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WHAT’S the PROBLEM WITH 5G ? 5th Generation (not to be confused with 5 Gigahertz) wireless is not yet activated here, but some 5G-ready Small Cell WTF’s have been installed, and 1000’s are planned! 5G … Continued 10:30 am What Is Socialism and What Good Is It? @ Niebyl Proctor Library What Is Socialism and What Good Is It? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Jan 12 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library Speaker will be Eugene E Ruyle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, CSU Long Beach, currently with ICSS in Oakland. Gene will discuss his forthcoming book, Socialism for Americans: A Scientific Introduction to the Global Struggle for Socialism. Gene’s basic idea is that although socialism takes different forms in different times and places, the revolutionary core of socialism lies in those societies that have actually had socialist revolutions: the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe, Korea, Vietnam, China, and Cuba. But this does not mean that the struggle for … Continued 1:00 pm East Bay DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons East Bay DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons Jan 12 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets East Bay DSA’s bimonthly voting general meetings (GMs) include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more. With our new regular schedule, member-submitted resolutions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please email them to resolutions@eastbaydsa.org. The submissions deadline for each meeting is three weeks before the meeting. Want to make sure our meeting runs smoothly? Sign up to volunteer with the meetings committee. This is a great, low-commitment role for new and experienced members alike. Please use the same form if you have child supervision … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 12 @ 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 Green Sunday: Move to Amend and Efforts to End Corporate Rule @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday: Move to Amend and Efforts to End Corporate Rule @ Niebyl Proctor Library Jan 12 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. The Supreme Court’s misguided principle failed to recognize that corporations are legal fictions and only human beings are people. The corruption resulting from this and previous Supreme Court rulings has consolidated our political system into a single party plutocracy – a single “Business Party” witt Democratic and Republican wings controlled by corporate money. Move to Amend … Continued 7:30 pm Indvisible Berkeley @ Finnish Hall Indvisible Berkeley @ Finnish Hall Jan 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Doors open at 7. We start promptly at 7:30. Questions? Email info@indivisibleberkeley.org. ADA Accessibility: The Finnish Hall has stairs leading up to the entrance so is not ADA accessible. Indivisible Berkeley brings the Trump Resistance to 4000+ of our closest neighbors in Berkeley and surrounding communities. Our mission is to resist the Trump agenda by engaging our elected officials at all levels of government and promote progressive and democratic values. Read our entire mission statement here. Participation in Indivisible Berkeley activities constitutes agreement with our terms of participation.67527 7:30 pm So how’d you become an activist @ Redwood Gardens So how’d you become an activist @ Redwood Gardens Jan 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Lifelong activist Cynthia Papermaster co-ordinator for Code Pink, has led the protests against war criminal professor John Yoo, and went on a 84 day hunger strike to close the Guantamano Bay Prison will speak about these actions and more. 67601	6:30 am Moms 4 Housing Eviction Defense @ Moms' House Moms 4 Housing Eviction Defense @ Moms' House Jan 13 @ 6:30 am – 11:45 pm Tickets The Moms who occupied a vacant house in West Oakland on Nov 18th, owned by a development corporation, lost their court case Friday, the judge ordering the Sheriff to evict them “within five days.” At their press conference at the house after the decision, the Moms called for people to stand with them beginning at 6:30 AM at 2928 Magnolia (one block off Adeline), Oakland. Should you be willing to risk arrest in non-violent civil disobedience the Moms and their allies have lawyers available and ready to help. Otherwise, there … Continued 6:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay General Meeting @ Greenlining Institute Public Bank of the East Bay General Meeting @ Greenlining Institute Jan 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets 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 between organizers’ meetings, and others just confer by phone and email. You can plug into any one of these: Outreach to Organizations Outreach to Individuals Digital Outreach Advocacy (working with politicians) Governance California Public Banking Alliance Fundraising Operations Just send us a note and we’ll help … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Jan 13 @ 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	6:30 pm No Coal in Richmond: Council Vote @ Richmond City Hall No Coal in Richmond: Council Vote @ Richmond City Hall Jan 14 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Vote on ‘No Coal’ Ordinance At the December 3 Richmond City Council meeting, after hours of public testimony, the vote on the Richmond Coal Ordinance was delayed to a later meeting. Well, that meeting is now just around the corner! On Tuesday, January 14, the Richmond City Council will finally vote on the ordinance, which would phase out current coal and petroleum coke storage and handling at Richmond’s Levin terminal. It would also prevent future coal and petcoke operations in the city. Last year Richmond’s Levin terminal handled nearly … Continued	12:00 pm Join Local Mayors to Support Robust Climate Action @ Alameda city hall Join Local Mayors to Support Robust Climate Action @ Alameda city hall Jan 15 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Stand with Alameda Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft, Albany Mayor Nick Pilch, and other elected officials to spread awareness of the need to: End state permits for new oil and gas wells, Implement a 2,500-foot human health and safety buffer zone around all oil and gas wells, Have the state commit to 100% clean renewable energy. These public officials, all members of the California branch of Elected Officials to Protect America (EOPCA), will highlight what cities are doing to raise awareness that local action makes a difference in curbing climate change. Launched in 2018, … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Jan 15 @ 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 2nd Organizing Meeting for Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy Weekend @ EastSide Arts Alliance 2nd Organizing Meeting for Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy Weekend @ EastSide Arts Alliance Jan 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Our 6th Annual Rally and March to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy is right around the corner, and we need all hands on deck! As U.S. imperialism pushes us to the brink of yet another war, it’s important that we recall Dr. King’s condemnation of U.S. wars, capitalism, racism, and imperialism. In that spirit, we will come together for the 6th year on MLK Day where we will uplift the struggles against ICE and concentration camps, against police terror and prisons, for housing for all, against school closures and cops in … Continued 7:30 pm MAKING OUR WAY HOME: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream @ St. Paul's Episcopal Church MAKING OUR WAY HOME: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream @ St. Paul's Episcopal Church Jan 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets “Blair Imani enlivens African American history for a new generation with her dynamic and thoughtful account of African American migration and resilience.” —Jamia Wilson, Publisher of Feminist Press Over the course of six decades an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the south and spread across the nation in search of a better life. This migration sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes throughout twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative paired with illustrations, author and activist Blair Imani portrays the largely overlooked impact of the Great Migration and how it affected – … Continued	7:00 pm 5G WIRELESS RADIATION EMITTERS – Discussion @ South Berkeley Senior Center 5G WIRELESS RADIATION EMITTERS – Discussion @ South Berkeley Senior Center Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Berkeley City Council soon considers installation of 5G wireless telecommunication facilities in residential & commercial areas of Berkeley. Councilmembers Ben Bartlett & Cheryl Davila co-host a community discussion – including Q &A. For details, call 510.365.1500 or 510.919.6431. 67574 7:00 pm Diversity Film Series ‘The Long Shadow’ @ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse Diversity Film Series ‘The Long Shadow’ @ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Jan 16 in Piedmont; also Jan 19 at 12:30 pm in Oakland at The New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street, between Telegraph and Broadway Of all the divisions in America, none is as insidious and destructive as racism. The Appreciating Diversity Film Series’ first program of 2020 is the powerful documentary, The Long Shadow, which traces the history of slavery from the country’s founding, up through its ties to racism today. Director Frances Causey and Producer Sally Holst, both privileged daughters of the South, were haunted by their families’ slave-owning … Continued 7:00 pm Omni General Assembly @ Omni Commons Omni General Assembly @ Omni Commons Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Come by our open Delegates Meetings every Thursday evening at 7pm! 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.67526	7:30 am Wake Up Call: Part of MLK’s Radical Legacy Weekend @ MacArthur BART Station Wake Up Call: Part of MLK’s Radical Legacy Weekend @ MacArthur BART Station Jan 17 @ 7:30 am – 9:00 am Tickets Join SURJ’s Mobilization Committee for our annual “Wake-Up Call” during the 6th Annual Reclaim Martin Luther King Jr.’s Radical Legacy Weekend. We’ll be calling commuters in with broadcasts of inspiring MLK speeches, passing out information on alternatives to calling the police, and inviting people to come out to Monday’s big MLK Day rally and march (see https://www.facebook.com/events/747077179148170/ for more info).67626 10:00 am MLK’s Radical Legacy and Climate Strike @ Oscar Grant Plaza MLK’s Radical Legacy and Climate Strike @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 pm Tickets MLK’s Radical Legacy and Climate Strike, January 17-20 The Anti Police-Terror Project will celebrate the sixth annual Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy weekend, starting with support for a youth-led climate strike and Resilient Village Friday January 17. Throughout the weekend people and organizations will hold events, culminating with the sixth annual march and rally on Monday. Events will highlight the struggles against ICE and concentration camps, for housing for all, against school closures and cops in the schools. They will support families and community against police violence, movements for land and growing our own … Continued 10:00 am Oakland Climate Strike and Resilient Village @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Climate Strike and Resilient Village @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 17 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Join Oakland youth for a community Resilient Village to raise awareness on climate resilience and how youth can stand up for climate justice, with hands-on workshops on herbal making, civic engagement, art, water catchment, live art making, youth performances, an open mic, and more. This event will provide youth with strategies for addressing climate change within their families and communities and ways to work for climate justice on a local and global scale. This action is youth led and co-hosted by YVA, Mycelium Youth Network, Planting Justice and others. This … Continued 3:00 pm PG&E: Disability, Aging and Power – Envision a Grid That Works for Us and the Planet @ Ed Roberts Campus PG&E: Disability, Aging and Power – Envision a Grid That Works for Us and the Planet @ Ed Roberts Campus Jan 17 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 67559 6:00 pm Concert for the Climate @ Classic Cars West Concert for the Climate @ Classic Cars West Jan 17 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Hear a great lineup of local musicians and help raise money for strong regional action on climate. This Concert for the Climate is a fundraiser for the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force, which is working to organize cities and counties throughout the Bay Area to declare climate emergencies and join a task force to address climate change as a region. This is the second in the exciting Concert for the Climate Series to help raise funds for CEMTF’s work. Classic Cars West is wheelchair accessible, not scent free, all ages, and … Continued 6:30 pm Community Circle on Gentrification Community Circle on Gentrification Jan 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and the East Bay Church of Religious Science are holding a restorative circle on the topic of gentrification. During the circle, everyone will have the opportunity to share how they are impacted by gentrification and how communities can organize to heal. Feel free to come and invite others to join the conversation.67615 6:30 pm Just Mercy- Community Screening & Solidarity Panel @ Grand Lake Theater Just Mercy- Community Screening & Solidarity Panel @ Grand Lake Theater Jan 17 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets This event is sponsored by AAPI Women Lead, Asian Prisoner Support Committee, and New Breath Foundation. Join us for a community screening of Just Mercy (https://justmercy.eji.org/), starring Jamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan. There will be a “Solidarity through Struggle” panel after the film to discuss the range of impacts and experiences with the criminal justice system. Speakers to be announced. -Registration begins at 6:30 pm -Movie begins at immediately at 7 pm -Panel to begin after the movie Donations will be collected and matched for California Coalition for Women … Continued 7:00 pm Perils of 5G-Our Streets, Our Choice?! @ Thousand Oaks Baptist Church Perils of 5G-Our Streets, Our Choice?! @ Thousand Oaks Baptist Church Jan 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our Streets Our Choice* with 5G expert Dafna TACHOVER, Esq. and Karl MARET, MD/electrical engineer. Hosted by WiRED (Wireless Radiation Education and Defense) RSVP requested but not required via fb or email: 5GfreeBerkeley [at] gmail.com * http://www.mystreetmychoice.com WHAT’S THE PROB WITH 5G ? 5th Generation (not to be confused with 5 Gigahertz) wireless telecom facilities (WTF) will drastically increase: surveillance, hacking, fire risk, interference with weather prediction, property devaluations, energy use, worker endangerment, industrial clutter, co$t to cities and individuals, adverse health & environmental effects due to radiation! (For more info, see … Continued	8:30 am 2020 Citizens’ Climate Lobby Northern California Regional Conference @ Oakland Technical High School 2020 Citizens’ Climate Lobby Northern California Regional Conference @ Oakland Technical High School Jan 18 @ 8:30 am – 6:30 pm Tickets 2020 Citizens’ Climate Lobby Northern California Regional Conference When: 2 Day Conference Saturday, January 18th, 8:30am – 6:30 pm Sunday, January 19th, 8:30-am – 12:30pm You are invited to the annual Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) Northern California Regional Conference! CCL builds the political will for our elected representatives to take action on climate change. Our Regional Conference is an opportunity for newcomers and experienced CCL members to gather to learn, practice skills, inspire each other, and strategize in moving our country toward climate solutions. Rising temperatures, prolonged wildfire seasons, drought, … Continued 9:00 am Intentional Activism @ East Bay Community Space Intentional Activism @ East Bay Community Space Jan 18 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Intentional Activism – What if we could – wait for it – have fun AND create the world we want to live in at the same time? Tickets Do you feel passionate about social justice, but don’t know where to get started? Are you a seasoned activist experiencing burnout? What if activism didn’t have to feel like you’re preparing for battle? What if we could – wait for it – have fun AND create the world we want to live in at the same time? In activist circles it can … Continued 10:00 am Guerilla Housing: Reclaiming Dr.King’s Legacy of Radical Action @ Near Burger King, East Oakland Guerilla Housing: Reclaiming Dr.King’s Legacy of Radical Action @ Near Burger King, East Oakland Jan 18 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Join us to build “The Right to Exist” Village no experience necessary! (But if you’re a builder, give us a call.) For the past three years, The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople has participated in Reclaiming Dr. Martin Luther King’s Radical Legacy by reclaiming unused and/or neglected public landed owned by the City of Oakland to build temporary emergency shelter for our brothers and sisters living on the streets. The goals are simple: 1. Let people get off the ground, out of tents and into something safe until permanent deeply affordable … Continued 10:00 am Women’s March Oakland 2020 @ Oscar Grant Plaza Women’s March Oakland 2020 @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 18 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets #OaklandCounts Women’s March Oakland 2020 has a single goal: getting all of us counted in 2020. At this nonpartisan, peaceful event, we will mobilize to raise awareness, volunteer hours and funding to get a complete Census count in Alameda County and make our voices heard at the polls. In addition to a march through the streets of downtown Oakland, this year’s event will feature our biggest Community Action Fair ever, with entertainment, food, art and a wide range of organizations offering opportunities to make a difference in Alameda County. The 2020 march is … Continued

Week of January 12

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.