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All-day	Oakland Teachers Strike Oakland Teachers Strike Feb 25 all-day Tickets 65756
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 2:00 pm Visionaries: Indigenous Organizers Protecting Land @ Oakstop Visionaries: Indigenous Organizers Protecting Land @ Oakstop Feb 24 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Come listen to, learn from, and be inspired by the visionaries who have been organizing at the forefront of indigenous peoples’ fights to protect people, the planet and what is sacred — from Ohlone territories in Oakland, to Standing Rock, to Bayou Bridge. SPEAKERS Corrina Gould, spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone, co-founder of Indian People Organizing for Change, and co-founder of the Native-women-led Sogorea Te Land Trust.. In 2011 she helped lead a 109-day occupation of the Sogorea Te sacred site in Vallejo. Mark k. Tilsen is an Oglala Lakota Poet … Continued 3:00 pm Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting @ Omni Commons Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting @ Omni Commons Feb 24 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Poor People’s Campaign, A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC) focuses on fighting the four pillars of evil: poverty, systemic racism, the war economy and environmental devastation, and on shifting the moral narrative. PPC supporters in the Bay Area have come together to form the Bay Area PPC Steering Committee and hope you can join this effort and share this information with others who may be interested. In the PPC, people directly impacted by the 4 pillars of evil are central in our work. We look forward to your … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 24 @ 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 3:00 pm TANC General Assembly @ Omni Commons TANC General Assembly @ Omni Commons Feb 24 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets This month we’re continuing to try out a new day/time for our assembly: Sunday afternoon! For this February assembly, we’ll be preparing to protest: TANC is planning a rally for sometime in the next couple months. We’ll also be brainstorming a longer-term project to work with the public housing. We’ll also be checking up on other projects, including tenant councils. Let’s get organized against the Bay Area housing market! Our general assemblies are open and free for anyone to join. We’ll be discussing ongoing projects: tenant organizing, houseless organizing, public … 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 Feb 24 @ 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	7:00 pm Bree Newsome: Tearing Hatred from the Sky @ Soda Activity Center Bree Newsome: Tearing Hatred from the Sky @ Soda Activity Center Feb 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets REGISTER HERE: https://wwws.stmarys-ca.edu/forms/speakers/bree-newsome/index.html PRESENTED by: The Roy E. and Patricia Disney Forum and Communication Department, President James Donahue, the Committee on Inclusive Excellence, CILSA and the Black Lives Matter Subcommittee. This is the signature event of 44 Days Honoring Black History. Bree Newsome is a noted artist, community organizer, and advocate for racial justice. Newsome gained national attention in 2015 when she climbed the flagpole in front of the South Carolina Capitol building and removed a Confederate battle flag that was originally raised in 1961 as a white supremacist statement … Continued 7:30 pm War With Russia? @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley War With Russia? @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley Feb 25 @ 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 “The most controversial Russia expert in America.”— The Chronicle Review War With Russia? is an alternative narrative of Donald Trump’s US and Putin’s Russia, from America’s most prominent Russian scholar. America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. The Soviet Union is gone, but the two nuclear superpowers are … Continued	10:00 am Urban Shield Fate to be Decided at Alameda County Board of Sups @ Alameda County Administration Building, 5th Floor Urban Shield Fate to be Decided at Alameda County Board of Sups @ Alameda County Administration Building, 5th Floor Feb 26 @ 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Tickets POLICE REFORM: Alameda County Urban Shield/UASI Task Force For six years, Bay Area activists have pushed to repurpose Homeland Security disaster preparedness funds away from the hyper-militarized training exercise Urban Shield. Finally the Alameda Board of Supervisors agreed and convened a task force to end “Urban Shield as we know it”. The task force has provided dozens of recommendations to do exactly that. There is lots of pushback and lots more coming, according to the SF Chronicle, which announced the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department is “primed for battle“. But this is our taxpayer … Continued 10:45 am POLICE REFORM: Urban Shield Fate to be Decided at Alameda County Board of Sups @ Alameda County Administration Building, 5th Floor POLICE REFORM: Urban Shield Fate to be Decided at Alameda County Board of Sups @ Alameda County Administration Building, 5th Floor Feb 26 @ 10:45 am – 11:00 am Tickets Take action right now. Take Action POLICE REFORM: Alameda County Urban Shield/UASI Task Force For six years, Bay Area activists have pushed to repurpose Homeland Security disaster preparedness funds away from the hyper-militarized training exercise Urban Shield. Finally the Alameda Board of Supervisors agreed and convened a task force to end “Urban Shield as we know it”. The task force has provided dozens of recommendations to do exactly that. There is lots of pushback and lots more coming, according to the SF Chronicle, which announced the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department is “primed … Continued 5:30 pm How to Make the Oakland Police Commission Effective? @ West Oakland Library How to Make the Oakland Police Commission Effective? @ West Oakland Library Feb 26 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets 65759 5:30 pm Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System @ Samuel Merritt University Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System @ Samuel Merritt University Feb 26 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Dr. Tina Sacks discusses her book “Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System”.65698 6:00 pm Don’t Displace Oakland’s Black Community! @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Don’t Displace Oakland’s Black Community! @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 26 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets All out for City Council on Tuesday, February 26 to demand written commitment to community benefits for the proposed Mandela hotel. Development without community benefits = displacement of Oakland’s Black community! To get involved please contact Pastor David Brazil at 510-508-7104 or david@workingeastbay.org65688 6:30 pm Deport ICE Berkeley – The Vote @ Berkeley City Council Deport ICE Berkeley – The Vote @ Berkeley City Council Feb 26 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets The Sanctuary City Contracting Ordinance will keep the money of Berkeley’s residents from lining the pockets of companies that collaborate directly with the Trump administration’s lawless and unconstitutional immigration policies. The contracting ordinance will phase out gradually the use of vendors that supply ICE with information that helps them to better terrorize immigrant communities. Combined with similar actions by other Bay Area cities, the ordinance will send the message that it isn’t good business to separate young children from their parents, violate asylum seekers constitutional rights and lock people up … Continued	12:00 pm Screening of City Rising: The Informal Economy @ UC Berkeley Labor Center Screening of City Rising: The Informal Economy @ UC Berkeley Labor Center Feb 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Join us for a screening of the documentary City Rising: The Informal Economy, which follows four California workers organizing to find pathways for legalization and protection. The documentary follows the lives of a street vendor in Boyle Heights, a truck driver in Long Beach, a farm-working family in Coachella and an organizer in Oakland fighting for jobs for formerly incarcerated people. Featured in the film, Sylvia Allegretto from CWED will join us in discussion after the screening. Food and refreshments will be provided. Space is ADA accessible. Co-sponsored by the … Continued 1:00 pm Focus Group on Homelessless Focus Group on Homelessless Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets 65740 7:00 pm Social Housing Happy Hour with DSA @ Albatross Pub Social Housing Happy Hour with DSA @ Albatross Pub Feb 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Enough is enough: The rent is too damn high. East Bay DSA is fighting for bold solutions that don’t depend on the luxury developers or hoping you end up with a friendly landlord. Come grab a drink, hang out and talk about housing justice with socialists in Berkeley! 65747 7:00 pm The History and Struggle for People’s Park @ MLK Student Union, Stephens Lounge, 3rd floor The History and Struggle for People’s Park @ MLK Student Union, Stephens Lounge, 3rd floor Feb 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Panel Discussion and Q&A. Panelists: Jim Chanin, Dan Siegel, Carol Denny, Joe Liesner, Andrea Pritchett Music by Hali Hammer.65757	11:00 am Oakland Teachers Strike Solidarity Sick-Out @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Teachers Strike Solidarity Sick-Out @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 28 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets 65768 6:30 pm OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION: OPD Report on Pawlik Investigation @ City Council Chambers, Oakland City Hall OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION: OPD Report on Pawlik Investigation @ City Council Chambers, Oakland City Hall Feb 28 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Chief Anne Kirkpatrick will provide all publicly reportable information on the investigation and findings in the police involved shooting of Joshua Pawlik on March 11, 2018. Full agenda for meeting.65760 7:00 pm Expert Panel Discussion: Homelessness in the Bay Area @ Oakstop Expert Panel Discussion: Homelessness in the Bay Area @ Oakstop Feb 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join the Junior League of Oakland-East Bay, Alameda Point Collaborative, Beyond Emancipation, Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc., Contra Costa Health Services, Operation Dignity, and BOSS for an expert panel discussion on Homelessness in the Bay Area The panelists will touch on particularly vulnerable groups like foster youth, veterans, and the mentally ill. They will also discuss the changing face of poverty. We will examine the state of homelessness and what nonprofit organizations are doing to address it through technology, advocacy, cross-collaboration, outreach, and volunteer work. We will also talk about … Continued 7:00 pm PDA-CA forum on PUBLIC BANKING @ Park Branch Public Library Community Room PDA-CA forum on PUBLIC BANKING @ Park Branch Public Library Community Room Feb 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets PDA-CA forum on PUBLIC BANKING WHAT’S IN A BANK? WHY WE NEED PUBLIC BANKS & HOW WILL WE GET THEM SOON? Having learned how the “big banks” take our money and oft-times invest in things we don’t want, like fossil fuel businesses and corporations who create the mechanisms of war, we are in the midst of a movement to create public banks so we can invest in affordable housing, renewable energy, and other essentials of a society that shares and cares. Our forum explores the history and progress … Continued 7:30 pm Astra Taylor: What is Democracy? @ Nourse Theater Astra Taylor: What is Democracy? @ Nourse Theater Feb 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets City Arts & Lectures Presents ASTRA TAYLOR Film screening and discussion with director Astra Taylor Astra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy, democracy, and political organizing transcends form, emerging through documentary films, books, essays, and social activism. Her feature documentaries include Zizek! (2005) and An Examined Life (2008). Her most recent film, What is Democracy? (2018), collapses time and space, doggedly pursuing the eponymous question, while exploring a conglomeration of threads that refuse to be constrained by the camera’s frame, continuing the conversation rather than offering decisive answers. The film has been called “a deliberate challenge to complacency” (The … Continued		10:00 am Community Forum on Kaiser Convention Center Redevelopment @ The Forum at Laney College Community Forum on Kaiser Convention Center Redevelopment @ The Forum at Laney College Mar 2 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets * Register here: http://bit.ly/2SrWFOt * Did you know? The historic Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center is where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed 7,000 East Bay residents in 1962 on the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Now, Orton Development proposes to rehabilitate and adaptively reuse the center as a performing arts venue and office space for arts and non-profit organizations. Join Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas 4 Oakland and Laney College Facilities Planning Committee to hear plans from Orton and share feedback and questions about the project: Please message tkang@oaklandca.gov if … Continued 2:00 pm Oakland Teachers Strike: Public Meeting and Discussion. We Must Win This Fight! @ Oakstop Oakland Teachers Strike: Public Meeting and Discussion. We Must Win This Fight! @ Oakstop Mar 2 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Oakland Teachers, Parents Students We Must Win this Fight! Public Meeting and Discussion The Oakland Teachers are in the middle of a heroic strike to improve conditions in the classroom and to win a living wage that would allow them to stay in the city. The support in the community is incredibly high, with with an average of less than 5% of students attending school. Even still, the Oakland school district is determined to push forward their plan of closing and charterizing public schools. Join us to discuss the strike … Continued 3:00 pm Haiti Action Committee: Haiti Report Back @ EastSide Arts Alliance Haiti Action Committee: Haiti Report Back @ EastSide Arts Alliance Mar 2 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Join Haiti Action Committee for an eyewitness report about the unstoppable fight of Haiti’s people for liberty and justice. Since February 7th, which was the anniversary of Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s 1991 inauguration as Haiti’s first democratically elected president, hundreds of thousands of Haitians have been demonstrating in the streets of cities and towns throughout the country. When thousands are in the streets in Europe, we see live coverage. Not so with Haiti. The U.S. and the Haitian elite are afraid of the mobilization of the poor. Media silence and disinformation are weapons of empire … 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 Mar 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 February 24

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.