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More Info 61934 9:30 am Direct Action for Racial Justice: a SURJ Bay Area Training @ Solespace Direct Action for Racial Justice: a SURJ Bay Area Training @ Solespace Nov 13 @ 9:30 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Direct Action for Racial Justice: a SURJ Bay Area Training Join SURJ Bay Area for our third homegrown Direct Action training dedicated to teaching you the framework and the hard skills needed to take action for racial justice. This interactive workshop is designed to give you real-time experiences of being in a protest while also building our understanding of direct action from the perspective of white people participating in the movement for racial justice. Space is limited to 60 people per workshop and you must pre-register to attend. Click here … Continued 10:30 am We Do Not Consent @ Niebyl-Proctor Library We Do Not Consent @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Nov 13 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Tickets 61944 3:00 pm Trump Response: Join Hands Around Lake Merritt Trump Response: Join Hands Around Lake Merritt Nov 13 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Let’s JOIN HANDS in a circle ALL the way around 3.4 miles of Lake Merritt- to stand up against racism, sexism, homophobia, and Islamophobia! This is a peaceful joining together to honor our community, the values we stand for, and our resilience as a nation. As Hilary Clinton said today, “Our constitution enshrines – the rule of law, the principal that we’re all equal in rights and dignity, and the freedom of worship and expression. We respect and cherish these things and must defend them.” Let’s join together as a … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly: Occupy 2.0: Resistance and Transformation in the Age of Trump @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly: Occupy 2.0: Resistance and Transformation in the Age of Trump @ Oscar Grant Plaza Nov 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Can some of the lessons we learned from Occupy be useful for the coming Age of Trump? You are invited to attend the Occupy Oakland General Assembly at Oscar Grant Plaza (in front of City Hall), this coming Sunday at 4:00 pm to help start the discussion! A draft schedule is below. 4:00 pm – Gather together, review draft schedule 4:05 pm – Review of the past week’s events of interest 4:20 pm – The coming week’s events of interest 4:30 pm – Discussion about Occupy 2.0: Resistance and Transformation … Continued 6:00 pm An Evening with MEDEA BENJAMIN @ BORTIN HALL, Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church An Evening with MEDEA BENJAMIN @ BORTIN HALL, Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church Nov 13 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years. Described as “one of America’s most committed — and most effective — fighters for human rights” by New York Newsday, and “one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement” by the Los Angeles Times, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of … Continued	9:00 am 2 DAYS of Court support for folks arrested at election protests @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse 2 DAYS of Court support for folks arrested at election protests @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse Nov 14 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Please come out to support folks who got arrested in the streets on protesting the election. MONDAY and TUESDAY 9am Monday morning at Wiley Manuel Dept 112.61973 12:00 pm Not Our President Student Protest @ Fruitvale BART Station Not Our President Student Protest @ Fruitvale BART Station Nov 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets 61987 2:30 pm Social Justice in Climate Change Adaptation: Beyond Sea Level Rise @ Ed Roberts Campus Social Justice in Climate Change Adaptation: Beyond Sea Level Rise @ Ed Roberts Campus Nov 14 @ 2:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets What are the disproportionate impacts of climate change on households most at risk, including people of color, with low incomes, or with disabilities? How can community leaders and agency staff work together to systematize social justice in climate resilience? Join grassroots leaders from the Resilient Communities Initiative (RCI), and key agency staff from the Office of Planning and Research (OPR), California Department of Public Health, and other agencies in the second joint policy workshop in a series that seeks to identify how communities most at-risk from climate change can move … Continued 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: American Indian Genocide and Standing Rock @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Occupy Forum: American Indian Genocide and Standing Rock @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Nov 14 @ 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! American Indian Genocide and Standing Rock with Deni Leonard OccupyForum is proud to once again host Deni Leonard who will speak about Standing Rock, the general history of Tribal Governments’ relationship with the U.S. Federal Government, and issues which are present today. Biography of Deni Leonard: Served as National Chairman of the G.I. Alliance which directed the protests at the U.S. Army … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Nov 14 @ 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	6:30 am NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION #NODAPL @ San Francisco Civic Center Plaza NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION #NODAPL @ San Francisco Civic Center Plaza Nov 15 @ 6:30 am – 7:30 am Tickets Bay Area Stands for No Dakota Access Pipeline Host: Idle No More SF Bay, Diablo Rising Tide, 350.org National Day of Action called by Indigenous Environmental Network and 350.org Sunrise Ceremony at San Francisco Civic Center Plaza followed by solidarity action and rally at the Army Corps of Engineers office, demanding they revoke the permits to bore under the Missouri River and complete a full Environmental Impact Statement. March to 455 Market St. @ 11th St. (just south of Van Ness), San Francisco More info 61935 9:00 am 2 DAYS of Court support for folks arrested at election protests @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse 2 DAYS of Court support for folks arrested at election protests @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse Nov 15 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Please come out to support folks who got arrested in the streets on protesting the election. MONDAY and TUESDAY 9am Monday morning at Wiley Manuel Dept 112.61973 4:00 pm Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline: Day of Action in Albany @ Citibank Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline: Day of Action in Albany @ Citibank Nov 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets The movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline is growing stronger by the day, and it’s time for all of us to rise up and play a role in this fight. Join us on Tuesday, November 15 for a solidarity action and rally at the Citibank Branch office in Albany at 1377 Solano Avenue at 4 pm calling on them to revoke the funding for this dirty oil pipeline. The Army Corps fast-tracked the Dakota Access Pipeline without proper consultation, and as a result, bulldozers are approaching Standing Rock as … Continued 7:30 pm Medea Benjamin: Kingdom of the Unjust @ Hillside Club Medea Benjamin: Kingdom of the Unjust @ Hillside Club Nov 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Code Pink present: The co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange courageously explores the curious relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, a country long infamous for brutally repressing women and dissidents, supporting terrorists worldwide, and promoting Wahhabism, the most extreme interpretation of Islam. Assuming you live in the United States, you should be aware of how much effort your government puts into facilitating and defending the crimes of Saudi Arabia. The Saud royal family keeps millions desperately poor. They send religion police around to beat the hell out of people, … Continued	9:00 am 2 DAYS of Court support for folks arrested at election protests @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse 2 DAYS of Court support for folks arrested at election protests @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse Nov 16 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Please come out to support folks who got arrested in the streets on protesting the election. MONDAY and TUESDAY 9am Monday morning at Wiley Manuel Dept 112.61973 9:45 am All Hands on Deck for Refinery Emissions Cap: BAAQMD Board Meeting @ Bay Area Air Quality Management District Office All Hands on Deck for Refinery Emissions Cap: BAAQMD Board Meeting @ Bay Area Air Quality Management District Office Nov 16 @ 9:45 am – 12:00 pm Tickets We need to make our voices heard! It looks like we can no longer count on next spring’s scheduled vote by the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) on our proposal to set strict limits on pollution from oil refineries—greenhouse gases, toxic gases (NOx and SOx), and dangerous particulate matter. This proposed regulation would stop oil refineries from increasing the amount of pollution they emit, and it will be in trouble unless we turn things around. Emission caps are crucial not only for protecting our health and safety and the planet, … Continued 2:30 pm Meeting & Video: 5 Years After Fukushima & US Bases and War In And On Okinawa @ Berkeley Main Library Community Room 3rd Floor Meeting & Video: 5 Years After Fukushima & US Bases and War In And On Okinawa @ Berkeley Main Library Community Room 3rd Floor Nov 16 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets [Event] Meeting Video 5 Years After Fukushima & US Bases and War In And On Okinawa https://t.co/bAS0uDusTs— Indybay (@Indybay) November 8, 2016 61954 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 Nov 16 @ 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 Coalition to Free Mumia Planning Meeting @ Omni Commons Coalition to Free Mumia Planning Meeting @ Omni Commons Nov 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Plan for the December 9th Day of Action.61923 7:00 pm Support Immigrant Students Suing Berkeley School District for Racially Targeted Interrogations @ Berkeley Unified School District Support Immigrant Students Suing Berkeley School District for Racially Targeted Interrogations @ Berkeley Unified School District Nov 16 @ 7:00 pm Tickets Tell the Berkeley School Board: No More Racially Targeted Interrogations of Students! Immigrant Students and Families Announce Lawsuit Against the Berkeley School District: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 7pm Press Conference 7:30pm Speak out inside (fill out speakers cards before) 1231 Addison Street, Berkeley, California Please join us this Wednesday as we return to the Berkeley School Board to support Yvette Felarca’s ELD (English as a Second Language) students, whose families will be announcing their lawsuit against the Berkeley Unified School District for racially targeting them for interrogation and … Continued 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Anti Police-Terror Project Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Nov 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 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.61985	7:00 pm Occupy the Farm Film Screening – SF @ Exploratorium Occupy the Farm Film Screening – SF @ Exploratorium Nov 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets 61992 7:00 pm Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Ballroom Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Ballroom Nov 17 @ 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 Palestinian-American human rights lawyer Noura Erakat! @ First Congregational Palestinian-American human rights lawyer Noura Erakat! @ First Congregational Nov 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Noura will speak about “From Occupation to Warfare: How Israel Expanded its use of Force and Diminished Palestinian Resistance.” With Special Guest Palestinian musician Yara Mubarak Tickets: $10 low income, $15 general, $25 supporter, $50 freedom fighter, $100 change-maker! NOURA ERAKAT is a human rights attorney, activist, and Assistant Professor at George Mason University. She is a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an ezine on the Middle East and an Editorial Committee member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. While an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, Noura helped launch the first … Continued	7:00 am TOGETHER WE RISE! @ Civic Center Park TOGETHER WE RISE! @ Civic Center Park Nov 18 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am Tickets An Invitation to All of Berkeley Please join us for an all-community Sunrise Gathering to reaffirm Berkeley’s great tradition of progressive action TOGETHER WE RISE! Please forward this invitation to your neighborhood lists, friends, schools, congregations, colleagues and more . . . Before work or school please join in a community celebration of Berkeley’s shared values in Civic Center Park to watch the sun rise and stand together. This is a celebration! In the wake of the national election, let’s join to reaffirm our deeply held values of inclusiveness, diversity, … Continued 12:00 pm Mothers on the March Against Police Murders @ DA Gascon's Office Mothers on the March Against Police Murders @ DA Gascon's Office Nov 18 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members from 12:00 – 2:00 every Friday to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest. Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER! We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered. Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media. 61924 5:00 pm BART RALLY for JAMES “NATE” GREER @ Lake Merritt BART BART RALLY for JAMES “NATE” GREER @ Lake Merritt BART Nov 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets James “Nate” Greer was killed by Hayward and BART Police on May 23, 2014. Please support us in love and solidarity for our fight for his justice at a rally and candle light vigil on Friday November 18, @ 5:00 pm. We will all meet outside the Lake Merritt Bart Station in Oakland. We welcome other coalitions, families and activists to share their stories as well and memorialize the loss of their loved ones, who were killed by police. Feel free to bring posters, banners. We are all in this … Continued	10:00 am Free Thanksgiving Meal @ New Parkway Theater Free Thanksgiving Meal @ New Parkway Theater Nov 19 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am Tickets Free thanksgiving meals for the community this Sat. Spread the word for those who might need it! @LibbySchaaf @Abel_Guillen @Kaplan4Oakland pic.twitter.com/NMR9GenItT— Oak Life Church (@oaklifechurch) November 15, 2016 61994 11:00 am Direct Action Training @ Omni Oakland Commons Direct Action Training @ Omni Oakland Commons Nov 19 @ 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Tickets For all those engaging in direct action against the machine, this is a primer on civil disobedience, legal rights, first aid at protests, and digital security. Free admission, all welcome – come for the day or for a single session. 11-11:15am: Welcome – Omni Commons Intro to the day’s agenda, space logistics, etc 11:15am-1pm: Direct Action Workshop – Krystof Lopaur Overview of direct action tactics, security culture, and basics of civil disobedience. 1-2:30pm: Legal / Know Your Rights – Ben Rosenfeld Encounters with cops, knowing one’s rights in the legal … Continued 12:00 pm Community Town Hall for a Jail-Free San Francisco! @ Redstone Bldg Community Town Hall for a Jail-Free San Francisco! @ Redstone Bldg Nov 19 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets There is just under a week left before the No New SF Jail Coalition’s upcoming town hall on our next steps towards a jail-free city. On December 1st, the SF Board of Supervisors will review a series of proposals put forth by the city’s work group on alternatives to the jail at 850 Bryant. Though we successfully advanced recommendations of bail reform, supportive housing and services, we will need to keep up the pressure in order to move the city away from its reliance on jails. While we have a … Continued 12:00 pm Dump Trump Rally & March – San Francisco @ Civic Center Dump Trump Rally & March – San Francisco @ Civic Center Nov 19 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Fight Back Against Racism, Sexism, and Bigotry! Donald Trump is the next President of the United States. His racist, sexist and bigoted program offers false solutions for a real crisis. He will continue the same policies of the establishment and elites that he claimed to be pushing back against. The same Democratic Party elites that spent the majority of the campaign painting a Trump presidency as a catastrophic threat to the world are now demanding that we unite behind him. They aren’t going to stand in the way of the … Continued 12:00 pm East Bay Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives @ Lakeshore Farmers Market East Bay Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives @ Lakeshore Farmers Market Nov 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Join SURJ at Grand Lake Famers’ Market corner of Lakeshore and MacArthur Blvd. in Oakland, rain or shine, to call attention to injustice and demonstrate solidarity. Throughout the East Bay and nationally, folks have been holding weekly gatherings on prominent street corners and freeway overpasses, holding signs and making visible our support for Black communities in these critical times. These gatherings – or “human billboards” – have been a simple yet effective way of channeling anger and sadness over injustice into collective action by demonstrating solidarity.61950 2:00 pm Resource Fair: Together We Can! @ Oakland Peace Center Resource Fair: Together We Can! @ Oakland Peace Center Nov 19 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets If you feel a drive to do something about the environment, immigrants’ rights, healthcare, Black Lives Matter, indigenous rights, reducing bullying, increasing a culture of peace and inclusion, or any other issues to make this community better, please come to this gathering and learn about the ways you can participate! Whether you are a long time activist or have never attended a rally in your life, your contributions matter! Confirmed organizations (more to come!): * Anti-Assault & Hate Crime Intervention Trainings * Arab Resource and Organizing Center * Asian Americans … Continued 2:00 pm Trump’s Mudslide to Victory – What Happened and Now What? @ UC Berkeley, 183 Dwinelle Hall Trump’s Mudslide to Victory – What Happened and Now What? @ UC Berkeley, 183 Dwinelle Hall Nov 19 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets What can we learn from this election? Was this a protest vote by part of the working class? Is it a racist backlash? We need to untangle myth and reality in order to respond to this situation. Join us for a presentation and discussion on the election from a socialist perspective. 61995 6:00 pm Fundraiser Show for the Land Action 4 @ Omni Commons Fundraiser Show for the Land Action 4 @ Omni Commons Nov 19 @ 6:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets Benefit show for the Land Action 4 legal defense fund. The courts are really dragging us through the wringer…. So far, our estimated out of pocket expense is about $10k and that is with all of our lawyers donating all of their time!! So, what do we do? Throw a parrrrrty!!!!! Come out for some slammingly stellar musical performances, drinks, friends and all the good stuff. $8-$28 Suggested and highly appreciated donation notaflof The line up: Leftover Crack http://www.leftovercrack.rocks/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aIf5_U5OG4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhucBTHN4yU Mystic Priestess https://www.facebook.com/MysticPriestess777/?fref=ts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi9-iGpr834 Kicker http://kickersucks.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MPFQE5h-lE Rapid Decline … Continued 7:00 pm Mr. Fred Gray Lecture – Lawyer for Rosa Parks @ Marriott Hotel Mr. Fred Gray Lecture – Lawyer for Rosa Parks @ Marriott Hotel Nov 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets You are invited to the next lecture featuring Civil Rights Lawyer, Mr. Fred Gray from Tuskegee, Alabama. Mr. Gray was the lawyer for Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery Improvement Association. He was also Dr. King’s personal lawyer. Mr. Gray continues practicing law today, and he has been integrally involved in the struggles to transform public schools, colleges, and universities into exemplars of educational democracy. 61798 7:00 pm MultiMedia Event for Radical Health @ 924 Gilman MultiMedia Event for Radical Health @ 924 Gilman Nov 19 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets A benefit for NEED (Berkeley’s needle exchange) and the Radical Mental Health Collective. Space Toilet Skank Bank Film: OASIS… One Mission: Nobody Dies From Hep C” followed by Q&A with filmmaker I-MAN BANJO Invisible Cinema 61928 8:00 pm Thanks Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving @ La Peña Cultural Center Thanks Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving @ La Peña Cultural Center Nov 19 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Host: La Peña and the Free Land Project ‘ Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving is an annual cultural arts event that brings Native and non-Native artists, activists and communities together to explore the complex history of Thanksgiving and to acknowledge the legacy of U.S. colonialism and genocide against Native Americans. More Info There’s also a program for kids & families, 10:00 – 11:00 am More info 61936

Week of November 13

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.