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Please donate, share the link, join the team as a virtual Walker, solicit donations offline, and/or come to the event as a refistered participant on October 9th, and generally support this fundraiser! https://www.firstgiving.com/team/33224361510 11:00 am Help make A Community Quilt in Honor of Luis Góngora Pat! @ Alley Cat Bookstore Help make A Community Quilt in Honor of Luis Góngora Pat! @ Alley Cat Bookstore Oct 9 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets WHAT: A community quilt making event in honor of Luis Góngora Pat. The family of Luis in San Francisco and our coalition in collaboration with our community allies at Praxis, Paseo Artístico and Alley Cat Bookstore invite you to help make a quilt in honor of Luis. The finished quilt will be taken to his hometown of Teabo, Yucatán and delivered on November 2nd Day of the Dead to his wife, parents, and children. This is a family friendly and community event! HOW: Just show up and if you want … Continued 1:00 pm BBQ Benefit for Merced Hunger Strikers @ Mosswood Park BBQ Benefit for Merced Hunger Strikers @ Mosswood Park Oct 9 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets On Sunday, October 9th, join us at Mosswood Park near the ampitheater for a benefit BBQ and open discussion and update on the unfolding prison strike and how to support prison rebels in California. Organizers will discuss the September 9th strike, what has happened in the US and across the country, and talk about the situation in Merced county jails which joined the prison strike on the 9th giving a list of demands to the guards who proceeded to put the facilities on lock down. In response, the inmates went … 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 9 @ 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 5:45 pm Film Showing: Do Not Resist @ Rafael Film Center Film Showing: Do Not Resist @ Rafael Film Center Oct 9 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Tickets Many have been alarmed by the recent spectacle of law enforcement in full riot gear and armored vehicles moving through peaceful demonstrations. At first glance, it’s easy to suspect our police forces are preparing for war or terrorism instead of protecting and serving citizens exercising their civil rights. In Craig Atkinson’s disquieting documentary, such suspicions are reinforced as we learn that since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has given police departments $34 billion in grants to purchase equipment, while the Department of Defense has contributed additional billions in free … Continued 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Oct 9 @ 6:30 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 city … Continued 7:00 pm Film Screening: #OO (Occupy Oakland) @ Omni Commons Film Screening: #OO (Occupy Oakland) @ Omni Commons Oct 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A message from Kevin Pina: Many of you are aware of my work in Haiti and the documentaries I produced about the struggle for justice by the Haitian people. While reviewing footage from the spectacle of violence created by the Oakland Police Department against Occupy Oakland protesters, I was often reminded of experiences in Haiti where I saw US Marines, and later UN military forces, draw their guns on those protesting against the 2004 coup. Many times a brutal Haitian police blatantly gunned people down in broad daylight in their … Continued 7:00 pm Liberated Lens Collective @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens Collective @ Omni Commons Oct 9 @ 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	6:30 pm Occupy Forum: Making a Killing – Guns, Greed and the NRA @ Global Exchange, 2nd Foor Occupy Forum: Making a Killing – Guns, Greed and the NRA @ Global Exchange, 2nd Foor Oct 10 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum presents… Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA The Impact of Guns on America Since 2004, when he made Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, Robert Greenwald has become a vital and dogged investigator whose no-nonsense approach with its accent on digging up the profit motive is reflected in his titles: Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, Koch Brothers Exposed, and the eye-opening … Continued 7:00 pm Class: Structures of Radicalization @ Omni Commons Class: Structures of Radicalization @ Omni Commons Oct 10 @ 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 Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oct 10 @ 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	9:00 am March & Rally – Reentry Hiring Program Implementation @ Oakland Public Library March & Rally – Reentry Hiring Program Implementation @ Oakland Public Library Oct 11 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Join us at the Oakland Public Library to march over to the Board of Supervisor’s chambers to support the implementation of the reentry hiring program which allots 1400 quality, fulltime county jobs for formerly incarcerated people in Alameda County.61790 9:30 am Stop Urban Shield! @ Board of Supervisors Chamber, 5th Floor Stop Urban Shield! @ Board of Supervisors Chamber, 5th Floor Oct 11 @ 9:30 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Join us for Press Conference and to pack the Board Meeting 10am-11am Press Conference 11am-4pm Pack the Board Meeting We want to show our power and presence at the beginning of the meeting and encourage people to show up at any point and to stay as long as they can. Coalition members will be there until the very end with signage and ready to speak about the Coalition’s report on the impact and the alternatives to Urban Shield Urban Shield: Abandoning Hope not Building Hope . The S.F. Bay Area Stop Urban Shield Coalition … Continued 4:00 pm #Justice4DialloNeal: Calling out the CHP for Hit and Run Murder! @ CHP #Justice4DialloNeal: Calling out the CHP for Hit and Run Murder! @ CHP Oct 11 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets WANTED FOR HIT AND RUN! On October 10, 2005 in Oakland, Diallo Neal was murdered when a CHP motorcycle officer struck the rear end of Diallo’s motorcycle, launching Diallo into a bus stop, pole, and concrete bench. The CHP fled the scene. OPD began an investigation, but CHP took it over and closed it saying there was no case because they were never there. Diallo would have turned 34 the next day, October 11th. Work is underway to revive the truth of this tragedy, regardless of legal statutes of limitations, … Continued 6:00 pm The Cannabis Decision @ David Brower Center The Cannabis Decision @ David Brower Center Oct 11 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 61721 6:45 pm Displacement & Gentrification: How did we get here and how do we stop it? @ Sierra Club Displacement & Gentrification: How did we get here and how do we stop it? @ Sierra Club Oct 11 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets This training will put gentrification and displacement in an historical context so we understand the racialized political and economic drivers. We will use this historical analysis to discuss the ways we can challenge gentrification today. The analysis that we are presenting is based on the work of Causa Justa :: Just Cause and we are asking for $5-$20 donation, sliding scale, which will go to support CJJC’s work challegning gentrification and fighting displacement. However, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Our workshop has space for 66 … Continued 7:00 pm Liberated Lens Film Screening: Crying Earth Rise Up @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens Film Screening: Crying Earth Rise Up @ Omni Commons Oct 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets The protests at Standing Rock are still going strong and Indigenous People’s day is on October 10th! What a perfect time to screen this film: Directed by Suree Towfighnia (2015) When Debra White Plume’s drinking water tests high for radiation, she sets out to determine the cause. What she finds alarms her. A nearby uranium mining operation is extracting ore from deep in the ground by tapping the High Plains/Ogllala Aquifer, a huge underground cache of water covering 174,000 square miles from Texas to South Dakota which supplies drinking water … Continued 7:30 pm Liberated Lens film Night: Crying Earth Rise Up! @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens film Night: Crying Earth Rise Up! @ Omni Commons Oct 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Two native women on Pine Ridge reservation expose the human cost of uranium mining and its impact on the water, land and people of the Great Plains. When Debra White Plume’s drinking water tests high for radiation, she sets out to determine the cause. What she finds alarms her. A nearby uranium mining operation is extracting ore from deep in the ground by tapping the High Plains/Ogllala Aquifer, a huge underground cache of water covering 174,000 square miles from Texas to South Dakota which supplies drinking water to 82 percent … Continued	11:00 am Vigil to End Deportations & Criminalization @ Santa Rita Jail Vigil to End Deportations & Criminalization @ Santa Rita Jail Oct 12 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Vigil to End Deportations & Crimilization Join us in solidarity on indiginous resistance day. We will have activities for families who have been victims of deportation/crimilization. Vigilia para No Mas Deportaciones y Crimilizacion! Acompañe nos para un dia de solaridad en el dia de resistencia indigena. Tendremos actividades para las familias que han tenido un familiar que ha sido victim@ de la deportacion/crimilizacion.61727 2:15 pm Film Showing: Do Not Resist @ Sequoia Theater Film Showing: Do Not Resist @ Sequoia Theater Oct 12 @ 2:15 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Many have been alarmed by the recent spectacle of law enforcement in full riot gear and armored vehicles moving through peaceful demonstrations. At first glance, it’s easy to suspect our police forces are preparing for war or terrorism instead of protecting and serving citizens exercising their civil rights. In Craig Atkinson’s disquieting documentary, such suspicions are reinforced as we learn that since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has given police departments $34 billion in grants to purchase equipment, while the Department of Defense has contributed additional billions in free … Continued 2:30 pm Black Lives Matter – From Oakland to Stockton @ Oscar Grant Plaza Black Lives Matter – From Oakland to Stockton @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 12 @ 2:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets #JusticeForColbyFriday #JusticeForJamesRevera Transportation to a protest / rally in Stockton from Oakland, and back. Meet at OGP at 2:30 PM. 61786 5:00 pm Community organizing meeting: Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! @ Berkeley Public Library, North Branch Community organizing meeting: Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! @ Berkeley Public Library, North Branch Oct 12 @ 5:00 pm Tickets Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! . . Community Organizing Meeting Wednesday, October 12, 2016 5pm North Branch – Berkeley Public Library 1170 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA . . Anti-fascist activist and teacher Yvette Felarca continues to be prevented from returning to her classroom at Martin Luther King Jr Middle School after being placed on administrative leave.After she helped stop a neo-Nazi recruitment rally in Sacramento this summer, and was stabbed in the process, terror threats were made against Ms. Felarca and the school if she’s not fired, … Continued 5:30 pm Codepink’s Weekly Peace Vigil @ on the steps in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's office Codepink’s Weekly Peace Vigil @ on the steps in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's office Oct 12 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner Theme this week is: “REFUGEES…” Feel free to bring your own signage, photos, flyers, …Additional signs and flyers provided. Stand (or sit) with us and the huge PEACE banner. 61795 6:00 pm Let’s Re-ignite the Movement to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! @ Omni House Let’s Re-ignite the Movement to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! @ Omni House Oct 12 @ 6:00 pm Tickets The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal has called for: An organizers meeting, 6 pm Wed. Oct.12th At: the Omni House 4799 Shattuck (between 47th & 48th Sts), Oakland . In the midst of on-going struggles which unite us all: opposition to rampant police killings of Black men; freedom for political prisoners including former Black Panthers, Oscar Lopez Rivera and Leonard Peltier; opposition to the death penalty, life without parole, solitary confinement; big pharma price-gouging; immigrant deportations; the Standing Rock resistance to the destruction of both … Continued 6:00 pm Revolutionary Socialist Presidential Campaign Comes to Oakland @ Workers World Revolutionary Socialist Presidential Campaign Comes to Oakland @ Workers World Oct 12 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Two Black revolutionary socialists from Workers World Party are running for president and vice president – Monica Moorehead & Lamont Lilly 2016. Both will be reporting back from the Nogales SOA Watch Convergence at the border with Mexico. Lamont Lilly just recently returned from a WWP campaign solidarity delegation to Standing Rock. We’re not running to win the elections – we’re running to help to build the struggle in the streets and connect with activists and freedom fighters doing the work in communities across the country – from Black Lives … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons Oct 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets 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 “backdoors” to your cellphone and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, … Continued 7:00 pm Intro to SURJ Bay Area Meeting @ Oakstop Intro to SURJ Bay Area Meeting @ Oakstop Oct 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Bay Area is a local chapter of a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. There are over 150 chapters and affiliates nationwide. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. Come learn about our current work and activities much of which focuses on police violence, displacement and dismantling white supremacy. You’ll also hear about what SURJ’s committees are currently working on: Basebuilding, … Continued 7:00 pm Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Oct 12 @ 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 Tenants Day of Action @ California Apartment Association of Alameda County Tenants Day of Action @ California Apartment Association of Alameda County Oct 13 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets WHAT: Tenants and allies, rally against deceptive campaign and delivery of formal FPPC complaints WHO: Campaigns from Alameda, Burlingame, Mountain View, Oakland, Richmond, and San Mateo. Representing big landlords and sending misleading mailers to voters, the California Apartment Association (CAA) is running a deceptive campaign against renter protection ballot measures in cities throughout the Bay Area. The CAA recently sent literature that falsely claims the State Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) has taken a position on the 5 ballot measures for new rent control. Tenants will hold a day of action … Continued 5:00 pm Alameda Jail Fight Meeting @ CURB Alameda Jail Fight Meeting @ CURB Oct 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Help stop new jail construction in Alameda County!61828 7:00 pm Book Party for “Nuclear Heartland” @ Fellowship Hall Book Party for “Nuclear Heartland” @ Fellowship Hall Oct 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Conscientious Projector Presents Book Party for “Nuclear Heartland” “Nuclear Heartland Revised Edition: A guide to the 450 land-based missiles of the United States” edited by Arianne Peterson and our guest speaker John M. LarFarge of Nukewatch, an educational project based in Wisconsin which raises public awareness of nuclear weapons, reactors and waste. Dr. Helen Caldicott states that every American should read this book, learn that under our farms and prairies are the ICBMs with nuclear warheads and take on the entities that imperil our survival. Much of the original content … Continued	7:00 pm Film Screening: A Really Inconvenient Truth @ Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library Film Screening: A Really Inconvenient Truth @ Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library Oct 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Bay Area System Change not Climate Change invites you to a showing of A Really Inconvenient Truth, a video by Cambiz A. Khosravi, featuring Joel Kovel. Kovel’s 2002 book, Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World (2002), argues that our global ecological crisis, including climate change, is due to the uncontrolled growth of a cancerous production and consumption system—capitalism.Join us for an evening of sharing how we face up to and transform this system so we can win a livable future for humanity and other life forms on our … Continued	8:30 am Caravan from Oakland to Merced to Support Prisoner Hunger Strike @ West Oakland Bart Caravan from Oakland to Merced to Support Prisoner Hunger Strike @ West Oakland Bart Oct 15 @ 8:30 am – 7:00 pm Tickets ON SEPTEMBER 9TH, inmates at the county jail in Merced, California, located in the Central Valley, in conjunction with the nationwide prison strike that began on the 45th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, issued a set of demands to jail staff. Inmates were demanding the firing of a brutal sheriff, Lt. Moore, access to baseline calories per day and proper legal resources, an end to forced dress out in gang colors and classifications, an end to solitary confinement, and much more. Inmates at Merced county have long had to live … Continued 1:00 pm Housing Rally – Fight Back @ People's Park Housing Rally – Fight Back @ People's Park Oct 15 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 61564 1:00 pm People’s Park, Berkeley; Housing Crisis / Speak Out Event @ People's Park People’s Park, Berkeley; Housing Crisis / Speak Out Event @ People's Park Oct 15 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Skandalism, Skank Bank, Funky Nixons, Old Pal, Andrea Prichett and Ayr(?,) Yukon Hannibal & Others. Homes Not Jails and other Housing Activist Groups. Direct Action at 6pm, bring sleeping bags. Full Moon Tour. 61739 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baguette Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baguette Oct 15 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Backup location if Paris Baguette 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 October 9

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.