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The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act upholds … Continued 1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition @ ACCE Oakland Justice Coalition @ ACCE Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Our Agenda is as follows: 1PM – Brief introductions and agenda check in 1:15 to 2:30PM – Candidate oral statements and Q & A 2:30PM – Ranked-Choice Voting discussion 3:00PM – Endorsement Vote 3:15PM – Fall Strategy Conversation 4PM – Adjourn65087 1:00 pm Save People’s Park Rally @ People's Park Save People’s Park Rally @ People's Park Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 65006 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets We’re canceling the Sunflower Alliance meeting for November 18th because of the toxic air. Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing eco-campaigns and plans for the future. Newcomers and old friends welcome — we need your participation and your voice. Come early to hang out and share a potluck lunch. Potluck lunch: 12:30 PM 65078 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 23 @ 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 Film Screenings: Dystopia Down Under: Stare Into The Lights My Pretties/iRony @ Omni Commons Film Screenings: Dystopia Down Under: Stare Into The Lights My Pretties/iRony @ Omni Commons Sep 23 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Oakland Privacy Movie Night Come and celebrate the big win at BART at Oakland Privacy’s Movie Night. Two great films from the land down under, free snacks, and a bit about how we’re wiping out secret surveillance across the Bay. Join Oakland Privacy for two award-winning Australian films about our dystopian techno-state. Cosponsored by Liberated Lens Film Collective. Doors open at 5:30pm Program starts at 6pm RSVP iRony, directed by then 19-year old Radheya Jegatheya, is an 8 minute animated film exploring the relationship between human and technology …. told … Continued		6:00 pm POSTPONED: Sex Worker Solidarity: Come Out & Speak Against Bad Laws in Oakland @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza POSTPONED: Sex Worker Solidarity: Come Out & Speak Against Bad Laws in Oakland @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 25 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. THE ITEM WILL NOT BE TAKEN UP BY THE COUNCIL THIS DAY. Council Person Abel Guillen is proposing the Nordic Model for East Oakland otherwise known as End Demand legislation. The law would target clients, thereby creating a smaller pool of paying clients. This is the last thing we need while we are reeling from FOSTA/SESTA. Every time this kind of bad legislation is put into law, anywhere in the world, it causes more violence against sex workers and unsafe working conditions. We need folks … Continued	6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Sep 26 @ 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 6:45 pm Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Movement Strategy Center Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Movement Strategy Center Sep 26 @ 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 NEVER SURRENDER PEOPLE”S PARK! @ Art House Gallery NEVER SURRENDER PEOPLE”S PARK! @ Art House Gallery Sep 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Please attend! Tell people. Spread the word. Challenge this. UC must not be allowed to expand at the expense of rising rents and to displace homeless people!!! This year they admitted 2000 more students into a city that already has a huge affordable housing shortage! Are they manipulating the market just to KEEP RENTS HIGH? People’s Park Project – An overview & planning steps for development presented by Ruben Lizardo, Director of UC’s Government & Community Relations You’re invited to the Le Conte Neighborhood Association meeting: People’s Park Project – … Continued 7:00 pm Organizing in the Gone City: Tech & the Dark Side of Prosperity Organizing in the Gone City: Tech & the Dark Side of Prosperity Sep 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets ORGANIZING IN THE GONE CITY A conversation with Dick Walker on his latest book, Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area Join LeftRoots and the The Center for Political Education for an evening with radical geographer Dick Walker. He will be joined by on-the-ground organizers against gentrification, displacement, and exploitation by the tech industry in the Bay Area, including: • Vanessa Moses, of Causa Justa Just Cause • Alex Tom, of Chinese Progressive Association • Divya Sundar, of ASATA – Alliance of South Asians Taking Action … Continued	9:00 am Make AB 617 Really Work for Impacted Communities @ Byron Sher Auditorium Make AB 617 Really Work for Impacted Communities @ Byron Sher Auditorium Sep 27 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets The California Air Resources Board takes testimony this week on the new state Community Emissions Reduction Program, established by Assembly Bill 617. The CARB board will decide whether to adopt their staff’s “blueprint,” and will set the communities receiving emissions reduction plans and requirements for the first year. Your important testimony could make all the difference between a weak, inequitable program and one that lives up to its promise. Ask the Board to include a longer list of communities receiving a Community Emission Reduction Plan, adding Richmond, East Oakland, Southeast Los Angeles, … Continued 5:00 pm No DAC For BART – The Suburban Meeting @ Pittsburg City Hall No DAC For BART – The Suburban Meeting @ Pittsburg City Hall Sep 27 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets On September 13, BART unanimously adopted a surveillance transparency ordinance, the 6th Bay Area entity to do so and the first transit agency in the country. Thanks to you, there will be no more secret surveillance on BART. But BART still has plans for enhanced security and has scheduled a meeting in the suburbs. What BART does affects all of its riders, so your voice should be heard – even if they make you travel a long way to do it. Pittsburg City Hall, to be exact. Free shuttle from … Continued 6:30 pm Beer and Roses: DSA Labor Social @ Telegraph Beer Garden Beer and Roses: DSA Labor Social @ Telegraph Beer Garden Sep 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join 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 East Bay DSA Labor Committee, and learn how you can get involved! 65079	6:00 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting @ Omni Commons Sep 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance: Regional meeting of landless activists of the San Francisco Bay Area65092 7:00 pm Futbolistas 4 Life @ EastSide Arts Alliance Futbolistas 4 Life @ EastSide Arts Alliance Sep 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Futbolistas 4 Life takes you into the lives of two Oakland high schoolers: One is a college hopeful and DACA applicant who’s navigating the reality of his immigration status, and the other is an American citizen who lives in fear that her undocumented parents may be deported. These youth take solace in the game of soccer that lets them, if only for a moment, put their worries on the sidelines. The film also features the fighting spirit of their coach Dania – a former professional soccer player. At a time … Continued 7:00 pm Ray McGovern and Emma’s Revolution! Ray McGovern and Emma’s Revolution! Sep 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years, is a founding member of VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) and an erudite critic of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Ray will speak on the “Russia thing”, the situation in Syria, Gaza, Julian Assange, and more. Dennis Bernstein, host of KPFA’s “Flashpoints”, will M.C. Emma’s Revolution will join us with their gorgeous soul-stirring music and will be joined by the CODEPINK Chorus. CODEPINK dessert benefit (homemade pie and treats), Emma’s CDs and t-shirts. Sponsored by CODEPINK and the BFUU Social Justice Committee.65103	11:00 am Rally To Legalize Psychedelic Medicine & Nude Love Parade @ SF City Hall Rally To Legalize Psychedelic Medicine & Nude Love Parade @ SF City Hall Sep 29 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Psychedelics are non-addictive, mind-altering plant-based medicines that do not harm the human body and pose no danger when consumed in safe conditions and within reasonable dosage. The most known psychedelics are psilocybin (magic mushrooms), LSD, MDMA (ecstasy), DMT, ayahuasca, ibogaine, 5-MeO-DMT or Bufo Alvaris (frog medicine), salvia devinorum. Psychedelic medicine has been used mostly underground to successfully cure PTSD, depression, different types of headaches, addiction to hard drugs and pharmaceuticals, autism, as well as an array of other mental and emotional conditions. Despite their tremendous healing properties, most psychedelics are … Continued 2:30 pm Richmond Progressive Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Richmond Progressive Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sep 29 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets RPA fall membership meeting (a big one) Please mark your calendars for the quarterly RPA membership meeting. Since the election is just around the corner, it is going to be a big meeting – not only will we be talkiing about critical election stuff, including voting on school board endorsements; but there will be important business to conduct, such as formally incorporating the RPA as a 501c4 organization. (Don’t know that that is? We’ll explain what it is and why it’s important!)65084 7:00 pm Buffalo Field Campaign Roadshow @ Ecology Center Buffalo Field Campaign Roadshow @ Ecology Center Sep 29 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets A Night for the Buffalo: This very special event features storytelling and video straight from the field, from the land of the buffalo with Buffalo Field Campaign co-founder Mike Mease, along with Native Music from Mignon Geli and Karaj. The Campaign works to end the slaughter of the last of the wild herds of buffalo, in West Yellowstone, Montana. BFC uses video documentation, non-violent direct action, education and lobbying to change archaic laws targeting buffalo. Volunteers from around the world spend every day, from sunrise to sunset, monitoring and documenting … Continued

Week of September 23

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.