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More and more people are standing up to say that they’ve had enough … Continued 11:00 am Protest at Richmond Jail / ICE Detention Center @ West County Detention Facility Protest at Richmond Jail / ICE Detention Center @ West County Detention Facility Jul 8 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Join the community protest of mass incarceration and immigrant internment at the Richmond jail, aka West County Detention Facility (WCDF)! Asylum applicants from the border are often relocated there, so those who’ve had their kids taken away from them may be held at WCDF. The cruel, racist separations rent by immigration, policing and cash bail policies deal terrible emotional and economic injuries on our loved ones, neighbors, and communities. We must fight to free our peoples! • LEARN from Pastor Rhina Ramos of Plymouth Church about her work in the … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 8 @ 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 5:00 pm Green Sunday: REPEALING THE COSTA-HAWKINS ACT @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday: REPEALING THE COSTA-HAWKINS ACT @ Niebyl Proctor Library Jul 8 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Green Party of Alameda County invites you to a Green Sunday presentation and discussion about REPEALING THE COSTA-HAWKINS ACT California’s Costa-Hawkins Act, enacted in 1995 to outlaw rent control on new buildings, may be the single most important factor in making housing unaffordable in the Bay Area. However, legislation to repeal Costa-Hawkins will be on the ballot in November. This effort is being spearheaded by ACCE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment) Action http://www.acceaction.org . On Sunday we will have two speakers from ACCE, Lalo Colon and Grace Martinez, who … 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 Jul 9 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Normally meeting on the 1st Thursday of the month, OPAC will meet instead on the 9th in July. Agenda: 4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – status update regarding department outreach for survey of existing equipment. 5. 5:20pm: Discuss and create working group for review of Federal law enforcement task force agreements. 6. 5:30pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – “Large Scale Event- Warriors Parade”. Receive and take possible action on staff informational report. 7. 5:40pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Police Department – “Ride Along” software application. Review and take possible action on … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Jul 9 @ 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	4:30 pm #AbolishICE San Francisco – Board of Supervisors @ San Francisco City Hall #AbolishICE San Francisco – Board of Supervisors @ San Francisco City Hall Jul 10 @ 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Despite SF's sanctuary policy, SFPD raided the @occupyicesf camp early this morning–when local media wouldn't be around to document. A few injuries.TOMORROW: Demand the SF Board of Supervisors support #AbolishICE and break up with any bank that finances private prisons pic.twitter.com/KA1OZKTJDt— SF Public Bank Coalition (@sfpublicbank) July 9, 2018 64878 6:00 pm Ella Baker Letter Writing Night @ Ella Baker Center office Ella Baker Letter Writing Night @ Ella Baker Center office Jul 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Ella Baker Center will host a mail night at our office to respond to the increasing amount of correspondence we’ve been receiving from people in prisons and jails across the country. We are getting lots of questions about prior ballot initiatives including Prop 47 and 57, advocacy support, requests for pen pals and the Ella Baker Center’s work at large. We will also be sending information to people inside about how they can get involved with our priority bills. Please RSVP to Eric@ellabakercenter.org 64786 7:00 pm OccupyICE San Francisco Is Back! OccupyICE San Francisco Is Back! Jul 10 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets #occupyicesf is back baby!!! @occupyicesf pic.twitter.com/6tctGyAX7v— BITCOINTELPRO (@LiaOffLeash) July 10, 2018 64887	7:30 pm Rendezvous with Oblivion: What does a middle-class democracy look like when it falls apart? @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Rendezvous with Oblivion: What does a middle-class democracy look like when it falls apart? @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Jul 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents Advanced Tickets: Pegasus Books (3 stores), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books, Mrs. Dalloway’s What does a middle-class democracy look like when it falls apart? When – after forty years of economic triumph – the country’s fiscal winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing whasoever to the rest of the country? With his exceptionally sharp eye for detail, Thomas Frank takes us on a wide-ranging tour through present day America, showing us a society in the final stages of disintegration, … Continued	7:00 pm “The Reluctant Radical” film, Q&A with valve turner Ken Ward @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center, 2540 Macdonald Ave, Richmond Thursday; Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck, Oakland Friday “The Reluctant Radical” film, Q&A with valve turner Ken Ward @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center, 2540 Macdonald Ave, Richmond Thursday; Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck, Oakland Friday Jul 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join a live Q&A via Skype with Ken Ward, one of the valve turners who shut off oil pipelines in October 2016. This discussion of the valve turners’ multi-state civil disobedience action will follow a screening of the documentary film “The Reluctant Radical.” The film follows Ward as he confronts his fears and puts himself in the direct path of the fossil fuel industry to combat climate change. Join Sunflower Alliance for two fundraisers for the valve turners’ legal defense fund. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT BROWN PAPER TICKETS (sliding scale) … Continued 7:00 pm East Bay DSA Socialist Night School: Housing Justice @ Omni Commons East Bay DSA Socialist Night School: Housing Justice @ Omni Commons Jul 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets ll are welcome to join East Bay DSA’s ongoing Socialist Night School for this special evening on housing politics, in connection with our chapter’s campaign to repeal Costa-Hawkins and win universal rent control & social housing in California. READINGS HERE: https://www.eastbaydsa.org/resources-readings-socialist-school-2018-summer-session-1 Aside from a short opening lecture, the bulk of class time will be spent in small group discussions where we’ll talk the housing crisis in the East Bay from a socialist perspective, the goal of social housing, and how fighting for Costa-Hawkins can help us unite a mass working-class tenant … Continued 7:30 pm Reviving Our Democracy: With Rev. William J. Barber @ First Church Berkeley Reviving Our Democracy: With Rev. William J. Barber @ First Church Berkeley Jul 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Nearly two years after Election Day 2016, Americans’ rights are under siege across the nation, from voter suppression and gerrymandering to police violence and attacks on immigrants. Yet there has also been a surge in civic action to protect these rights, and it is gathering dramatic momentum as we near the midterm elections. Join America’s preeminent civil rights leader Reverend William J. Barber, architect of North Carolina’s Moral Monday movement and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, and Mother Jones’ senior reporter Ari Berman for an in-depth discussion about the … Continued	6:30 pm Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next @ Niebyl Proctor Library Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next @ Niebyl Proctor Library Jul 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Timothy Faust is a single-payer activist with the Democratic Socialists of America. Over the past year, he has driven 10,000 miles to speak about single-payer to groups of activists, medical students, law students, and general assemblies—32 states so far. With his partner, he hosts HEAVYxMEDICAL, a podcast about health policy and metal music. His book Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next will be published by Melville House in 2019. Join us for a discussion about the need for single-payer healthcare, why this issue is a fight critical for democratic socialists, … Continued 7:00 pm “The Reluctant Radical” film, Q&A with valve turner Ken Ward @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center, 2540 Macdonald Ave, Richmond Thursday; Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck, Oakland Friday “The Reluctant Radical” film, Q&A with valve turner Ken Ward @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center, 2540 Macdonald Ave, Richmond Thursday; Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck, Oakland Friday Jul 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join a live Q&A via Skype with Ken Ward, one of the valve turners who shut off oil pipelines in October 2016. This discussion of the valve turners’ multi-state civil disobedience action will follow a screening of the documentary film “The Reluctant Radical.” The film follows Ward as he confronts his fears and puts himself in the direct path of the fossil fuel industry to combat climate change. Join Sunflower Alliance for two fundraisers for the valve turners’ legal defense fund. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT BROWN PAPER TICKETS (sliding scale) … Continued 7:00 pm One Million Flames – OccupyICE Solidarity Rally & Vigil w/ AbolishICESF @ ICE San Francisco One Million Flames – OccupyICE Solidarity Rally & Vigil w/ AbolishICESF @ ICE San Francisco Jul 13 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets OccupyICE encampments and blockades have popped up all over the land called the United States and are building a National Solidarity Coalition to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Join Abolish ICE SF as we rally and stand vigil for all those locked up and deported, and in solidarity with the #OccupyICESF blockade raided by the San Francisco Police Department on July 9th after being established on July 2nd. We also stand in solidarity with all the OccupyICE actions and blockades across the continent facing local and federal police repression. Friday, … Continued 7:30 pm Sandra Bland Vigil & Criminal Justice Reform Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sandra Bland Vigil & Criminal Justice Reform Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 13 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Friday July 13th 2018 will mark three turbulent years since our sister Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas Jail cell. We all know the brutal details of her story and thousands of our fellow Americans have suffered her fate since that mournful day. We will be commemorating Sandra’s life with a silent candlelight vigil this Friday evening in Oakland, gathering at 7:30 pm, followed by a criminal justice reform rally at 8pm. Please take a moment out of your busy schedules to join community activists and leaders, who … Continued	9:00 am California Nurses Association Crowd Canvass for Medicare for All: Oakland @ Grand Lake Theater California Nurses Association Crowd Canvass for Medicare for All: Oakland @ Grand Lake Theater Jul 14 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Join us as we talk to residents and ask for their support for SB 562, the bill that would establish a single payer, Medicare-for-All healthcare system in California. We’re turning up the heat across the state to educate the public and continue to build the powerful grassroots support for SB 562. Join us on Saturday July 14 at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland to talk to our neighbors about what Medicare-for-All could do for their lives and ask for their support. Thanks for joining us in this fight for … Continued 10:00 am A Day In Court Training – w/ Silicon Valley Debug @ Sierra Club A Day In Court Training – w/ Silicon Valley Debug @ Sierra Club Jul 14 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Come get trained by Silicon Valley Debug on how you can show up at court in support of those facing a bail hearing. You’ll learn about the bail system in California, how to provide court support, and concrete ways that you can help expose how exploitative money bail is in our state. Everyday, in county courts across the state, decisions are made that dictate the size, scope, and demographic make up of incarceration in California. It’s at first court appearances where one of the most important decisions is rendered — … Continued 10:00 am Familes Belong Together Rally @ The Arches/Pergola Familes Belong Together Rally @ The Arches/Pergola Jul 14 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets We are meeting at the Lake Merritt Pergola. We are joining in a circle of compassion and clarity to announce that FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER! #endICE Co-Sponsors/Endorsers Include: Anti Police-Terror Project Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice SURJ – Oakland/Bay Area The East Oakland Collective Youth Together Spectrum Queer Media The Center for Political Education64879 1:00 pm DSA General Membership Meeting @ Omni Commons DSA General Membership Meeting @ Omni Commons Jul 14 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Join your comrades for the upcoming July general meeting! We’re back to our regularly scheduled programming of chapter decision-making after having our massive convention in April and are ready to put our nose back to the grindstone and get business done in our fight for socialism!64896 1:00 pm Non-Violent Direct Action Training @ Greenpeace Warehouse Non-Violent Direct Action Training @ Greenpeace Warehouse Jul 14 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets There will be non-violent direct action training in West Oakland. This training will take participants through the strategies and tools used in non-violent direct action. It will include a a know your rights training. This training will be an important place to get plugged into for upcoming street actions around the Global Climate Action Summit in September. Diablo Rising Tide calendar of events for summer and fall 2018: http://diablorisingtide.org/take-action-diablo-rising-tide-calendar-of-direct-action-events-and-trainings/ For more information, email diablorisingtide@riseup.net64860 2:00 pm Documentary Screening of Stanley Nelson’s Freedom Riders @ African American Museum and Library Documentary Screening of Stanley Nelson’s Freedom Riders @ African American Museum and Library Jul 14 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Join the African American Museum & Library at Oakland for a screening of Stanley Nelson’s inspirational documentary, Freedom Riders, the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil rights activists. 64881 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 Jul 14 @ 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 9:00 pm Unbought – Unbossed (UnB2) Launch Party Unbought – Unbossed (UnB2) Launch Party Jul 14 @ 9:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets UnB2 Launch Party California Progressives, this is how we do it! Join us and hundreds of our closest friends for the official launch party for Unbought – Unbossed (UnB2): an incubator for the next generation of political disruptors. It’s time to bring a few more folding chairs to the decision-making tables! RSVP64873

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.