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Federal District Court Judge William Alsup, who presided over a previous lawsuit by the City of Berkeley in its … Continued 3:30 pm Demand D.A. O’Malley Charge Mateu with Murder of Sahleem Tindle @ District Attorney's Office Demand D.A. O’Malley Charge Mateu with Murder of Sahleem Tindle @ District Attorney's Office Apr 2 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Demand D.A. O'Malley Charge Mateu with Murder of Sahleem Tindle🚨 #Oakland Monday, April 2, at 3:30 p.m."The Tindle family will be meeting with Nancy O'Malley and we want to let them know we support them." @APTPaction#Justice4Sahleem #OMalleyChargeMateuhttps://t.co/VerGmeY22i— Indybay (@Indybay) March 29, 2018 64515		12:00 pm Public Participatory Reading of MLK’s “Beyond Vietnam” Speech @ Oakland Federal Building plaza Public Participatory Reading of MLK’s “Beyond Vietnam” Speech @ Oakland Federal Building plaza Apr 4 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Wednesday April 4, 2018 will mark the 50th anniversary of the tragic assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It will also mark the 51st anniversary of his visionary speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” delivered at the Riverside Church in New York City. Dr. King’s words were precautionary and prophetic, providing both a diagnosis and a cure – “a true revolution of values” – for our society’s gravest illnesses, “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.” Today his words remain as timely and relevant as … Continued 6:00 pm Bobby Seale on Police Accountability @ Berkeley City Club Bobby Seale on Police Accountability @ Berkeley City Club Apr 4 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Hear Bobby Seale speak on Police Accountability on Wednesday April 4! An Evening of Free Speech With Bobby Seale and Tony Platt Doors open at 5:30 pm Tony Platt 6:00 to 7:00 pm Bobby Seale 7:00 to 9:00 pm Bobby Seale is an activist working toward police accountability. He previously co-founded and was Chairman of the Black Panther Party. Tony Platt is a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society. He is the author of ten books and 150 essays and articles … Continued 7:00 pm Vijay Prashad: Long, Bitter and Beautiful Struggle for Freedom @ pin Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (ICCNC) Vijay Prashad: Long, Bitter and Beautiful Struggle for Freedom @ pin Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (ICCNC) Apr 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Long, Bitter and Beautiful Struggle for Freedom A conversation with Vijay Prashad What does it mean to live in a democracy where guns are more important than ending poverty? On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made a powerful argument that the mass movement for racial and economic justice needed to break its silence on the US wars raging abroad. King’s words echoed those of other radicals who argued that understanding the relationship between war, imperialism, and exploitation abroad and violence, racism, and impoverishment at home would imbue … Continued	9:00 am Court Support – Eric Clanton @ Rene Davidson Courthouse, Dept 11 Court Support – Eric Clanton @ Rene Davidson Courthouse, Dept 11 Apr 5 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Eric Clanton’s next pre-trial court appearance is at Rene C. Davidson courthouse (the one by the lake) at 9am in Department 11. Eric was the target of a harassment and smear campaign led by neo-nazis last Spring which resulted in police raiding two bay area homes. Four felony charges were brought based on the accusations circulating on 4chan, and other parts of the right wing net. This is Eric’s seventh appearance, the last several of which have been a series of date changes. There’s hope that a heavy show of … Continued 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 5 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Agenda 1. 5:00pm: Call to Order, determination of quorum 2. 5:05pm: Review and approval of February meeting minutes 3. 5:10pm: Open Forum 4. 5:15pm: Introduction of new commissioners 5. 5:20pm: Presentation by UC Berkeley School of Information – CRIMS Privacy Assessment. Possible Action – Accept report; make recommendations to the City Council. 6. 5:45pm: Review and take possible action on Sanctuary City Contracting Ordinance 7. 5:55pm: Review and take possible action on Cell Site Simulator Annual Report 8. 6:10pm: Community Inquiry into Landlord Tax Audit/Business Revenue Data Requests (presentation by … Continued 6:30 pm “Tomorrow” Film & Discussion @ Fellowship Hall “Tomorrow” Film & Discussion @ Fellowship Hall Apr 5 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Transition Berkeley presents: “Tomorrow” Film & Discussion 6:30 pm refreshments, 7 pm event Please join us for a showing of the French documentary “Tomorrow “(Demain), a globetrotting documentary focused on solutions to our environmental crisis, by actress Melanie Laurent and eco-activist Cyril Dion. “Tomorrow” provides a comprehensive look at ways in which activists, organizers and ordinary citizens are trying to make the world a better, more sustainable place. Tomorrow shows communities taking power back from governments and corporations a form of grassroots activism which may be the best way … Continued 6:30 pm Transition Berkeley Film: “Tomorrow” @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Transition Berkeley Film: “Tomorrow” @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Apr 5 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Please join us for a showing of the French documentary Tomorrow (Demain), by actress Melanie Laurent and eco-activist Cyril Dion, a globetrotting documentary focused on solutions to our environmental crisis. Tomorrow provides a comprehensive look at ways in which activists, organizers and ordinary citizens are trying to make the world a better, more sustainable place. It takes an optimistic view of the future and visits every corner of the earth to meet with men and women who are taking concrete, positive action for the planet. Tomorrow shows communities taking power … Continued 7:00 pm Justice for Stephon Clark! @ Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Justice for Stephon Clark! @ Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Apr 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Sacramento police murdered Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s backyard on March 18. The killer cops shot him in the back 8 times. Protesters have taken the streets of the state capital nearly every day since. Police kill more people in the United States than in any comparable country. Disproportionate numbers of those killed are Black, Latinx and Native American people. Kayla Moore, Shaleem Tindle, Jesus Adolfo Delgado-Duarte, Mario Woods, Yuvette Henderson, Alan Blueford, Oscar Grant. These are the names of just a few of the black and brown people who … Continued	7:30 pm War or Peace in Korea? @ North Berkeley Senior Center War or Peace in Korea? @ North Berkeley Senior Center Apr 6 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets A Public Forum with Christine Hong, Michael Klare, and Andrew Lichterman A forum on the dangers of war in Korea, options for a peaceful solution, and prospects for a movement leading to that outcome. Christine Hong is Associate Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz and is the author of the forthcoming book, The Price of Inclusion: Race, Militarism, and the Pax Americana in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies … Continued	12:00 pm Canvassing for Housing Justice in West Oakland @ Revolution Cafe Canvassing for Housing Justice in West Oakland @ Revolution Cafe Apr 7 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets The housing crisis in the Bay Area and beyond is a wholly preventable disaster, created and maintained by the notion that housing is a commodity and not a human right. Join DSA in the campaign for the Affordable Housing Act — a proposed ballot initiative that that will give our cities and counties the power to adopt rent control necessary to address the state’s housing affordability crisis by repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act upholds landlord interests, and — in tandem with the housing crisis … Continued 2:00 pm We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us! – Suds, Snacks and Socialism Forum @ Starry Plough We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us! – Suds, Snacks and Socialism Forum @ Starry Plough Apr 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The Peace and Freedom Party presents We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us! The Peace and Freedom Platform states: “We call for open borders. Full rights for all immigrant workers. No human is illegal. Stop ICE raids. Stop jailing and deporting immigrants.” We have four speakers to discuss immigration issues: Bree Bernwanger, Staff Attorney, Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights; Yvette Felarca, Middle School Teacher, By Any Means Necessary (BAMN); Eugene Ruyle, former PFP Congressional Candidate, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, CSULB; Antonio Trossero, political refugee arrested by the … Continued

Week of April 1

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.