 14th & Broadway in Oakland OCTOBER 2nd – 3PM EVENT at Eastside Arts, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland Why is it important to remember September 30, 1991? It is a battle of memory against forgetfulness, because we think that we cannot build the democracy we want for this country if we continue to erase what happened. … 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 Oct 2 @ 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 Oct 2 @ 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	6:00 pm Occupy Forum: THE NEW COMMUNISM @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Occupy Forum: THE NEW COMMUNISM @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Oct 3 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets T H E N E W C O M M U N I S M The science, the strategy, the leadership for an actual revolution, and a radically new society on the road to real emancipation Discussion with Bruce Neuberger Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! What is this NEW Communism? What is new about it? Does communism provide an answer to the deep questions that people have about this society … Continued 7:00 pm Class: Structures of Radicalization @ Omni Commons Class: Structures of Radicalization @ Omni Commons Oct 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets An invitation to a class on the Structures of Racialization At the Bay Area Public School A free university in the Omni Commons When the English first got to Virginia, in the early 1600s, they didn’t see themselves as “white.” It took a century for their colonialism to produce the concepts of race and white supremacy. We’ve been fighting racism, white privilege, white supremacy, and institutional racism since then. And still, a Trump can come along with his “dogwhistle” politics, and get an instant white following at varying degrees of … Continued 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Oct 3 @ 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	9:00 am Court Support for Omar Shakir @ Rene C. Davidson Courthouse, Dept. 7 Court Support for Omar Shakir @ Rene C. Davidson Courthouse, Dept. 7 Oct 4 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Omar Shakir is a brother who was arrested during a pre-dawn paramilitary OPD raid for an assault on a police officer that the cops KNOW Mr. Shakir did not commit. People are encourage to attend to show support and encourage the prosecutor to drop the charges. Read more about this travesty.61659 12:00 pm CALL TO ACTION – Support Low-Wage State Workers @ State Building CALL TO ACTION – Support Low-Wage State Workers @ State Building Oct 4 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets SEIU Local 1000 employees are holding informational pickets in San Francisco and Oakland. We are looking for physical support and solidarity from our local labor and community groups at both of these events as we strive to uphold union labor in public service. We are State employees represented by SEIU Local 1000, standing along with our brothers and sisters of IUOE Local 3, State division, who have turned down insulting offers from Cal HR on behalf of Governor Brown that disrespects and devalues the important work that we do for our great … Continued 6:00 pm Demand Accountability for OPD Shootings – Justice 4 Demouria Hogg @ City Hall, 3rd floor Demand Accountability for OPD Shootings – Justice 4 Demouria Hogg @ City Hall, 3rd floor Oct 4 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets City Council is set to give final approval to a $1.2M settlement with the family of Demouria Hogg, a 30-year-old father of three shot to death last year by Oakland police, the first in a new spate of questionable OPD homicides. The victim was unconscious in a car on a freeway offramp. He could not be roused by sirens, loudly amplified commands, the firing of beanbag rounds, or even the breaking of windows in his car. A pistol was on the passenger seat, but police could have finished clearing out … Continued	10:00 am Oakland Green Jobs Summit Oakland Green Jobs Summit Oct 5 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets East Bay community leaders are organizing a dynamic one day summit to build a shared vision and strategy for an inclusive green economy in Oakland and the wider East Bay. Participants will hear from green businesses based in Oakland and East Bay, local officials, investors, faith leaders and more, and share input on how to bring more jobs and opportunity to our communities as we fight climate change. From clean tech to urban farming, green transportation to forestry, let’s build a local economy that works for everyone and protects the … Continued 5:00 pm BERKELEY CLIMATE ACTION SOLAR FOR ALL CONVENING @ South Berkeley Library BERKELEY CLIMATE ACTION SOLAR FOR ALL CONVENING @ South Berkeley Library Oct 5 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The time is right for rooftop solar! At our Solar for All Convening learn about opportunities for renters and time-limited discounts for homeowners through the Bay Area SunShares bulk purchasing program. Hear about financing options and tax credits from local solar advocate Doug McKenzie of SunWork Renewable Energy Project, and GRID Alternatives’ low-to-no-cost solar for qualified low-income homeowners. Solar vendors and zero-emission vehicle dealers participating in SunShares will be on hand to discuss their products and answer questions. Light refreshments served. Co-presented by the Berkeley Climate Action Coalition and the City … Continued 6:00 pm No Selves to Defend: Bay Area #FreeBresha Day of Action @ Asian Americans Advancing Justice No Selves to Defend: Bay Area #FreeBresha Day of Action @ Asian Americans Advancing Justice Oct 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Bresha Meadows of Ohio was just 14 years old when she was incarcerated and charged with aggravated murder for defending herself and family against the unrelenting terror and abuse of her father. On October 6, Bresha has an important court hearing in which the prosecutor will determine if she will be prosecuted for a crime (possibly charged as an adult) instead of given the support & safety that she needs. We take action in solidarity with Bresha and demand that she is returned home to her family and that all … Continued 6:30 pm Protest in Defense of Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca @ Berkeley School Board @ Berkeley Unified School District Protest in Defense of Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca @ Berkeley School Board @ Berkeley Unified School District Oct 5 @ 6:30 pm Tickets (UPDATE: Note earlier time at more publicly visible place for the rally)Protest and Speak Out in Defense of Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca at the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Directors Meeting Wednesday, October 5, 2016 6:30pm Rally outside (march to school board meeting 7pm) 2020 Bonar Street (at University), Berkeley California 7:30pm Speak out inside (fill out speakers cards before) 1231 Addison Street (around the corner from 2020 Bonar) Contact the Berkeley school board and demand that the suspension of Yvette Felarca and harassment of her students be put … Continued 6:30 pm Stop the Political Witch-Hunt Against Berkeley Teacher Yvette Felarca @ Berkeley School Board Stop the Political Witch-Hunt Against Berkeley Teacher Yvette Felarca @ Berkeley School Board Oct 5 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Stop the Political Witch-Hunt Against Ms. Yvette Felarca Protest and Speak Out at the Berkeley School Board Meeting 7pm Rally outside 7:30 pm Speak Out inside Community members, parents, teachers and students plan to rally and speak at the the Berkeley School Board Meeting to defend Yvette Felarca, an anti-fascist middle school teacher in Berkeley under attack by the school district. After Ms. Felarca helped prevent the neo-Nazi/KKK rally on the steps of the capitol in Sacramento last June where she and 8 other anti-fascists were stabbed by the … Continued 7:00 pm Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Oct 5 @ 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	11:30 am EBOC: Fight 4 Fifteen – Press Conference at McDonald’s re Sexual Harassment at Work @ McDonald's EBOC: Fight 4 Fifteen – Press Conference at McDonald’s re Sexual Harassment at Work @ McDonald's Oct 6 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets For over 4 years, we have been fighting to hold McDonalds accountable for driving wages and working standards down. They pay poverty wages, often are perpetrators of wage theft and turn a blind eye to the needs of their workers. Sexual harassment is widespread at fast-food companies like McDonald’s, which, too often, turn a blind eye to their workers’ complaints. Forty-percent of women working in the fast-food industry have been sexually harassed on the job – that’s 60% higher than other industries on average. Women who speak out about the … Continued 12:00 pm Taking on Money Bail in California @ ACLU NorCal Taking on Money Bail in California @ ACLU NorCal Oct 6 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets The ACLU of CA has prioritized working on bail reform and we are currently setting meetings with folks across the state to work through some critical issues as we begin to pull together this campaign as well as a coalition of folks who are interested in working on it with us. As an organization doing critical work in the bay area, we very much need your input and would love to have you come to our first bay area meeting (You don’t have to agree to join the coalition to … Continued 5:00 pm Alameda Jail Fight Coalition Meeting @ 3rd Floor Alameda Jail Fight Coalition Meeting @ 3rd Floor Oct 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Help fight the plan to build more jail space at Santa Rita!61781 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission. @ Oakland City Hall Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission. @ Oakland City Hall Oct 6 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Oakland Advisory Privacy Commission meets monthly, addressing the surveillance technology OPD and the City of Oakland already possess and wish to possess. It’s first task is to develop a generalized Surveillance Equipment Regulation Ordinance governing how such equipment is to be assessed and procured. Scroll to the bottom here for agendas and video of previous meetings: 61546 6:00 pm Listening Session With Wendy Still, Alameda County’s New Chief Probation Officer @ Imani Church Listening Session With Wendy Still, Alameda County’s New Chief Probation Officer @ Imani Church Oct 6 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets 61730 6:30 pm Carbon Pricing: Climate Game Changer @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Carbon Pricing: Climate Game Changer @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Oct 6 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us for an evening with Citizens’ Climate Lobby members, Amy Gorman and Harry Chomsky for a presentation and discussion on CCLs’ legislative proposal for a comprehensive and effective solution to the climate crisis. Learn about tools on how to pass climate change legislation. CCL is a national organization that is committed to creating the political will for a sustainable planet. The presentation will include a specific nonpartisan proposal for pricing carbon emissions. CCL has an active chapter in Alameda County and will be talking about progress made locally toward … Continued	10:00 am Press conference on the 6 Month Anniversary of Luis Gongora’s Murder by SFPD @ The Luis Góngora Pat Community Altar Press conference on the 6 Month Anniversary of Luis Gongora’s Murder by SFPD @ The Luis Góngora Pat Community Altar Oct 7 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets Press conference on the 6 Month Anniversary of Luis’s Murder by SFPD WHAT: Family of Luis Demetrio Góngora Pat —a Mayan indigenous father, husband,brother, son, uncle—, refute the biased autopsy report released by the San Francisco Medical Examiner on the six month anniversary of his murder by SFPD officers. They also plan a march to celebrate his life. WHERE: The Luis Góngora Pat Community Altar on Shotwell Street (east side), near 19th Street in the Mission District IMPORTANT NOTE: Afterwards, we will join the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition @ … Continued 12:00 pm State of Emergency – Call To Action! Charge the Officers with Murder! @ DA's Office State of Emergency – Call To Action! Charge the Officers with Murder! @ DA's Office Oct 7 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets 61733 5:00 pm First Friday @ Telegraph Ave, Grand to 27th First Friday @ Telegraph Ave, Grand to 27th Oct 7 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets ArtCar Fest celebrates their 20th year exhibiting around the San Francisco Bay Area! They will be displaying their elaborately decorated vehicles on 23rd between Valley and Telegraph. You can view the entertainment line-up for Friday here. And check out what artisan and food vendors we’ll be featuring here. As always, the First Friday street festival is free, but we appreciate your help to keep our community-art event affordable for vendors and accessible to our community. Please donate to Oakland First Fridays today to help us thrive and don’t forget to … Continued 7:30 pm Arab Film Festival 2016 Opening Night \| US Premiere of CLASH @ Castro Theater Arab Film Festival 2016 Opening Night \| US Premiere of CLASH @ Castro Theater Oct 7 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets This year, the Arab Film Festival is going bigger and bolder than ever: we are honored to host the US premiere of Clash, the Egyptian entry to the 2017 Oscars. Tickets are on sale, and bound to sell out, so snatch yours right away. And we will be making a special announcement on Opening Night, you won’t want to miss it! Described as “bravura filmmaking with a kick-in-the-gut message” by the Hollywood Reporter, Clash was widely praised after opening Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival just a few … Continued	10:00 am Affordable Housing, Just What Does it Mean? Affordable Housing, Just What Does it Mean? Oct 8 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Renewed Hope Housing is putting on a forum on affordable housing. October 8, 10 to noon, at the United Methodist Church. 2311 Buena Vista. They have lined two speakers who have real knowlege of the problem and the power to do something about it- Victoria Johnson, Director for Housing and Community Development, and Debbie Potter, Community Development Director for the City of Alameda. The Alameda Renters’ Coalition will be there too!61724 10:00 am Life is Living Festival @ Lil Bobby Hutton, Defemery Park Life is Living Festival @ Lil Bobby Hutton, Defemery Park Oct 8 @ 10:00 am – 7:00 pm Tickets THE 9TH ANNUAL LIFE IS LIVING FESTIVAL LEGACY: A TRIBUTE TO THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY The Coup will rock the Life Is Living festival. October 8th. Oakland. Defremery Park. It’s free. pic.twitter.com/96n5eOZpa6 — Boots Riley (@BootsRiley) September 16, 2016 This year marks the 9th Annual Life Is Living Festival in Oakland. Over the past 10 years, we have transformed deFremery Park (Little Bobby Hutton Park) from vacant to vibrant. We are indebted to the local West Oakland heroes and sheroes of The Black Panther Party for inspiring us to use … Continued 10:00 am Payday Loans, Panama Papers and Poverty @ Saint Columbo Catholic Church Payday Loans, Panama Papers and Poverty @ Saint Columbo Catholic Church Oct 8 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Payday Loans, Panama Papers and Poverty Why the fight to end extreme poverty is global, local and winnable Keynote Speaker: Andrew Hanauer, Campaigns Director at Jubilee USA in Washington, D.C. We can heal our broken economy and build strong, safe and prosperous communities. Learn how predatory financial behavior from the East Bay to East Africa harms people and communities and what we can do about it. Workshops will discuss predatory payday loans, anonymous shell companies, and how East Bay organizations, congregations and individuals can help stop the damage they … Continued 11:00 am Black Panther Panel Retrospective & BBQ Lunch @ Oakland Museum Black Panther Panel Retrospective & BBQ Lunch @ Oakland Museum Oct 8 @ 11:00 am – 2:30 pm Tickets Panelists: Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Steven Pits, Austin Long-Scott RSVP – seats are limited. Call 877-687-1021. Sponsored by SEIU 1021’s SEJ and Afram Solidarity Committees.61776 6:00 pm Beyond Occupy – Five Years Hence. @ Oscar Grant Plaza Beyond Occupy – Five Years Hence. @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 8 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Beyond Occupy! An art show with music and speakers, celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Occupy Movement, highlighting its achievements and the work that has continued since the heady days of October and November, 2011. GA. Kitchen. Info. Medics. Library. Garden. Media. Labor Solidarity. Anti-Repression. Occupy Forum. Foreclosure Defense. Occupy the Farm. Strike Debt. Anti-Surveillance. Berkeley Post Office Defense. And more! A bit of history: The Port Shutdown Video featuring Boots Riley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Ia-oQnZOo 61562

Week of October 2

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.