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All-day	SIT IN to Demand Brown STAND UP to Big Oil @ State Capitol SIT IN to Demand Brown STAND UP to Big Oil @ State Capitol Aug 20 all-day Tickets Join a non-violent direct action in Sacramento to insist that Governor Jerry Brown ban fracking and neighborhood drilling to protect our communities. Californians have delivered well over 1 million petitions to Governor Brown calling on him to stand up to the oil industry, and held many rallies and press conferences. Health forums have explained the toxic effects of extreme oil and neighborhood drilling. Brown has received consistent reminders that the majority of Californians and the science DO NOT support fracking and neighborhood drilling. Brown has never acknowledged these demands. Instead, … Continued
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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 9:00 pm Candlelight Vigil & Walk for Jessica St. Louis @ Santa Rita Jail Candlelight Vigil & Walk for Jessica St. Louis @ Santa Rita Jail Aug 19 @ 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets On July 28, 2018, Jessica St. Louis was released from Santa Rita Jail in the middle of the night at 1:25a. Like so many other people released from Santa Rita, she had to walk the 1.9 miles to Dublin BART. She would be found outside, unresponsive and declared dead before the station opened at 5:30a. We are demanding an end to late night releases. Please join us as we take the long, dark and desolate walk Jessica and so many other women and men take to get home after incarceration. … Continued	6:00 pm LGBTQ Prisoner Letterwriting and Mail Processing @ Farley's East LGBTQ Prisoner Letterwriting and Mail Processing @ Farley's East Aug 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us for this important way to show solidarity with our incarcerated LGBTQ+ and HIV+ community members! Every month on the 3rd Monday, we’ll have mail processing/data entry, birthday cards to our LGBTQ members in nearby Norcal prisons AND penpal info, so join us for whatever your pleasure is (and invite your friends)! Please join with or without a laptop – there is work for everyone! If you’d like, we’ll train you to respond to letters or to enter and update penpal request forms in our database. Getting these forms … Continued	11:30 am Prisoner Hunger Strike and Ashker Solitary Confinement Settlement Rally Prisoner Hunger Strike and Ashker Solitary Confinement Settlement Rally Aug 21 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets RALLY at the San Francisco Federal Courthouse while the four CA Prisoner Hunger Strike and Ashker Class Representatives ‘Meet and Confer’ with CDCr to address the continuing solitary conditions that violate the Ashker lawsuit settlement agreement. The four prisoner hunger strike representatives will be present in the courtroom, an historic presence! Help create a strong show of solidarity with prisoners fighting for human rights! What’s going on? The prisoner class-led movement and the Ashker class action lawsuit resulted in the release of over 1400 people from solitary confinement Security Housing … Continued 6:00 pm Caring for our Community Emergency Town Hall @ South Berkeley Senior Center Caring for our Community Emergency Town Hall @ South Berkeley Senior Center Aug 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Organized by Cheryl Davila Vice Mayor. Agenda: Closure of homeless shelter at 9th and University, which houses 95 people per evening. 65004 6:30 pm Song Leading & Street Choir Training RISE for Climate Justice Song Leading & Street Choir Training RISE for Climate Justice Aug 21 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join the Thrive Street Choir (Oakland) and the Peace Poets (Brooklyn) for a dynamic song leading workshop, a week before RISE for Climate Jobs & Justice 9/8. The Peace Poets are LEGENDS, coming to Oakland for a short time and will grace us with a performance and workshop! We will gearing up for a 50k person Choral Flashmob, the largest singing climate mobilization in history! Come learn and practice the movement songs that we will be singing together in the streets of San Francisco (in harmony!). We will be teaching … Continued 7:00 pm How Socialists Can Dismantle the US Police State @ East Bay Community Space How Socialists Can Dismantle the US Police State @ East Bay Community Space Aug 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets This event is the second in a two-part mini-series on race, class, and the socialist struggle against racial oppression. This class will build on the concepts of the first class, focusing on socialism and the struggle against racial oppression via a discussion of the US police state. We’ll discuss how democratic socialists can put theory into practice to most effectively combat police violence and mass incarceration. Aside from a short opening lecture, the bulk of class time will be spent in small, group-facilitated discussions. We’ll provide a short set of … Continued	8:30 am Pack the Court for ICE Arrestees Hugo and Misael & Press Conference Pack the Court for ICE Arrestees Hugo and Misael & Press Conference Aug 22 @ 8:30 am – 4:30 pm Tickets Last month, community pressure led to the cancellation of a contract to detain hundreds of immigrants for ICE in Contra Costa County, and community groups called for the release of all immigrants incarcerated there. Instead, in an arbitrary abuse of power, ICE transferred our community members from the West County Detention Facility to for-profit immigration jails in Denver, Colorado, and Tacoma, Washington. Thus, separating individuals further away from their families, lawyers, and social services. Please join community members and faith leaders to pack the court for Hugo and Misael who’s … Continued 6:00 pm Punks With Lunch Punks With Lunch Aug 22 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets West Oakland Punks with Lunch is a guerilla not-for-profit Harm reduction outreach organization providing food and other necessities to people experiencing homelessness. Anyone and everyone is welcome to volunteer with us! We just ask a few simple guidelines to keep PWL running smoothly. Please come wearing closed toed shoes and dressed appropriately for the weather. We ask that you show up with a non-judgemental, come as you are attitude. Be ready to work hard and have fun! Wednesday: Mobile Outreach Meet at: 36th and MLK … Continued 6:00 pm Surveillance Cameras in El Cerrito @ El Cerrito City Hall Surveillance Cameras in El Cerrito @ El Cerrito City Hall Aug 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Surveillance Camera Plan Under Consideration The El Cerrito Police Department will be holding a public meeting for the expansion of the surveillance camera project. The public meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 22, 2018 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers (10890 San Pablo Ave.) If you would like to read more information about the surveillance camera project, please click on “additional info.” Additional Info…64978 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Aug 22 @ 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	1:00 pm Anti-Eviction Press Conference @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Anti-Eviction Press Conference @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 23 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Anti-eviction Press ConferenceOakland City HallThurs, Aug 231pmw/ @CalOrganize member Franki Velez & @poormagazineAn entire building of working-class tenants of color, veterans, children and an infant evicted by a wealthy foreign investor now face homelessness or removal. pic.twitter.com/RM7KoqvxfG— julian francis park (@jfpark3) August 21, 2018 65016 7:30 pm Martha Nussbaum: The Monarchy of Fear @ St. John’s Presbyterian Church Martha Nussbaum: The Monarchy of Fear @ St. John’s Presbyterian Church Aug 23 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1FM & St. John’s Presbyterian Church present Advance tickets: $12 : brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 Books Inc/Berkeley, Pegasus Books (3 sites), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway’s, East Bay Books , $15 door, wheelchair access “One of the world’s most honored philosophers provides a candid examination of the current political crisis.” For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her full attention to the terrible political standoff tha has polarized America since the Trump election. … Continued	6:00 pm Save 7th Steet Cafe, OneFam Party! Save 7th Steet Cafe, OneFam Party! Aug 24 @ 6:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets 7th Street Cafe (aka Rev Cafe) is an important space for our West Oakland community. It is where we come together to play music, share ideas, and learn, and it’s home to OneFam, our grassroots community organization that empowers us to fight for our neighborhood. Now the 7th Street Cafe is under threat of eviction from a hostile landlord, and we need to fight back! Come to our Save the Cafe Fundraiser. Here’s what’s happening: 6:00 Arts and Crafts (family friendly) Tile painting for a community mosaic 8:00 Jam Session … Continued	9:00 am Community Restorative Justice Training @ Saint Columbia Church Community Restorative Justice Training @ Saint Columbia Church Aug 25 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Restorative Justice for Oakland and the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council is offering free restorative justice trainings for community members wh want to help creae a restorative North Oakland. If you are interested in attending one of the trainings, please email us your name, your desired training date and we will reply. rjoytrainings@rjoyoakland.org64910 11:00 am Bay Area National Prison Strike Call to Action / Mobilization @ West Oakland BART, carpool to San Quentin State Prison Bay Area National Prison Strike Call to Action / Mobilization @ West Oakland BART, carpool to San Quentin State Prison Aug 25 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets The Bay Area National Prison Strike Solidarity Committee, stands in solidarity with the people who have declared a Nationwide Prison Strike beginning on August 21st (This date commemorates the assassination of Black Panther Party, Field Marshall, and prison activist, George Jackson, by San Quentin prison guards) and extending to September 9th, 2018. The National Prison Strike is in response to the “riot” in the Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in South Carolina on April 15, 2018. . Seven prisoners lost their lives during an instigated melee that could … Continued 12:00 pm Climate Change, False Solutions & Indigenous Rise! @ Intertribal Friendship House Climate Change, False Solutions & Indigenous Rise! @ Intertribal Friendship House Aug 25 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Lunch = Speakers = Art = Nonviolence Training On Saturday, September 8th thousands of people will be arriving to San Francisco from all over the world for the largest climate march on the West Coast: Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice Afterward there will be events and actions demanding real solutions to the climate crisis. This is all in response to the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco Sept 12-14, where Gov. Jerry Brown, UN Officials and World Leaders will meet to discuss the climate crisis. California Indians will … Continued 1:00 pm Memorial Services for Elbert Howard, Founding Member of the Black Panther Party. @ Defemery Park Memorial Services for Elbert Howard, Founding Member of the Black Panther Party. @ Defemery Park Aug 25 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Memorial services for Elbert “Big Man” Howard, an original Black Panther Party founding member, will be held at Defemery Park. Memorial services for Elbert “Big Man” Howard, an original Black Panther Party founding member, will be held at Defemery Park.65007 1:00 pm Refoundation Caucus Presents: A Conversation with Cat Brooks @ Omni Commons Refoundation Caucus Presents: A Conversation with Cat Brooks @ Omni Commons Aug 25 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets This is not an official EBDSA event. It is hosted by the Refoudnation caucus of the DSA* Cat Brooks, a long-time community organizer is running for Mayor of Oakland. She is by far the most radical candidate in the race, considered by many to be the successor to Bobby Seale of the Black Panther Party. As an organizer, Cat has served as the Exective Director of various organizations including the National Lawyers Guild SF, Justice Teams Networks, and Youth Together. As the co-founder of Anti-Police Terror Project, Cat is … Continued

Week of August 19

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.