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We are looking for musicians, artists, signature-gathers, speakers, poets, & folks to table, engage the community, and set-up/clean-up to get the community EXCITED for strong police oversight! … Continued 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Mar 11 @ 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. 64313 2:15 pm International Working Women’s Day MARCH & Celebration 2018 @ Fruitvale Village, BART Plaza International Working Women’s Day MARCH & Celebration 2018 @ Fruitvale Village, BART Plaza Mar 11 @ 2:15 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Members of GABRIELA Oakland and our allies invite you to join us for a March & Celebration on Sunday March 11th to commemorate the 110th International Working Women’s Day anniversary in honor of the first women strikers in 1908. Join us as we RISE, RESIST, and UNITE to build our collective Resistance here and abroad! Let us take the streets as we RISE up and say NO to violence against women and Trans people and RESIST militarization and state violence! Let us RISE to protect women, Trans and Gender non-conforming … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 11 @ 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: War of Words: Does Patriarchy Still Rule over Communication in Movements? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday: War of Words: Does Patriarchy Still Rule over Communication in Movements? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Mar 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Is what we say as important as the words we use to say them? Could it be that the green party has not grown in Alameda county because of a patriarchy that is reflected in how we talk to one another? Does the movement suffer from the same patriarchy we criticize others of having? Does how we speak and what we say have an impact on our ability to move forward more swiftly? Join your community as we engage in this conversation. Ourpresenters are Meleiza Figueroa, Vicente Cruz, and Aidan … Continued 6:00 pm West Coast J20 Solidarity Tour – Oakland Stop @ Hasta Muerte West Coast J20 Solidarity Tour – Oakland Stop @ Hasta Muerte Mar 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets West Coast J20 Solidarity Tour, March 3rd – 18th On January 20th, 2017, militarized police in Washington, D.C. attacked and mass-arrested over 200 protestors at an anti-fascist, anti-capitalist march, charging 214 of them each with an unprecedented eight felonies. Yet even while facing decades in prison, 194 defendants refused to cooperate with prosecutors or accept plea bargains, supporting each other to beat the charges but also to defend the legitimacy of uncompromising resistance to the Trump regime. As a result, the first trial against 6 defendants ended with a verdict … Continued 7:00 pm Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Mar 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us on March 11 for the next Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly. Doors open at 7. We start promptly at 7:30. On the agenda at our General Assembly Sunday 7:30 @ Finnish Hall: – action for Sanctuary CA (cc @iceoutofca) – our plan for the 3/24 @AMarch4OurLives – Mark Chekal-Bain on #GunReformNow – IB Economic Justice Team & @FossilFreeCA on “Break Up w Your Bank Day” ADA Accessibility: The Finnish Hall has stairs leading up to the entrance so is not ADA accessible. Please email us at info@indivisibleberkeley.org with questions. T-Shirt Distribution … Continued 7:00 pm Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Mar 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We document current events, make films together, steward an editing suite and share a film equipment library. We also host film screenings, often with local directors, and put on an annual short film festival for independent Bay Area filmmakers. Our goal is to make the digital filmmaking accessible – no overpriced college degree or certificate program required! We are also a good group to reach out to if you’d like to screen a film at the Omni. We can be reached at [ liberatedlens@lists.riseup.net ]. We usually meet in the … Continued 7:00 pm Party for 30 years of Slingshot newspaper publishing @ Longhaul Party for 30 years of Slingshot newspaper publishing @ Longhaul Mar 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Slingshot turns 30 years old – 1988 – 2018 Hear authors from the last 30 years read a few really old articles and see if the articles still make sense nowadays plus (as always) Vegan chocolate cake, display of back issues, door prizes, maybe stacks, maybe music 64373	4:00 pm Pack the BART Police Citizen Review Commission Meeting: Justice 4 Sahleem @ BART Boardroom, 20th Street Mall, Third Floor Pack the BART Police Citizen Review Commission Meeting: Justice 4 Sahleem @ BART Boardroom, 20th Street Mall, Third Floor Mar 12 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets We’re asking everyone who can to support the family of Sahleem Tindle in their struggle to get justice for Sahleem, who was murdered by BART officer Joseph Mateu on January 3, 2018. BART was forced to release the body cam video of his murder, where it was exposed for all to plainly see that 28 year old Sahleem was shot in the back three times with his hands up and no weapon in sight! We have been with the family to two BART Board meetings in the past few weeks, … Continued 4:00 pm Tax the Rich Weekly Rally @ In front of old Oaks Theater Tax the Rich Weekly Rally @ In front of old Oaks Theater Mar 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Join us this–and every Monday for an hour of singing in front of the old Oaks Theater at the top of Solano Avenue, Berkeley. Demonstrators have kept this rally going for over six years with their “Tax the Rich” and other timely signs and good spirits. We provide music; songbooks available. Come for a song, come for an hour. 64271 6:30 pm Climate Change and Labor: Challenges and Opportunities @ ILWU Local 4 Climate Change and Labor: Challenges and Opportunities @ ILWU Local 4 Mar 12 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets How will the transition to a clean-energy economy affect workers and unions? How is organized labor responding to this transition? What policies and strategies can best address workers’ concerns? A panel of labor and climate leaders will discuss the challenges and opportunities at this free public forum. Workers in a range of fields—steelworkers, pipe fitters, teachers, electricians, hospitality and service employees, government, communications, healthcare and autoworkers—will be affected differently by this transition. Even within the same trade unions, some workers will see new job opportunities, some will be less affected, … Continued 6:45 pm OccupyForum: The threat to net neutrality @ Local 2 UNITE HERE OccupyForum: The threat to net neutrality @ Local 2 UNITE HERE Mar 12 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance on the threat to net neutrality The fight for net neutrality: an update & what we in SF can do at all levels of government to protect and promote equal access to the internet Trump’s FCC has announced its intention to end net neutrality a step which undermines equal access for all to the internet in our country. But the fight is not yet over. Get an update about the current attack on net neutrality; why net neutrality is crucial to our democracy and … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Mar 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	10:00 am Demand DA O’Malley Charge Mateu for Sahleem’s Murder Demand DA O’Malley Charge Mateu for Sahleem’s Murder Mar 13 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets We’ve all seen the video! How is it that BART police officer Joseph Mateu has not already been charged with the murder of Sahleem Tindle, after he shot the 28 year old in the back three times? Join us to demand that Nancy O’Malley do her job and charge and prosecute Mateu for murder. O’Malley has yet to prosecute a single killer cop. It’s time to break that unjust record! Sahleem Tindle was murdered by BART Police Officer Joseph Mateu on January 3, 2018. He is now back on the … Continued 6:00 pm Surveillance Equipment Regulation Ordinance Vote @ Old Berkeley City Hall Surveillance Equipment Regulation Ordinance Vote @ Old Berkeley City Hall Mar 13 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Bring secret government surveillance out of the shadows. Tell the Berkeley City Council to vote yes! TAKE ACTION Did you know that 50 percent of all American adults are in a face-recognition database? Are you aware that Stingray cellphone trackers can pinpoint your location within a matter of yards? Or that police departments collect sensitive location data about drivers that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is eager to exploit? You can take action today to protect our diverse Bay Area community from unaccountable police surveillance. The Berkeley City Council is currently … Continued 6:30 pm Berkeley Action Alert: help bring surveillance transparency to Berkeley. @ Old Berkeley City Hall Berkeley Action Alert: help bring surveillance transparency to Berkeley. @ Old Berkeley City Hall Mar 13 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets On March 13 Berkeley is poised to become the first California city to follow in Santa Clara County’s footsteps and adopt a comprehensive surveillance transparency framework. Surveillance Equipment Regulation Ordinances (SERO) mandate use policies for all spying equipment and audits of how the equipment was used. They get rid of secret surveillance and let the community know what is happening. Berkeley’s ordinance has been in development since July of 2016. It is time to make it law. Come out to show your support and mark this historic occasion. There is an … Continued	5:00 pm Candle Vigil for Elena “Ebbie” Mondragon; One Year Anniversary Candle Vigil for Elena “Ebbie” Mondragon; One Year Anniversary Mar 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets On Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 will be the one of anniversary of Elena “Ebbie” Mondragón, who was killed by two Fremont cops; Sgt. Jeremy Miskella & Det. Joel Hernandez in an undercover operation. Please join us as we remember Elena “Ebbie”, an not let her name just go in vain or be forgotten, by from the violence of the police. —- On Tuesday, March 14th, 2017 Elena “Ebbie” Mondragon was 16 years old and pregnant, when two Fremont Undercover Police officers; Sgt. Jeremy Miskella & Det. Joel Hernandez where on … Continued 5:00 pm UC BERKELEY BOOK TALK: CITY OF INMATES @ Hearst Memorial Mining Building Room 290, UC Berkeley UC BERKELEY BOOK TALK: CITY OF INMATES @ Hearst Memorial Mining Building Room 290, UC Berkeley Mar 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets UC Berkeley Book talk: Kelly Lytle-Hernandez – City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 Join UCLA Professor of History Kelly Lytle Hernandez for a discussion about her upcoming book: City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965. The event will feature a conversation about the Ella Baker Center’s current work led by Eric Henderson, Policy Associate. This event is being hosted by the UC Berkeley Center for Research on Social Change. 64413 5:30 pm SF Taser Policy Hearing @ SF City Hall, Room 400 SF Taser Policy Hearing @ SF City Hall, Room 400 Mar 14 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets 64426 6:00 pm El Cerrito Shows Up #Enough #IceOutOfCA @ El Cerrito Plaza El Cerrito Shows Up #Enough #IceOutOfCA @ El Cerrito Plaza Mar 14 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets El Cerrito Shows Up#Enough #ICEoutofCAPlease join us today & every Wednesday 6 – 7 PMWest entrance El Cerrito Plaza nr Daiso, San Pablo Ave & Carlson.ECSU rallies weekly to speak out in favor of equality and justice. #NoHatehttps://t.co/Wotbz2eRWM pic.twitter.com/E88ORoKhhq— IndivisibleELCERRITO (@ECindivisible) March 14, 2018 Please join us from 6 to 7 PM at the west entrance to El Cerrito Plaza, intersection of San Pablo Ave & Carlson Ave. We’ll meet on the side nearest to Daiso. The ECSU goals are to create a significant community presence to speak out in … Continued 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 Mar 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets 64414	6:00 pm Omni General Assembly Omni General Assembly Mar 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Come by our open Orientations every First and Third Thursday of the month at 6pm! We’ll introduce you to the variety of ways you can get involved at the Omni, whether through joining a working group or a collective—or starting one of your one. Write our Communications Working Group with questions: comms@omnicommons.org 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 … Continued	4:00 pm Emergency protest in response to reported Berkeley ICE arrests. @ Old City Hall Emergency protest in response to reported Berkeley ICE arrests. @ Old City Hall Mar 16 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Activists in Berkeley calling for emergency protest today in response to reported ICE arrests. pic.twitter.com/QWwBAhYAhY— Scott Morris (@OakMorr) March 16, 2018 64442 7:00 pm Uncolonized (a short documentary film) @ EastSide Arts Alliance Uncolonized (a short documentary film) @ EastSide Arts Alliance Mar 16 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Uncolonized is a short documentary film about a native family who decided never to enroll their two daughters into the public school system, choosing instead to homeschool them from birth. Chris is Potawatomi and Chasity is Navajo. Their daughters Nathaney and Mimicah, ages 11 and 7 at the time of filming, carry both of their parents’ lineages in the their blood, but also in their way of being. The film takes a critical look at the historical experiences of native children inside of the US public education system, and brings … Continued	10:00 am Bay Resistance: Power Together in 2018: Mass Training @ Oakland Technical High School Bay Resistance: Power Together in 2018: Mass Training @ Oakland Technical High School Mar 17 @ 10:00 am – 2:30 pm Tickets REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/baypower (it’s FREE!) 2018 is going to be a big year. Let’s get ready to win big for our communities! Join us to build power together in our second annual mass training on March 17th. Trainings will include how to build a sanctuary neighborhood, participate in direct action, win electoral campaigns, and get started in organizing. We have new trainings, a new campaign section, and caucus time including for youth, labor folks, and seniors and people with disabilities. Whether you’re a new or experienced activist, join us to skill up … Continued 10:00 am Medicare For All Open Strategy Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Medicare For All Open Strategy Meeting @ Niebyl Proctor Library Mar 17 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets East Bay DSA hosted its first ever Medicare-for-All strategy meeting in February, where we generated ideas for tactics to expand our healthcare campaign. Now we’re hosting a follow up meeting to continue developing these ideas into actionable plans that can make us an even stronger force in the struggle to decommodify healthcare! Please join us on March 17 to keep the momentum going as we develop specific tactical plans around four areas of interest that emerged at the first meeting. Labor Outreach (e.g. presenting at union meetings, joint town … Continued 12:00 pm East Bay DSA Potluck Picnic @ Bushrod Park East Bay DSA Potluck Picnic @ Bushrod Park Mar 17 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets The South Berkeley canvass team cordially invites you to a friendly neighborhood potluck. After The Big Canvass on March 10, get together with your comrades for some tasty treats and socialist cheer. All are welcome! It’s a potluck, so bring something tasty to eat or drink! 64382 12:00 pm Join the campaign for effective police oversight in Berkeley! @ Grassroots House Join the campaign for effective police oversight in Berkeley! @ Grassroots House Mar 17 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join the campaign for effective police oversight this weekend! WHAT: Fan out across Berkeley to gather signatures to put police oversight on the local November ballot! All out for a fun day! We’ll supply the petitions and will orient you on how to get the most signatures possible. You just bring your walking shoes. We’ll be going out to talk to Berkeley voters for the next eight weekends. Please reply to this email, or call 510.517-8379, to let us know you can join us Saturday at noon. Outreach Committee P.S. … Continued 1:00 pm Stop the War Machine – SAVE the Planet! @ Orinda Community Church Stop the War Machine – SAVE the Planet! @ Orinda Community Church Mar 17 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 64433 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 Mar 17 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 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 7:00 pm The Watsonville Canning Strike – Peter Shapiro @ South Berkeley Senior Center The Watsonville Canning Strike – Peter Shapiro @ South Berkeley Senior Center Mar 17 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets he Watsonville Canning Strike – Lessons for Us All A presentation by Peter Shapiro, labor activist and author of the book “Song of the Stubborn One Thousand.” Followed by a discussion. Thirty years ago, Watsonville, California was the “frozen food capital of the world.” In September 1985, 1000 mostly Mexican women workers at the town’s largest plant were forced out on strike when the owner tried to bust their union. Few, if any, of the women had any strike experience. Their local union was barely functioning. But they organized themselves, … Continued

Week of March 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.