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The majority … Continued 2:00 pm RPA winter meeting & holiday party @ Bridge Storage & Artspace RPA winter meeting & holiday party @ Bridge Storage & Artspace Dec 16 @ 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets There will be an RPA membership meeting from 2-3:15 pm. Right after that, we will move into party mode and have our winter holiday party & fundraiser from 3:30 – 5:30. As usual, the meeting is for RPA members. But the party is open to all! Please invite friends, family and neighbors and help support the RPA in 2019. About the party: Desserts and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided free of charge with donations accepted for beer and wine. Our silent auction will provide an opportunity for you to bid … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Dec 16 @ 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 Best of the Fest: Social Justice Shorts Film Night @ Omni Commons Best of the Fest: Social Justice Shorts Film Night @ Omni Commons Dec 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets We’re featuring the best films from FILMS TO THE PEOPLE Short Film Festival. Because of the smoke caused by the fires, a lot of you were bummed that you weren’t able to attend. So we’re hosting a Best of the Fest at our next film night. You won’t want to miss this last chance to watch this slate of films that shows social justice can be touching, hard-hitting, and even funny. A Pair Of Horns On A Female Homo Sapiens by Saleh Kashefi Con o Sin Papeles by Aria Zapata … Continued 7:00 pm Is Civil Disobedience Necessary for Environmental Justice? A Valve Turner in Person. @ BFUU Is Civil Disobedience Necessary for Environmental Justice? A Valve Turner in Person. @ BFUU Dec 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets A Valve Turner In Person! Leonard Higgins and four other Valve Turners decided to turn off the valves that regulate the pipeline flow of Canadian crude oil into the US. They were following the honored tradition of civil disobedience – take the bold action, have it documented for all the world to see, then wait to be arrested. At their trials, they sought to use the Necessity Defense to challenge the nation’s energy policy. Higgins is the only UU in the group of three men and two women. By their … Continued 7:00 pm Slingshot new volunteer meeting / article brainstorm @ Longhaul Slingshot new volunteer meeting / article brainstorm @ Longhaul Dec 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Kick-off meeting to create Slingshot issue #128. (Note – issue #128 was supposed to come out in the fall but we postponed it to improve the articles and revive the collective.) Slingshot is an independent radical newspaper published in Berkeley since 1988. * Brainstorm articles for next issue * Orientation on how you can submit articles, art, photographs * Help us discuss our audience and themes for the next issue * Discuss fundraising and distribution * Your chance to comment on Slingshot Everyone is welcome. Issue #128 is due out … Continued	5:30 pm Friends of the Public Bank of the East Bay @ Sports Basement Friends of the Public Bank of the East Bay @ Sports Basement Dec 17 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Our last meeting of 2018. Agenda forthcoming. Working Group Meetings: The Advocacy Working Group meets with public officials, government staff and other stakeholders to learn what they can teach us about integrating a public bank into existing systems, and to convince them to support our bank. Drop us a note (contact@friendsofpublicbankofoakland.org) if you want to participate. The Outreach Working Group needs organizers, and people to staff tables and talk to folks about public banking. Send us a note at contact@friendsofpublicbankofoakland.org if you can help. The ad hoc Governance Working … Continued 6:00 pm Audit the Sheriff Campaign @ Ella Baker Center Office, 11th Floor Audit the Sheriff Campaign @ Ella Baker Center Office, 11th Floor Dec 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets For those of you who would like to be more involved in the planning of the Audit the Sheriff campaign organized by the Ella Baker center, meetings are held every other Monday from 6-7:30 at the EBC office.65412	8:30 am Pack The Courtroom: Hold The System Accountable for Recording Confidential Attorney-Client Conversations @ Rene Davidson Courthouse Pack The Courtroom: Hold The System Accountable for Recording Confidential Attorney-Client Conversations @ Rene Davidson Courthouse Dec 18 @ 8:30 am – 11:30 am Tickets SCHEDULE 8:20 Coffee & Bagels 8:30 Gathering & Opening Circle 8:45 Press Conference 9:00 Sgt. Russell’s Courtdate Recently, it was revealed that Alameda County Sergeant James Russell and Lieutenant Timothy Schellenberg were caught on video admitting to the illegal recording of youth defendants in confidential conversations with their own attorneys. This is a Constitutional Rights violation and our concern is that it points to a much larger systemic problem. Recording a defendant and their lawyer is a violation of the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments, as well as CA Penal … Continued 9:00 am Antifascist Court Support: 2nd Pre-Trial Hearing @ Department 18 Antifascist Court Support: 2nd Pre-Trial Hearing @ Department 18 Dec 18 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Three antifascist activists are facing serious charges for defending our city against neo-Nazis two and a half years ago. We’re calling on our community to come out to their 2nd pretrial hearing and show support for these brave individuals. It’s up to us to make it clear that we stand with them! We will be meeting at the courthouse and attending their court appearance. Come in casual, formal, or semi-formal attire and be prepared to go through a metal detector. Avoid arriving or leaving alone, and leave the area as … Continued 6:00 pm Art Party Sponsored by ‘Neither Here Nor There’ @ Omni Commons Art Party Sponsored by ‘Neither Here Nor There’ @ Omni Commons Dec 18 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 65420 7:00 pm Human Rights and Dignity in the Americas @ BFUU Fellowship Hall Human Rights and Dignity in the Americas @ BFUU Fellowship Hall Dec 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Celebrating the publication of Human Rights and Wrongs and Plan Colombia Authors Adrianne Aron and John Lindsay-Poland discuss their new books, Human Rights and Wrongs (Sunshot Press) and Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism (Duke University Press), respectively. Both books recount stories of individuals and communities – especially in Latin America – resisting U.S. and state violence, often at great cost, and the power of human solidarity. Aron’s vignettes in the style of Eduardo Galeano draw from her experience as a psychologist and work with Central American refugees. … Continued		9:00 am ALAMEDA COUNTY CLEAN SLATE CLINIC @ Public Defender's Office ALAMEDA COUNTY CLEAN SLATE CLINIC @ Public Defender's Office Dec 20 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets JOINT WALK‐IN CLINICS with Public Defender and EBCLC Please bring your statewide CA DOJ RAP sheet if you have it or we can give information at clinic We may be able to help with:  Dismissal of Conviction – PC 1203.4  Felony Reduction / Prop 47 and 64 Relief  Early Termination of Probation  Certificate of Rehabilitation  Sealing Arrest Record – Factual Innocence  Juvenile Record Sealing  Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants and Survivors of Human Trafficking  Employment denials due to criminal background reports  Occupational … Continued 12:00 pm Landless People’s Alliance Press Conference @ County Building Plaza Landless People’s Alliance Press Conference @ County Building Plaza Dec 20 @ 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Tickets Tomorrow @ 12 pm, the Landless People’s Alliance is holding a press conference @ Alameda County Admin Building 1221 Oak St. to speak out against the mistreatment of unhoused folks in the Bay Area. Please show up to support their demands for justice&dignity https://t.co/oOZsFJl7U0— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) December 20, 2018 65426 6:00 pm The True Cost of Healthcare @ Omni Commons The True Cost of Healthcare @ Omni Commons Dec 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets A presentation, The True Cost of Healthcare, by David Belk, MD65389 7:00 pm Gingerbread Housing Social @ East Bay DSA Office Gingerbread Housing Social @ East Bay DSA Office Dec 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Have you ever wanted to build a socialist utopia out of gingerbread houses? Want to learn more about what East Bay DSA is doing around housing? Wondering what exactly is “social housing?” Join the East Bay DSA Housing Committee for a fun evening of making gingerbread houses and socializing with comrades. This is open to the general public. Bring your friends! Hot chocolate included. 65415	8:00 pm Psychedelic Mushrooms of California Talk and Presentation @ Omni Commons Psychedelic Mushrooms of California Talk and Presentation @ Omni Commons Dec 21 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Mycologist Alan Rockefeller will give a lecture on the identification of psilocybin mushrooms. It will include an overview of all North American species, focusing on the species which occur in the San Francisco Bay area. The audience will learn important characteristics for accurate identification and how to spot poisonous lookalikes. Participants are invited to bring legal mushrooms for a hands-on discussion of how to identify mushrooms you encounter. Alan Rockefeller is a mycologist living in Oakland. He spends half the year hunting mushrooms in Mexico where he documents a wide … Continued	12:00 pm Macron Out Now! & Trump Should Be Next @ French Consulate Macron Out Now! & Trump Should Be Next @ French Consulate Dec 22 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Macron Out NOW! And Trump Should Be Next: US Working People Support The Struggle of the French People To Throw Out Macron Hundreds of thousands of French workers, students and farmers have been shutting down roads and protesting against massive tax increases on the working class and capitalist austerity with privatization and outsourcing of jobs. The “Yellow Jackets” movement is a spontaneous popular anti-capitalist protest that was organized through social media but is now getting increased from trade unionists and some unions. The reactionary Macron government has met these protests … Continued

Week of December 16

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.