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Simple breakfast will be served. “Thy name is my … Continued 1:00 pm North Oakland District Canvass for Single Payer Health Care @ info@eastbaydsa.org North Oakland District Canvass for Single Payer Health Care @ info@eastbaydsa.org Sep 10 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets For several months, East Bay DSA has worked to build support for single-payer healthcare in California by canvassing throughout Berkeley, and now it’s Oakland’s turn. Come join us on Saturday, September 10, in North Oakland for our next neighborhood canvassing event. For more information, email info@eastbaydsa.org. 63589 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sep 10 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Please join us for the regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance — but it’s three weeks after the last one because we skipped a week for Labor Day. We’ll discuss ongoing campaigns and future plans — we need your participation and your voice. Newcomers encouraged! 63588 2:00 pm Renew DACA Free @ Register to get location. Renew DACA Free @ Register to get location. Sep 10 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets From now until October 3rd, EBSC will hold a series of workshops to provide information and to file qualifying renewal DACA applications. Below is a list of currently scheduled workshops (we will release more dates as they become available): 09/10/2017 2-4 pm 09/13/2017 6-8 pm 09/16/2017 3-5 pm To register for a workshop, please fill out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9794DBgzk4GePPElv02yYPHcVnKlVRN6-vOPTzixSjYc03A/viewform?usp=sf_link 63608 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 10 @ 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: No Coal in Oakland: An Update @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday: No Coal in Oakland: An Update @ Niebyl Proctor Library Sep 10 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Oakland has long been a center for highly polluting transportation activities. This has resulted in disproportionately high health impacts for the residents of West Oakland. Our goal is to systematically reduce the level of pollution caused by all these polluting activities, and we have made some progress. But we can’t afford to allow brand new pollution, in the form of coal dust, to further threaten our health. Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel on Earth, imperiling the health of workers, endangering communities along the tracks, and contributing greatly to … Continued 7:00 pm Liberated Lens film night: local filmmaker Craig Baldwin @ Omni Commons ballroom Liberated Lens film night: local filmmaker Craig Baldwin @ Omni Commons ballroom Sep 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Liberated Lens Film Collective presents an evening with award-winning filmmaker Craig Baldwin. Craig Baldwin is an experimental filmmaker who uses found-footage from the fringes of popular consciousness as well as images from the mass media to undermine and transform the traditional documentary, infusing it with the energy of high-speed montage and a provocative commentary that targets subjects from intellectual property rights to rampant consumerism. We will showcase three of his shorter films: “Wild Gunman” (1978, 20 mins) – A manic montage of pop-cultural amusements, cowboy iconography and advertising imagery is … Continued	5:00 pm Tax The Rich Rally – Sixth Anniversary! @ Old Oaks Theater Tax The Rich Rally – Sixth Anniversary! @ Old Oaks Theater Sep 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Tax the Rich Turns Six on Monday The Tax the Rich group will be celebrating a tremendous achievement, its sixth year birthday party. The group has been protesting and working on issues since September 12, 2011. On domestic issues, it has been the longest running political rally in Berkeley’s history. Indeed, that’s six years on the streets of Solano Avenue. During these years we have along with other organizations won public support for Prop 30, which funnels money to the public schools by increasing taxes on those in the higher … Continued 5:30 pm Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland @ Omni Commons Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland @ Omni Commons Sep 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Agenda: Reportbacks (15 min) Freedom Farmers’ Market First Friday Les Leopold training Other? Alameda County? Repeating items: (15 min) Treasurer’s report introductions of new attendees overview of public banking for new attendees set next meeting time and place (two weeks is the Sparkassen event). Includes reportback on library venue possibilities. Upcoming City Council Meetings: (25 min.) Berkeley, 9/12, 6:00 p.m. If more than three people speak on our behalf, we go off the consent calendar. Richmond, 9/12, 6:30 p.m. Oakland, 9/19, 5:30 p.m. Sparkassen event planning (15 min.) Up-to-Date Situation … Continued 6:45 pm Occupy forum: September 11th, Mass Surveillance, and Edward Snowden’s Revelations @ Black and Brown Social Club Occupy forum: September 11th, Mass Surveillance, and Edward Snowden’s Revelations @ Black and Brown Social Club Sep 11 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum presents… Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! September 11th, Mass Surveillance, and Edward Snowden’s Revelations Join us at OccupyForum for films Citizen4 and/or Snowden Edward Joseph Snowden is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without authorization. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run … Continued 7:00 pm Meeting & Potluck: Gear up to show up for Kayla Moore’s family! @ Grassroots House Meeting & Potluck: Gear up to show up for Kayla Moore’s family! @ Grassroots House Sep 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Want to help gear up for the Moore family’s October court dates? The J4KM Coalition invites you to come gather with us on Monday, September 11th to get organized for the trial. We’ll be planning an action to rally community support for the family and to amplify our demands: It’s time to get the racist, transphobic and ableist Berkeley Police Department out of crisis response and to invest in community alternatives!63567 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Sep 11 @ 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 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee @ Niebyl Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee @ Niebyl Proctor Library Sep 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Against Police Brutality and State Repression 63615 7:00 pm The Bay Area Remembers Chile: September 11, 1973 Remembrance Day @ La Pena The Bay Area Remembers Chile: September 11, 1973 Remembrance Day @ La Pena Sep 11 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets The Bay Area Remembers Chile: September 11, 1973 Remembrance Day Join the Chilean Exile Community and friends in commemorating the 44th anniversary of the 1973 Chilean coup d’etat, which ousted the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende and lead to the disappearance and murders of thousands of Chileans. This event includes an outdoor candlelight vigil and installation, songs of resistance by local Chilean musicians and members of the La Peña Chorus, and an art exhibit featuring rare revolutionary posters from La Peña’s private archive collection and original art by … Continued	3:00 pm No Pepper Spray for Berkeley PD — All Out to City Council Meeting! @ Old Berkeley City Hall No Pepper Spray for Berkeley PD — All Out to City Council Meeting! @ Old Berkeley City Hall Sep 12 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Berkeley City Council is deciding on whether to expand the ordinance to include the use of pepper spray against people wearing masks. This an attack on organizing against white supremacy and those that seek to protect themselves from chemical weaponry and targeting through state and fascist surveillance. COME OUT TO BERKELEY CITY HALL Demand that Berkeley City Council not participate in heightened targeting of organizing against white supremacy. Berkeley Police want to change the law so they can pepper spray #antifa at "#freespeech" rallies https://t.co/NNXAHB8ITe pic.twitter.com/t707cYMSRG— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) September … Continued 6:00 pm Hey, FCC: The Bay Area Demands An Open and Affordable Internet Hey, FCC: The Bay Area Demands An Open and Affordable Internet Sep 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Ajit Pai, the Trump-appointed Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), wants to kill net neutrality and give control of the internet to companies like Comcast and AT&T. This move would threaten economic opportunity, free speech and online dissent for communities of color. Now he’s coming to San Francisco on Sept. 12 for a “fireside chat” with tech executives about expanding access and bridging the digital divide for underserved communities. But we aren’t fooled by lip service about expanding opportunity. Join us in telling Chairman Pai: There can be no … Continued 6:00 pm Speak Out – No Tasers in SF! @ Bill Graham Auditorium Speak Out – No Tasers in SF! @ Bill Graham Auditorium Sep 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Come to the SF Police Commission to tell them #NoTasersSF at Bill Graham Auditorium. If you can’t make it out email the San Francisco Police Commission, & tell them #NoTasersSF sfpd.commission@sfgov.org Next Tuesday, come to the SF Police Commission to tell them #NoTasersSF at Bill Graham Auditorium. https://t.co/HGZAbeljuE pic.twitter.com/pRUiaqj6vw— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) September 7, 2017 Tasers Are Deadly Weapons Facts you should know for the meetingTomorrow Tue. Sept 126-8PMBill Graham Auditorium#NoTasersSF pic.twitter.com/Gvz19czecB— 64 GB (@gilbazoid) September 12, 2017 63627 6:30 pm Are We Being Spied on? The NSA and Mass Surveillance @ World Affairs Auditorium Are We Being Spied on? The NSA and Mass Surveillance @ World Affairs Auditorium Sep 12 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets When Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked thousands of top-secret documents to the press, was asked why he did it, he turned to a 250-year-old warning from Benjamin Franklin: “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Today, the NSA is one of the most powerful intelligence gathering agencies in the world. But at what point does the agency’s mass surveillance programs amount to an infringement on the democratic values it was created to defend? In … Continued 6:45 pm Displacement & Gentrification: How did we get here and how do we stop it? @ Sierra Club Displacement & Gentrification: How did we get here and how do we stop it? @ Sierra Club Sep 12 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Gentrification comes up constantly in the Bay Area, but few of us feel equipped to take action against it. Is it inevitable? What can we do now to prevent displacement? This SURJ workshop will put gentrification and displacement in a historical context so we understand the racialized political and economic drivers. You’ll hear about past and current struggles led by communities of color to preserve their homes and communities. Facilitators from SURJ – Oakland/Bay Area will present analysis based on the work of Causa Justa :: Just Cause. SURJ (Showing … Continued 7:45 pm Film Screening: Indivisible @ First Unitarian Church of Oakland Film Screening: Indivisible @ First Unitarian Church of Oakland Sep 12 @ 7:45 pm – 9:45 pm Tickets Join the First Unitarian Church of Oakland for a special screening of the award-winning documentary film Indivisible. Snacks will be provided! RSVP to secure your spot: https://oakland-indivisible.eventbrite.com/ About the film: Imagine growing up in the country you call home without legal status. Or not seeing your family for years because they were deported. Renata, Evelyn, and Antonio were young children when their parents brought them to the U.S. in search of a better life; they were teenagers when their families were deported. Today, they are known as Dreamers. Indivisible takes place … Continued 8:00 pm Film Screening: Indivisible: Love Knows No Borders @ Wendte Hall Film Screening: Indivisible: Love Knows No Borders @ Wendte Hall Sep 12 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets The Justice Council and Young Adults of the the First Unitarian Church of Oakland invite you to a film showing. Indivisible : Love Knows No Borders is an award wining feature-length documentary film about the people at the heart of our nation’s immigration debate and the fight to reunite families separated by deportation. RSVP: oakland-indivisible.eventbrite.com You are welcome to attend just the movie. We also encourage you to consider joining us for any part of the evening’s activities: 6pm: Community Dinner; Taco Tuesday! Bring a side to share or just … Continued 8:00 pm Love Knows no Borders – The Fight to Reunite Families Separated by Deportation @ First Unitarian Church of Oakland Love Knows no Borders – The Fight to Reunite Families Separated by Deportation @ First Unitarian Church of Oakland Sep 12 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets RSVP: http://www.oakland-indivisible.eventbrite.com Join the First Unitarian Church of Oakland for a special screening of the award-winning documentary film Indivisible. The screening will take place at the church and begins at 8pm on September 12th. Snacks will be provided at the event! About the film: Imagine growing up in the country you call home without legal status. Or not seeing your family for years because they were deported. Renata, Evelyn, and Antonio were young children when their parents brought them to the U.S. in search of a better life; they were teenagers … Continued	6:00 pm Ella Baker Center Prison Letter Night @ Ella Baker Center office Ella Baker Center Prison Letter Night @ Ella Baker Center office Sep 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets EBC will host a mail night at our office to respond to the increasing amount of correspondence we’ve been receiving from people in prisons and jails across the country. We are getting lots of questions about prior ballot initiatives including Prop 47 and 57, advocacy support, requests for pen pals, responses to our Night Out for Safety and Liberation letter drive and EBC’s work at large. Please RSVP to emily@ellabakercenter.org 63618	12:00 pm Non-Violent Vigil for Peace and Justice – SF @ Corner of Larkin and Golden Gate Non-Violent Vigil for Peace and Justice – SF @ Corner of Larkin and Golden Gate Sep 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets American Friends Service Committee, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Episcopal Peace Fellowship, and San Francisco Friends Meeting and suppporters observed the occasion with their weekly 12-1pm vigil rain or shine every Thursday at 450 Golden Gate, the Federal Building. Why We Vigil For five years we have stood on this corner every Thursday from noon to 1:00. We come because we believe that what our government is doing is wrong. The so-called war on terror is a disaster, doing more to stimulate the growth of terrorism around the world than to keep … Continued 6:30 pm 30th Anniversary of Berkeley’s Peace and Justice Commission @ North Berkeley Senior Center 30th Anniversary of Berkeley’s Peace and Justice Commission @ North Berkeley Senior Center Sep 14 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets We hope you’ll join us. We’ll use the occasion to look at the state of human rights in Berkeley and beyond. We will commemorate the generations of movements that we have supported and learned from. But our main focus is to look ahead. We’ll discuss the importance of having a peace and justice commission in the 21st century, and how we can together transform the city and its government to put human rights first. We are proud of our expansive mandate to act on all issues of social justice. We … Continued 7:00 pm Black in Latin America: Haiti & the Dominican Republic @ La Pena Cultural Center Black in Latin America: Haiti & the Dominican Republic @ La Pena Cultural Center Sep 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Doors open at 7pm, Screening starts at 7:30pm. FREE! Donations of any size benefit the Haiti Action Committee & La Peña Cultural Center! As white supremacy is increasingly coming out of the shadows in this country, it is important we confront racism in our native Latin American and Caribbean countries. Black in Latin America is an award-winning documentary series where Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. travels to 6 different nations in Latin America and the Caribbean to explore how each nation’s history with colonialism and slavery directly impacts the … Continued 7:00 pm Defend Our Spaces: Know Your Enemy @ Oakland Peace Center Defend Our Spaces: Know Your Enemy @ Oakland Peace Center Sep 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Community Ready Corps (CRC) is organizing to protect Black spaces & communities from racist intimidation, harassment, and violence, and to provide security & self defense trainings. Emboldened by the election of Donald Trump, White Nationalists with genocidal aspirations against Black people, Muslims and Immigrants are organizing in the Bay Area. Who are the organizations and individuals making up the “Alt-Right”? Where did they come from? What do they believe? How has their movement picked up so much steam? Join CRC and CRC(Allies & Accomplices) for a community teach-in about the … Continued		10:00 am Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair @ Omni Commons Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair @ Omni Commons Sep 16 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Tickets The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair is an annual event that brings together people interested and engaged in radical work to connect, learn, and discuss through books and information tables, workshops, panel discussions, skillshares, films, and more! We seek to create an inclusive space to introduce new folks to anarchism, foster a productive dialogue between various political traditions as well as anarchists from different milieus, and create an opportunity to dissect our movements’ strengths, weaknesses, strategies, and tactics. RSVP on Facebook Help us make the 2017 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair more accessible. … Continued 12:00 pm Human Billboard – Justice for Kayla Moore @ Berkeley Farmers Market Human Billboard – Justice for Kayla Moore @ Berkeley Farmers Market Sep 16 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Join us, rain or shine, as we show up for Kayla Moore! Kayla Moore, a Black trans woman with a mental health diagnosis, was killed by Berkeley police in 2013. Four years later, her family and community are still working to hold the City of Berkeley and Berkeley police accountable with a civil suit. Demands also include that police not be first responders to mental health emergencies and an end the BPD’s violent attacks, criminalization, and profiling of people who are Black, Brown, disabled and/or trans. This “Human Billboard” will … Continued 2:00 pm Creating Commons Festival’s Free Legal Clinic @ St. Columbo Chruch Creating Commons Festival’s Free Legal Clinic @ St. Columbo Chruch Sep 16 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets At this legal clinic, people will have the opportunity to reduce or clear their felony convictions and get a free copy of their RAP sheets. Attendees will learn how we can help to remove barriers to vital programs and services. Spanish interpreters will be present and there will be free food! We are seeking volunteers to support the legal clinic. if you are available, contact: tash@ellabakercenter.org. 63628 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance in the Age of Trump is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baguette Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance in the Age of Trump is NOT Futile! @ Paris Baguette Sep 16 @ 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 and inequality … Continued 6:30 pm Trump-Proof the Bay Area! Building the Socialist Resistance @ Oakland Peace Center Trump-Proof the Bay Area! Building the Socialist Resistance @ Oakland Peace Center Sep 16 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Left is coming together in the wake of the chaotic Trump administration. Bernie Sanders brought a mass movement together through his campaign, and we’ve seen some of the largest protests in US history, just in 2017 so far. Although the Democratic Party establishment has made some overtures to this movement through the “better deal” program, they refuse to take concrete steps to prove any motion towards the Left, like rejecting corporate money or embracing single-payer healthcare. So how do we take the movement forward? Socialists and the Left … Continued

Week of September 10

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.