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More and more people are standing up to say that they’ve had enough with … Continued 11:00 am Protest at Richmond Jail / Bay Area ICE Detention @ West County Detention Facility Protest at Richmond Jail / Bay Area ICE Detention @ West County Detention Facility Aug 12 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets MASS RESISTANCE TO MASS INCARCERATION IS GROWING! Please join your voice and stand together against he horrors of family separation, racist policing and imprisonment, and criminalization of immigrants this Sunday August 12th (11am-Noon) and demand WCDF and demand “Let Our People Go!” Please read details on parking and location below. Sheriff Livingston announced an end to WCDF contract with ICE, in part due to growing protests. Immigrant detainees are in peril of being sent to private prisons in other states, and the sheriff will likely fill the ICE budget hole … Continued 12:00 pm Medicare for All National Weekend of Action – DSA Canvass @ Bushrod Park Medicare for All National Weekend of Action – DSA Canvass @ Bushrod Park Aug 12 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Join East Bay DSA for the second-ever Medicare for All National Weekend of Action! DSA has been at the forefront of the fight to guarantee healthcare as a human right, and our weekends of action are exciting opportunities to flex the collective power of DSA’s national membership towards winning Medicare for All—a much needed piece of democratic socialism for the American working class. East Bay DSA will join dozens of DSA chapters from coast to coast to build the movement for Medicare for All. Join us in Bushrod Park on … Continued 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Aug 12 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing campaigns and plans for the future. Newcomers and old friends welcome — we need your participation and your voice.64656 1:30 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Aug 12 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 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 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 12 @ 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: Child Internment Camps in the American Refugee Crisis @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday: Child Internment Camps in the American Refugee Crisis @ Niebyl Proctor Library Aug 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Our presentation looks at the practice of separating children from their parents – a United States policy designed to be a deterrrent to refugees, many of them from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, who have been forced to immigrate and seek asylum at the southern border. Ten thousand children ripped away from their parents are currently in internment camps – a situation far more than cruel and unusual, but indispuutably evil because this brutal traumatization of children is unnecessary. To help us look into the abyss and understand what … Continued 7:00 pm 25th Birthday Party for Long Haul Infoshop @ Longhaul 25th Birthday Party for Long Haul Infoshop @ Longhaul Aug 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Long Haul Infoshop opened August 13, 1993 Come celebrate 25 years! — free t-shirt raffle — silk screen your own t-shirt – bring a blank shirt — vegan chocolate cake / celebratory food items — tell funny stories The Infoshop is accepting donations on its website and otherwise to continue for another 25 years.64790 7:30 pm Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Aug 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us on August 12 for the next Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly! This month we will talk about our electoral strategy for the midterm elections and will spend some time contacting real-live voters to make sure they know about the upcoming election! Come on down and bring a friend to the best way to get involved in making our city and country a better place! Doors open at 7. We start promptly at 7:30. Please bring a laptop or tablet computer if you are able to. If you can’t, we would … Continued	5:30 pm Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland, General Meeting @ Xolo, back courtyard Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland, General Meeting @ Xolo, back courtyard Aug 13 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Agenda Posted When Available. 64925 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Aug 13 @ 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 Tenant And Neighborhood Council Assembly @ Omni Commons Tenant And Neighborhood Council Assembly @ Omni Commons Aug 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We’ll be getting updated on our local housing struggles, and we will take collective steps for tenant and neighborhood organizing. Let’s get organized against the Bay Area housing market! – – – – – – – – – – – – 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, … Continued	9:00 am ELLA BAKER CENTER LOBBY DAY @ State Capitol ELLA BAKER CENTER LOBBY DAY @ State Capitol Aug 14 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Ella Baker Center members, staff, and allies will be traveling to Sacramento to advance our policy agenda. We will focus on lobbying for the Fair & Just Sentencing Reform Act (SB 1393) and other criminal justice reform bills. Transportation and food will be provided. RSVP required. Please RSVP here. 64864 6:00 pm ICE Detainee Bailout Volunteers Needed @ The Finnish Center ICE Detainee Bailout Volunteers Needed @ The Finnish Center Aug 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets We need volunteers to assist the detainees with their paperwork BEFORE WEST COUNTY closes for ICE detainees and they are forced to go to some facility somewhere else in the country, probably away from their families. If you feel ready to take on this important role you’ll need to be trained – it’s a two hour training with Rebecca Merton from Freedom for Immigrants.64983 6:45 pm Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Movement Strategy Center Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Movement Strategy Center Aug 14 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.64885 7:00 pm Habeas Data: Author Tour @ Octopus Literary Salon Habeas Data: Author Tour @ Octopus Literary Salon Aug 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets On behalf of the Northern CA chapter of Society of Professional Journalists – a book reading for Cyrus Farivar, author of the newly released Habeas Data. Habeas Data shows how the explosive growth of surveillance technology has outpaced our understanding of the ethics, mores, and laws of privacy. Award-winning tech reporter Cyrus Farivar makes the case by taking ten historic court decisions that defined our privacy rights and matching them against the capabilities of modern technology. It’s an approach that combines the charge of a legal thriller with the shock of the daily … Continued	7:30 pm APTP General Membership Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance APTP General Membership Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Aug 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Agenda will include presentations from families and discussion about Sheriff Ahern and Santa Rita Jail. APTP meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. The Anti Police-Terror Project began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee. We are a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. If you’re new to Anti Police-Terror Project, we began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee and are a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build … Continued	6:00 pm Screening of ‘Zero Weeks’ @ South Berkeley Senior Center Screening of ‘Zero Weeks’ @ South Berkeley Senior Center Aug 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets A film examining paid family leave. The film and panel that follows highlight the state and national movement for Paid Family Leave.64997 7:00 pm Omni General Assembly @ Omni Commons Omni General Assembly @ Omni Commons Aug 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month at 7pm! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues.64992

Week of August 12

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.