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All-day						The 50th Anniversary of People’s Park @ People's Park The 50th Anniversary of People’s Park @ People's Park Apr 13 all-day Tickets The 50th Anniversary of People’s Park is coming soon in April 2019! We are planning two major events with music, speakers and food in April, likely on Saturday April 13 and Sunday April 28, 2019, and many side events! Stay tuned! 65836
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 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 7 @ 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	7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Apr 8 @ 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 7:00 pm The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight it @ UC Berkeley Moffitt Library Room 101 The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight it @ UC Berkeley Moffitt Library Room 101 Apr 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Christoph Vandreier, Deputy National Secretary of the Sozialistiche Gleichheitspartei (SGP), is the author of a new book Why are They Back? Historical Falsification, Political Conspiracy and the Return of Fascism in Germany. He will speak about the role of the SGP in exposing the network of pro-fascist academics and state intelligence operatives who are paving the way for the far-right. The meeting series will also take up the historical lessons that must be learned in order to build a mass working class movement capable of preventing the disaster of Nazism from … Continued	5:00 am Support Legislation to Redefine Police Use of Deadly Force @ West Oakland BART Support Legislation to Redefine Police Use of Deadly Force @ West Oakland BART Apr 9 @ 5:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Police should exhaust all alternatives before using deadly force Dear APTP supporters, This session we are supporting AB 392 — the California Act to Save Lives – which would require law enforcement to exhaust all other alternatives before using deadly force on us and our loved ones. It’s our duty to protect the Black, Brown and Indigenous people who suffer at the hands of law enforcement daily by every means possible. Next Tuesday, April 9, will be the first hearing on AB 392. Join impacted families and the Let Us … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland City Council – Improving Sex Worker Health and Safety @ Oakland City Hall Oakland City Council – Improving Sex Worker Health and Safety @ Oakland City Hall Apr 9 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets The City Council will be voting on support for a bill in the California legislature _Improving Sex Worker Health and Safety_ (SB 233 [1]). The hearing will be in the Third Floor Council Chambers. US PROStitutes Collective is part of the Bay Area PPC steering committee and has testified at several PPC hearings about the criminalization of survival. Although PPC does not support specific pieces of legislation, US PROS is supporting SB 233 because it aims to increase safety for sex workers by prohibiting their arrest when they come forward … Continued	4:30 pm Shut Down Chase, World’s #1 Fossil Fuel Banker @ Red Hill Shopping Center Shut Down Chase, World’s #1 Fossil Fuel Banker @ Red Hill Shopping Center Apr 10 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Join 350 Marin to let Chase Bank — the world’s number one financier of fossil fuels — know we’re done with their disastrous, world-damaging greed. From the just released 2019 study by Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, and other non-profits: Things JPMorgan Chase would rather you didn’t know: JPMorgan Chase is the #1 banker of fossil fuels, representing 29% of all global fossil fuel funding. JPMorgan Chase led all banks with a 68% expansion of its lending to fossil fuel projects in the last 3 years. JPMorgan Chase is the #1 … Continued 6:00 pm A New Anti-Displacement Strategy @ Sports Basement A New Anti-Displacement Strategy @ Sports Basement Apr 10 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets 66292 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Apr 10 @ 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	5:30 pm OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 11 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Full agenda Agenda items of special interest: VII. R-02: Searches of Individuals on Probation and Parole The Commission will review an amended version of R-02: Searches of Individuals on Probation or Parole, and may vote on approving that version. Members of communities directly impacted by the policy may share their experiences and views. IX. Bey Case – Noticing the Federal Monitor The Commission will discuss, and may vote on, a letter that will be submitted to the Federal Monitor regarding new evidence in the Bey Case XI. Police Commission … Continued 6:00 pm Movie Night at Reem’s @ Reem's Bakery Movie Night at Reem’s @ Reem's Bakery Apr 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Movie Nights at Reem’s The Arab Film and Media Institute and Reem’s are partnering to bring some of our favorite Arab films to Oakland. Screenings are free + the amazing team at Reem’s will be serving the full menu throughout the evening. And that’s not all! There will be movie snacks (including za’atar popcorn!), April 11: Refugee Stories Far from a one-size-fits-all marking of “experience” so often depicted on Western media outlets when it comes to the plight of the refugee, this program of 5 powerful short documentaries spotlight the … Continued	10:00 am ENDING LEGAL BIAS AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS @ David Brower Center ENDING LEGAL BIAS AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS @ David Brower Center Apr 12 @ 10:00 am – 2:30 pm Tickets Join Safe Return Project and Haas Institute to discuss bold solutions to end legal bias against formerly incarcerated people. ‘This convening brings together formerly incarcerated community leaders, legal experts, organizers and others to critically explore paths to liberation.’ Register here. 66335 11:30 am Monthly Interfaith Vigil at ICE (Compassion Has No Walls) @ ICE San Francisco Monthly Interfaith Vigil at ICE (Compassion Has No Walls) @ ICE San Francisco Apr 12 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets This is a monthly interfaith ceremony to demonstrate our solidarity for immigrant justice. This is also an educational opportunity for the community to learn about how current immigration policies impact our neighbors. We invite the audience to get involved in concrete ways. Join us to pray, sing, hear testimony and demand an end to detentions, deportations and policies which hurt our communities.66307 6:00 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Apr 12 @ 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	9:00 am Promise to Protect Bay Area Trainings @ RSVP for details Promise to Protect Bay Area Trainings @ RSVP for details Apr 13 @ 9:00 am – 6:30 pm Tickets We acknowledge that the Bay Area P2P training weekend takes place in occupied Ohlone territory. The Promise to Protect is a commitment to resist fossil fuels where you live and prepare to take creative action along the Keystone XL pipeline route when called upon by Indigenous leaders. Make sure to RSVP at one of the links below to save your spot Saturday training: https://actionnetwork.org/events/bayarea-saturday?source=direct_link&referrer=group-standearth Sunday training: https://actionnetwork.org/events/bayarea-sunday?source=direct_link&referrer=group-standearth With millions of dollars being poured into fossil fuel projects each year and TransCanada planning to begin building the pipeline this June, we … Continued 10:00 am Alameda County Emergency Preparedness Day @ Chabot Elementary School Alameda County Emergency Preparedness Day @ Chabot Elementary School Apr 13 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Register here.66150 ◢ 12:00 pm RV Ban Protest @ Berkeley City Hall RV Ban Protest @ Berkeley City Hall Apr 13 @ 12:00 pm – Apr 14 @ 12:00 am Tickets 66249 4:00 pm Transition Berkeley: OPEN MEETING and CELEBRATION! @ Terea Hall Pittman, South Branch, Berkeley Public Library, Transition Berkeley: OPEN MEETING and CELEBRATION! @ Terea Hall Pittman, South Branch, Berkeley Public Library, Apr 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Want to help build a better future for Berkeley?….. Transition Berkeley wants you! Curious about Transition Berkeley activities and projects? Wondering how you can be involved? Do you have ideas on how to help transform Berkeley into a more livable, equitable and sustainable place? Join us! And celebrate our 8th Anniversary and new nonprofit status! To build a better future, we have to act collectively and we have to act now! We’ll have light refreshments to share! Questions: click here 66298 4:30 pm ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons Apr 13 @ 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 Art Build to Support the Fight to Stop Proposed Bay Area Refinery Expansion Art Build to Support the Fight to Stop Proposed Bay Area Refinery Expansion Apr 13 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us during the Promise to Protect training weekend for an evening art build to create imagery, messaging, and designs that support the fight to stop the proposed Bay Area refinery expansion. Oil giant Phillips 66 wants to dramatically expand its San Francisco Bay marine terminal and refinery so it can process more toxic tar sands from Canada. This would threaten worker safety, degrade our climate, and worsen the quality of life for everyone living in the shadow of the Phillips 66 refinery— and the entire Bay Area. Tar sands … Continued 7:00 pm Can We Feed the World Without Destroying It? @ South Berkeley Senior Center Can We Feed the World Without Destroying It? @ South Berkeley Senior Center Apr 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Agribusiness corporations claim their destructive practices are necessary to feed the world’s current large population. Come hear Eric Holt-Gimenez, executive director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, debunk this claim. He will explain how, on the contrary, the current global system causes injustice, hunger, poverty and environmental degradation. He will also describe the social movements that are fighting to take back control of the food systems we all depend on. Sponsored by the Revolutionary Workers Group Info/RSVP Background: Global agribusinesses are big fossil fuel users, adding to climate change by … Continued

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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.