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Future … Continued	11:00 am Black Panther Leader Kathleen Cleaver Speaks @ Merritt College, R-110 Black Panther Leader Kathleen Cleaver Speaks @ Merritt College, R-110 Oct 24 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets 61758 6:00 pm Black Panthers, Pop Art and the Sixties @ 142 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Black Panthers, Pop Art and the Sixties @ 142 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Oct 24 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 61861 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: Report from The Homeless People’s Popular Assembly @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, across from 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: Report from The Homeless People’s Popular Assembly @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, across from 16th St. BART Oct 24 @ 6:00 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! Report from The Homeless People’s Popular Assembly The Homeless People’s Popular Assembly (HPPA) is a gathering of the homeless, formerly homeless, and their supporters for self-determination to create solutions for encampments. Strategies involve: • Collectively develop a political analysis of the current homeless crisis and the systemic root causes of homelessness, • Come up with visions of the life we want and create … Continued	9:00 am Stand Against Juvenile Fines and Fees @ Room 107 Stand Against Juvenile Fines and Fees @ Room 107 Oct 25 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Support our new fundraising campaign for racial justice: https://t.co/M2WH12nKvL#Reparations4CoCoFamilies pic.twitter.com/BtftmaGm6b— CCCRJC (@cccrjc) October 17, 2016 61844 11:00 am Protest the Raid on BackPage @ CA Supreme Court Protest the Raid on BackPage @ CA Supreme Court Oct 25 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets 61872 3:00 pm Black Panthers, Pop Art and the Sixties @ 240 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley Black Panthers, Pop Art and the Sixties @ 240 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley Oct 25 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets 61862 6:30 pm Investigative Journalism and Human Rights @ Zellerbach Playhouse, UC Berkeley Investigative Journalism and Human Rights @ Zellerbach Playhouse, UC Berkeley Oct 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism was established in 2011 to honor all those who fought against fascism during the Spanish Civil War by connecting the legacy with international activist causes today. This year’s winners, Lydia Cacho and Jeremy Scahill, discuss their work with Kate Doyle, director of the Evidence Project at the National Security Archive. Lydia Cacho is an award-winning Mexican journalist, author and human rights activist specialized in women and children’s rights. She has written a dozen books from poetry to fiction, nonfiction, and investigative reporting.Slavery Inc. … Continued 7:00 pm Two Anti-Fracking Films @ New Parkway Two Anti-Fracking Films @ New Parkway Oct 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join the Oakland Institute for two short films, focused on fracking and its resistance here in California. Dear Governor Brown looks at the contradictions of Gov. Jerry Brown—the “greenest” governor in the US (?), who’s encouraging the growth of fracking in California. The film also explores fracking in our state. Faith Against Fracking looks at the role of faith leaders from multiple backgrounds in forming alliances and contributing to the struggle to end fracking. Following the film, join the Oakland Institute’s Policy Analyst Elizabeth Fraser, along with Shannon Biggs of Movement Rights and David Braun … Continued 8:45 pm Film Screening: The Brainwashing Of My Dad @ Ninth Street Independent Film Center Film Screening: The Brainwashing Of My Dad @ Ninth Street Independent Film Center Oct 25 @ 8:45 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets A one-time screening of The Brainwashing Of My Dad, a documentary by filmmaker Jen Senko about her Democratic dad and his slide into the world of hard right-wing media indoctrination. The film merges the personal story of her family with a look at the right-wing media machine and the sad state of the mainstream media – and could not be more timely in the middle of most bizarre election cycle in American history. Featuring interviews with Noam Chomsky, David Brock, Jeff Cohen, George Lakoff, Claire Conner, Frank Luntz and narrated … 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 26 @ 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 7:00 pm Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Sudo Room Weekly Party @ Omni Commons Sudo room Oct 26 @ 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	6:00 pm Come Here, Get Rich: Immigration, Upward Mobility and California Labor History @ UC Berkeley Labor Center Come Here, Get Rich: Immigration, Upward Mobility and California Labor History @ UC Berkeley Labor Center Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Join us for a conversation with Fred Glass, longtime friend of the Labor Center and author of a new book, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement. The author will delve deep into the vibrant labor history of the Golden State where workers have engaged in politics, strikes, and a variety of organizing strategies to find common ground among its diverse communities to achieve a measure of economic fairness and social justice. About the book There is no better time than now to consider the labor … Continued 6:00 pm Film Screenings: WEconomics and La Empresa es Nuestra @ Impact HUB Oakland Film Screenings: WEconomics and La Empresa es Nuestra @ Impact HUB Oakland Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us as we welcome award winning filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin, co-directors of the PBS film Shift Change as they screen their latest documentaries, WEconomics and La Empresa es Nuestra. WEconomics was filmed in the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy which has one of the highest concentrations of cooperative businesses in the developed world. The capital, Bologna, is an industrial powerhouse, where prosperity is widely shared, and cooperatives of teachers and social workers play a key role in the provision of government services. La Empresa es Nuestra, filmed … Continued 6:30 pm Film on Sexual Assault: Audrie & Daisy @ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse Film on Sexual Assault: Audrie & Daisy @ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse Oct 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets 6:30 pm reception, 7:00 film, 8:30 discussion in Piedmont Audrie & Daisy is an urgent real-life drama that examines the ripple effects on families, friends, schools and communities when two underage young women find that sexual assault against them has been caught on camera and distributed online. From acclaimed filmmakers Bonni Cohen and John Shenk, “Audrie & Daisy”– which made its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival — takes a hard look at America’s teenagers who are coming of age in this new world of social media bullying, … Continued 6:30 pm FILM SCREENING: THE LAST CROP @ David Brower Center FILM SCREENING: THE LAST CROP @ David Brower Center Oct 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets This screening is the Bay Area premiere of The Last Crop documentary. The Last Crop is an intimate exploration into the lives of small family farmers Jeff and Annie Main of California’s Central Valley. The film follows these organic pioneers’ ten-year pursuit to ensure that a farm need not be imperiled at the end of every generation. Theirs is a story that is being echoed on farms across our nation as our largely aging farming population faces retirement. What sets the Mains apart is their resolve to create an alternative … Continued 7:00 pm OUR PEOPLE, OUR FOOD: TURNING THE TABLES ON HUNGER @ Nile Hall at Preservation Park OUR PEOPLE, OUR FOOD: TURNING THE TABLES ON HUNGER @ Nile Hall at Preservation Park Oct 27 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Food First is the original food policy think tank, founded in 1975 by activist author Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins. Over the years, they’ve produced action-oriented research and analysis in order to help build the movement for food justice and food sovereignty around the world. Their projects range from working to stop ‘land grabs’ in the Americas to pollinator restoration and farmer to farmer education. Their Food Sovereignty tours to places such as Italy and Cuba are well known and sought after. The October gala gathering celebrates the work … Continued 7:30 pm On The Hill: I Am Alex Nieto @ Brava Theater On The Hill: I Am Alex Nieto @ Brava Theater Oct 27 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Thur-Sun, October 27-30 Loco Bloco, a non-profit performing arts organization and playwright Paul S. Flores announce their final full production of On The Hill, a play about the impact of the death of Alex Nieto. Directed by the renowned playwright Paul Flores, On the Hill tells the story of the impact that the death of Alex Nieto – at the hands of the SFPD- has had on youth of color residing in SF neighborhoods – neighborhoods that are currently being gentrified. The project uses music, dance and theater as a … Continued	2:00 pm URGENT: Tell the City Again: No New Jails OR Jail-like Facilities in SF! @ Room 610 URGENT: Tell the City Again: No New Jails OR Jail-like Facilities in SF! @ Room 610 Oct 28 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets URGENT: Tell the City Again: No New Jails OR Jail-like Facilities in SF! Come to the Final Meeting of the SF Jail Replacement Project Work Group Friday, October 28, 2-5 PM, 25 Van Ness, Room 610 A huge grouping of community groups, service providers, and justice activists stopped a new SF jail last spring, but there’s a danger the City may try again. Last spring, the City set up the “Work Group to Re-envision the Jail Replacement Project” to decide what to do, or build, or plan INSTEAD of a … Continued 5:00 pm 28 NoDAPL: Protest the Eviction of the Sioux People’s Camp! @ Wells Fargo Bank 28 NoDAPL: Protest the Eviction of the Sioux People’s Camp! @ Wells Fargo Bank Oct 28 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Militarized police are gearing up to clear out the camps and arrest the water protectors who are defending their rivers and land – including Sioux sacred sites and burial grounds – against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Over 100 tribes have come together to fight back against this corporate encroachment. We will protest at the Wells Fargo building, one of a long list of banks responsible for funding the pipeline companies to the tune of $467 million. Capitalist expansion and the corporate drive for profit have caused untold suffering for native … Continued 6:00 pm Cultivating Cooperative Community @ Omi Gallery Cultivating Cooperative Community @ Omi Gallery Oct 28 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 61871 7:00 pm Movie opening: COMPANY TOWN @ Roxie Theater Movie opening: COMPANY TOWN @ Roxie Theater Oct 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Friday night Oct 28 is co-presented with San Francisco Vision. IN PERSON: David Campos, filmmakers Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, and housing rights advocate, Christina Olague, after the show. Saturday night Oct 29: IN PERSON: Lisa Geduldig, and filmmakers Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, after the show. The once free-spirited city of San Francisco is now a “Company Town,” a playground for tech moguls of the “sharing economy.” Airbnb is the biggest hotel. Uber privatizes transit. And now these companies want political power as well. Meanwhile, middle class and ethnic communities are … Continued	10:00 am Free Traditional Healing Clinic @ Tassafaronga Rec Center Free Traditional Healing Clinic @ Tassafaronga Rec Center Oct 29 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Tickets 61836 11:00 am Harvesting the Fruits of the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program @ Phat Beets Saturday Market Harvesting the Fruits of the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program @ Phat Beets Saturday Market Oct 29 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Come join us for a free community celebration of the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program, as well as the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party. There will be collective storytelling and an interactive meal on food justice and the legacy of the Free Breakfast Program. Former Panthers Melvin Dickson and Aunti Frances will be hosting a celebration and “stone soup” meal with other food justice activists and community members from the east bay, who will share their experiences and their stories. Speakers (so far) include: Van, Qilombo Oakland … Continued 12:00 pm Keep Alamedans in Their Homes! Keep Alamedans in Their Homes! Oct 29 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 61893 1:00 pm Prop 61 Documentary Screening featuring Bernie Sanders, Panel Discussion Prop 61 Documentary Screening featuring Bernie Sanders, Panel Discussion Oct 29 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Yes on 61, in partnership with California Nurses Association, presents Your Money or Your Life: A Free Documentary Screening & Panel. Join nurses, veterans, seniors, and community leaders as they sneak preview a new documentary film –featuring BERNIE SANDERS– about pharmaceutical greed and discuss the groundbreaking changes Proposition 61 will bring for many Californians who are struggling to afford their medications. Film trailer: https://youtu.be/G-7_EnatV50 Panel will include: – Martha Kuhl, RN, CNA Secretary-Treasurer – Jesse Brooks, AHF Patient Advocate – Other distinguished speakers, including Veterans & Seniors, TBA Light snacks … Continued 1:00 pm Prostest War Crimes and UC Complicity @ Room 105, Boalt Hall Prostest War Crimes and UC Complicity @ Room 105, Boalt Hall Oct 29 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets “Torture Memos” author John Yoo Belongs in Prison, Not Mentoring the Next Generation of Lawyers and Judges. Despite a worldwide outcry, UC has still not taken a single step to investigate John Yoo’s status on the faculty. A lawyer whose career hallmark is his stint in Bush’s Justice Department providing legal-sounding excuses so that illegal torture could be used under color of presidential power, can not be a role model mentoring students. https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/korea-law-center/mentoring-next-generation/ To volunteer, for details, and to suggest ideas for this protest, please contact World Can’t Wait to … Continued 2:00 pm Could the Next British Prime Minister be a Socialist? @ Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Could the Next British Prime Minister be a Socialist? @ Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Oct 29 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Jeremy Corbyn was just re-elected leader of the Labour Party in the UK by a landslide. In the process of electing a socialist leader, Labour has become the largest and fastest-growing party in Europe. At the same time, the election has sparked a civil war in the party, as the majority of Members of Parliament are right-wing and aiming to oust Corbyn. How will this critical moment be resolved? Will working class people win back their party, or will the Blairites find a way to squash the movement? Join Socialist … Continued 4:00 pm Black Panther Party Perspectives from Richard Brown of SF8 @ Workers World, #411 Black Panther Party Perspectives from Richard Brown of SF8 @ Workers World, #411 Oct 29 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Hear Richard Brown of the Black Panther Party and the SF8 share his perspectives on their historic struggle. Also listen to a presentation on the current crisis in Syria by Judy Greenspan. Light refreshments will be served. The space is wheelchair accessible.61863 7:00 pm Movie opening: COMPANY TOWN @ Roxie Theater Movie opening: COMPANY TOWN @ Roxie Theater Oct 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Friday night Oct 28 is co-presented with San Francisco Vision. IN PERSON: David Campos, filmmakers Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, and housing rights advocate, Christina Olague, after the show. Saturday night Oct 29: IN PERSON: Lisa Geduldig, and filmmakers Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, after the show. The once free-spirited city of San Francisco is now a “Company Town,” a playground for tech moguls of the “sharing economy.” Airbnb is the biggest hotel. Uber privatizes transit. And now these companies want political power as well. Meanwhile, middle class and ethnic communities are … Continued

Week of October 23

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.