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We need your participation and your voice! 12 PM — Introductory meeting for people new to Sunflower Alliance 1-3 PM — Sunflower Alliance General Assembly 62515 12:30 pm Healthcare For All: ‘Now is the Time’ Screening. @ New Parkway Theater Healthcare For All: ‘Now is the Time’ Screening. @ New Parkway Theater Mar 5 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets East Bay DSA is proud to present: NOW IS THE TIME Join us on March Fifth and learn more about the fight to make single payer healthcare a reality! Through interviews, animations and exposé, this new documentary film tells the story of the drama, struggle, and success of the movement towards healthcare equity. Aftwards, the filmmakers Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg will answer questions about the film and the state of healthcare in the United States. Sponsors: East Bay Democratic Socialists of America (EBDSA) Physicians for a National Health Program … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 5 @ 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 3:00 pm Open Circle – Monthly Meeting Open Circle – Monthly Meeting Mar 5 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Families directly impacted by police murder and people of the community who attend Open Circle have decided to take the necessary steps to repeal the California Police Officers’ Bill of Rights. As we know, trump believes the country needs more law enforcement, more community engagement, and more effective policing. We understand what this means for People of Color and have already begun to feel the consequences. We must unitedly intensify our efforts to put an end to this corrupt system, bring justice for the lives already lost to police murders, … Continued 6:00 pm Responding to Trump and What to Do: Fighting State Violence and Forced Displacement @ EastSide Arts Alliance Responding to Trump and What to Do: Fighting State Violence and Forced Displacement @ EastSide Arts Alliance Mar 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Escuela Comunitaria presents: This dialogue in the Latino community will be an evening of telling our stories, and the first showing of the new film ‘Where the Guns Go’, a documentary on U.S. weapons and testimonies of victims of organized crime and the drug war in Mexico. Organizado por Oakland Sin Fronteras, American Friends Service Committee, Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales, 67 Suenos, Encinal.62519 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Basement Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons Basement Mar 5 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 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	6:00 pm Occupy Forum: VJ Burma @ Black and Brown Social Club Occupy Forum: VJ Burma @ Black and Brown Social Club Mar 6 @ 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! “VJ Burma” Film Presentation and Short Talk by Ethan Davidson As our country seems to lurch closer and closer to extreme authoritarianism, it is useful to learn about how other people have successfully resisted extreme authoritarian government. The Saffron Revolution in Burma, and its video journalists, is one such example. In 2007, five years before Occupy, the people of Burma spontaneously organized a … Continued 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Mar 6 @ 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	9:00 am Court Support for Sean Moore @ Dept 20 Court Support for Sean Moore @ Dept 20 Mar 7 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Tickets Public Defender Jeff Adachi believes the officers should have used crisis intervention techniques. “Mr. Moore did not have to be shot and the officers, had they properly used deescalation techniques, would have gone home.”62556 11:45 am Resist Trump Tuesday: Climate/Environmental Justice Resist Trump Tuesday: Climate/Environmental Justice Mar 7 @ 11:45 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Resist attacks on climate and environmental justice — from the Dakota Access Pipeline to the ongoing push to export coal from Oakland. This march through downtown Oakland will visit Wells Fargo, Citibank, and Chase to tell them to divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline and the office of Phil Tagami, to ask him to drop his lawsuit against Oakland for banning coal exports. We want to tell Tagami to find a better use for the West Gateway property. We’ll end up at City Hall to thank the city council for their resolution asking … Continued 12:00 pm #ResistTrumpTuesdays @ McKesson Plaza below Sen. Feinstein's Office #ResistTrumpTuesdays @ McKesson Plaza below Sen. Feinstein's Office Mar 7 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Tthe suggested theme is “Congress: Tell Sessions to Resign Now!”—join members of MoveOn, the Working Families Party, Democracy for America, Public Citizen, and other allies as we deliver this message! This noon time rally is our part in a National Day of Action. We will represent the Bay Area for Res…62544 4:30 pm Tell Sessions to resign now! @ Grand Lake Theater entrance Tell Sessions to resign now! @ Grand Lake Theater entrance Mar 7 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets #ResistTrumpTuesdays: WHAT: Rally to tell CONGRESS: jEFF Sessions MUST Resign now! CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath about conversations with Russian officials during the campaign. His recusal is not enough. He cannot uphold the law if he can’t follow the law. Sessions must resign, and we need an independent investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia. Together, we’ll make sure members of Congress see impassioned crowds on Tuesday and hear our calls to fire Sessions. We’ll also make it clear that Trump’s second Muslim Ban, just … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Women’s Strike Planning Meeting @ Omni Commons Oakland Women’s Strike Planning Meeting @ Omni Commons Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A call has gone out. It asks us to begin organizing a general strike on March 8, in response to Donald Trump’s oppressive administration and the neoliberal attack that threatens our livelihood. We are heeding the call. Given the short amount of time, we are not planning for a strike in the traditional sense. We are instead planning a 5 pm demonstration. By organizing this, we hope to create the tools and infrastructure necessary to organize a women’s bloc for the national general strike called for May 1 in Oakland. … Continued	12:00 pm Gender Strike! Shut Down ICE! @ Chelsea Manning Plaza Gender Strike! Shut Down ICE! @ Chelsea Manning Plaza Mar 8 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The rally kicks off at noon at Chelsea Manning (Justin Herman) Plaza. There will be speakers, free childcare at the plaza park, and materials for making signs – please bring extra materials to share if you can! PARTICIPATE WITH YOUR CREW – SELF-ORGANIZATION, SELF-DETERMINATION! At 2pm we will march from Justin Herman Plaza to I.C.E headquarters. In the spirit of direct action and participation, we encourage folks to form affinity groups: come with your family or friends, form your own bloc, or join one of the several blocs that will … Continued 12:00 pm SF Gender Strike – Shut Ice Down @ Chelsea Manning Plaza SF Gender Strike – Shut Ice Down @ Chelsea Manning Plaza Mar 8 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 62510 5:00 pm International Women’s Day: Women’s Strike, Rally, Speakout, More @ Oscar Grant Plaza International Women’s Day: Women’s Strike, Rally, Speakout, More @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 8 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Facebook event The idea for the women’s strike actually didn’t originate in the United States, but it is a call in solidarity with women’s organizations from 30 different countries who put out a call for a strike on International Women’s Day, March 8. This is our effort at trying to explain why it was important that American feminists sign onto this call … in this country, part of our intention is to bring politics back to International Women’s Day by turning it into a political event, by highlighting the … Continued 5:00 pm Oakland Women’s Demonstration @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Women’s Demonstration @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 8 @ 5:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets WOMEN’S DAY – It is not enough to oppose Trump and his aggressively misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic and racist policies. We must also target the ongoing neoliberal attack on social provision and labor rights. The assault on our dignity, livelihood, friends, lovers, and neighbors is only just beginning. We can expect the repeal of our healthcare, the widening of any wage equity, the elimination of overtime protections, the destruction of already weak student loan provisions. And all of this while waging a militarized police war against immigrants, black and brown communities … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State in the Age of Trump. @ Omni Commons, usually downstairs Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State in the Age of Trump. @ Omni Commons, usually downstairs Mar 8 @ 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 Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Oakstop Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Oakstop Mar 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Want to get involved with SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. You’ll also hear about SURJ committees, as well as upcoming workshops and events. We’ll answer your questions, and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice. Intro to SURJ Meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday of each month. 62358	5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 9 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Presentations by John Crew and Pastor McBride. Discussions of ALPR, CAIR and participation in the JTTF.62507 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 9 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Partial Agenda: 1. “Stop Trumpintelpro” ordinance requiring OPD to follow higher state, county, local standards, not weaker federal/FBI guidelines, when participating in JTTF. Guest speakers from ALC, ACLU, CAIR. Would be nice to have a few public comments in favor, but the need is greater at Public Safety than PAC. 2. Surveillance equipment ordinance returns to address City Attorney comments on Sec 8 (enforcement, same as it ever was), Sec 9 (prohibition on NDA or conflicting provisions in MOUs – not a challenge by city attorney, wants clarification), Sec 10 … Continued 5:30 pm San Francisco: One City Standing Together @ LinkedIn San Francisco: One City Standing Together @ LinkedIn Mar 9 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join the ACLU of Northern CA and sf.citi for an informational panel with legal scholars and San Francisco’s tech sector to discuss the issues surrounding recent immigration restrictions and ways in which our communities can move forward together. The event will be held at the LinkedIn Corporation. Enjoy drinks on us and discuss how tech can stand together to support immigrants. Featured will be Helena Price’s latest project Banned, a photo and video series of tech workers who have been affected by the immigration ban. The photos include employees from … Continued 7:00 pm Conscientious Projector Presents “13th” @ BFUU Fellowship Hall Conscientious Projector Presents “13th” @ BFUU Fellowship Hall Mar 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The words of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution were supposed to guarantee that slavery and involuntary servitude effectively were outlawed. The exception of punishment for a crime where the “party shall have been convicted” is the loophole. As detailed in Ava DuVernay’s “The 13th”, the injustice system in America has not changed all that much since the earliest days of slavery. The statistics DuVernay puts onscreen say it all: African-Americans make up 6.5% of the U.S. population but a whopping 40% of the prison population — in a … Continued 7:00 pm Healthcare For All: Alameda Co Chapter March Meeting Healthcare For All: Alameda Co Chapter March Meeting Mar 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We’re ramping up for SB562, universal health care for all Californians! Come to the meeting to learn about the bill and the campaign to get it passed and how you can get involved. The Alameda County chapter of Health Care for All – California will hold an organizing meeting in Oakland. Everyone is cordially invited! We’ll be discussing the new bill, the campaign to pass the bill, and how you and we can work to get this bill passed. So bring your friends and neighbors, and your passion and your … Continued	5:00 pm Native Nations March – San Francisco @ Federal Bldg Native Nations March – San Francisco @ Federal Bldg Mar 10 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Idle No More SF Bay and Tribal Nations in the west are in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Indigenous grassroots leaders who are calling on our allies across the United States and around the world to peacefully March for Native American rights on March 10th. We ask that you rise in solidarity with the Indigenous peoples of the world whose rights protect Mother Earth for the future generations of all. The march will begin at 5:00 p.m. at the Federal Building at 7th & Mission. There will … Continued	9:00 am ROAR CONFERENCE 2017 @ Omni Commons ROAR CONFERENCE 2017 @ Omni Commons Mar 11 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets ROAR aka Revolutionary Organizing Against Racism Conference is a two day event, organized by Northern California Anti-Racist Action, that will be held on Ohlone Territory. ROAR WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY at the OMNI Commons in Oakland and ON SUNDAY at California Institute for Integral Studies, 1453 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 Schedule is here. ROAR will be a space to gather, build, and learn from each other’s struggles and continue to build an anti-racist front in the Bay Area and beyond. During these times more and more attention is being paid … Continued 10:00 am KNOW YOUR RIGHTS VS. ICE WORKSHOPS @ Fruitvale San Antonio Senior Center (Inside Fruitvale Transit Village) KNOW YOUR RIGHTS VS. ICE WORKSHOPS @ Fruitvale San Antonio Senior Center (Inside Fruitvale Transit Village) Mar 11 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES: THIS IS HOME Alameda County continues to stand strong in our commitment to uphold the rights of all members of our community no matter your immigration status PLEASE RSVP HERE : http://bit.ly/2lEKBG1 *To accommodate attendees’ schedules, the important topics covered will be the same for both workshops. Pick the time that works best for you, 10-12 or 1-3. HOSTED BY THE FOLLOWING: ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE EAST BAY WEINBERG, ROGER & ROSENFELD HON. BARBARA LEE, US REPRESENTATIVE HON. NANCY … Continued 12:00 pm International Working Women’s Day March & Celebration International Working Women’s Day March & Celebration Mar 11 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join GABRIELA USA and the International Women’s Alliance on Saturday, March 11th in commemorating the 108th International Working Women’s Day anniversary in honor of the first women strikers in 1909. Join us as we RISE, RESIST, and UNITE to build our collective Resistance here and abroad! So far within the first month of Trump’s administration, Trump has issued 12 Executive orders attacking everything from immigrant communities, our Muslim brothers and sisters, to the millions of us who depend on the government for subsidized health care. He’s pushed forward the Dakota … Continued 12:00 pm West Oakland Holistic Community Clinic & Cafe @ West Oakland Healing Arts West Oakland Holistic Community Clinic & Cafe @ West Oakland Healing Arts Mar 11 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Offerings: Massage therapy Energy work Acupuncture Birth Doula Practitioners Herbal Medicine Resource library Free Hot Meal Free Store Cafe Space to hang out, eat, make art and discuss what healing means to us by us and for us. 62423 3:00 pm No Borders! No Nations! Noise Demo @ West County Detention Facility No Borders! No Nations! Noise Demo @ West County Detention Facility Mar 11 @ 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Tomorrow afternoon, the Alameda Jail Fight Coalition will be joining our friends and allies from AF3IRM SF Bay Area at a noise demonstration they are organizing outside the West County Detention Facility in Contra Costa County. Organized in honor of International Women’s Day, the noise demo is in solidarity with all immigrants, especially those who have been separated from their families and loved ones by imprisonment and deportation. RSVP on Facebook The West County Detention Facility is the largest I.C.E. detention facility in the Bay Area, big enough to cage … Continued 3:00 pm Paul Robeson: A Portrait In Story & Song @ SF Main Library Paul Robeson: A Portrait In Story & Song @ SF Main Library Mar 11 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus presents: Paul Robeson: A Portrait in Story & Song A musical biography of the great African American artist, athlete, and activist based on material gathered from primary sources by Alex Bagwell. Saturday, March 11 SF Main Library (Koret Auditorium, lower level) 100 Larkin St, Civic Center, SF (Enter at 30 Grove St) 3pm Sunday, March 12 Piedmont Gardens 110 41st St, Oakland (Use entrance on Linda St) 3pm (415) 648-3457 PDF62573 3:00 pm Protest Against Palantir ICE Government Surveillance Protest Against Palantir ICE Government Surveillance Mar 11 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets To carry out its raids on undocumented immigrant families, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will soon get a helping hand from one of President Donald Trump’s rare allies in the tech industry, Palantir Technologies Inc. co-founder and chairman Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel’s surveillance company Palantir is reportedly finalizing the digital framework for a potential mass deportation operation, should President Donald Trump decide to go that route. Come protest this terrifying expansion of the surveillance state. Come protest this threat to undocumented people. Come rally at a rich dudes house! http://mashable.com/2017/03/02/peter-thiel-palantir-ice/#wK_NzgOg0aqr … Continued

Week of March 5

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.