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All-day				Defund Police Militarization: No Urban Shield 2017 Defund Police Militarization: No Urban Shield 2017 Dec 15 all-day Tickets Take action here! Urban Shield is a regional, national and global weapons exposition and SWAT training. It is funded by the Department of Homeland Security via the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department. Every year, local police, fire and health departments from cities all over the Bay Area (and a few foreign countries) come together to perform drills and practices throughout the region, all mandated to have a nexus to terrorism. By focusing the majority of the training given to local departments on extremely violent responses, Urban Shield immerses local SWAT teams … Continued	Defund Police Militarization: No Urban Shield 2017 Defund Police Militarization: No Urban Shield 2017 Dec 16 all-day Tickets Take action here! Urban Shield is a regional, national and global weapons exposition and SWAT training. It is funded by the Department of Homeland Security via the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department. Every year, local police, fire and health departments from cities all over the Bay Area (and a few foreign countries) come together to perform drills and practices throughout the region, all mandated to have a nexus to terrorism. By focusing the majority of the training given to local departments on extremely violent responses, Urban Shield immerses local SWAT teams … Continued
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We will gather to … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Dec 11 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (In prior years we have agreed … Continued 5:00 pm Bill of Rights Day @ Impact Hub Bill of Rights Day @ Impact Hub Dec 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets The first 100 people to arrive will get a free pocket Constitution! GET YOUR TICKETS You’re invited to the 2016 Bill of Rights Day when we celebrate the goals we’ve achieved together and look ahead to even greater challenges. We know that you may be concerned about the presidential election results. Many of the proposed policies are unlawful and unconstitutional. The ACLU is swinging into high gear, ready for whatever awaits us. Since our founding, we’ve worked together to defend the constitutional rights and freedoms of all Californians. Rest assured … Continued 6:30 pm Humanism vs. fascism @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Humanism vs. fascism @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Dec 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets On the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution: Humanism vs. fascism, opposing capitalism then and now Hailed by Martin Luther King, Jr., Hungarian revolutionaries in 1956 not only created a new form of direct democracy in Workers’ Councils but raised Marx’s humanism as freedom from Communism. “The goal of human development, the form of human society,” which Marx had warned is not communism, took center stage against the single-party-state. Today various forms of humanism, from Black Lives Matter to Prisoners’ Human Rights Movement, also project humanism as an answer to … Continued 7:00 pm Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Dec 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We document current events, make films together, steward an editing suite and share a film equipment library. We also host film screenings, often with local directors, and put on an annual short film festival for independent Bay Area filmmakers. Our goal is to make the digital filmmaking accessible – no overpriced college degree or certificate program required! We are also a good group to reach out to if you’d like to screen a film at the Omni. We can be reached at [ liberatedlens@lists.riseup.net ]. We usually meet in the … Continued	6:00 pm Occupy Forum – Alan Haber, the Port Huron Statement, Occupy and a Blueprint for Action @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Occupy Forum – Alan Haber, the Port Huron Statement, Occupy and a Blueprint for Action @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor Dec 12 @ 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! Alan Haber, SDS: The Port Huron Statement, Occupy, and a Blueprint for Action In the 50 years since its initial publication, Tom Hayden has attracted the bulk of media attention surrounding the Port Huron Statement. He wrote much of the original text and served as its high-profile articulator and leader of its execution. But it’s the lesser-known Robert Alan (Al) Haber who … Continued 6:00 pm Stop Eviction: Honor the Dead, Fight for the Living @ Grand Lake Theater Stop Eviction: Honor the Dead, Fight for the Living @ Grand Lake Theater Dec 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets 62121 7:00 pm Anti Police-Terror Project ~ Sustaining the Soul of Activism Workshop @ Oakland Peace Center Anti Police-Terror Project ~ Sustaining the Soul of Activism Workshop @ Oakland Peace Center Dec 12 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets This workshop for APTP comrades supports the resilience and wellbeing of front line change-makers, justice seekers, organizers, and activists. Together we will explore: • How to keep alive and vital that place within us where the motivation to work for social change arises • How to not only “keep on keeping on,” but to keep on in a way that is transformative for us as individuals, for the organization, the movement, and the community • How to stay connected to the larger vision and purpose that inspires, uplifts, and sustains … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Dec 12 @ 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 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Dec 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets This month we had a conflict so the meeting will be held on the second Monday, December 12th at 7 PM at the Niebyl-Proctor Library. 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 … Continued	6:30 pm “Faulty Towers: Where do we go from here in contingent academic labor organizing?” @ SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 2nd floor “Faulty Towers: Where do we go from here in contingent academic labor organizing?” @ SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 2nd floor Dec 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets “Faulty Towers: Where do we go from here in contingent academic labor organizing?” By Jessica Lawless, who is a former adjunct professor and current organizer for SEIU 1021’s Northern California Faculty Forward Campaign. This is part of the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meeting. The talk will be preceded by introductions and a short business meeting. This will be OLWA’s last meeting for 2016.62118 6:30 pm Spokescouncil Meetings for MLK Week of Action! @ OMNI Commons Spokescouncil Meetings for MLK Week of Action! @ OMNI Commons Dec 13 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets This year, Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project is calling on our Bay Area community to up the resistance level, as we reclaim the radical legacy of Martin Luther King and resist the fascist Trump agenda. This year the Reclaiming King’s Radical Legacy March on Monday (1/16) will launch 120 hours of direct action, culminating on #HellNawGuration Day (1/20). This year we are focused on immigrant rights, protection of our Muslim brothers and sisters, womens reproductive rights, loving our LGBTQ sisters, brothers and siblings, and the defense of Black life. As is … Continued	4:00 pm Unite Here: CHRISTMAS LABOR ACTION at CASINO SAN PABLO @ Casino San Pablo Unite Here: CHRISTMAS LABOR ACTION at CASINO SAN PABLO @ Casino San Pablo Dec 14 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Casino San Pablo makes millions. Its workers are struggling to get out of poverty. This holiday season, stand with them! Casino San Pablo made $263 million* in FY 2014-15. But its workers make as little as $11 per hour – less than the minimum wage in nearby towns like Richmond, El Cerrito and Oakland. And the Casino’s proposed raise for its lowest-paid workers in 2017 is just 22 cents per hour! State labor laws don’t apply at the Casino, so workers are denied many of the basic rights that other … Continued 7:00 pm Intro to SURJ Bay Area Meeting @ Oakland Peace Center Intro to SURJ Bay Area Meeting @ Oakland Peace Center Dec 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Due to an overwhelming level of interest, we had to move this month’s meeting to a larger venue. Despite our best efforts to accommodate all who showed interest, the largest site we could secure is the Oakland Peace Center. We are sorry to have to limit attendance, but we have to adhere to the building’s fire safety rules. Note that we will be holding our next intro meeting on January 11 and would love to see you then, as well! At this meeting gathering, we will create an altar in … Continued 7:00 pm Support for Oakland DIY Spaces Meeting #2 @ Omni Commons Support for Oakland DIY Spaces Meeting #2 @ Omni Commons Dec 14 @ 7:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets We’ll be continuing the coordination of immediate responses toward making Oakland DIY spaces safer, in the short and long-term. The goal of this meeting will be to tighten coordination efforts and check-in on developments from various working groups since the last meeting, as well as getting new volunteers up to speed and involved. Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting; as volunteers, as members of DIY spaces, or simply as people wanting to know what is going on and how to help. * We do ask that all press remain … Continued	7:00 pm Convergence at the Border Berkeley Report Back @ BFUU Convergence at the Border Berkeley Report Back @ BFUU Dec 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Hear from a delegation from the Marin County Task Force that traveled from the San Francisco Bay Area to to participate at the US-Mexican Border to raise issues of immigration justice: (1) participate in a national convergence at the border to highlight the militarization of the southern border and the U.S.-sponsored militarization of Central American borders, and the human rights crisis of an unjust immigration system (2) support maquiladora workers, highlight the failures of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in protecting workers rights and demonstrate the dangers of … Continued 7:00 pm Eyewitness Aleppo: Journalist Eva Bartlett Reports @ Humanist Hall Eyewitness Aleppo: Journalist Eva Bartlett Reports @ Humanist Hall Dec 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Eyewitness Aleppo: Journalist Eva Bartlett Reports from Her Experience on the Ground: Independent Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett, newly arrived from Syria, will report on her experiences in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria, as will Gerry Condon, US Veterans for Peace VP and member of the US Peace Council Delegation to Syria. You will definitely hear much that you have not heard elsewhere, and perhaps question what you think you know about Syria. Eva lived in Gaza for three years and was one of the few western reporters present during the … Continued	1:30 pm Court Support for Manny! @ Hall of Justice Court Support for Manny! @ Hall of Justice Dec 16 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets We have received word from Manny’s attorney that this court appearance is important and that support in the audience is very likely to influence the judge! Manny was arrested in Burlingame at the Anti Trump demonstrations outside the Hyatt Hotel. (Remember in the Spring when Trump was so scared by demonstrators he had to sneak in through the back??) He has been fighting his charges ever since! We realize the peninsula is out of the normal area that we usually call for folks to give support, however, it would really … Continued	9:00 am Hold Citibank Accountable for DAPL @ All Over the East Bay at Citibank Branches Hold Citibank Accountable for DAPL @ All Over the East Bay at Citibank Branches Dec 17 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Standing Rock water protectors still urgently need our help. Efforts continue in our own backyard to encourage divestment from Citibank, that perpetual bad actor and financial ringleader of the global investors bankrolling the Dakota Access Pipeline. Because Energy Transfer Partners plans to go ahead with pipeline construction under the Missouri River despite the Army Corps of Engineers permit denial, it is more important than ever to stop the financing for this pipeline. Without investors, this project simply cannot move forward. Join us on Saturday, December 17th at Citibank branches across … Continued 10:00 am 2016 East Bay Anarchist Conversation and Book Event @ Humanist Hall 2016 East Bay Anarchist Conversation and Book Event @ Humanist Hall Dec 17 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets East Bay Anarchist Conversation and Book Event This year’s theme is Community: for good or ill. For anarchists the idea of community represents both an ideal and a practice. The ideal community is either explicitly anarchist, one that concerns itself with an anti-authoritarian rigor, challenging culturally normative standards like beauty, heterosexuality, diet, and bigotry or it is a broader group that allows anarchists to live within it, and listens to their concerns. The practice for anarchists, by and large, is identical to that of our neighbors— isolation, slavery to job … Continued 1:00 pm Alan Blueford Annual Birthday/Holiday Toy Giveaway @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice Alan Blueford Annual Birthday/Holiday Toy Giveaway @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice Dec 17 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 62092 4:00 pm America Was Never Great Demonstration and March – SF America Was Never Great Demonstration and March – SF Dec 17 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets March in the streets with homies & comrades: America was never great. It has always been a country where indigenous, black, brown, migrant, queer and trans folks y muchos más have been systematically exploited and attacked by the police, the state and fascists. This has been the colonial tradition of America. With the rise of yet another fascist as president on stolen land, the threat to our lives and communities deepens and we need to defend ourselves and each other, together, with all the love & rage that we feel. … Continued 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 Dec 17 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets (Backup location if Paris Baguette has no seating: Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, 14th & Broadway, 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 … Continued 5:30 pm International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers @ Omni Commons International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers @ Omni Commons Dec 17 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Speakers & Video Clips from the powerful documentary Tales of the Grim Sleeper on the serial murders of Black women in LA Vigil: Candlelit Procession Time to Remember and Honor those Lost Potluck: Fellowship Following the Vigil Please bring a dish to share Alcohol-free event Focus: The focus of the event is to honor those who have been affected by violence and as a fundraiser in support of the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders who have been organizing to get justice for the victims and families and to erect … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Underground United: a Benefit for the Ghost Ship Fires @ Eli's Mile High Club Oakland Underground United: a Benefit for the Ghost Ship Fires @ Eli's Mile High Club Dec 17 @ 7:00 pm – 10:45 pm Tickets Hey there everyone, we are all in mourning over the terrible tragedy of the Ghost Ship Fires this past weekend, and if you’re like us and want to help out, we’ll be holding a Fundraiser. Doors @ 7pm Performances from: Zack Bateman and The Coal Minds Blatherskite Toxic Shock Syndrome Georgia Sam Mykee Ramen (Solo) and LunaSol Music Hosted by Kylo Montez (Of Animation KO… and stuff) 21+ We will also have Vegan Baked goods for sale from Sonni Marina Echeverria-Corzan, Original art from Jessica Sun Lee, and some spinnin’ … Continued

Week of December 11

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.