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All EPC … Continued 12:00 pm Impeach Now! @ Harry Bridges Plaza / Chelsea Manning Plaza Impeach Now! @ Harry Bridges Plaza / Chelsea Manning Plaza Oct 13 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Our democracy is in grave danger, and Congress needs to hear from the people before they return to DC after their undeserved recess. Wear RED to reclaim the #ColorOfLove from hate-mongers. #ImpeachNow Register Our speakers and acts will focus on bravery in the age of Trump. 1. Lea Jones, producer of Hang On, Ruthie! will be traveling from Oregon to perform his hit original in support of Justice RBG. We’re looking for individual singers or a local choral group willing to show up in black robes and lace collars to accompany them for the … Continued 2:00 pm Pennie Opal Plant at Peace Action: Saving the World Together @ Fred Weaver Resident Center St. Paul’s Tower, second floor(near 27th and Harrison) Pennie Opal Plant at Peace Action: Saving the World Together @ Fred Weaver Resident Center St. Paul’s Tower, second floor(near 27th and Harrison) Oct 13 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Join the annual gathering of East Bay Peace Action to hear Pennie Opal Plant, indigenous grandmother, founder of Idle No More SF Bay, and signer of the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty. Her keynote address, “Let us Save the World Together,” will connect our work for the environment, climate, justice, and peace. There will also be a program and EBPA board elections. Light refreshments. Wheelchair accessible. More info here 67156 4:00 pm Santa Rita Jail Support @ Lake Merritt BART Santa Rita Jail Support @ Lake Merritt BART Oct 13 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join APTP in sharing hot food, drinks, and solidarity with folks visiting loved ones at and getting released from 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 … Continued 5:00 pm Green Sunday: The intersection of anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic struggles @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday: The intersection of anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic struggles @ Niebyl Proctor Library Oct 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:45 pm Tickets The ecosystem, the political system and the economy are all in crisis, yet the 99% seems powerless to influence the ruling class which continues on a path toward disaster. The panel will address some of the following questions: What went wrong with the radical and progressive movements of the 60s that initially seemed promising, but left us more vulnerable to a system of exploitation? How can we unite to defend ourselves (and the ecosystem that allows us to survive) against the multi-national corporations, the capitalists, the corrupt political parties and … Continued		6:30 pm High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, & Visionary Experience @ Wolfman Books High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, & Visionary Experience @ Wolfman Books Oct 15 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm Tickets America’s leading scholar of high strangeness, Erik Davis celebrates release of High Weirdness, a study of the new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the 1970s counterculture writings of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality. But how did their writings reflect and shape the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America? Davis and R.U. Sirius discuss these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences.67218 7:00 pm (GREEN) POWER TO THE PEOPLE @ St. Albans Church (GREEN) POWER TO THE PEOPLE @ St. Albans Church Oct 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets –BAY CURRENTS FREE TALK Bringing sustainable energy, low carbon emissions, and green jobs to low-income people is the passion of Zach Franklin of Bay Area nonprofits Grid Alternatives and Rising Sun Center for Opportunity. Join us for stories of struggle and success that illuminate why these efforts matter — for workers, volunteers, and all of us affected by global warming. Free Bay Currents talks on Bay Area natural history and environmental issues, with emphasis on positive solutions, are at St. Alban’s Parish Hall, 1501 Washington (at Curtis, one block north … Continued 7:00 pm What an Ecosocialist Green New Deal Would Look Like. @ Niebyl Proctor Library What an Ecosocialist Green New Deal Would Look Like. @ Niebyl Proctor Library Oct 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Howie Hawkins, candidate for the Green Party Nomination for President, will speak on “What an Ecosocialist Green New Deal Would Look Like.”67208 7:30 pm For the Record: Eyewitness Testimonies of the Police Murder of Luis Gongora Pat @ Quezada Center For the Record: Eyewitness Testimonies of the Police Murder of Luis Gongora Pat @ Quezada Center Oct 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Luis Gongora Pat, a Mayan indigenous man, was murdered by San Francisco police officers on April 7, 2016 on Shotwell near 19th Street in the Mission. His murder came in the wake of other homicides by police of Black and Brown communities members. His family pursued every legal avenue available, including a civil case which was settled in January 2019. Three and a half years later, the story of this brutal murder is at risk of being buried because the primary family eyewitnesses never got their day in court. But … Continued 8:00 pm Guerrilla Projections and Songs of Rebellion Guerrilla Projections and Songs of Rebellion Oct 15 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Rebels around the world have taken to the streets to demand climate action. Today and tomorrow, the Bay Area will join the global rebellion. Join us in calling for Net-Zero Carbon Emissions in California by 2025. This is the message we’re bringing into the streets as part of the Global Climate Rebellion. This week’s events: Join us this evening as we kick off Wednesday’s actions with guerrilla projections from the San Francisco Projection Department. We’ll be singing songs of rebellion and projecting our message onto the SF State Building. Meet … Continued	4:00 pm Lecture: Prison abolition, and a mule @ Bancroft Hotel Lecture: Prison abolition, and a mule @ Bancroft Hotel Oct 16 @ 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm Tickets Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center, will discuss what would replace prisons, how people who cause harm could be dealt with in the absence of incarceration, and why abolition would make everyone safer and our society more just. The lecture is free and open to the public. Read more about this lecture at https://gradlectures.berkeley.edu/lecture/prison-abolition-mule The Bancroft hotel is wheelchair accessible. —- Paul Butler is the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a legal analyst on MSNBC. He frequently consults … Continued 6:30 pm No Human is Illegal: On the Front Lines of the Immigration War @ Wolfman Books No Human is Illegal: On the Front Lines of the Immigration War @ Wolfman Books Oct 16 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets When Trump first announced his “Muslim Ban” in January 2017, J.J. Mulligan Sepúlveda was one of the lawyers who protested. His new book No Human Is Illegal: An Attorney on the Front Lines of the Immigration War pulls back the curtain on the ingrained inhumanity found in the immigration reform currently coming to fruition in the United States. Readers are taken into the often-times merciless courts of New York City and San Francisco, the frightening detention centers on the U.S./Mexico border, and the overburdened offices of legal defense organizations. In … Continued 6:30 pm Venezuela: Embassy Protection Collective to Speak @ Fellowship Hall, BFUU Venezuela: Embassy Protection Collective to Speak @ Fellowship Hall, BFUU Oct 16 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Venezuela: Embassy Protection Collective to Speak at BFUU in Berkeley Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese from Baltimore and David Paul from San Francisco will be touring Northern California to speak about the latest on Venezuela and what local activists can do to oppose the US blockade against the South American country. After 37 days of struggle protecting the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC, Kevin Zeese, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Dr. Adrienne Pine, and David Paul were arrested by federal agents and are currently fighting the charges against them. The fight to … Continued 7:00 pm Townhall for Independent Oversight of Police @ EastSide Arts Alliance Townhall for Independent Oversight of Police @ EastSide Arts Alliance Oct 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets RESCHEDULED FROM 10/9 to 106 BECAUSE OF POWER OUTAGE DIFFERENT LOCATION! SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TIME. 67198	4:10 pm Pushing Back on Misinformation: What’s needed to secure democracy Pushing Back on Misinformation: What’s needed to secure democracy Oct 17 @ 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm Tickets From your inbox to the ballot box, how do we keep misinformation from destroying democracy? A recent bipartisan Senate investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election confirmed that Russian agents used social media and other means to help the Trump campaign. Fake events, rampant misinformation, and other techniques were designed to sow discord and pit neighbor against neighbor. One group singled out in the report is African Americans, who were targets of the Russian agents. The Senate report recommends sweeping changes. Hear from Renee DiResta and Matt Mitchell … Continued 4:12 pm Panel Discussion on San Francisco’s Facial Recognition Ban @ Glass Room Exhibition Panel Discussion on San Francisco’s Facial Recognition Ban @ Glass Room Exhibition Oct 17 @ 4:12 pm – 5:12 pm Tickets As part of the Talks Program at The Glass Room, a panel discussion is being held about what the facial recognition ‘ban’ in SF really means for its citizens. We are bringing together activists from EFF, ACLU, Oakland Privacy and others to discuss the topic. Some background info about The Glass Room and its talks program: The Glass Room will be open from October 16th til November 3rd, daily from 12pm-8pm, at 838 Market Street in downtown San Francisco. The exhibits presented in the Glass Room provoke questions about who … Continued 6:30 pm ‘Hillbillly’ : Documentary @ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse ‘Hillbillly’ : Documentary @ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse Oct 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Oct 17 7:00 pm in Piedmont; Nov. 3 12:30 pm in Oakland at The New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street, Oakland Throughout American history, there has been an undeniable divide between urban and rural America. People from certain regions are viewed as “the other,” and blamed for America’s social ills. Since the 2016 presidential election, that cultural divide has only expanded and deepened. With their documentary Hillbilly, co-directors Ashley York and Sally Rubin – both natives of Appalachia- have made a complex film about complex people. Hillbilly is an entertaining, … Continued 7:00 pm Rapture, Grief, Beauty: Terry Tempest Williams introducing Erosion @ NorthBrae Community Church Rapture, Grief, Beauty: Terry Tempest Williams introducing Erosion @ NorthBrae Community Church Oct 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist, an activist, and an introspective presence whose every word is authentic. Her new book explores the concept of erosion and its opposite, becoming, in the context of land, self, belief, and fear. She looks at the current state of American politics, implications of choices to gut wilderness and sacred lands, endangered species, drought, extraction, and contamination � aloong with transcendent moments of relief and refuge, solace and spirituality. Rapture, Grief, Beauty: Terry Tempest Williams introducing Erosion In conversation with Vijaya Nagarajan Plenty of easy … Continued	9:30 am Close 850 Bryant Now: Hearing at Board of Supervisors! @ Outside, then Inside, San Francisco City Hall Close 850 Bryant Now: Hearing at Board of Supervisors! @ Outside, then Inside, San Francisco City Hall Oct 18 @ 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Join the effort to Close 850 Bryant and Build a Better San Francisco! Come to the hearing on Friday October 18th at 10:30am to hold our government accountable. — Coffee and Comradery: Join us at 9:30am directly across from City Hall (Polk Side) in the Civic Center plaza to share in coffee, tea, and breakfast. Learn about the campaign and connect with other members of the coalition. — Supervisors’ Hearing: Enter City Hall at 10:30am to make our presence seen and heard at the hearing. Please plan to share public … Continued 6:00 pm OACC Movie Nights: Fall of the I-Hotel @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center OACC Movie Nights: Fall of the I-Hotel @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center Oct 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us for a screening of Curtis Choy’s 1983 documentary, “The Fall of the I-Hotel.” After the Manongs labored to build America, their San Francisco Manilatown community is wiped out by urban renewal, and 50 old-timers are forcibly evicted from the International Hotel when it is slated for demolition in 1981. The film documents destruction of the last block of Manilatown on Kearny Street. Narrated by late poet Al Robles, “The Fall of the I-Hotel” tells the story of dozens of seniors displaced by 300 cops in the dead of … Continued 6:30 pm Screening : The Advocate @ New Parkway Theater Screening : The Advocate @ New Parkway Theater Oct 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Prepare to be inspired. Screened at Sundance 2019, an unapologetic portrait of trailblazing Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented countless Palestinians since the 1970s as her life’s work whilst exposing the hypocrisy of Israel’s apartheid regime.67230 7:00 pm Environmental Equity Summit & Concert @ Cornerstone Environmental Equity Summit & Concert @ Cornerstone Oct 18 @ 7:00 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets Adding Color to the Green Movement is the theme of the fourth annual Environmental Equity Summit, hosted by Hip Hop for Change in association with the Sierra Club, 350.org, Surfrider, and Baykeeper. The summit elevates and amplifies the voice and power of people of color as leaders in the environmental justice movement. Participants will discuss the specific needs of vulnerable communities and steps to diversify the environmental movement. The aim is to foster collaboration between large environmental organizations and smaller grassroots environmental justice groups so the needs of underserved communities … Continued	11:30 am Going Solar Workshop @ North Berkeley Library Going Solar Workshop @ North Berkeley Library Oct 19 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Learn about solar photovoltaic (PV) for your home. Understand the basics of solar PV, the economics benefits of going solar, the options you have and purchasing tips. Special focus will be on home owners with low electric bills averaging under $100/month (excluding EV usage)67221 12:00 pm Human Billboard: Stop Family Separations! Asylum is a Right! @ Grand Lake Theater Human Billboard: Stop Family Separations! Asylum is a Right! @ Grand Lake Theater Oct 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Asylum seekers caged at the border! Thousands more children separated from their families! Unrelenting inhumane conditions inside detention centers! Trump orders the end of the US asylum program except for people from Canada or Mexico and plans to send asylum seekers to El Salvador, one of the most dangerous places in the world! Join us for a Human Billboard! We come together because we refuse to silently accept what is being done in our names. We are taking our outrage and grief out of our homes and into the streets … Continued 1:00 pm A conversation about the Adeline Community @ Pittman Library A conversation about the Adeline Community @ Pittman Library Oct 19 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 67254

Week of October 13

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.