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(Note: we meet at 3:00 PM … Continued	5:30 pm Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland Meeting @ Omni Commons Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland Meeting @ Omni Commons Aug 7 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Feasibility study authorization delayed The City Council vote to authorize a feasibility study on a public bank didn’t happen at the July 18th meeting as expected. Instead, this item has been moved to the agenda for September 19th. According to Council staff, the vote was put off due to the overly long agenda for the last meeting before summer break. This delay is a big disappointment, of course, but there’s plenty to do in the next two months. The new budget provides only $75,000 of the study’s total cost of … Continued	6:00 pm The Bail Trap Film Screening & Discussion @ San Francisco Public Library - Koret Auditorium The Bail Trap Film Screening & Discussion @ San Francisco Public Library - Koret Auditorium Aug 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The San Francisco Chapter of the ACLU invites you to a film screening and discussion on bail reform. Are you aware that Black people, Latinos, and Native Americans are twice as likely to be stuck in jail because they can’t afford bail? The U.S. money bail system is largely to blame for over-crowded jails across the nation. 70 percent of people are incarcerated for one simple reason: being too poor to afford bail. The bail trap Unscrupulous bail bonds contracts allow private corporations to make exorbitant profits off of people … Continued 6:30 pm Building a Culture of Resistance to State Repression @ Humanist Hall Building a Culture of Resistance to State Repression @ Humanist Hall Aug 8 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets RSVP & follow on facebook here We’ll talk about how the state has historically tried to disrupt left movements, especially those led by people of color, and how to collectively resist it. This is a launch event for Catalyst’s new pamphlet: “A Troublemaker’s Guide: Principles for Racial Justice Activists in the Face of State Repression.” Panel discussion with: Cat Brooks, Anti-Police Terror Project Isaac Ontiveros, Center for Political Education Lara Kiswani, Arab Resource and Organizing Center Maisha Quint, Eastside Arts Alliance Donna Willmott, Catalyst Project Wheelchair accessible, please come fragrance free. … Continued 7:00 pm Homelessness: Berkeley Police Review Commission Subcommittee Discussion @ South Berkeley Senior Center Homelessness: Berkeley Police Review Commission Subcommittee Discussion @ South Berkeley Senior Center Aug 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Berkeley Police Review Commission – Homeless Subcommittee: Agenda action and discussion, review current policies related to homeless encampments, responses to policies and recommendations, https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Police_Review_Commission/Commissions/2017/2017-08-08%20Homeless%20Encampments%20agenda.pdf 63428 7:00 pm Just Say No to Phil Tagami for Police Commissioner @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Just Say No to Phil Tagami for Police Commissioner @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Coal promoter and developer Phil Tagami is currently a candidate for a position on Oakland’s Police Commission. No Coal in Oakland is horrified at the prospect that this man – who proposes to bring toxic coall into Oakland and has sued the City to overthrow its popular ban on coal – could be chosen to represent residents on a city commission thattwill provide civilian oversight of the Police Department by reviewing and proposing changes to Department policies and procedures, requiring the Mayor to appoint any new Chief of Police from … Continued	7:45 am March for Nuclear Abolition & Global Survival @ Livermore Lab March for Nuclear Abolition & Global Survival @ Livermore Lab Aug 9 @ 7:45 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Rally, march & direct action to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the place where new US nuclear weapons are still being developed today. 8 am rally with speakers: Daniel Ellsberg (legendary activist and leaker of the Pentagon Papers), Marylia Kelley (executive director of Tri-Valley Cares), and a Hibakusha (Japanese atomic bomb survivor). With wonderful music by Emma’s Revolution. Together, solemnly we will commemorate the nightmarish effects of nuclear weapons–from uranium mining to testing use–on the people of Japan, the Marshall Island, and the First Nations–and all … Continued 1:00 pm Police Violence at June 20th Berkeley City Council @ 1st Floor, Western Sycamore Conference Room Police Violence at June 20th Berkeley City Council @ 1st Floor, Western Sycamore Conference Room Aug 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets In a totally ironic twist, Berkeley Police Assaulted people and beat one man over the head after the June 20th Berkeley City Council meeting re: Urban Shield. Police Review Commission June 20, 2017 Subcommittee: Agenda action and discussion, plan for investigation whether June 20 BPD was appropriate, review BPD and other documents and ask questions of Police Chief or designee. https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Police_Review_Commission/Commissions/2017/2017-08-09%20June%2020%20agenda.pdf 63429 6:00 pm Film Screening: Ten Days That Shook the World @ Museum of Capitalism Film Screening: Ten Days That Shook the World @ Museum of Capitalism Aug 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets In honor of the 100 year anniversary of the Russian Revolution, join Worker’s Voice/La Voz de los Trabajadores and the Museum of Capitalism for a film night! We will be screening the 1928 Soviet silent film by Sergei Einstein and Grigori Aleksandrov “October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Russian: Октябрь (Десять дней, которые потрясли мир). Following the film, we will have a brief discussion on the significance of the Russian Revolution for us today. Please make sure to RSVP as we will be providing food! Free Admission 63435 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 Aug 9 @ 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 by our State Legislature and 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 … Continued	9:00 am Pack the Courtroom for Eric’s Preliminary Hearing! @ Rene C. Davidson Courthouse Pack the Courtroom for Eric’s Preliminary Hearing! @ Rene C. Davidson Courthouse Aug 10 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Eric, who is facing charges stemming from the counter demonstration against an alt-right/fascist rally in Berkeley on April 15, needs our support! His court date is Friday August 10 at 9am. Rene C. Davidson Courthouse (12th and Oak St in downtown Oakland) Dept 11. Thus far, public call outs have not been made for court support because alt-right trolls have also shown up to harass Eric and his supporters. For supporters at court this has even meant risking getting their photo taken and their identity researched online, which increases the risk … Continued 9:30 am Public Banking Gets a Hearing @ Online Public Banking Gets a Hearing @ Online Aug 10 @ 9:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Public Banking Gets a Hearing at the California Treasurer’s Cannabis Banking Working Group’s Final Public Meeting Click Here to Listen and Watch Live on Thursday at 9:30am Pacific The final public meeting on Thursday, August 10th, of the Cannabis Banking Working Group will be held in West Los Angeles. The entire four hour session is dedicated to reviewing public banking as a solution to the lack of banking services being provided to the cannabis industry. Tune in via the webcast — it’ll be an informative discussion and public debate. Matt … Continued 12:00 pm Interfaith Council of Alameda County: Sheriff Ahern Speaks @ Oakland Temple Visitors’ Center Interfaith Council of Alameda County: Sheriff Ahern Speaks @ Oakland Temple Visitors’ Center Aug 10 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets ICAC’s next Working Group meeting will be on Thursday, August 10. We will have a guest speaker, Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern who speak to us about his department’s efforts on addressing homelessness, immigration and refugee, and other matters of importance to the faith communities. Please join us. 63417 12:00 pm Sheriff Ahern speaks. @ Mormon Temple Visitors’ Center Sheriff Ahern speaks. @ Mormon Temple Visitors’ Center Aug 10 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Sheriff Ahern Speaks At one of the last Beloved Conversations classes, people of color from the community came to speak about ways we as a congregation can be an ally against racism. One of the speakers talked about the policies and practices of the county sheriff as having a big impact on people of color. We can make a difference and find out more by attending this event. I went to a town hall with the sheriff last month and felt that I learned a lot about how much power … Continued 5:00 pm BART Police Citizen Oversight Structure – Public Comment Needed! @ pin Kaiser Center 20th Street Mall, Third Floor BART Police Citizen Oversight Structure – Public Comment Needed! @ pin Kaiser Center 20th Street Mall, Third Floor Aug 10 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets There are 53 recommendations for improvement of the Bart Police Oversight Citizen Review Board system. Oscar Grant family would love to hear your concerns and will be happy to talk about the details once you’ve had a chance to review the recommendations. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2NX8MwIutfzOUk3NXFsQ0Vxc2c/view?usp=sharing These will be on the agenda for the Bart Board of Directors meeting on August 10th (this is an evening meeting starting at 5 pm) and on the Bart Police Oversight Citizen Review Board committee meeting agenda for August 14th (starting at 4 pm). It would be helpful … Continued 7:00 pm Film Showing: White Light/Black Rain The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki @ Revolution Books Film Showing: White Light/Black Rain The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki @ Revolution Books Aug 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets America Was Never Great Film Series Film Showing & Discussion White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a film by Steven Okazaki At 8:15 am, on August 6, 1945, a blazing, million-degree fireball suddenly appeared just above the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing, burning alive, or vaporizing tens of thousands. The U.S. had just exploded the first nuclear bomb over the center of a city of 350,000. killing between 140-150,000. Three days later, on August 9, the U.S. dropped an even more powerful nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, … Continued	9:00 am #StopUrbanShield: Alameda County Taskforce on Urban Shield @ Conference and Training Center, 4th floor #StopUrbanShield: Alameda County Taskforce on Urban Shield @ Conference and Training Center, 4th floor Aug 11 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets Next opportunity to turn out against Urban Shield! 63368 9:00 am Alameda County Urban Shield Task Force @ 4th floor Hayward/Union City Room Alameda County Urban Shield Task Force @ 4th floor Hayward/Union City Room Aug 11 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets AGENDA 9:10 am Task Force Discussion Groups Small groups will generate a list of proposed actions for each question under consideration by the Task Force. (Facilitation Team) – In small groups, formulate responses to the five learning questions under consideration by the Task Force – Develop summary of small group proposals (i.e., topics with unanimous/majority support; topics requiring further study; and unresolved topics with no consensus) Attachment Discussion IV. 10:40 am Task Force Discussion Group Reports Task Force will make a preliminary assessment of the proposed actions generated in the … Continued 7:00 pm Film Screening: The Coming War on China @ Niebyl Proctor Library Film Screening: The Coming War on China @ Niebyl Proctor Library Aug 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Socialist Action presents Rebel Films. This week’s film is the John Pilger documentary entitled “The Coming War on China.” Pilger, an incisive critic of Western economic and military power, documents the American military bases now encircling the world’s newest superpower. This is both a warning and an inspiring story of people’s resistance to war.63440	12:00 pm Oil Money Out Day of Action @ Nicholl Park Oil Money Out Day of Action @ Nicholl Park Aug 12 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets You can join Sunflower Alliance in gathering petition signatures at the Our Power event in Richmond on August 12th. Come by our table. On this statewide day of action, join volunteers across California in hosting Petition-Gathering Events at our local farmers markets, grocery stores, shopping centers, and community events. You will: 1) Hand out fact sheets to raise awareness about the gargantuan amounts of money the oil industry is spending to continue to drilling and polluting in California, 2) Collect as many petition signatures as possible to demand that our … Continued 1:00 pm Theater of the Oppressed Workshop @ Fellowship Hall, BFUU Theater of the Oppressed Workshop @ Fellowship Hall, BFUU Aug 12 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) is a set of techniques, games & practices for using theater as a vehicle for transforming individuals and their communities, and effecting social and political change. It is a method of harnessing the theatrical process as a powerful tool for healing communities and breaking cycles of oppression; resulting in empowered and engaged individuals and groups that have the tools to dialogue, educate, problem-solve, and effect change. TO is a collective, creative, whole-brained problem-posing/solving technique of learning and transformation.Prof. Jiwon Chung, a student of Augusto Boal, … Continued 7:00 pm Charlottesville: We Got Your Back – Bay Area United Against White Supremacy @ Oscar Grant Plaza Charlottesville: We Got Your Back – Bay Area United Against White Supremacy @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 14th & Broadway, Oakland, 7pm. See you tonight. pic.twitter.com/72KBGO4pJx— Berkeley Antifa (@berkeleyantifa) August 12, 2017 Facebook event. All out for the emergency response rally tonight, 7PM Oscar Grant Plaza.https://t.co/iZ5l655niL— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) August 12, 2017 63463 8:00 pm Radical First Aid @ Omni Commons Radical First Aid @ Omni Commons Aug 12 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets This skillshare will be focused on radical first aid/first responce. The facilitator will share information regarding protecting yourself at actions and protests, treating the effects of “less-than-lethal” technologies, and give a report back about their work at Standing Rock.63349 8:30 pm San Francisco stands with Charlottesville and against white supremacy @ Union Square San Francisco stands with Charlottesville and against white supremacy @ Union Square Aug 12 @ 8:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Indivisible SF stands with nonviolent protesters against white supremacy all over the country, particularly in Charlottesville, Virginia, the city where violent white supremacists attacked innocent people last night and today. President Trump has condemned violence “on many sides,” without specifically naming white supremacists, leading them to feel supported by his statement. We want statements from all of our elected officials that clearly, expressly condemn white supremacists. Please join us this evening, August 12 at 8:30 PM, at Union Square for a peaceful silent candlelight vigil to protest white supremacy, white … Continued

Week of August 6

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.