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All-day Janye’s Release Date! Janye’s Release Date! May 14 all-day Tickets Janye Waller has been in prison for too long, but we hope to have him back on the outside in a month and a half! He’s really going to need our support when he’s out! He got evicted right before his imprisonment so he’ll need to sort out housing and everything else to get back on his feet. Please, please consider making a donation to his support fund! rally.org/supportjanye Noelle, one of his main supporters, was recently interviewed on the anarchist radio show, The Final Straw. Check it out, it’s … Continued					Lobby Day for California Universal Health Care, SB 562 Lobby Day for California Universal Health Care, SB 562 May 19 all-day Tickets Join the #SinglePayer healthcare movement in CA! May 19th, we will rally for #SB562 at CA Dem Con: https://t.co/p2D70WayLG. #WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/vV8wbAobxv— RoseAnn DeMoro (@RoseAnnDeMoro) May 11, 2017 May 19 Lobby Day for #SB562 Get on the bus! Dem Party Convention starts then too. Must show them we’re not playing! https://t.co/ocuj59CnMS pic.twitter.com/zYH5KMhf4I — mARTha (@MWallner_) May 7, 2017 62906	activist training in nonviolence, organizing, & diversity @ Tortona Big Top activist training in nonviolence, organizing, & diversity @ Tortona Big Top May 20 all-day Tickets Huge activist training 5/20-21 in nonviolence, organizing, & diversity @ former Alameda Naval Air Station. Register https://t.co/8mJ6hcPQb2 pic.twitter.com/3hYW7RIDbs— Indivisible Berkeley (@IndivisibleBerk) May 17, 2017 63026
12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance Future Directions General Assembly @ Bobby Bowen Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance Future Directions General Assembly @ Bobby Bowen Progressive Center May 14 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Please join us as we continue our discussion about where the Sunflower Alliance should go from here. The more of our members and friends participate. the better our plans will be. We need your participation and your voice. Plus updates on our campaigns. Potluck lunch 12:30 PM Meeting 1 – 3 PM 62914 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 14 @ 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. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM … Continued 7:00 pm Brace Belden (A Foreign Fighter for Rojava) in Conversation @ Omni Commons ballroom Brace Belden (A Foreign Fighter for Rojava) in Conversation @ Omni Commons ballroom May 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us for a evening with Brace Belden (aka @pisspiggranddad), recently back from fighting with the Syrian Democratic Forces in Rojava). Brace, who gained notoriety with his uncompromising, and uncompromisingly witty tweets from Rojava will talk about his time on the battlefield, being a foreigner in solidarity amongst the Kurdish ranks and the complex balance of political forces on the ground as well as how what is happening in Rojava is relevant to the Bay Area.62962 7:00 pm Liberated Lens General Meeting @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens General Meeting @ Omni Commons May 14 @ 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 7:15 pm Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall May 14 @ 7:15 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets OUR GOAL Indivisible Berkeley is a part of the national Indivisible Movement. Our mission is to resist the agenda of the current administration and promote a progressive and inclusive agenda by effecting change through the political system at all levels of government. We seek to embracedemocratic and progressive and promote inclusivity, respect, empathy, and fairness in all of our actions. OUR VALUES Our team will uphold democratic and progressive values, not only in the political sphere but in our day-to-day interactions with each other. This means inclusivity, equality, respect, and … Continued 7:30 pm Amy Goodman & Democracy Now!: Covering the Movements Changing America @ First Presbyterian Church Amy Goodman & Democracy Now!: Covering the Movements Changing America @ First Presbyterian Church May 14 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents AMY GOODMAN & DEMOCRACY NOW! Covering the Movements Changing America Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan, Hosted by Cat Brooks advance tickets: $15: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2915178: T: 800-838-3006 or Marcus Books, Books Inc/Berkeley, Pegasus (3 sites), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway’s, $18 door, KPFA benefit kpfa.org/events WHEELCHAIR ACCESS Twenty years ago Amy Goodman began hosting a show on Pacifica Radio called Democracy Now!. She wanted to focus on the issues and movements too often ignored by corporate media. Today Democracy Now! Is the largest public … Continued	6:00 pm Anti-Eviction Mapping Project @ Omni Commons Anti-Eviction Mapping Project @ Omni Commons May 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets On the first and third Mondays of the month, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project holds its data viz and oral history meetings related to our project in Alameda County. 62964 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: Visualize Impeachment @ The Black and Brown Social Club Occupy Forum: Visualize Impeachment @ The Black and Brown Social Club May 15 @ 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! Visualize Impeachment Film: The Final Days Based on the acclaimed book written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, The Final Days chronicles president Richard Nixon’s administration during the critical period after the Watergate break-in scandal, which ultimately led to Nixon’s resignation from the office on August 1974. Facing certain impeachment on charges of obstruction of justice and abuse of power, the 37th President had virtually … Continued 7:00 pm No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Side Missionary Baptist Church No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Side Missionary Baptist Church May 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Catch up on the latest developments in the No Coal in Oakland campaign at this community meeting. Hear an update on the lawsuit and join a discussion of ongoing strategies and new directions for the campaign while the lawsuit proceeds. (The trial date is set for January 16, 2018.) Check the website for current news and background about the campaign. 62915	5:00 pm #DefundOPD at Oakland City Council @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza #DefundOPD at Oakland City Council @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza May 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets TELL OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL: DEFUND OPD, INVEST IN COMMUNITY Keep building on the momentum we’ve been building at the neighborhood at neighborhood budget hearings. Bring your signs! Sign up to speak during public comment. APTP believe that the scandal-ridden and dysfunctional Oakland Police Department consumes far too many of our city’s resources. It’s time to audit police spending and performance, and redirect wasted funds to community-building, constructive strategies for making Oakland a safer and better place to live. Our Demands: INDEPENDENT AND THOROUGH COST SAVINGS AND PERFORMANCE AUDIT OF THE … Continued 6:00 pm BEYOND MAY DAY: A Climate Workers Monthly Meetup @ IFPTE Local 20 Union Hall BEYOND MAY DAY: A Climate Workers Monthly Meetup @ IFPTE Local 20 Union Hall May 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets You marched. You walked out. You went on strike. Now what? Join us for “Beyond May Day,” a conversation with key organizers behind the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day 2017 march and general strike. MORE INFO & RSVP At this May edition of Climate Workers monthly meetups, we’ll dialogue with May Day 2017 organizers about what we built, what we learned, and where we go from here as we “ORGANIZE and DEFEND our communities from state violence and capitalist exploitation, and toward liberation and self-determination” (from the Oakland Sin Fronteras … Continued 6:30 pm Stop Urban Shield at Berkeley City Council @ Berkeley City Council, Old City Hall Stop Urban Shield at Berkeley City Council @ Berkeley City Council, Old City Hall May 16 @ 6:30 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets In an unprecedented move, the Berkeley City Council is considering fully withdrawing their support for local agency participation in the Urban Areas Security Initiative and Urban Shield. The Stop Urban Shield Coalition has been fighting Urban Shield on every front. We’ve been at Berkeley City Council Meetings to convince representatives that Urban Shield hurts Berkeley residents, particularly in Black and Brown communities. This meeting is critical for the fight against Urban Shield. A decision in favor of pulling out of Urban Shield by the Berkeley City Council paves the way … Continued 7:00 pm Liberated Lens film night: Beyond Recognition @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens film night: Beyond Recognition @ Omni Commons May 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets After decades struggling to protect her ancestors’ burial places, now engulfed by San Francisco’s sprawl, a Native woman from a non-federally recognized Ohlone tribe and her allies occupy a sacred site to prevent its desecration. When this life-altering event fails to stop the development, they vow to follow a new path- to establish the first women-led urban Indigenous land trust. Beyond Recognition explores the quest to preserve one’s culture and homeland in a society bent on erasing them. Q&A with the director, Michelle Steinberg and Corrina Gould, lead organizer for … Continued	11:45 am Fruit-in at Ahern’s Office @ Sheriff's Office Fruit-in at Ahern’s Office @ Sheriff's Office May 17 @ 11:45 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Join us as we demand answers from Sheriff Ahern for arresting a Street vendor in San Lorenzo! All people deserve the right to be treated with respect and dignity. Stand up against the criminalization of street vendors, against deportations, and pol-ICE collaboration! Bring one piece of fruit to share and a luggage (*the luggage is to exposed Ahern’s past racists’ comments about how he can tell who’s undocumented based on clothing, language, and luggage.) #NotMySheiff63008 5:30 pm Hitting the Wall: How the Media Shapes the Immigration Debate @ Internet Archive Hitting the Wall: How the Media Shapes the Immigration Debate @ Internet Archive May 17 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets How can we tell fact from fiction when it comes to a controversial topic like immigration? Join us at the Internet Archive for an evening with experienced journalists from the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and Retro Report, who will work with the audience to develop strategies to fight back against propaganda and fake news. Get Tickets Here The program will take place in three acts. Act 1: The Story In Act 1, we’ll go deep on the facts and stories about immigration in the U.S. What does does the … Continued 6:00 pm Public Bank Lobbying at Budget Town Halls @ Various locations and slight time variations, see below Public Bank Lobbying at Budget Town Halls @ Various locations and slight time variations, see below May 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets At the Finance Committee meeting on June 13th, fund allocation and approval of the feasibility study contract will be discussed. Because the funding for the study will impact the city budget, we are asking supporters to not just contact Finance Committee members directly, but to attend all budget meetings hosted by councilpersons and voice your support for funding the study as soon as possible. Upcoming meetings are: Wednesday, May 17: 6:30-8:30 pm, District 7 and at-large, Councilpersons Larry Reid and Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland Zoo, Snow Building, 9777 Golf Links Road … Continued 6:00 pm Speaker Series: Housing in Oakland @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Speaker Series: Housing in Oakland @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza May 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Co-Sponsored by the Oakland Bay Area Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women Speakers include: Pamela Hall, City of Oakland Housing Advocate Charmaine Curtis, Curtis Development Margaretta Lin, Executive Director of the Dellums Institute for Social Justice Alan Dones, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Strategic Urban Development Alliance, LLC (SUDA) RSVP here! 62974 6:30 pm Defund OPD at Budget Forums @ Various locations (and times) on different dates - see below Defund OPD at Budget Forums @ Various locations (and times) on different dates - see below May 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Have you ever wondered: What do police really spend their time doing? How much do they make, and why do they get paid so much? Could we shrink OPD and make Oakland an even safer, better place to live? The process of allocating Oakland’s 2.6 billion dollar budget for 2017-2019 has begun. We believe that the scandal-ridden and dysfunctional Oakland Police Department consumes far too many of our city’s resources. It’s time to audit police spending and performance, and redirect wasted funds to community-building, constructive strategies for making Oakland a … 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 May 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join Oakland Privacy 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, Berkeley and Richmond 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 our benighted … Continued 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance May 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 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.62851	10:00 am The Pedagogies of Social Movements in America. @ California Institute of Integral Studies The Pedagogies of Social Movements in America. @ California Institute of Integral Studies May 18 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets 62884 6:00 pm Public Bank Lobbying at Budget Town Halls @ Various locations and slight time variations, see below Public Bank Lobbying at Budget Town Halls @ Various locations and slight time variations, see below May 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets At the Finance Committee meeting on June 13th, fund allocation and approval of the feasibility study contract will be discussed. Because the funding for the study will impact the city budget, we are asking supporters to not just contact Finance Committee members directly, but to attend all budget meetings hosted by councilpersons and voice your support for funding the study as soon as possible. Upcoming meetings are: Wednesday, May 17: 6:30-8:30 pm, District 7 and at-large, Councilpersons Larry Reid and Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland Zoo, Snow Building, 9777 Golf Links Road … Continued 7:00 pm Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons May 18 @ 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/omninom62917	10:00 am The Pedagogies of Social Movements in America. @ California Institute of Integral Studies The Pedagogies of Social Movements in America. @ California Institute of Integral Studies May 19 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets 62884 1:00 pm HEALTHY CALIFORNIA LOBBY DAY FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE AT THE CAPITOL! @ Capitol Steps HEALTHY CALIFORNIA LOBBY DAY FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE AT THE CAPITOL! @ Capitol Steps May 19 @ 1:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Join the Statewide Healthy CA Lobby Day & Rally! In just a couple weeks your State Senator will have a chance to vote on SB 562 which guarantees healthcare for all. It’s critical your Senator hear from you! Healthy California is joining with California Nurses Association for a lobby day and then rally to let all of the Democrats at their Convention know what Ro Khanna and other progressive leaders already know…“Standing for Medicare for All is a no brainer for Democrats” because it saves billions and covers everyone. LOBBY … Continued 6:00 pm Reversing Runaway Inequality – An Interactive Workshop with Les Leopold @ Nextspace Coworking Space Reversing Runaway Inequality – An Interactive Workshop with Les Leopold @ Nextspace Coworking Space May 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Please join Indivisible Berkeley and The Incorruptibles as we host Les Leopold, director of the New York-based Labor Institute and author of Runaway Inequality: An Activist’s Guide to Economic Justice. Les will run an interactive workshop on how to build a cross-movement alliance (labor, environment, Black Lives Matter, healthcare for all, immigration reform etc), showing how runaway inequality links us all together, and what we can do about it. This event is free, but registration is required. Salon.com: “Runaway Inequality doesn’t just explain where the U.S. economy went wrong; it … Continued	8:00 am Refinery Corridor Healing Walks Refinery Corridor Healing Walks May 20 @ 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Walk #1: Saturday, April 8 (Scroll down for the additional walks) We will begin near the Pittsburg Marina at 3 Marina Blvd in the City of Pittsburg, California 8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony & Registration 9:30 a.m. Walk Begins There are several places along the walk where folks can join the walk – please see the details of the route below. The walk will end at Martinez Shoreline Park, end of Ferry Street in the City of Martinez, California Please feel free to join us for the prayers for the water at 8:00 … Continued 10:00 am Waffles and Zapatismo: 23 years of Zapatista history and thought @ Omni Commons Disco Room Waffles and Zapatismo: 23 years of Zapatista history and thought @ Omni Commons Disco Room May 20 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets The first in a series of monthly classes that include Zapatista history, projects and thinking and discussion of how the Zapatista experience has relevance to those of us outside of Chiapas and Mexico. Classes are open to all those interested in learning about the Zapatista movement, which governs its own territory through a government parallel to that of the Mexican State. We’re also serving waffles and coffee to welcome participants.62848 12:00 pm Oil Money Out of California @ Governor's Mansion Oil Money Out of California @ Governor's Mansion May 20 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets The only way to disrupt the oil industry’s political influence is with people power. Join us in Sacramento for a march and rally and send a clear message to our elected officials to swear off dirty oil money! Last year, in lobbying alone, the oil industry spent $36 million to push our elected officials to do their bidding. Over the past ten years, that number amounts to $266 million. Unsurprisingly, during this time there has been little to no headway in reining in the most toxic or damaging practices of … Continued 1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition General Membership Meeting @ Siegel & Yee Oakland Justice Coalition General Membership Meeting @ Siegel & Yee May 20 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets AGENDA INCLUDES: Electoral Committee Report and Planning for 2018 Budget report and endorsement conversation DeFundOPD (APTP’s campaign) ReFund Oakland campaign East Bay Progressive Round Table Report Planning for Community BBQ, June 11th at San Antonio Park Education Committee Report The Oakland Justice Coalition is a coalition of organizations and individuals that came together around common goals for the 2016 Oakland elections. Our aim is to build people power and advance radical change through the arena of electoral politics. It is time for us to unite around the causes we all … Continued 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Mudrakers Cafe Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Mudrakers Cafe May 20 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets 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 SDBA’s projects! Promoting single-payer / Medicare for All to end the plague of medical debt Presenting debt-related topics at … Continued 6:00 pm Stand with Refugees: A Benefit for 1951 Coffee Company @ David Brower Center Stand with Refugees: A Benefit for 1951 Coffee Company @ David Brower Center May 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us to support and welcome newly arrived refugees and asylees to the Berkeley community. Connect with friends and community members, while supporting 1951 Coffee Company’s innovative vision to help local refugees and asylees settle into life and work in the Bay Area. Enjoy great wine, music, and delicious appetizers catered by a newly arrived Syrian family. 1951 Coffee Company is a nonprofit specialty coffee organization whose name derives from the 1951 Refugee Convention where the United Nations defined and set forth its first guidelines for the protection of refugees. … Continued

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.