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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 5:00 pm Green Sunday: David Bacon on “Free Trade, Chained Workers, and the Right to Stay Home” @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday: David Bacon on “Free Trade, Chained Workers, and the Right to Stay Home” @ Niebyl Proctor Library May 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Free Trade, Chained Workers, and the Right to Stay Home Bacon’s presentation looks at the sources of migration to the U.S. and the displacement of communities by neoliberal economics and military intervention. Then it presents the criminalization of migrants in the U.S. as part of that same system, and asks who benefits from it. Finally, it talks about the resistance to immigration raids, the fight for the right to not migrate, and the alternatives to forced migration and criminalization. David Bacon is a California-based writer and photographer. He was a … Continued 7:00 pm Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons May 13 @ 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 7:30 pm Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall May 13 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join us on May 13 for the next Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly featuring the IB Elections Team. We’re six months out from the midterms and it’s time to make moves to take back Congress! The Elections Team will have specific actions and ways to contribute. So come on down and bring a friend! Doors open at 7. We start promptly at 7:30. Our pre-GA training will take place at 6:30. Topic TBA. Questions? Email info@indivisibleberkeley.org. ADA Accessibility: The Finnish Hall has stairs leading up to the entrance so is not ADA accessible. Please email … Continued	11:00 am #Justice4Sahleem Rally & March @ Various locations. Start at Alameda County Courthouse #Justice4Sahleem Rally & March @ Various locations. Start at Alameda County Courthouse May 14 @ 11:00 am – 5:30 pm Tickets #Justice4Sahleem Rally & March—Monday, 5/14/18, #Oakland!11 AM—County Courthouse, 12th & Fallon1:30 PM—March to Webster & 20th2:30 PM—Dedication to the Life & Spirit of #SahleemTindle4 PM—BART Police Citizen Review Board Meeting, 2040 Webster@APTPAction & #MothersFightBack pic.twitter.com/LS4CzEjbPh— Elizabeth Fitzer (@ItsBethFitzer) May 14, 2018 64700 2:00 pm Poor People’s Campaign Kickoff in Sacramento @ State Capitol Poor People’s Campaign Kickoff in Sacramento @ State Capitol May 14 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets From Global Women’s Strike Omni Collective – please circulate wildly. Bay Area GWS participant and welfare mother Jane Welford will be among the key speakers in Sacramento. KICKOFF ACTION MAY 14, THE DAY AFTER MOTHERS’ DAY! Protests in over 30 state capitols across the US IN CA: RALLY & PROTEST ACTION 2PM SACRAMENTO STATE CAPITOL BUILDING The theme of May 14th actions is SOMEBODY’S HURTING OUR PEOPLE: CHILDREN, WOMEN AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN POVERTY Somebody’s hurting our people and it’s gone on far too long! Together, we will rise … Continued 4:00 pm Oakland Homeless Advocacy Working Group @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 4 Oakland Homeless Advocacy Working Group @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 4 May 14 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Open to the public.64638 7:00 pm Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor @ Green Arcade Bookstore Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor @ Green Arcade Bookstore May 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Virginia Eubanks talks about her book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is also the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The American Prospect, The Nation, Harper’s and Wired. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. 64682 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room May 14 @ 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 7:00 pm Official launch meeting for TANC! (Tenant and Neighborhood Councils) @ Omni Commons Official launch meeting for TANC! (Tenant and Neighborhood Councils) @ Omni Commons May 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We are a group of Bay Area tenants who are fed up with rising rents, evictions, and harassment at the hands of landlords. We are fed up with our neighbors having no option but to live unsheltered and at constant risk of police harassment. We want to stop landlords, developers, and cops from looting our communities. A council is a group of tenants who work together to wield collective power against a shared landlord in order to improve their conditions. While, in general, councils may organize for more affordable, habitable, … Continued 7:00 pm Real Climate Leadership Panel Event @ pin Oakland Scottish Rite Real Climate Leadership Panel Event @ pin Oakland Scottish Rite May 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets As Californians, we understand the urgency of climate action. From droughts, fires, oil spills, to deadly air pollution, we’re seeing the impacts of fossil fuels firsthand. Despite this, California has yet to take the action we know is necessary to stop climate change: commit to a fast and just transition to 100% renewable energy and keep fossil fuels in the ground. We know this is what science and our communities demand, and there’s no time to wait. That’s why community and movement leaders are coming together for an exciting event … Continued	11:30 am Conscientious Objector and War Resisters’ Day @ West end of Civic Center Park Conscientious Objector and War Resisters’ Day @ West end of Civic Center Park May 15 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Peace Flag raising ceremony. With Conscientious Objectors and War Resisters from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Sing Along with Max Ventura, Hali Jammer, and Nancy Schimmel.64704 4:30 pm Grill Your Government – BBQ at City Hall @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre Grill Your Government – BBQ at City Hall @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre May 15 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets The recent incident that took place at Lake Merritt surrounding charcoal grilling is not only an example of how the police are used to control African Americans, it also exemplifies the growing tensions for how Black Oakland experiences a changing city. Join us in solidarity to protect Black Oakland and to push elected officials to do something about the abuse of city resources. We don’t want more meetings, forums or empty gestures – we want action so this doesn’t happen again.64699 6:00 pm #DeportICE Richmond @ Richmond City Hall #DeportICE Richmond @ Richmond City Hall May 15 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets “It is not enough to say we are a Sanctuary City. We must also act like one.” Deport ICE Richmond ! On May 15, the City of Richmond is going to vote on a sanctuary city law to prohibit contracts with ICE data brokers.Press Conference at 6pm. Council meeting starts at 6:30pm. Bloomberg: CA Cities ICE Out Contractors Helping Feds Track Immigrants LA Times: TechnologyTurns Our Cities Into Spies for ICE SF Gate: Immigrant Activists Ask Livermore’s Vigilant Solutions To End ICE Contract In Richmond, the bill sponsors are Councilmember … Continued 6:00 pm Deport ICE Richmond – The Vote @ Richmond City Council Hall Deport ICE Richmond – The Vote @ Richmond City Council Hall May 15 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Making Sanctuary Real continues in the Bay Area. The Sanctuary City Contracting and Investment Ordinance will cut the data pipes to ICE by prohibiting municipal contracts and investments with data brokers that sell information to ICE to track and profile immigrants. This gets public money out of subsidizing the Trump deportation machine. Press Conference at 6pm, Council meeting starts at 6:30pm. In Richmond, our bill sponsors areCouncilmember and AD 15 candidate Jovanka Beckles and Councilmembers Ada Recinos. This will be the first Deport ICE ordinance in the Bay Area, but … Continued 7:30 pm SudoMesh: Save the Internet @ Omni Commons SudoMesh: Save the Internet @ Omni Commons May 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Hello we are here to Save the Internet! Join us every Tuesday in the Omni Commons mezzanine to help build a community-owned and -operated wireless mesh network in the East Bay! Every Tuesday night, we meet to discuss on-going projects, technical bugs, community and media outreach, finances and budgeting, and upcoming events, such as node mounts, office hours, and workshops. Newcomers are encouraged to come on the last Tuesdays of the month for general orientation, but are welcome at any meeting. A wireless mesh network is a network where each computer acts … Continued	6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons May 16 @ 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 7:00 pm Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment @ Green Arcade Bookstore Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment @ Green Arcade Bookstore May 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz talks about her latest book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment Introduced by James Tracy From the author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Loaded is a deeply researched and deeply disturbinghistory of guns and gun laws in the United States. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James, to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has colored the lore, shaped the law, and protected the market that arms the nation. In Loaded, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz peels away the myths of gun culture to … Continued 7:30 pm YANIS VAROUFAKIS Adults In The Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley YANIS VAROUFAKIS Adults In The Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley May 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets The most interesting man in the world — Business Insider One of the greatest political memoirs of all time. —The Guardian In this blistering memoir and expose, Varoufakis blows the lid off the world’s deep establishment, exposing what actually goes on behind the scenes through the corridors of real power. He offers a fascinatingly candid I-was-there account of his meetings with Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, and European leaders. He exposes the hypocrises, power plays, and frustrated good intentions that control the fate of nations large and small. While he was … Continued	4:00 pm EVER AFTER: STORIES OF VIOLENCE, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND HEALING @ Impact Justice, 2nd Floor EVER AFTER: STORIES OF VIOLENCE, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND HEALING @ Impact Justice, 2nd Floor May 17 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Join us as we live stream the world premiere of a series of short videos produced by Common Justice of people who have survived or committed violence, followed by a panel discussion that will explore healing, safety, and accountability after violence. This event is being hosted by UnCommon Justice and Restore Oakland partners. Please RSVP here. 64670 5:30 pm The Fight Against Coal: Youth Vs Apocalypse: Round One- Community Vs Corruption @ East Bay Innovation Academy, Lower School The Fight Against Coal: Youth Vs Apocalypse: Round One- Community Vs Corruption @ East Bay Innovation Academy, Lower School May 17 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Recently, Phil Tagami announced plans to host the 2018 East Bay Innovators Awards on behalf of his childrens’ school, East Bay Innovation Academy. But Tagami is completely draining Oakland of its resources, and threatening our health and climate with a toxic coal terminal, targetting a predominantly low-income community of color with environmental injustice, and was planning to honor DA Nancy O’Malley, who has a record of protecting police, not youth of color. After plans were announced for a youth-led protest, the venue and tone suddenly changed. But we we are … Continued 7:00 pm Free Them All: Survived & Punished Screening & Discussion @ Red Bay Coffee Free Them All: Survived & Punished Screening & Discussion @ Red Bay Coffee May 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us to hear more about our work to #FreeThemAll! Whether you’ve been following our work for a while or are new to what abolition is, this is a great opportunity to learn the why we’ve been organizing to decriminalize survival, how we plan to continue, and how you can participate. Our evening will include a screening of the TEDTalk featuring Ny Nourn, a survivor who spent 17 years in prison, was put into deportation proceedings upon her release and then freed after community mobilized on her behalf. Afterwards, stay for … Continued	5:00 pm Righteous Resistance Symposium @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Righteous Resistance Symposium @ First Congregational Church of Oakland May 18 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets We face a current political and social climate that continues to belie black humanity – where, without impunity, a young black man can be followed into his grandmother’s backyard and shot in the back six times out of the 20 shots fired at him. Will we stand on the sideline or will we join the important struggle that Black Americans & many others daily endure to live free from racism, violence & terror? We believe we are called to lean into a ministry and theology of resistance, reclaiming the hope … Continued 7:30 pm Indigenous Women Inspire the World! @ Omni Commons ballroom Indigenous Women Inspire the World! @ Omni Commons ballroom May 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Indigenous Women Inspire the World! – A panel of women that attended the Zapatistas’ 1st International Gathering of Women That Struggle will present video footage from the Gathering, share their experiences, answer questions and encourage discussion about that amazing event, which some 7,000 women attended!Facebook: 64639	9:30 am Richmond People’s Assembly @ Richmond High School Richmond People’s Assembly @ Richmond High School May 19 @ 9:30 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Get ready for the Richmond People’s Assembly! The 2018 Richmond People’s Assembly aims to bring a voice to the community, gather neighborhoods together to organize for collective power, and empower residents to engage in political activities that create the change and solutions we need. It’s inspired by the Richmond People’s Convention of 2004, organized by Richmond Progressive Alliance, Just Cause Richmond, ACORN, and others, which drew over 300 people, The Assembly is sponsored by the Richmond Our Power Coalition, a collection of local community organizations including the Asian Pacific Environmental … Continued 11:00 am Malcolm X Jazz Festival Malcolm X Jazz Festival May 19 @ 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Tickets The Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival is an all day, free neighborhood festival that celebrates jazz, America’s classical music and the Black musical tradition that has transcended the U.S. to reach all corners of the globe, and the legacy of Malcolm X, who believed in the self-determination, self-respect and self-defense of Black and oppressed people throughout the world. This event is a celebration of our Third World communities in the San Antonio district and includes music, speakers, community organizations, local arts & crafts vendors, live mural painting and delicious food. … Continued 1:00 pm Masked Rally for Climate Justice @ Japantown Peace Plaza Masked Rally for Climate Justice @ Japantown Peace Plaza May 19 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets In California, the face of climate change is fire. So many of us were impacted by the Northern and Southern California wildfires. Now, we’re holding a rally to make the N95 Particulate Respirator Mask into a powerful symbol of climate change. The mask is uncomfortable, it changes the wearer’s face, and more than anything it means that the air surrounding the wearer is no longer safe to breathe. The megafires California is facing are the result of climate change. Shorter, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers turn formerly healthy forests … Continued 2:00 pm Tribute to Robert Parry @ Fellowship Hall Tribute to Robert Parry @ Fellowship Hall May 19 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Robert Parry was instrumental in exposing the truth about the Nicaraguan Contras, the Cocaine shipments into the US and Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise”. For breaking these stories, instead of winning a Pulitzer Prize, he was slowly but surely pushed OUT of mainstream media. Parry then founded Consortiumnews which continues today as one of the best sources of analysis about international events. Guest speakers at the event will include: * Sam Parry, son of Robert * Joe Lauria, new editor of Consortiumnews * Natylie Baldwin, contributor to Consortiumnews * Dennis Bernstein, … Continued 2:30 pm 2nd Amendment and the Left: panel discussion @ Berkeley City College, Rm 55 2nd Amendment and the Left: panel discussion @ Berkeley City College, Rm 55 May 19 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Panel Description: “Recent school shootings and the ever-recurring instances of police brutality pose acutely the question of gun control today. Should the Left take up the demand for gun control, and if so, how? If not, why not? How is gun control related to the struggle for socialism?” Panelists: Gloria La Riva (Party of Socialism & Liberation) Urzula Wislanka (News & Letters Committees) K. Khan (International Marxist Tendency) 64693 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 May 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Please come to our Inequality Seminar on Sunday, 4/29 at 11:00 AM at the OMNI! 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 … Continued 5:00 pm Righteous Resistance Symposium @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Righteous Resistance Symposium @ First Congregational Church of Oakland May 19 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets We face a current political and social climate that continues to belie black humanity – where, without impunity, a young black man can be followed into his grandmother’s backyard and shot in the back six times out of the 20 shots fired at him. Will we stand on the sideline or will we join the important struggle that Black Americans & many others daily endure to live free from racism, violence & terror? We believe we are called to lean into a ministry and theology of resistance, reclaiming the hope … Continued 7:00 pm The Plot to Kill Martin Luther King Jr. @ Fellowship Hall The Plot to Kill Martin Luther King Jr. @ Fellowship Hall May 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets There’s more to history than you might think! In two films, Prime Suspects: Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.? (Court TV, 2000, 37 min.) and Truth At Last: The Assassination of Martin Luther King (James Corbett, 2018, 51 min.), the official story of the murder is convincingly disproved – James Earl Ray did not kill King – through the decades-long work of William F. Pepper, attorney, investigator, and author, an influential friend of Martin King in the last year of his life, and attorney for the King family. Pepper, … Continued

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.