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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 7:00 pm Free Movie: Zero Patience @ Longhaul Free Movie: Zero Patience @ Longhaul Jan 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Free Movie to ring in the new year: Zero Patience (2005 – 100 minutes – dir. John Greyson) A radical musical about AIDS featuring sexy heros — like we’re going to need in 2017. Highly recommended cult classic 62172 7:00 pm Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Jan 1 @ 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	5:30 pm Earth2Trump Roadshow of Resistance @ Omni Commons Earth2Trump Roadshow of Resistance @ Omni Commons Jan 2 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join the Center for Biological Diversity to kick off its #Earth2Trump Roadshow of Resistance—a cross-country tour headed for Inauguration Day in Washington D.C., building a network of resistance along the way. This a movement-building event, the kind of pump-you-up gathering we’re all hungry for right now. The kick-off will include powerful speakers, badass music and a night to share with others in the growing movement of resistance to Trump’s agenda. To help kick off this roadshow in style are spoken-word artist AshEL Eldridge, folk rocker Casey Neill, and Afrobrazilian band … Continued 5:30 pm Earth2Trump Roadshow of Resistance Kick-off Rally: Oakland @ Omni Commons Earth2Trump Roadshow of Resistance Kick-off Rally: Oakland @ Omni Commons Jan 2 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join the Center for Biological Diversity to kick off our #Earth2TrumpRoadshow of Resistance — a cross-country tour headed for Inauguration Day in Washington D.C., building a network of resistance along the way. We’d love to have your there! This a movement-building event — the kind of pump-you-up gathering you’ve been hungry for. Take a moment and RSVP for this FREE event on this page and right here:http://ow.ly/FYIh30786it The kick-off will include powerful speakers, badass music, and a night to share with others in the growing movement of resistance to Trump’s … Continued 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Jan 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets 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 first Monday, starting December 5th61476	6:30 pm January Spokescouncil Meetings for MLK Week of Action! @ Omni Commons or First AME Church or elsewhere - see text January Spokescouncil Meetings for MLK Week of Action! @ Omni Commons or First AME Church or elsewhere - see text Jan 3 @ 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	5:00 pm Community Response to Oakland Fire and Housing Crisis @ City Council Chambers, Oakland City Hall Community Response to Oakland Fire and Housing Crisis @ City Council Chambers, Oakland City Hall Jan 4 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Community Assembly Call Out in Response to Oakland Fire and Housing Crisis The Post Salon Community Assembly, community organizations and individuals throughout the city will come together after the first of the year to build a unified response to the displacement that is occurring in the wake of the Ghost Ship fire, homelessness, eviction of non-profits from downtown Oakland and the crisis of affordable housing that the city is facing. The assembly will take place in City Hall chambers at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 4. Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan has … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State in the Age of Trump. @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State in the Age of Trump. @ Omni Commons Jan 4 @ 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 and San Francisco County Boards 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 … Continued	5:00 pm Public Hearing on a Surveillance Equipment Regulation Ordinance @ City Hall, Council Chambers Public Hearing on a Surveillance Equipment Regulation Ordinance @ City Hall, Council Chambers Jan 5 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission will be conducting a public hearing on the draft Surveillance Technology Ordinance. Here is the draft which has been recently modified and approved to form for submission. Oakland-Ordinance-12-16-16 Please share this information widely to encourage public comment as the Commission prepares to submit this draft to the Oakland City Council. Comments can be submitted ahead of time directly to jdevries@oaklandnet.com. For more information about the Commission, visit the website: http://www2.oaklandnet.com/OAK057463 Schedule: 5:10pm: Presentation on Surveillance Equipment Ordinance by Nuala O’Connor, President and CEO of Center for Democracy … Continued 6:30 pm Labor Rising Against Trump Bay Area Meeting @ Omni Commons Disco Room Labor Rising Against Trump Bay Area Meeting @ Omni Commons Disco Room Jan 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Please note that the disco room at the Omni is upstairs and is not accessible for folks with physical disabilities who cannot get up a flight of stairs. 62228 6:30 pm The Root Cause: Documentary Screening, Panel & Potluck @ BFUU The Root Cause: Documentary Screening, Panel & Potluck @ BFUU Jan 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Root Cause is a documentary film about the impact humans have had upon the earth and its creatures. In the film scholars present their research about changes that are already taking place on earth and those we can expect in the future. The scholars conclude that human activity on the planet is a geological force, changing the climate and the oceans, reshaping the landscape, causing pollution, and driving extinctions of other species. As a result, human civilization as we know it is facing its own demise. Can humans change … Continued	4:30 pm All Out for Oscar Lopez Rivera @ LAKEVIEW LIBRARY All Out for Oscar Lopez Rivera @ LAKEVIEW LIBRARY Jan 6 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets All Out for Oscar! Oscar has been imprisoned for almost 36 years for the charge of seditious conspiracy. The only legal remedy left is a presidential pardon or commutation. All sectors of Puerto Rican society, Nobel laureates, Latin American leaders, Former President Carter and Senator Bernie Sanders have all called for his release. Let’s celebrate Oscar’s 74th birthday on January 6 by joining the hundred thousand who petitioned the White House and demand: FREE OSCAR LOPEZ RIVERA NOW! You can also CONTACT The White House on JAN 6 and 13 … Continued 5:30 pm Oakland First Friday: 11th Anniversary Event + Ghostship Tribute @ Telegraph Avenue, uptown Oakland First Friday: 11th Anniversary Event + Ghostship Tribute @ Telegraph Avenue, uptown Jan 6 @ 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets 11 Years Ago, in the city of Oakland… A collective of art gallery owners now known as Art Murmur, created a free once-a-month art gallery walk. The event became so successful, that galleries became overwhelmed with the amount of attendees who began overflowing into city streets. To protect pedestrians and provide greater accessibility to the non-gallery community, participating collective Rock Paper Scissors (RPS), filed for a monthly permit to block the streets from auto-traffic under an event dubbed “The 23rd St. Fair.” This event turned into what is now Oakland … Continued	10:00 am No More Presidents No More Presidents Jan 7 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets 62168 10:00 am Rosca de Reyes Community Feed & Outreach – Justice 4 Luís! Rosca de Reyes Community Feed & Outreach – Justice 4 Luís! Jan 7 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets On Luis’s 9th month commemoration, SAT. JANUARY 7th 10am-1pm, we will celebrate the Mexican tradition of sharing Rosca de Reyes by breaking bread and drinking hot chocolate, and expressing generosity towards our homeless encampment neighbors by bringing a few basic material gifts for them (e.g. socks.) For our Coalition, this is also the critical start to the next three months of organizing leading up to the 1 year anniversary of Luis’s killing. Let’s get there together with his family in San Francisco and Yucatán! We’ll announce the first court date … Continued 2:00 pm Alameda Renters Coalition @ Buena Vista Methodist Church Alameda Renters Coalition @ Buena Vista Methodist Church Jan 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Come out to the first ARC General Meeting of the new year! At this meeting, members will: – Hear from and vote on a new President for ARC! – Preview a draft of the organization’s new bylaws – Meet the new tenant organizers who are starting in January – Discuss and vote on top policy changes for Ordinance 3148 Let’s organize and fight back to get the protections we need. See you on January 7! Location TBA — stay tuned.62224 2:00 pm January Spokescouncil Meetings for MLK Week of Action! @ First AME Church January Spokescouncil Meetings for MLK Week of Action! @ First AME Church Jan 7 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 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 Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baguette Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baguette Jan 7 @ 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 8:00 pm Ghost Ship Benefit @ Starline Social Club Ghost Ship Benefit @ Starline Social Club Jan 7 @ 8:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets Starline is hosting a benefit gig for the Immediate Oakland Fire Relief Fund, featuring Rituals of Mine, Wax Idols, Anticon artist JEL, Kool A.D. with Cult Days, and more. More info: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/rituals-of-mine-ghost-ship-benefit/Content?oid=5072561 62229

Week of January 1

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.