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All-day			Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Feb 20 all-day Tickets UC Berkeley is hosting influential scholars and social movement leaders from Brazil and the United States—homes to the two largest Black populations outside the continent of Africa. Guest Speakers include: Cat Brooks (Anti Police-Terror Project) Ericka Huggins (Black Panther Party) Vilma Reis (Movimento de Mulheres Negras) Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter) Asha Ransby-Sporn (Black Youth Project 100) Djamila Ribeiro (Movimento de Feministas Negras) Andreia Beatriz & Hamilton Borges dos Santos (Reaja ou Será Mort@) Christen Smith (UT Austin) Tina Sacks, Leigh Raiford & john a. powell (UC Berkeley) Camila de … Continued	Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Feb 21 all-day Tickets UC Berkeley is hosting influential scholars and social movement leaders from Brazil and the United States—homes to the two largest Black populations outside the continent of Africa. Guest Speakers include: Cat Brooks (Anti Police-Terror Project) Ericka Huggins (Black Panther Party) Vilma Reis (Movimento de Mulheres Negras) Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter) Asha Ransby-Sporn (Black Youth Project 100) Djamila Ribeiro (Movimento de Feministas Negras) Andreia Beatriz & Hamilton Borges dos Santos (Reaja ou Será Mort@) Christen Smith (UT Austin) Tina Sacks, Leigh Raiford & john a. powell (UC Berkeley) Camila de … Continued 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	Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium Feb 22 all-day Tickets UC Berkeley is hosting influential scholars and social movement leaders from Brazil and the United States—homes to the two largest Black populations outside the continent of Africa. Guest Speakers include: Cat Brooks (Anti Police-Terror Project) Ericka Huggins (Black Panther Party) Vilma Reis (Movimento de Mulheres Negras) Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter) Asha Ransby-Sporn (Black Youth Project 100) Djamila Ribeiro (Movimento de Feministas Negras) Andreia Beatriz & Hamilton Borges dos Santos (Reaja ou Será Mort@) Christen Smith (UT Austin) Tina Sacks, Leigh Raiford & john a. powell (UC Berkeley) Camila de … 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 10:30 am What’s Happening in Venezuela? @ Niebyl Proctor Library What’s Happening in Venezuela? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Feb 17 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets On January 22nd Mike Pence made a phone call to opposition politician Juan Guaidó, essentially offering him the presidency of Venezuela. The next day, Guaidó swore an oath in which he appointed himself “Interim President of Venezuela.” Minutes later, Donald Trump officially recognized that self-appointment, in effect instigating a coup against the elected Bolivarian government of Nicholas Maduro. Since then, the mainstream corporate media has been supporting the coup, flooding the air waves and Internet with stories about chaos, poverty, corruption, and violence in Venezuela, exclusively covering anti-government marches, and … Continued 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 1:30 pm Morality, Christianity, and the History of Policing @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Morality, Christianity, and the History of Policing @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Feb 17 @ 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets ALTERNATIVES TO POLICING WORKSHOP 2 Let’s talk about the “common sense” ideas about crime, morality, and safety that shape and limit how we think about policing and community safety. Many of these ideas are profoundly influenced by a particular brand of Christianity that has dominated in this country, a version of the faith that served to justify genocide and slavery and continues to uphold white supremacy in ways that are sometimes overt but more often subtle and even innocuous-seeming. How can we begin to call these “common sense” ideas into … Continued 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 4:30 pm BLACK Film Series: Nightjohn + author of “Queen Sugar” @ Omni Commons BLACK Film Series: Nightjohn + author of “Queen Sugar” @ Omni Commons Feb 17 @ 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Liberated Lens will host a free film series commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the first Africans brought to present day America. The series will feature an event every third Sunday of the month starting February, for Black History Month, and ending in August, which marks the quadricentennial. For the first event of the series we will show “Nightjohn” and have a discussion with Natalie Baszile, author of a novel, “Queen Sugar”. NIGHTJOHN: Sarny, a 12-year-old slave girl in the South, faces a relatively hopeless life. Her chief duties at the … Continued 6:00 pm CANCELLED: Black Women in the Movement w/Cat Brooks & Mama Akua Njeri @ First Congregational Church of Oakland CANCELLED: Black Women in the Movement w/Cat Brooks & Mama Akua Njeri @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Feb 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets CANCELLED. The birthplace of our Chicago-based comrade Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. is being targeted for foreclosure. It’s time to turn out to preserve the home where Mama Akua Njeri, formerly known as Deborah Johnson, raised her son and from where they carry on the Panther legacy of organizing their community to bring an end to predatory smash and grab tactics that cause so many to suffer in their community. Join Community Ready Corps (Allies and Accomplices) for a conversation between community activist Cat Brooks and Mama Akua as they talk … Continued 6:30 pm Preserving the Radical Legacy of the Black Panthers: Save Fred Hampton House Preserving the Radical Legacy of the Black Panthers: Save Fred Hampton House Feb 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The birthplace of freedom fighter Chairman Fred Hampton is being targeted for foreclosure. Without our support, this monument to the radical legacy of the Black Panthers will be another casualty of the big banks. The Chicago community will also lose a key organizing space that currently hosts the Black Panther Cubs among other survival programs. Join Community Ready Corps (Allies) for a special night of political education and material support for the work of Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and Mama Akua Njeri. Last year you heard from them at our … 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 3:00 pm How Can Our Revolution Work More Closely With East Bay Progressives? @ Steve Early's House How Can Our Revolution Work More Closely With East Bay Progressives? @ Steve Early's House Feb 18 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets House Party With Our Revolution! David Duhalde is a DC-based political and socialist activist, and is the current Political Director of Our Revolution – a progressive political action organization inspired by Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. Mark your calendars for a discussion with David: “How Can Our Revolution Work More Closely With East Bay Progressives?” hosted by the RPA. It will be held at Steve Early’s house on Monday, February 18, from 3-6pm (747 Lobos Avenue, Richmond). Beer, wine, and snacks provided. (Additional food or drink contributions welcome!) Please RSVP to Steve Early … Continued 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	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 19 @ 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 7:00 pm Socialist Night School: Strikes! @ East Bay Community Space Socialist Night School: Strikes! @ East Bay Community Space Feb 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets East Bay DSA’s Socialist Night School continues its 2019 Winter Session with a class examining strikes. Over the last year there has been a wave of successful teacher strikes, and our local Oakland Education Association recently voted to authorize a strike. But how do strikes figure into the larger picture of class struggle and building working class power? And what lessons can we learn from historical strikes? Please join us on Tuesday, February 19 to discuss these questions and more! Details and readings coming soon! Accessibility: Wheelchair-accessible entrance and restrooms … Continued	5:30 pm STOP SFPD MILITARIZATION @ San Francisco City Hall, Rm 400 STOP SFPD MILITARIZATION @ San Francisco City Hall, Rm 400 Feb 20 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets STOP SFPD MILITARIZATION ALERT! The vote to approve Tasers in 2018 violated the Brown Act! Remember how they locked us out of City Hall last year and cast an illegal vote? Come out tomorrow and demand the SF Police Commission rescind the vote! City Hall 2/20 5:30 Rm. 400.— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) February 20, 2019 65727 6:30 pm Permanent Real Estate – Hosted by East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative @ Sustainable Economies Law Center Permanent Real Estate – Hosted by East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative @ Sustainable Economies Law Center Feb 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Come learn how you fit, and where you can plug into, the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative. The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EB PREC) uses community investment to develop permanently affordable cooperative housing that uses regenerative practices, like wealth re-distribution, to empower sovereign, self-determined Black Indigenous and POC communities. Our mission is to facilitate BIPOC and allied communities to cooperatively organize, finance, purchase, occupy, and steward properties, taking them permanently off the speculative market. By co-creating community controlled assets, thereby reducing risk of displacement, we help people … Continued 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	11:00 am Tell Nancy Pelosi we want Medicare 4 All! – Crowd Canvass @ Federal Bldg (Outside Pelosi's Office) Tell Nancy Pelosi we want Medicare 4 All! – Crowd Canvass @ Federal Bldg (Outside Pelosi's Office) Feb 21 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets We’ll be in front of Nancy Pelosi’s office, talking to people about the Medicare for All act of 2019 and putting on the pressure for her and other representatives to support and advance the new bill being introduced. This crowd canvass is one of hundreds of events are happening across the country as activists come together to win Medicare for All. Check out more events and share the map at: https://medicare4all.org/actions/ To find out more information and sign up to participate, visit the event page here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/san-francisco-medicare-for-all-crowd-canvass-565730 6:30 pm Beer and Roses DSA Labor Social @ Blind Tiger Beer and Roses DSA Labor Social @ Blind Tiger Feb 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for their regular Beer and Roses Social! Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in the East Bay DSA Labor Committee, and learn how you can get involved! 65416 7:00 pm Gloria Steinem: More Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions @ Castro Theater Gloria Steinem: More Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions @ Castro Theater Feb 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Gloria Steinem in conversation with Favianna Rodriguez, moderated by Lauren Schiller. What is Gloria Steinem thinking about today in our era of #MeToo and intersectionality? How can today’s feminists learn from our foremothers, and vice versa? We’ll celebrate an updated, third edition of Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, originally published in 1983 – a book that has sold over half a million copies, and counting. As author Susan Faludi (Backlash) put it, Outrageous Acts “will always be… a required feminist reader.” From satires to moving tributes, confessions (yes, the Playboy … Continued	11:30 am Oakland Teachers’ Strike Rally @ Defemery Park Oakland Teachers’ Strike Rally @ Defemery Park Feb 22 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Oakland’s teachers, students, and families are ready for a historic strike for public education. The stakes are high. In Oakland and all across the country public education is under attack. We support Oakland teachers’ fight for schools that our students deserve. Smaller class sizes, more student support services, a living wage for teachers and to keep schools open. SEIU 1021 and AFSCME have already joined the fight! Let’s all show them our support! Here’s how you can help: Join us for a rally at DeFremery Park Donate directly to the … Continued 3:00 pm Here/There Camp – Celebration of Survival @ HERE/THERE, across from Sweet Adeline Here/There Camp – Celebration of Survival @ HERE/THERE, across from Sweet Adeline Feb 22 @ 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 65612 6:00 pm Strike Ready! Strategy Session for Community Organizations @ Greenlining Institute Strike Ready! Strategy Session for Community Organizations @ Greenlining Institute Feb 22 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Community organizations: Want to know how to support the Oakland teachers’ strike? Come learn and strategize around how your organization can help teachers, parents, and students fighting for the public education system all Oakland students deserve. The more that our organizations show up, the more powerful (and quick!) the strike will be. Hosted by Bay Rising, EBASE, Parent Voices Oakland, Oakland Rising, and the Oakland Education Association. We stand with Oakland teachers! #StrikeReady #Unite4OaklandKids65686 7:00 pm Puzzles for Justice @ ACCE Puzzles for Justice @ ACCE Feb 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Love jigsaw puzzles? Hate white supremacy? Want to #MoveInSolidarity with #BlackSolidarityWeek? Join us at the ACCE office in Oakland for two hours of solving puzzles to raise money for the Black Solidarity Fund, a project of Community READY Corps. We’ll have 2500 pieces worth of puzzles and 2 hours to put together as many pieces as possible. People who want to donate to the drive will pledge a certain amount of money per piece solved*. For example, if a donor pledges to give 2 cents per piece, and we manage … Continued	10:00 am Waffles & Zapatismo @ Omni Commons Waffles & Zapatismo @ Omni Commons Feb 23 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Waffles & Zapatismo is a free space for learning about and discussing the history, ideas, values and practices of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, EZLN or Zapatistas. We serve waffles at the start of the class to those who want them.65047 11:00 am RESILIENCY FAIR featuring the REPAIR CAFE @ Berkeley Adult School RESILIENCY FAIR featuring the REPAIR CAFE @ Berkeley Adult School Feb 23 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Become more resilient! Learn about emergency preparedness, renewable energy, personal health & well-being, how to fix things & reduce waste, grow & share food, help our natural habitat thrive, plus so much more at the Resiliency Fair! Don’t send your broken item to the trash – bring it to the Repair Cafe! Come to this gathering where community members help each other repair what’s broken. This event is free and intended to empower us to repair. It is not a free drop-off repair service. Calling Volunteers! Are you handy with … Continued 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 6:00 pm Film Screening: “1948: Creation and Catastrophe” @ The Way Christian Center Film Screening: “1948: Creation and Catastrophe” @ The Way Christian Center Feb 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Through riveting and moving personal recollections of both Israelis and Palestinians, the film reveals the shocking events of the most pivotal year of the ongoing tragedy. It tells the story of the establishment of Israel as seen through the eyes of the people who lived it. This film is your chance to make sense of what is happening in Israel-Palestine today. Co-sponsored by The Way Christian Center, NorCal Sabeel and Jewish Voice For Peace-Bay Area. Facebook 65717 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

Week of February 17

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.