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All-day Tech Policy Workshop: increasing surveillance, spread of disinformation, predictive policing, magnification of unjust bias @ McLaren Conference Center Tech Policy Workshop: increasing surveillance, spread of disinformation, predictive policing, magnification of unjust bias @ McLaren Conference Center Nov 17 all-day Tickets apply now for financial aid Register The USF Center for Applied Data Ethics will be hosting a Tech Policy Workshop the weekend of Nov 16 to 17. Systemic problems, such as increasing surveillance, spread of disinformation, concerning uses of predictive policing, and the magnification of unjust bias, all require systemic solutions. We invite anyone working in the tech industry or in public policy, and to community members concerned about the impact of misuses of tech on society to attend. By hosting a Tech Policy Workshop, we hope to facilitate collaborations between those in tech and in policy, … 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 10:30 am Sunday Morning At the Marxist Library – Open Mic, Black Lives Matter, Women and War @ Niebyl Proctor Library Sunday Morning At the Marxist Library – Open Mic, Black Lives Matter, Women and War @ Niebyl Proctor Library Nov 17 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sun, Nov 10, 2019 Open Mic/Political Karaoke What’s bugging you, politics-wise? Here’s your chance to talk about any and every thing from the PG&E Power Shutdown to Brexit, from Nancy Pelosi to Greta Thunberg, maybe even the riots in Chile. Sign up for 5 minute slots! Sun, Nov 17, 2019 Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter. Representatives of the Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality and State Repression have been invited to discuss their position on this matter. Awaiting better blurb.. Sun, Nov 24, 2019 Women and War Women have a long association … Continued 1:00 pm Alternatives to Policing: Crisis Intervention, First Aid, and CPR @ Omni Commons Alternatives to Policing: Crisis Intervention, First Aid, and CPR @ Omni Commons Nov 17 @ 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The workshop is 2-6pm. ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP Building alternatives to policing include equipping our communities with the skills to respond to mental health crisis and physical emergencies, including overdose. Too often calling 911 for a mental health or physical emergency brings police attention along with it. In this workshop we will cover mental health crisis intervention, first aid, CPR, and overdose intervention. ABOUT THE PRESENTERS The Oakland Power Projects (OPP) are an initiative of Critical Resistance to engage Oakland residents in building community power and wellbeing without relying on cops. … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Nov 17 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 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 the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM … Continued 5:00 pm #FreeRodneyReed National Day of Action @ Rockridge BART Station #FreeRodneyReed National Day of Action @ Rockridge BART Station Nov 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Join us for our National Day of Action to #FreeRodneyReed. Join other members of your community in solidarity with Rodney and his family as we join the national movement to demand Justice for Rodney. Sign up here67353	12:00 pm Moms for Housing Housewarming Party Moms for Housing Housewarming Party Nov 18 @ 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join the Moms for Housing for a housewarming party! The Moms for Housing have reclaimed a vacant, investor-owned home on behalf of the Oakland community and Black, working single moms everywhere. Come down to 2928 Magnolia Street starting at noon today to celebrate the move into #MomsHouse and help the Moms for Housing defend their new home from the predatory real estate speculators that kept this home vacant for the last two years. MomsForHousing Twitter Website67363 5:30 pm What Should the First Amendment Protect? @ 295 Simon Hall, The Warren Room What Should the First Amendment Protect? @ 295 Simon Hall, The Warren Room Nov 18 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets “As many of you know, I favor strong First Amendment protections for journalists and protesters and especially students. But I’m also very much against the President of the United States’ and his followers’ repeated attempts to get Congresswomen of color harmed or killed. Legally, these two ideals appear to be in conflict. Would you like to see me try to square them? Would you like to hear a fully thought-through articulation of why free speech does not, or at least should not, include personal threats made against any person who … Continued 6:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ East Bay for Everyone Public Bank of the East Bay @ East Bay for Everyone Nov 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets As of October 2, 2019, AB857, the law enabling local public bank charters in California, has been signed by Governor Newsom. We have made history! And we have more history to make! Follow our latest news page for new developments. We’re keeping an updated list of articles about the bill and other public banking news. There has never been a better time to join the movement. We have lots of ways for you to plug in. We have switched our meeting day back to Monday. We’ll meet on the third Monday of every month, but watch this space … Continued	5:30 pm Vigil and Rally for TPS and DACA residents @ City Hall Vigil and Rally for TPS and DACA residents @ City Hall Nov 19 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join immigrants and their allies in fighting for a pathway to permanent residency for over a million longtime U.S. residents who are at risk of losing their legal status under the Trump administration’s attacks on programs such as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and Deferred Enforced Departure(DED). The El Cerrito City Council will hear and vote on a proclamation titled “In Support of Protections from Deportation and a Path to Permanent Residency for Beneficiaries of DACA, TPS and DED” at its November 19 meeting in City Council chambers, 10890 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito. The meeting … Continued 6:00 pm Justice 4 Eric Reason @ Richmond City Hall Justice 4 Eric Reason @ Richmond City Hall Nov 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets pic.twitter.com/8KpyZVhGxt— Anti Police-Terror (@APTPaction) November 19, 2019 67364 7:00 pm Socialist Night School: California is Burning–Let’s Nationalize PG&E @ East Bay Community Space Socialist Night School: California is Burning–Let’s Nationalize PG&E @ East Bay Community Space Nov 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We already know that we desperately need single payer for health care. But the recent failures of PG&E show how we need a single-payer system for our energy grid, too — to stop the reckless, dangerous behavior of private companies getting rich off what should be a public good, and to fight climate change. Only one of the Democratic candidates running for President has unequivocally called for bringing PG&E under public control. Bernie Sanders’s Green New Deal proposal isn’t just the boldest proposal to save the planet that any candidate … Continued	6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Nov 20 @ 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 and nationwide. We fight against “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” spy drones, facial recognition, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones, to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing. We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate … Continued 7:00 pm APTP Monthly Membership Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance APTP Monthly Membership Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Nov 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets APTP meets the third Wednesday of every month. Join us to find out how you can get involved. This space is wheelchair accessible. Please contact us for any additional accessibility questions or concerns.67310 7:30 pm JEFFREY STERLING AND DANIEL ELLSBERG – Truth and Consequences with Norman Solomon @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley JEFFREY STERLING AND DANIEL ELLSBERG – Truth and Consequences with Norman Solomon @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley Nov 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets This important discussion between two major American whisteblowers will focus on the urgent need to end unaccountable government power. Daniel Ellsberg is an American activist and former United States military analyst formerly employed by the RAND Corporation. He precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. In1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Due to governmental misconduct and illegal … Continued	11:00 am Rally for Single Payer Health Care – Sacramento Rally for Single Payer Health Care – Sacramento Nov 21 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Give Us Something to be Thankful For A Visit to Governor Newsom, to Expedite Healthy California for All Commission for Single-Payer Healthcare! -We are providing a charter bus – capacity 56, first come,, first served – that will pick up at the Larkin Street main libraryy in San Francisco and then at Ashby BART before heading to Sacramento. We ask for those able to carpool to please do so! We will also have box lunches once we arrive. So that we have a headcount to submit the lunch order in … Continued 7:00 pm Omni General Assembly @ Omni Commons Omni General Assembly @ Omni Commons Nov 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Come by our open Delegates Meetings! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom This meeting usually happens in the Ballroom, but the the location may change depending on the access needs of people attending and other events taking place in the building.66939	10:00 am Stand down Chevron! Rally to Protect the Arctic Refuge @ Chevron Richmond Refinery Stand down Chevron! Rally to Protect the Arctic Refuge @ Chevron Richmond Refinery Nov 22 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets We will meet at Castro St & Chevron Way at 10 am and walk over together to Gate 19 on Castro St. Featuring: Bernadette Demientieff (ED of Gwich’in Steering Committee), Gwich’in Youth Council Leaders – Quannah Potts, Araya Stoffa, Isaiah Horace Michael Brune – Sierra Club Local Youth and Indigenous Activists from Idle No More SF Bay, Youth vs. Apocalypse Right now, we are fighting for the future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Trump administration wants to raid the Refuge for oil, but they know that their window … Continued 4:00 pm Save Chelsea and Julian – Rally/Protest Save Chelsea and Julian – Rally/Protest Nov 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets WE CAN SAVE CHELSEA MANNING AND JULIAN ASSANGE FROM TORTURE AND DEATH Please sign up for our emails and alerts at: https://bayaction2freeassange.org and watch the INCREDIBLE “SHOWTIMES” Manning doc.free @ https://archive.org/details/XYChelsea The Main Stream Media (MSM) is so full of lies, it’s got the masses confused!! There are only a few places we can get the truth.Chelsea and Julian were two of the most important WHISTLE BLOWERS to tell the truth about USA’s illegal, immoral WARS. USA is one of the largest TERRORIST countries in history, killing, wounding, and forcing … Continued 5:00 pm Rally For Housing Justice Now Rally For Housing Justice Now Nov 22 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Sponsored by ACCE, Berkeley Tenants Union, EBHO, Community Land Trust, Gray Panthers. Gray Panthers Berkeley East Bay is co-sponsor of this Housing Justice Week rally They will share how they fought an illegal Ellis Act conversion/eviction. Learn how Prop O funds and nonprofit community land trusts could be used to help create self-governing cooperative communities. Hot cider, snacks, and music.67368	12:00 pm March For Housing Now – Our City, not Scarcity! @ Mosswood Park March For Housing Now – Our City, not Scarcity! @ Mosswood Park Nov 23 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Who deserves to have a home in Oakland, Berkeley, or Richmond? Who makes these decisions? In the midst of the housing crisis, speculators are buying up houses, apartments and PUBLIC LAND. In Oakland, there are 4 VACANT units for every, individual unhoused person, 25% of whom are children. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We cannot settle for ‘trickle-down’ solutions that overproduce “luxury” market-rate housing and structurally build in vacancies and homelessness. We must not stand by while corporate landlords and greedy developers buy up our cities and force black and brown families … Continued 3:00 pm Poor People’s Campaign: Moral Budget Reading Group @ Citizen Engagement Laboratory Poor People’s Campaign: Moral Budget Reading Group @ Citizen Engagement Laboratory Nov 23 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets What will it take to truly address the systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and war economy plaguing our country today? The answer is presented in the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget, which lays out the policies and investments to address the widespread and systemic injustices we face. We invite you to come together with other supporters of the Poor People’s Campaign to learn more about these solutions through our Moral Budget Reading Group. This will be a space for us to develop our collective understanding of the policies we’re … Continued 4:00 pm Invasion: Unist’ot’en Film Screening Series @ Omni Commons Invasion: Unist’ot’en Film Screening Series @ Omni Commons Nov 23 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Wet’suwet’en Access Point on Gidimt’en Territory, (Gidimt’en checkpoint) and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people. The Unist’ot’en Camp has been a beacon of resistance for nearly 10 years. It is a healing space for Indigenous people and settlers alike, and an active example of decolonization. The violence, environmental destruction, and disregard for human rights following … Continued

Week of November 17

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.