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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 12:00 pm Oakland: Protest Against Kamala Harris for President Campaign Launch Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland: Protest Against Kamala Harris for President Campaign Launch Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 27 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Kamala Harris for President has chosen Oakland for her initial Campaign Launch Rally on January 27, 12:00pm. What are you going to do, Oakland, when Kamala Harris sets up shop in our town to push her phony “progressive prosecutor” schtick? Her campaign slogan at this point is “Kamala Harris for the People,” but we know she is anything but a candidate for the people, all of the people, those who lost their homes to predatory banks, for instance. She claims to be “tough, principled, fearless,” but we know none of that is true. … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 27 @ 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 4:00 pm Screening of shorts from Zapatista Territory @ Omni Commons Screening of shorts from Zapatista Territory @ Omni Commons Jan 27 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Collection of work from the Zapatista territory by Caitlon Manning65455 4:30 pm Last Boat Out of Shanghai – Book Launch with Helen Zia @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center Last Boat Out of Shanghai – Book Launch with Helen Zia @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center Jan 27 @ 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Eastwind Books of Berkeley and Oakland Asian Cultural Center welcome Journalist and Author HELEN ZIA ‘Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution’ LAST BOAT OUT OF SHANGHAI is the dramatic life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. Shanghai has historically been China’s jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, … Continued 5:00 pm Another Form of Life Is Possible: films on resistance @ Omni Commons Another Form of Life Is Possible: films on resistance @ Omni Commons Jan 27 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Liberated Lens Film Collective and Chiapas Support Committee presents a program of documentary shorts on the anti-capitalist Resistance in Southern Mexico. The Resistance shares many of the principles and goals of the Zapatistas movement: autonomy from the capitalist economy, communalist self-government rooted in indigenous traditions, an end to the subordination of women, respect for the natural world. Indigenous women are at the forefront of many of these ongoing struggles.*All of This, We Are Going to Defend 2018, 15:56 by Caitlin Manning and Joe Bender A Tzetlal community gathers in the … Continued 6:30 pm Free Dinner and a Movie Discussion Night – Oakland Greens @ It's Your Move Games Free Dinner and a Movie Discussion Night – Oakland Greens @ It's Your Move Games Jan 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Oakland Greens 2019 FREE Dinner and a Movie discussion series. As usual, the doors at the It’s Your Move Games and Hobbies store will open at 6:30 p.m., a free dinner will be provided at 7 p.m., and the movie will start promptly at 7:30 p.m. 65437	2:30 pm CPUC Emergency Hearing re PG&E CPUC Emergency Hearing re PG&E Jan 28 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Say NO to the CPUC! The California Public Utilities Commission has scheduled a surprise emergency hearing to allow PG&E to pursue debtor-in-possession financing. Please come to the CPUC Auditorium at 505 Van Ness to speak against giving PG&E a $6 billion bailout and allowing it to duck its debts from last year’s Camp Fire. The first item is to determine an emergency situation under which the normal 10-day agenda notice can be waived according to Gov’t Code 11125.5(b). The second and third items grant exemptions from PUC Code sections to … Continued 6:00 pm Stop OUSD from voting to close “Roots” Middle School! @ La Escuelita Stop OUSD from voting to close “Roots” Middle School! @ La Escuelita Jan 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Oakland School Board has just scheduled a special meeting (less than 72 hours notice) for 6pm on Monday with only one item on the agenda, a final vote in the closure of ROOTS Middle School. The school board can not be allowed to displace our students and families from their neighborhood school. We are asking everyone to help, even if you don’t live in Oakland. 1. Please email the Oakland School Board and ask them to keep ROOTS open and demand that any “redesign” of the school can not … Continued	6:30 pm Our Historic Moment : Purpose, Planet and Places to Intervene @ Omni Commons Our Historic Moment : Purpose, Planet and Places to Intervene @ Omni Commons Jan 29 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 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 … Continued 6:30 pm Sunrise Movement General Meeting @ Sierra Club Sunrise Movement General Meeting @ Sierra Club Jan 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join the next meeting of the Sunrise Movement, an army of young people fighting to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs. And/or attend one of their Bay Area Green New Deal launch parties to kick off the local Green New Deal campaign. NOTE: If you no longer qualify as a youth, please pass this on to young people you know. S 65550 7:00 pm DSA Socialist Night School: Understanding Capitalism @ East Bay Community Space DSA Socialist Night School: Understanding Capitalism @ East Bay Community Space Jan 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Required Readings See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members. 65512	2:00 pm Fundraising Party! West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Fundraising Party! West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join the pioneering environmental justice organization West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project for its annual fundraiser/holiday party/celebration of the birthday of its founder, Ms Margaret Gordon. The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project has led the community of West Oakland in fights against environmental racism for many years. They also throw a great party, featuring fun, music, and food (gumbo, vegan gumbo, red beans and rice, salad and dessert). And raffle tickets 65450	8:00 am E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village Jan 31 @ 8:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets The encampment at E 12th & 23rd Ave got eviction notice, happening over a week: Thursday 1/31 Friday 2/1 Thurs 2/7 Fri 2/8. We’re asking for folks to come for eviction support at 8 am each day – bringing coffee, breakfast, and doing copwatch/documentation. — The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) January 29, 2019 65562 9:00 am ALAMEDA COUNTY CLEAN SLATE CLINIC @ Public Defender's Office ALAMEDA COUNTY CLEAN SLATE CLINIC @ Public Defender's Office Jan 31 @ 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 People’s Park Defense @ People's Park People’s Park Defense @ People's Park Jan 31 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets We are stopping the destruction of trees and trying to stop the construction of housing. Trying to give land back to Ohlone, who are a landless tribe65556 7:30 pm Is Earth in Hospice Mode? @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley Is Earth in Hospice Mode? @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley Jan 31 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 sites), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books Mrs. Dalloway’s $15 door Dahr Jamail has journeyed along many of the geographical front lines of our environmental crisis, from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the Amazon rain forest, to discover the consequences of the loss of ice to nature and to humans. The End of Ice is the firsthand chronicle of his travels, during which he scaled Denali, the highest peak in North America, … Continued	8:00 am E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village Feb 1 @ 8:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets The encampment at E 12th & 23rd Ave got eviction notice, happening over a week: Thursday 1/31 Friday 2/1 Thurs 2/7 Fri 2/8. We’re asking for folks to come for eviction support at 8 am each day – bringing coffee, breakfast, and doing copwatch/documentation. — The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) January 29, 2019 65562 2:00 pm Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime & Punishment in the United States @ Room 105, Berkeley Law School Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime & Punishment in the United States @ Room 105, Berkeley Law School Feb 1 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets CSLS SPECIAL BOOK EVENT Location is ADA accessible The Center for the Study of Law and Society is pleased to announce The CSLS Special Book Event Tony Platt, CSLS Distinguished Affiliated Scholar, Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime & Punishment in the United States (St. Martin’s Press, January 2019) Moderated by: Jonathan Simon, Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, and Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Law & Society, UC Berkeley Comments by: Rebecca McLennan, Professor of History, UC Berkeley Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz Jonathan Simon, Faculty Director Rosann Greenspan, Executive Director 65558	2:00 pm Screening of Pride by QT SURJ @ Sierra Club, Suite 1300 Screening of Pride by QT SURJ @ Sierra Club, Suite 1300 Feb 2 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets SURJ Bay Area’s Queer and Trans (QT) Committee is hosting a screening of Pride, which highlights a true story of solidarity across identities for social and economic justice. This even is open to the public. Everybody is welcome to join us for an afternoon of film and snacks! About the film: “Realising that they share common foes in Margaret Thatcher, the police and the conservative press, London-based gay and lesbian activists lend their support to striking miners in 1984 Wales.“ Tickets: This NOTAFLAF screening is also a fundraiser for SURJ … Continued 2:00 pm Suds, Snacks, & Socialism: Black History Is American History @ Starry Plough Suds, Snacks, & Socialism: Black History Is American History @ Starry Plough Feb 2 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Peace and Freedom Party presents Black History Is American History As Karl Marx wrote in Das Kapital, “Labor cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.” Marx also noted that for ALL workers Black Liberation is “not a question of abstract justice or humanitarian sentiment but the first condition of their own social emancipation.” Speakers for our forum on Black history will include: Kingdom speaking on “The Freedom Struggle–Then and Now,” and Steve Johnson speaking on “Black Teachers Struggle for Justice,” This is … Continued 4:00 pm East Bay DSA General Membership Meeting @ Omni Commons East Bay DSA General Membership Meeting @ Omni Commons Feb 2 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets East Bay DSA’s general meetings (GMs) are typically held on the second Sunday of each month. These meetings 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. With our new regular schedule, member-submitted resolutions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please … Continued 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: You Are Not a Loan! @ Omni Commons Strike Debt Bay Area: You Are Not a Loan! @ Omni Commons Feb 2 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Come get connected with SDBA’s projects – we have exciting work to do in 2019! NEW: Relieving millions in local Medical Debt through pennies-on-the-dollar buyback programs. NEW: A book group and seminar focused on Economic Inequality and Economic Theory for the modern age. Presenting debt and inequality related topics at forums, workshops and in radio productions. Promoting single-payer / Medicare for All to end the plague of medical debt Money bail reform and fighting modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitative ticketing and fining schemes Tiny Homes and other solutions for the … Continued

Week of January 27

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.