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The Bahá’í community of Oakland is organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing. Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us. Refreshments will be served. Doors open: 10:00 AM Prayers: 10:30-11:30 AM Refreshments and socializing: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM67610 10:30 am Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library: Talk and Discussion Series @ Niebyl Proctor Library Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library: Talk and Discussion Series @ Niebyl Proctor Library Feb 9 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sun, Jan 19, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Group Reading: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. In honor of Dr. King’s birthday, we will discuss what many believe is the greatest speech by America’s greatest spiritual leader, a speech that cost him his life. 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 1:00 pm DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons DSA General Meeting @ Omni Commons Feb 9 @ 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 Feb 9 @ 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 Movie Showing: The Power To Heal (Healthcare for All) @ St. Peter's Church Movie Showing: The Power To Heal (Healthcare for All) @ St. Peter's Church Feb 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets St Peter Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and Health Care for All – Contra Costa County will show The Power to Heal Medicare And The Civil rights Revolution, a 56-minutes long public television documentary that tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all.67612 5:00 pm Green Sunday: Let’s Make the Alameda County Sheriff Accountable to the People @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Sunday: Let’s Make the Alameda County Sheriff Accountable to the People @ Niebyl Proctor Library Feb 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets This talk will deal with the campaign launched by the Ella Baker Center, and also involving a variety of organizations, to audit the sheriff’s budget and hold him (in this case Sheriff Ahern) accountable for using taxpayer dollars for long-term public safety solutions that can improve the health and well-being of all people. Demanding transparency with this budget can uncover potential savings to be reinvested directly into our communities. Jose Bernal is the Organizing Manager at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Jose comes from a family of first … Continued 7:30 pm Indvisible Berkeley @ Finnish Hall Indvisible Berkeley @ Finnish Hall Feb 9 @ 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	12:30 pm Europe’s Green New Deal @ 223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley Europe’s Green New Deal @ 223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley Feb 10 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Europe aspires to be the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. To achieve this, the European Commission has proposed the European Green Deal, a package of measures that should enable European citizens and businesses to benefit from the sustainable green transition. Key policies range from ambitiously cutting emissions, to investing in cutting-edge research and innovation, to preserving Europe’s natural environment. This presentation by Jean-Eric Paquet, Director-General of Research and Innovation of the European Commission, will address the centrality of research and innovation. According to the event description, the Green Deal is … Continued 4:00 pm People’s Park Forum: The Displacement Plan @ UC Berkeley, MLK Jr. Student Union Ballroom People’s Park Forum: The Displacement Plan @ UC Berkeley, MLK Jr. Student Union Ballroom Feb 10 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets A public forum on People’s Park. Mayor Arreguin and UC Berkeley’s Chancellor Christ are hosting a public forum to rally support for the final devastation of People’s Park. Along with the development plan, they will discuss what the mayor calls “the displacement plan”. Attend this meeting to challenge their narrative. There is no particular reason why the dorm must be built on People’s Park. UC Berkeley does have other locations to build a dorm. The Chancellor and the Mayor will describe a 3 part development plan: a dorm, a separate … Continued 4:30 pm POSTPONED: Tell SF City Hall: No More Business with Concentration Camp Profiteers! @ SF City Hall Steps (Polk St. Side) POSTPONED: Tell SF City Hall: No More Business with Concentration Camp Profiteers! @ SF City Hall Steps (Polk St. Side) Feb 10 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets POSTPONED. NOT HAPPENING ON THIS DATE. San Francisco is supposed to be a sanctuary city for immigrants; but it also gives sanctuary to corporations that have contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Corporations like Salesforce, Amazon and Google profit from deportation and detention; yet City Hall continues to give them contracts while mouthing support for immigrants. Fortunately, the Immigrants’ Rights Commission is taking the first step to ending these contracts and has asked the City Controller to issue a report highlighting which companies … Continued 6:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ Impact Hub Public Bank of the East Bay @ Impact Hub Feb 10 @ 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 Feb 10 @ 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	5:00 pm Trans Mountain Pipeline Webinar @ Online Trans Mountain Pipeline Webinar @ Online Feb 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Every Tuesday at 5pm from February 11th to March 3rd, we have an opportunity to learn from impacted communities all along the Trans Mountain pipeline route. Click here to RSVP for the free webinar series, “From Wellhead to Tidewater.” On March 3rd, Isabella Zizi of Idle No More SF, Stand.Earth, and the Protect the Bay Coalition will speaking about the impacts of the Trans Mountain pipeline and tankers in California: the plan to dredge San Francisco Bay to make room for more fully loaded tankers, the impacts of the refinery expansion, and what resistance … Continued 6:00 pm Idle No More: Equity & Direct Action on Climate @ University of San Francisco Del Santo Reading Room, Lone Mountain Idle No More: Equity & Direct Action on Climate @ University of San Francisco Del Santo Reading Room, Lone Mountain Feb 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Indigenous and community leaders will speak on the connections linking oil projects, climate impacts, and indigenous rights, and in particular the connections between Canadian tar sands oil, the proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, and the proposed dredging of San Francisco Bay to bring large tankers of tar sands oil to Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo. The speakers—Pennie Opal Pant, Isabella Zizi, and Andrés Soto—will share strategies to stop these destructive projects, protect frontline communities, and protect the sacred system of life. The event is free and open to … Continued	5:00 pm Stop the school board’s budget cuts and mass layoffs @ La Escuelita School Stop the school board’s budget cuts and mass layoffs @ La Escuelita School Feb 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets OPEN is supporting SEIU 1021 in calling for a community mobilization to stop the school board from cutting at least $6.27M from our schools and firing at least 68 vital employees. When Oaklamd’s school board proposed $30 million in cuts that led to the teacher’s strike he posted evidence that there has actually been about a $70 million SURPLUS being illegally “put aside” (presumably to be given to the charter schools bought by the supporters of the real estate developer controlled school board but that’s what I deduced from what … Continued 5:30 pm “The Homeless Crisis: What Way Forward?” @ Allen Temple Baptist Church, Family Life Center, 2nd Floor “The Homeless Crisis: What Way Forward?” @ Allen Temple Baptist Church, Family Life Center, 2nd Floor Feb 12 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets BBBON Presents Meeting + Potluck on “The Homeless Crisis: What Way Forward?” What Way Forward? Join Block By Block Organizing Network for their February general assembly. Come listen and discuss recent strategies and movements with local activists/leaders who fight for the unhoused. Let’s bring our input and our hearts together. The time is now!! TIME: 5:30 PM Potluck Supper (please bring a dish to share). 6:30 PM Program. Parking available in parking lot or street. PANELISTS: Candice Elder, CEO and ED, East Oakland Collective James Vann, Moderator of Homeless Advocacy … Continued 6:00 pm Utility Justice Campaign Launch @ Greenlining Institute Utility Justice Campaign Launch @ Greenlining Institute Feb 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Help launch the campaign for a sustainable and accountable electricity system in California. The Utility Justice Campaign is leading a movement to Reclaim Our Power, demanding that front-line communities have a seat at the table in designing a blueprint for restructuring PG&E. The campaign sent a letter to Governor Newsom outlining the principles that should govern a new California electricity system: 1. Distributed energy 2. Worker and community control 3. Clean renewable energy for all 4. Corporate accountability 5. Frontline leadership 6. Indigenous sovereignty and land stewardship 7. Environmental justice … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy: Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons Feb 12 @ 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 spy drones, facial recognition, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — 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 … Continued	9:00 am Court Support, Militarized Police and Moms 4 Housing @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse Court Support, Militarized Police and Moms 4 Housing @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse Feb 13 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets “The Alameda County Sheriffs have not taken responsibility for their grossly exaggerated use of force in the pre-dawn eviction of Black women and children in Oakland. They are still holding arrest charges over the heads of 2 mothers and 2 supporters. Join us all to stand with the moms and demand transparency, accountability and that all pending charges be dropped immediately.” Also, if you haven’t signed this petition (and for more background info), go to: https://www.change.org/p/alameda-county-sheriff-gregory-ahern-hold-the-sheriff-accountable-protect-moms-babies-from-tanks?signed=true Petition � Hold Them Accountable – Protect Moms & Babies from Tanks, AR-15s, and … Continued 5:30 pm Oakland Police Commission @ Oakland City Hall Oakland Police Commission @ Oakland City Hall Feb 13 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Agenda. Items of particular interest: Election of Char Use of Force Ad Hoc Cmte Draft Ordinance on Militarized Police Equipment Process for Drafting Policy Many of you witnessed or saw images of the Moms4Housing visionary action for the right to housing and the Alameda County Sheriff Office’s warrior deployment of assault weapons, a tank and battering ram in response to peaceful protest in Oakland. The event demonstrated more clearly than ever the need to push back on police use of military equipment in our communities. The Oakland Police Commission will … Continued 7:30 pm Bay Area Skeptics Talk – Big Data @ La Peña Cultural Center Bay Area Skeptics Talk – Big Data @ La Peña Cultural Center Feb 13 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Bay Area Skeptics Talk This critical thinking-focused organization meets Every Second Thursday of the month with a different topic and guest speaker for every conversational meeting. This month’s topic: Big Data: What it is, how its used, where it’s headed by Mike Olson T67701	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 14 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Weekly Friday Vigil with music, snacks, letter writing, conversation 67652	10:00 am Volunteer on the Planting Justice Farm Volunteer on the Planting Justice Farm Feb 15 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Register here to work either in East Oakland or El Sobrante: https://plantingjustice.org/work-with-us/individuals67714 11:00 am NUDE VALENTINE’S DAY PARADE @ Jane Warner Plaza NUDE VALENTINE’S DAY PARADE @ Jane Warner Plaza Feb 15 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Nothing could be more ignorant and hypocritical than criminalizing the human body in a city that is named after a preacher who preached in the nude. In early 2013 a law was passed in San Francisco that is commonly called “the nudity ban”. According to this law you can go to jail for a year for merely taking off your clothes on a warm summer day. (That’s if you do it 3 times in a year. If it is your first or second time you get a $100 fine.) Nothing … Continued 4:00 pm Active Hope: How Will We Survive? @ Fellowship Hall Active Hope: How Will We Survive? @ Fellowship Hall Feb 15 @ 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Come join Codepink and friends in a two-day exploration of Active Hope. There will be thought-provoking speakers, rousing entertainment, activism updates, information tables, and great eats and socializing. The featured speakers are: Joanna Macy, author and teacher, scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology, and a veteran of six decades of activism. Harvey Wasserman, author, journalist, democracy activist, advocate for renewable energy, and a strategist and organizer in the anti-nuclear movement in the United States for over 30 years. Entertainment by Emma’s Revolution. Homemade organic pies – impeach, … Continued

Week of February 9

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.