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This will include examination of some of the ways that internalized sexism can impact … Continued 12:00 pm From Mass Incarceration to Restorative Justice From Mass Incarceration to Restorative Justice Jan 28 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets From Mass Incarceration to Restorative Justice: How Contra Costa County is Developing the Blue Print for Criminal Justice Reform Presented by the ACLU’s Berkeley/North East Bay Chapter The Berkeley/North East Bay chapter of the ACLU is pleased to present a Criminal Justice Reform panel with newly appointed District Attorney Diana Becton and Public Defenders Ali Saidi and Jeff Landau. Topics will include the current state of criminal justice reform in Contra Costa County and D.A. Becton’s holistic approach for future reform including dismantling the school to prison pipeline for juvenile … Continued 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Jan 28 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing campaigns and plans for the future. Newcomers and old friends welcome — we need your participation and your voice. Come early to share a potluck lunch! potluck lunch: 12:30PM meeting: 1 – 3 PM 64193 1:00 pm Medicare for All Social and Political Discussion @ Mudrakers Cafe Medicare for All Social and Political Discussion @ Mudrakers Cafe Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets South Berkeley Medicare for All Social and Political Discussion Come out to connect with DSA, learn more about our Medicare for All campaign, meet your neighbors, and join us for a political discussion! RSVP 64196 2:30 pm Support ICE Detainees in West County Jail Facility – Benefit Concert @ Ashkenaz Support ICE Detainees in West County Jail Facility – Benefit Concert @ Ashkenaz Jan 28 @ 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Raise your voice, rouse your body, and move to the rhythms of the highly spirited Dance Chants and smooth jazz of Humanistic on Sunday, the 28th of January. Calpulli Huey Papalotl, a Danza Mexica and cultural circle open the days cultural jamboree with danza and songs to honor the fight for justice for all immigrants. Danza Mexica,a vibrant meditation in movement, connects the dancers to the Cosmos and to their Indigenous Ancestors through the movements of their bodies, accompanied by the beat of the Huehuetl, the Ancient drum. The opening … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 28 @ 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 5:30 pm Transit Equity Day Video Townhall @ Your computer Transit Equity Day Video Townhall @ Your computer Jan 28 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets REGISTER HERE FOR THE VIDEO TOWNHALL Transit Equity Day is a collaborative effort of several organizations and unions to promote public transit as a civil right and a strategy to combat climate change. At a digital townhall on January 28th, hear from worker and community leaders as the Labor Network for Sustainability and its partners prepare for Transit Equity Day on February 5th. On that day we will honor Rosa Parks’ February 4th birthday and the Civil Rights movement by dedicating Transit Equity Day to lift up the rights of all … Continued 6:00 pm Liberated Lens Film Night: “Ciutat Morta” @ Omni Commons ballroom Liberated Lens Film Night: “Ciutat Morta” @ Omni Commons ballroom Jan 28 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 800 people illegally occupy an old movie theater in Barcelona in order to screen a documentary. They rename the old building after a girl who committed suicide in 2011: Cinema Patricia Heras. Who was that girl? Why did she kill herself and what does the city have to do with it? That’s exactly what the squatting action is about: letting everyone know the truth about one of the worse corruption cases in Barcelona, the dead city. More information: https://roarmag.org/essays/torturing-squatters-barcelona-4f/ Trailer: https://ciutatmorta.wordpress.com/ Directed Xavier Artigas & Xapo Ortega. Associates of … Continued 6:30 pm Reefer Madness @ It's Your Move Games Reefer Madness @ It's Your Move Games Jan 28 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 64226	6:45 pm Occupy Forum @ Local 2 Occupy Forum @ Local 2 Jan 29 @ 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! Taking Stock of our Actions to Defend Immigrants: Group discussion and planning We are witnessing at this moment the most serious threat to our immigrant communities, at least since Operation Wetback in 1954. What’s more ominous today is that this attack on immigrants is part of a broader assault on democratic rights aimed at hammering into place a more authoritarian/fascist form of rule. But it is … Continued	6:30 pm Community Meeting on Stop Urban Shield @ Greenlining Institute Community Meeting on Stop Urban Shield @ Greenlining Institute Jan 30 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Critical Resistance invites you and your community group/organization to join us. One block from 12th St BART. Wheelchair accessible. RSVP today to join Critical Resistance and the Stop Urban Shield Coalition for a community organization meeting to discuss next steps and immediate targets for the Stop Urban Shield campaign. Learn how you and your organization can fight back against Urban Shield and make 2018 our most powerful year yet. We will also be sharing findings from our Stop Urban Shield People’s Report. Sheriff Ahern will be submitting his application to host … Continued	3:15 pm Youth-led Rally Against Coal in Oakland @ Street Academy Youth-led Rally Against Coal in Oakland @ Street Academy Jan 31 @ 3:15 pm – 5:15 pm Tickets Join a youth-led and youth -organized rally to show Phil Tagami and the City of Oakland that the youth will not stand for coal in their city. Youth will be there to make some noise and oppose coal in the Oakland Bulk and Over-sized Terminal. Tagami, developer of the Oakland Bulk and Oversize Terminal, is suing the city of Oakland for blocking his plan to export coal. The City Council unanimously voted to block the coal terminal to protect the health and safety of Oakland residents, especially the residents of West … Continued 4:30 pm Fossil Free Fast @ Citizen Engagement Lab Fossil Free Fast @ Citizen Engagement Lab Jan 31 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets On January 31, we’re sharing a bold vision for climate justice at an event we’re calling Fossil Free Fast. Tune in and figure out what your role in this fight can be — RSVP for a watch party in the Bay Area below. 350 Bay Area’s Live Event Watch Party: RSVP here64225 4:30 pm Free Ahed Tamimi! Free Ahed Tamimi! Jan 31 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets January 31st is Ahed Tamimi’s 17th Birthday. She is sitting in an Israeli military prison for slapping Israeli soldiers. Her cousin had been shot in the head by a rubber coated steel bullet! Release her now! Drop all charges!64245 6:00 pm A New Way to Stop Police Brutality: #NoJusticeNoDeal @ The Episcopal Church of Saint John the Evangelist A New Way to Stop Police Brutality: #NoJusticeNoDeal @ The Episcopal Church of Saint John the Evangelist Jan 31 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets For too long, the San Francisco Police Officers Association (the police union) has taken hardline stances and used inflammatory tactics that destroy trust between residents and police. It has blocked or delayed common-sense reforms—like the city’s improved use-of-force policy—and has publicly attacked police accountability champions—including elected officials, prominent athletes like Colin Kaepernick, and its own police members. Unlike other unions focused on wages and benefits and reasonable working conditions for their employees, the SFPOA has used labor law to exert an enormous influence on public policy and public safety. Right … Continued 6:00 pm Under the Hood of Oakland City Government @ Laurel Book Store (off Oscar Grant Plaza) Under the Hood of Oakland City Government @ Laurel Book Store (off Oscar Grant Plaza) Jan 31 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Whether an Observer Corps volunteer or regular LWVO member, you’ll enjoy an evening presentation on the nuts and bolts of how the City works. Guest speaker Tracy Rosenberg, executive director of Media Alliance, will provide an overview of the city structure––from elected officials to city manager to committees and commissions––as well as the legislation flow. Who can introduce legislation and how does a member of public use the “bully pulpit” to get the assistance from a Council member to do so? Also covered will be a review of good governance … Continued	12:00 am Restore the Vote: Overturning Voter Suppression Restore the Vote: Overturning Voter Suppression Feb 1 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am Tickets This workshop will provide the context for the Voting Restoration & Democracy Act of 2018, including essential understanding of voter suppression history in the United States and California. Learn concrete actions you can take over the next several months to help restore voting rights to 162,000 incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals in California. This effort is led by Initiate Justice. More information can be found here: http://www.surjbayarea.org/restore-the-vote-20180201 64201 10:00 am SF Public Bank Now – Budget & Finance Committee Meeting @ SF City Hall, Room 250 SF Public Bank Now – Budget & Finance Committee Meeting @ SF City Hall, Room 250 Feb 1 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm Tickets The Budget Legislative Analyst and the Treasurer will be making presentations on a report about public banking and the status of the municipal banking task force. We need people to pack the hearing and make public comment on how SF needs a public bank that actually serves the people of San Francisco, not Wall Street. 64224 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 1 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Meeting Agenda _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. 5:05pm: Review and approval of November and January meeting minutes 3. 5:10pm: Open Forum 4. 5:15pm: Presentation by Oakland Police Department – Annual Report on Cellular Site Simulator Use 5. 5:35pm: Presentation by Oakland Police Department – Private Video Camera Registry 6. 5:55pm: Annual election of Chair, Vice-Chair64235 6:30 pm Transition Berkeley’s 7th Anniversary Potluck Dinner and Film @ Fellowship Hall Transition Berkeley’s 7th Anniversary Potluck Dinner and Film @ Fellowship Hall Feb 1 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets CALL of the FOREST 6:30 pm Potluck Dinner 7:15 pm: Film Transition Berkeley invites you a potluck dinner and film marking our seventh anniversary! Come help us celebrate and bring your visions for Transition Berkeley’s future. How can we best inspire our community to action? The beautiful film CALL of the FOREST – The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees, features scientist and author Diana Beresford-Kroeger a renowned world visionary. She takes us on a journey from the sacred sugi and cedar forests of Japan to the great boreal forest of … Continued 7:30 pm DANIEL ELLSBERG: The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner @ St. John’s Presbyterian Church DANIEL ELLSBERG: The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner @ St. John’s Presbyterian Church Feb 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents Advance tickets: $12 : brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 Books Inc/Berkeley, Pegasus (3 sites), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway’s. East Bay Books From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America’s Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that lingers to this day. Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America’s nuclear program in the 1960s. From the most remote … Continued	9:00 am United Against White Supremacy Symposium @ Berkeley School of Law, Booth Auditorium United Against White Supremacy Symposium @ Berkeley School of Law, Booth Auditorium Feb 2 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Tickets Racism has been the blueprint and the foundation of the United States since its inception. Over centuries of struggle, the United States has been pushed to evolve on this issue and in many ways the Bay Area has led the charge to provide progressive models of social and legal equity and inclusion. Nevertheless, white supremacy continues to operate in the Bay Area both covertly and increasingly, overtly. Now, the Berkeley Journal of African American Law and Policy, Asian American Law Journal, La Raza Law Journal, and Journal of Middle Eastern … Continued	10:30 am Winter Swap @ Ohlone Park, Winter Swap @ Ohlone Park, Feb 3 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Gather your Books, Clothing and Crops for the next monthly Swap! You can also bring plants, seeds or something homemade to share. Clothing and books should be in good condition. Meet old friends and new, help create a strong sustainable community. Heavy rain will cancel. Cost: FREE Questions or to volunteer: click here 64246 11:00 am Community Forum to Keep Alta Bates in Berkeley! @ Ed Roberts Campus Community Forum to Keep Alta Bates in Berkeley! @ Ed Roberts Campus Feb 3 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Pizza will be provided Thank you Gio’s Pizza and Bocce As you may know, Sutter Health intends to close Alta Bates Hospital as early as 2019. This will deprive our community of critical health services including an emergency room, labor and delivery and intensive care. Please join us on February 3 for this important forum, hosted by The California Nurses Association in partnership with our office, Mayor Arreguin, Mayors and Councilmembers from throughout the East Bay, and numerous community organizations. Full details can be found above. Fighting the closure of … Continued 2:00 pm BLACK LIBERATION : Is There an Electoral Path? @ Starry Plough BLACK LIBERATION : Is There an Electoral Path? @ Starry Plough Feb 3 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Peace and Freedom Party presents BLACK LIBERATION: Is There an Electoral Path? From Frederick Douglass to Barack Obama, an old question. Our speakers: Gerald Smith, Oscar Grant Committee; Phil Hutchings, Last Chair of SNCC; and brando king, Cooperation Jackson, will address an old question needing fresh answers, is there a path toward Black Liberation in the 2018 Elections? As Malcolm X asked, “Ballots or Bullets?” This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month from 2-4:30 pm. The featured panel starts promptly at … Continued 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Feb 3 @ 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! Presenting debt and inequality related topics at forums, workshops and in radio productions Promoting single-payer / Medicare … Continued 9:00 pm Ships In The Night benefit for Feed The People @ The New Parish Ships In The Night benefit for Feed The People @ The New Parish Feb 3 @ 9:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets DJs (New Parish): Ships resident DJ DURT, DJ Mommy Issues, DJ Jiggles and DJ Lady Ryan!!! DJs (TEENAGE DREAMS takeover @ The Rock Steady): 8ulentina, Piano Rain. The Rock Steady is right next door to the New Parish, which means even more music and space for queers to party. More details about the takeover coming soon xoxo Performer: CHHOTI MAA, a hip-hop artist with bruja swag, hits the stage at midnite! can’t wait? preview her music here Go go dancers: Cinnamon, OG, and em jay mercury. bring that tip money … Continued

Week of January 28

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.