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Oakland Commune, Foreclosure Defense, Shields, Scott Olsen, Kettling, Port Shutdown, Alan Blueford, General Strike, Anti-Repression, DAC, Strike Debt, Lawsuits, Move-In Day, Kali, FTP, Occubus, OLWA, Occupy the Farm, FTP, Einstein 4 Oakland… so much more! 61752 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 16 @ 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 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Oct 16 @ 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 Liberated Lens Collective @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens Collective @ Omni Commons Oct 16 @ 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	8:00 am Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! @ Martin Luther King Jr Middle School Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! @ Martin Luther King Jr Middle School Oct 17 @ 8:00 am – 8:30 am Tickets Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! Rally in front of King Middle School Monday, October 17, 2016 8-8:30 am 1781 Rose St. (at Grant), Berkeley, California(rally with signs and banners, and distribute flyers before school starts) Also: Protest and Speak-Out at School Board MeetingWednesday, October 19, 2016 6:30pm Rally outside2020 Bonar Street (at University), Berkeley California7:30pm Speak out inside (fill out speakers cards before)1231 Addison Street (around the corner from 2020 Bonar) Anti-fascist activist and teacher Yvette Felarca continues to be prevented from … Continued 9:00 am Pack the Court for Kayla! @ 17th Floor, Courtroom 6 (Breyer) Pack the Court for Kayla! @ 17th Floor, Courtroom 6 (Breyer) Oct 17 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Support the Moore Family’s Fight or Justice! Pack the Courtroom! The judge will give an update on his decision about whether to let the City of Berkeley dismiss Kayla Moore’s family’s wrongful death lawsuit. We need to show up on October 17th to pack the courtroom to make it clear to the judge that we have NOT forgotten Kayla Moore, that her life and memory matter, and that we demand an end to racist, transphobic and ableist police violence! We can’t let the City and BPD escape responsibility for Kayla’s … Continued 6:15 pm Occupy Forum: Haiti @ Global Exchange, 2nd Floor Occupy Forum: Haiti @ Global Exchange, 2nd Floor Oct 17 @ 6:15 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! Defiant Haiti Needs Our Solidarity… As the U.S. plots to steal yet another Haitian Election Over 200 years ago, Haitians rose and overthrew both slavery and colonial rule. Now, when the enemies of freedom and sovereignty are attempting to re-colonize and re-enslave Haiti, we need to act in solidarity with our Haitian comrades, in the spirit of their fierce resistance. The irresistible momentum … Continued 7:00 pm Class: Structures of Radicalization @ Omni Commons Class: Structures of Radicalization @ Omni Commons Oct 17 @ 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	12:30 pm Film Screening: Merritt College – Home of the Black Panther Party @ Merritt College, L-127 Film Screening: Merritt College – Home of the Black Panther Party @ Merritt College, L-127 Oct 18 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets 61757 7:00 pm American Justice on Trial – Book Discussion and Signing @ Modern Times Bookstore American Justice on Trial – Book Discussion and Signing @ Modern Times Bookstore Oct 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Lise Pearlman, retired judge and legal expert, will speak about her new book American Justice on Trial at the bookstore, which outlines how the defense during the Huey Newton murder trial worked to lessen racial bias in jury selection and put into place legal and cultural precedents that still affect American jurisprudence, criminal law, and race relations. On the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, Pearlman’s new book American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton compares the explosive state of American race relations in 1968 to race relations today … Continued 7:00 pm Turning Point for the Palestine Solidarity Movement: Can Israeli Apartheid Really Be Defeated? @ First Congregational Church Turning Point for the Palestine Solidarity Movement: Can Israeli Apartheid Really Be Defeated? @ First Congregational Church Oct 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian-American journalist and author of “The Battle for Justice in Palestine” — which won the 2014 Palestine Book Award — and “One Country, A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse.” He received the 2013 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship and has been an activist on these issues for over 20 years. Alice Walker calls him “a special voice to champion us, one that is… fierce, wise — a warrior for justice and peace — someone whose large heart, one senses, beyond his calm, is constantly on … Continued 7:30 pm Discussion and Book Signing: Violent Borders @ Pegasus Books Discussion and Book Signing: Violent Borders @ Pegasus Books Oct 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Reece Jones: Violent Borders Reece Jones discusses and signs his new book Violent Borders: a major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are policed. About Violent Borders (Verso, 2016) Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. In Violent Borders, Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. ‘We may live … Continued	10:00 am Project Homeless Connect @ Bill Graham Auditorium Project Homeless Connect @ Bill Graham Auditorium Oct 19 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets 61827 3:00 pm RALLY AGAINST ABUSIVE POSTAL SERVICE MANAGEMENT RALLY AGAINST ABUSIVE POSTAL SERVICE MANAGEMENT Oct 19 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets RALLY AGAINST ABUSIVE MANAGEMENT Union Shop Stewart Angela Bibb-Merritt is being threatened with a law off by the U.S. post office. Angela has been a participant in Occupy and would sometimes inform union members at her job site of activities of Occupy. Please join the rally to protest for our sister Angela. She has been active in the occupation of Staples which was threatening the lay off of postal employees. She was also a supporter of the … 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 19 @ 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 6:30 pm Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! @ Berkeley Unified School District Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! @ Berkeley Unified School District Oct 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! Protest and Speak-Out at School Board MeetingWednesday, October 19, 2016 6:30pm Rally outside2020 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) 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 … Continued 7:00 pm Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Oct 19 @ 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 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ East Bay Arts Alliance Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ East Bay Arts Alliance Oct 19 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month. The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community READY Corps and Workers World is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country. We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition.61794 7:30 pm CHRIS HEDGES UNSPEAKABLE: On the Most Forbidden Topics in America @ King Middle School CHRIS HEDGES UNSPEAKABLE: On the Most Forbidden Topics in America @ King Middle School Oct 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Project Censored present Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, by author & publisher David Talbot: “Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. The kinds of insights he provides into the deeply troubled state of our democracy cannot be found anywhere else. He is an intellectual heir to American radical heroes such as Thomas Paine and Noam Chomsky, and is dedicated to reigniting a shared commitment to radical equality and honesty.” Hedges speaks … Continued	5:00 pm Alameda Jail Fight Meeting @ CURB Alameda Jail Fight Meeting @ CURB Oct 20 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Help stop new jail construction in Alameda County!61828 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – Special Meeting on Stingray (Cell Tower Simulator Spying Device) Privacy Policy Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – Special Meeting on Stingray (Cell Tower Simulator Spying Device) Privacy Policy Oct 20 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Oakland Police Department’s future use of a cell-site simulator, known as Stingray, hinges on the policy’s approval by the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission and the Oakland City Council. The Stingray, and its upgraded version, the Hailstorm, poses as a cellular tower and tricks cell phones into giving up data like unique ID numbers and location. The police use it to locate a suspect or victim in an investigation, but critics have long voiced concerns about privacy and potential abuse of the powerful tool. The commission and OPD representatives will … Continued 7:00 pm Ars Live: #7: What’s it like in space? How will we live there? @ Longitude Ars Live: #7: What’s it like in space? How will we live there? @ Longitude Oct 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our guest for episode 7 of Ars Technica Live is author and space activist Ariel Waldman! She’ll tell us about what it’s like to live in space, and how we’ll make that happen. Ariel is the founder of Spacehack.org, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration, and the global director of Science Hack Day, a 20-countries-and-growing grassroots endeavor to make things with science. Filmed before a live audience in tiki bar Longitude each episode of Ars Technica Live is a speculative, informal conversation between Ars Technica hosts and … Continued 7:00 pm Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Ballroom Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Ballroom Oct 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month at 7pm! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom61760 7:00 pm Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson @ Fellowship Hall Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson @ Fellowship Hall Oct 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Conscientious Projector Presents “Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson” “Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson” is an exciting film packed with ideas on how we can overcome the fears that fuel endless war. It is also the heroic story of the courageous dedication of Brian, a longtime friend of the Fellowship, who lost his legs at the Concord Naval Weapons Station in 1986. www.payingthepriceforpeace.com61854	2:00 pm The Greatest Heist You Never Heard of: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI and the Unveiling of COINTELPRO @ Berkeley Repertory Theater The Greatest Heist You Never Heard of: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI and the Unveiling of COINTELPRO @ Berkeley Repertory Theater Oct 21 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party, the National Alumni Association of the Black Panther Party (NAABPP), in association with the Berkeley Repertory Theatre ~ presents a special program ~ The Greatest Heist You Never Heard of: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI and the Unveiling of COINTELPRO Friday, October 21, 2016 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm With our democracy in the cross hairs of “G” Man #1, some courageous citizens stood up to defend our liberties. The program will feature the film, 1971: Before … Continued 7:00 pm McKibben & the Millennials @ San Rafael Community Center McKibben & the Millennials @ San Rafael Community Center Oct 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets McKibben & the Millennials in Marin Don’t miss this cross-generational event! Renowned writer, climate activist and 350.org c0-founder and senior advisor Bill McKibben is the keynote speaker at “Bill McKibben and Bay Area Millennials: Reclaiming Our Climate Future.” Following his talk, Bill will participate in a lively panel discussion with Bay Area millennial activists about the climate work they are engaged in. The panel will be moderated by Joe Mueller, Professor of Environmental Science at College of Marin. Speakers include: Rose Strauss, leader of 350 Bay Area Youth Climate Action, … Continued	11:00 am Oakland Freedom Fest @ Caesar Chavez Park Oakland Freedom Fest @ Caesar Chavez Park Oct 22 @ 11:00 am – 2:30 pm Tickets OAKLAND FREEDOM FEST: Building Beyond Police & Prisons October 22nd is the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality and the Take Bake Oakland Coalition and the Justice Reinvestment Coalition is collaborating to put on a Freedom Fest to end and amplify the entangled state violence of police terror, criminalization, and imprisonment. FREE FOOD \| COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS \| MUSIC \| CULTURAL PERFORMANCES \| RESOURCE FAIR The trauma and oppression our black, brown, immigrant, queer, trans, gender non-conforming, poor, and disabled communities face with police terror and imprisonment go hand … Continued 11:00 am Power to the People! Black Panther 50th Anniversary Rally and Concert @ Oscar Grant Plaza Power to the People! Black Panther 50th Anniversary Rally and Concert @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 22 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets 61816 3:00 pm Making Solidarity With BLM Visible in East Bay Neighborhoods Making Solidarity With BLM Visible in East Bay Neighborhoods Oct 22 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Are you outraged by recent attacks by police upon unarmed Black men and women in Baltimore, Tulsa, Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, and Charlotte, NC? Are you angry that as brutal as the attacks have been, almost no officers have been charged or held accountable for their actions? Join SURJ – Bay Area for an initial coordination meeting to discuss bringing our support for the Movement 4 Black Lives to neighborhoods across the East Bay. As non-Black allies, we witness these injustices and know that it is critical to make our empathy … Continued 7:00 pm A Socialist Perspective on the Environment – With Carol Danserea @ Niebyl-Proctor A Socialist Perspective on the Environment – With Carol Danserea @ Niebyl-Proctor Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Why are we losing our fight for the Earth? And what will it take to win? To answer these urgent questions, we must understand what’s blocking our way forward: an economic system based on exploitation of the earth and of its people. We must acknowledge that many of the strategies followed by environmental groups up until now have limited the possibility of real change. There are solutions for all of the world’s environmental problems. We can create the world we want and prevent the destruction of the planet when we … Continued 7:00 pm Film Showing: Do Not Resist! “The increasingly disturbing realities of American police culture.” @ Elmwood Theater Film Showing: Do Not Resist! “The increasingly disturbing realities of American police culture.” @ Elmwood Theater Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Do Not Resist Q&A with director Craig Atkinson Sat, Oct 22nd after 7pm show! To Purchase Tickets Click HERE DO NOT RESIST is director Craig Atkinson’s directorial debut. From the protests in Ferguson to disagreements on Capitol Hill — whether he is following a heavily armored SWAT team as they issue a no-call warrant or inside a police training seminar that teaches the importance of “righteous violence”– Atkinson delivers a unique and powerful image of the stories and characters surrounding an issue that has billions of dollars — and lives … Continued

Week of October 16

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.