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This workshop is an opportunity to … Continued 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Nov 18 @ 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 2:00 pm Build Your Own Internet! v5 @ Omni Commons Build Your Own Internet! v5 @ Omni Commons Nov 18 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Do you think internet should be a public commons rather than a corporate monopoly? Following Aspiration Tech’s annual Nonprofit Software Development Summit, come on over to Omni Commons to learn about the history of the internet, how it works, and how to build your own. Meet and mingle with civic hackers and organizers behind PeoplesOpen.Net: an open, community-based, wireless network in the East Bay. Join us for food, family-friendly activities, and conversation about the state of the internet today, the physical work that goes into stewarding an internet commons, and the possibilities … Continued 3:00 pm GA at OMNI today @ Omni Commons GA at OMNI today @ Omni Commons Nov 18 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets PARADISE is coming to Oakland! One particle at a time. Because we don’t trust air we can’t see or feel, & on the orders of Chicken Little we will be meeting at the Omni Commons today, same bat time (3PM) until the sky stops falling. Personally, I prefer the Little Red Hen, she never let the exploiters to extract her surplus labor. The Little Red Hen persuades Chicken Little to call for expropriating the means of production. The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 PM at Oscar Grant … Continued	8:30 am BAAQMD Grapples with Tar Sands, @ Bay Area Air Quality Management District BAAQMD Grapples with Tar Sands, @ Bay Area Air Quality Management District Nov 19 @ 8:30 am – 11:30 am Tickets In August, at the urging of Idle No More SF Bay, several Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) staff and board members journeyed to British Columbia to meet with government officials and First Nations people resisting the Canadian Trans Mountain Pipeline, and then to Alberta to tour tar sands extraction sites. This special Board of Directors meeting features the report back from that trip. Speakers will include the BAAQMD delegation and some of the people the delegation met with in Canada: Charlene Aleck, elected Councilor from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation … Continued 9:00 am Ending Urban Shield “As It Is Currently Constituted” – Task Force Meeting @ Old Berkeley City Hall Ending Urban Shield “As It Is Currently Constituted” – Task Force Meeting @ Old Berkeley City Hall Nov 19 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Meeting of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ Ad Hoc Committee on Urban Area Security Initiative, charged with reconstituting and rethinking Urban Shield. The committee was established by the Board of Supervisors in March 2018 in response to sustained community concerns about Urban Shield, which is funded in part by UASI grants from the Department of Homeland Security, and coordinated by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. The Board of Supervisors decided in March, 2018 that 2018 would be the last year the county would approve Urban Shield, as currently constituted, and … Continued 9:30 am Court Hearing: East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump @ US District Court, Courtroom 9, 19th Floor Court Hearing: East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump @ US District Court, Courtroom 9, 19th Floor Nov 19 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am Tickets Please pack the court for oral arguments in East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump, a federal lawsuit challenging the new Trump proclamation, which bars people seeking asylum at the U.S. southern border if they attempt to enter outside a port of entry. Monday lawyers with Center for Constituional Rights and our legal co-counsel, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center, will argue that the ban is unlawful and ask the court to issue a Temporary Restraining Order to prevent the asylum ban from going into effect. … Continued 6:00 pm Public Banking 101 @ Alley Cat Books Public Banking 101 @ Alley Cat Books Nov 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Mark your calendars! We're hosting TWO Public Banking 101 sessions in November–one at Alley Cat Books, and one @DSA_SF. We hope to see you there 🙌🏾 pic.twitter.com/8Sg3u7g293— SF Public Bank (@sfpublicbank) October 25, 2018 65218 6:30 pm REPORT FROM THE FRONTLINES: A report-back on Palestine REPORT FROM THE FRONTLINES: A report-back on Palestine Nov 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets REPORT FROM THE FRONTLINES: A report-back on Palestine by the US Palestine Community Network Join us for a report back on the recent delegation to Palestine organized by the U.S. Palestine Community Network (USPCN). USPCN members will share about conditions on the ground as they relate to political prisoners, refugees, health, land theft, and the right of return. This event is free and welcome to all ages. Donations to support the speakers as they travel the country is greatly appreciated. Hosted by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center. For more … Continued	8:15 am Tell Barbara Lee: Join the Push for a Green New Deal @ Office of Barbara Lee Tell Barbara Lee: Join the Push for a Green New Deal @ Office of Barbara Lee Nov 20 @ 8:15 am – 9:30 am Tickets Info/RSVP Tell Barbara Lee to support immediate action for a Green New Deal! Join the Sunrise Movement to visit Barbara Lee in a national day of action calling on progressive legislators to support rapid national mobilization for an equitable clean-energy economy. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is sponsoring a resolution to create a Green New Deal , a 10-year economic mobilization to carbon-neutrality and drawdown. Her resolution includes the requirement that the plan promote “high income work, entrepreneurship and cooperative and public ownership” as well as “social, economic, racial, regional and gender-based justice and equality.” … Continued 2:00 pm Rally to End Yemen War @ Outside Nancy Pelosi's Office Rally to End Yemen War @ Outside Nancy Pelosi's Office Nov 20 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Saturday the State Department said it had not reached a final decision on responsibility for the murder, despite the CIA’s conclusion the Crown Prince personally ordered it. The US-Saudi relationship has come under increased scrutiny, particularly in regards to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the war in Yemen. A group of bipartisan senators Thursday introduced the Comprehensive Saudi Arabia Accountability and Yemen Act which would halt weapons sales and other military support for Yemen. The House likely will vote on their own Yemen bill in January. PHOTO OP: Members … Continued 7:00 pm Christina Gerhardt: 1968 and Global Cinema @ Moe's Books Christina Gerhardt: 1968 and Global Cinema @ Moe's Books Nov 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Christina Gerhardt is Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and Associate Professor of Film and German Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is author of Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory (Bloomsbury, 2018), about which Kristin Ross wrote: “This informative and well-documented study of the changing representations of the Red Army Faction is a welcome model for how to go about de-provincializing our understanding of the post-war German experience.” She is also co-editor of 1968 and Global Cinema (Wayne State UP, 2018), about which Rosalind … Continued 7:00 pm East Bay DSA Night School: Capitalism vs Nature @ East Bay Community Space East Bay DSA Night School: Capitalism vs Nature @ East Bay Community Space Nov 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The recent UN report on climate change is sobering. Urgent action is required to avert environmental disaster. We need a bold vision of a good and livable future — and a political program to match. For starters, that means insisting on a publicly funded clean energy transition on a rapid timeline and a major green jobs program. The main obstacle to achieving this vision should be obvious. Corporations spent millions of dollars to defeat clean energy initiatives in the elections earlier this month. Please join the Night School for a … Continued 7:30 pm Sudo Mesh: Save the Internet @ Omni Commons, Upstairs Sudo Mesh: Save the Internet @ Omni Commons, Upstairs Nov 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Hello we are here to Save the Internet! Join us every Tuesday in the Omni Commons mezzanine to help build a community-owned and -operated wireless mesh network in the East Bay! Every Tuesday night, we meet to discuss on-going projects, technical bugs, community and media outreach, finances and budgeting, and upcoming events, such as node mounts, office hours, and workshops. Newcomers are encouraged to come on the last Tuesdays of the month for general orientation, but are welcome at any meeting. A wireless mesh network is a network where each computer acts … Continued 8:00 pm Biohackers and Mad Scientists Social @ Omni Commons Biohackers and Mad Scientists Social @ Omni Commons Nov 20 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Come meet our Biohackers and other Mad Scientists in our new space at the Omni Commons to discuss science, brainstorm projects, learn more about Counter Culture Lab, and plot world domination. And hey – free pizza! See you there 🙂 To RSVP to this event, or check other events organized by Counter Culture Labs, see our Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/65317			11:45 am Black Friday Protest Against War and for Palestine @ Outside Powell St BART Black Friday Protest Against War and for Palestine @ Outside Powell St BART Nov 23 @ 11:45 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Please join Bay Area Women in Black in their annual Black Friday protest in downtown San Francisco. Gather at 11:45am at the Powell Street BART Station on Friday, November 23, march to Union Square and stand in silence until 1pm, then return to the BART station and disperse. This action is one way to support the Palestinian struggle, with a focus on using boycott, divestment, and sanctions against the repressive military-colonialist policies of the state of Israel, in a similar action to the campaign that helped end apartheid in South … Continued 12:00 pm 19th Annual Emeryville Shellmound Prayer Gathering 19th Annual Emeryville Shellmound Prayer Gathering Nov 23 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join us at this 19th year gathering at our ancient ceremonial and the largest funerary site of the Ohlone people of the East Bay. This is a family friendly event, we will be handing out information and educating the public about this sacred site. Bring Cookies or snacks to share and a good attitude. We will have prayers and songs offered and updates on current work and issues in our communities65305 7:00 pm Film Showing: Taking Alcatraz @ Revolution Books Film Showing: Taking Alcatraz @ Revolution Books Nov 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets On Nov. 20, 1969, after centuries of being killed, displaced and driven from their land, a group of Native Americans landed on Alcatraz Island and claimed it as their own. For 19 months the media reported every move, the government tried to stop them, and thousands of supporters visited and sent supplies. In this 2015 documentary, the story of the historic, audacious takeover of Alcatraz is told with passion, humor and heart by Adam Fortunate Eagle, the main organizer.65309	10:00 am Waffles & Zapatismo @ Omni Commons Waffles & Zapatismo @ Omni Commons Nov 24 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Waffles & Zapatismo is a free space for learning about and discussing the history, ideas, values and practices of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, EZLN or Zapatistas. We serve waffles at the start of the class to those who want them.65047 4:00 pm March and Rally for Justice for Terry Amons, Jr. March and Rally for Justice for Terry Amons, Jr. Nov 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? Pittsburg Police or the People of Pittsburg? Terry Amons, Jr., a 43 year old Black man, was shot and killed by Pittsburgh police late Friday night on January 12, 2018, while eating dinner inside his car outside of Nations Burgers in Pittsburgh. The police claim that Terry was reaching for a gun, but body cam video does not support this claim. We hold the Pittsburgh PD responsible for murdering an innocent Black man. Terry’s mother, Sandra, said: “They executed my son. The Pittsburgh Police Department … 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 Nov 24 @ 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

Week of November 18

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.