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The more … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 6 @ 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 Film Screening: “Codename Jenny.” Subversive. Feminist. Anarchistic. Cross-generational. @ Omni Commons Film Screening: “Codename Jenny.” Subversive. Feminist. Anarchistic. Cross-generational. @ Omni Commons Jan 6 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets A screening by Liberated Lens of a film from Germany, “Deckname Jenny” (“Codename Jenny” in German) Subversive. Feminist. Anarchistic. Cross-generational. Discussion with the filmmakers after the film. 2017, 108min, German with English subtitles A shift to the right in Europe. The borders are closed. Sea rescue ships like the Sea-Watch are prevented from leaving. Drowned refugees in the Mediterranean. Jenny’s group decides to act. But when her father finds out about their militant ambitions, he has to face his own past as a member of a guerilla group. The pseudonym … Continued	5:30 pm Public Bank East Bay Meeting Public Bank East Bay Meeting Jan 7 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Lots is happening! Join us!65461 6:30 pm OEA Solidarity Committee Open Meeting @ Sports Basement OEA Solidarity Committee Open Meeting @ Sports Basement Jan 7 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The teachers strike wave is sweeping California—and likely coming to Oakland next. Join East Bay DSA’s OEA Solidarity Committee for an open meeting to learn how we can help support the teachers of the Oakland Education Association as they struggle for smaller class sizes, better resources, and a livable wage. All East Bay DSA members are welcome—come join the movement against austerity and school privatization and defend public education with the OEA!65436 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Jan 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82809764186?pwd=eWtjcXlsKzU1QkdSdk5xOUxseFl0Zz09 Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186 If you wish to get the password please subscribe to the Oscar Grant Committee mailing list by sending an email to: oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to … Continued	10:00 am Public Forum on CA’s New Privacy Law @ Miller Marks Auditorium Public Forum on CA’s New Privacy Law @ Miller Marks Auditorium Jan 8 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets The CA Attorney General’s office is holding public meetings around the state in January to talk about how to implement CA’s new privacy law. On the agenda will be things like how much you will pay for your privacy, whether the law applies to loyalty programs like HHhonors or grocery and drug store discount programs, opt-out procedures, what needs to be disclosed about how your data is sold, and how to verify whether an information request is really from a customer or not. This is the only Bay Area forum … Continued 12:00 pm Stop Chase, Bank of Doom @ The Westin, Union Square Stop Chase, Bank of Doom @ The Westin, Union Square Jan 8 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Join the Rainforest Action Network and allies to tell JPMorgan Chase to stop funding climate destruction! Chase Bank is the biggest Wall Street funder of fossil fuels. They finance the Keystone XL pipeline, toxic tar sands oil expansion, and abuses of indigenous rights, profiting from worsening climate chaos. Demand that they stop funding fossil fuel expansion, starting with tar sands Info/RSVP 65451	6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Jan 9 @ 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 Ars Technica Live: Ashkan Soltani @ Eli's Mile High Club Ars Technica Live: Ashkan Soltani @ Eli's Mile High Club Jan 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets For our next #ArsLive we are very excited to host Ashkan Soltani (@ashk4n) as our guest. He recently testified about Facebook before the UK parliament, among many other achievements. He is a Technologist, Reporter, Founder, Policy Wonk — former FTC CTO and Obama Whitehouse Senior Advisor .65402 7:00 pm It’s 2019. Do you know where your personal data is right now? @ Eli's Mile High Club It’s 2019. Do you know where your personal data is right now? @ Eli's Mile High Club Jan 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Cambridge Analytica scandal. Data breaches at hotels, banks, rideshare companies, and hospitals. Facial recognition. DNA databases. We’re living through the data privacy apocalypse and now it’s time to figure out what happens next. Here to discuss that with us at the next Ars Technica Live is Ashkan Soltani, an independent researcher and technologist who specializes in data privacy. Recently, Soltani testified before the US and UK governments about Facebook’s privacy practices and how they make user data available to third parties. Soltani also authored the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, … Continued 7:00 pm No Coal in Richmond meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center No Coal in Richmond meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Jan 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Richmond City Council took its first step on December 18, 2018 toward ending the shipment of coal and petroleum coke (pet coke) through the city. These toxic commodities are shipped overseas from the privately-owned Richmond Levin terminal. The Richmond City Council is considering legislation to phase out and ultimately end the use of the terminal for coal and pet coke. At the council meeting yesterday, about a dozen people spoke in support and no one spoke in opposition to an initial draft of the legislation. Council members voted unanimously … Continued	9:00 am ALAMEDA COUNTY CLEAN SLATE CLINIC @ Public Defender's Office ALAMEDA COUNTY CLEAN SLATE CLINIC @ Public Defender's Office Jan 10 @ 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 1:00 pm Ending Urban Shield “As It Is Currently Constituted” – Final Task Force Meeting @ County Building, across the street from the Courthouse Ending Urban Shield “As It Is Currently Constituted” – Final Task Force Meeting @ County Building, across the street from the Courthouse Jan 10 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets The Alameda County UASI Ad Hoc Committee (aka Urban Shield Task Force) is meeting on Thursday, January 10 at 1:00 pm until 5:00 pm or until we have finished voting on recommendations, which could be well after 5 pm. —– 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 … Continued 6:00 pm Our struggles are connected: Update from the US-Mexico Border @ Asian Resource Gallery Our struggles are connected: Update from the US-Mexico Border @ Asian Resource Gallery Jan 10 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets * Live from the Border: Pedro Ríos from the American Friends Service Committee Border Program, San Diego, will speak via Skype on the current struggle for rights of the Migrant Caravan at the Tijuana-San Ysidro border wall. * Catherine Tactaquin, from the National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR) on the current struggles for the rights of migrants and refugees. * Art and poetry to help us further connect the struggles of our communities across borders. Come see the art on display at the Asian Resource Center Gallery: “GRAFFIKA … Continued 6:00 pm SF Public Bank Coalition set to launch @ The Women's Bldg SF Public Bank Coalition set to launch @ The Women's Bldg Jan 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The San Francisco Public Bank Coalition is gearing up for action! Their goal is to pressure the SF Board of Supervisors to author a charter amendment on the November 2019 ballot establishing the framework for a public bank. This framework will include mission, principles, and a governance structure. The Coalition is planning a launch party for January 10. There’ll be music, food, presentations, and strategizing about how to move SF’s money from Wall Street to OUR streets. You’re invited! The People Vs. Wall Street 65409 6:30 pm Beer and Roses DSA Labor Social @ Blind Tiger Beer and Roses DSA Labor Social @ Blind Tiger Jan 10 @ 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! 65416 6:30 pm Beer and Roses DSA Labor Social @ Blind Tiger Beer and Roses DSA Labor Social @ Blind Tiger Jan 10 @ 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!65470 6:45 pm Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Sierra Club Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Sierra Club Jan 10 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.65417	12:30 pm Call for closing Gitmo and prosecution of John Yoo for torture @ UC Berkeley Law School Call for closing Gitmo and prosecution of John Yoo for torture @ UC Berkeley Law School Jan 11 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Prisoners started arriving at Guantanamo on Friday, Jan. 11 2002. This Friday, on the 17th Anniversary of Guantanamo Prison, DRAD will join Codepink and allies at a rally and press conference at UC Law School to call for closing Gitmo and prosecution of John Yoo for torture. Join us to speak out against the injustice! Meet up in front of the law school, rain or shine. Gitmo now holds 40 men, including 5 who have long been cleared for release, and it continues to be a moral stain on our … Continued 3:00 pm Speak Out At Japan Consulate Against Restarting Of Japan NUKES @ Japanese Consulate Speak Out At Japan Consulate Against Restarting Of Japan NUKES @ Japanese Consulate Jan 11 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The Japanese Abe government continues to restart nuclear plants throughout the country. At the same time they have accumulated over 1 million tons of radioactive water at the Fukushima plant which they want to release into the Pacifica ocean. It contains tritium which the government is saying is safe in “small amounts”. The government has also covered up the statistics of thyroid cancer in children in order to continue the cover-up of the dangers of Fukushima. 3.11 Fund for Children With Thyroid Cancer has said that children who have cancer … Continued 7:00 pm Film “Codename Jenny” + meet the filmmakers @ Longhaul Film “Codename Jenny” + meet the filmmakers @ Longhaul Jan 11 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Directed by Schwarzer Hahn (Germany) – 108 minutes – in theaters soon https://vimeo.com/251190328 So you think you’re a radical activist. But do you have any idea what your parents were up to when they were your age? Join us for a screening of the new film from by Schwarzer Hahn, a radical film collective from Berlin, Germany. Post-film discussion with the filmmakers about independent filmmaking and radical activism in today’s world. Climate change, refugees locked up in detention camps, endless wars and the rise of the far right – enough … Continued	12:00 pm East Bay Red for Ed Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza East Bay Red for Ed Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 12 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Rally to Fund Public Education Now! Join 1,000s of other teachers in letting the incoming governor and legislature know that we are demanding a new day for California students and educators, including: – Closing the Prop 13 loophole so commercial property owners pay their fair share of property taxes going to public education. – Pressuring the State to assume a greater share of the funding for federally mandated services for students with special needs. -Promoting policies that provide educators with the salaries and conditions needed to provide students with the … Continued 2:00 pm DAVID JABER: OUR HISTORIC MOMENT BOOK TALK @ Ecology Center DAVID JABER: OUR HISTORIC MOMENT BOOK TALK @ Ecology Center Jan 12 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Imagine. A vision of thriving communities across the globe. So much has been known of aspects of this vision for 20 years, 50 years, and even centuries. Why have we not made more progress? Our Historic Moment offers a vision for the world, in both book and video form, that is rooted in The Natural Step and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, weaving together renewable resource use, ecological health, radical inclusivity and equity. Our Historic Moment explores the barriers to greater progress that we’ve encountered to date to achieving this vision, … Continued 4:30 pm ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons Jan 12 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Doughnut Economics Reading Group: Creating a world with neither human suffering nor planetary peril Doughnut Economics: 7 ways to think like a 21st century economist By Kate Raworth Chelsea Green Publishing (2017) The capitalist economic system defines every aspect of our lives: the schooling and medical care we get, where we live, and how we sustain ourselves. The system works for a lucky few and exploits everyone else. And it’s a real threat to the survival of our species (and many others) on this planet. We know the system needs to change—but we … Continued

Week of January 6

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.