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All-day					Youth Climate Strike Youth Climate Strike Mar 15 all-day Tickets On March 15, students across the US and the world will be going on strike, because decades of inaction have left us with only 11 years to avoid the worst effects of climate change. We’ll be striking to demand a Green New Deal, because we deserve good jobs and a livable future! Sign up here if you want to participate in, or help to organize, a school strike in your area! You can find out more information about the US Youth Climate Strike movement here: https://www.youthclimatestrikeus.org/ Also see the Facebook pages … Continued	March/Direct Action @ Oily Wells (Fargo) @ PF Chang's parking lot March/Direct Action @ Oily Wells (Fargo) @ PF Chang's parking lot Mar 16 all-day Tickets Join the March for Fossil Fuel Freedom, ending with a rally and nonviolent direct action at the San Francisco headquarters of Big Oil’s favorite banker, Oily Wells (Fargo). The direct action will be the conclusion of a three-day, 34-mile march from Palo Alto to San Francisco. Indigenous people and other faith leaders will lead the march in prayer and contemplation. The march will make twelve “stagecoach stops” along the way – one for every year that remains to take urgent action on climate change – and arrive at the bank’s world … Continued
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No cost, but donations are always … Continued 1:00 pm Direct Action Training: Fossil Fuel March @ Omni Commons Direct Action Training: Fossil Fuel March @ Omni Commons Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets This training is in preparation for a nonviolent direct action March 18 in San Francisco but everyone is welcome, even if you can’t participate that day. With wildfires and weather disasters all around us, and just 12 years left to address the climate crisis (per IPCC report), we’ll have many opportunities to stand up for future generations and a sustainable world. We especially encourage anyone willing to serve in support roles (not risking arrest) to join us. The action will occur during our March for Fossil Fuel Freedom culminating rally, … Continued 1:00 pm East Bay DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons East Bay DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets EBDSA’s General Meetings are at 1:00 p.m. on the second Sunday of each month – the next is on Sunday, March 10th at the Omni Commons. These meetings are the highest governing body of our organization, and include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more. Volunteering at the GM is lively, easy, and low-commitment, and volunteers participate fully in meeting business. The contribution is huge, though – meetings require a lot of hands, and our volunteers keep them lively, inspiring, and productive. Join up … Continued 2:00 pm Film Screening: “Resistance at Tule Lake” @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center Film Screening: “Resistance at Tule Lake” @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center Mar 10 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Oakland Asian Cultural Center presents Resistance At Tule Lake, a film that overturns the myth of Japanese Americans as obedient government collaborators during their WWII incarceration. Konrad Aderer’s seminal film reveals the long-marginalized story of Tule Lake Segregation Center, the overcrowded, highly-militarized concentration camp where over 12,000 Japanese Americans were demonized and punished for speaking out against the injustice of their incarceration. “Resistance at Tule Lake” is a potent piece of history at a time when the United States is once again feeling less than hospitable. — The New York … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 10 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 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 … Continued 5:00 pm Green Sunday: Shelter Now! Alternatives to the Housing Crisis @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday: Shelter Now! Alternatives to the Housing Crisis @ Niebyl Proctor Library Mar 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Shelter Now! Alternatives to the Housing Crisis The Green Party of Alameda County welcomes Clark Sullivan and Mary Behm-Steinberg to discuss alternative solutions to the housing crisis in the Bay Area. As rental costs increase across the city and climate change devastates Northern California regions, and as the Berkeley City Council recently passed overnight bans against RV dwellers, particularly at the Berkeley Marina — our panelists offer their unique experiences fighting for the rights of unhoused residents and low-income homeowners facing eviction and displacement, and offer next-step solutions on building … Continued 6:00 pm NOT HAPPENING: Liberated Lens film night: “No Choice” @ Omni Commons NOT HAPPENING: Liberated Lens film night: “No Choice” @ Omni Commons Mar 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets No additional information yet.65754 7:00 pm Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Indivisible Berkeley General Assembly @ Finnish Hall Mar 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Doors open at 7. We start promptly at 7:30. Join us for this interactive Bystander Intervention Training! This training will be led by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. During the training, participants will learn about the history and principles of nonviolence, and will practice specific de-escalation techniques as a bystander in a variety of scenarios. 65853 7:00 pm Party for 31 years of Slingshot newspaper publishing @ Longhaul Party for 31 years of Slingshot newspaper publishing @ Longhaul Mar 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Slingshot turns 31 years old – 1988 – 2019 Meet authors from the last 31 years, learn how you can get involved in Slingshot for the next 31 years, look at a display of back issues. plus (as always) Vegan chocolate cake, zany free raffle for door prizes, get copies of issue #128 of the paper, maybe snacks, maybe music 65813 7:00 pm Screening of ‘Sara’ @ Tamarack Oakland Screening of ‘Sara’ @ Tamarack Oakland Mar 10 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets “They cut my breasts in torture, I didn’t even say “ah”, The prevalent mindset is that if a woman knows justice, to cut her breasts I am embarrassed to even say “ah” as a militant of a justified cause. ” Sakine Cansız (Sara) Sara was born in Dersim in 1958 as the daughter of an Alevi family. She was one of the founding members of the PKK, a political activist and feminist known by the codename “Sara” in the organization. She was among the founders of the PKK and was … Continued	10:00 am Public Banking Press Conference @ Old Mint Public Banking Press Conference @ Old Mint Mar 11 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets 📢 Join us for some exciting public banking news Monday morning in LA and SF! We’re building a movement all across the state! ➡LA: 9AM @ LA City Hall ➡SF: 10AM @ Old Mint (88 Fifth St)#publicbanksnow 🙌 pic.twitter.com/j7xJrQKNbj — California Public Banking Alliance (@calpba) March 8, 2019 CA legislators to announce new bill The fight for socially and environmentally responsible public banking in California is about to level up! On Monday morning, March 11, state legislators will unveil a new bill to advance public banking in California. The California … Continued 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – Special Meeting re ALPR Policy @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 2 Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – Special Meeting re ALPR Policy @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 2 Mar 11 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets A Special Meeting of the PAC has been called in Hearing Room 2 at City Hall to continue conversation and take action on the Department of Transportation’s Automated License Plate Reader Policy and the Oakland Police Department’s Automated License Plate Reader Policies. 65855 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 11 @ 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 5:30 pm Public Bank East Bay General Membership Meeting @ East Bay for Everyone Public Bank East Bay General Membership Meeting @ East Bay for Everyone Mar 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Next Organizers’ Meeting: Come Get Involved in the Effort to Create a Regional Public Bank! Working Group Meetings: Some of our working groups meet between organizers’ meetings, and others just confer by phone and email. You can plug into any one of these: Outreach to Organizations Outreach to Individuals Digital Outreach Advocacy (working with politicians) Governance California Public Banking Alliance Operations Just send us a note and we’ll help you get connected to the work you want to do. The Advocacy Working Group meets with public officials, government staff and other stakeholders … Continued 6:30 pm Reckoning With Violence – Panel Discussion @ All of Us or None of Us Reckoning With Violence – Panel Discussion @ All of Us or None of Us Mar 11 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets All of Us or None is thrilled to welcome in conversation Danielle Sered, George Galvis, and Malachi Scott to talk about transformative responses to violence and building a movement to end mass incarceration that includes everyone—including people who commit violence. We know too well that all too often our movement draws lines between people convicted of non-violent and violent offenses that often leave people convicted of violence with little of the relief being sought administratively, legislatively or through the ballot box. We hope that this discussion will: 1) Assist audience … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Mar 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	10:00 am Stop the Sheriff from Torpedoing the Decision to End Urban Shield @ Alameda County Administration Bldg , 5th Floor Stop the Sheriff from Torpedoing the Decision to End Urban Shield @ Alameda County Administration Bldg , 5th Floor Mar 12 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets On February 26th, as a result of years of community organizing, the Board of Supervisors accepted 60 out of 63 community-supported recommendations for changes to emergency preparedness trainings under the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) funding. On Tuesday March 12th, Supervisors have the opportunity to take the next steps in making a community-led vision for safety and disaster response a reality. The Alameda County Sheriff is fighting tooth and nail to sabotage the path forward for community-supported emergency preparedness. Let’s continue to work with—and push!—our Supervisors to make sure we … Continued 3:00 pm Justice for Stephon Clark! Occupy the Police Station! @ Sacramento Police Station Justice for Stephon Clark! Occupy the Police Station! @ Sacramento Police Station Mar 12 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets FIRE TERRENCE MERCADAL! FIRE JARED ROBINET! TAKE THEM OFF OF OUR STREETS NOW!! THERE WILL BE NO PEACE TILL THERE IS JUSTICE!! COME WHEN YOU GET OFF WORK COME IF YOU AINT GOT NO JOB COME WHEN YOU GET OUT OF CLASS OR SKIP WORK AND SCHOOL TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE JUST BRING YA A$$! Meet us at the police station at 3pm!! JUSTICE FOR STEPHON CLARK! Hosted by Black Lives Matter Sacramento65995 4:00 pm Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area @ 370 Dwinelle Hall, University of California Berkeley Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area @ 370 Dwinelle Hall, University of California Berkeley Mar 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Author and historian Peter Cole will discuss his new book, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. This book largely focuses upon the long history of activism by members of ILWU Local 10 for racial equality locally and nationally and against apartheid internationally. It also compares and contrasts the fascinating, unknown history of docker activism in the port of Durban, South Africa. 65814	6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Mar 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay. We fight against “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” spy drones, facial recognition, police body cameras and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones, to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government. We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no … Continued 8:00 pm Robert Reich: Free Speech in Angry Times @ ASUC Student Union Robert Reich: Free Speech in Angry Times @ ASUC Student Union Mar 13 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 65699	5:30 pm OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION – Joshua Pawley, Probation Searches @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION – Joshua Pawley, Probation Searches @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 14 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Full agenda. Oakland Police Department (OPD) Report on Pawlik Investigation Chief Anne Kirkpatrick will provide the Executive Force Review Board report, the Compliance Director’s report and addendum related to the Joshua Pawlik shooting investigation. (Attachments 10a, 10b, 10c, 10d) a. Discussion b. Public Comment c. Action, if any Searches of Individuals on Probation and Parole The Commission will review an updated proposal for R-02: Searches of Individuals on Probation or Parole. (Attachments 11a, 11b) 66014 6:45 pm Intro to SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) @ Sierra Club Intro to SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) @ Sierra Club Mar 14 @ 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.65696 7:00 pm Naila and the Uprising Film Screening @ Berkeley City College Naila and the Uprising Film Screening @ Berkeley City College Mar 14 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets In celebration of International Women’s Day, join us for this special film screening When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Naila and the Uprising chronicles the journey of Naila Ayesh and a fierce community of women on the front lines, whose stories weave … Continued	10:00 am Global Climate Strike – Berkeley @ Civic Center Park (MLK Park) Global Climate Strike – Berkeley @ Civic Center Park (MLK Park) Mar 15 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets March 15th, Global Climate Strike For Future! Call to the youth of the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=51&v=fhE6YAIqCuk In 2015, our governments committed in Paris to protecting our future by providing a safe pathway well below 2C with Social and Climate Justice.. Three years have passed, and our future looks bleaker than ever! The greedy guess that 3C warming is ok. Climate scientists have evidence that even 2C will cause massive starvation, drought, fire tornados, floods, wars and death. All because today’s adults do not care about tomorrow. They are stealing our future … Continued 6:00 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Mar 15 @ 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	1:30 pm No Coal in Richmond Canvassing @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center No Coal in Richmond Canvassing @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Mar 16 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets If you learned that coal dust containing arsenic, lead, mercury, and cadmium was blowing through your neighborhood, wouldn’t you want to take action? Come help No Coal in Richmond reach out to as many residents as possible between now and late March or early April. That’s when the Richmond City Council will vote on an ordinance to prohibit new coal or pet coke facilities, prevent the Levin-Richmond Terminal from expanding, and phase out existing coal handling and storage. We have less than a month to reach the most affected Richmond residents about the massive amounts of coal-for-export … Continued 3:30 pm Screenings: Fruitvale Station & Sorry to Bother You @ Oakland Library, 81st St Branc Screenings: Fruitvale Station & Sorry to Bother You @ Oakland Library, 81st St Branc Mar 16 @ 3:30 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets 66017 4:30 pm ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons Mar 16 @ 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 6:00 pm A CELEBRATION OF PEOPLE’S PARK @ ART HOUSE GALLERY & CULTURAL CENTER A CELEBRATION OF PEOPLE’S PARK @ ART HOUSE GALLERY & CULTURAL CENTER Mar 16 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Doors open at 6 pm for Pot Luck, talk, and music. Concert 7:30-10 pm with The Yosemitones (Driftwood Dave Yosemite and Katie Lee Yosemite with Hali Hammer on bass), and Carol Denney. 65835 7:00 pm Building Sanctuary for Migrants Arriving in the Bay Area @ Kehilla Community Synagogue Building Sanctuary for Migrants Arriving in the Bay Area @ Kehilla Community Synagogue Mar 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Thousands of migrants are fleeing rampant violence and abject poverty, and are headed to the Bay Area. How do we open space for them? How do we strengthen existing organizations and networks who welcome migrants and asylum seekers to the Bay Area? How does defending sanctuary and asylum laws against Trump’s Administration contribute to the larger struggle against racism and white supremacy in the United States? Join SURJ Bay Area, SURJ San Francisco, the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, and the Kehilla Community Synagogue for an evening of solidarity and … Continued

Week of March 10

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.