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It is not widely recognized that Dr. King was an open socialist who stated that: “There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.” Reading the speech will take about an hour, leaving time for open discussion. … Continued 12:30 pm Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Sunflower Alliance @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center Feb 2 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets 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 share a potluck lunch. 67542 2:30 pm How We Win Workshop @ Fellowship Hall How We Win Workshop @ Fellowship Hall Feb 2 @ 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets How We Win Workshop Facilitated by George Lakey and Kazu Haga “It’s a good time to take a fresh look at what has worked in times of trouble, and share what we have learned about successful campaigning that gives hope for the future.” George Lakey. George Lakey, a campaigner and activist-sociologist, has led workshops on five continents. His first arrest was in the civil rights ovement, and most recetly in March 2018. His tenth book is How We Win. Kazu Haga is the founder and coordinator of East Point Peace … Continued 2:30 pm How We Win: Workshop by George Lakey & Kazu Haga @ BFUU How We Win: Workshop by George Lakey & Kazu Haga @ BFUU Feb 2 @ 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets It’s a good time to take a fresh look at what has worked in times of trouble, and share what we have learned about successful campaigning that gives hope for the future.” – George Lakey. These times call for new and creative tactics in order to make changes to the status quo. Explore: What makes nonviolent direct action campaigns relevant now? What about polarization? How do we build stronger campaigns? Can campaigns build a movement of movements that can deliver really big changes? Expect: experiential activities, small group work, a … Continued 3:00 pm Health Care For All (HCA) – Contra Costa County Chapter Meeting @ Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, Bldg 1 Conference Room Health Care For All (HCA) – Contra Costa County Chapter Meeting @ Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, Bldg 1 Conference Room Feb 2 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Join us! Supporters in Alameda County are welcome. Here are the links to the draft agenda and 12/1/19 meeting notes. We hope to see you there.67643 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 2 @ 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 Longhaul Meeting @ Longhaul Longhaul Meeting @ Longhaul Feb 2 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Long Haul Meeting: First Sunday of Every Month from 4pm – 6pm The Long Haul is an anarchist resource center and community space. Our goal is to provide the shell for a space that feels alive with people, projects, and ideas (whether in concert or conflict)–where together we negotiate a tension with society. We provide a office/meeting space and a non-profit umbrella for a variety of projects/collectives, as well as hosting for numerous social and political events. We also house the Infoshop . What is the Infoshop? The Infoshop is a combination of a … Continued	7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Feb 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82809764186?pwd=eWtjcXlsKzU1QkdSdk5xOUxseFl0Zz09 Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186 If you wish to get the password please subscribe to the Oscar Grant Committee mailing list by sending an email to: oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to … Continued	5:00 pm Transit Equity Day Rallies @ Macarthur BART Transit Equity Day Rallies @ Macarthur BART Feb 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Join the 350 East Bay Transportation Campaign, East Bay Democratic Socialists of America Climate and Environmental Justice Caucus, Labor Rise for Climate, Sunflower Alliance and more to rally on national Transit Equity Day. Public transit is a civil right! Public transit combats climate change! Support AC Transit drivers and their union as they fight for a better contract!67635 6:00 pm Renewable and Resilient: Community Microgrids @ Community Center Renewable and Resilient: Community Microgrids @ Community Center Feb 4 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Learn about how community microgrids can increase renewable energy and make our communities more resilient for dealing with power shutoffs like those that stranded many Bay Area communities last fall. Climate change and the increased danger of fire make it necessary for us to build our own local electric grids, powered by renewable energy, not subject to whatever happens to long-distance power lines. Hear a panel describe the importance of distributed energy, how it works, and current microgrid projects in California and Marin. SPEAKERS; Peter Asmus, Guidehouse Ellie Cohen, The … Continued 6:00 pm WE KEEP US SAFE: OFFICIAL BOOK LAUNCH @ Restore Oakland WE KEEP US SAFE: OFFICIAL BOOK LAUNCH @ Restore Oakland Feb 4 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Join us for the official book launch of We Keep Us Safe, written by Ella Baker Center Executive Director Zach Norris. Come hear from Zach and learn about how we can come together to build secure, just, and inclusive communities. Books will be available for sale and the author will be signing copies. Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities Despite the United States’ long-standing tradition of aggressive policing and imprisonment, we still don’t feel safe. It’s clear that our current approaches to justice aren’t working. They blame our problems on … Continued 7:00 pm Socialist Night School: Bernie 2020 and Class Struggle @ East Bay Community Space Socialist Night School: Bernie 2020 and Class Struggle @ East Bay Community Space Feb 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets “Not me, us” is the slogan of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential run. On the campaign trail, Bernie has consistently emphasized that he alone can’t transform society — that in order to end the stranglehold of the billionaire class over society, millions of working-class Americans must get involved in the political process. Why does Bernie insist on the need for a mass movement to change society? What is Bernie’s campaign doing to build that movement? What would a working-class movement need to be like in order to enact fundamental change, and what should … Continued 7:30 pm A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices From Guantanamo @ Hillside Club A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices From Guantanamo @ Hillside Club Feb 4 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets PETER JAN HONIGSBERG with Steve Wasserman ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com ::T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 sites), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books, Mrs.Dalloway’s Books $15 door, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. You’re doing God’s work with this book…” —Robert Scheer “Honigsberg combines his impressive research with his persistent advocacy for detainees who clearly played no role in the 9/11 attacks and who almost certainly never posed any threat to American citizens. . . . A well-documented, hard-hitting, necessary exposé.” —Kirkus Reviews “What sets Honigsberg’s … Continued	5:30 pm Reject the Cover-up! Protest Against Sham Impeachment Trial @ Grand Lake Theater Reject the Cover-up! Protest Against Sham Impeachment Trial @ Grand Lake Theater Feb 5 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets OME ON DOWN! No worries if you don’t have a sign. We will have poster board and markers. ___________________________________________________________ This Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of Americans will mobilize to demand: Accountability — Trump and the Senators and members of Congress who voted to cover up his crimes will be held accountable by their constituents. Democracy — Now more than ever, we need to ensure a free and fair election in 2020, which means real election security reform and and end to voter suppression. Reform — Like after Watergate, we demand … Continued 6:00 pm Ella Baker Meeting Ella Baker Meeting Feb 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets This February we are highlighting not only the history of black people but the future as well. We will be paying homage to our local leaders and activists. Local performer, artist, and educator TJ Sykes will be joining us. All are welcome, dinner provided, for more information email monifa@ellabakercenter.org. Come build with us!67674 6:30 pm Building a Movement to Stop the War @ Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (ICCNC) Building a Movement to Stop the War @ Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (ICCNC) Feb 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join the Center for Political Education for an emergency teach-in. As the Trump regime unveils its shameful “Middle East Peace Plan”, tensions with the people of Iran remain high, millions are in the streets of Iraq demanding immediate US withdrawal, and the situation in Yemen continues to deteriorate. Globally, US militarism continues to destabilize life from Bolivia, to Venezuela, to Haiti, Sudan and the Philippines. Across the planet and here in the Bay Area, movements are taking up the vital task of building unity against these threats to life, along … Continued 6:30 pm Justice Jam @ Lakeshore Ave. Baptist Church Justice Jam @ Lakeshore Ave. Baptist Church Feb 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The housing crisis affects us all. Join Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church’s Justice Jam February 5, 6:30-8pm – hear about the intersections of homelessness, housing insecurity, affordable housing. Find out how to get involved. Guest speakers @Skarlinsky @EBALDC_ED @gwehmanbrown pic.twitter.com/znc4WCnIHM — Faith in Action East Bay (@FIAEastBay) January 27, 2020 67657 6:30 pm Multifaith Response to Climate Crisis @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Multifaith Response to Climate Crisis @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Feb 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Rev.Ambrose Carroll (Green the Church), Starhawk (Earth Activist Training), and Rabbi Arthur Waskow (The Shalom Center) will lead an evening of song, ceremony, preaching, prayer, and community at the intersection of climate activism and spirituality. Funds raised from this event help support the work of Green the Church, Earth Activist Training, and The Shalom Center. Co-sponsors include St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Church By the Side of the Road, Aquarian Minyan, and Keneset HaLev. Co-produced by Derech HaAreretz – Way of the Earth and JeWitch Collective. Please help spread the word on facebook Wheelchair accessible Fragrance-free … Continued 6:45 pm DSA Green New Deal Committee DSA Green New Deal Committee Feb 5 @ 6:45 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Monthly Meeting Join the Green New Deal Committee for our monthly meeting! The Green New Deal Committee (GNDC) is organizing for a socialist Green New Deal in the East Bay and beyond. We believe that future generations are entitled to a beautiful planet with a vibrant natural world that can sustain a good life for all people, and that creating a fully ecological society will require a revolutionary transformation to replace the capitalist social order based on exploitation and oppression with a new society based on cooperation, equity, and justice. … Continued	5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall Feb 6 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Agenda items: 4. Census Team – Presentation on 2020 Census – Informational report only Richard J. Luna, Assistant to the City Administrator, will give a presentation regarding the 2020 Census. The 2020 Census will be conducted primarily online and made available in only 13 languages, which makes it a challenge in ensuring a complete count for Oakland. According to the State of California, 57% of Oakland’s population lives in hard-to-count Census tracts. Factors that lead to hard-to-count areas in Oakland include: crowded units, renters, multiple families living at a residence, … Continued 7:00 pm “Kids Caught in the Crackdown,” a documentary @ Revolution Books “Kids Caught in the Crackdown,” a documentary @ Revolution Books Feb 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets As the detention of migrant children has climbed to record-breaking levels under Trump, FRONTLINE and The Associated Press investigated what’s going on inside federally-funded shelters – and the lasting impact on children held in U.S. custody. The nearly 70,000 migrant children who were held in government custody this year – up 42 percent in fiscal year 2019 from 2018 – spent more time in shelters and away from their families than in prior years. Andrés Cediel is a documentary filmmaker and Professor of Visual Journalism. He produced “Rape in the … Continued 7:00 pm Homeless First & 24 Hours, Community Film Screening @ Longhaul Homeless First & 24 Hours, Community Film Screening @ Longhaul Feb 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Screening of two short films on homelessness: 24 HOURS by Yesica Prado An account of eviction of an encampment in Berkeley HOMELESS FIRST by Anka Karewicz & Travis Schirmer A Liberated Lens production that follows the Berkley encampment known as “First They Came for the Homeless,” a group fighting for the right to live in tents within a self-sustaining community. Wheelchair accessible 67668 7:00 pm Omni General Assembly @ Omni Commons Omni General Assembly @ Omni Commons Feb 6 @ 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	4:00 pm THANKS CHELSEA MANNING AND JULIAN ASSANGE FOR REVEALING BUSH’S WAR CRIMES THANKS CHELSEA MANNING AND JULIAN ASSANGE FOR REVEALING BUSH’S WAR CRIMES Feb 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Weekly Friday Vigil with music, snacks, letter writing, conversation 67652 5:00 pm The Terrible State of Oakland @ Oakland Museum The Terrible State of Oakland @ Oakland Museum Feb 7 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The United Front Against Displacement and the West Oakland Wood St Community will rally on February 7th at 5 pm to condemn the Oakland State of the City Address (1000 Oak St, Oakland, CA 94607). The City is in a terrible state. The State of the City Address is an opportunity for Mayor Schaff and the city administrators to lie about the horrendous conditions of the people of Oakland. The City of Oakland has invested millions in “managing” and sweeping homeless people out of site and done little to provide … Continued 5:30 pm Back to Court: Impact CDCR’s Resentencing Process @ Ella Baker Center, Suite 202 Back to Court: Impact CDCR’s Resentencing Process @ Ella Baker Center, Suite 202 Feb 7 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Help us get people back to court for resentencing and get people free! Come learn about CDCR’s re-sentencing process, and prepare comments and live testimony. We have 45 days to make public comments and testify at CDCR’s hearing. Since June 2018, CDCR’s PC § 1170(d)(1) Resentencing “pilot program” formally tracked and reviewed over 1,800 cases and referred roughly 1300 people back to court for resentencing. So far CDCR prioritized referring people with illegal or no longer mandatory enhancements, with sentencing errors, and for exceptional conduct. Now, effective January 1, 2020, … Continued 6:30 pm Tsuru Fold-In & Film Screening @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Suite 290 Tsuru Fold-In & Film Screening @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Suite 290 Feb 7 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Never again is NOW. Join OACC and Tsuru for Solidarity for a “Tsuru Fold In,” to fold cranes that will join the “National Pilgrimage to Close the Camps” in June 2020. This movement plans to bring 125,000 paper cranes, or tsuru, as expressions of solidarity with immigrant and refugee communities that are under attack today. The 125,000 cranes represent the members of the community who were rounded up and incarcerated in U.S. concentration camps during World War II, including both Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans. Learn more at tsuruforsolidarity.org. … Continued	10:00 am Showing Up for Racial Justice Through the Power of Public Policy @ Berkeley YWCA Showing Up for Racial Justice Through the Power of Public Policy @ Berkeley YWCA Feb 8 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Join SURJ Bay Area’s Policy Committee for a legislative strategy session and workshop that will demystify the legislative process, build our collective legislative capacity, and highlight the legislative priorities and strategies of SURJ’s people of color (POC) led partners! This workshop is the first of a two-part series for anyone who is passionate, curious, or wants to learn more about the ways that policy combined with grassroots organizing can be used as a tool in the movement for racial justice and collective liberation. This workshop will provide opportunities for participants … Continued 3:00 pm Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Meeting @ Redstone Bldg Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Meeting @ Redstone Bldg Feb 8 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Today, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has picked up the unfinished work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. We are creating a new fusion politics to change the moral narrative of the country. From Alaska to Arkansas, the Bronx to the border, people are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. We understand that as a nation we are at a critical … Continued 4:30 pm Strike Debt Bay Area’s Economics Book Group: “Limits” @ Omni Commons Strike Debt Bay Area’s Economics Book Group: “Limits” @ Omni Commons Feb 8 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets We start a new book for the new year. All are welcome at host Strike Debt Bay Area’s economics book group discussion. We meet once a month. For January we are reading the first three chapters of “Limits (Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care” by Giorgos Kallis (Amazon, Stanford University Press). For February, the remaing chapters. Not a problem if you will have missed January – the chapters are short and it is easy to catch up for February! Previous books er have discussed include Kate Raworth’s … Continued 5:00 pm Report from 2nd International Gathering of Women in Struggle @ Omni Commons Report from 2nd International Gathering of Women in Struggle @ Omni Commons Feb 8 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets In December 2019 Zapatista Women organized the Second International Gathering of Women in Struggle in Chiapas Mexico. At least 4,000 women attended from all over the world. The gathering was dedicated to struggle to end gender based violence. Women who attended the gathering will share their experience, feelings, thoughts, and analysis. Participants include the Chiapas Support Committee, Sogorea Te Land Trust, the Sexta National and International, etc. Hosted by Chiapas Support Committee Oakland67660 5:30 pm Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools @ Mills College, Lisser Hall Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools @ Mills College, Lisser Hall Feb 8 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The precarity of Black girls’ lives in school have been made visible by Dr. Monique Morris. Through her writing, advocacy, and now film, PUSHOUT, we now have the language to describe and understand what we see happening to Black girls in schools. Morris’ work has inspired debate and legislation with the recent sponsoring of the Ending Punitive, Unfair, School-based Harm that is Overt and Unresponsive to Trauma (P.U.S.H.O.U.T) Act,” by representatives Ayanna Pressley (D- MA), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.). The law identifies the many students made vulnerable by race, … Continued 7:00 pm Migrant Solidarity from the Border to the Bay @ South Berkeley Senior Center Migrant Solidarity from the Border to the Bay @ South Berkeley Senior Center Feb 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets As the Trump administration escalates its xenophobic war in the Middle East, it continues its brutal war on immigrants. Thousands of migrants await justice in shelters, border camps, and private detention facilities across the U.S and México. In spite of the inhumane immigration policies, people are still arriving at the border seeking asylum and 25,000 migrants are waiting in Mexico to begin their asylum process. Join the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), the Interfaith Movement 4 Human Integrity (IM4HI), and SURJ-Bay Area for an evening of sharing, solidarity and … Continued

Week of February 2

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.