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All-day						Berkeley Book Festival Berkeley Book Festival May 4 all-day Tickets Welcome to our 2019 schedule of literary conversations! These events take place on 10 indoor stages throughout Downtown Berkeley and on the San Francisco Chronicle Stage in the Outdoor Fair. Indoor events are accessed via a $10 Priority Ticket to guarantee your seat (link beside each event below) or with a $15 General Admission Wristband covering all events, all weekend, on a space-available basis. Since some events fill up, we recommend Priority Tickets for your top choices. A few of the more political talks (scan all the talks and get tickets here): Us vs. Them: … Continued
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 7:00 am Feed The Hood 10 @ Cristo Rey High School Feed The Hood 10 @ Cristo Rey High School Apr 28 @ 7:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets eastoaklandcollective Feed the Hood 10 is next Sunday, April 28! Don’t forget to join us for this large scale opportunity to provide lunch and hygiene kits for our unhoused brothers and sisters across Oakland. Register today at bit.ly/feedthehood10.66404 12:00 pm Unveiling of New Freebox Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of People’s Park @ People's Park Unveiling of New Freebox Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of People’s Park @ People's Park Apr 28 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets We wish to inform you of an important upcoming event this Sunday, April 28, at the start of the 50th Anniversary Concert for People’s Park at 12pm noon. The People’s Park Committee and the People’s Park Community are pleased to announce a new, improved People’s Park FreeBox. The FreeBox is a dedicated facility for accepting and distributing donations of clothing, bedding, and other items, freely available to those in need. A longtime People’s Park tradition, the FreeBox has been replaced and rebuilt many times, but, unfortunately, there has been no … Continued 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Apr 28 @ 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 DSA Medicare for All Committee @ Niebyl Proctor Library DSA Medicare for All Committee @ Niebyl Proctor Library Apr 28 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Come join East Bay DSA’s Medicare for All Committee as we discuss updates from the fight for single-payer healthcare and upcoming organizing projects. We’ll circulate some a short reading in advance, so please RSVP. All East Bay DSA members interested in getting involved with the Medicare for All campaign are welcome! 66334 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 28 @ 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 Apr 28 @ 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 7:00 pm Presentation on refugee situation between Libya and Malta @ Longhaul Presentation on refugee situation between Libya and Malta @ Longhaul Apr 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Presentation and fundraiser for Hal Far Outreach (HFO), an NGO that is aiding refugees who have crossed the Mediterranean and ended up in the Hal far open center refugee camp. Most are fleeing from Libya. Free – donations accepted to benefit HFO https://www.facebook.com/halfaroutreach/ http://www.halfaroutreach.com The speaker has been to Malta 3 times since August, on 2 seized search and rescue boats, and helped form HFO in a refugee camp in Malta. “Most of these people are fleeing from Libya, which is a country that has been sent into chaos after … Continued	8:30 am Court Support for APTP Co-Founder, Asantewaa @ Department 3 Court Support for APTP Co-Founder, Asantewaa @ Department 3 Apr 29 @ 8:30 am – 10:30 am Tickets Last month Asantewaa, R.N. – Co-Founder of Anti Police-TTerror Project – was illegally detained and arrested at aa silent protest along with Tanya Ikembe Faison — Founder of Black Lives Matter Sacramento – at the Luccas restaurant in Downtown Sacramento, CA. Their silent protest was meant to bring attention to DA Schubert’s track record of not holding police officers accountable when they murder our community members. They were cited and released. Now have court dates. We ask that you please show up to support them in court TOMORROW! Asantewaa is … Continued 6:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ East Bay For Everyone Public Bank of the East Bay @ East Bay For Everyone Apr 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come join us make public banking happen! Local public banking bill moves ahead May update: AB 857 has cleared all Assembly committees and will be coming up for an Assembly floor vote in late May. Local public banking is coming to California! State Assembly Bill 857, which will enable cities and counties to more easily establish their own banks, passed two crucial votes this week: on Monday, the Assembly Banking and Finance committee voted to pass it, and on Wednesday, the Assembly Local Government committee did the same. Next, our … Continued 7:00 pm Equity Indicators and the People’s Budget: Week 1 – Housing @ ACCE Equity Indicators and the People’s Budget: Week 1 – Housing @ ACCE Apr 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets A 6-week series to help us develop a deeper analysis and to call attention to the kinds of changes needed in the City’s budget and policies. 4/15 – Housing 4/22 – Economy 4/29 – Education 5/6 – Public Health 5/13 – Neighborhood Life 5/20 – Public Safety The first week’s workshop on the Housing Indicators is the first of a 6-week series to help us develop a deeper analysis and to call attention to the kinds of changes needed in the City’s budget and policies. Join us for this deeper … Continued		8:30 am May Day March from Howard Terminal @ Oscar Grant Plaza May Day March from Howard Terminal @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 1 @ 8:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Come march with Oakland IWOC, Bay Area IWW, and the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists this MayDay 2019. We will be showing up for the rally 830 at OGP an transporting people to Howard Terminal for the rally/march at 11.66418 3:00 pm International Workers Day Mobilization @ Oscar Grant Plaza International Workers Day Mobilization @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 1 @ 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Gathering at 3pm at Oscar Grant Plaza Rally starts at 3:30pm March starts at 4pm Closing Rally at Lake Merritt Amphitheater For This years March: There will be a designated section at the front of the March for youth and people with disabilities who wish to lead the March. There will be several accessibility cars following the March for folks who cannot or would prefer not to walk (contact Jenny to reserve a seat Jenny.tighe@gmail.com). Please show up to the event scent-free. We will have community security, medics, food and … Continued 7:30 pm Sunrise Movement Green New Deal @ Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley Sunrise Movement Green New Deal @ Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley May 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Sunrise Movement, whose sit-in in Nancy Pelosi’s office last fall helped create momentum for a Green New Deal, will hold town hall meetings on the Green New Deal in more than 100 cities in April and May. Speakers will range from members of Congress and local politicians, to people already working to transform local economies, to performers, musicians, and community leaders who are getting behind the movement for a Green New Deal. They will share plans for the coming months and provide time for discussion of local strategies for … Continued	5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza May 2 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Pertinent agenda items: 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 report for FBI/JTTF; review and take possible action. 6. 5:40pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Hofer/Patterson – proposed amendment to prohibit use of facial recognition technology; review and take possible action. 7. 6:00pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Remote Camera Impact Report and draft use Policy – review and take possible … Continued 7:00 pm From SDS to the present @ Longhaul From SDS to the present @ Longhaul May 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Alan Haber is one of the creators of Students for a Democratic Society as well as a founder of the Long Haul in Berkeley in 1979. Odile Hugonot-Haber is the co-chair of the US Middle East Committee of the Women International League for Peace and Freedom and co-operated Long Haul from 1986-1993. This event will be a wide-ranging discussion featuring Alan, Odile and the audience on: 1. The history of the Long Haul and the history Berkeley politics in general 2. Their current peace-related and community work now 3. Activism … Continued 7:00 pm Ralf Ruckus: The Communist Road to Capitalism @ Tamarack Ralf Ruckus: The Communist Road to Capitalism @ Tamarack May 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Please join us for a presentation by Ralf Ruckus on his forthcoming book with PM Press, The Communist Road to Capitalism: Rupture and Continuity in China since 1949 “Since the reforms started in China in the 1970s, the CCP has never declared the official end of its socialist project, and its leadership still uses Mao Zedong and Marxism as ideological references. Meanwhile, Chinese labor activists use the same references today to justify their opposition against capitalist exploitation under the CCP regime. This confusion is reflected in the positions of outside … Continued 7:00 pm When We Fight We Win: Building Community Power to Dismantle the Prison System @ First Congregational Church of Oakland When We Fight We Win: Building Community Power to Dismantle the Prison System @ First Congregational Church of Oakland May 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets SURJ Bay Area is excited to invite you to a special event in Oakland, When We Fight We Win: Building Community Power to Dismantle the Prison System, featuring CURB Statewide Coordinators Amber-Rose Howard and Ivette Al, Sandra Johnson, Senior Organizer with Legal Services for Prisoners with Children / All of Us or None, and Eric Henderson, Policy Director of Initiate Justice. These four incredible movement leaders will share insights from recent fights — and victories — in the struggle to dismantle the prison system in California, from repealing sentence enhancements, … Continued 7:00 pm When We Fight We Win: Dismantling the Prison System @ First Congregational Church of Oakland When We Fight We Win: Dismantling the Prison System @ First Congregational Church of Oakland May 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Recent years have seen important fights – and important wins – in the struggle to dismantle the prison system in California. From repealing sentence enhancements, to shutting down jail expansion plans, to working to restore voting rights to folks on parole. Come hear from four incredible movement leaders at the frontline of these struggles about victories, strategies, and the importance of campaigns and coalitions in the continuing movement to dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex. Their stories will highlight the small and big ways you can also contribute to creating a … Continued 7:30 pm Cuba Libre, Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution that Changed World History @ Hillside Club Cuba Libre, Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution that Changed World History @ Hillside Club May 2 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets TONY PERROTTET with Steve Wasserman CUBA LIBRE! Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution that Changed World History 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 Books, $15 door, This is a KPFA benefit. The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Celia Sanchez, and the scrappy band of young men and women who followed them. Cuba Libre! is an absorbing look back at a liberation movement that captured the world’s imagination with its spectacular drama, foolhardy bravery, tragedy, … Continued		11:30 am Medicare for All Potluck Picnic @ Adams Point Picnic Area at Lake Merritt Medicare for All Potluck Picnic @ Adams Point Picnic Area at Lake Merritt May 4 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets East Bay DSA’s Medicare for All Committee is hosting a lakeside potluck picnic and you’re invited! Whether you have been active in our M4A work or are looking to get more involved, please bring a dish or drinks of your choice and join us! Accessibility: Parking lot off of Bellevue Ave. Closest AC Transit stop is on Grand Avenue at Perkins Street, served by the NL, 12, and 805. Public restrooms available. 66449 12:00 pm Desperate Holdings Real Estate & LandMind Spa Desperate Holdings Real Estate & LandMind Spa May 4 @ 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 2:00 pm People’s Park at 50: a Suds, Snacks & Socialism forum @ Starry Plough People’s Park at 50: a Suds, Snacks & Socialism forum @ Starry Plough May 4 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets 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 of People’s Park. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of People’s Park, the University is developing a new plan to destroy it. Michael Delacour, Carol Denney, Aidan Hill, and Eddie Monroe will discuss the history of the Park and the continuing struggle to preserve it as a community-run space. Doors open at 2pm. The program will start promptly at 2:30pm and will wrap up by 4:30pm, but folks can … Continued 3:00 pm What is Democratic Socialism? @ Bushrod Park What is Democratic Socialism? @ Bushrod Park May 4 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez are calling for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal. Teachers across the country are striking for public education and winning, and tens of thousands of people across the country are getting involved in the project of building democratic socialism in the US. But what is democratic socialism? Let’s talk about it. Since the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign brought democratic socialism back into the mainstream, the Democratic Socialists of America went from about 6,000 members to 60,000 nationwide, … Continued 4:00 pm Richmond housing challenges with Randy Shaw @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Richmond housing challenges with Randy Shaw @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center May 4 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Did you see the New York Times article everyone is talking about (“When Uber and Airbnb go public, San Francisco will drown in millionaires,” March 7), on how the 2019 IPO boom in the Bay Area is going to make the housing affordability crisis even worse? Just another reason to join us for a discussion with local author and highly successful housing activist, Randy Shaw! We will discuss his new book: “Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America” and particularly how it relates to … Continued 7:00 pm Green New Deal Town Hall @ BFUU, Fellowship Hall Green New Deal Town Hall @ BFUU, Fellowship Hall May 4 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Big Green Wave Headed West Headed Your Way! BFUU will share information on the Green New Deal, host a panel of local leaders, and provide time for discussion of local strategies for educating the public and getting politicians to endorse the Green New Deal. Sponsored by BFUU Social Justice Committee66402

Week of April 28

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.