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FEATURING: Rabbi Dev Nolly and members of Kehilla Community Synagogue Bend the Arc Bay Area Resistance (Co-organizer) Occupella and more TBA… Let Our … Continued 2:00 pm Refuse Fascism Rally – SF @ 24th St BART Refuse Fascism Rally – SF @ 24th St BART Aug 13 @ 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Tickets Just announced: there's a rally to #RefuseFascism at 2pm today in SF at 24th & Mission streets, in response to #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/9A1bquZdxT— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) August 13, 2017 63481 3:00 pm Housing Is A Right! Socialism and the Fight Against Displacement. @ Workers World Housing Is A Right! Socialism and the Fight Against Displacement. @ Workers World Aug 13 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Housing is a Right! Socialism and the Fight Against Displacement, Homelessness and Gentrification! Join the discussion on the – MacArthur Homefulness POOR Magazine project by Jeremy Miller, – on-going attacks on renters rights in Alameda by Tristen Schmidt, – and how housing can be managed under socialism, with examples from Cuba and other countries by Judy Greenspan. – Let’s talk about what housing for all could look like under socialism and the struggle to get there. Space is wheelchair accessible. Refreshments will be served.63441 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 13 @ 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 3:30 pm Oakland: Say No to Hate in the Bay @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland: Say No to Hate in the Bay @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 13 @ 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets We stand with Charlottesville. 63480 3:30 pm Open Circle – Monthly Meeting SF Open Circle – Monthly Meeting SF Aug 13 @ 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Historically, Open Circle has stayed stationary in Oakland and SF. We’re at a point where we want to bring Open Circle to areas that need further support. Last month, we were in Stockton. At this meeting, we will beginning planning where to hold the September meeting. Join us for a community potluck and thoughtful discussion around police accountability on behalf of families directly impacted by exessive use of force. ~~~~~~~~~~ Open Circle holds space for families directly impacted by police terrorism to gather with each other and members of the … Continued 5:00 pm 13 Lessons from the Largest Land Conflict in Latin America + Benefit Party @ Gill Tract 13 Lessons from the Largest Land Conflict in Latin America + Benefit Party @ Gill Tract Aug 13 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Local organizer, Effie Rawlings, will share stories, video and art from one of the world’s largest and oldest social movements, Movimento Sem Terra (MST): The Landless Worker’s Movement of Brazil. Learn more about how the MST is helping to heal deforestation and displacement through direct action – occupying land and redistributing it to landless people, who, through the process of fighting for and holistically managing land, cultivate a deep political identity. The MST’s commitment to the well being of the planet and the development of social consciousness through the careful … Continued 5:00 pm Bay Area Anti-Fascists: Where do we go from here? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Bay Area Anti-Fascists: Where do we go from here? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Aug 13 @ 5:00 pm – 7:45 pm Tickets Green Sunday Don’t miss this riveting discussion! Speakers: Meleiza Figueroa and Juno Amy Rosenhaus OCCUPELLA kicks off the event with two songs! John Torok emcees. Will there be strong non-violent resistance to the Alt Reich? This topic was chosen for Green Sunday because alt-right rallies, featuring known violent instigators, are scheduled at UC Berkeley on Aug 19 and Sept 14 and downtown Berkeley on Aug 27. Mayor Jesse Arreguin asks us to avoid the Civic Center area that Sunday, but “If you do choose to attend and violence breaks out, … Continued 6:30 pm Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons - Disco Room Community Democracy Project @ Omni Commons - Disco Room Aug 13 @ 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 7:00 pm 24th Birthday Party for Long Haul Infoshop @ Longhaul 24th Birthday Party for Long Haul Infoshop @ Longhaul Aug 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Long Haul Infoshop opened August 13, 1993 Come celebrate 24 years! — free t-shirt raffle — silk screen your own t-shirt – bring a blank shirt — celebratory food items — tell funny stories There will be cake & a t-shirt raffle/ give away! For more event information: http://www.thelonghaul.org63442 7:00 pm SF: Emergency Rally in Support of #DefendCville @ San Francisco City Hall SF: Emergency Rally in Support of #DefendCville @ San Francisco City Hall Aug 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets We are coming together because we are needed. We are coming together because we will not accept what happened in Charlottesville, VA this weekend as the “new normal”. We are coming together to support and honor our comrades in Cville who bravely stood up to Nazis, Fascists and Klansmen–even at the cost of their lives. We come together to show that we will not be silent or cowed by so-called “Alt-Right” terrorists. Please come and bring a candle or a flashlight. Sunset is is around 8pm on Sunday, so let … Continued 7:30 pm Berkeley: Candlelight Vigil for Charlottesville @ Finnish Hall Berkeley: Candlelight Vigil for Charlottesville @ Finnish Hall Aug 13 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets TONIGHT! Candlelight vigil for #Cville.Meet: Finnish Hall 7:30p 1970 Chestnut St, #Berkeley, march to Civic Center Park by 8. Details later— Indivisible Berkeley (@IndivisibleBerk) August 13, 2017 63483 7:30 pm Indvisible Berkeley General Assembly Indvisible Berkeley General Assembly Aug 13 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets General Assembly meeting, https://www.indivisibleberkeley.org/ 63430	12:00 pm Immigration Support Rally for Mendoza Family @ Highland Hospital Immigration Support Rally for Mendoza Family @ Highland Hospital Aug 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Listen up Bay Area. Deportation defense rally for the Mendoza-Sanchez infront of Highland 🏥 @ 12pm Monday. Come out & support! #HeretoStay— Indivisible Petaluma (@IndivisibleLuma) August 11, 2017 63454 12:00 pm Rally for Social Security @ Oscar Grant Plaza Rally for Social Security @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Don’t believe the Debt Vultures. Social Security is Alive and Well! BUT WE NEED TO FIGHT TO PRESERVE, IMPROVE AND EXPAND IT.63409 5:00 pm Occupella Sing Along – Tax the Rich @ Solano Avenue in front of the old Oaks Theater Occupella Sing Along – Tax the Rich @ Solano Avenue in front of the old Oaks Theater Aug 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Occupella organizes informal public singing at Bay Area occupation sites, marches and at BART stations. We sing to promote peace, justice, and an end to corporate domination, especially in support of the Occupy movement. Music has the power to build spirit, foster a sense of unity, convey messages and emotions, spread information, and bring joy to participants and audience alike. See spirited clip of an action at BART. Check out the actions calendar and come add your voice. There are lots of ways to participate and everyone is welcome.63459 5:30 pm Film Screening: The Bail Trap @ Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth Film Screening: The Bail Trap @ Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth Aug 14 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The money bail system is one of the main feeders of mass incarceration. Yet, few people know what the money bail system is, let alone how it all works or why we need to do away with it. That’s why Brave New Films’ has produced a new short film compilation about America’s broken bail system — The Bail Trap: American Ransom. This ongoing short-film series includes: Breaking Down Bail, unpacking the myths and the history of bail, and Tai’s Story: College or Bail?, a documentary about a young woman and the $100,000 price-tag put … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Aug 14 @ 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	5:00 pm Emergency Protest “No New War on Korea!” @ Powell St. BART Emergency Protest “No New War on Korea!” @ Powell St. BART Aug 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets President Trump has threatened the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” – a new nuclear war aimed at annihilating the DPRK. We must say NO to a devastating new war in Korea! 63487 6:00 pm Workers & the Fight Against Coal – Monthly Meetup @ SEIU United Service Workers West, Fruitvale BART Plaza Workers & the Fight Against Coal – Monthly Meetup @ SEIU United Service Workers West, Fruitvale BART Plaza Aug 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Workers & the Fight Against Coal August Climate Workers Monthly Meetup Join us for Climate Workers’ monthly membership meetup, at which we’ll be strategizing about labor’s role in the fight against coal in Oakland. MORE INFO & RSVP Climate Workers believes that we must defeat coal in Oakland and that workers and our unions have a critical role to play in the fight. At this month’s Climate Workers member meet up, we’ll get an update on the fight against coal, learn how other communities have fought extractive industry (and won!), … Continued 7:00 pm San Francisco Security Meetup @ Patriot House San Francisco Security Meetup @ Patriot House Aug 15 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets BaySec is the meetup for anyone interested in security and cryptography. There’s no sponsor, agenda, or talks, but feel free to buy a new friend a drink. It’s almost always on the third Tuesday of each month at Patriot House in San Francisco. #Baysec is Tuesday the 15th, 7-10ish pm at Patriot House (2 Embarcadero Center, SF). Info at https://t.co/5WCHUUinra— Root Labs (@rootlabs) August 13, 2017 63485	5:00 pm Protest Sheriff’s racist tweet scandal! Show up for immigrants! @ Alameda County Sheriff's Office Protest Sheriff’s racist tweet scandal! Show up for immigrants! @ Alameda County Sheriff's Office Aug 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Are you outraged that the Alameda County Sheriff’s Dept. is retweeting white supremacists? Are you angry that Sheriff Ahern and other sheriffs want to keep deporting our loved ones? (The CA State Sheriffs Association is trying to bully Gov Brown into further weakening SB 54, the “Sanctuary” bill that would push back on Trump’s deportation machine!) Then join us tomorrow to say NO to white supremacy and racism! You probably already heard that on Sunday night, the Alameda County Sheriff’s official twitter account retweeted infamous white supremacist Richard Spencer. The … Continued 6:00 pm Coffee Break: Informal Discussion on Politics & The Left @ Free Speech Movement Cafe, Moffett Undergraduate Library, on the UC Campus Coffee Break: Informal Discussion on Politics & The Left @ Free Speech Movement Cafe, Moffett Undergraduate Library, on the UC Campus Aug 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets The Platypus Affiliated Society hosts a weekly informal discussion on Politics, The Left, the Platypus Review, and upcoming Leftist events & Platypus activities in the area. All are welcomed to attend regardless of whether or not you participate in the discussion. Sometimes certain articles or events are points of discussion, email PlatypusBCC [at] gmail.com to find out. This week we will be discussing “Organization, political action, history, and consciousness: on anarchism and Marxism” by Chris Cutrone https://platypus1917.org/2008/02/01/organization-political-action-history-and-consciousness-on-anarchism-and-marxism/ http://www.platypus1917.org http://www.facebook.com/platypusberkeley http://www.platypus1917.org/berkeley The Platypus Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading … Continued 7:00 pm Ars Technica Forum: How to make the tech industry work for everyone @ Eli's Mile High Club Ars Technica Forum: How to make the tech industry work for everyone @ Eli's Mile High Club Aug 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Anyone who has been in the Bay Area in recent years knows that the tech industry plays an outside role in our daily lives. We feel it in our rent, in the price of our drinks—regardless of whether we work in the industry or not. That’s why Catherine Bracy, a co-founder, has created a new Oakland-based organization to try to generate widespread opportunity for all. Join Ars Technica editors Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar in conversation with Ling at the next Ars Technica Live, at Eli’s Mile High Club in … Continued 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Aug 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month. – Strategize on addressing proposed changes to the BART police use of force policy. – Find out ways you can use your talents and resources to support APTP and get involved with the work, including how to join various committees such as the Black Leadership Committee, First Responders, Action, Policy, Media, and Security committees. – Find out more about the #DefundOPD campaign. The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other … Continued	8:30 am Freedom4Dajon Rally @ Rene Davidson Courthouse Freedom4Dajon Rally @ Rene Davidson Courthouse Aug 17 @ 8:30 am – 10:00 am Tickets Come out and support DaJon Ford, who was arrested and charged as an adult back in 2013, when he was only 17 years old. He has been waiting almost 4 years for a trial in Santa Rita Jail. We made a lot of noise in support of Dajon at his court hearing last month, but we know we could get a lot more support for his next court hearing: Last year, Proposition 57 passed, which took the power away from district attorneys to directly try juveniles as adults, and put … Continued 7:00 pm Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Aug 17 @ 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	6:00 pm Town Hall – Stop the Violence in Oakland @ Youth Uprising Town Hall – Stop the Violence in Oakland @ Youth Uprising Aug 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets From the Oakland Post: Adamika Village and other grass-roots organizations are hosting a town hall meeting to announce “strategic and consistent planning and implementation to stop the violence in Oakland.” “It is imperative that the community get involved in changing Oakland’s climate of violence. We can no longer rely on anyone but ourselves to make this happen,” says Pastor Anthony Woods, Adamika CEO. “This town hall is the beginning of regular monthly meetings to assure implementation occurs. Please don’t stay home and think somebody else is going to change Oakland. … Continued	9:00 am Mobilize! Millions for Prisoners @ West Oakland BART Mobilize! Millions for Prisoners @ West Oakland BART Aug 19 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Oakland! This is the caravan of the summer, mobilizing the East Bay to the South Bay for #A19 #Millions4Prisoners march and rally. Come listen, learn, network, share, reach out, march, BUILD!!! DRIVERS and RIDERS: This will be a full day so SIGN UP EARLY!! Use the google form at the link to let us know your needs for transportation or comment on this event!!! Schedule: March with California Prison Focus & RISE UP FOR JUSTICE 9:00 am – Meet at West Oakland Station, depart 9:30am 11:00 am – Gather at Raymond Bernal Jr. Park 11:30 am … Continued 10:00 am People First! Healthcare, Emergency Preparedness, + Decriminalization @ East Bay Community Space People First! Healthcare, Emergency Preparedness, + Decriminalization @ East Bay Community Space Aug 19 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets People First! Healthcare, Emergency Preparedness, + Decriminalization Please join Oakland Power Projects on Saturday as we build our community power to respond to healthcare needs and emergencies without police. We are reminded daily that we must build up our community resilience and preparedness. The racist violence in Charlottesville and the planned white supremacist actions in the Bay Area are yet another reminder to grow our community defense capacities. Saturday’s summit will feature self defense training, first responder and street medic skills, and de-escalation workshops. Join us and spread the word. … Continued 10:00 am SURJ (Standing Up for Racial Justice) Art Build @ 1st Congregational Church SURJ (Standing Up for Racial Justice) Art Build @ 1st Congregational Church Aug 19 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Tickets Let’s send a clear message to the white supremacists rallying in Berkeley on August 27th! Come help us make banners and signs to say No to Racism and No to Hate Speech in Berkeley. Bring markers and poster board if you can. We will have supplies as well. RSVP: kaseybrenner@gmail.com 63502 2:00 pm Sunflower Alliance: Banners Over I-80 @ I-80 Pedestrian Overpass Sunflower Alliance: Banners Over I-80 @ I-80 Pedestrian Overpass Aug 19 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Banner Over I-80 with Our Messages to the World, Aug 19 Join Animals Against Extinction, the Sunflower Alliance art group, to get our messages out to tens of thousands of people driving on Route 80. Show them we have a vibrant progressive movement pushing hard for a just and sustainable world. Every time we banner we get lots of honks and waves. We’ll have banners saying RESIST PERSIST, WTF! THERE IS NO PLANET B, IMMIGRANTS R US, NO BAN NO WALL and a new one, SINGLE PAYER Its lots of … Continued 3:00 pm BLUE RIBBON PANEL: REFORMING URBAN SHIELD @ South Berkeley Senior Center BLUE RIBBON PANEL: REFORMING URBAN SHIELD @ South Berkeley Senior Center Aug 19 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Please join us for a discussion on reforming Urban Shield with distinguished panelists David Muhammad, Reggie Lyles, Tracy Rosenberg, and Elliot Hosman. D a v i d M u h a m m a d i s a n a t i o n a l l e a d e r i n t h e f i e l d s o f c r i m i n a l j u s t i c e , v i o l e n c e p … Continued

Week of August 13

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.