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In this … Continued	10:00 am Visit/Picket Anthony Rendon’s Capitol Office – SB 562 @ State Capitol Visit/Picket Anthony Rendon’s Capitol Office – SB 562 @ State Capitol Jun 26 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Speaker Anthony Rendon is not letting SB 562, the Healthy California Act, progress through the Assembly Committees. Let’s visit his office and let him know that this is not ok! Meet at the South Entrance of the Capitol at 10 AM. Pack a lunch if you want to picket all day outside of his office with signs. Room 219. CNA Statement http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/statement-by-ca-nurses-on-decision-by-assembly-speaker-rendon-to-block63299 5:30 pm #DefundOPD – City Council Final Budget Hearing @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza #DefundOPD – City Council Final Budget Hearing @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 26 @ 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Join APTP in demanding Oakland City Council pass a progressive budget that ensures ZERO % increase in the Oakland Police Department Budget63296 6:00 pm OccupyForum: Sacred City: On Loss, Betrayal and the Art of Gentrification @ Black and Brown Social Club OccupyForum: Sacred City: On Loss, Betrayal and the Art of Gentrification @ Black and Brown Social Club Jun 26 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum presents… Sacred City: On Loss, Betrayal and the Art of Gentrification with Pearl Ubuñgen accompanied by Dave Mihaly percussion Improvising with images, sonic sources, writings, dreams and daily heartbreak, choreographer/cultural activist Pearl Ubuñgen reflects on the conflicted role artists and arts organizations play as bewildered accomplices in the gentrification-based activity of cultural erasure. Inspired by the subtle presence and memory of her mentor, the late great Master Artist Ed Mock (1938 -1986). Ubuñgen performs an illustrated case-study weaving a sorrowful, soulful lament drawn from the terrain of today’s late … Continued	9:00 am Radio Reading of ‘1984’ @ The Airwaves Radio Reading of ‘1984’ @ The Airwaves Jun 27 @ 9:00 am – 11:45 pm Tickets There will be a 15-hour reading of 1984 across the country on June 27. This includes KPFA here in the Bay Area, and KPFK in Socal, which is the largest radio transmitter west of the Mississippi and can be heard from Santa Barbara to Tijuana. As well as NY, Houston, DC and a few hundred smaller stations across the country.. “The reading of George Orwell’s 1984 is going to be a Pacifica national event, using the 1975 recording from the 64GB USB drive from PRA”.63271 6:00 pm Press conference on racial profiling by the Berkeley Police @ Old Berkeley City Hall Press conference on racial profiling by the Berkeley Police @ Old Berkeley City Hall Jun 27 @ 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets The ACLU, Copwatch, NAACP, NLG & UC Berkeley Black Student Union are holding a press conference to demand the chief release the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) report on racial profiling, and that the City of Berkeley commit to a program to address racial profiling by the BPD. Press conference on the steps of Old City Hall ahead of the City Council meeting. 63293	11:30 am Stop the Delay and Pass SB 562 @ South Steps of the Capitol Stop the Delay and Pass SB 562 @ South Steps of the Capitol Jun 28 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Join us to urge the California Assembly to stop the delay and pass SB 562 – guaranteed healthcare for all Californians. Very Slight Time & Location Change for Tomorrow's Sacramento Protest Meet 11:30 a.m. South Capitol Steps – Move #SB562 Forward! pic.twitter.com/1EAox9qlls— Healthy CA (@4HealthyCA) June 27, 2017 63298 6:45 pm Project Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Climate Change @ Info upon RSVP Project Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Climate Change @ Info upon RSVP Jun 28 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Full address with RSVP Hear a presentation of the research described in the new book by environmentalist and business leader Paul Hawken. The book, Drawdown, describes 100 solutions to the climate crisis and ranks them according to the researchers’ criteria. Chad Frischman, research director for Project Drawdown, will present the research and lead a discussion after a potluck dinner at an event hosted by the group Climate Compassion in Berkeley on June 28. Full address with RSVP 63241	1:00 pm ReFund & ReInvest! Help us Pass a Community Budget! @ Anywhere ReFund & ReInvest! Help us Pass a Community Budget! @ Anywhere Jun 29 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Community power, led by folx from the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and supported by many in the ReFund Coalition, prevented the Council from passing a “crumbs off the table” budget on Monday. Now it’s our chance to make sure all the hard work that each one of you has put into lifting up issues that are core to so many Oaklanders is reflected in the budget that the Council is set to pass this evening. Here’s what you can do to hold Councilmembers accountable to passing a community budget! 1. … Continued 4:00 pm #DefundOPD – Special Budget Meeting #DefundOPD – Special Budget Meeting Jun 29 @ 4:00 pm – 10:45 pm Tickets After the special budget meeting on Monday, June 26th, was shut down by #DefundOPD and the people, another budget meeting has been called for the 29th. CM’s reconvene meeting after protest ends, just to adjourn. Special meeting rescheduled for Thursday #oakmtg — Gabrielle Canon (@GabrielleCanon) June 27, 2017 Organizers stressing folks need to be at City Hall 5 PM Thursday. #oakmtg — Oak City Mtg notes (@OakMtgNotes) June 27, 2017 63310 7:00 pm Cuban Union Leader Speaks @ Communication Workers of America Local 9119 Union Hall Cuban Union Leader Speaks @ Communication Workers of America Local 9119 Union Hall Jun 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Since 2001, representatives from Cuba’s nationwide central labor organization Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) were granted U.S. visas to visit our cities. Victor Manuel Lemagne, is the 55 year old Secretary-General of Cuba’s Health and Tourism union where he has served since 2011. As the leader of that nation-wide union he is also a member of the CTC Secretariat (executive committee). Lemagne is also a delegate to Cuba’s National Assembly (Parliament). He is Vice President of the International hotel and tourism union for the Americas and Caribbean affiliated with … Continued 7:00 pm Unfinished Business – The Japanese American Internment Cases – Film Showing @ Revolution Books Unfinished Business – The Japanese American Internment Cases – Film Showing @ Revolution Books Jun 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Unfinished Business – The Japanese American Internment Cases, a 1986 documentary directed by Steven Okazaki. In 1942, the U.S. government rounded up more than 110,000 Japanese Americans on the west coast and forced them into concentration camps. Three young men defied this and served jail time. This film is of their fight to overturn their sentences 40 years later. Today with a fascist regime in power, there is an urgent need to learn from this history and to commit ourselves to act to stop what the U.S. did to the … Continued	5:00 pm Town hall with Alameda County Sheriff Ahearn – Immigration & ICE @ Hayward Adult School Town hall with Alameda County Sheriff Ahearn – Immigration & ICE @ Hayward Adult School Jun 30 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office has a long history of working with ICE – they federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws. They have notified ICE about arrests of undocumented people.   People have been picked up and then caught up by ICE even if the charges have been dropped. They also sponsor Urban Shield, a yearly gun fair for police departments, which trains police in terror tactics against urban populations. We’ll meet in front of Adult school at 4:45 pm. or just come in if you’re later. RSVP, carpooling, … Continued 7:00 pm A Benefit for Haiti Emergency Relief Fund – Poetry for Peace and Justice @ St. John’s Presbyterian Church A Benefit for Haiti Emergency Relief Fund – Poetry for Peace and Justice @ St. John’s Presbyterian Church Jun 30 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A Benefit for Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, will present readings by Susan Griffin, Rafael Jesús Gonzalez, Dennis Bernstein and Shanga Labossiere, followed by open mic at wheelchair accessible St. John’s Presbyterian Church Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (http://haitiemergencyrelief.org/) gives concrete aid to Haiti’s democratic movement and grassroots community groups organizing to meet Haitians’ needs directly. 63197	10:00 am Anti-Policing Health Workers Two Day Training Anti-Policing Health Workers Two Day Training Jul 1 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets We’re excited to grow The Anti-Policing Health Workers cohort. Join us for a two day training on Saturday July 1st and Saturday July 8th, 10am-5pm in Oakland. Read below for more info and then fill out the application by clicking here. We will confirm participation by June 15. We strongly encourage applicants to attend an upcoming Know Your Options workshop so you have a clear sense of our program goals and politics. Click here to see the schedule. New cohort members will train alongside the 2015 OPP Health Workers and … Continued 11:00 am Interfaith Vigil at West County Detention Center where immigrants are being held Interfaith Vigil at West County Detention Center where immigrants are being held Jul 1 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Interfaith Vigil at West County Detention Center where immigrants are being held RSVP, carpooling, questions, to help organize: Amy Carlson amycarlson77@gmail.com or (918)896-9577 (text is best) � 63302 11:00 am Interfaith Vigil to Support Immigrant Detainees @ West County Detention Facility Interfaith Vigil to Support Immigrant Detainees @ West County Detention Facility Jul 1 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Monthly Vigils Interfaith Vigils to Support Immigrant Detainees 1st Saturdays of every month. We invite you to join our vigils each month as we gather to pray and bear witness to the pain, suffering, and separation of immigrant detainees, and to call for real and immediate immigration reform. We invite you to join us to pray, sing, and act for just immigration solutions. Please bring a noisemaker for our sacred Moment of Noise– where we let the detainees know that we have not forgotten them. Why we vigil at … Continued 1:30 pm SF Mime Troupe: WALLS @ Cedar Rose Park SF Mime Troupe: WALLS @ Cedar Rose Park Jul 1 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe opens in the Bay Area July 1, 2 & 4 with its 58th season premiering “WALLS“ WALLS asks the question: How can a nation of immigrants declare war on immigration? The answer: FEAR!L. Mary Jones (Velina Brown) knows all about fear. As a top agent for I.C.E. – Immigration and Customs Enforcement – she knows how to stoke fear to keep her country safe. Fear of people like Bahdoon Samakab (Rotimi Agbabiaka), a Somali refugee escaping oppression, fear of Cliodhna Aghabullogue (Lizzie Calogero), an … Continued 2:00 pm Suds, Snacks, & Socialism: What to a slave is the 4th of July? @ Starry Plough Suds, Snacks, & Socialism: What to a slave is the 4th of July? @ Starry Plough Jul 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Peace and Freedom Party presents After a reading of the 1852 speech of Frederick Douglas to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, NY, we will discuss two of the political institutions bequeathed us by the slaveowners: the Electoral College and the U.S. Senate. This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Doors open at 2 pm and the program will start promptly at 2:30 pm. The forum will end by 4:30 pm, but folks can stay and talk as long … Continued 4:00 pm Sarah Cronin – Beyond the Ban: Stories of Immigrants & Immigration @ Revolution Books Sarah Cronin – Beyond the Ban: Stories of Immigrants & Immigration @ Revolution Books Jul 1 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Documentation, borders, deportation – it’s not your typical bedtime story. Yet it is part of the political reality many children face in America. In the midst of an increasingly hostile atmosphere & legislation targeting immigrants, these kinds of books shed an important light on the stories, hopes & dreams of immigrants. Revolution Books invites readers young & old to join us for an afternoon of storytelling & discussion with Sarah Cronin featuring five wonderful books for children. Featured speaker: Sarah Cronin – Youth Educator and Freelance Journalist for TheAntiMedia.org For … Continued

Week of June 25

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.