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ICSS members Lew Finzel and Ron Kelch, will make the case Seating is limited, so … Continued 1:00 pm Indivisible East Bay @ Sports Basement Indivisible East Bay @ Sports Basement Aug 26 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets I scream, you scream, we all scream…to #StopKavanaugh! Come to Indivisible East Bay’s monthly All Member Meeting (yes, homemade ice cream will be provided–bring your favorite toppings!). This event is part of MoveOn’s Unite for Justice national day of action against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Linh Nguyen, co-lead of the IEB Judiciary Team(https://indivisibleeb.org/judiciary/) will give an updated version of her presentation made at a recent community meeting(https://bit.ly/2wffnuz) about Kavanaugh. She and other members of the Judiciary team can answer questions about Kavanaugh and how we can all fight his confirmation. Then we will take … Continued 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Aug 26 @ 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 2:00 pm Clear Your Record with Open Oakland @ Main Library Clear Your Record with Open Oakland @ Main Library Aug 26 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Do you have convictions? Or do you know someone who does? Get help clearing your record with members of OpenOakland. We’ll use Code for America’s online application tool to help remove barriers to new jobs, housing, and educational opportunities. Clear My Record is a free, nonprofit, service for people with a criminal record in select California counties. It is easy to use, but we’ll be at the library to guide you through the process. Drop-in any time between 2 and 5 pm. No appointment required. Know someone who might be … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 26 @ 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 Celebrate the Life of a Berkeley Activist @ Bacheeso's Celebrate the Life of a Berkeley Activist @ Bacheeso's Aug 26 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Celebration of Life for John Murcko A wonderful dedicated activist for human rights ans social justice. John was active in the five year so-far successful fight to save the Berkeley Post Office from privatization.64918 6:30 pm Free Film screening of “13th” + panel discussion for National Prison Strike @ Omni Commons Free Film screening of “13th” + panel discussion for National Prison Strike @ Omni Commons Aug 26 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets In solidarity with the National Prison Strike we will be screening the documentary film “13th” by Ava DuVernay, who also directed Selma. As always our film will be shown in the ballroom of the Omni Commons. Bring friends, it’s a free event! Invite everyone, let’s pack the house and show our support for abolishing the prison system. Free popcorn and snacks. We will be having a panel discussion afterwards with local organizers: Nube Brown, California Prison Focus Cole Dorsey, Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee Bilal Mafundi Ali – Bay Area National … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Greens: Free Dinner and a Movie @ It's Your Move Games Oakland Greens: Free Dinner and a Movie @ It's Your Move Games Aug 26 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Dinner: 6:30 PM Movie: 7:30 PM64475	9:30 am The California Sanctuary Campaign @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre The California Sanctuary Campaign @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre Aug 27 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am Tickets Oakland, CA.- Oakland’s progressive mayoral candidates, Cat Brooks, Pamela Price, and Saied Karamooz, will come together in front of Oakland’s City Hall to welcome the National TPS Alliance, a coalition of groups representing Temporary Protected Status holders now threatened with deportation. They will rally and reconfirm Oakland’s position as a sanctuary city for all those targeted by the Trump regime. The TPS Alliance working in collaboration with Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) is traveling across the … Continued	4:00 pm Free Mumia Now! Rally to Free Mumia. @ Oscar Grant Plaza Free Mumia Now! Rally to Free Mumia. @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets All out to free Mumia!64984 5:30 pm Rise! For Climate Jobs and Justice FINAL Mass Meeting! Rise! For Climate Jobs and Justice FINAL Mass Meeting! Aug 28 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets It’s finally here! The final mass meeting as we rapidly approach September 8 and the RISE for CLIMATE, JOBS & JUSTICE! Everyone is pumped up and excited to march together as we rise for real climate leadership that we need to lead us away from fossil fuels toward a healthy, vibrant future. The logistics are all set and the details will be shared at this meeting! The time to meet for the march, where groups will be in the march, and details about the 50+ street murals that everyone is … Continued	6:00 pm Punks With Lunch Punks With Lunch Aug 29 @ 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	5:30 pm Habeas Data Panel Discussion @ South Hall (UC Berkeley) Rm 202 Habeas Data Panel Discussion @ South Hall (UC Berkeley) Rm 202 Aug 30 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Please join us for a panel discussion featuring award-winning tech reporter Cyrus Farivar, whose new book, Habeas Data, explores how the explosive growth of surveillance technology has outpaced our understanding of the ethics, mores, and laws of privacy. Habeas Data explores ten historic court decisions that defined our privacy rights and matches them against the capabilities of modern technology. Mitch Kapor, co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the book was “Essential reading for anyone concerned with how technology has overrun privacy.” The panel will be moderated by 2017 and 2018 CTSP … Continued	9:00 am Biking While Black – Court Support @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse Biking While Black – Court Support @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse Aug 31 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets We need all your support in helping Naj K. Smith get justice! On Friday Aug. 3 naj took a group of young people on a first Friday ride. As usual Naj had his speaker and typical rig he always rides with. He was jammin his usual non offensive tunes when an OPD OFFICER grabbed his handle bars and stopped his bike. Naj politely got off his bike and proceeded to understand what the cops issue was. Being an example to the youth he was leading he remained calm and respectful even the … Continued 6:00 pm Final Fridays: Political Education + Film Screening @ EastSide Arts Alliance Final Fridays: Political Education + Film Screening @ EastSide Arts Alliance Aug 31 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Final Fridays at EastSide Arts Alliance Join us for a FREE evening of information, food, and film. Join us on FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 at EastSide Arts Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd., Oakland, CA 94606. 6-7 PM // Political Education to Build Community Power This month’s topic: what is Black August and why should we celebrate it? Come out this Final Friday and learn more about why we should honor our People outside of February. 7-9 PM // Free film screenings on issues affecting our communities. Refreshments provided at film screening. … Continued	2:00 pm Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Film Feature @ African American Museum & Library of Oakland Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Film Feature @ African American Museum & Library of Oakland Sep 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets To commemorate Labor Day, AAMLO is screening two films on the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African American trade union and a training ground for African American leaders from WWII to the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott to the 1963 March on Washington. Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle (Producers Paul Wagner and Jack Satino), 58 minutes A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom (Director Dante James), 83 minutes65022 2:00 pm Suds, Snacks and Socialism: Political Realignment in 2018? @ Starry Plough Suds, Snacks and Socialism: Political Realignment in 2018? @ Starry Plough Sep 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Political Realignment in 2018? We are inviting speakers from different political perspectives to lead our discussion of the question, “Are we seeing a major political realignment in the 2018 elections?” FREE! Please buy food & drink at the Pub. All ages welcome! FREE! This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Our purpose is informed political discussion, and the views expressed are those of the speakers only, not official positions of the Peace and Freedom Party. Doors open at 2 pm and … Continued 2:30 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Sep 1 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 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

Week of August 26

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.