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Starts are available to take home, as a part of our fundraiser. • Weeding, prepping beds, and mixing compost Connect with the Earth while helping cultivate the nourishing fruits and vegetables that help feed the … Continued 11:45 am CODEPINK Monthly Golden Gate Bridge WALK for PEACE: Immigrant Rights @ at the plaza at the SF end of the eastern walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge CODEPINK Monthly Golden Gate Bridge WALK for PEACE: Immigrant Rights @ at the plaza at the SF end of the eastern walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge Jul 21 @ 11:45 am – 2:15 pm Tickets CODEPINK GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE PEACE WALK! Our focus this month: Immigrants rights/getting children out of cages/family separation Some signs provided, or bring your own. Dress warmly. It’s often chilly and windy on the bridge. EVERYONE WELCOME. BRING YOUR FAMILY! Suggested messages: LEAVE NO CHILD BEHIND FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER REUNITE FAMILIES NO BORDERS ON STOLEN LAND NO BAN, NO WALL SANCTUARY FOR ALL CLOSE THE CAMPS 1:45 am: Gather at the plaza at the SF end of the eastern walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge. Arrive early for best parking. … Continued 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Jul 21 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Sunflower Alliance Meeting 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! 66722 2:00 pm Alternatives to Policing 4: Transformative Justice @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Alternatives to Policing 4: Transformative Justice @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Jul 21 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets How do we respond to violence within our own communities without relying on the police, prisons or other state systems? This event will offer a basic introduction to and overview of the core concepts of transformative justice. It will be a space for participants to learn about transformative justice and how to begin thinking about community-based responses to violence. We will also cover the concept of “pods” from the BATJC. This will be an educational event with a Q&A. We ask for a sliding scale donation of any amount to … Continued 2:00 pm BALPA Picnic at Aquatic Park @ Aquatic Park, South of Dreamland Kids Park and South of the end of Bolivar Dr. BALPA Picnic at Aquatic Park @ Aquatic Park, South of Dreamland Kids Park and South of the end of Bolivar Dr. Jul 21 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Folks from the Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance will be convening once again for a grill on Sunday the 21st this month; we’re trying to make this a monthly event. If you’d like to join the festivities, feel free to come on down. And if you’re able to bring something to contribute to the food we’ll have there, it will be greatly appreciated, but don’t let it stop you from joining us if you don’t have something to bring.66819 2:00 pm Extinction Rebellion General Meeting @ California Institute of Integral Studies Extinction Rebellion General Meeting @ California Institute of Integral Studies Jul 21 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Our next General Meeting: If you’re fired up and ready for action, this is the meeting for you! There will be updates on Extinction Rebellion’s progress and upcoming actions, and the chance to work in multiple interest groups, including an orientation group for first-time attendees. Exciting and busy times ahead – please join us! (For more upcoming events, please see the end of this email.) 66790 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 21 @ 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 4:00 pm Santa Rita jail support @ Lake Merritt BART Santa Rita jail support @ Lake Merritt BART Jul 21 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us in offering hot food, drinks, snacks, and solidarity to releasees and visitors at Santa Rita Jail! Sign up here: https://forms.gle/MD3k85stxBkWTfL4A Prisons function to repress, warehouse and extract labor from those that our state deems “criminal”, primarily those of us who are Black, poor, or mentally ill. We believe that solidarity is a weapon of resistance, and that we must respond to the basic needs of our community while also confronting state terror. In honor of Dujuan Armstrong Jr. who entered Santa Rita Jail for a weekend sentence and … Continued 4:30 pm BLACK: 400 Years in America Film Series: Black Utopia @ Omni Commons BLACK: 400 Years in America Film Series: Black Utopia @ Omni Commons Jul 21 @ 4:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Free public cultural film series centered on the historic commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of the first Africans brought to British North America. The series will feature a monthly film screening over 7 months, from February 2019 for Black History Month, through August 2019. Food at 4:30pm Film at 5pm66748 6:30 pm Harari’s Sapiens vs. Marx’s humanism @ Niebyl Proctor Library Harari’s Sapiens vs. Marx’s humanism @ Niebyl Proctor Library Jul 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Apocalyptic visions of the future pervade today’s political spectrum. One of the more popular comes in two recent works — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — by Yuval Noah Harari. For him multiple total crises demand that humanity come up with a “clear idea of what life is all about.” The debate over “the meaning of life” has been going on “for thousands of years,” but now, says Harari, time is “running out” for Homo sapiens. From the start Marx grounded his new humanism in a … Continued	5:00 pm Tax the Rich Singalong with Occupella @ In front of old Oaks Theater Tax the Rich Singalong with Occupella @ In front of old Oaks Theater Jul 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets OCCUPELLA will be singing at the TAX THE RICH RALLY EVERY MONDAY from 5-6 on upper Solano Ave. in front of the (closed) Oaks Theater. Songbooks are provided. (We’ll also be LEADING SONGS ON JULY 13 at NOON in Civic Center Park (across from Berkeley High and old City Hall). The City of Berkeley will officially recognize the human rights abuses at the border.)66761 6:00 pm From West Virginia to Oakland: A Panel Discussion with Eric Blanc @ Babelab From West Virginia to Oakland: A Panel Discussion with Eric Blanc @ Babelab Jul 22 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets East Bay DSA is proud to host author Eric Blanc and OEA 2nd Vice President Chastity Garcia for a panel discussion and Q&A on July 22 from 7:00-9:00pm. Educators across the country are rising up against low pay, privatization, and austerity. Former high school teacher Eric Blanc has been on the ground reporting on this historic upsurge for The Nation, Jacobin, and The Guardian. His new book “Red State Revolt” describes the inspiring story of the teachers’ strike wave and analyzes why it points the way forward for all working … Continued 7:00 pm Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting @ Omni Commons Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance Meeting @ Omni Commons Jul 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets https://www.facebook.com/groups/541837129562482/permalink/700941026985424/66854		9:30 am Trump’s Asylum Ban – Pack the Court for a Temporary Restraining Order Hearing @ Federal Courthouse, 19th Floor, Judge Tigar Trump’s Asylum Ban – Pack the Court for a Temporary Restraining Order Hearing @ Federal Courthouse, 19th Floor, Judge Tigar Jul 24 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am Tickets The East Bay Sanctuary Covenant are the lead plaintiff suing the Trump Administration regarding the Third County Transit Ban. There will be a hearing on their REQUEST FOR A TRO (TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER) For more information https://ebsc.nationbuilder.com/?utm_campaign=ebsc_v_barr&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ebsc FACTS ABOUT THE THIRD COUNTRY BAN LAWSUIT According to Michael Smith, EBSC’s Director of Refugee Rights, “Trump’s policy is illegal and usurps the power of Congress to make laws. Seeking asylum is clearly protected under U.S. and international asylum law. EBSC’s asylum clients are fleeing horrific violence in their home countries. EBSC has … Continued 1:00 pm Hold PG&E Accountable! @ Various Hold PG&E Accountable! @ Various Jul 24 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Public Utilities Commission: Hold PG&E Accountable! PG&E’s negligence has caused fires that killed dozens of Californians. Now they want to make us pay for their negligence. PG&E is asking the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for permission to raise our rates to pay their expenses for liability payments and for the safety measures they were supposed to be doing all along. According to the district court judge overseeing PG&E’s probation for its felony criminal convictions, PG&E “pumped out $4.5 billion in profits and let the tree [trimming] budget wither.” They have … Continued 6:00 pm Say NO to PG&E!! @ Elihu M. Harris State Bldg Say NO to PG&E!! @ Elihu M. Harris State Bldg Jul 24 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets PG&E wants to make you PAY for their destruction! Come to this special CPUC Public Hearing and say HELL NO to this terrible idea. NO to the increased utility fees! NO to PG&E-caused deadly megafires! Let’s Own PG&E!66829 6:30 pm Oakland Police Review Commission @ Oakland City Hall Oakland Police Review Commission @ Oakland City Hall Jul 24 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Agenda. Of special interest: VII. SB1421 Compliance Update Commissioner Thomas Lloyd Smith has requested several updates: from OPD as to what has already been disclosed and what the plan is for future disclosures, and from CPRA on what their process is for reporting to the Commission on what is being publicly released. XII. OPD’s Use of Force Policy The Commission will discuss the next steps in addressing OPD’s Use of Force policy. The Commission may discuss scheduling a public hearing on Use of Force. This is a new item.66856 7:00 pm “The Response” documentary premiere & discussion @ Pro Arts Gallery & Commons “The Response” documentary premiere & discussion @ Pro Arts Gallery & Commons Jul 24 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets You’re invited to the global premiere of “The Response,” Shareable’s 30-minute documentary about community-led disaster response and recovery featuring on-the-ground efforts in communities across Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. In the midst of all the hurricane-driven chaos, a quiet revolution has been slowly percolating on the island. The film explores how an impromptu community kitchen meant to help feed survivors in the town of Caguas quickly grew into an island-wide network of mutual aid centers (Centros de Apoyo Mutuo) with the ultimate aim of restoring power — … Continued	11:00 am Close the SF County Jail! @ Steps of City Hall Close the SF County Jail! @ Steps of City Hall Jul 25 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Tickets #ShutDown850 NOW! Join us for this day of action to pressure the Board of Supervisors to take action and stop delaying on passing legislation to close county jail #4 at 850 Bryant. #NoNewSFJail #AbolitionNOW pic.twitter.com/bHsz3SFy8M— #ShutDown850 \| No New SF Jail Coalition (@ShutDown850) July 17, 2019 66850 6:00 pm Poor People’s Campaign: Report Back on the Moral Action Congress @ Taylor Memorial Church Poor People’s Campaign: Report Back on the Moral Action Congress @ Taylor Memorial Church Jul 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets INVITATION: Reflections from the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Congress The Poor People’s Campaign is entering its next phase, and we want you with us as we continue to build this moral fusion movement. Please join or a report-back event on the Moral Action Congress that was held in Washington DC last month. We’ll hear from Poor People’s Campaign members who attended the Congress, laying out the vision for the campaign and how we’re going to build a people-powered movement, making it impossible for our elected officials to ignore the struggles … Continued 6:30 pm DSA Labor Social @ Eli's Mile High Club DSA Labor Social @ Eli's Mile High Club Jul 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets oin East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for our monthly social! Grab food and drinks, hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in the East Bay DSA Labor Committee, and learn how you can get involved!66844 6:30 pm Film screening – Tapped @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Film screening – Tapped @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Jul 25 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Please join us for July’s monthly potluck and free movie at the Bobby Bowens Progressive Center. In light of the global Plastic Free July movement, we are going to watch Tapped (1 hr, 15 min) and additional clips about the plastic pollution crisis. Tapped looks into the effects of plastic bottled water on issues such as pollution, human health and climate change. Plastic bottles ideally can be recycled but many of them end up in landfills or the ocean where they pose a threat to marine life. Also presented is … Continued 7:00 pm The French Yellow Vest Movement @ Berkeley City College Auditorium The French Yellow Vest Movement @ Berkeley City College Auditorium Jul 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Since November of 2018, there have been weekly protests, sometimes involving hundreds of thousands of people, from students to housewives to workers to retirees, angry at the high cost of living and the government’s policies. Come and hear a presentation by Camille Chauchat, a French school teacher and an activist with the Fraction L’Etincelle in the NPA (New Anti-Capitalist Party) and participant in the Yellow Vest Movement in Lyons, France.66833	5:30 pm VIGIL FOR CHELSEA, JULIAN AND ALL OUR HEROIC WHISTLE BLOWERS VIGIL FOR CHELSEA, JULIAN AND ALL OUR HEROIC WHISTLE BLOWERS Jul 26 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets PLEASE JOIN US EVERY FRIDAY “BASTA FREE CHELSEA AND JULIEN ” VIGIL DEMO POTLUCK MUSIC (7PM AFTER PARTY/MEETING ) FRUITVALE & MACARTHUR OAKLAND WE HOPE TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO OUR ON GOING CAMPAIGNS IN THE BAY ARE here is a link to the bay area action for julien which includes CHELSEA SUPPORT PLEASE SIGN UP https://bayaction2freeassange.org Ok, folks, here’s the deal: the Main stream media (MSM) is so full of lies, it’s got the masses confused!! There’s only a few places we can get the truth. Chelsea and Julian, were … Continued 7:00 pm Film Screening: ‘Our Island’s Treasure’ (Okinawa) @ EastSide Arts Alliance Film Screening: ‘Our Island’s Treasure’ (Okinawa) @ EastSide Arts Alliance Jul 26 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets EastSide Arts Alliance, the Global Uchinanchu Alliance (GUA) and the Okinawa Kenjinkai Study Group (OKSG) present: Final Fridays Films of Solidarity & Resistance “Our Island’s Treasure” film screening, Q and A with the filmmaker, and yuntaku/talk story Have you heard about what’s been going on in Henoko, Okinawa? What is #RiseForHenoko? Maybe you’ve heard about how local residents have been protesting the building of a new U.S. military base in Oura Bay? The ongoing landfill work to create this base is destroying thousand-year-old coral reef structures, and threatens the aquatic … Continued 7:00 pm Laborfest: Film: The Teachers’ Protest @ 16th St BART Laborfest: Film: The Teachers’ Protest @ 16th St BART Jul 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival The Teachers’ Protest – 2019 (78 min.) Directed by Jon Seal (UK) 1942. Occupied Norway. Teachers must join the Nazi Teachers’ League and teach Nazi ideas in their classrooms. 8,000 of them write protest letters. They are threatened with salary withdrawal and the sack. Still they refuse. In a desperate attempt to break them, the Nazi government arrests 1000 male teachers and sends them to prison camps, 300 miles above the Arctic Circle. The education system is in chaos and now … Continued 8:00 pm PEOPLES PARK MOVIE NIGHT: Salt of the Earth @ People's Park PEOPLES PARK MOVIE NIGHT: Salt of the Earth @ People's Park Jul 26 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets A part of the people’s park potluck initiative Movie: Salt of the Earth “at last! an honest movie about american working people.” food and discussion at 8pm at the people’s park stage, Free Popcorn! Park movie Nights, every friday at 8pm: bring food and friends to share help build and develop this community of Resistance Protect our Green space, trees, Community, historical landmark, free speech, social justice, civil rights, gardens, music, art, style, freebox, recreation, climate, ecology, education, sports People’s park committee – action workgroup peoplespark.org 66889	9:00 am A unifying principle for Enviros, Labor, & Socialists @ The American Youth Hostel lobby A unifying principle for Enviros, Labor, & Socialists @ The American Youth Hostel lobby Jul 27 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets For those hungering for a plan, a scheme, a scenario, an idea that could draw together the centrifugal factional interests of the left [see Doonesbury for 7/21/19: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2019/07/21] to form a concentrated, transformative movement, make time this Saturday morning to come on a free weekly walking tour that serves up a candidate plan for the task. The Commons SF proposes, in the course of a tour of San Francisco social movement history, that treating planet Earth as a commonwealth can very well operate as a unifying principle for environmentalists, Labor advocates, … Continued 10:00 am Reel Stories Film Festival @ Albany Twin Theater Reel Stories Film Festival @ Albany Twin Theater Jul 27 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets You’re invited to the Reel Stories June Film Festival! July 27th location is the California Theater, 2113 Kittredge, Berkeley, CA. Reel Stories teaches young women and non-binary youth ages 12-18 how to create a film in only 10 days. Institute and Beginner 1 filmmakers are debuting their films June 29th. Join us for the Reel Stories Film Festival and support the next generation of filmmakers! Reel Stories believes that when women and non-binary people are better represented behind the scenes in the media, they will be better reflected on … Continued 12:00 pm Laborfest: Oakland 1946 General Strike Walk @ Latham Square fountain Laborfest: Oakland 1946 General Strike Walk @ Latham Square fountain Jul 27 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Oakland 1946 General Strike Walk With Gifford Hartman of the Flying Picket Historical Society. This year is the 73rd anniversary of the Oakland General Strike. This walk will revisit the sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday” that spontaneously began with rank-and-file solidarity with the striking, mostly women retail clerks at Kahn’s and Hastings department stores, where picket lines were broken by police-escorted scabs. Within 24 hours, it involved over 100,000 workers and shut down nearly all commerce in the East Bay for 54 hours. In 1946 there were six general strikes … Continued 3:00 pm Anarchist Gathering 2019 Anarchist Gathering 2019 Jul 27 @ 3:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Anarchist gathering 2019! Featuring speakers, poets, workshops, a fashion show, bands, and more! Workshop- “What We Can Learn From Other Movements”: Images and stories of the Black Panther Party in South Berkeley by Billy X Jennings from 4pm-5pm66720

Week of July 21

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.