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FREE – but hat will be passed for … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 18 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 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 … Continued 6:30 pm Worshiping Power: Peter Gelderloos on Early State Formation @ East Bay Community Space Worshiping Power: Peter Gelderloos on Early State Formation @ East Bay Community Space Mar 18 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Worshiping Power: An Anarchist Vision of Early State Formation Where do states come from, what causes them to arise, and how do they develop? The old dogmas that the State protects and uplifts humanity, or even that it is a necessary evil, have been thoroughly discredited. But many newer theories, that explain state formation within a single optic, or that suggest a single cause, or a linear, progressive evolution, also fall short. This new book traces multiple pathways of state formation, describing patterns that arise within many different societies with … Continued 7:00 pm Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Mar 18 @ 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	8:00 am Say No Tar Sands in the Bay Area @ Bay Area Air Quality Management District Say No Tar Sands in the Bay Area @ Bay Area Air Quality Management District Mar 19 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets RSVP through 350 Bay Area here or on Facebook here. For the last several years, the Bay Area has been part of an international movement to stop the expansion of the tar sands. We’ve supported efforts led by Indigenous peoples across North America against Keystone XL, Line 3, Energy East, and Kinder Morgan. All of these projects would dramatically increase the amount of dirty oil extracted, transported, and burned around the world. These tar sands projects impact all of us — and now it’s time to fight against this expansion … Continued 7:00 pm Public Meeting welcoming Empower – a Thai sex worker collective @ Omni Commons Public Meeting welcoming Empower – a Thai sex worker collective @ Omni Commons Mar 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Presenters include: • Four women from Empower • Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes Hosted by the US PROStitutes Collective Empower Foundation is a sex workers’ collective in Thailand which for 30 years has been promoting rights and opportunities for sex workers, especially access to education, health and legal advocacy. Over the years 50,000 sex workers have passed through their doors including migrant women from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam. The English Collective of Prostitutes is a UK based group, founded in 1975, which helps sex workers defend themselves … Continued	6:00 pm Demand OPD Charge Mateu for Sahleem’s Murder @ Oakland Police HQ Demand OPD Charge Mateu for Sahleem’s Murder @ Oakland Police HQ Mar 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 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? OPD is responsible for the investigation of this murder, since it happened outside of BART property, across from West Oakland BART. Join us to demand that OPD do their job and charge Mateu for murder. Arrest him now! Sahleem Tindle was murdered by BART Police Officer Joseph Mateu on January 3, 2018. He … Continued 6:30 pm Welcome Water Protector SiouxZ – Potluck & Discussion @ Intertribal Friendship House Welcome Water Protector SiouxZ – Potluck & Discussion @ Intertribal Friendship House Mar 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Potluck reception and discussion with Water and Land Protector Vanessa Dundon aka SiouxZ Desbah, and Water Protector Legal Collective, co-sponsored by AIM-West, Intertribal Friendship House, National Lawyers Guild- SF Bay Area Chapter, and Oakland Law Collaborative. SiouxZ, Diné / Navajo, is a lead plaintiff in a civil rights class action lawsuit challenging the use of fire hoses, explosive grenades, and other violence against the indigenous-led #NoDAPL movement at Standing Rock. A mother of 4, she is also the founder of Missing Flowers: Missing Murdered Indigenous Women and Men; an organizer of Honor … Continued 7:30 pm BOYCOTT! “The Academy & Justice for Palestine” @ The Hillside Club BOYCOTT! “The Academy & Justice for Palestine” @ The Hillside Club Mar 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Angela Davis says, “Sunaina Maira locates contemporary BDS activism and the considerable efforts to expand the academic boycott of Israel …to movements for racial, gender and economic equality…In deftly demonstrating that Palestinian solidarity belongs at the center of all our social justice concerns, “Boycott!” both exemplifies the challenge and urges us to fearlessly rise up to it.” KPFA event. 64421	11:30 am Press Conference: Green Party Candidate for Oakland Mayor Announces. @ Oscar Grant Plaza, steps of Oakland City Hall Press Conference: Green Party Candidate for Oakland Mayor Announces. @ Oscar Grant Plaza, steps of Oakland City Hall Mar 21 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE FOR OAKLAND MAYOR Saied Karamooz announces his candidacy as Oakland’s mayor in 2018 Saied Karamooz will share his motivation, vision, and plans as Oakland’s next mayor. Saied believes that everyone is entitled to safe streets, quality education, decent jobs, and dignified homes. “With the abundance of resources, innovation, and energy in Oakland, there is no reason why our city continues to be plagued by high crime levels, low graduation rates, high unemployment, and inadequate housing,” said Mr. Karamooz. Press conference will be held on the steps of … Continued 4:00 pm Symposium: Police Violence Against Women of Color @ MLK Jr. Student Union, UC Berkeley Symposium: Police Violence Against Women of Color @ MLK Jr. Student Union, UC Berkeley Mar 21 @ 4:00 pm – 7:45 pm Tickets RSVP here INVISIBLE NO MORE: A SYMPOSIUM ON RESISTING POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK WOMEN AND WOMEN OF COLOR Experiences of women of color – often invisible in broader debates and movements around police violence, criminalization, and gender-based violence – must fuel our research & resistance. Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues 64430 6:00 pm El Cerrito Shows Up #Enough #IceOutOfCA @ El Cerrito Plaza El Cerrito Shows Up #Enough #IceOutOfCA @ El Cerrito Plaza Mar 21 @ 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 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Mar 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay. We fight against “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” spy drones, facial recognition, police body cameras and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones, to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government. We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no … Continued 6:30 pm Restore the Vote: Overturning Voter Suppression @ KEHILLA COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE Restore the Vote: Overturning Voter Suppression @ KEHILLA COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE Mar 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets This free SURJ workshop will dive into the history of voter suppression and mass incarceration from slavery, through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, into the present day of New Jim Crow, and discuss details around – and signature-gathering for The Voting Restoration and Democracy Act of 2018, a ballot initiative that will restore the right to vote to more than 162,000 incarcerated folks and those on parole in California, a disenfranchised group that is disproportionately Black, Brown, and poor. This ballot initiative is led by Initiate Justice. Free … Continued 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Mar 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Special guest speaker for January: Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. Don’t miss this! APTP meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. The Anti Police-Terror Project began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee. We are a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. Founding coalition members include the Black Power Network, Community Ready Corps, Workers World, and the Idriss Stelley Foundation.64171 8:00 pm David Rovics in Concert – A Benefit for CIVIC @ The Back Room David Rovics in Concert – A Benefit for CIVIC @ The Back Room Mar 21 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Tour name: Ballad of a Wobbly WORLD TOUR A BENEFIT for CIVIC (Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement) featuring David Rovics David Rovics was born in New York City, and as a guitar-slinging singer/songwriter now based in Portland, Oregon, has toured in over two dozen countries, including at mass protests throughout North America and Europe. When President Bush came to Berlin in 2002, David entertained the 100,000 or so folks who came to protest, and at the TTIP protest in Berlin in 2015, he sang for 250,000. He was also … Continued	7:00 pm Film: “Invisible Students: Homeless at UC Berkeley” @ Eshelman Hall, top floor, UC Berkeley Film: “Invisible Students: Homeless at UC Berkeley” @ Eshelman Hall, top floor, UC Berkeley Mar 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets No further information64446 7:00 pm Movie Screening: Banana Land @ Berkeley Animal Rights Center Movie Screening: Banana Land @ Berkeley Animal Rights Center Mar 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We’ll be screening and discussing Banana Land, a documentary film about the past and current practices of the Banana industry in Latin America. This film isn’t about bananas. This is about Big Agriculture, with the banana industry as an example of what happens when Big Ag has complete control of a region. This industry is responsible for the vast majority of the animal exploitation we protest, but we can’t forget that human exploitation is key to Big Ag’s profits and protocol, regardless of if the product is vegan. A product … Continued	4:00 pm Capture the Movement Workshop @ Oakland Peace Center Capture the Movement Workshop @ Oakland Peace Center Mar 23 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Join us for a two hour photography workshop by activist and photographer Brooke Anderson. Whether you’re using your iPhone or a DSLR, through this workshop you will have the opportunity to: • reflect on the role of photography in social movements and visual storytelling • learn key principles of composition, lightening, exposure • explore the settings and various “tips and tricks” on your camera phone • practice taking portraits and get feedback • discuss key issues around consent, representation, legal rights, etc. Brooke Anderson is a social movement organizer and … Continued	10:00 am Difficult Dialogues Workshop @ Sierra Club Difficult Dialogues Workshop @ Sierra Club Mar 24 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets How do we approach the challenging conversations, whether it’s about confederate flags, Donald Trump, cultural appropriation, Palestine/Israel, or even just racism and racial justice in general? Members of the White Noise Collective will facilitate this workshop ,exploring the difficult conversations in our lives around race and power. This workshop is an opportunity to dive in much deeper with structured time to practice a range of difficult conversations around highly-charged racial issues. We will be sharing some basic skill-building tools in how to approach conversations, and then explore scenarios relevant to … Continued 10:00 am March for Our Lives: Oakland @ Oscar Grant Plaza March for Our Lives: Oakland @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 24 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets The largest national march against gun violence and the largest national march led by the youth ever! Looking for volunteers, musicians, and speakers. www.OaklandMarch.com Mission Statement: Not one more. We cannot allow one more child to be shot at school. We cannot allow one more teacher to make a choice to jump in front of a firing assault rifle to save the lives of students. We cannot allow one more family to wait for a call or text that never comes. Our schools are unsafe. Our children and teachers are … Continued 1:00 pm March for Our Lives San Francisco Rally @ Civic Center plaza square between Polk St. & McAllister St. & 9th St. & Grove St. March for Our Lives San Francisco Rally @ Civic Center plaza square between Polk St. & McAllister St. & 9th St. & Grove St. Mar 24 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Solidarity Rally at the Civic Center Instead of crying they are speaking. Instead of mourning they are protesting. And instead of waiting, the children of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are begging for our help. We must stand with them and #MarchForOurLives Mission Statement of March for Our Lives: Not one more. We cannot allow one more child to be shot at school. We cannot allow one more teacher to make a choice to jump in front of a firing assault rifle to save the lives of students. We cannot … Continued 1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition General Meeting @ ACCE Oakland Justice Coalition General Meeting @ ACCE Mar 24 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets We’ll hear about alt-right activities in Oakland, learn about the Make-It-Fair campaign and discuss our strategy for the next few months. Proposed Agenda: Welcome and Brief Orientation (Deb Avery) Agenda Approval Report regarding finalized endorsement process and current requests (Carroll Fife) FInal Endorsement Process Present and discuss our Interim Strategy (Helen Duffy) Present for endorsement: Make It Fair Campaign (read about it here) (Carroll Fife) Update on Alt-Right activity in Oakland (Tur-Ha Ak) ANNOUNCEMENTS 64470 5:00 pm DROP LWOP TOWN HALL @ Red Bay DROP LWOP TOWN HALL @ Red Bay Mar 24 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets This event information comes from the California Coalition for Women’s Prisoners: Join CCWP for the Drop LWOP Town Hall In the past six months six women have had their Life Without Parole (LWOP) sentences commuted by the Governor. At the end of January 2018 two of these women were found suitable for parole and will soon be free. This victory illustrates how the Drop LWOP Campaign and A Living Chance project are creating a foundation for the commutation of all people sentenced to LWOP and the elimination of LWOP from the penal code altogether. At … Continued 6:00 pm Afrin Resistance Bonfire @ Fire Pits Afrin Resistance Bonfire @ Fire Pits Mar 24 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets This year we light the fires in solidarity with Afrin. Join us to act together in the future 6pm March 24th at the fire pits of Ocean Beach, San Francisco. This year we light the fires in solidarity with Afrin. Join us to act together in the future 6pm March 24th at the fire pits of Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Look for the #YPG #YPJ flags. @ROJTHANET @RojavaNyc @radio_rojava @cooprojavabakur @boerneaj @CommuneInt @gators4anarchy pic.twitter.com/pqn4vPDGUu— Rojava Solidarity (@Bay_Meso) March 14, 2018 64439

Week of March 18

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.