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John Pilger’s film looks at the history of nuclear weapons in the Pacific including in Bikini Islands where the US tested nuclear weapons and the … Continued 2:00 pm Write a Letter to Chelsea Manning Rally @ Albany Bulb Write a Letter to Chelsea Manning Rally @ Albany Bulb Mar 17 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets CHALK IN LETTER WRITING TO CHELSEA MANNING AT THE ALBANY BULB. RAIN CANCELS THE EVENT.66009 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 17 @ 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	12:00 pm Free Chelsea Manning @ US Federal Bldg Free Chelsea Manning @ US Federal Bldg Mar 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Free Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange – Stop US Government Attack On Journalists and Whistleblowers Exposing US Government and Corporate Crimes Please Join and Speak Out The jailing of whistleblower and human rights activist Chelsea Manning is a threat to all people of the United States. She is being imprisoned again because she stood up for human rights and against the war crimes of the United States. After serving 7 years in jail the US government want to punish her again. She refuses to accept the Grand Jury’s right to … Continued 12:00 pm March/Direct Action @ Oily Wells (Fargo) @ Montgomery BART Station March/Direct Action @ Oily Wells (Fargo) @ Montgomery BART Station Mar 18 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm 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 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 18 @ 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 Justice for Stephon Clark, Murdered by State Racism @ Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley Justice for Stephon Clark, Murdered by State Racism @ Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley Mar 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets 6 pm: Rally at Sproul Steps 7pm: Procession to People’s Park for a Candlelight Vigil Black Lives Matter.66008 6:30 pm 𝗕𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗩𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗹 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮 @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater 𝗕𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗩𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗹 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮 @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater Mar 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets 𝗦𝗙 𝗕𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗩𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗹 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮 𝗜𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 & 𝗦𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗭𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 As we mourn the loss of life in New Zealand, let’s honor their lives by expanding, connecting and defending our movements. Join us Monday evening for community vigil against Islamophobia to express solidarity with our brothers and sisters in New Zealand, and all those targeted by white nationalism. To endorse or for more information please contact: 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼@𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴.𝗼𝗿𝗴 66036 7:30 pm Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison. Performance. @ Berkeley Marsh Cabaret, Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison. Performance. @ Berkeley Marsh Cabaret, Mar 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets In Solitary Man, Charlie travels to Crescent City to visit a lifer named Otis Washington (played by Fred). A 64 year old native of New York City, Otis has been imprisoned since 1975 and at Pelican Bay since it opened in 1989. They get to know each other during the visit, and Otis explains some of what he has learned and experienced. Solitary Man is directed by Mark Kenward. No-Host Bar at the Marsh Here is a video preview of the play! http://lifewish.org/solitaryman/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/solitarymantheplay/66032	7:00 pm Socialist Night School: Social Reproduction and the Teachers’ Strike Wave @ East Bay Community Space Socialist Night School: Social Reproduction and the Teachers’ Strike Wave @ East Bay Community Space Mar 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Social reproduction—the often gendered labor that goes into creating workers and the conditions under which people can work—is a critical concept in socialist theory that has gained new currency from the teachers’ strike wave, including right here in Oakland. Come join us to learn and talk about the connections between emerging workers’ movements and socialist analyses of gender and how labor is reproduced. Accessibility: Wheelchair-accessible entrance and restrooms Required Readings See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members. 65996	8:00 am Berkeley Homeless Lawsuits – Motions for Summary Judgement. @ Courtroom 12, 19th floor, Federal District Court Berkeley Homeless Lawsuits – Motions for Summary Judgement. @ Courtroom 12, 19th floor, Federal District Court Mar 20 @ 8:00 am – 10:00 am Tickets Judge William Alsup (of Berkeley Post Office lawsuit and DACA fame, amongst many cases of note) will hear two cases involving First They Came for the Homeless and the treatment of homeless people and activists supporting them by the Berkeley Police. 3:17-cv-06051-WHA – Sullivan et al v. Bay Area Rapid Transit Motion for Summary Judgment 3:17-cv-06774-WHA – Armstrong-Temple et al v. City of Berkeley et al Motion for Summary Judgment https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/CEO/cfd.aspx?713765857 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 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 Mar 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 CANCELLED: The End of Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley CANCELLED: The End of Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley Mar 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets CANCELLED. 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 A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award & National Book Critics’ Circle Award now offers an eye-opening new interpretation of our history. “To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.” —Anne Carson From the very beginning of this nation, the idea of an open frontier has been at the core of our American identity, symbolizing a … Continued	12:30 pm Press Conference: Fire the OPD Chief! @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre, Steps of City Hall Press Conference: Fire the OPD Chief! @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre, Steps of City Hall Mar 21 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Coalition for Police Accountability to the Federal Monitor-Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick Must Be Removed Oakland, CA.- The Coalition for Police Accountability, comprising more than 25 groups and individuals, will hold a press conference in front of City Hall calling on Federal Compliance Director, Robert Warshaw, to fire Police Chief Kirkpatrick based on his own findings in the police shooting death of Joshua Pawlik, according to the East Bay Times, “she went light on cops who made serious errors and ignored a key piece of evidence, according to internal documents released … Continued 4:00 pm March Against the Berkeley RV Ban @ People's Park March Against the Berkeley RV Ban @ People's Park Mar 21 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets March from People’s Park to Old City Hall, protesting Berkeley’s imminent ban on RVs from parking on City streets overnight, effectively banishing Berkeley residents.65859 5:30 pm Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Shooting @ Civic Center Park (MLK Park) Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Shooting @ Civic Center Park (MLK Park) Mar 21 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Caring for our CommUNITY Please join Councilmember Cheryl Davila for Berkeley Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Shooting Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park 66071 7:00 pm Author Event: No Human is Illegal @ East Bay Book Sellers Author Event: No Human is Illegal @ East Bay Book Sellers Mar 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes JJ Mulligan Sepulveda to discuss his new new book No Human Is Illegal. He will be joined by Lauren Markham. The perfect author on one of today’s hottest topics– an immigration reform lawyer’s journalistic memoir of being on the front lines of deportation. NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL is a powerful document of one lawyer’s fight for those seeking a better life in America against its ever-tightening borders. For author Mulligan Sepúlveda, the son and husband of Spanish-speaking immigrants, the battle for immigration reform is personal. Mulligan Sepúlveda writes of visiting … Continued	6:00 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Mar 22 @ 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 7:00 pm Mexico Today: After the Election of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Mexico Today: After the Election of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Mar 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A talk by Edgard Sánchez, leader of the (Partido Revolucionario de losTrajabadores de Mexico (Mexican Revolutionary Workers Party) Sponsored by Solidarity and Northern California Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism65866 7:00 pm Puzzles for Justice @ ACCE Puzzles for Justice @ ACCE Mar 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	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 23 @ 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 7:00 pm Benefit for HERF [Haiti Emergency Relief Fund] @ pin The Malonga Casquelourd Center for The Arts Benefit for HERF [Haiti Emergency Relief Fund] @ pin The Malonga Casquelourd Center for The Arts Mar 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Bay Area Artists Benefit featuring Souls of Mischief, Jenny Lim, Phavia Kujichagulia, Avotcja, Robert Wood, GoodLOVE, Destiny Muhammad, Toreadah Mikell, Tacuma King, Stone’s of Fire, Sankofa Akili Dance Ensemble and more! Come out for a great show and give to support Haiti at the same time. Tickets $20 Please share!!! 66029 7:00 pm Mad Max vs Green New Deal Showdown @ Glama!-Rama! Mad Max vs Green New Deal Showdown @ Glama!-Rama! Mar 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Climate change is upon us, and the time has come to decide: will we live under socialism, or live under water? We’ll take socialism, thank you, and so come party at the launch of East Bay DSA’s Green New Deal campaign. Explore the stark divide between the nihilism of market-driven climate destruction and the hopeful future of ecosocialism in two theme rooms, enter the costume contest to see who can enshrine each eco-timeline sartorially, and learn a little about our campaigns to support the Green New Deal and bring PG&E … Continued

Week of March 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.