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All-day California Progressive Alliance founding convention @ San Luis Obispo Guild Hall California Progressive Alliance founding convention @ San Luis Obispo Guild Hall Mar 31 all-day Tickets The new California Progressive Alliance seeks to elevate progressive ideas; promote the creation of local political alliances and coalitions for political power; support corporate-free progressive candidates and issue-based electoral campaigns; and expand the communication and dialogue among all our progressive family in the state of California, respecting and supporting the work done by all. The CPA is having is founding convention in San Luis Obispo March 30-31! Register by January 31 and get 25% off with early bird registration for our founding Convention in San Luis Obispo March 30-31. Speakers … Continued
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Network with Bay Area and California non-profits making the change happen, including: Ella Baker Center for … Continued 10:00 am Antidotes to White Fragility Workshop @ Sierra Club Antidotes to White Fragility Workshop @ Sierra Club Mar 31 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets What skills, tools and approaches are useful in encouraging white people to sustain balanced engagement with anti-racism/racial justice education and work? How can we cultivate resilience (as opposed to white fragility) in ourselves, our communities, and our movements? White Fragility is defined by Robin DiAngelo as “A state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation … Continued 10:30 am Democratic Socialism: An Impossible Dream? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Democratic Socialism: An Impossible Dream? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Mar 31 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Is industrial civilization compatible with economic democracy, or is democratic socialism impossible in a globalized industrial society? This presentation will examine the powerful material conditions that have frustrated every effort to replace capitalism with genuine democratic socialism. Hopefully, this will become the starting point for a discussion about what kinds of energy sources and technologies are most conducive to democratic control. Strongly suggested background reading: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/30/democratic-socialism-the-impossible-dream/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/01/why-did-socialism-fail/ Craig Collins, Ph.D. is the author of Toxic Loopholes (Cambridge University Press), which examines America’s dysfunctional system of environmental protection. He teaches political science and environmental … Continued 12:15 pm What Can We Do About Mass Incarceration? @ First Unitarian Church of Oakland What Can We Do About Mass Incarceration? @ First Unitarian Church of Oakland Mar 31 @ 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Panel and Dialog: Jose Bernal: Senior Organizer Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Serves on the S.F. Reentry Council; advocates for restorative justice policies; spearheaded campaigns to de-privatize reentry services and end gang injunctions. Graduate of Stanford University’s Project ReMade program, a course aimed at empowering the formerly incarcerated. Jonathon Simon: directs the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC and teaches about punishment, prisons, and mass incarceration. His books include, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Society and Created a Culture of … Continued 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Mar 31 @ 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. 66132 1:00 pm Hands Off Venezuela @ Federal Building Hands Off Venezuela @ Federal Building Mar 31 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets 66141 3:00 pm TANC General Assembly @ Omni Commons TANC General Assembly @ Omni Commons Mar 31 @ 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 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 31 @ 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 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 Mar 31 @ 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 8:00 pm Film: “From Soweto to Berkeley” @ Redwood Gardens Community Room Film: “From Soweto to Berkeley” @ Redwood Gardens Community Room Mar 31 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets From Soweto to Berkeley, an important, seldom-seen documentary, made in 1987 by Scott Wiseman, about the massive, militant anti-Apartheid movement at U.C. Berkeley in 1985-86 that succeeded in getting the University to divest its holdings in companies doing business with South Africa. When Nelson Mandela spoke at the Oakland Coliseum on 30 June 1990, he thanked specifically both ILWU Local 10 and the movement at U.C. Berkeley for their contribution to the struggle that had led to his release a few months earlier and the beginning of the end of … Continued	9:00 am Ban RoundUp in Alameda County @ Alameda County Administration Building, 5th Floor Ban RoundUp in Alameda County @ Alameda County Administration Building, 5th Floor Apr 1 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets UPDATE The Board of Supervisors, for a reason unknown to us, canceled their scheduled Transportation and Planning Committee meeting scheduled for Monday 3/4, at which this issue was scheduled to be heard. As far as we know, the issue will be heard Monday April 1st at 9am. Please come, and spread the word! We have an historic opportunity to place a moratorium on Bayer’s (formerly Monsanto’s) RoundUp, and all toxic herbicides containing glyphosate in Alameda County. We need YOU to come out on April 1st and to spread the word. … 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 Apr 1 @ 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 Apr 1 @ 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 Oakland Justice Coalition @ ACCE Oakland Justice Coalition @ ACCE Apr 1 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Futuring OJC In the way of all things in springtime, we want to engage what is emerging around us and begin to assess where we need to be in the months to come. You’re invited to join us for a “What’s Next for OJC” conversation. The focus of this meeting will be the beginning of our engagement around these questions: What is my individual capacity for future work in this coalition? What is my organization’s interest in participating? What is my individual capacity and interest in taking up organizing roles … Continued 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Apr 1 @ 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		6:00 pm Ella Baker Monthly Meeting with Nikki Bas @ Fruitvale-San Antonio Senior Center Ella Baker Monthly Meeting with Nikki Bas @ Fruitvale-San Antonio Senior Center Apr 3 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Our monthly member meeting is tonight! Join us for a conversation with council member Nikki Bas and a delicious dinner from #7flavors. Can't wait to see you there! pic.twitter.com/ka432Yk5mE— Ella Baker Center (@ellabakercenter) April 3, 2019 66283 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 Apr 3 @ 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 A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security. @ Books, Inc A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security. @ Books, Inc Apr 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets RACHEL KLEINFELD at Books Inc. Berkeley Senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Rachel Kleinfeld discusses her comprehensive work, A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security. The most violent places in the world today are not at war. More people have died in Mexico in recent years than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. These parts of the world are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless, yet some places–from Colombia … Continued 7:30 pm The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Apr 3 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 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 As the United States continues to tear-gas and imprison asylum seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border, we wonder why so many Hondurans are fleeing their homeland, now one of the most violent countries in the world due to a devastating drug war and a political crisis stemming largely from a U.S.-backed coup. Dana Frank’s powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya overthrown in … Continued	5:00 pm Demand that Barr immediately release the full Mueller report @ El Cerrito Plaza, on San Pablo Ave Demand that Barr immediately release the full Mueller report @ El Cerrito Plaza, on San Pablo Ave Apr 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Attend one of the 300 actions around the country demanding that Barr immediately release the full Mueller report and underlying evidence. Last night, Donald Trump’s hand-picked attorney general, William Barr, missed the deadline set by Congress to release the full Mueller report. That’s why tomorrow, Thursday, April 4 at nearly 300 events around the country the Nobody Is As Above the Law coalition is joining together to demand that Barr immediately release the full report and supporting evidence. Click here to check out a map of the actions and RSVP … Continued 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – ALPRs, JTTF report, etc @ Oakland City Hall Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – ALPRs, JTTF report, etc @ Oakland City Hall Apr 4 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Relevant Agenda Items 4. 5:15pm: Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – OPD – presentation of inaugural annual report for FBI/JTTF, review and take possible action. 5. 5:25pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Automated License Plate Reader Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy – review and take possible action. 6. 6:00pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Remote Camera Impact Report and draft use Policy – review and take possible action. 7. 6:20pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – UC Berkeley/Steve Trush – Review of Surveillance Acquisition Technology Questionnaire revisions 8. … Continued 7:00 pm Author Event: Seeking Rights From the Left @ East Bay Book Sellers Author Event: Seeking Rights From the Left @ East Bay Book Sellers Apr 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Elisabeth Jay Friedman to discuss her new book Seeking Rights From the Left: Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Pink Tide, on Thursday, April 4 at 7pm. She will be joined in conversation by C.S. Soong. Seeking Rights from the Left offers a unique comparative assessment of left-leaning Latin American governments by examining their engagement with feminist, women’s, and LGBT movements and issues. Focusing on the “Pink Tide” in eight national cases–Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela–the contributors evaluate how the Left addressed gender- and sexuality-based rights through … Continued 7:00 pm Devi Laskar, author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues @ Revolution Books Devi Laskar, author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues @ Revolution Books Apr 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets In The Atlas of Reds and Blues, an American born daughter of Bengali immigrants moves her family to a suburb of Atlanta. What happens there bears witness to American racism and abuse of power, tracing one woman’s shift from acquiescence to resistance. The Atlas of Reds and Blues is as narratively beautiful as it is brutal…. Laskar creates a world where the consequences of American terror never stop reverberating…I’ve never read a novel that does nearly as much in so few pages. Laskar has changed how we will all write … Continued 7:30 pm Solito, Solita Book Launch @ Pegasus Bookstore Solito, Solita Book Launch @ Pegasus Bookstore Apr 4 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join the editors and two narrators of Solito, Solita for a discussion of this powerful new book from Voice of Witness and Haymarket Books. Solito, Solita tells the stories of youth refugees fleeing their home countries and traveling for hundreds of miles seeking safety and protection in the United States. In an era of fear, xenophobia, and outright lies, these stories amplify the compelling voices of immigrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment, bravery and resilience, hypocrisy and hope? Narrators: Gabriel, who after surviving sexual abuse starting at the age … Continued	12:00 pm Desperate Holdings Real Estate & LandMind Spa Desperate Holdings Real Estate & LandMind Spa Apr 5 @ 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Opening Friday, April 5, please visit DESPERATE HOLDINGS REAL ESTATE & LandMind Spa, an immersive art installation organized by Cassie Thornton of the Feminist Economics Department (the FED). See our full website at http://www.desperateholdings.com. Installation available for viewing through May 11th. In 2015 Cassie Thornton, recently displaced from her San Francisco apartment, walked past the Salesforce Tower construction site in downtown San Francisco. Workers were digging 200 ft below, where they found Barbary Coast beams and thick clay-like soil. The foreman offered her and her friend a truckload of this clay, which would otherwise … Continued 6:00 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Apr 5 @ 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	2:00 pm Poor People’s Hearing for the Bay Area @ United Methodist Church Poor People’s Hearing for the Bay Area @ United Methodist Church Apr 6 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Join us for a Poor People’s Hearing on Homelessness, Mass Incarceration, and the Criminalization of Poverty in the Bay Area. Poor People’s Hearing Bay Area. Changing the Moral Narrative: Against Systemic Racism, Poverty, the War Economy, and Ecological Devastation. This Bay Area hearing will focus specifically on homelessness, mass incarceration, and the criminalization of poverty. It is the Oakland stop on a statewide Poor People’s Bus Tour from the Yurok Indian Nation in the North down to the U.S.-Mexico border. The Bus Tour is organized the California Poor People’s Campaign … Continued 2:00 pm The Green New Deal: A Step Towards Ecological Socialism? @ Starry Plough The Green New Deal: A Step Towards Ecological Socialism? @ Starry Plough Apr 6 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Green New Deal: A Step Towards Ecological Socialism? – a Suds, Snacks & Socialism forum Join the Peace and Freedom Party’s Alameda County chapter for the monthly Suds, Snacks and Socialism forum. All are welcome to discuss the topic The Green New Deal: A Step Towards Ecological Socialism?. Is the Green New Deal as presented in Congress the real deal? Can it restore and protect the environment, halt climate change, and bring about economic justice? Join Marsha Feinland, Michael Rubin, and Larry Shoup for a lively discussion . Doors open at 2pm. … Continued 5:00 pm Low Budget Livestream Workshop by Liberated Lens @ Omni Commons Low Budget Livestream Workshop by Liberated Lens @ Omni Commons Apr 6 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Calling all filmmakers –We’re going live! This will be a 2 hour, hands-on workshop where we’ll learn OBS (Open Broadcast Software) and low budget (>$500) multi-cam livestreaming –we’ll take feeds from multiple cameras, a projector, and an audio signal to create a live show. $5 minimum donation suggested, but NOTAFLOF 🙂66443 7:00 pm Mumia Abu-Jamal: An Evening for Justice and Freedom @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Mumia Abu-Jamal: An Evening for Justice and Freedom @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Apr 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 66227

Week of March 31

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.