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All-day	THE PEOPLES MARCH – the Fifth Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy THE PEOPLES MARCH – the Fifth Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy Jan 21 all-day Tickets THE PEOPLES MARCH – the Fifth Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy….A mass mobilization. The Peoples March – Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy We will hold Oscar Grant Plaza from sunrise to sunset. The schedule is still evolving, and includes an entire day of events, remembrance, building, and organizing. There will be hourly rituals, including the sounding of a gong and lighting or torches to call our attention to the ways our community is harmed by violence. The tentative schedule is below: 7:20 am – 7:45 am – Sunrise Ceremony … Continued					Social Justice Symposium @ Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School Social Justice Symposium @ Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School Jan 26 all-day Tickets Thirteenth Annual Social Justice Symposium The Social Justice Symposium (SJS) is a student-organized event that serves as space for the community to meet and discuss social justice work in the Bay Area. Schedule This year, our keynote speaker is George Galvis. Galvis holds both a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies and a Master’s in City Planning from UC Berkeley where he was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and Public Policy & International Affairs (PPIA) Fellow. Galvis is the co-founder and executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ, pronounced … 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 10:00 am Oakland Permaculture Action Day w/ Lead to Life Oakland Permaculture Action Day w/ Lead to Life Jan 20 @ 10:00 am – 5:30 pm Tickets In honor of the annual “Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy” weekend 2019: Lead to Life & Permaculture Action Network invite you to the Sogorea Te Land Trust and Planting Justice Nursery in East Oakland for a Permaculture Action Day on Sunday, January 20th! This is a free, family-friendly event filled with ecologically regenerative hands-on projects, workshops & skill-shares, music, and a community meal. This is the sister event to this past April’s Lead to Life series in Atlanta, Georgia, where 50 guns were melted down into 50 shovels to plant 50 … Continued 10:30 am The international communist movement and the world working class, Chinese Views. @ Niebyl Proctor Library The international communist movement and the world working class, Chinese Views. @ Niebyl Proctor Library Jan 20 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets “Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library” We are hosting a delegation of comrades from the Chinese Communist Party, all faculty members of Central China Normal University in Wuhan, one of the top ten Universities in China. They are visiting the Bay Area to get to know the problems of U.S. society and politics better. They will also speak at our forum. The delegation includes: 1. Tang Min, professor, president of School of Politics and International Studies, CCNU, a famous Chinese expert in the research of Chinese rural governance, national problems. … Continued 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Jan 20 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Please join us for a special Sunflower Alliance meeting to follow up on our inspiring retreat and make plans for 2019. Old friends and newcomers are equally welcome. We need your participation and your voice! Come early to hang out and share a potluck lunch. 12:30 PM — potluck lunch 1 – 3 PM — meeting65510 1:00 pm An Introduction to the Radical Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. @ East Bay Community Space An Introduction to the Radical Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. @ East Bay Community Space Jan 20 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets In this introductory training, we will discuss some of Dr. King’s more influential writings and his lasting connection to modern movements. This community-based conversation will cover the Six Principles of Kingian Nonviolence, Dr. King’s Six Step strategy for developing a nonviolent campaign, and an in-depth read of “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.” Please join Cynthia Gutierrez and Mica Stumpf of Women’s March Oakland in a highly interactive exploration of the values and philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.65509 2:00 pm Raymond Douglas Chong Documentary Film and Book Event @ Asian Cultural Center Raymond Douglas Chong Documentary Film and Book Event @ Asian Cultural Center Jan 20 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets OACC and Eastwind Books of Berkeley welcome Dr. Raymond Chong Dr. Raymond Douglas Chong presents his Documentary Film: My Odyssey – Between Two Worlds and Book – Chop Suey and Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea: Chinese and Japanese Restaurants in the United States Raymond Douglas Chong’s journey in search of his family roots in Kaiping, Guangdong, China leads to his ancestral village where he interviews villagers and uncovers its peasant history. With remarkable footprints, Chong traces his family’s five generation migrations to America. Following great-great-great and great-great grandfathers who … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 20 @ 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 Reclaim Radical King Weekend: A Guns to Shovels Ceremony @ Oscar Grant Plaza Reclaim Radical King Weekend: A Guns to Shovels Ceremony @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 21 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets “I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that [they] will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “A Christmas Sermon on Peace” In partnership with the Robby Poblete Foundation and United Playaz, Lead to Life invites you to join us for a live metal alchemy ceremony to transform guns into shovels, and to call in the … Continued	11:30 am Hands Off Our Park: Defend People’s Park From Cops And Chainsaws @ People's Park Hands Off Our Park: Defend People’s Park From Cops And Chainsaws @ People's Park Jan 22 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Last week, over 150 heavily armed police officers came with guns and chainsaws to cut down our trees and trash our homes. Six people – community members and students – were violently awoken and handcuffed at 5 am, on charges of “illegal camping” – because they had put up tents and tarps as shelter from the rain. All of their belongings were seized or trashed. We reject the UC’s claim that this is about sick trees. This is about razing one of Berkeley’s few public spaces to turn it into … Continued	9:00 am POSTPONED: Ending Urban Shield “As It Is Currently Constituted” – Final Task Force Meeting @ Alameda County Administration Bldg POSTPONED: Ending Urban Shield “As It Is Currently Constituted” – Final Task Force Meeting @ Alameda County Administration Bldg Jan 23 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets POSTPONED: “Because the consultants did not finish a draft of the UASI Ad hoc Committee report, tomorrowâ€™s meeting has been postponed until next week. Probably to Jan. 30, 3 – 5 pm (pending confirmation of committee members).” Thursday’s 1/10/19 meeting was not the final task force meeting after all. They will meet again on Monday January 14 from 3 to 8pm and then again on January 22 from 9-11am. As of 1/14, the Task Force completed its votes on recommendations. This meeting on the 23rd will be pro forma to … Continued 1:30 pm Leadership Training for Tenant and Community Organizing @ South Berkeley Senior Center Leadership Training for Tenant and Community Organizing @ South Berkeley Senior Center Jan 23 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets TIME FOR TENANT AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING Fed up with rising rents? Already displaced? Working together makes the difference! Featured Speaker: Vanessa Riles is Interfaith and Community Organizer for East Bay Housing Organizations. She will talk about the spring Community Leadership Academy and her earlier experiences as a leader and community organizer of the Oakland Justice/East 12th Coalition. They won a 2-year campaign, turned around city policies in 2017, and saved public land for local affordable housing instead of subsidizing a for-profit developer. Talk, Q&A,and discussion are followed by social time … Continued 3:00 pm Restorative Justice Roundtable @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Restorative Justice Roundtable @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Jan 23 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets This presentation is for anyone interested in learning more about how Restorative Justice can change the criminal justice system and stop the school to prison pipeline. Join in the discussion to create deeper Restorative Practices on a state, county and local level. RSVP to gamaliel.genesisca@gmail.com65460 6:00 pm Privacy Lab @ UC Hastings Alumni Reception Center Privacy Lab @ UC Hastings Alumni Reception Center Jan 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets January 2019 Privacy Lab – Data Privacy Compliance Under the Law: Addressing corporate compliance with evolving US/Int’l. privacy laws. Bios: The Hastings Intellectual Property Association (HIPA) will host the January Privacy Lab. HIPA is a UC Hastings student organization with the mission to promote and foster the study and practice of intellectual property law for all past, current, and future Hastings students. HIPA recognizes the increasing importance of privacy law and seeks to educate students and the extended legal community on it’s importance through partnership with the Privacy Lab and … Continued	9:00 am ALAMEDA COUNTY CLEAN SLATE CLINIC @ Public Defender's Office ALAMEDA COUNTY CLEAN SLATE CLINIC @ Public Defender's Office Jan 24 @ 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 Rally Against The Attack On The Poor @ San Francisco City Hall Rally Against The Attack On The Poor @ San Francisco City Hall Jan 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets As DPW continually confiscates property at the behest of the city govt, the BOS appears poised to enact SB-1045, a dangerous bill meant to conserve homeless folks with a prior history of 5150 holds in mental institutions without their consent. The city puts these efforts into attacking the poor while the Bayview is still without even a full service shelter after decades of broken promises. The people of SF demand housing and appropriate services. Join the Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance in exposing these actions of the city of SF, … Continued 6:00 pm Wellstone Club Meeting – Urban Shield, Green New Deal, More @ Humanist Hall Wellstone Club Meeting – Urban Shield, Green New Deal, More @ Humanist Hall Jan 24 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The topic for the meeting is Looking to 2019. We’ll be having some speakers who will give us an overview of some of the issues that we’ll be addressing in this coming year. The Agenda for the meeting is attached. These include: a. Looking toward 2019/2020; The View from Indivisible Berkeley Daron Sharps b. Update on Urban Shield and Audit the Sheriff John Lindsay Poland, AFSC c. The Oakland Teacher’s Strike “ Jeremy Wolff, Chair of Political Involvement Committee of OEA d. An Environmental Agenda for California … Continued 6:30 pm Diversity film ‘100 Years; One woman’s Fight for Justice’ @ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse at Frank Havens School Diversity film ‘100 Years; One woman’s Fight for Justice’ @ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse at Frank Havens School Jan 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets ALSO 1/27/19 @ 12:30 pm @ 474 24th Street, Oakland When Elouise Cobell, a Blackfeet warrior from Montana, started asking questions about missing money from government-managed Indian Trust accounts, she never imagined that one day she would be taking on the U.S. government. But what she discovered as the Treasurer of her tribe was a trail of fraud and corruption leading all the way from Montana to Washington DC. 100 Years is the story of her 30-year fight for justice for 300,000 Native Americans whose mineral- rich lands were grossly … Continued 7:00 pm ‘The Judge,’ Film Screening @ Berkeley City College ‘The Judge,’ Film Screening @ Berkeley City College Jan 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets When she was a young lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih walked into the office of Palestine’s Chief Justice and announced she wanted to join the bench. He laughed at her. But just a few years later, Kholoud became the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a (Islamic law) courts. WINNER of the Best Bay Area Documentary Feature at the 2018 San Francisco Film Festival, Official Selection of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival – also featured on PBS Independent Lens. Directed by Erika Cohn. “[Judge Kholoud] emerges as … Continued 7:00 pm No Coal in Richmond Canvasser Training @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center No Coal in Richmond Canvasser Training @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Jan 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A critical part of the campaign to end coal exports from Richmond is reaching out to coal-dust–impacted Richmond residents. Going door-to-door is one of the best ways to get the word out to affected neighborhoods. No Coal in Richmond is holding a training session to increase your comfort with canvassing and staffing tables at events. We want to reach residents in several neighborhoods, so lots of volunteers are needed! You’ll find out residents’ concerns, share information about the health impacts of toxic coal dust, and obtain signatures on a petition … Continued	1:00 pm A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain @ Internet Archives A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain @ Internet Archives Jan 25 @ 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Please join us on January 25, 2019 for a grand day of celebrating the public domain! Co-hosted by the Internet Archive and Creative Commons, this celebration will feature a keynote address by Lawrence Lessig, lightning talks, demos, multimedia displays and more to mark the “re-opening” of the public domain in the United States. The event will take place at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, and is free and open to the public. RSVP now before the tickets run out The public domain is our shared cultural heritage, a near limitless trove of creativity … Continued 5:00 pm Say NO to the U.S.-orchestrated Coup in Venezuela Say NO to the U.S.-orchestrated Coup in Venezuela Jan 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Join us 5pm Friday Jan. 25 at 24th & Mission to say NO to the U.S.-orchestrated coup in Venezuela #HandsOffVenezuelaEvent page: https://t.co/KOWQOM5kmZ@answercoalition @MLNow @SFGate @Indybay @elteco @CubaVenezCte pic.twitter.com/KMo3aVV0MS— ANSWER Coalition-SF (@sfANSWER) January 24, 2019 65538 6:30 pm The Yellow Vest Movement: A Report Back From France @ Berkeley City College, Rm 55 The Yellow Vest Movement: A Report Back From France @ Berkeley City College, Rm 55 Jan 25 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets all over France in what began as a protest against a fuel-tax increase but has spread into a movement against the overall worsening economic conditions in the country. Join us for a presentation and discussion with French activists about this current movement and where it could lead.65541 7:00 pm Film Showing: The Young Karl Marx @ Revolution Books Film Showing: The Young Karl Marx @ Revolution Books Jan 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets This film that will give you a whole new understanding of the birth and the development of communist revolution. It focuses on five years from 1843 to 1848 and tells the story of the 26-year-old Karl Marx along with Frederick Engels, Jenny Marx, and Mary Burns and their fight to bring a scientific understanding to the revolutionary movement of the times.65515	9:30 am Free Screenings of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ at Grand Lake @ Grand Lake Theater Free Screenings of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ at Grand Lake @ Grand Lake Theater Jan 26 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am Tickets The owner of the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland has added two free morning screenings of “The Manchurian Candidate” this weekend, citing escalating Russia collusion allegations against President Trump. Grand Lake owner Allen Michaan has been open about his left-leaning political stances in the past, often expressing them in giant letters on the theater’s marquee — on Thanksgiving he crafted an anti-Trump message that ended “JAIL TO THE CHIEF!!” Michaan said he set up the screenings, at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 26-27, “in honor of the cascading revelations regarding our treasonous president.” … Continued 12:30 pm Oppose the “Walk for Life”: Stand Up for Women! Trump/Pence Must Go! Oppose the “Walk for Life”: Stand Up for Women! Trump/Pence Must Go! Jan 26 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets This Saturday he so-called “Walk for Life” – which should be called the March for Female Enslavement & Forced Motherhood – will organize tens of thousands to march down Market Street to demand the end of the right to abortion for women. We call for everyone to join with Refuse Fascism to oppose the “Walk for Life,” to stand up to the anti-abortionists, and to raise the demand that the Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! These people march every year – this year, the stakes are very high. We are two … Continued 7:00 pm Brazilian Socialist Leaders in Conversation @ Niebyl Proctor Library Brazilian Socialist Leaders in Conversation @ Niebyl Proctor Library Jan 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Brazilian Socialist Leaders in Conversation: Left Movement-Building and the Global Education Strike Wave Meet four visiting leaders and federal congresspeople from Brazil’s Party of Socialism and Liberation (PSOL) to discuss their experience building a mass working-class movement in Brazil. A rank-and-file teacher leader from the Oakland Education Association will join in conversation about movement-building lessons for the possible Oakland teachers’ strike. Recent elections in Brazil brought a far-right leader to the presidency, but at the same time the democratic socialist party PSOL won inspiring gains across the country. The party … Continued 9:00 pm Kevin Cooper Special Report @ CBS Television Kevin Cooper Special Report @ CBS Television Jan 26 @ 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets CBS News will be airing a special two-hour episode of 48 Hours on Kevin Cooper’s innocence case this Saturday, January 26, from 9:00 to 11:00 PM ET/PT. In May of last year, Nicholas Kristof published an explosive column in the New York Times, reviewing the evidence and concluding that it points to people other than Kevin. You can still read it here if you missed it. The 48 Hours episode will include interviews with Kristof, Kevin’s attorney Norman Hile, and DPF Board Director Thomas R. Parker, a retired FBI agent … Continued

Week of January 20

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.