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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 9:30 am Direct Action for Racial Justice: A SURJ Bay Area Training @ Solespace Direct Action for Racial Justice: A SURJ Bay Area Training @ Solespace Jun 11 @ 9:30 am – 3:30 pm Tickets Join SURJ Bay Area for our sixth homegrown Direct Action training dedicated to teaching you the framework and the hard skills needed to take action for racial justice. This interactive workshop is designed to give you real-time experiences of being in a protest while also building our understanding of direct action from the perspective of white people participating in the movement for racial justice. We talk about the importance of direct action, centering Black and POC voices, our perspective on relating to police, our legal rights, and more. We teach … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 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. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM … Continued 5:00 pm Green Sunday: Public Banking: Here, There, and Everywhere! @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday: Public Banking: Here, There, and Everywhere! @ Niebyl Proctor Library Jun 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:45 pm Tickets In the last few months, articles, conversations, and proposed legislation about public banking have been cropping up all over. It seems sudden – if you aren’t one of the people who have been working for well over five years to plant the seeds. Because the topic is so new to most people, reactions range from blank looks to confusion and misapprehension about what a public bank is, what it isn’t, and what it could be. The three speakers will cover many aspects of public banking, both potential and existing. … Continued 7:30 pm Liberated Lens Film Night: Abundant Land @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens Film Night: Abundant Land @ Omni Commons Jun 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Director Natasha Florentino will be in attendance! Abundant Land is a one-hour documentary about a Hawaiian community on Moloka’i opposing the biotech industry’s use of the island to test genetically engineered seeds. Agrochemical biotech corporations, including Monsanto and Mycogen Seeds, are depleting Moloka’i’s topsoil and fresh water while contributing to dust storms that spread pesticides into the ocean and surrounding communities. Abundant Land also offers a historical look at the intrusion and political underpinnings of chemical-intensive farming in Hawaii while portraying the rich legacy of traditional Hawaiian land management and … Continued	9:00 am 2017 Homeless Workforce Conference – Richmond @ Richmond Memorial Auditorium 2017 Homeless Workforce Conference – Richmond @ Richmond Memorial Auditorium Jun 12 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Tickets 2017 Homeless Workforce Conference Working Upstream: What Can We Do to Prevent Homelessness? Breakfast 8:00 a.m. & Program 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. both Monday & Tuesday CONFERENCE PROGRAM REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE NOW! HOTEL RESERVATIONS Homelessness is a whirlpool that traps more than 1.6 million Americans each year, including tens of thousands in the San Francisco Bay Area. Many never escape and need rescue again and again. Programs designed to lift the homeless and those at risk out of the whirlpool can become self-perpetuating “revolving doors.” Successful exits to … Continued 9:00 am J20 Resisters – PACK the COURT J20 Resisters – PACK the COURT Jun 12 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets COME OUT AND SUPPORT THE J20 RESISTERS! Why is San Francisco criminalizing dissent? Show up for the J20 resisters at the courthouse, and call DA George Gascon and tell him to drop the charges! January 20th, the day Donald Trump was inaugurated, was marked by widespread resistance across the U.S. Five months later San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon continues to use our city’s resources to prosecute a group of 11 protesters. We believe the City should be dedicating its resources to protecting those most vulnerable under the new administration. … Continued 4:00 pm A Department of Violence Prevention? @ Liberty Hall A Department of Violence Prevention? @ Liberty Hall Jun 12 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Coalition to end violence and Councilmember McElhaney invite you to tell your story. What will it take to get @Oakland to make holistic public safety a real priority? We need #DVP to get same attention as OPD. pic.twitter.com/3HoJAKv9KN— L.Gibson McElhaney (@LynetteGM) June 9, 2017 63228 6:00 pm OccupyForum presents: Film: BOOM: The Sound of Eviction @ Black and Brown Club OccupyForum presents: Film: BOOM: The Sound of Eviction @ Black and Brown Club Jun 12 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Boom: The Sound of Eviction Sixteen years after it was released, this documentary from 2001 is, unfortunately, incredibly relevant, (and eerily familiar). Here is the promo from the film’s official site \ (and consider when you’re reading it that this was written in 2001). “Now the bubble has popped and most of the startups are gone, but the tidal wave of gentrification that came with the … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Jun 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	9:00 am 2017 Homeless Workforce Conference – Richmond @ Richmond Memorial Auditorium 2017 Homeless Workforce Conference – Richmond @ Richmond Memorial Auditorium Jun 13 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Tickets 2017 Homeless Workforce Conference Working Upstream: What Can We Do to Prevent Homelessness? Breakfast 8:00 a.m. & Program 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. both Monday & Tuesday CONFERENCE PROGRAM REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE NOW! HOTEL RESERVATIONS Homelessness is a whirlpool that traps more than 1.6 million Americans each year, including tens of thousands in the San Francisco Bay Area. Many never escape and need rescue again and again. Programs designed to lift the homeless and those at risk out of the whirlpool can become self-perpetuating “revolving doors.” Successful exits to … Continued 9:00 am Oakland Finance Committee: Public Bank Feasibility Study @ Oakland City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Finance Committee: Public Bank Feasibility Study @ Oakland City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 13 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets Tomorrow! 9am! Finance Committee will vote on funding the feasibility study for the Public Bank of Oakland. #oakmtg #ourmoneyourbank— Oakland Public Bank (@OaklandBank) June 12, 2017 Item #4 Subject: Feasibility And Economic Impact Of Establishing A Public Bank From: Finance Department Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution (1) Amending The City Of Oakland’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2016-17 Midcycle Budget (Which Was Adopted Pursuant To Resolution No. 86250 C.M.S. On June 21,2016) To Appropriate One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000), From The Fiscal Year 2016-17 General Purpose Fund (1010) Balance For A Contract To … Continued 5:00 pm Police Commission Legislation: Oakland Public Safety Committee @ Hearing Room 1 City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza Police Commission Legislation: Oakland Public Safety Committee @ Hearing Room 1 City Hall, off Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 13 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Sign up to speak on Item # 8 Speaker’s Card We need a large turnout of the community to advocate for the changes that are needed to the enabling legislation proposed by Dan Kalb. Noel Gallo stands with us but we need to show strong community support to back him up, since he is representing us! Will you stand with us? The changes we seek are important to our conviction that the Police Commission function effectively, transparently and independently and can be found on our website: http://coalitionforpoliceaccountability.com 63249	5:30 pm Love on Trial : Book Signing and Talk @ Comal Love on Trial : Book Signing and Talk @ Comal Jun 14 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets When Kris Perry and Sandy Stier agreed to become two of the plaintiffs in the legal challenge to overturn California’s Proposition 8, which specified marriage as only between a man and a woman, they saw themselves as just ordinary people. The couple had a great life, except they couldn’t officially marry. That bothered them, according to a new joint memoir, Love on Trial: Our Supreme Court Fight for the Right to Marry. Perry and Stier will be talking about their story and signing books. he event is free and open … 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 Jun 14 @ 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, Richmond and Davis 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 … Continued 6:30 pm Prisoners Literature Project @ Grassroots House Prisoners Literature Project @ Grassroots House Jun 14 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Volunteer with us! The Prisoners Literature Project is based in Berkeley, California, and we’re always looking for volunteers to help answer letters, send out books, learn more about the prison system, and assist in other ways. We currently meet on Sundays from 2-5pm and on Wednesdays from 6:30-9:30pm at the Grassroots House. This is located at 2022 Blake St. (at Milvia), Berkeley, CA 94704. (Map – there’s plenty of local parking, and the office is walkable in 11-15 minutes from downtown Berkeley BART or Ashby BART – also, AC Transit … Continued 7:00 pm SINGLE PAYER – ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK @ Alameda Elks Lodge SINGLE PAYER – ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK @ Alameda Elks Lodge Jun 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A Panel of Health Professionals will answer all your questions on the Healthy California Act [SB562] Free event. Sponsored by the City of Alameda Democratic Club, which has endorsed the bill. 63253	5:00 pm Alameda County-specific ICE Rapid Response training Alameda County-specific ICE Rapid Response training Jun 15 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Resist Trump’s Agenda Connect with allies to resist Trump’s attacks and build a just, sustainable society. ALAMEDA CO ICE RESPONSE TRAINING June 15 63242 6:00 pm Organizers’ Orientation: Alameda Jail Fight Organizers’ Orientation: Alameda Jail Fight Jun 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Looking for more ways to plug in after Decarcerate Alameda County’s Town Hall? Come join us on June 15th to talk about our next steps to getting care not cages for our community. We’ll talk about why we’re fighting the jail expansion in Alameda County, and how you can plug in. We will also be preparing for the joint public safety/public health meeting on Monday, July 24th at 9:30am. Here the committees will be discussing the state of mental health in Alameda County- this appears to be a tepid replacement … Continued 6:00 pm Rally to Save Historic Downtown Richmond Post Office @ Nevin Community Center Rally to Save Historic Downtown Richmond Post Office @ Nevin Community Center Jun 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Richmond Leaders to Host Town Hall, Rally to Save Historic Downtown Richmond Post Office Richmond, CA — Following a public hearing convened by the United States Postal Service on May 31, Richmond leaders have announced a community-wide Town Hall meeting. The town hall meeting is being hosted by the Iron Triangle Neighborhood Council and co-organized by the Office of Mayor Tom Butt, the Office of Congressman DeSaulnier, and Richmond Main Street Initiative. “The community really spoke loud and clear at the public hearing. They were very concerned about the … Continued 6:30 pm NLG: Bodies & Bondage A History of California Prisons NLG: Bodies & Bondage A History of California Prisons Jun 15 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets JOIN US FOR OUR JUNE MEMBERSHIP MEETING Bodies & Bondage A History of California Prisons Every month, we invite members, non-members, activists, organizers, lawyers and legal workers to join us for the NLGSF “Join the Conversation” Membership Meeting Each month will feature a political discussion. This month we will hold a discussion onBodies and Bondage A History of California’s Prisons with Jared Rudolph of the Prison Advocacy Network. Jared Rudolph is a criminal defense attorney and the founder of Prisoner Reentry Network,a nonprofit that supports successful transitions from incarceration to … Continued 7:00 pm Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Sierra Club Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Sierra Club Jun 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. You’ll also hear about SURJ’s new pathways for entering the work, including study and action groups as well as committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We’ll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice. — Address info: The Sierra Club is located at … Continued 7:00 pm Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Jun 15 @ 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 9:30 pm Film: Nat Bates for Mayor. The Story of Richmond’s 2014 Election. @ Roxie Theater Film: Nat Bates for Mayor. The Story of Richmond’s 2014 Election. @ Roxie Theater Jun 15 @ 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Nat Bates For Mayor tells the story of the outrageous 2014 mayor’s race in Richmond, home to the second largest refinery in California. In a brazen move, Chevron spent more than $3 million to back 83-year-old African American stalwart Nat Bates. Bates makes a Faustian bargain with the city’s corporate behemoth in a cagey attempt to preserve the long-standing but waning power of Richmond’s African-American working class community, whose rich history dates back to the formation of the Kaiser shipyards during World War Two. It’s black against white. It’s pro-development … Continued	5:15 pm Tell the Global Insurance Industry to Unfriend Coal Tell the Global Insurance Industry to Unfriend Coal Jun 16 @ 5:15 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets We expect insurance companies to protect us from serious risks, but when it comes to climate change the insurance industry is doing the opposite: it is insuring and investing in new fossil fuel projects that directly contribute to climate catastrophe. On June 16th, leaders of the world’s largest insurance companies will be here in San Francisco for an industry conference. Join us to tell these insurance industry CEO’s to Unfriend Coal. This will be a peaceful, public rally on public sidewalks, so feel free to bring your friends and family. … Continued 5:30 pm Remembering the Charleston Church Nine Remembering the Charleston Church Nine Jun 16 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Join Alameda for Black Lives and community and faith leaders as we honor the two-year anniversary of the white supremacist terror attack that claimed the lives of nine people as they attended a church service in Charleston, SC. We will meet at the southwest corner of Webster Street and Atlantic Avenue. Speakers will include Rab’ia Keeble of Qual’bu Maryam Women’s Mosque and Robbie Wilson of Alameda Black Achievers Alliance. State Rep. Barbara Lee has been invited to speak also. All are welcome to this free event. Please share widely.63261	11:00 am Peace Picnic @ Mosswood Park Peace Picnic @ Mosswood Park Jun 17 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Peace in the Park is reaching out to your community to come out and experience peace in YOUR park. Enjoy a fun, relaxing, mindful day with us free of stress and cost. Children and youth are strongly encouraged to attend. Lets get to know each other! 11-12 pm Arts & Crafts, Games 12-12:20 pm Meditative Movement w/ Dr. Marcus Penn 12:20-12:35pm Pancho Ramos, Peace Activist and founder of Casa de Paz 12:35-12:50 Pause for World Peace Meditation 12:50-1:10 pm Mai’saan hip-hop of Youth Speaks 1:10-1:40 pm Lunch 1:40-2 pm Nature … Continued 12:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition People’s BBQ @ San Antonio Park, under the trees next to the tennis courts Oakland Justice Coalition People’s BBQ @ San Antonio Park, under the trees next to the tennis courts Jun 17 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Bring family and friends and come enjoy some BBQ and talk about the future of your neighborhood (District 2). We are a group of Oaklanders who have come together around the causes we all believe in, including: Jobs, Displacement, Homelessness, Education, Public Safety, Healthcare, Immigration63245 1:00 pm Elected State Representatives Town Hall @ Caesar Chavez Education Center Elected State Representatives Town Hall @ Caesar Chavez Education Center Jun 17 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join state legislators @TonyThurmond @RobBonta @NancySkinnerCA for a Town Hall this Saturday on CA's recent leadership on important issues! pic.twitter.com/TvuqqdZa1A— Keith Carson (@Keith_Carson) June 13, 2017 63256 2:00 pm Richmond Progressive Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Richmond Progressive Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Jun 17 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets You are invited! Richmond Progressive Alliance Membership Meeting As always, members can join or renew at the meeting, and all RPA supporters are welcomed, too. Volunteers Needed Before the Meeting! Consider joining us from 11 am – 2 pm to help distribute the latest issue of The Richmond Sun. We’ll feed volunteers a late lunch before the meeting starts. Click here to sign up for a volunteer shift. 63232 5:15 pm Occupella – Black Lives Matter @ San Leandro BART Occupella – Black Lives Matter @ San Leandro BART Jun 17 @ 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets Occupella will have our monthly BART sing for Black Lives Matter/Protect the Vulnerable from 5:15-6:15 at the San Leandro BART station. We’re at the Tax the Rich Rally on Solano every Monday from 5-6. Songbooks provided at all events. For a full calendar, visit www.occupella.org.63136 6:00 pm Rally Against Injustice: Rally For Philando Castille @ Oscar Grant Plaza Rally Against Injustice: Rally For Philando Castille @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 17 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Bay Area refuses to accept the final verdict for the officer who shot and killed our son, Philando Castile, on July 6, 2016. Join us to voice our intolerance for this injustice on Saturday June 17th. BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, SHARE THIS EVENT NOW! 🚨 The Bay Area refuses to accept the final verdict made by the jury members in Minnesota this past week. The officer who shot and killed Philando Castile, while his wife and daughter were present, IS GUILTY. There is no debate, and there is … Continued 7:00 pm Earth First! Road Show 2017 @ Omni Commons Earth First! Road Show 2017 @ Omni Commons Jun 17 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Calling all rabble rousers, land defenders and nature-lovers ! The Roadshow crew brings campaign and history presentations, looking to mix it up with local eco concerns and passions. We’ll be featuring updates on Earth First! issues, discussions on earth-centric philosophy, tactics, water and species defense and resistence to the Trump agenda. The gathering aims to inspire the seeds of dissidence and connect people and struggles around the planet. The crew has been doing trainings and workshops in cities and towns in 22 states (so far) since late April. Come hear … Continued

Week of June 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.