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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 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		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	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	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	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

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.