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Join in the discussion afterwards. Refreshments … Continued 2:00 pm Medicare for All Open Strategy Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Medicare for All Open Strategy Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets East Bay DSA has been a leading voice in the fight to guarantee healthcare as a human right. As we continue growing our Medicare-for-All campaign, we need your input! Our first Medicare for All open strategy meeting will be a forum for all members to participate as we decide how to expand our campaign. During the meeting, we will Learn about healthcare and why we’re fighting to change it Discuss our national and local goals for the campaign Debate and vote on political tactics that can help us win Our … Continued 5:00 pm Green Sunday (2/11): California’s Plutocratic Politics: Time for a Dialogue on Green Party Strategy and Tactics @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday (2/11): California’s Plutocratic Politics: Time for a Dialogue on Green Party Strategy and Tactics @ Niebyl Proctor Library Feb 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Dr. Larry Shoup will speak and lead a discussion on: “California’s Plutocratic Politics: Time for a Dialogue on Green Party Strategy and Tactics” What time is it in terms of the earth’s ecologies? What time is it politically, in terms of activism for the people and the earth and against the threats posed by reactionary plutocratic Republicans and mainstream plutocratic Democrats? What are the implications for elections as the main focus of Green Party activism? What are the alternatives? The case for varied local Green Party campaigns to promote municipal grass roots democracy … Continued 7:30 pm Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Feb 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us for the next Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly, hosted by our Immigration Team and Racism & Criminal Justice Reform Team. Agenda details will be published when they are available. Doors open at 7. We start promptly at 7:30. Just prior to the meeting, join us for a training on how to bring more of your friends into the Indivisible Berkeley community. 6:15-7:15 at the Finnish Hall downstairs cafe. More info ADA Accessibility: The Finnish Hall has stairs leading up to the entrance so is not ADA accessible. Please email us … Continued	4:00 pm STOP DEPORTATIONS Demonstration @ ICE San Francisco STOP DEPORTATIONS Demonstration @ ICE San Francisco Feb 12 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets STOP DEPORTATION DEMONSTRATIONS at ICE immigration holding center (deportations) Mondays and Wednesdays 4 – 6 pm Let’s build a permanent presence at I.C.E. to stop the deportations. Bring signs, Spread widely. 64278 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Feb 12 @ 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	11:00 am RECULTURE THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY! RALLY & SPEAK OUT @ Splash Pad Park - Oakland Between Lake Merritt & Macarthur Blvd RECULTURE THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY! RALLY & SPEAK OUT @ Splash Pad Park - Oakland Between Lake Merritt & Macarthur Blvd Feb 13 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Join the Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay Area to share stories of struggle + resilience, celebrate our strengths and collectively shift the culture of the Bay Area restaurant industry towards: Racial Equity Professionalization * Harassment-Free Environments & Dignity in the Workplace!Join the Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay Area to share stories of struggle + resilience, celebrate our strengths and collectively shift the culture of the Bay Area restaurant industry towards: Racial Equity Professionalization Harassment-Free Environments & *Dignity in the Workplace! Find more information here. This event is being … Continued 6:00 pm No Ban No Wall: Confronting the Militarization of Our Borders @ 221 Kroeber Hall, Gifford Room, UC Berkeley No Ban No Wall: Confronting the Militarization of Our Borders @ 221 Kroeber Hall, Gifford Room, UC Berkeley Feb 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets No Ban No Wall: Confronting the Militarization of Our Borders A panel discussion entitled No Ban, No Wall: Confronting the Militarization of Our Borders and Communities The Trump presidency has increased attacks on immigrant and marginalized communities through targeting sanctuary cities, instituting the Muslim ban, and revoking temporary protected status for thousands. But, these actions are based on a long-standing foundation of xenophobia and criminalization. Such repression manifests not only at borders, but also in our backyards in the form of militarized policing, state surveillance, and collusion between local and … Continued 7:00 pm DSA Social @ Telegraph Beer Garden DSA Social @ Telegraph Beer Garden Feb 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets West Oakland/Uptown/Adams Point Social In addition to canvasses, a critical part of each canvassing district’s monthly organizing are the social events, which create a more casual space to talk about the fight to decommodify healthcare. Come meet the wonderful comrades and neighbors in your district and socialize about socialism over a beer or some food. RSVP or RSVP ON FACEBOOK (show less) 64197	12:30 pm “BEYOND CRISIS LIBERALISM” “BEYOND CRISIS LIBERALISM” Feb 14 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Mark Gomez discusses “Beyond Crisis Liberalism,” exploring the possibilities for renewed economic progress, and an end to economic exclusion, in California. For details, call 510.644.2020. 64283 4:00 pm STOP DEPORTATIONS Demonstration @ ICE San Francisco STOP DEPORTATIONS Demonstration @ ICE San Francisco Feb 14 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets STOP DEPORTATION DEMONSTRATIONS at ICE immigration holding center (deportations) Mondays and Wednesdays 4 – 6 pm Let’s build a permanent presence at I.C.E. to stop the deportations. Bring signs, Spread widely. 64278 7:00 pm Free Speech Movement: How It Was Fought and Won, Why It Must be Defended. @ Valley Life Sciences Bldg, Rm 2050, UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement: How It Was Fought and Won, Why It Must be Defended. @ Valley Life Sciences Bldg, Rm 2050, UC Berkeley Feb 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 64354	5:30 pm Fight Potrification! Oppose the eviction of the Oakland Cannery artists’ collective @ City Hall, Council Chambers, 3rd Floor Fight Potrification! Oppose the eviction of the Oakland Cannery artists’ collective @ City Hall, Council Chambers, 3rd Floor Feb 15 @ 5:30 pm – 7:15 pm Tickets https://www.theoaklandcannery.com/why-we-fight Cannabis entrepreneurs capitalists bought the building currently occupied by an artists’ collective of 30 folks and intend to boot them and turn the building into a huge weed factory. Pot grows anywhere, but good, reasonable live/work spaces are few and far between. Where is Jeff Sessions when we need him? Show your opposition to this grab at the Oakland Cannabis Regulatory Commission Hearing at City Hall at 5:30 on Thursday, February 15th. Greetings friends and family, Could use a little push for this weeks hearing. Our call for help … Continued 6:00 pm South Berkeley Social: DSA @ Moxy South Berkeley Social: DSA @ Moxy Feb 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Let us know if you can make it out to our next social hour in South Berkeley! Come out to connect with DSA, learn more about our Medicare for All campaign, meet your neighbors, and join us for a political discussion! 64233 7:30 pm “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,” @ he Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,” @ he Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Feb 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Come meet the women who electrified the nation. Tickets are limited, so be sure to reserve your spot soon. Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele, and Mother Jones reporter Jamilah King will be in San Francisco to launch our event series with Mother Jones. Cullors and bandele will present their new book, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,” which follows Cullors’ own experience living as a Black woman in America. In 2013, Cullors, along with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, created the Black … Continued	2:00 pm Picket Line at ICE: STOP DEPORTATIONS and harassment of immigrants and refugees. @ ICE San Francisco Picket Line at ICE: STOP DEPORTATIONS and harassment of immigrants and refugees. @ ICE San Francisco Feb 16 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join the picket line with SEIU Service Employees Union EVERY FRIDAY. STOP DEPORTATIONS and harassment of immigrants and refugees. Also… SF Labor Council Calls for a Clean Dream Act Now, No Compromises; Urges Labor Movement to Take Action! [Resolution Adopted Unanimously by the Feb. 12, 2018, Delegates Assembly of the San Francisco Labor Council] � For a Clean Dream Act Now and a Path to Citizenship for all Undocumented Youth! � Not One More Deportatioon! � No Funding for the Wall of Shame! � No More Funding for Immigration Enforcement! … Continued 2:30 pm LUNAR NEW YEAR PICKET AT OAKS CORNER! @ Oaks Corner LUNAR NEW YEAR PICKET AT OAKS CORNER! @ Oaks Corner Feb 16 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The Oaks Card Club earned $27 million in gross gaming revenue through various gaming platforms including the best solitaire app around last year. But Oaks Corner (also owned by John Tibbetts) has not increased its contribution to workers’ health care since 2011. The result is that dishwashers, janitors and servers – many of whom earn at or near Emeryvillle’s minimum wage – must pay over $500 per month for family medical coverage through their employer. Join the workers on the picket line to celebrate Lunar New Year and fight for … Continued	10:00 am Taking the repeal of the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act to the ballot! @ Oakland ACCE Taking the repeal of the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act to the ballot! @ Oakland ACCE Feb 17 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets We’re taking the repeal of the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act to the ballot!!! Strong Rent Control and Just Cause Eviction laws are the way to keep people in their homes now, while we work to get more (truly) affordable housing built. In order to have strong Rent Control laws, we need to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a state law which ties the hands of local government. Costa-Hawkins prevents\ cities and counties from applying rent control to apartments built after 1995 or to single-family rental units. It also allows landlords to … Continued 6:00 pm An Evening with Chairman Omali Yeshitela: The Road to Socialism is Painted Black @ Uhuru House An Evening with Chairman Omali Yeshitela: The Road to Socialism is Painted Black @ Uhuru House Feb 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader of the Uhuru Movement and African People’s Socialist Party returns to Oakland to discuss his lifelong work organizing for the liberation of Africa and African people everywhere, the state of today’s crisis of imperialism under Trump and the struggle for black socialism. The event will take place in a relaxed setting with time for questions and discussion from the floor. Bakari Olatunji, Market Manager for Uhuru Foods and Pies will also participate along with Penny Hess, chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee Food will be … Continued 6:00 pm Surviving Smash and Grab @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Surviving Smash and Grab @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Feb 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets In honor of #BlackSolidarityWeek, and in light of the recent released FBI report on so-called “Black Identity Extremists,” CRC will host a political education panel on the repression of Black dissidents. Join leaders from the Anti Police-Terror Project and special guests Mama Akua Njeri and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. for an evening of radical truth telling, solidarity building, and self defense. On March 4, 1968 (exactly one month before King was assassinated), FBI Director Edgar Hoover issued this directive: Prevent the Coalition of militant black nationalist groups. In unity there is strength, a … Continued

Week of February 11

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.