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There will be a table, utensils/plates, salad, meat and veggie entrees, dessert and whatnot, courtesy of the Kitchen Committee (such at he is), so just bring yourself, or something to share as well if you’d like. All are welcome! After the meal the Occupy … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 22 @ 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 7:00 pm Liberated Lens film night: Albatross @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens film night: Albatross @ Omni Commons Jul 22 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Exquisitely beautiful, immensely touching and ultimately inspiring, Albatross takes us on a journey to the Midway island where these amazing birds come to mate and breed. We are brought into intimate contact with the albatrosses, get to witness their mating dances and caring for the young. The beauty is soon to be broken as when the time comes to fly away, many of the young stay behind and face a long painful death. Their bellies filled with ocean plastic make them unable to fly and feed… 64880	4:00 pm Stop Urban Shield – Berkeley City Council Vote. @ Berkeley Old City Hall Stop Urban Shield – Berkeley City Council Vote. @ Berkeley Old City Hall Jul 23 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Berkeley City Council will hold a special meeting on the 2018 Police MOU compendium and the recommendations of the Ad-Hoc Subcommittee on NCRIC and Urban Shield.64893 5:30 pm Say Her Name – Nia Wilson! @ MacArthur BART Say Her Name – Nia Wilson! @ MacArthur BART Jul 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Please come out tonight to MacArthur BART at 5:30 ! As Oakland braces itself for the potential invasion of white supremacists into our City today – we should continue to #sayhername Nia Wilson. Nia is the second Black woman brutally murdered in the Bay Area over the last couple of days. We are inviting community to come hold space, light a candle and be together in our collective grief. We also know that we are each others best defense. Community READY Corps will provide on-site self defense training for those … Continued 6:00 pm Open Mic Spoken Word and Poetry Against Hate and Fascism @ Solespace Open Mic Spoken Word and Poetry Against Hate and Fascism @ Solespace Jul 23 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Calling all poets, storytellers, emcees, musicians, laureates, old-schoolers, and first-timers to join Solespace in the streets to reject hate and white supremacy, and to celebrate the power of the spoken word. White supremacist groups have announced a “social gathering” at a Downtown Oakland bar for this Monday evening. In direct opposition, this “poetic emergence” calls people into Oakland’s streets to be vigilant and to clearly state: “Nazis, fascists and the alt-right are NOT welcome in Oakland or anywhere else in the Bay.” OPEN MIC: Sign-up at 6:00 pm, 10 spots … Continued	9:30 am Alameda Residents—Tell Supervisors to End Oil Drilling @ Alameda County Administration Bldg Alameda Residents—Tell Supervisors to End Oil Drilling @ Alameda County Administration Bldg Jul 24 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am Tickets Join us to urge the Board of Supervisors to deny permits to E&B Natural Resources to expand and extend its drilling operation in Alameda County’s Livermore Valley. E&B Natural Resources, a Bakersfield-based oil company, is just one step away from getting the go-ahead from the county for 10 more years of dangerous drilling in the Livermore Valley — this despite the company’s reckless track record of spills and accidents (48 since 2007!) that threaten public safety and the environment. The permits would allow E&B to dispose of oil-drilling waste by … Continued 10:00 am Alameda County Residents—Petition Supervisors to End Oil Drilling! @ Alameda County Administration Bldg Alameda County Residents—Petition Supervisors to End Oil Drilling! @ Alameda County Administration Bldg Jul 24 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets The Board of Supervisors hearing will finally decide whether a polluting oil company, E&B Natural Resources, has the right to keep producing oil from its Livermore wells for another ten years. In the meantime, please sign this petition to the supervisors. E&B is a fossil fuel company with a disturbing track record of accidents and spills. Since 2007, the oil company has reported at least 48 spills of oil or other hazardous materials in four different California counties—including Alameda. Multiple agencies have cited the company for violations of environmental and … Continued 10:00 am Care Village @ Brookfield Branch Library Care Village @ Brookfield Branch Library Jul 24 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Are you experiencing financial hardship or homelessness? Get a free haircut, hot coffee, hygiene kits and more. Brookfield Branch Library is hosting a care village on July 24 for anyone experiencing homelessness and financial hardship. 64944 2:00 pm TRUTH Forum – hold the Contra Costa Sheriff accountable! @ Board of Supervisors, Room 107 TRUTH Forum – hold the Contra Costa Sheriff accountable! @ Board of Supervisors, Room 107 Jul 24 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets SB 54, the California Values Act (signed into law in 2017) curtails use of state and local resources from engaging in deportations; and creates safe spaces at schools, health facilities, and court houses. A related law, the TRUTH Act (signed into law in 2016), requires that records related to ICE be considered public and that the governing body of any city or county in which a local law enforcement agency has provided ICE access hold at least one public community forum during the following year, to provide information publicly and … Continued 2:00 pm We #DemandTheTRUTH: Contra Costa TRUTH Act Forum @ Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors We #DemandTheTRUTH: Contra Costa TRUTH Act Forum @ Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors Jul 24 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Join community members and immigrants’ rights advocates at the first ever TRUTH Act forum in California to demand transparency and accountability! If we uphold our values, we’ll move Contra Costa County forward together. Under the TRUTH Act, any jurisdiction that has allowed ICE access in the past year is required to hold a community forum bringing transparency to local jail entanglement with immigration enforcement. Through our advocacy efforts, the Board of Supervisors finally scheduled the forum to ensure that our community could obtain information and ask questions about how our … Continued 3:00 pm SURJ: Expand Just Cause! Close Eviction Protection Loopholes! @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza SURJ: Expand Just Cause! Close Eviction Protection Loopholes! @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 24 @ 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets **Join us for a show of support during public forum at 3. We’re the last agenda item, #16, so we probably won’t be heard till after 8:30. We’ll post live updates, so come when you can and ceed your time to the coalition or other tenants if you can’t stay! Oakland voters have a chance to amend the Just Cause ordinance to make sure ALL units in Oakland built before 1995 are covered by Just Cause eviction protections. We just have to make sure City Council votes Tuesday to put … Continued 5:30 pm Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice: Mass Meeting @ Sha'ar Zahav Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice: Mass Meeting @ Sha'ar Zahav Jul 24 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Are you in California? Are you passionate and concerned about the issues happening in and to your community, as they relate to climate justice? There’s an opportunity for you to be a part of planning the largest mobilization on the the West coast for climate, jobs and justice! Everyone is invited to ensure that everyone is represented as we build a bold, visionary action that will channel power to the people through the Rise for Climate Jobs & Justice March. All are welcome to participate and organize! RSVP HERE: https://ca.riseforclimate.org/mass-meeting/ On … Continued	1:30 pm REPORT BACK FROM THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF HUD TENANTS CONFERENCE @ Redwood Gardens REPORT BACK FROM THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF HUD TENANTS CONFERENCE @ Redwood Gardens Jul 25 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets BERKELEY GRAY PANTHERS REPORT BACK FROM THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF HUD TENANTS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON DC. What is NAHT? NAHT is the only National organization run by HUD Tenants who are mandated to lobby for the housing rights of low income, senior, and disabled people and promote housing as a “right” of all people. Gray Panthers is a member of NAHT and a sponsor of their work in the Bay Area. Presenters will report back from the conference and report on the work being done to overturn the abusive work … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Jul 25 @ 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 DSA Neighborhood Social – South Berkeley @ Moxie Beer Garden DSA Neighborhood Social – South Berkeley @ Moxie Beer Garden Jul 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Comrades! Are you excited about housing justice, connecting with neighbors, and building real people-power in South Berkeley? Come have a beer, meet organizers in your neighborhood, and learn about the work East By DSA is doing to fight for housing justice in South Berkeley!64936	5:30 pm Cafecito Sin Hielo- No ICE’d Coffee @ RSVP for location (see text) Cafecito Sin Hielo- No ICE’d Coffee @ RSVP for location (see text) Jul 26 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets We would like to invite you to our event: No ICE’d Coffee! We will be discussing about the tools necessary to lead a Deportation Defense Campaign, current challenges in this work, and create a network of support to share strategies and tools! RSVP needed to receive location details! Also see information here.64932 6:00 pm Say Her Name – Vigil for Kishana Harley Say Her Name – Vigil for Kishana Harley Jul 26 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets A mother of four, murdered in her home. She was “a great Black woman activist” deeply involved with the Oscar Grant Committee which worked for justice in the police murder of Pedie Perez in Richmond” More info: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/richmond-mother-of-4-found-brutally-murdered-inside-her-apartment/1321817937 “Harley, as she was called, was a mom to a 2-year-old, a 3-year-old, a 14-year-old, and an 18-year-old who just graduated from Marine boot camp. She was also an activist who attended Richmond city council meetings on a regular basis.” 64951 6:30 pm Beer and Roses: DSA Labor Social – Oakland @ Telegraph Beer Garden Beer and Roses: DSA Labor Social – Oakland @ Telegraph Beer Garden Jul 26 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join the East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for their regular Beer and Roses Social! Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in the EBDSA Labor Committee, and learn how you can get involved!64937 6:30 pm Energy Democracy Book Event and Gathering @ Laurel Book Store - Oscar Grant Plaza Energy Democracy Book Event and Gathering @ Laurel Book Store - Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 26 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions, co-edited by Al Weinrub of the Local Clean Energy Alliance and published in 2017, captures the historical and conceptual framework, as well as the underlying values and principles of the emerging Energy Democracy movement. Join Al Weinrub and local community energy activists to learn more about Energy Democracy‘s national tour and the launch of a new Local Clean Energy Alliance book club. The Energy Democracy tour is inspired by the highly-acclaimed book, and includes a series of events hosted by local organizations all across the country … Continued 7:30 pm Emma’s Revolution – Protest Songs @ Fellowship Hall Emma’s Revolution – Protest Songs @ Fellowship Hall Jul 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Emma’s Revolution is the award-winning, progressive activist duo of Pat Humphries and Sandy O, whose songs have been sung for the Dalai Lama, praised by Pete Seeger, and covered by Holly Near. With beautiful harmonies and acoustic guitars, the duo’s songs cover issues from reproductive injustice to refugees and Black Lives Matter to the sustaining power of love. You can find more about them and get tickets at emmasrevolution.com.64883	12:00 pm National #NOPIPEINES Actions: DIRECT ACTION AGAINST CHASE BANK @ Chase Bank National #NOPIPEINES Actions: DIRECT ACTION AGAINST CHASE BANK @ Chase Bank Jul 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Join a Bay Area direct action against Chase Bank funding of oil and fracked-gas pipelines, as part of the national Rise Up! resistance weeks July 16-31. Frontline communities resisting these pipelines, including the L’eau Est La Vie Camp, Appalachians Against Pipelines. Camp White Pine, and more, are calling on people across the country to join with them in these weeks of action against banks funding pipelines and extreme energy projects. They write: “The pipeline projects we are fighting are all facing key moments and critical deadlines. If we are to … Continued 7:00 pm Dark Money @ Shattuck Cinemas Dark Money @ Shattuck Cinemas Jul 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Documentary, 97 minutes, Rated NR This depressing documentary, focusing mostly on matters in the state of Montana, shows the effect of untraceable corporate money on the American political system. It tries to be hopeful, but hope is hard to come by.64955	10:00 am Waffles & Zapatismo @ Omni Commons Waffles & Zapatismo @ Omni Commons Jul 28 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Waffles & Zapatismo is a free space for learning about and discussing the history, ideas, values and practices of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, EZLN or Zapatistas. We serve waffles at the start of the class to those who want them.64889 12:00 pm OccupyIce SF Potluck @ 16th St BART OccupyIce SF Potluck @ 16th St BART Jul 28 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets #OccupyICESF is having a potluck this Saturday July 28 @ 12PM at 16th St. BART Station. Everyone welcome! Bring food, friends and family; support ongoing efforts to abolish ICE and ALL prison structures as we search for communal alternatives together #AbolishICE #AbolishALLCages pic.twitter.com/OEHK2e8y79— Abolish ICE SF (@occupyicesf) July 25, 2018 Saturday 7/28: #AbolishICESF potluck BBQ to raise money to bail out ICE detainees in Richmond. Donations to: https://t.co/NGhq9r5bzC #OccupyICE #OccupyICESF #AbolishICE pic.twitter.com/JQjvvDpFbs— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) July 27, 2018 64952 1:30 pm San Francisco Mime Troupe: Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical @ Live Oak Park San Francisco Mime Troupe: Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical @ Live Oak Park Jul 28 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets It’s Election Night 2018 and Bob swears she’ll never vote again. A lifetime of fading fortunes made this former Obama voter take a chance on the new guy promising change-Donald J. Trump. But it’s two years into his presidency and Bob’s still waiting to start winning. Tonight she’s telling everyone in her small-town bar that all politicians are liars, the system is rigged, and nothing’s ever gonna change. Along comes a mysterious stranger with an intriguing offer. He’ll show her an America where working people come together to demand a … Continued 2:00 pm MoveOn Community Potluck @ City Slicker Farms MoveOn Community Potluck @ City Slicker Farms Jul 28 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets MoveOn Community Potluck at the Farm! Connect with MoveOn Members near you at a Resist & Win Community Potluck! Our path to ending Republican control of the House begins in our own communities: marching, calling, canvassing, and … eating! Come together with fellow activists in your area to share a meal and recharge for the work ahead at a Resist & Win Community Potluck near you! Here’s a brief description of this Resist & Win Potluck from the host: Meet your neighbors and share some grub; as we draw, sing … Continued 3:00 pm KPFA Benefit Film Showing: All the President’s Men @ New Parkway Theater KPFA Benefit Film Showing: All the President’s Men @ New Parkway Theater Jul 28 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets All The President’s Men for KPFA Movie Matinee On Saturday July 28th, KPFA in partnership with The New Parkway Theater in Oakland present our inaugural movie matinee All The President’s Men. All The President’s Men, stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who uncovered the Watergate scandal. This film is the story of a story: of two reporters covering a suspicious third-rate burglary and following it, all the way to the White House. All the President’s Men is as smart and as cautionary today as … Continued 6:00 pm Report back from the International May Day Brigade to Cuba @ BFUU Report back from the International May Day Brigade to Cuba @ BFUU Jul 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us to celebrate the 65th Anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks that marked the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. The program will include Bay Area Participants of the XIII May Day International Brigade to Cuba and US graduated from the Latin America School of Medicine in Cuba. Music by DUAMUX – Marci Valdivieso and Ricardo Valdivieso. Co-sponsored by National Network on Cuba, BFUU SJC, International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity. Photo by Bill Hackwell64851 7:00 pm Dark Money @ Shattuck Cinemas Dark Money @ Shattuck Cinemas Jul 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Documentary, 97 minutes, Rated NR This depressing documentary, focusing mostly on matters in the state of Montana, shows the effect of untraceable corporate money on the American political system. It tries to be hopeful, but hope is hard to come by.64955

Week of July 22

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.