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FREE – but hat will be passed for donations to NPML About Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library A weekly discussion series inspired by our respect for the work of Karl Marx and our belief that his work will remain as … Continued 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Oct 21 @ 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 1:00 pm Supplies for The Village Dropoff @ Omni Commons Supplies for The Village Dropoff @ Omni Commons Oct 21 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets You can drop donations for our winter supply drive off at Omni Commons (4799 Shattuck) today bet 1-4pm. Help us and the folx we serve gear up for colder months ahead. pic.twitter.com/GdYe3C2kI6— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) October 21, 2018 65202 3:00 pm Zionist Lawfare and the Boycott Movement: Solidarity and Resistance in the Trump Era Zionist Lawfare and the Boycott Movement: Solidarity and Resistance in the Trump Era Oct 21 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets This event focuses on the attack on the academic boycott and BDS movement, including the recent lawsuit targeting members of USACBI (US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) in the context of broader right-wing and Zionist repression, including of student activists such as GUPS at San Francisco State. The speakers will also discuss the campaign. National Lawyers Guild – SFBA Chapter \| 558 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 65089 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 21 @ 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	6:30 pm Capitalism: Six Part Documentary Series @ Oakland Peace Center Capitalism: Six Part Documentary Series @ Oakland Peace Center Oct 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Movie Trailer: https://youtu.be/lXyMwgGT6yg 6:30 PM – Introduction 6:40 PM – Film Screening 7:40 PM – Discussion 8:30 PM – Closing Please bring snacks and other things to share if you can!!! The economic system of capitalism has undermined democracies throughout the world, created huge income disparities, wrecked our ecosystem and isolated us from our own communities. Yet very few people truly understand its roots. This six-part documentary series from Icarus Films is an ambitious but accessible series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have … Continued 7:00 pm Stop the Deportation of Berkeley’s Benavides-Pineda Family @ Barrows Hall, Room 175, UC Berkeley Stop the Deportation of Berkeley’s Benavides-Pineda Family @ Barrows Hall, Room 175, UC Berkeley Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join us to her the Benavides-Pineda family speak of their experience in their fight against deportation and for citizenship rights. Also, we will draw lessons from the victories we’ve had, the challenges we now face and also the opportunities.65179 7:00 pm The Legacy of 1968: Global to Local with Activist-scholars @ Moe's Books The Legacy of 1968: Global to Local with Activist-scholars @ Moe's Books Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Mat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books, Sex, Death & the Angry Young Man, Testimony, and The Trouble with Music, editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook, and The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975. He currently resides in Bern, Switzerland. George Katsiaficas lives in Gwangju, South Korea, and in Ocean Beach, California. A student of Herbert Marcuse, he is the author of The Subversion … Continued	11:00 am Press Conference – UN Report on Homelessness @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre Press Conference – UN Report on Homelessness @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre Oct 23 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Press Conference For Immediate Release Bay Area Curbside Communities Respond To UN Special Report On Homelessness Naming Oakland, San Francisco As Human Rights Violators On October 19th, the United Nations Special Rapporteur to the Right to Adequate Housing, Lelani Farha, released her new report documenting the “global scandal” of homeless encampments. In January of 2017, Farha spent time in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California to meet with unhoused residents and housed advocates and described the conditions as “cruel and inhumane”. The only U.S. cities explicitly called out … Continued 12:00 pm East Bay DSA Stands With UC Workers on Strike! @ Sproul Plaza, Bancroft & Telegraph East Bay DSA Stands With UC Workers on Strike! @ Sproul Plaza, Bancroft & Telegraph Oct 23 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets On October 23, more than 35,000 University of California workers across the state will be walking off the job! Pickets will happen all day at Sproul Plaza on October 23 through 25. We are particularly encouraging people to show up for a rally at noon on Tuesday, October 23. Patient care workers from AFSCME 3299 — backed up with a solidarity strike by other AFSCME service workers and UPTE technical workers — are demanding improvements on wages and working conditions, no cutbacks on benefits, and an end to management’s weaponization … Continued 2:30 pm Court Support: Pack the Courtroom for Whole Foods Suit! Court Support: Pack the Courtroom for Whole Foods Suit! Oct 23 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets COURTROOM SUPPORT NEEDED! On September 19th, Wayne Hsiung and DxE were served with a lawsuit from Whole Foods asking for a restraining order and monetary damages because of our protests. On September 21st, there was a hearing for a temporary restraining order. Whole Foods asked for all of DxE to be banned from all of its California stores. Luckily, the judge only granted a restraining order for the Telegraph location, where we had a successful week of protest anyway, ending in a historic action at a factory farm in Petaluma … Continued 5:00 pm Environmental Justice Panel: A Dialogue About Racial Disparities @ UC Berkeley Multicultural Center, 220 MLK Jr. Student Union Environmental Justice Panel: A Dialogue About Racial Disparities @ UC Berkeley Multicultural Center, 220 MLK Jr. Student Union Oct 23 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets As part of Climate Justice Week, the Student Environmental Resource Center at UC Berkeley (SERC) is sponsoring a panel on environmental racism featuring two very powerful warriors for environmental justice. Join them for an evening of critical dialogue surrounding race and its intersection with social justice within the environmental movement. Both environmental degradation and benefits are distributed among racial and socioeconomic lines: toxic environmental racism works alongside the structural violence of poverty. Yet, these forms of violence receive little to no exposure or priority in the environmental movement, which only … Continued	8:00 am Protest Homeless Evictions @ 12th St. remainder parcel Protest Homeless Evictions @ 12th St. remainder parcel Oct 24 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Update: Eviction action by City was called off today after people showed up. But: #oakmtg We have received information the city WILL return tomorrow to evict. We anticipate more force, more aggression from the government, more cops. If you can be here before 8am, please do. Historically they don’t come before 8am, but we are in new territory here. — Jesse A.J. Smith 4 Oakland Mayor (@OakSmith2018) October 24, 2018 #Oakland! Unhoused activist Nino Parker, who lives here, is asking for as many people as possible to come down by … Continued	8:00 am Protest Homeless Evictions @ 12th St. remainder parcel Protest Homeless Evictions @ 12th St. remainder parcel Oct 25 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Update: Eviction action by City was called off today after people showed up. But: #oakmtg We have received information the city WILL return tomorrow to evict. We anticipate more force, more aggression from the government, more cops. If you can be here before 8am, please do. Historically they don’t come before 8am, but we are in new territory here. — Jesse A.J. Smith 4 Oakland Mayor (@OakSmith2018) October 24, 2018 #Oakland! Unhoused activist Nino Parker, who lives here, is asking for as many people as possible to come down by … Continued 6:00 pm Gender and Race in the 2018 Elections – Wellstone Club Meeting and Talk @ Humanist Hall Gender and Race in the 2018 Elections – Wellstone Club Meeting and Talk @ Humanist Hall Oct 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets “Gender and Race in the 2018 Elections” Carroll Fife Oakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment(ACCE) Black Lives Matter Carole Joffe Prof of Ob/Gyn at UCSF; Pro-Choice Activist potluck at 6PM; meeting at 6:45PM please bring something to share 65177 6:30 pm Beer and Roses: DSA Labor Social @ Blind Tiger Beer and Roses: DSA Labor Social @ Blind Tiger Oct 25 @ 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! For more event information: http://www.eastbaydsa.org65186 7:00 pm Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) Night @ Omni Commons Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) Night @ Omni Commons Oct 25 @ 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 7:00 pm Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary @ WOLFMAN BOOKS Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary @ WOLFMAN BOOKS Oct 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us for a night of readings with Voice of Witness, a non-profit human rights organization in the Mission who publishes oral histories of human rights abuses. With a new book releasing this October with Haymarket Books, 6 x 10 —Voices from Solitary. This will be an event with author Mateo Hoke and a few of the narrators from the book centered around experience and mass incarceration throughout the US and beyond. Press Release Below: “Six by Ten is a deeply moving and profoundly unsettling wake-up call for all citizens. … Continued	10:00 am Stop Trump’s Child Separation and Indefinite Family Detention Policies! @ Berkeley YWCA Stop Trump’s Child Separation and Indefinite Family Detention Policies! @ Berkeley YWCA Oct 26 @ 10:00 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Shut down the concentration camps! Free all immigrant detainees! No ban, no wall, sactuary for all! 10:00 AM : Teach-In 12:00 Noon : Youth Speak Out and March from Krober Hall Plaza (Bancroft & College).65180 6:00 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting @ Omni Commons Oct 26 @ 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 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets 65085 7:30 pm Venezuela Under Siege: Challenges from Within and Without Venezuela Under Siege: Challenges from Within and Without Oct 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets National Speaking Tour: Steve Ellner. Ellner has taught economic history in Venezuela since 1977. He is the author of numerous books and journal and magazine articles on Venezuelan history and politics. His most recent book: The Pink Tide Experiences: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings in 21st Century Latin America. Campaign to end US and Canada Sanctions Against Venezuela.65175	9:00 am Wash House Free Laundry Event @ Poppy's Bubble Wash Wash House Free Laundry Event @ Poppy's Bubble Wash Oct 27 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Luxe Laundromat Free Laundry Events will offer free laundry to the community. If you or someone you know is in need please reach out to our page and leave your contact information. Anyone can come and help support by volunteering. The event will include live music,food and prizes.65145 11:00 am Everyone Eats! 2018! @ Mosswood Park Everyone Eats! 2018! @ Mosswood Park Oct 27 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets What if we all realized food isn’t as scarce as we’ve been led to believe? YOU are cordially invited to a FREE community potluck-style picnic where everyone is truly welcome! If the people of Oakland showed up to feed our neighbors with what we could, we would see that there is enough for EVERYONE! Come enjoy the day with your neighbors! Offer rides to your unhoused neighbors! Bring a side dish if you can! Bring plates or cups! Bring your favorite dessert! Bring your friends! Bring your neighbors! Or just … Continued

Week of October 21

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.