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All-day Berkeley Book Festival Berkeley Book Festival May 5 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 and social justice related talks (scan all the talks and get tickets … Continued			Uber/Lyft Strike Uber/Lyft Strike May 8 all-day Tickets Don’t use #uber, #lyft tomorrow! Drivers on strike! #LA, #SanDiego, #SanFrancisco, #Chicago, #Atlanta, #Connecticut, #WashingtonDC, #Philadelphia, #NewYork, #Boston pic.twitter.com/bd66vTVnGk— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) May 8, 2019 66490
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 2:00 pm Panel with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Author of “The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives” @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center Panel with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Author of “The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives” @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center May 5 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences. The result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines, with proceeds to support the International Rescue Committee. Join authors Viet Thanh Nguyen, Joseph Azam, Meron Hadero, and Somdeng Danny Thongsee for a reading and panel discussion. Hosted by Michael Tran. Today the world faces an enormous refugee crisis: 68.5 million people fleeing persecution and conflict from Myanmar to South … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 5 @ 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 Book Debut: The Battle for People’s Park @ Moe's Books Book Debut: The Battle for People’s Park @ Moe's Books May 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets This is a pre-publication launch for The Battle for People’s Park, due out mid-month from Berkeley’s own Heyday Books. Get an early copy, and meet author Tom Dalzell. Join us, fifty years after, for this “only in Berkeley” event! In eyewitness testimonies and hundreds of remarkable photographs, The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969 commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most searing conflicts that closed out the tumultuous 1960s: the Battle for People’s Park. In April 1969, a few Berkeley activists planted the first tree on a University … 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 May 6 @ 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 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting May 6 @ 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	5:00 pm RALLY TO SAVE KAISER GARDENERS! RALLY TO SAVE KAISER GARDENERS! May 7 @ 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets KAISER HAS LOST ITS WAY. IT’S ON US TO GET KAISER BACK ON TRACK. JOIN US FOR A RALLY TO SAVE KAISER GARDENERS! LABOR, COMMUNITY, ELECTED OFFICIALS AND INTERFAITH LEADERS WILL JOIN US AND SEIU-UHW FOR THEIR MAY 7TH/MAY 8TH ACTIONS AT ONE KAISER PLAZA, OAKLAND, CA AGAINST KAISER PERMANENTE. ONCE KNOWN AS A LEADER FOR GOOD JOBS, KAISER IS NOW AGGRESSIVELY OUTSOURCING JOBS TO LESS EXPERIENCED WORKERS FOR POVERTY WAGES AND NO BENEFITS. TUESDAY, MAY 7TH Â· 5PM: RALLY/PRESS CONFERENCE Â· 6PM: SET UP GARDENING AREA/SET UP TENTS … Continued 5:30 pm Let Schaaf and City Council Know it’s Time to Defund OPD! @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Let Schaaf and City Council Know it’s Time to Defund OPD! @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza May 7 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Let Libby Schaaf know how we can fix Oakland’s broken budget when she presents her budget at the Oakland City Council Meeting on May 7th. Tell her we need to Defund OPD and Invest in Community!! [Event] Defund OPD and Invest in Communityhttps://t.co/aEDPOYzE6Z— Indybay (@Indybay) May 6, 2019 66422 6:30 pm KPFA Documentary Film Night: Healing Justice @ New Parkway Theater KPFA Documentary Film Night: Healing Justice @ New Parkway Theater May 7 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Healing Justice, explores the causes and consequences of the current North American justice system and its effect on marginalized communities. The film walks back through the history of violence that has led to our current system, bringing into focus the histories of trauma – on a personal, interpersonal, community, and generational level. This powerful documentary addresses the school-to-prison pipeline, the need for comprehensive criminal justice reform, and the importance of healing and restorative practices. Designed for dialogue, Healing Justice is meant to prompt questions and open conversations, exploring trauma, justice, … Continued 7:00 pm HABEAS DATA paperback edition launch party! @ Ale Industries HABEAS DATA paperback edition launch party! @ Ale Industries May 7 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets You are being watched. Whether through your phone or your car or your credit card, caught on a CCTV camera or tracked through your online viewing history, government agencies know where you are, and are quietly collecting your most intimate, mundane, and personal information. Is this even legal? Habeas Data shows how the explosive growth of surveillance technology has outpaced our understanding of the ethics, mores, and laws of privacy. Award-winning tech reporter Cyrus Farivar makes the case by taking ten historic court decisions that defined our privacy rights and matching … Continued 7:00 pm Socialist Night School: Imperialism @ East Bay Community Space Socialist Night School: Imperialism @ East Bay Community Space May 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Throughout the history of capitalism, wealthy elites from a handful of countries have managed to impose their dominance across the world, subjecting people, land, and resources in the Global South to intense forms of exploitation. Socialists call this system imperialism, and see it as a central feature of the capitalist global economy. But it’s often difficult to see how exactly imperialism works, who it benefits, or how it manages to maintain control. Join East Bay DSA on Tuesday, May 7th as we discuss imperialism in the 21st century, its roots … Continued 7:30 pm ANAND GIRIDHARADAS: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World @ Sydney Goldstein Theater ANAND GIRIDHARADAS: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World @ Sydney Goldstein Theater May 7 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets In Conversation with Courtney E. Martin Buy Tickets 415.392.4400 CITY ARTS & LECTURES Anand Giridharadas is the author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, which explores the ways in which the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” through philanthropy preserve the status quo and obscure their own role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. His past books include India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking and The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, which has been adapted into a film, to be released in 2019. He is also an … Continued	5:00 pm Billionaires Can’t Teach Our Kids! Billionaires Can’t Teach Our Kids! May 8 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets On May 8th, the NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) will hold its annual conference in Oakland. NSVF — funded by billionaire donors is a venture capital fund that works to expand charter school proliferation in local communities like Oakland. Unchecked charter growth already costs OUSD schools over $57 million a year. Oakland kids deserve better — and Oakland won’t let NSVF hold a conference in our Town without a response. Join us in the streets on May 8th as the conference begins, and we’ll tell NSVF to get out of … Continued 6:00 pm Ella Baker General Meeting @ San Antonio Senior Center Ella Baker General Meeting @ San Antonio Senior Center May 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Ella Baker Center’s monthly member meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 8th; the second week of May in order to accommodate for the May Day rally happening tomorrow, Wednesday, May 1st. This month’s member meeting will include a new member orientation. If you are interested in learning about our membership, the Ella Baker Center in general, or what is happening with criminal justice reform at a state level we invite you to join us. This is an open meeting and a free dinner will be provided. Please join … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons May 8 @ 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	6:30 pm Oakland Police Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Police Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza May 9 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Full Agenda Some agenda items of interest: Pawlik Investigation Update The Commission will discuss CPRA’s recent findings on the Pawlik investigation. Karen Tom and Joan Saupe will review the process. This is a new item. (Attachment 4) IX. 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 will discuss the status of collaboration with OPD. X. Oakland Black Officers Association (OBOA) Letter The Commission will discuss allegations in the OBOA letter in the Oakland … Continued	6:00 pm AIN’T I A MOTHER TOO: Conversations about Housing Instability @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center AIN’T I A MOTHER TOO: Conversations about Housing Instability @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center May 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us for a FREE thought-provoking conversation about housing instability in the Bay Area – and to be a part of the solution! The Ella Baker Center is thrilled to be co-hosting “Ain’t I A Mother Too?” at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Register here While many applaud and appreciate the innovations of modern society, we know that our society has failed to keep up with adequate housing supply to meet the needs of the people. This is why our coalition is looking to change the narrative and engage with … Continued	8:00 am Mourning Mothers Walk for Healing @ San Leandro Marina Park Mourning Mothers Walk for Healing @ San Leandro Marina Park May 11 @ 8:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets 1000 MOTHERS TO PREVENT VIOLENCE Hosts 10th Mourning Mothers “Walk for Healing” For Families and Friends of Homicide Victims and those impacted by PTSD” (San Leandro – May 11, 2019) Hundreds are expected to join 1000 Mothers to Prevent Violence 10th annual “Mourning Mothers Walk for Healing” at the San Leandro Marina Park (Heron); The Mourning Mothers Walk was started by Lorrain Taylor, founder and executive director of “1000 Mothers to Prevent Violence” to help grieving families dealing with PTSD and to raise awareness to the ongoing impact of violence … Continued 12:00 pm Desperate Holdings Real Estate & LandMind Spa Desperate Holdings Real Estate & LandMind Spa May 11 @ 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 3:00 pm Report Back from Haiti Report Back from Haiti May 11 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 66462 4:30 pm ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons May 11 @ 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 7:00 pm Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing @ Tamarack Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing @ Tamarack May 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Please join us for a talk by Jenny Odell in celebration of her new book How to Do Nothing / Resisting the Attention Economy. ”A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . … Continued

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.