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This … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 3 @ 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	8:00 am Transit Equity Day/Rosa Parks Birthday @ Bus stop in front of Walgreens Transit Equity Day/Rosa Parks Birthday @ Bus stop in front of Walgreens Feb 4 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets Celebrate Rosa Parks’s birthday by demanding transit equity for civil rights and a healthy planet. Social justice, public health, and climate protection all demand equity in transportation and a radical increase in support for public transit. There will be a few brief speakers, powerful messaging around equitable public transit to address our climate crisis, and a positive environment to show up for a transit equity! Please bring a sign with your personal message for transit equity, or just to say Happy Birthday Rosa Parks! IN SAN FRANCISCO, 5:45 – … Continued 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Feb 4 @ 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	4:00 pm Teachers March to Oakland City Council @ Oakland Unified Offices Teachers March to Oakland City Council @ Oakland Unified Offices Feb 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets February 5, 2019 The time to strike is approaching and Oakland teachers are calling on Oakland City Council to show where they stand! Are they with the Oakland community or the billionaire privatizers taking over the district? Join teachers as they put pressure on city council members to back their demands for lower class sizes, living wages, student support, and stopping school closures. Oakland teachers and their allies across the East Bay will rally in front of Oakland City Hall before entering the city council meeting where the resolution to … Continued 4:30 pm Solidarity Support for Oakland Education Assoc at Oakland City @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre Solidarity Support for Oakland Education Assoc at Oakland City @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre Feb 5 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets JOIN US TO SUPPORT OAKLAND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OEA ASKS OAKLAND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS: _”WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?”_ OAKLAND STUDENTS, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE EAGER TO LEARN WHERE YOU STAND IN THE FIGHT TO SAVE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN OAKLAND! TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH, THE OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT OEA’S CONTRACT DEMANDS, STAND AGAINST SCHOOL CLOSURES AND FULLY FUND OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED. PLEASE JOIN OAKLAND TEACHERS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THIS CRITICAL RESOLUTION AS WE GEAR UP FOR A POTENTIAL … Continued 6:00 pm Food Politics 2019: “Food Policy in the Trump Era” with Marion Nestle @ Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center, UC Berkeley Food Politics 2019: “Food Policy in the Trump Era” with Marion Nestle @ Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center, UC Berkeley Feb 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Tickets required RSVP: https://bit.ly/2SLZupJ * Location change: Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center, UC Berkeley * Please join us for a special lecture series with celebrated author and scholar Marion Nestle. Food Politics 2019: Food Policy in the Trump Era What’s happening under the Trump administration to policies aimed at solving problems of undernutrition, obesity, and the effects of food production on the environment? Introduction by Michael Pollan, John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism. This is the first lecture in a series of three special events: February 12, 2019: https://bit.ly/2ANX9nh Food Politics 2019: Nutrition … Continued 6:00 pm Towards an abolitionist public health @ Asian Pacific Environmental Network Towards an abolitionist public health @ Asian Pacific Environmental Network Feb 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets CR Oakland and Public Health Justice Collective (formerly Occupy Public Health) are excited to invite you to join us for a learning and strategy session for ending the violence of policing in our communities. Snacks will be provided. PLEASE RSVP at: https://goo.gl/forms/PE96N1PDg6OvMkpT2 What does the fact that the American Public Health Association (APHA), a network of over 25,000 public health professionals, overwhelmingly adopted a policy statement that identifies the violence of policing as a public health issue? How can we use this statement and its recommendations for decriminalization , divestment … Continued 7:00 pm Socialist Night School: The Capitalist State and the Limits of Reform @ East Bay Community Space Socialist Night School: The Capitalist State and the Limits of Reform @ East Bay Community Space Feb 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Progressives and socialists have sometimes won state power in liberal, democratic regimes, and used it to rein in the worst excesses of capitalism. But, due to their structural power, capitalists exercise disproportionate control over the state, often allowing them to prevent or roll back such reforms. Please join the Socialist Night School on Tuesday, February 5 for a discussion of the capitalist state and the sorts of reforms possible under capitalism. Required Readings See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members. 65552	6:45 pm Intro to SURJ Meeting (Show Up for Racial Justice) @ Sierra Club Intro to SURJ Meeting (Show Up for Racial Justice) @ Sierra Club Feb 6 @ 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.65518 7:00 pm Bread for Ed Organizing Meeting @ Oakland Education Association Bread for Ed Organizing Meeting @ Oakland Education Association Feb 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Oakland teachers are gearing up for a likely strike to win the schools their students deserve! But they need your support to win—and you can help through the Bread for Ed campaign. Bread for Ed will provide meals at solidarity schools, food trucks at picket lines, and more. There are 37,000 students and around 3,000 members of the Oakland Educators Association in this fight to defend the public school in Oakland. The vast majority of these students depend on free or reduced lunches, so this project is a critical show … Continued 7:30 pm Robert Reich: The Common Good @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley Robert Reich: The Common Good @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley Feb 6 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus (3 sites), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books Mrs. Dalloway’s $15 door For decades one of the most farseeing, outspoken public intellectuals in the United States has been Robert B. Reich. Now he provides us with The Common Good, his sixteenth book, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto urging the recentering of our national economics and politics on the profound idea of the common good. Responding to the prevailing uproar of divisiveness, cynicism and blind self-interest, Reich makes a powerful case for expanding … Continued	8:00 am E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village Feb 7 @ 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 3:00 pm EAST BAY ELECTRIFICATION EXPO: FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE IN A CLEAN ENERGY HOME @ Ed Roberts Campus EAST BAY ELECTRIFICATION EXPO: FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE IN A CLEAN ENERGY HOME @ Ed Roberts Campus Feb 7 @ 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Hosted by the Ecology Center, StopWaste and City of Berkeley, with the generous support of BayREN. Why? Our homes and buildings are the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. But thanks to local Community Choice Energy providers, electricity in the Bay Area is clean, and is getting cleaner and greener every year. We can vastly reduce our carbon footprint by getting off natural gas in our homes and electrifying everything. Not only does electrification reduce GHGs, it also makes our homes healthier and safer. What? Watch induction cooktop demos Talk … Continued 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 7 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Agenda: 3. 5:10pm: Open Forum 4. 5:15pm: UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic – introduction and discussion of scope of work, including drafting of Privacy Principles. 5. 5:20pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Exigent Use of Surveillance Technology report, and take possible action. 6. 5:30pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Automated License Plate Reader Anticipated Impact Report – review and take possible action. 7. 6:00pm: Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – OPD – presentation of inaugural annual reports (FBI/JTTF, ATF, DEA task forces), and take … Continued 5:30 pm Higher Education and Affordability @ Merritt Community College Campus, Student Lounge R Building Higher Education and Affordability @ Merritt Community College Campus, Student Lounge R Building Feb 7 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets How does the dream of a college degree become a reality for low-income students? Please join us for East Bay Community Conversations Higher Education and the California Dream: Myth or Reality These and many other issues facing students desiring a higher education degree in California are critical topics for a two-part series hosted by the KQED Community Advisory Panel. Hear from and share your thoughts with higher education administrators, faculty, students, and elected officials. Panelists include: Dr. Marie Elaine Burns, President, Merritt College Dr. Jowel Laguerre, Chancellor, Peralta Community College … Continued	8:00 am E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village Feb 8 @ 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 1:30 pm Court Case on Revealing Retroactive Police Misconduct Records @ Dept 12 Court Case on Revealing Retroactive Police Misconduct Records @ Dept 12 Feb 8 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Contra Costa hearing on whether police misconduct and lethal use of force records will be released retroactively (#SB1421) Case # N19-0109. Media Alliance, as with many Bay Area media outlets, filed public record requests after the January 1, 2019 enactment of Senate Bill 1421 which allowed the release of police misconduct and use of force records. Our requests to the cities of Antioch and Richmond are tied up in litigation from the police unions, which will be heard in the consolidated Contra Costa County case Walnut Creek Police Officers Association … Continued 6:30 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting @ Omni Commons Feb 8 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Please be on time, so we can start the meeting early. We’ll be discussing and planning our next direct action for the month of February, and sharing community updates.65608 7:00 pm Film & Discussion: Jackson @ Revolution Books Film & Discussion: Jackson @ Revolution Books Feb 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets In Mississippi, a state of almost 3 million, there is now only one abortion clinic in Jackson. This award winning documentary is an intimate, unprecedented look at the lives of three women affected by the vicious and constant attacks to deny women abortions. “Maisie Crow’s Jackson, about the last-remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi, where the Dixie flag still flies over the capital, brings to mind Nina Simone’s song “Mississippi Goddam.” She wrote it after Medgar Evers’ 1963 assassination in Jackson. Watching this documentary about the embattled clinic, … Continued	1:00 pm March from People’s Park @ People's Park March from People’s Park @ People's Park Feb 9 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets On January 22nd, supporters of People’s Park marched down Telegraph Avenue to Sproul Plaza to protest the University’s overwhelming police response to the protest defending the trees. This peaceful protest was interrupted by a reckless driver who pushed up on the protesters and struck a sleeping homeless man as he fled the scene. Police have refused to release the identity of the driver or respond to this blatant attack on the poor people of Berkeley.65598 1:00 pm People’s Park Rally and Protest @ People's Park People’s Park Rally and Protest @ People's Park Feb 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets 65609 2:00 pm Come Out and Support Huey Newton’s Memory @ West Oakland Library Come Out and Support Huey Newton’s Memory @ West Oakland Library Feb 9 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 65592 2:00 pm Eyewitness Gaza: Palestinian Children Under Siege @ Omni Commons Eyewitness Gaza: Palestinian Children Under Siege @ Omni Commons Feb 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Heather La Mastro, a school teacher in Berkeley, recently traveled to occupied Palestine. She visited several refugee camps, hospitals and pediatric mental health care programs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip administered by the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Heather will share her stories meeting Palestinian people, especially her students’ Palestinian pen pals in Gaza. She will be joined by Priscilla Wathington, the Managing Editor for Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), an independent, local Palestinian child rights organization based in Ramallah. Priscilla will speak about the most … Continued 4:30 pm ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons Feb 9 @ 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 7:00 pm The Fight for Quality Education @ South Berkeley Senior Center The Fight for Quality Education @ South Berkeley Senior Center Feb 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Public education has been under attack for decades. But last year some things began to change. Teachers in West Virginia went on strike and were joined by school cooks, secretaries, janitors, and bus drivers. Their example spread to schools across the country, including Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arizona. Now it’s our time! Oakland teachers are preparing to fight back. Come to a discussion with activists in the fight for decent education in Oakland about what we can do to stand up to these attacks. Download PDF (2.1MB) For more event information: https://revolutionaryworkers.org/65559

Week of February 3

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.