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The HZBF has become an invaluable annual event for left political culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and this year will feature over 50 author readings and panel discussions (each 90 minutes long!) on … Continued 10:30 am Bitcoin and crypto currencies @ Niebyl Proctor Library Bitcoin and crypto currencies @ Niebyl Proctor Library Dec 8 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library Bitcoin and crypto currencies Bitcoin showed the world that there can be a decentralized alternative to existing nation-state fiat currencies. People anywhere in the world can send and receive any amount of money, nearly for free, with no middlemen that can censor their transactions. Come learn about the history of crypto currencies, the differences in eToro vs Coinbase and the benefits they offer to society compared to the systems we have today. This talk is geared towards those new to crypto currencies who are … Continued 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Dec 8 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Sunflower Alliance Meeting Please join us for our regular Sunday meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We welcome newcomers, old friends, and regulars to hear updates on current campaigns and discuss future plans. We need your participation and your voice! Come early to hang out and enjoy a potluck lunch 12:30 PM potluck lunch 1 – 3 PM meeting 67459 1:00 pm East Bay DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons East Bay DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons Dec 8 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets East Bay DSA’s bimonthly general meetings (GMs) include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more. Volunteering at the GM is lively, easy, and low-commitment, and hugely benefits the meetings and thus our internal democracy. If you intend to come and would like to volunteer, let us know here. Use this form, too, if you have child supervision or accessibility needs, including the need for an ASL interpreter. With our new regular schedule, member-submitted resolutions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please email … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Dec 8 @ 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 4:00 pm Emory Douglas and Jeff Haas: Honoring Fred Hampton Emory Douglas and Jeff Haas: Honoring Fred Hampton Dec 8 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Join Jeff Haas & Emory Douglas and the Freedom Archives for this Howard Zinn Book Fair event! 50 years ago Chicago police with FBI support raided Black Panther Fred Hampton’s Chicago apartment assassinating him and Mark Clark and injuring 4 others. Attorney Jeff Haas exposes the conspiracy behind the execution in this updated book. Emory Douglas, then Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, will also join us.67315 7:00 pm Slingshot new volunteer meeting / article brainstorm for issue #131 @ Longhaul Slingshot new volunteer meeting / article brainstorm for issue #131 @ Longhaul Dec 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Kick-off meeting to create Slingshot issue #131. Slingshot is an independent radical newspaper published in Berkeley since 1988. * Brainstorm articles for next issue * Discussion forum for your article ideas * Orientation on how you can submit articles, art, photographs * Help us discuss our audience and themes for the next issue * Discuss fundraising and distribution * Your chance to comment on Slingshot Everyone is welcome. Issue #131 is due out in early 2020 Deadline for Issue #131 is January 1, 202067481	7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Dec 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued 7:00 pm Socialist Feminist Panel: Silvia Federici, Jenny Brown, and Dani Burlison @ Moe's Bookstore Socialist Feminist Panel: Silvia Federici, Jenny Brown, and Dani Burlison @ Moe's Bookstore Dec 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets East Bay DSA is proud to co-sponsor this panel discussion featuring some of the leading socialist-feminists of our time. Silvia Federici is a feminist activist, writer, and teacher well known for her works “Wages Against Housework” and Caliban and the Witch. Jenny Brown is a National Women’s Liberation organizer, former editor of Labor Notes, and author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now. Dani Burlison is the author of Some Places Worth Leaving (Tolsun Books, 2019), Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories. Silvia Federici – Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women … Continued	5:00 pm Beyond Climate Denial: Countering Fossil Fuel Industry Tactics @ Children's Creativity Museum Beyond Climate Denial: Countering Fossil Fuel Industry Tactics @ Children's Creativity Museum Dec 10 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Climate scientist Mike Mann, community organizer Andres Soto, and investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz will discuss ways of countering the fossil fuel industry’s shifting tactics to block a just and equitable transition off dirty fossil fuel production. The panel will be moderated by climate attorney Kassie Siegel and followed by a mixer with food and drinks. Hosted by the Center for Biological Diversity and the 11th Hour Project, co-sponsored by Sunflower Alliance and the Children’s Creativity Museum. Free. RSVP 67446	5:45 pm Poor People’s Campaign: March and Mass Meeting \| We Must Do MORE Tour @ Glide Poor People’s Campaign: March and Mass Meeting \| We Must Do MORE Tour @ Glide Dec 11 @ 5:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets This event will be ASL Interpreted Join the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in San Francisco for the 4th stop of the We Must Do M.O.R.E. national tour as we Mobilize, Organize, Register and Educate. The tour stop in California will culminate with a March and Mass Meeting on Wednesday, December 11. We will march through San Francisco at 6:00 pm and gather together for a mass meeting at 7:00 pm. This will follow an Oakland community site visit to shine light on the struggles and … Continued 6:00 pm Public Bank East Bay Public Bank East Bay Dec 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets At the December 5 meeting, we’ll go over all the current developments in the East Bay and California, and all next steps for working groups. We’re going to focus that meeting on organizational issues as we transition to a group with an Interim Board. If you would like to come early and get an introduction to the concepts of public banking, or more locally to who we are and what we do, please email us and someone will come meet you at 5:30. Working Group Meetings: Some of our working groups meet … Continued 7:00 pm Reimagining local journalism in Oakland @ Wolfman Books Reimagining local journalism in Oakland @ Wolfman Books Dec 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The View from Somewhere: Reimagining local journalism in Oakland Join us for a conversation on journalism, objectivity and an equitable approach to local news in Oakland. Two months after the 2016 presidential election, radio journalist Lewis Raven Wallace proclaimed “Objectivity is Dead and I’m Okay With it” to highlight how “neutrality” in newsrooms can be a tool of white supremacy. While journalism schools and newsrooms often tout objectivity as a pillar of the craft, Wallace argues that if you look back at how journalists in the U.S. reported on issues … Continued	5:30 pm OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION @ East Oakland Youth Development Center OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION @ East Oakland Youth Development Center Dec 12 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Agenda Items of Special Interest: VII. Draft Ordinance on Military Police Equipment The Ad Hoc Committee for Military Police Equipment will present a revised version of a draft ordinance for review. VIII. Report on Policing of Oakland’s Unhoused Communities The Commission will discuss the report which was prepared on behalf of the Coalition for Police Accountability by students at the University of California, Berkeley. X. The Use of Force Working Group will present its draft report which needs to be complete by the end of the year. 67433 6:00 pm Poets Laureate on Social Justice @ Oakland Public Library Poets Laureate on Social Justice @ Oakland Public Library Dec 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Explore poetry and social justice in this exciting poetry reading at the Oakland Public Library Main Library. Join Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist, Darien Em, along with host Ron Riekki, co-editor of Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice, with five local poets laureate (not youth) sharing poems around a theme of social justice. Featuring: Caroline Goodwin, San Mateo County Poet Laureate 2014-2016 Darien Em, Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist 2018-2019 Juanita J. Martin, Fairfield Poet Laureate 2010-2012 Dani Gabriel, El Cerrito Poet Laureate 2018-present67488 6:30 pm DSA: Beer & Roses Labor Social @ Telegraph Beer Garden DSA: Beer & Roses Labor Social @ Telegraph Beer Garden Dec 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join the East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for their regular Beer and Roses social. Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in EBDSA Labor Committee & learn how you can get involved. 67490 6:30 pm Police Commission Community Meeting Police Commission Community Meeting Dec 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets pic.twitter.com/ROMaqw25Xu— Oakland Police Commission (@OakPoliceComm) November 26, 2019 67402 7:00 pm Radical Futures, United Fronts: Global Women’s Resistance Against State Violence & Repression @ EastSide Arts Alliance Radical Futures, United Fronts: Global Women’s Resistance Against State Violence & Repression @ EastSide Arts Alliance Dec 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join GABRIELA Oakland and the Center for Political Education for “Radical Futures, United Fronts: Global Women’s Resistance Against State Violence & Repression.” This panel discussion will bridge individual struggles against ongoing and escalating policing, militarization, and repression at home and around the globe. Panelists will speak to the political fights against rising authoritarianism and repression in Palestine, the Philippines, Venezuela, and our own backyards in Oakland to shed light onto the strength of our movements and the tacit threats they pose to the ruling class. Featuring the following speakers: � … Continued	4:00 pm Save Chelsea and Julian – Rally/Protest Save Chelsea and Julian – Rally/Protest Dec 13 @ 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 6:00 pm Ella Baker’s Birthday Party @ Restore Oakland Ella Baker’s Birthday Party @ Restore Oakland Dec 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets ELLA’S BIRTHDAY Our namesake Ella Josephine Baker was a fierce advocate for justice. She believed in the power of people to create mass change. Ella’s birthday is on December 13th – and there is no better way to honor her legacy than to celebrate together in community. We are so grateful for what we have accomplished together this year – from strategic policy wins to moving into our permanent home – and we want to honor and appreciate YOU, our members! Our team will share an update on our 2019 wins and … Continued 6:30 pm Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Landless People’s Alliance @ Omni Commons Dec 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets 67513	10:30 am A Cry From Bethlehem to the International Community: Palestinian Christian Advent Message @ Pacific School of Religion A Cry From Bethlehem to the International Community: Palestinian Christian Advent Message @ Pacific School of Religion Dec 14 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Palestinian Christian, Daniel Bannoura – from the Bethlehem Bible College in the West Bank — will speak about the current realities on the ground in Palestine. The event commemorates the 10th Anniversary of the Kairos Palestine document issued by Palestinian Christians as word of faith, hope, and love from the heart of Palestinian suffering. Kairos Palestine was modeled after the Kairos South Africa document issued in the 1980’s during the anti-apartheid struggle. Panelists Include: Rev. Dale Weatherspoon, Easter Hill United Methodist Church Rev. John Anderson, St. John’s Presbyterian Church Rev.. … Continued 11:00 am Winter Caring Village @ Mosswood Park Winter Caring Village @ Mosswood Park Dec 14 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets We're stoked to join Punks With Lunch for their Winter Caring Village at Mosswood Park this Saturday. We'll be there at 4pm to provide HIV and HCV testing, hep A and flu vaccination, foot/toenail care, and wound care.— Berkeley Free Clinic Outreach (@BFCoutreach) December 12, 2019 Sorry – it's actually at 11am. Our bad.— Berkeley Free Clinic Outreach (@BFCoutreach) December 13, 2019 67496 1:00 pm Trump/Pence Out Now! Trump/Pence Out Now! Dec 14 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets “There is no Santa Claus, and he will not remove Trump and Pence. It’s on us. Trump/Pence #OUTNOW!” This is a month of flash protests, banner drops, rapidly responding to sharp political events, and other actions, including “moving protests” – on public transit or by car caravan – to disturb the air and get the word out on a massive scale. The centerpiece of the month will be mass protests on December 14, injecting the demand “Trump/Pence #OUTNOW!” into the holidays to shake off the numbing mass-consumerism daze. If we … Continued 4:30 pm Economics Book Group: “Banking on the People.” Hosted by Strike Debt Bay Area. @ Omni Commons Economics Book Group: “Banking on the People.” Hosted by Strike Debt Bay Area. @ Omni Commons Dec 14 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Beginning on August 10th, the Strike Debt Bay Area Economics Book Group began discussing Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age. We tackled the introduction and first chapter, available through the ‘Look Inside’ feature on Amazon, for the August 10th meeting. For our September 7th meeting, we will be discussing the rest of the first section, Chapters 2-6. For our October 12th meeting, we will be discussing Chapters 7-9, the first part of the second section. For our November 16th meeting, we will be discussing Chapters 10 – … Continued 6:30 pm Leading from Below: School Funding, Strikes, and Union Democracy @ Tamarack Leading from Below: School Funding, Strikes, and Union Democracy @ Tamarack Dec 14 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us for an evening of food, drink, and politics as we discuss with Bay Area teachers on the recent walkout in Berkeley, the struggle against Privatization in Oakland, the statewide fight for public education, and the democratization of teacher’s unions across the Bay Area.67457

Week of December 8

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.