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All-day Internet Archive Hackathon – Oakland Privacy Presenting. @ Internet Archives Internet Archive Hackathon – Oakland Privacy Presenting. @ Internet Archives Nov 11 all-day Tickets 2018 SAN FRANCISCO – HACKATHON & EVENING EVENT SCHEDULE TICKETS HERE SATURDAY: 11:00 am -Doors Open 11:30 am – Welcome to Aaron Swartz Day – Introduction by Lisa Rein Noon – Internet Archive Updates: “New at the Internet Archive” Tracey Jaquith (TV/News Archive) & Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) Audience Q & A. Internet Q & A. 12:45 pm – The Decentralized Web and the Dat Project– Danielle Robinson, PhD (Co-Executive Director, Code for Science and Society) & Karissa McKelvey (Digital Democracy, Open Source Developer) Danielle and Karissa will explain exactly what the “open source decentralized web” is and how it can … 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 1:00 pm DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons Nov 11 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets East Bay DSA’s general meetings (GMs) are held on the second Sunday of each month. These meetings are the highest governing body of our organization and include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more. Volunteering at the GM is lively, easy, and low-commitment, and hugely benefits the meetings and thus our internal democracy. If you intend to come and would like to volunteer (!), let us know. Use this form, too, if you have child supervision or accessibility needs, including the need for an ASL interpreter. … Continued 2:00 pm EAST BAY PEACE ACTION @ Fred Weaver Residence Center, St. Paul’s Tower EAST BAY PEACE ACTION @ Fred Weaver Residence Center, St. Paul’s Tower Nov 11 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets East Bay Peace Action invites you to their annual gathering featuring Eric See presenting a post-election analysis. This event takes place Sunday, November 11th at 2:00pm at the Fred Weaver Residence Center, St. Paul’s Tower, at 100 Bay Place in Oakland. 65240 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Nov 11 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 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 the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM … Continued 5:00 pm Green Sunday: An Assessment of the November 2018 Elections: A Bang or a Whimper? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday: An Assessment of the November 2018 Elections: A Bang or a Whimper? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Nov 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets The next Green Sunday forum will come less than a week after election day in what has proven to be one of the most contentious and emotional electoral cycles (and related political turmoil) in recent memory. Come participate in an evaluation of not only the results, but of the implications for our ongoing fight for independent politics and for a range of policies and struggles which might follow in their wake. This discussion will examine our local electoral efforts, as well as what occurred on a regional, state and national … Continued 5:30 pm StopCVE: Race Islamophobia Mass Incarceration in Alameda County @ Lighthouse Mosque StopCVE: Race Islamophobia Mass Incarceration in Alameda County @ Lighthouse Mosque Nov 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office applied for and received a grant targeting incarcerated Black Muslims in Alameda County, according to the East Bay Express. The Homeland Security CVE, or Countering Violent Extremism program, has been criticized for solely targeting Muslims as susceptible to violence and extremism, while not addressing the rising threat of white supremacists. The “#StopCVE: Race, Islamophobia, Policing and Mass Incarceration in Alameda County” panel will discuss the CVE grant program, how the “E Pluribus Unum” project in Alameda County came to be, history of surveillance of Muslims, … Continued	7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Nov 12 @ 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	2:00 pm Stop the Eviction of Homeless Women at #HousingAndDignityVillage: Court Support @ Federal Building, Courtroom 2, 4th floor Stop the Eviction of Homeless Women at #HousingAndDignityVillage: Court Support @ Federal Building, Courtroom 2, 4th floor Nov 13 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets SAVE THE DATE: we need court support on Tuesday, 11/13, when a federal judge will hear our case against the eviction regime of Mayor Libby Schaaf and her Homelessness Czar Joe DeVries. This will be at 2 PM, at the Oakland Federal Courthouse, 1301 Clay St, Oakland CA 94612. — The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) November 11, 2018 Thanks to community members holding it down we were able to resist our eviction this weekend, but we’re still fighting for a court order to keep #HousingandDignityVillagethriving. Pack the court TUESDAY @ 2pm … Continued 6:00 pm Bay Area Labor Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice @ International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21 Bay Area Labor Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice @ International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21 Nov 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Building on the strong labor contingent in the September 8 march for climate, jobs, and justice, Bay Area labor activists and allies are continuing to meet to talk about next steps. The next meeting will discuss whether to establish a Bay Area chapter of Labor Network for Sustainability and how to best go forward to shape labor’s response to climate change. Food will be provided. Pot luck contributions are welcome but not required. PLEASE RSVP to make sure there’s enough food for everyone. 65285 6:00 pm How Game Apps Collect Children’s Data @ ICSI, 6th Floor How Game Apps Collect Children’s Data @ ICSI, 6th Floor Nov 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Please join us at Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), where Serge Egelman will share his research on how game apps have been collecting kids data. Serge’s work has been covered by the New York Times and Washington Post. Serge’s team examined more than 5000 of the most popular kids apps and more than 50% appear to be failing to protect kids privacy. Serge Egelman is the Research Director of Usable Security and Privacy at ICSI and is a returning Privacy Lab speaker. ICSI will host us at 1947 Center Street in Berkeley … Continued	6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Nov 14 @ 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 7:00 pm No Coal in Richmond Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center No Coal in Richmond Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Nov 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Photo: KPIX News Join Richmond community activists to discuss initiatives to stop the export of coal from Richmond’s Levin Terminal. Get updated on the various connected efforts to make Richmond coal-free: implementing air monitoring under AB 617, maintaining momentum with the Richmond City Council, and developing a bulletproof anti-coal ordinance. Learn how you can help monitor the coal trains that are leaking their toxic load throughout Richmond’s residential neighborhoods, and find out how activists in Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo are coming together to just say no to coal. … Continued	11:45 am Stop Insuring Climate Change @ Hilton Stop Insuring Climate Change @ Hilton Nov 15 @ 11:45 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Insurance companies are supposed to protect us from catastrophic risks. Yet when it comes to climate change, the largest threat to humanity, U.S. insurance companies are doing the exact opposite. With their massive investments in fossil fuel companies and insuring of drilling and mining projects, the U.S. insurance industry is making a terrible problem worse. This has to stop. Hundreds of lobbyists for the U.S. insurance industry are coming to downtown San Francisco for a convention. Join us at lunch time to send them a message: Insure Our Future—Stop Insuring … Continued 12:00 pm SAVE PEOPLE’S PARK RALLY @ Mario Savio Steps, Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley SAVE PEOPLE’S PARK RALLY @ Mario Savio Steps, Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley Nov 15 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Tell UC: Hands Off Our Park! Protect Our Green Space, Trees, Community, History, Free Speech, Social Justice, Civil Rights, Powe Gardens, Music, Art, Style, Freebox, Recreation, the 65248 7:30 pm The Iran Agenda Today: The Real Story Inside Iran and What’s Wrong with US Policy @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley The Iran Agenda Today: The Real Story Inside Iran and What’s Wrong with US Policy @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley Nov 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Based on frequent, first-hand reporting in Iran and the United States, The Iran Agenda Today explores the turbulent recent history between the two countries and reveals how it has led to a misguided showdown over nuclear technology. Foreign correspondent Reese Erlich notes that all the major U.S. intelligence agencies agree Iran has not had a nuclear weapons program since at least 2003. He explores why Washington nonetheless continues saber rattling, and he provides a detailed critique of mainstream media coverage of Iran. The book further details the popular protests that have rocked … Continued	6:00 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance General Meeting @ Omni Commons Nov 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance: Regional meeting of landless activists of the San Francisco Bay Area65092 6:00 pm Film Screening, “Human Flow” Directed by Artist Ai Weiwei @ Revolution Books Film Screening, “Human Flow” Directed by Artist Ai Weiwei @ Revolution Books Nov 16 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 65 million people worldwide are fleeing war, ethnic cleansing, environmental catastrophe. Filmed in 23 countries over two years, the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei brings to life the immense human scale of the worldwide refugee crisis. The film’s aerial photography shows the destruction of Mosul by the U.S. in Iraq, sub-Saharan Africa where 26 percent of the world’s refugees are located, the vast network of permanent camps in the Middle East, and the open-air prison of Gaza and the U.S.-Mexican border. Ai Weiwei gives voice to the people living through … Continued 7:00 pm Eyewitness Mexico: Report & Video from Refugee Caravan Eyewitness Mexico: Report & Video from Refugee Caravan Nov 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets A team of journalists from Liberation News traveled to Mexico in early Nov. to document the refugee caravan. Thousands of mainly Honduran families walking thousands of miles to the U.S. border are fleeing incredible violence and poverty in their home country as a direct result of decades of U.S. exploitation and intervention in the region. These increased hardships stem directly from the 2009 U.S.-backed coup in Honduras that ousted the democratically-elected progressive leader Manuel Zelaya installing a rightwing puppet government and unleashing widespread violence throughout the country. Join us for … Continued	11:30 am SOLAR SIMPLIFIED @ Ecology Center SOLAR SIMPLIFIED @ Ecology Center Nov 17 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Are you thinking about going solar – tapping the sun for your energy needs? But you have so many questions, you don’t know where to start? Solar Simplified will provide a strong foundation for your decision-making. Solar is more accessible and affordable than ever, and the industry is rapidly changing. Solar expert Doug McKenzie will discuss the latest solar products, rebates, and technologies, plus the factors that are advancing or limiting the future of solar in the US. Presentation followed by Q&A, so bring your questions! Topics include: Why: The environmental and … Continued 12:00 pm CANCELLED: People Get Ready: Charting a path forward to building powerful movements and the radical left @ Dwinelle Hall Room, UC Berkeley CANCELLED: People Get Ready: Charting a path forward to building powerful movements and the radical left @ Dwinelle Hall Room, UC Berkeley Nov 17 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets We are disappointed to relay that dangerous air quality in the Bay Area has compelled us to cancel the People Get Ready II Conference, which was scheduled to take place tomorrow, Saturday November 17th.#climatechange #californiafires pic.twitter.com/qUfeAkaskK— CPE (@Center4PE) November 17, 2018 PEOPLE GET READY IS NEXT WEEK! PRE-REGISTER NOW! The People Get Ready II planning committee has been hard at work to make November 17 a powerful gathering for learning and discussion. This one day conference is aimed at assessing the post-midterm terrain and charting a path forward to building … Continued 3:00 pm Free Workshop: Divest from War and Fossil Fuels @ Berkeley South Library Free Workshop: Divest from War and Fossil Fuels @ Berkeley South Library Nov 17 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Align your money with your values– stop funding war and fossil fuels! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-workshop-on-divesting-from-weapons-fossil-fuels-tickets-49846056898 Free Workshop to help you align your money with your values, break up with your Wall Street bank (Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citibank, Chase, etc.), and divest from investments in fossil fuels and weapons. Join the growing movement for a “Peace Economy” and withdraw financial support from the War Economy. Optional: Bring your laptop or other wi-fi-enabled device for a hands-on experience. Learn to: Identify local banks and credit unions where you can move your money … Continued

Week of November 11

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.