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Dr. Hing’s expertise includes Immigration Law and Policy, Migration … Continued 10:30 am Gloria Steinem was a CIA Agent. @ Niebyl Proctor Library Gloria Steinem was a CIA Agent. @ Niebyl Proctor Library Sep 15 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library Gloria Steinem was a CIA Agent. She proudly admits it, so does the CIA. After a brief introduction from ICSS member Eugene Ruyle, we will have an open discussion of two readings: 1. The feminist was a spook, By Markos Kounalakis https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-gloria-steinem-cia-20151025-story.html 2. The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol52no2/intelligence-in-recent-public-literature-1.html FREE – but hat will be passed for donations to ICSS About Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library A weekly discussion series inspired by our respect for the work of Karl Marx and … Continued 11:00 am Climate Justice – Non-Violent Direct Training @ Omni Commons Climate Justice – Non-Violent Direct Training @ Omni Commons Sep 15 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets ACTIVATING THE ENTIRE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA for the Global Climate Strike September 20-27, 2019 & beyond WHAT IS NVDA? NVDA stands for Non-Violent Direct Action. Examples of nonviolent direct action (also known as nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, or civil resistance) can include sit-ins, strikes, workplace occupations, or street blockades.66983 2:00 pm Alternatives to Policing 5: Verbal De-Escalation @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Alternatives to Policing 5: Verbal De-Escalation @ First Congregational Church of Oakland Sep 15 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Community security and safety strategies are a critical component to building alternatives to policing and the prison industrial complex. This training will offer folks a chance to learn about the history of community security and safety, dig into some practical verbal de-escalation skills, with an emphasis on intervening in emotional crisis, and practice scenarios they might face in their day to day. Let’s build the alternatives we so desperately need together! Please wear comfortable clothing you can move in! We ask for a sliding scale donation of any amount to … Continued 4:00 pm Santa Rita Jail Support @ Lake Merritt BART Santa Rita Jail Support @ Lake Merritt BART Sep 15 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join APTP in offering hot food, drinks, snacks, and solidarity to releasees and visitors at Santa Rita Jail! Let us know you’ll be there by sending us a text at (510) 686-3284. Prisons function to repress, warehouse and extract labor from primarily those of us who are Black or poor. 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 … Continued		6:30 pm Author Talk: “Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance,” @ The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics Author Talk: “Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance,” @ The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics Sep 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Author Lisa Fithian on New Book: “Shut It Down Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance” Doors open at 6:30pm. Event begins at 7pm. Our dear friend and long time direct action organizer Lisa Fithian has released a new book, called “Shut It Down Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance,” and we’re excited to host her in the Bay Area. Details on the book: For decades, Lisa Fithian’s work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action has put her on the frontlines of change. Described by Mother Jones … Continued 7:00 pm Socialist Night School: The Last General Strike @ East Bay Community Space Socialist Night School: The Last General Strike @ East Bay Community Space Sep 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A general strike is a strike action that includes a large part of the total labor force in a city, region, or country. General strikes are characterized by the participation of workers in a multitude of workplaces, and tend to involve entire communities. The idea of the general strike is powerful precisely because a massive and persistent withdrawal of labor can bring a capitalist city or even an entire economy to a halt. The last general strike in the United States occurred here in the East Bay in 1946. One … Continued	12:00 am What White People Don’t See: Applying the Lens of Privilege @ Movement Strategy Center What White People Don’t See: Applying the Lens of Privilege @ Movement Strategy Center Sep 18 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am Tickets You believe in making a difference, but when it comes to racial justice, are your actions aligned with your beliefs? The work begins with looking in the mirror. Without intentional learning and reflection, white people may uphold beliefs and systems that perpetuate injustice. Join us for an intimate and interactive workshop in which we will unpack how whiteness has shaped our lives and discuss how white people who care can take action for racial justice. This workshop offers those who are new to racial justice work an opportunity to reflect … Continued 7:00 am Youth Climate Strike Bannering @ Pedestrian Bridge Youth Climate Strike Bannering @ Pedestrian Bridge Sep 18 @ 7:00 am – 8:30 am Tickets Join this event 67079	7:00 am Youth Climate Strike Bannering @ Pedestrian Bridge Youth Climate Strike Bannering @ Pedestrian Bridge Sep 19 @ 7:00 am – 8:30 am Tickets Join this event 67079 6:30 pm Green New Deal Campaign Meeting @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Green New Deal Campaign Meeting @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Sep 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Care about climate change? Want a Green New Deal? Join us! Learn more about how to participate in the September 20 Climate Strike and week of action! IMPORTANT UPDATE: Because of the conflict with Night School, we will be changing this event to 9/19, and will be holding it over Zoom. 67106	5:00 pm Recognition and Response Film Series: Big Charity @ National Nurses United headquarters Recognition and Response Film Series: Big Charity @ National Nurses United headquarters Sep 20 @ 5:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Three documentaries will screen outside on the plaza at National Nurses United headquarters. The art exhibition “Recognition: Labor Meets Art in Explorations of Social Justice and Identity,” will be open to the public during the screenings. The films feature three locations where Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN) volunteers have deployed to provide direct relief and response to humanitarian, environmental, and social injustice: Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Standing Rock, and rural Arizona. RNRN volunteers will introduce the films with stories of how RNs have intervened to provide direct care in support … Continued 7:00 pm NOT HAPPENING: Climate Emergency Action: Speak Up for Climate at El Cerrito City Council @ El Cerrito City Hall NOT HAPPENING: Climate Emergency Action: Speak Up for Climate at El Cerrito City Council @ El Cerrito City Hall Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Climate Emergency Discussion at City Council Meeting: The El Cerrito City Council is expected to discuss a resolution to declare a climate emergency and request regional collaboration on an emergency mobilization effort to restore a safe and stable climate. Please urge your city council members to join the other 9 Bay Area cities and over 800 jurisdictions across the globe to take leadership and address climate change as the global threat that it is. Remind the Mayor and City Council members to support a strong Climate Emergency Resolution that supports: … Continued 8:00 pm PEOPLES PARK MOVIE NIGHT: Matewan @ People's Park PEOPLES PARK MOVIE NIGHT: Matewan @ People's Park Sep 20 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Matewan is an awesome film by John Sayles, based on a historic coal miners strike in West Virginia. Highly recommended! PEOPLES PARK MOVIE NIGHT a part of the people’s park potluck initiative 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 peoplespark.org 67127	9:00 am Reign, reign, go away: antidote to your inner Trump: the walking tour @ American Youth Hostel Reign, reign, go away: antidote to your inner Trump: the walking tour @ American Youth Hostel Sep 21 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Reigning in your heart is, most like, a reluctance to surrender the rent of land to community as a whole. Good socialists, otherwise ready to bash Capitalism and the current power-mongers, grow chill, dull, reticent, aloof when the nuts and bolts of transforming the rent of land into public revenue is proposed. Whether the retort is, “The poor grandmothers will be turned out of their homes” or “Land values aren’t significant” or “Marx and Engels said a tax on land values is not enough!” it’s all a dodge to avoid … Continued 1:00 pm Community Climate Rally and Environmental Action Fair @ Civic Park Community Climate Rally and Environmental Action Fair @ Civic Park Sep 21 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join us in support of the Global Climate Strike. Learn, engage and find ways you can act in the fight against climate change. Every day you hear daunting news about the negative effects climate change is having both locally and globally and the issues may seem too big and out of reach for you to make an impact. But don’t despair, you can act and make a difference. The Global Climate Strike is happening from the 20th September to the 27th of September in countries, cities and towns all over … Continued 1:00 pm Healing Hurting Hearts @ West Oakland Youth Center Healing Hurting Hearts @ West Oakland Youth Center Sep 21 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 66968 7:00 pm Punks with Lunch Turns 4! @ Oakland Metro Operahouse Punks with Lunch Turns 4! @ Oakland Metro Operahouse Sep 21 @ 7:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets We turn 4 this year and we would love for y’all to be a part of the celebrations! Cult Mind Younger Lovers Godstomper Grosero The Leave Me Alones We will have raffle prizes and vendors! And as always, we will have our usual narcan trainings and harm reduction supplies for our event!67101

Week of September 15

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.