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All-day Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater Sep 9 all-day Tickets This year’s Soil Not Oil Conference has an amazing lineup of keynote speakers including Vandana Shiva, Tom Goldtooth, Miguel A. Altieri, Starhawk, Wenonah Hauter and John Dennis Lu, with dozens of presentations from activists (including ourselves and allies, workshop TBA) working on community-powered solutions to climate change. The conference will showcase agro-ecological practices—regenerative agriculture, no-till/bio-intensive farming, permaculture—as well as grassroots-originated solutions that people in the global south have creatively implemented to adapt and prevent the ecological and social impacts of climate change. Miguel Robles, who started the annual conferences in … Continued	Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater Sep 10 all-day Tickets This year’s Soil Not Oil Conference has an amazing lineup of keynote speakers including Vandana Shiva, Tom Goldtooth, Miguel A. Altieri, Starhawk, Wenonah Hauter and John Dennis Lu, with dozens of presentations from activists (including ourselves and allies, workshop TBA) working on community-powered solutions to climate change. The conference will showcase agro-ecological practices—regenerative agriculture, no-till/bio-intensive farming, permaculture—as well as grassroots-originated solutions that people in the global south have creatively implemented to adapt and prevent the ecological and social impacts of climate change. Miguel Robles, who started the annual conferences in … Continued	Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater Soil Not Oil Conference @ Grey Area/Grand Theater Sep 11 all-day Tickets This year’s Soil Not Oil Conference has an amazing lineup of keynote speakers including Vandana Shiva, Tom Goldtooth, Miguel A. Altieri, Starhawk, Wenonah Hauter and John Dennis Lu, with dozens of presentations from activists (including ourselves and allies, workshop TBA) working on community-powered solutions to climate change. The conference will showcase agro-ecological practices—regenerative agriculture, no-till/bio-intensive farming, permaculture—as well as grassroots-originated solutions that people in the global south have creatively implemented to adapt and prevent the ecological and social impacts of climate change. Miguel Robles, who started the annual conferences in … Continued
12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm 9:00 am Intertribal Prayer, Teach-in and Direct Action Trainiing @ West Berkeley Shellmound Intertribal Prayer, Teach-in and Direct Action Trainiing @ West Berkeley Shellmound Sep 9 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Please Join us at the Oldest Bay Area Sacred Site that we have been working on saving for the last 2.5 years. Come to lay down prayers, offer songs and learn about the struggle to protect this ancient burial/ceremonial and village site of the Lisjan/Ohlone people. We are asking our Indigenous Sisters and Brothers to add their prayers with ours to protect this sacred place. A direct action training will follow directly after the ceremony. There are many events happening during this week of Global Climate Action and we want … Continued 10:00 am Tours of Greenpeace Activist Ship @ Pier 19, Aboard the Artic Sunrise Tours of Greenpeace Activist Ship @ Pier 19, Aboard the Artic Sunrise Sep 9 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Join Greenpeace on board the Arctic Sunrise in San Francisco and learn about life at sea as an activist, take a guided tour of the Arctic Sunrise, immerse yourself in the history of environmentalism and snap that photo in front of the iconic dove and rainbow on the ship’s bow. Be a part of the 2018 West Coast Ship Tour and learn about how we can all work together to protect our communities, our coasts, and our climate. The Arctic Sunrise is docking for tours through the weekend of the … 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 Sep 9 @ 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 DSA General Membership Meeting @ Omni Commons DSA General Membership Meeting @ Omni Commons Sep 9 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Beginning in September, East Bay DSA will hold general membership meetings (GMs) every month. This is the first such GM. If you intend to come and would like to volunteer (!), or if you have child supervision or accessibility needs, let us know. Finally, the Meetings Committee is seeking members with A/V experience to help with the GMs. Training and subsequent work will not be overwhelming, and it will be an indispensable service to our dear organization. Please write us at meetings-committee@eastbaydsa.org. 64991 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 9 @ 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 6:00 pm Hasta Muerte Movie Night: #PrisonStrike Screening of “Attica” Hasta Muerte Movie Night: #PrisonStrike Screening of “Attica” Sep 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join the Hasta Muerte Movie Night: Prison Strike Screening of “Attica” (1971) Film screening and social! We will be capping off the 2018 Prison Strike with a free screening of “Attica”, a documentary about the prison uprising in the New York that led to a massacre of prisoners following intense state repression to their revolt. ( read more here: https://libcom.org/history/1971-the-attica-prison-uprising) The film screening will be followed by an informal social (we’re currently working on getting some food!), as well as a Q and A session with a person from the Incarcerated … Continued 6:30 pm Grab Your Privilege Like a Bat & Swing It At Racism, Injustice @ Fellowship Hall Grab Your Privilege Like a Bat & Swing It At Racism, Injustice @ Fellowship Hall Sep 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join us for an exciting and inspiring evening with Berkeley-based activist Xan Joi, a self-proclaimed radical anti-racist Jewish and white lesbian feminist and now author. She will share stories and wisdom found in her new book “But What Can I Do?” gained from her experiences driving around the country over 400,000 miles since 9/11 in her veggie-oil powered box truck. Her “radical ride” has mobile billboards emblazoned with large, pointed anti-war, anti-violence, pro-peace, pro-empowerment missives all four sides. Xan shares her stories of engaging in dialogue with both the ‘choir’ … Continued 7:00 pm Liberated Lens screening and panel: People’s Park struggles @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens screening and panel: People’s Park struggles @ Omni Commons Sep 9 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets We will show a couple of shorts from newsreel on People’s Park struggle and have a panel of activists who were involved in the struggle to keep the park and/or are currently involved. 65045	9:00 am Tell the Council to Support the Public Bank of Oakland Tell the Council to Support the Public Bank of Oakland Sep 10 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Oakland needs a public bank! The future Public Bank of Oakland will save our city millions of dollars in bank fees and interest charges. And it will earn millions more every year! It’s the best way to divest from Wall Street and keep our money in Oakland to benefit our community, not private banks’ shareholders. All around the country, the movement for state and municipal public banks is growing rapidly. To find out how public banking works, visit friendsofpublicbankofoakland.org and publicbanking.org. What’s happening now with Public Bank of Oakland? Global … Continued 5:30 pm Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland @ Xolo, back courtyard Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland @ Xolo, back courtyard Sep 10 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets We’ll spend most of the time discussing our strategy for Tuesday morning’s meeting. Other items on the agenda: Introduction of our new social media person (!) Outreach/fundraising report (Leah) Reportback from Sunday’s event (Sylvia) Reportback on California Public Banking Alliance meetings (Susan, etc.)65067 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Sep 10 @ 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 Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library Sep 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Normally we meet on the first Monday of the month, but are meeting a week later in honor of fake Labor Day. The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality. In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice … Continued	12:00 pm Solidarity With Our Unhoused Community @ Oscar Grant Plaza Solidarity With Our Unhoused Community @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 11 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 65030 1:00 pm Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice @ The Green Room Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice @ The Green Room Sep 11 @ 1:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International for a public forum: ‘Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Climate Change.” This free event will be an extraordinary gathering of women leaders from across the United States and around the world, joined in solidarity to speak out against environmental and social injustice, draw attention to root causes of the climate crisis, and present the diverse array of visions and strategies with which they are working to shape a healthy and equitable world. International advocates, … Continued 5:00 pm Tax the Rich Rally and Sing-Along – 7th Anniversary @ In front of old Oaks Theater Tax the Rich Rally and Sing-Along – 7th Anniversary @ In front of old Oaks Theater Sep 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Tax the Rich rally with Occupella sing along 7 Years on Solano Anniversary Celebration Top of Solano in front of closed Oaks Theater,. The very first Tax the Rich Rally was September 12, 2011. Occupy NYC began the following Saturday in 2011. 65069 6:00 pm EBC Prison Mail Night EBC Prison Mail Night Sep 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets EBC 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 EBC’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 Emily@ellabakercenter.org65031	12:00 pm Protest to Stop Financing of Oakland Coal Terminal Protest to Stop Financing of Oakland Coal Terminal Sep 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Come protest the Bank of Montreal’s involvement in financing Oakland’s unwanted coal terminal. We will be demonstrating outside the conference of Principles for Responsible Investment, running concurrently with Global Climate Action Summit. Inside the conference, bankers and investors will be discussing responsible investment. Outside we will be asking why the Bank of Montreal won’t renounce its plan to finance the Oakland coal terminal. The Bank of Montreal has been instrumental in attempting to raise the $$ to finance the proposed coal terminal on the Oakland waterfront. They lobbied to get … Continued 6:00 pm Punks With Lunch Punks With Lunch Sep 12 @ 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 7:00 pm Ars Technica Live: Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission @ Eli's Mile High Club Ars Technica Live: Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission @ Eli's Mile High Club Sep 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In May 2018, Oakland joined a growing number of California cities and counties that are currently passing meaningful surveillance oversight laws. The new law requires that the Privacy Advisory Commission be notified if the city is spending money or seeking outside grant money to be spent on any hardware or software that could potentially impact privacy. Notably, Oakland’s law specifically includes provisions that forbid non-disclosure agreements and protect whistleblowers. Oakland has been at the forefront of local efforts to pass pro-privacy measures for many years now. Back in 2013, after … Continued 7:30 pm America, The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley America, The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley Sep 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets America, The Farewell Tour is a book that should disturb and anger all of us. It is a profoundly sobering, upsetting portrait of our country as it is, not as we wish it to be. The road to taking our country begins with recognizing it for what it is. Chris Hedges shows us in America, The Farewell Tour, a country that should Shame us, a land of rampant and deadly drug addiction, of escape into gambling and pornography, of zenophobic scapegoating – a country where the super rich exploit the poor and vulnerable. … Continued	7:00 am End Climate Capitalism: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations! @ Jesse Square End Climate Capitalism: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations! @ Jesse Square Sep 13 @ 7:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Mass Action: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations! In September, Governor Jerry Brown is convening the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco to promote his “real climate leadership” credentials on a global stage. But Jerry Brown’s promotion of continued fossil fuel production, carbon trading markets and other incentives to oil, gas and other polluting corporations, perpetuates climate change and decimates Indigenous communities and Native nations, communities of color and other working class peoples throughout California and around the world. Such perverse subsidies for “climate capitalism” will turn frontline … Continued 7:00 am Mass Action at the Global Climate Action Summit Mass Action at the Global Climate Action Summit Sep 13 @ 7:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets The It Takes Roots-hosted Solidarity to Solutions Summit is a popular assembly for all progressive social movements to gather, discuss and debate the critical strategies, solutions and proposals for collective action that will tackle the root, systemic causes of capitalism and climate change. The gathering aims to critically examine the neo-liberal, corporate agenda of the Global Climate Action Summit and highlight the democratic, grassroots solutions being cultivated by Indigenous communities, communities of color and working class peoples around the world. This assembly is built on the shared belief that to successfully tackle … Continued 9:00 am No DAC for BART: BART Proposes Facial Recognition Surveillance Dragnet Part 2 @ BART Board Conference Room, 3rd floor, enter behind CVS off Thomas Berkley Way No DAC for BART: BART Proposes Facial Recognition Surveillance Dragnet Part 2 @ BART Board Conference Room, 3rd floor, enter behind CVS off Thomas Berkley Way Sep 13 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets On August 9, BART dropped a multi-million new security dragnet proposal with only three days notice. The Bay Area responded with 2 full hours of passionate public testimony leading to the tabling of 5 components of the plan, including the PSIM information platform and rumors of the possible adoption of facial recognition technology, as mentioned to the press by one BART director. On September 13, part 2 gets underway. After an unannounced and controversial installation of automated license plate readers at Macarthur BART in 2016, BART agreed to adopt a … Continued 10:00 am Eliminate criminal justice administration fees @ Room 255, 2nd Floor, County Admin Bldg Eliminate criminal justice administration fees @ Room 255, 2nd Floor, County Admin Bldg Sep 13 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets the Alameda County Probation Department, Public Defenders Office, and the Sheriff’s Office will testify in front of the Public Protection Committee to urge the adoption of legislation that will eliminate criminal justice administration fees in Alameda County. The East Bay Community Law Center, a legal services provider serving low-income residents in Alameda County, along with the Policy Advocacy Clinic of U.C. Berkeley Law School, Justice Reinvestment Coalition of Alameda County, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the Urban Strategies Council, have been actively advocating for the elimination of these … Continued 3:00 pm San Francisco Public Bank Task Force Meeting @ San Francisco City Hall Room 305 San Francisco Public Bank Task Force Meeting @ San Francisco City Hall Room 305 Sep 13 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets No agenda published yet.65039 6:00 pm Lake Merritt Tuff Shed (Tiny Homes) Village – Community Meeting @ Lake Merritt Methodist Churh Lake Merritt Tuff Shed (Tiny Homes) Village – Community Meeting @ Lake Merritt Methodist Churh Sep 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets New Tuff Shed camp planned for parking lot at Kaiser Convention Center near Lake Merritt. Once open, no camping rule to be enforced by the lake. Community meeting Sept. 13 pic.twitter.com/nCZP3sIebI— Scott Morris (@OakMorr) September 8, 2018 65059 7:00 pm “International Hotel” Film Screening @ Omni Commons “International Hotel” Film Screening @ Omni Commons Sep 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets In 1977 the International Hotel in San Francisco was occupied. A rent strike and struggle ensued over evictions and gentrification. 65046	6:00 pm AROC 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY DINNER @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center AROC 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY DINNER @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center Sep 14 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets SPEAKERS ANGELA DAVIS & NADINE NABER STRENGTH & RESILIENCE: AROC 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF COMMUNITY DEFENSE, MOVEMENT BUILDING & RESISTANCE SPEAKERS Angela Davis Nadine Naber FEATURING DJ Emancipacion Al Juthour Dabke Troupe HONOREES ILWU Local 10 Nancy Hormachea Stop Urban Shield Coalition Teachers 4 Social Justice TICKETS Purchase early bird tickets here! HOST COMMITTEE Alia Ghabra Eyad Kishawi Hassan Fouda Hatem Bazian Johnnie Batarseh Layla Feghali Lily Haskell Liz Derias-Tyehimba Monadel Herzallah Naima Shalhoub Noura Erakat Ramiz Rafeedie Renda Dabit Samer Elbandek Senan Elkhairi Yousef Abudayyeh … Continued	10:00 am 2018 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair @ Omni Commons 2018 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair @ Omni Commons Sep 15 @ 10:00 am – 6:30 pm Tickets The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair is an annual community event bringing together publishers, book sellers, artists and community groups. It is free an open to the public. The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair is an annual event that brings together people interested and engaged in radical work to connect, learn, and discuss through books and information tables, workshops, panel discussions, skillshares, films, and more! We seek to create an inclusive space to introduce new folks to anarchism, foster a productive dialogue between various political traditions as well as anarchists from different … Continued 10:00 am Yes On 10 and Y East Bay Mass Mobilization @ Fruitvale Village (between International and 12th) Yes On 10 and Y East Bay Mass Mobilization @ Fruitvale Village (between International and 12th) Sep 15 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Gentrification, displacement and sky-rocketing rents. We’ve all been talking about it and now its time to DO SOMETHING about it. Proposition 10 is a historic opportunity to take on the biggest barrier to winning for real housing justice with the repeal of the Republican backed 1995 bill the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Backed by corporate landlords and real estate billionaires, the opposition to Prop 10 is raising BIG money to fight us – but WE ARE IN THE MAJORITY and with all of your help we can win! Join … Continued 12:00 pm Intro to DSA Picnic @ Elmhurst Community Prep Intro to DSA Picnic @ Elmhurst Community Prep Sep 15 @ 12:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets It’s 2018 and socialism is ascendant. More and more people are standing up to say that they’ve had enough with a system that puts profit over people, that puts the wealth of the few over the dignity and flourishing of the many. Democratic socialists all over the country are fighting for an improved and expanded Medicare-for-All healthcare system, a federal jobs guarantee, universal rent control, tuition-free public education pre-K through college or trade school, a powerful, militant labor movement, and the abolishment of ICE. We’re winning elections, we’re building explicitly … Continued 2:00 pm Justice for Terry Amons, Jr. @ Pittsburg Police Station Justice for Terry Amons, Jr. @ Pittsburg Police Station Sep 15 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Terry Amons, Jr. was shot and killed by Pittsburg, CA police on January 12, 2018, while eating dinner inside his car outside of Nations Burgers in Pittsburg. We hold the Pittsburg PD responsible for murdering an innocent Black man. Terry’s family deserves justice. Please join Terry’s family to rally together and unite as a collective force against police terror. For those coming from the Oakland area, we will try to help with rides and carpooling. If you’re able to provide a ride or if you need one, please direct message … Continued 9:30 pm Benefit for Decarcerate Alameda County – Top / Rave @ Elbo Room Benefit for Decarcerate Alameda County – Top / Rave @ Elbo Room Sep 15 @ 9:30 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets 65074

Week of September 9

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.