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All-day				Oakland Teachers Strike – Rally and Picket Line Support Oakland Teachers Strike – Rally and Picket Line Support Feb 21 all-day Tickets City-wide rally at 11:30 a.m at Oscar Grant Plaza. Oakland teachers are the lowest paid teachers in Alameda County. Every year, 1-in-5 teachers leave the district, and on top of high teacher turnover, students are already under resourced with only one academic counselor per 600 students, and only 21 nurses for all 37,000 students. Oakland teachers and our students deserve better! Sign up for a shift at the picket line! What: Join a picket line near you! When: Thursday, February 21 — Morning shift: 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Afternoon shift: 2:30 p.m. … 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 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Feb 17 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing campaigns and future plans and identify upcoming actions we can take to fight fossil fuels and work for a just and sustainable world. 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 potluck lunch Meeting 1-3 65614 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 17 @ 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 7:00 pm Slingshot new volunteer meeting / article brainstorm for issue #129 @ Longhaul Slingshot new volunteer meeting / article brainstorm for issue #129 @ Longhaul Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Kick-off meeting to create Slingshot issue #129. Slingshot is an independent radical newspaper published in Berkeley since 1988. * Brainstorm articles for next issue * Discussion forum for your article ideas * Orientation on how you can submit articles, art, photographs * Help us discuss our audience and themes for the next issue * Discuss fundraising and distribution * Your chance to comment on Slingshot Everyone is welcome. Issue #129 is due out on April 20, 2019 Deadline for Issue #129 is April 6, 2019 65630	12:00 pm Human Banner: “NO WALL!” @ The Pergola at Lake Merritt Human Banner: “NO WALL!” @ The Pergola at Lake Merritt Feb 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Oakland’s First Human Banner: “NO WALL!” (Believed to be) OAKLAND’S FIRST “human banner.” We will spell out NO WALL! with our bodies, and give the news helicopters a visual to go with their stories on the day’s nationwide rallies and their ongoing coverage of this saga. The event will be very short and, we hope, very sweet. No speeches, just aerial art. We will unfurl an actual USA flag (30 x 50 feet, held taut by some of the participants), and on the adjacent lawn area we will arrange our … Continued 12:00 pm Protest the Unconstitutional State of Emergency @ Ohlone Way Protest the Unconstitutional State of Emergency @ Ohlone Way Feb 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets This protest is planned in response to President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency. Join in to protect the rule of law and our Constitution. On this Presidents Day holiday, stand to demand that our president respect the separation of powers. RSVP.65685 6:00 pm Northern California No Coal Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Northern California No Coal Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Feb 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Help launch a Bay-Area-wide movement to keep coal out of our communities! Oakland, Richmond, and Vallejo residents have been fighting coal export terminals — already operating or threatening to open — for years. Now the “No Coal” movement is coming together on a regional level to keep coal out of Northern California. People from the communities fighting coal will come together to share experiences and make plans. Everyone is welcome. 65649		7:30 pm APTP General Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance APTP General Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Feb 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Come out to our next general meeting to celebrate the volunteers who made Reclaim MLK Day possible and to get a recap of the highlights from that day!65632 7:30 pm Indivisible Berkeley: Economic Justice Team Indivisible Berkeley: Economic Justice Team Feb 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join our team as we plan more individual divestment workshops, talk about CA state legislation, and more! RSVP65722			12:00 pm Hands Off Venezuela Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza Hands Off Venezuela Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 23 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Join the International Action Center and Spring Action Coalition for a day of action against US intervention in Venezuela. We will hold a rally at 14th and Broadway in Oakland to protest the Trump administration’s support for the coup against the Maduro government, and the long history of sanctions and threats against the Venezuelan people. We demand an end to hostile actions against Venezuela!65616 2:00 pm Richmond Progressive Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Richmond Progressive Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Feb 23 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets RPA membership meeting Mark your calendars for the next RPA membership meeting! All RPA members are welcome. Join here. Membership can be renewed online or at the door. Agenda will be emailed prior to the meeting. 65625 3:00 pm Rally to Demand Justice for Willie McCoy @ Taco Bell Rally to Demand Justice for Willie McCoy @ Taco Bell Feb 23 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Join us at a rally to demand justice for Willie McCoy, murdered by Vallejo PD. We’ll gather at the Taco Bell where he was murdered. Bring posters, candles, and your voices to support Willie’s family. If you’re coming from Oakland and either need a ride or have space in your car, please meet us at 12:15 at the APTP office at 1201 Martin Luther King Jr Way. 65741 6:30 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting @ Omni Commons Feb 23 @ 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

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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.