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All-day						International Women’s Day Programming on KPFA @ on KPFA radio, 94.1 FM International Women’s Day Programming on KPFA @ on KPFA radio, 94.1 FM Mar 9 all-day Tickets Tune in all day for music,culture and her-stories celebrating the courage, creativity and contributions of some of themost vulnerable and some of the most powerful women on the planet. 65825
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 11:00 am Indigenous Red Market Indigenous Red Market Mar 3 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Indigenous Red Market is this Sunday! Make sure to get all of your Indigenous Goodies! pic.twitter.com/qrm1SUZGbU— Native Health (@7Gen1D) February 28, 2019 65804 1:00 pm Chocolate Caliente Por Paz! @ First Unitarian Church Chocolate Caliente Por Paz! @ First Unitarian Church Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets HOT CHOCOLATE FOR PEACE / CHOCOLATE CALIENTE POR PAZ Since our first Hot Chocolate/Churros stand last Sunday, Lily & Lauren (Age 10) have raised $8500 To Reunite Immigrant Families. JOIN US this Sunday, hosted by the First Unitarian Church of Oakland, from 1-3:30 p.m. All donations will support RAICES, whose mission is to “help separated families, detained families, unaccompanied minors, and others who are seeking asylum in the United States.” The girls decided to host the chocolate and churros stand as a response to the 7 year old boy in … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 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 5:00 pm Liberated Lens presents: Schoolidarity, a film by Andrew Friend @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens presents: Schoolidarity, a film by Andrew Friend @ Omni Commons Mar 3 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets The interwoven story of two of the most significant workers’ rights struggles of our time: the 2011 weeks-long fight by public employees in Wisconsin, and the long struggle by teachers in Chicago to win quality public schools and democracy in their union, culminating in a 2012 teachers strike. Working class struggle is analyzed through union history and a radical critique of the Democratic Party. Panel with Oakland’s striking teachers after the screening free admission free snacks and popcorn65785 5:00 pm Schoolidarity: screening and panel in support of the Oakland Teachers’ Strike @ Omni Commons Schoolidarity: screening and panel in support of the Oakland Teachers’ Strike @ Omni Commons Mar 3 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Liberated Lens Film Collective is screening the move Schoolidarity at the Omni Commons in support of the striking Oakland Unified teachers on Sunday, March 3rd at 5 PM. Omni Commons 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland The interwoven story of two of the most significant workers’ rights struggles of our time: the 2011 weeks-long fight by public employees in Wisconsin, and the long struggle by teachers in Chicago to win quality public schools and democracy in their union, culminating in a 2012 teachers strike. Working class struggle is analyzed through union history … Continued	5:00 pm Tax the Rich Sing-A-Long with Occupella @ Outside the Old Oaks Theater Tax the Rich Sing-A-Long with Occupella @ Outside the Old Oaks Theater Mar 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets We’re still playing every Monday that it doesn’t rain! Occupella organizes informal public singing at Bay Area occupation sites, marches and at BART stations. We sing to promote peace, justice, and an end to corporate domination, especially in support of the Occupy movement. Music has the power to build spirit, foster a sense of unity, convey messages and emotions, spread information, and bring joy to participants and audience alike. See spirited clip of an action at BART. Check out the actions calendar and come add your voice. There are lots of ways to participate … Continued 6:00 pm #AUDITAHERN (Alameda County Sheriff) GENERAL COALITION MEETING @ Ella Baker Center office #AUDITAHERN (Alameda County Sheriff) GENERAL COALITION MEETING @ Ella Baker Center office Mar 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us and our allies in our campaign to audit the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. Help strategize, build community, organize for upcoming rallies and events. Interested in join the #AuditAhern campaign? please reach out to Jose@EllaBakerCenter.org to find out more! 65815 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Mar 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	7:00 pm Socialist Night School: Socialism in the UK? The Corbyn Project @ East Bay Community Space Socialist Night School: Socialism in the UK? The Corbyn Project @ East Bay Community Space Mar 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Accessibility: Wheelchair-accessible entrance and restrooms Required Readings See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members. 65692	11:00 am Urban Shield Ad Hoc Cmte Sits Down with the Sheriff! @ Alameda County Administration Bldg Urban Shield Ad Hoc Cmte Sits Down with the Sheriff! @ Alameda County Administration Bldg Mar 6 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Ad Hoc Committee on UASI Wednesday March 6th, 2019 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM 125 12th street, 4th floor, Hayward Room (STE 400) Oakland CA 94607 Opening (15 min.)………………………………………………………………………………………………………Chair Roll call. Meeting purpose and deliverables / Direction from the Board of Supervisors. Agenda review. Review of Board Actions (30 min.)………………………………………………………County Counsel / Chair Review actions taken by the Board of Supervisors at their 2/26/2019 meeting. Review recommendations passed in BOS Motion 1. Review recommendations passed in BOS Motion 2. Review of BAUASI Funding Guidelines (30 min.)…………………………………………………BAUASI/ACSO Review funding guidelines … Continued 4:00 pm STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING Mar 6 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets A lecture: “Stamped From the Beginning: How the Ideology of Race Shapes Education and Society” For details, call 510.642.3726.65821 6:00 pm ELLA BAKER MEMBER MEETING: LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM @ San Antonio Senior Center ELLA BAKER MEMBER MEETING: LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM @ San Antonio Senior Center Mar 6 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us as we discuss and finalize the Ella Baker Centers 2019-20 legislative platform to end mass incarceration and hear from people directly impacted by criminal justice policy changes. Dinner will be provided. 65816 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 Mar 6 @ 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 7:00 pm Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era Is Transforming Kenya @ East Bay Book Sellers Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era Is Transforming Kenya @ East Bay Book Sellers Mar 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets AST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Nanjala Nyabola to discuss her new new book Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya, on Wednesday, March 6th at 7pm. Kenya is the most digitally advanced country in sub-Saharan Africa, where Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, and other online platforms are part of everyday life. And, as in Western nations, the digital age has had dramatic effects on society and politics. Yet, while we hear about the #MeToo movement and the Russian bot scandal, there is little appreciation for the feminist movement #MyDressMyChoice and the subversion of state-run … Continued 7:15 pm Film Showing: What is Democracy? by Astra Taylor at the Grand Lake @ Grand Lake Theater Film Showing: What is Democracy? by Astra Taylor at the Grand Lake @ Grand Lake Theater Mar 6 @ 7:15 pm – 9:15 pm Tickets What is Democracy? View trailer Grand Lake Theater One Night Only! Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Main auditorium at 7:15pm Astra Taylor in person with philosopher Wendy Brown, moderator Anasuya Sengupta and other special guests Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted. Director Astra Taylor’s idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents: from ancient Athens’ groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism’s roots in medieval Italy; from modern-day Greece grappling with financial collapse and a mounting refugee crisis … Continued	11:30 am Unite Against the Sweeps at City Hall – San Francisco @ Outside San Francisco City Hall Unite Against the Sweeps at City Hall – San Francisco @ Outside San Francisco City Hall Mar 7 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets On Thursday, March 7th, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is having an “exploratory” hearing into the City’s cold weather policy. The Government of the City of San Francisco has endlessly harassed folks with nowhere to go. The San Francisco Police Department has confiscated peoples tents in the rain, arrested people for creating shelter and not offering more than a temporary stay in a shelter or a cot. The People of San Francisco and the Bay Area must come together to resist these attacks on working people. Join activists from … Continued 5:30 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – Automated License Plate Readers, Etc @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1 Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – Automated License Plate Readers, Etc @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1 Mar 7 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Agenda: 4. 5:15pm: UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic – presentation of draft Privacy Principles; review and take possible action. 5. 5:30pm: Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – OPD – presentation of inaugural annual reports (FBI/JTTF, ATF, DEA, US Marshals task forces), review and take possible action. 6. 5:45pm: Presentation by Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maas – use and risks of Automated License Plate Readers 7. 6:00pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DOT – Automated License Plate Reader Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy … Continued 6:00 pm Rodeo Town Hall on Refinery Expansion @ Rodeo Hills Elementary School Rodeo Town Hall on Refinery Expansion @ Rodeo Hills Elementary School Mar 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Refinery corridor residents and allies are busy organizing a community forum on Phillips 66’s very dangerous plans to expand tar sands refining at its Rodeo facility. Increased use of tar sands in the P66 crude slate means vastly increased tanker traffic in the Bay, an increased risk of spills, and increased assaults on community health and our worsening climate. This town hall is an opportunity to learn about the two linked P66 proposals—the first Environmental Impact Report drops soon—and what we can do to stop them. Please come out to … Continued 7:00 pm Author Event: Positions of the Sun. The Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, and Counter-Movements. @ Mrs. Dalloways Author Event: Positions of the Sun. The Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, and Counter-Movements. @ Mrs. Dalloways Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The mid-2000s financial “crisis,” the spread of neoliberalism, and attempts by activists and artists to counter it. Lyn Hejinian, with Trisha Low and Noah Warren Celebrating the publication of Hejinian’s Positions of the Sun. To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of Positions of the Sun in advance at Mrs. Dalloway’s or by speaking to one of our booksellers. Positions of the Sun is a sometimes melancholy, sometimes militant cross-genre experiment, combining elements of (largely non-narrative) fiction, with those of local journalism, and of cultural and literary criticism. Its twenty-six interlocking “essays with … Continued 7:00 pm Green New Deal: A Bold New Solution Or Sustainable Snake Oil for a Green American Empire @ Revolution Books Green New Deal: A Bold New Solution Or Sustainable Snake Oil for a Green American Empire @ Revolution Books Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Discuss & Debate The Green New Deal: A Bold New Solution Or Sustainable Snake Oil for a Green American Empire Read The New Green Deal https://revcom.us/a/581/the-green-new-deal-sustainable-snake-oil-for-a-green-american-empire-en.html For more event information: https://www.revolutionbooks.org/65809 7:00 pm Speaker: Ahmed Abu Artema, of the Gaza Great March of Return @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Speaker: Ahmed Abu Artema, of the Gaza Great March of Return @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Middle East Children’s Alliance & The American Friends Service Committee present Palestinian journalist and refugee, Ahmed Abu Artema –one of the original organizers of the Gaza Great March of Return. He will speak about his experience, the future of nonviolent actions in Palestine, and his vision for a just and lasting peace. He advocates for restoration of Palestinian rights, and his writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, and more. Ahmed will be joined by Jehad Abusalim, a Chicago-based activist/scholar from Gaza and AFSC Program Associate. … Continued	5:00 pm WOMEN’S STRIKE SPEAK OUT @ Oscar Grant Plaza WOMEN’S STRIKE SPEAK OUT @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 8 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets International Women’s Strike Speak Out – which protests gender violence, racism & imperialism – takes place at Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland. For details, visit facebook ‘international women’s strike Bay Area’ or email gabrielawomen@gmail.com65820 6:00 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Mar 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance meeting to discuss plans, outreach, organizing regarding regional homeless communities and organizations. For more info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/541837129562482/65818 6:30 pm Hear German Anti-Coal Direct-Action Activists @ Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics Hear German Anti-Coal Direct-Action Activists @ Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics Mar 8 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Hear climate organizers with the German anti-coal direct action group Ende Gelande discuss their epic campaign to stop the coal mines of the Rhineland region and protect the Hambach Forest. Brought to you by your friends and comrades at Diablo Rising Tide. Over the last ten years, a strong and diverse radical climate justice movement has been growing in Germany, founded on principles of frontline struggles, mass mobilization, direct action, and cooperation across organizational and tactical differences. The last few years saw the emergence of “Ende Gelände” mass mobilizations for … Continued	10:00 am Alameda Justice Alliance 2nd Annual Town Hall @ Future Site of the McKay Avenue Wellness Ct, Across from Neptune Plaza Alameda Justice Alliance 2nd Annual Town Hall @ Future Site of the McKay Avenue Wellness Ct, Across from Neptune Plaza Mar 9 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Join Alameda Justice Alliance and friends and neighbors for our second annual Town Hall, March 9th from 10am to noon! This time we’ll meet at the future site of Alameda Point Collaborative’s McKay Avenue Wellness Center for an interactive experiential tour and info session. Meet fellow activists and organizers experienced and new, and learn how you can get involved in AJA’s work for social justice, environmental justice, housing justice, and racial justice on the Island and beyond. We welcome everyone, no experience necessary! We will be serving coffee, tea, … Continued 11:00 am International Working Women’s Day March & Festival @ Fruitvale Village International Working Women’s Day March & Festival @ Fruitvale Village Mar 9 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Members of GABRIELA Oakland and our allies invite you to join us for a Rally, March & Festival to commemorate the 111th International Working Women’s Day anniversary in honor of the first women strikers in 1908. Join us as we RISE, RESIST, and UNITE to build our collective Resistance here and abroad! Let us take the streets as we RISE up and say NO to violence against women and Trans people and RESIST militarization and state violence! Let us RISE to protect women, Trans and Gender non-conforming people, and our … Continued 12:00 pm March & Rally: Hands Off Venezuela! NO coup – NO war – NO sanctions! @ UN Plaza March & Rally: Hands Off Venezuela! NO coup – NO war – NO sanctions! @ UN Plaza Mar 9 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join us on March 9 for a march and rally against the Trump administration’s effort to engineer a coup in Venezuela and a new devastating war there. The aggressive policy against Venezuela repeats the ugly pattern of wars for regime change in the oil-rich countries of Iraq and Libya. National Security Advisor John Bolton is reading from the same script, declaring a “troika of tyranny” in Latin America (like George W. Bush’s “axis of evil”) as a precursor for regime change first in Venezuela, and then Cuba and Nicaragua. Trump … Continued 3:00 pm Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting @ Citizen Engagement Laboratory Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting @ Citizen Engagement Laboratory Mar 9 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 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 4:00 pm Immigration Emergency: In Defense & Defiance – Opening Reception and Live Printing @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center Immigration Emergency: In Defense & Defiance – Opening Reception and Live Printing @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center Mar 9 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets San Francisco Poster Syndicate, a poster artists collective based in San Francisco, will silkscreen prints live during the opening reception to celebrate the new OACC exhibition, Immigration Emergency: In Defense & Defiance. More than 30 local artists produce powerful artworks in response to the Muslim Ban, DACA, proposed changes to the Public Charge Rule, Sanctuary Cities, ICE raids and detention, family separations, the fake border emergency and Trump’s wall, the 2020 Census, the revoking of Temporary Protected Status, and the rise of deportations of Southeast Asians. Co-presented by the Oakland … Continued 6:00 pm Creativity Unhoused – Opening Reception. Art By and About the Unhoused. @ Expressions Gallery Creativity Unhoused – Opening Reception. Art By and About the Unhoused. @ Expressions Gallery Mar 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets 65797

Week of March 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.