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All-day Revolutionary Organizing Against Racism Conference @ Omni Commons, Day 1, CIIS Day 2 Revolutionary Organizing Against Racism Conference @ Omni Commons, Day 1, CIIS Day 2 Apr 29 all-day Tickets ROAR aka Revolutionary Organizing Against Racism Conference is a two day event, organized by a group of anti-racist organizers, that will be held on Ohlone Territory (Bay Area). ROAR will be a space to gather, build, and learn from each other’s struggles and continue to build an anti-racist front in the Bay Area and beyond. During these times more and more attention is being paid to those of us who use direct action and hold liberatory and revolutionary politics. We can use this moment not only to inspire others through our actions, but to … Continued
12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm 11:00 am Wealth & Income Inequality Seminar – Strike Debt Bay Area @ Omni Commons, Disco Room (upstairs) Wealth & Income Inequality Seminar – Strike Debt Bay Area @ Omni Commons, Disco Room (upstairs) Apr 29 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Wealth & Income Inequality: A Two-Part Workshop by Strike Debt Bay Area Everywhere we look, everything from the headlines to our paychecks to the tents under the freeway remind us that rich people are getting richer and poor people are getting poorer. But it can be hard to understand exactly how and why that is happening. If we can’t understand it, we can’t change it. And change it we must! After a look at the causes of runaway inequality in Part 1, we’ll talk about some fairer ways to provide economic security for all in Part … Continued 11:00 am Wealth & Income Inequality: A Two-Part Workshop @ Omni Commons Wealth & Income Inequality: A Two-Part Workshop @ Omni Commons Apr 29 @ 11:00 am – 12:45 pm Tickets Wealth & Income Inequality: A Two-Part Workshop by Strike Debt Bay Area Everywhere we look, everything from the headlines to our paychecks to the tents under the freeway remind us that rich people are getting richer and poor people are getting poorer. But it can be hard to understand exactly how and why that is happening. If we can’t understand it, we can’t change it. And change it we must! After a look at the causes of runaway inequality in Part 1, we’ll talk about some fairer ways to provide economic security for all in Part … Continued 12:00 pm People’s Park 49th Anniversary People’s Park 49th Anniversary Apr 29 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets This is one of the biggest events of the year at People’s Park, with a great lineup of music, dance and speakers. Come and participate! Featuring: NOON All Nations Drummers 12:30 Michael Diehl greeting 12:35 Yukon Hannibal 1:00 Felix 1:15 Katy Stuck 1:25 Jim Burrill 1:50 Hali Hammer & Friends 2:15 Michael Delacore 2:25 Max Ventura 2:45 Speakers 3:00 Burnt (punk reggae funk) 3:50 Soul 4:05 Ruby’s In Town 4:50 Trump 5:05 Skank Bank 5:50 Closing remarks East Bay Food Not Bombs will provide free vegetarian / vegan food and drinks … Continued 1:00 pm Indivisible East Bay: April All Member Meeting @ Sports Basement Berkeley - Community Room Indivisible East Bay: April All Member Meeting @ Sports Basement Berkeley - Community Room Apr 29 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join our monthly meeting for members and newcomers interested in opposing the Trump agenda! For more information, visit indivisibleeb.org Indivisible East Bay is a chapter of the Indivisible movement. We are a grassroots organization focused on stopping the Trump administration’s policies by: Lobbying our group’s Members of Congress (MoCs) with office visits, calls, emails, and rallies. Lobbying our MoCs on topics of laws, policies, and nominations. Collaborating with other Indivisible groups and sharing resources for meetings and events. https://indivisibleeb.org64610 3:00 pm Surveillance, Public Safety, Privacy & Civil Rights with Professor Catherine Crump @ Piedmont Community Hall Surveillance, Public Safety, Privacy & Civil Rights with Professor Catherine Crump @ Piedmont Community Hall Apr 29 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets League of Women Voters of Piedmont Speaker Series Catherine Crump is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at U.C. Berkeley Law School. She will speak about surveillance, public safety, privacy and civil rights. A former staff attorney for the ACLU, Professor Crump has focused her career on free speech, privacy and the impact of modern technology on the law. This event is open to the public and is co-sponsored by the City of Piedmont and City Councilmember, Jen Cavenaugh. … Continued 3:30 pm Mass incarceration and supermax solitary confinement @ Ashby Village Mass incarceration and supermax solitary confinement @ Ashby Village Apr 29 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets You are invited to A conversation with Terry Kupers: Why we need to be concerned about mass incarceration and supermax solitary confinement The prison population is seven times what it was in the 1970s, and meanwhile the proportion of prisoners with serious illness has grown. Tens of millions of people have served time and experienced resultant compromised lives. Solitary confinement is pervasive in the prison world and causes great human damage. Let’s get beyond the “lock ’em up and throw away the key” sensibility and talk frankly about how mass … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 29 @ 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 4:00 pm The Spirit of 1968 @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre The Spirit of 1968 @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre Apr 29 @ 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Tickets The Spirit of 1968 Focusing on France and May of ’68, and the new sense of political being and presence that characterized people in the U.S. during the next decade With Steve Martinot Preceding the Occupy Oakland General Assembly The 1960s were an exciting time to live through for those who could see what was happening, because they were a time when, all over the world, people were coming together, organizing themselves, and living their lives according to principles – principles of opposition, of democracy, of cooperation, of justice, … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Greens: Free Dinner and a Movie @ It's Your Move Games Oakland Greens: Free Dinner and a Movie @ It's Your Move Games Apr 29 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Dinner: 6:30 PM Movie: 7:30 PM64475 7:00 pm Film Night: Dispatches from Resistant Mexico @ Omni Commons ballroom Film Night: Dispatches from Resistant Mexico @ Omni Commons ballroom Apr 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Film Night: Dispatches from Resistant Mexico – Producer/Director Caitlin Manning will present her film from communities and peoples in resistance in Mexico. Sponsored by Liberated Lens and co-sponsored by the Chiapas Support Committee64588	9:30 am Fraudulent Student Debt Federal Lawsuit @ Courtroom A, 15th Floor Fraudulent Student Debt Federal Lawsuit @ Courtroom A, 15th Floor Apr 30 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am Tickets Calvillo Manriquez v. DeVos – Fraudulent Student Debt On April 30, 2018, the Court will also hear argument on Plaintiffs’ Motion for a Preliminary Injunction in a class-action on behalf of certain Corinthian borrowers (though the result of this case will set an important precedent for ALL former for-profit students). Through this motion, Plaintiffs seek an order stopping the Department of Education from partially denying these class members’ borrower defense applications and an order requiring the Department to grant them a full loan discharge as it was doing under its streamlined process before January … Continued 4:00 pm Algorithmic Curation, Filtering, and Prediction Wrestles with Ethics and Public Opinion @ UC Berkeley, South Hall Algorithmic Curation, Filtering, and Prediction Wrestles with Ethics and Public Opinion @ UC Berkeley, South Hall Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Christian Sandvig SPONSORED BY THE ALGORITHMIC FAIRNESS AND OPACITY GROUP (AFOG)AND THE CENTER FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MEDICINE, AND SOCIETY (CSTMS). As the filtering and curation of everything has been taken over by computers, “fair algorithms” has become both a legal problem and a rallying cry. Researchers in machine learning are now trying to explicitly incorporate fairness into their conceptualization of the algorithmic systems that curate today’s job applicants, predict recidivism, offer housing, find rides, and filter social media. Commercial platforms that operate these systems have, belatedly and after a series of scandals, … Continued	10:00 am May Day – International Workers Day May Day – International Workers Day May 1 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets 10:00 AM – Rally, Berth 63, 1579 Middle Harbor Rd., Oakland 11:00 AM – March to Little Bobby Hutton (Defemery Park) for Rally, then march to… 3:00 PM – Rally and March at Oscar Grant Plaza for Immigrant and Worker Rights. The ILWU will stop work for eight hours at all 29 ports on the West Coast. Join dockworkers Local 10 & 34 for a day of solidarity and resistance. Justice for Stephon Clark. Justice for Saleem Tindle. 64623 7:00 pm Occupy Forum Field Trip @ The Green Arcade bookstore Occupy Forum Field Trip @ The Green Arcade bookstore May 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets This week Occupy Forum is heading out to another location for several authors’ readings Richard Walker, author of Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area & Phil Cohen, author of Archive That Comrade! Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance Richard A. Walker is professor emeritus of geography at the University of California. He has written on a diverse range of topics in economic, urban, and environmental geography. He is coauthor of The Capitalist Imperative (1989) and The … Continued	6:00 pm Emergency Community Meeting to Stop the SF Homeless Sweeps! @ St. John's Episcopal Emergency Community Meeting to Stop the SF Homeless Sweeps! @ St. John's Episcopal May 2 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Mayor Mark Farrell has declared war on poor folks… AGAIN! This time he has launched a full on attack and is sending out SFPD in force to cruelly sweep homeless people & encampments. You can read about it here… https://48hills.org/2018/04/mayors-lie-homelessness/ We are holding this community meeting to strategize how to fight back. Join us as we work together to end the sweeps! We will meet at St. John’s in the Mission to hold a community meeting to strategize our call to action. For more info, email Human Rights organizer Kelley … Continued 6:00 pm HABEAS DATA: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech @ Oaklan Main Library HABEAS DATA: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech @ Oaklan Main Library May 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Author Event: HABEAS DATA: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech Kick off Digital Privacy Week with Ars Technicareporter Cyrus Farivar’s fascinating discussion of his new book HABEAS DATA: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech. As technology has made our lives easier, it has simultaneously made it possible for all of our personal information to be collected. We are being watched. Is it even legal? Come find out! 64530 7:00 pm Occupy Forum Field Trip, Part II. “Carving Out the Commons” @ Green Arcade Bookstore Occupy Forum Field Trip, Part II. “Carving Out the Commons” @ Green Arcade Bookstore May 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets This week Occupy Forum is heading out to another location for several authors’ readings The SF Tenants Union and the San Francisco Community Land Trust Present: Amanda Huron, author of Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations to collectively purchase and manage their apartment buildings. These tenants were creating a commons, taking a resource – housing – that had been used to extract profit from … Continued	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 May 3 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Agenda: 4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – discuss methodology and department outreach for survey of existing equipment. 5. 5:25pm: Streetline Status Report. Review and take possible action on report. 6. 5:30pm: Vehicle-mounted Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) for Parking Enforcement. Review and take possible action on use policy. 7. 6:10pm: Oakland Department of Transportation/Vendor use of UAV/Drones. Review and take possible action on use policy.64647 6:30 pm FILM SCREENING: FLUSH @ PLACE for Sustainable Living FILM SCREENING: FLUSH @ PLACE for Sustainable Living May 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets FLUSH – The Documentary is the surprising story of what happens after we “go”, and a growing movement to change the way we think about waste. Filmmaker Karina Mangu-Ward wonders if the unprecedented damage from Superstorm Sandy, the drought out West, and the future of our food supply has a lot to do with how we flush. So she gives herself a challenge: follow one flush from beginning to end. FLUSH – The Documentary is the story of everything that happens next, and the cultural, political, and corporate forces shaping the way … Continued 6:30 pm March for Our Health Public Planning Meeting @ Oakstop March for Our Health Public Planning Meeting @ Oakstop May 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Public Meeting for the March for Our Health! MacArthur Room at Oakstop https://www.facebook.com/events/24312410287748464653 7:00 pm Danny Glover Speaks @ MLK Freedom Center Danny Glover Speaks @ MLK Freedom Center May 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture Series presents Danny Glover RSVP 510 434 3988 Co-presented by the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center and the Peralta Community College District 64501	5:00 pm BAY AREA VICTORY PARTY FOR STOPPING URBAN SHIELD @ Reem's Bakery Cafe BAY AREA VICTORY PARTY FOR STOPPING URBAN SHIELD @ Reem's Bakery Cafe May 4 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We won! After years of committed actions and struggle, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors has voted to end Urban Shield as of 2019. This would not have been possible without all of you! The ongoing solidarity efforts of this coalition and visions of community safety have been our greatest power through these years and will continue to be the power that ensures that Urban Shield truly sees its end! Now it’s time to celebrate together, to honor the resistance that has gotten us this far and cheer each other … Continued	11:00 am Berkeley Repair Cafe @ Historic Fellowship Hall Berkeley Repair Cafe @ Historic Fellowship Hall May 5 @ 11:00 am – 2:30 pm Tickets Come join us for the upcoming Repair Cafe, a half-day community gathering where some folks bring broken things, others bring know-how and tools, and yet others bring hospitality – and everyone brings goodwill and zeal for fixing. Though free, Repair Cafes aren’t free repair services. They’re participatory events – neighbors helping each other out, getting to know each other over coffee, baked treats, and repair projects, and squeezing more life out of the things they already have. Volunteer fixers will be on hand who know how to repair all kinds … Continued 11:00 am ICE on Trial: People’s Tribunal at the West County Detention Center @ West County Detention Facility ICE on Trial: People’s Tribunal at the West County Detention Center @ West County Detention Facility May 5 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Immigrant rights activists, community leaders and people who have been directly affected by the immigrant detention system will gather in front of the West County Detention Facility (WCDF) for a people’s tribunal to hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office accountable for their culture of secrecy and systemic abuse. The tribunal is one of a series of coordinated people’s tribunals across the country as a part of the #ICEonTrial campaign. The campaign comes with a rise of retaliation by ICE against activists, as the agency … Continued 11:00 am People’s Tribunal: Sheriff Greg Ahern on Trial @ Outside of West County Detention Facility People’s Tribunal: Sheriff Greg Ahern on Trial @ Outside of West County Detention Facility May 5 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Summon Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern to Appear at a People’s Tribunal On Saturday, May 5, 2018 immigrant rights activists, community leaders and people who have been directly affected by the immigrant detention system will gather in front of the West County Detention Facility (WCDF) for a people’s tribunal to hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Alameda and Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office accountable for their culture of secrecy and systemic abuse. The tribunal is one of a series of coordinated people’s tribunals across the country as a part … Continued 6:00 pm RECLAIMING CINCO DE MAYO / RESCATE DE CINCO DE MAYO RECLAIMING CINCO DE MAYO / RESCATE DE CINCO DE MAYO May 5 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The SF Living Wage Coalition invites you to our spring art and literature gala. A celebration of cross-border unity and taking back the TRUE meaning of the holiday. MUSIC/ART/FOOD. 64613

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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.