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Print some beautiful #NoBanNoWall/#SanctuaryForAll art from @designaction https://t.co/7SUQPlgECm #NoMuslimBanSFO pic.twitter.com/5Kindmh76O— San Francisco Rising (@SF_Rising) January 29, 2017 62335 2:00 pm Mass Incarceration Communities: What’s Next? @ Paramount Theater Mass Incarceration Communities: What’s Next? @ Paramount Theater Jan 29 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 62336 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 29 @ 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 6:00 pm Indivisible Berkeley, second organizing meeting @ BFUU adjunct Indivisible Berkeley, second organizing meeting @ BFUU adjunct Jan 29 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We will reconvene in a large group first, welcoming new members, and then break up into teams to strategize and plan our next moves to defeat the Trump agenda and re-elect progressive candidates in California and nation-wide. We’ll be in the same location as our first meeting (second floor of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Bonita Ave Entrance)62338 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons - Disco Room Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons - Disco Room Jan 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 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 … Continued 7:00 pm Liberated Lens film night: MASHPEE NINE @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens film night: MASHPEE NINE @ Omni Commons Jan 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Mashpee Nine: The Beat Goes On is a story of injustice, outrage, activism, and vindication that emboldened cultural pride and integrity for the Wampanoag in Mashpee, Massachusetts nearly 40 years ago. The story begins with a July 29, 1976, midnight police raid, SWAT style, on a camp for Mashpee children at the site of a recreated 17th century Wampanoag village. The drummers—some in tents for the night, others talking around the fire—were set upon, handcuffed and arrested by police in riot gear with dogs. The police destroyed the camp and … Continued	8:15 am Resist New Challenges to Refinery Emissions Cap @ Bay Area Air Quality Management District Resist New Challenges to Refinery Emissions Cap @ Bay Area Air Quality Management District Jan 30 @ 8:15 am – 12:00 pm Tickets The next critical mobilization in support of a cap on refinery emissions is at the next meeting of the Stationary Source Committee of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). Once again, mass turnout is essential for challenging escalating Staff opposition to Rule 12-16 and for maintaining the support of our Board allies. BAAQMD staff continues trying to block evaluation and passage of Rule 12-16, the Community-Worker proposal for caps on refinery emissions. We must push back. At the Board’s annual retreat on January 18th, we made every effort to respect … Continued 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? – Film Showing @ The Black and Brown Social Club Occupy Forum: Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? – Film Showing @ The Black and Brown Social Club Jan 30 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! OccupyForum presents “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream” a Documentary, and skype discussion with director Donald Goldmacher Heist traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled “Attack on American Free Enterprise System.” Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell at the behest of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called … Continued	12:00 pm 100 Bears Unite Against DeVos #ResistTrumpTuesdays @ Federal Bldg Oakland 100 Bears Unite Against DeVos #ResistTrumpTuesdays @ Federal Bldg Oakland Jan 31 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets BEARS UNITE! Bay Area families and teachers are gathering on Tuesday, January 31st to oppose the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as the Secretary of Education. During her confirmation hearing, DeVos revealed her extreme lack of knowledge about public education, saying students and teachers should be armed against bears. She’s also a multi-billionaire with many financial conflicts of interest. DeVos’ policy of moving public funding into private schools and charter corporations has led to the destruction of public education in Michigan and will now hurt schools nationwide. It’s not the grizzly … Continued 12:00 pm Rally to Stop Trump’s #SwampCabinet, and say #NoBanNoWall! @ Federal Building Rally to Stop Trump’s #SwampCabinet, and say #NoBanNoWall! @ Federal Building Jan 31 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets We won’t stand idly by as Donald Trump and Republicans try to push through a shocking cabinet of billionaires and bigots – and we must speak out against Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders targeting Muslims, refugees, and immigrants. Last week and this past weekend, tens of thousands of us rallied peacefully at senate offices, airports, and other community locations. Members of Congress, other elected officials, and the media are taking notice. If we keep up the public protest, we can change the course of history. Will you join us again tomorrow … Continued 4:30 pm The Village at Oakland City Council @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza The Village at Oakland City Council @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 31 @ 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Come out to rally & make public comment at City Council for #TheVillage in #Oakland tomorrow Jan31 @ Oakland City Hall 4:30pm rally 5council— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 31, 2017 “Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people”-Marcus Garvey. Dont leave housing up to chance. Defend #TheVillage #homesnow pic.twitter.com/YqQxHikkE9 — The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) January 30, 2017 62355 6:00 pm Oakland City Council – Budget Allocation for Immigration Defense @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland City Council – Budget Allocation for Immigration Defense @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 31 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets THIS FROM THE CA SANCTUARY CAMPAIGN: The Oakland budget process is proceeding rapidly and we need to pay attention to the City Council meeting next Tuesday, 1/31, which is going to consider the whole budget and in particular $150K (item #8 on agenda) for a rapid response network of attorneys and counselors to defend those attacked and detained by ICE. (agenda: https://oakland.legistar.com/calendar.aspx ). For the last two weeks, we have been trying without success to reach out to City Council members to tell them they must allocate more of the … Continued	8:00 am NoDAPL, Wells Fargo Action! @ Meet at the Montgomery BART Station. Rally at Wells Fargo Bank NoDAPL, Wells Fargo Action! @ Meet at the Montgomery BART Station. Rally at Wells Fargo Bank Feb 1 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets We have just watched as President Trump has indicated he will sign an executive order that goes back on decades of progress and advances the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone XL pipeline. Let’s hit him where it hurts and go after the money. Many organizations and activists have come together in a campaign that goes after the critical loans funding DAPL like projects. Join us as we deliver a petition to the banks that demands divestment from the Dakota Access Pipeline and meetings with Indigenous leaders. This event is … Continued 4:00 pm Shut Down Milo at UC Berkeley @ MLK Student Union, 2nd Floor, UC Berkeley Shut Down Milo at UC Berkeley @ MLK Student Union, 2nd Floor, UC Berkeley Feb 1 @ 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets If this talk isn’t already cancelled, meet us on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 4pm outside of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center on the campus of UC Berkeley (on Bancroft Ave., just west of Telegraph). Bring your allies and friends! 62362 5:30 pm SF Police Commission Hearing:Urge SFPD Follow Sanctuary City Law @ SF City Hall, Room 400 SF Police Commission Hearing:Urge SFPD Follow Sanctuary City Law @ SF City Hall, Room 400 Feb 1 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Take Action Now! 1. Join us at the Police Commission hearing at 5:30 p.m. on February 1st, SF City Hall, Room 400. Resist Trump, and show your support for our local communities! 2. If you can’t make it to the hearing, send an email to the Police Commission, the Mayor, and the Board of Supervisors, and ask them to make the SFPD train its officers and promise not to violate our sanctuary city law! Draft email included at the end of this post. 3. Spread the word: Share this link … Continued 6:00 pm No Fascists on Campus: Shut Down Milo at UC Berkeley @ Pauley Ballroom MLK Student Union, 2nd Floor, UC Berkeley No Fascists on Campus: Shut Down Milo at UC Berkeley @ Pauley Ballroom MLK Student Union, 2nd Floor, UC Berkeley Feb 1 @ 6:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets The Berkeley College Republicans have invited far-right agitator Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at UC Berkeley on February 1st. Given the recent increase in fascist activity both on and around the UC Berkeley campus, we feel that the university’s willingness to provide a platform to Milo Yiannopoulos and his views is unacceptable, and we intend to shut this event down. We are inviting all allies and the Berkeley community to join us in making UC Berkeley a fascist-free zone. Yiannopoulos is one of the many online trolls who successfully capitalized on … Continued 6:00 pm No Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley @ MLK Student Union, 2nd Floor, UC Berkeley No Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley @ MLK Student Union, 2nd Floor, UC Berkeley Feb 1 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the far right – racists, Islamophobes and misogynists are attempting to come out into the light and gain a foothold across the country. We have to show them that we won’t tolerate any rise in far right activity. We will come together to fight oppression and prevent them from having a platform in our universities. They aim to recruit mainly young, alienated white men to their politics of white supremacy, xenophobia, and misogyny. Join us and unite against oppression and against a corporate … 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 Feb 1 @ 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 7:00 pm L.A. Kauffman on Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism @ City Lights Bookstore L.A. Kauffman on Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism @ City Lights Bookstore Feb 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets L.A. Kauffman discussing her new book: Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism from Verso Press A vibrant, groundbreaking history of American radicalism since the Sixties What happened to the American left after the Sixties? This engrossing account traces the evolution of disruptive protest over the last 40 years to tell a larger story about the reshaping of American radicalism, showing how the direct-action blockades, occupations, and campaigns of recent activist movements have functioned as laboratories for political experimentation and renewal. Propelled by more than 100 candid interviews … Continued	2:00 am Emergency Defense of The Village aka The Promised Land @ The Village Emergency Defense of The Village aka The Promised Land @ The Village Feb 2 @ 2:00 am – 6:00 pm Tickets Despite The Village creating safe, sustainable solutions for unhoused residents and an outpouring of community support, DPW has told us that they will be arriving on Thursday to evacuate this land and force vulnerable people back into uncertain situations. We need EVERYONE this Thursday bright and early head to The Village aka The Promised Land to defend the sanctuary of homes, tents and direct services from the police and public works threat to destroy it. Come today and help prepare. Come early tomorrow and stay all night. Check in the … Continued 4:00 am Emergency Defense of The Village aka The Promised Land @ The Village Emergency Defense of The Village aka The Promised Land @ The Village Feb 2 @ 4:00 am – 6:00 pm Tickets Despite The Village creating safe, sustainable solutions for unhoused residents and an outpouring of community support, DPW has told us that they will be arriving on Thursday to evacuate this land and force vulnerable people back into uncertain situations. We need EVERYONE this Thursday bright and early head to The Village aka The Promised Land to defend the sanctuary of homes, tents and direct services from the police and public works threat to destroy it. Come today and help prepare. Come early tomorrow and stay all night. Check in the … Continued 9:00 am Sean Moore Bail Hearing Support @ Department 9 Sean Moore Bail Hearing Support @ Department 9 Feb 2 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am Tickets Peaceful support for victim and his family. Mr. Moore’s bail is set at $2 Million. He was assaulted then shot by SFPD in his own home for being loud while black. He needs medical treatment, not incarceration.62354 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – License Plate Reader Technology @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – License Plate Reader Technology @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 2 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Agenda: 1. 5:00pm: Call to Order, determination of quorum. 2. 5:05pm: Review and approval of January 5 meeting minutes. 3. 5:10pm: Presentation on Automated License Plate Readers by Oakland Police Department. 4. 5:20pm: Presentation on Automated License Plate Readers by Cyrus Farivar, Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica. 5. 5:30pm: Presentation on Automated License Plate Readers by Mike Katz-Lacabe, Director of Research at Center for Human Rights and Privacy. 6. 5:40pm: Review and discuss current Oakland Police Department Automated License Plate Reader policy. No action on this item will be … Continued 7:30 pm Steve Early presents “Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and Remaking an American City” @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Steve Early presents “Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and Remaking an American City” @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Feb 2 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Labor author STEVE EARLY with GAYLE McGLAUGHLIN + ANDRES SOTO present “Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money and the Remaking of an American City.” “As Washington remains in gridlock, the everyday citizen-heroes of Richmond, California have been getting things done to make their city work for all.”—Robert Reich KPFA event co-sponsored by 22 progressive organizations as a tribute to Steve Early and former mayor Gayle McGlaughlin and all participants in this successful creative struggle against corporate power. Tickets at brownpapertickets.com and many indie bookshops. Don’t miss this! Tickets: $12 advance: … Continued	1:00 pm Data, Science, and the Future of Democracy @ 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley Campus Data, Science, and the Future of Democracy @ 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley Campus Feb 3 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Conference/Symposium Sponsor: Berkeley Institute for Data Science Trust in basic democratic institutions is dropping and has been for years. Trust in facts, data, and science also seem to be eroding in what is being called a “post-fact” world. What is going on? And what can be done about it? Please join us for a mini unconference to discuss ways academics and data scientists might constructively improve our democratic infrastructure. This will be an open forum for people representing a range of perspectives to discuss concerns and potential solutions. All perspectives are … Continued 5:30 pm Black History Month Film Series @ Oakland City Hall, City Council Chambers Black History Month Film Series @ Oakland City Hall, City Council Chambers Feb 3 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Free. Each documentary will begin promptly at 5:30 PM, discussion afterwards. Food provided. Feb 3 – John Henrik Clarke – A Great and Mighty Walk Feb 10 – The House I Live In Feb 17 – The Night Tulsa Burned Feb 24th – 13th 62380	12:00 pm Townhall on Homelessness – Suitcase Clinic, Berkeley @ Anna Head Alumnae Hall Townhall on Homelessness – Suitcase Clinic, Berkeley @ Anna Head Alumnae Hall Feb 4 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Lunch will be provided! We will reimburse you for transit (keep your receipt) YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED62365 2:00 pm Black History, Past, Present, and Future @ Starry Plough Black History, Past, Present, and Future @ Starry Plough Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Suds, Snacks, & Socialism at the Starry Plough The Peace and Freedom Party presents Black History, Past, Present, and Future As we build our resistance to the continued and intensified attacks on the working class, we realize that all Americans can learn from the Black resistance to racism, capitalism, and imperialism. To discuss how Black history can inform our current struggles, we have invited Devonte Jackson, from Black Lives Matter, Deandre Crenshaw, from Hip Hop for Change, and Gerald Smith, from the Oscar Grant Committee (OGC). This is part of … Continued 3:00 pm NoBanNoWall SF Protest @ UN Plaza NoBanNoWall SF Protest @ UN Plaza Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Join the Resistance Against Donald Trump’s racist and exclusionary Executive Orders. We will not allow our country to be divided by hate and religious persecution. Join us in sharing your immigration stories and standing in solidarity with all our brothers and sisters. Immigrants Make America Great. We stand with our undocumented brothers and sisters. We stand with our refugee brothers and sisters. We stand with our immigrant brothers and sisters. This event is peaceful and inclusive and will not tolerate any violence or hate speech. 62384

Week of January 29

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.