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All-day			7th Anniversary of Occupy Oakland: The Takeover of Oscar Grant Plaza. @ Everywhere 7th Anniversary of Occupy Oakland: The Takeover of Oscar Grant Plaza. @ Everywhere Oct 10 all-day Tickets 65146			Revolutionary University @ South Berkeley Senior Center Revolutionary University @ South Berkeley Senior Center Oct 13 all-day Tickets Join us for three days of presentations and discussions to help us understand our current conditions and the problems we face under capitalism. Most importantly, we will talk about the kind of organizing necessary in order to change these conditions and create the kind of society that we need. Friday 10/12 6:30pm-9:00pm Attica – a documentary film by Cinda Firestone This film documents the events that began on September 9, 1971 when inmates at Attica State Prison seized the prison for four days after months of protesting inhumane conditions. The … 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 10:00 am RESILIENCE FOR RENTERS: GROW YOUR OWN FOOD @ EcoHouse RESILIENCE FOR RENTERS: GROW YOUR OWN FOOD @ EcoHouse Oct 7 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Resilience for Renters: Grow Your Own Food WHAT: Growing your own food is a key resilience strategy lowers your grocery bills, makes healthier eating easy and fun, and helps combat climate change! No yard? No extra money? No problem! In this hands-on workshop at our lush outdoor classroom, you will learn many ways to grow food as a renter. Instructor Lori Caldwell, a long-time renter herself, will demonstrate creative solutions and cover topics such as: Container gardening, indoors and outside Vertical gardening (hanging pots and peats, pallets and trellises) From … Continued 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Oct 7 @ 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 Detention To Freedom – Reunited Families Speak! @ KEHILLA COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE Detention To Freedom – Reunited Families Speak! @ KEHILLA COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE Oct 7 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets FROM DETENTION TO FREEDOM-REUNITED FAMILIES SPEAK! Join us for a community celebration of the past 7+ years of Interfaith Prayer Vigils at WCDF with people who have been freed and come home, and the Joyful Noise! Gospel Singers, a nonprofit community choir dedicated to social justice and human rights. www.joyfulnoisegospelsingers.org65111 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 7 @ 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	7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oct 8 @ 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	7:30 pm Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China @ Pegasus Bookstore Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China @ Pegasus Bookstore Oct 9 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Fan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China. In conversation with Li Wen. What is the meaning of the thousands of strikes in China? Do these strikes add up to a “labor movement”? How can solidarity between Chinese and American workers be built? Countering the popular myth that Chinese workers are “stealing American jobs,” Striking to Survive documents a recent wave of factory closures in China’s Pearl River Delta and struggles by workers there to hold onto their jobs, their pensions, and their livelihoods. The struggles of these workers … Continued	6:00 pm Holding the Sheriff to account Holding the Sheriff to account Oct 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Contra Costa Racial Justice Coalition will host Aaron Zisser, a civil rights lawyer who served as Independent Police Auditor in San Jose. As IPA, Zisser reviewed internal investigations of alleged officer misconduct and issued policy recommendations. He served in this role for about a year before an intense political campaign, waged by the police union, forced him out. South Bay police accountability activists believe that the campaign against Zisser was the police union’s way to trying to put the brakes on efforts to give the Auditor more powers to … Continued 6:30 pm “Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary” Book Launch @ North Gate Hall Library, UC Berkeley “Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary” Book Launch @ North Gate Hall Library, UC Berkeley Oct 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Editors Mateo Hoke (’14) & Taylor Pendergrass discuss their new oral history collection, SIX BY TEN: STORIES FROM SOLITARY, with narrator Mohammed “Mike” Ali. Featuring a reading and Q&A with Mateo, Taylor, and Mohammed, as well as a journalistic reversal in which Mohammed will interview the editors. This event is hosted by the Berkeley Oral History Center and is co-sponsored by Voice of Witness, Haymarket Books and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. About the book Six by ten feet. That’s the average size of the cell in which … Continued 7:00 pm Building the Movement for Mutual Aid @ Omni Commons Building the Movement for Mutual Aid @ Omni Commons Oct 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We’re so excited to have Mutual Aid Disaster Relief stop in Oakland during their West Coast tour! Come hear about MADR’s work including their formation during Hurricane Katrina, solidarity efforts in Puerto Rico, and all the way to their current training program. This evening will be an introductory presentation: “Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism.” Free admission – all are welcome! This event is in OMNI’s Ballroom which has wheelchair accessibility. Posters from Beehive Collective and other merch will be on sale as a fundraiser for the … Continued	6:00 am Strike Support for Unite HERE 2850 against Oakland Marriott City Center @ Oakland Marriott City Center Strike Support for Unite HERE 2850 against Oakland Marriott City Center @ Oakland Marriott City Center Oct 11 @ 6:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Our Unite HERE 2850 brothers and sisters are on strike against the Oakland Marriot City Center as part of their national strike along with more than 8,000 Marriott workers from San Francisco, San Jose, Boston and Seattle. Local 2850 represents East Bay’s hotel and restaurant workers union who is saying, _“One job should be enough”_ — enough for workers at the richest and biggest hotel company in the world. Wei-Ling Huber, President Local 2850 says, _”Our workers have been uplifted and empowered by the amazing support of IATSE 107, IOUE … Continued 7:00 pm Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) Night @ Omni Commons Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) Night @ Omni Commons Oct 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform. Imagine if Facebook or Twitter was run by its users, could be extended by anyone, offered cryptographic security, and required no centralized infrastructure! Come by and learn more about SSB, ask questions, get set up on one of the several client programs, and be free from oppressive centralized social networks. Read more at https://www.scuttlebutt.nz65165 7:30 pm Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back @ Pegasus Bookstore Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back @ Pegasus Bookstore Oct 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Katya Cengel discusses Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back. “Exiled” traces the story of violence through three generations of Cambodian-Americans by profiling a handful of families. It begins with the grandparents, the elderly who will soon be too old to tell their stories of survival. The violence they endured is recognized as the most brutal, a genocide that killed an estimated 20 percent of the Cambodian population. In Cambodia, the criminals have never fully been brought to justice and the victims remain largely silent. The silence is the … Continued 7:30 pm The Dark Shadow of Tech on the S.F. Bay Area @ First Congregational Church The Dark Shadow of Tech on the S.F. Bay Area @ First Congregational Church Oct 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets advance tickets: $12 : Books Inc (Berkeley), Pegasus Books (3 sites), Moes, Walden Pond Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloways. East Bay Books, $15 door, KPFA benefit. Cary McClelland is a writer, filmmaker, lawyer, and rights advocate. His book is an eye-opening portrait of San Francisco transformed by the tech boom. Famously home to artists and activists, the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movementin recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley, the engine of the new American economy. The richer the region gets, … Continued	5:30 pm Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno. Film Screening. @ Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno. Film Screening. @ Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union Oct 12 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Film screening followed by Q+A with Director Laurie Coyle and Maria Moreno’s daughters, Olivia Portugal and Lily DeLa Torre In Adios Amor, the discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot — Maria Moreno, a migrant mother driven to speak out by her twelve children’s hunger. She was the first farmworker woman in America to be hired as a union organizer and became an outspoken leader in an era when women were relegated to the background. In 1961, UC Berkeley students invited farmworker labor leader … Continued 6:00 pm Attica – a Documentary film. Part of Revolutionary University. @ South Berkeley Senior Center Attica – a Documentary film. Part of Revolutionary University. @ South Berkeley Senior Center Oct 12 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Attica – a documentary film by Cinda Firestone This film documents the events that began on September 9, 1971 when inmates at Attica State Prison seized the prison for four days after months of protesting inhumane conditions. The uprising resulted in the death of 43 people after state troopers were called in to put down the rebellion This event is the opening night of a three day Revolutionary University Join us for three days of presentations and discussions to help us understand our current conditions and the problems we face … Continued 6:00 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting @ Omni Commons Oct 12 @ 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 Movies Under the Stars: Labor Film Classics @ National Nursed United HQ Movies Under the Stars: Labor Film Classics @ National Nursed United HQ Oct 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets 65085	1:00 pm Organizing for Effective Police Oversight – Berkeley @ Media Center Organizing for Effective Police Oversight – Berkeley @ Media Center Oct 13 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets The situation with the lack police accountability in Berkeley has become critical. At this point, the police and their union have been able to compel the city to continue its participation in the Urban Shield military style exercises, scuttle the proposal for an empowered police commission and extract a 9% raise for their already well paid officers. Despite the known dangers of cyber stalking, we have seen BPD tweet out the identities of anti-fascist protestors and secretly record police stops and then leak the information to the press as a … Continued 2:00 pm Learning Club: No Wall They Can Build @ Omni Commons Learning Club: No Wall They Can Build @ Omni Commons Oct 13 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The tech industry has been shaken by calls from workers at companies including Microsoft, Amazon, and Salesforce to stop collaborating with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The outrage, sparked by stories of children being brutally separated from their parents, led many to call for the abolition of ICE. What would it take to abolish ICE? What is leading so many people to seek refuge in the US in the first place? In solidarity with those impacted by the actions of this agency, we must not only call to abolish ICE … Continued 3:00 pm Sanctuary City – Active Hope @ BFUU Sanctuary City – Active Hope @ BFUU Oct 13 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets In October, Berkeley may become the 2nd city, following Richmond, to cut municipal contracts with ICE data brokers. The Sanctuary City Contracting ordinance, which ends city business with companies that send information to ICE, will be in front of the City Council in the town where sanctuary was born. Berkeley’s Federation of Unitarian Universalists will talk about it, along with many other social justice efforts, at Active Hope. Talks: Action Updates Tracy Rosenberg/ Sanctuary City ordinance Shahid Buttar/Kavanaugh Susan Harman/ Public Bank David Peattie, Steve Murphy/ Indivisible Berkeley Economic Justice … Continued 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Oct 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 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. Relieving Medical Debt through … Continued

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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.