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I would place her skills and talents in the context of what she learned in the Underground Railroad and her collaboration with John Brown in the raid on … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 23 @ 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 7:00 pm Free Dinner & Movie Discussion Night – Hotel Rwanda @ It's Your Move Free Dinner & Movie Discussion Night – Hotel Rwanda @ It's Your Move Feb 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets In attendance will be journalist Ann Garrison who received the 2014 Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. The Oakland Greens look forward to seeing you at the second of this years Free Dinner & Movie Discussion Night series with MC and producer Vicente Cruz on the Last Sundays of every month from January through October. February 23rd will screen the movie Hotel Rwanda (2004) — a film based on the Rwandan genocide staring Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo … Continued	12:00 pm International Day Of Action To Free Julian Assange & Chelsea Manning @ UK Consulate International Day Of Action To Free Julian Assange & Chelsea Manning @ UK Consulate Feb 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Join the Bay Action Committee to Free Julian Assange on an international day of action on Monday, February 24, 2020, at the San Francisco UK consulate. The action will also include support for Chelsea Manning who has been jailed by a Grand Jury to force false testimony against Julian Assange. The real war criminals who run the UK government and the US. government go unpunished while the whistleblowers who exposed war crimes are threatened with torture and life in jail. The criminal prosecution of journalist Glenn Greenwald by the Brazilian … Continued	12:00 pm Stand Up With Our Unsheltered Neighbors @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Stand Up With Our Unsheltered Neighbors @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 25 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 67777 7:00 pm Know Your Rights Training @ Grassroots House Know Your Rights Training @ Grassroots House Feb 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 67713	12:00 pm The Revolution That Wasn’t @ Banatao Auditorium, Surtajda Dai Hall, UC Berkeley The Revolution That Wasn’t @ Banatao Auditorium, Surtajda Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Feb 26 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets The internet has been hailed as a leveling force that is reshaping activism. From the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, digital activism seemed cheap, fast, and open to all. Now this celebratory narrative finds itself competing with an increasingly sinister story as platforms like Facebook and Twitter—once the darlings of digital democracy—are on the defensive for their role in promoting fake news. While hashtag activism captures headlines, conservative digital activism is proving more effective on the ground. Schradie’s talk, based on her book, The … Continued 12:45 pm Movement Lawyering and Community Organizing in Practice @ Berkeley Law, Rm 105, UC Berkeley Movement Lawyering and Community Organizing in Practice @ Berkeley Law, Rm 105, UC Berkeley Feb 26 @ 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets 67759 ◢ 11:20 pm HEALTHY AND SECURE OR AGING INTO HOMELESSNESS – Grey Panthers @ South Berkeley Senior Center HEALTHY AND SECURE OR AGING INTO HOMELESSNESS – Grey Panthers @ South Berkeley Senior Center Feb 26 @ 11:20 pm – Feb 27 @ 12:00 am Tickets Older adults are now a majority of those living unhoused in the Bay Arrea. Nearly half faced homelessness for the first time after the age of fifty. Rapid aging, chronic illnesses, and premature death are becoming common – at a very high cost in suffering and dollars. Researchers at UC-San Francisco’s HOPE-HOME collaborative are shining a light at the intersection of health, housing, and aging. They are also bringing a new perspective, and now funding, to democratize the process of change, identify evidence based solutions and help communities and decision-makers … Continued	◤ 12:00 am HEALTHY AND SECURE OR AGING INTO HOMELESSNESS – Grey Panthers @ South Berkeley Senior Center HEALTHY AND SECURE OR AGING INTO HOMELESSNESS – Grey Panthers @ South Berkeley Senior Center Feb 27 @ 12:00 am – 3:30 pm Tickets Older adults are now a majority of those living unhoused in the Bay Arrea. Nearly half faced homelessness for the first time after the age of fifty. Rapid aging, chronic illnesses, and premature death are becoming common – at a very high cost in suffering and dollars. Researchers at UC-San Francisco’s HOPE-HOME collaborative are shining a light at the intersection of health, housing, and aging. They are also bringing a new perspective, and now funding, to democratize the process of change, identify evidence based solutions and help communities and decision-makers … Continued 5:30 pm Oakland Police Commission @ Oakland City Hall Oakland Police Commission @ Oakland City Hall Feb 27 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Full agenda: https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Police-Commission-2.27.20-Agenda-Packet.pdf Of possible interest: VII. Committee Reports Representatives from the following Standing and Ad Hoc Committees will provide updates on their work. This is a recurring item. (Attachment 7) i. Personnel ii. Outreach iii. Mental Health Model iv. Use of Force v. Equipment [[ Militarized Equipment Ordinance — see full agenda ]] vi. Rules of Procedure IX. OPD Overtime Report The Department will present the overtime report that was delivered at the Finance and Management Committee meeting on February 25, 2020.67781 6:30 pm Rally Against Fear Rally Against Fear Feb 27 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets @moms4housing "Housing is a human right! Our immigrant neighbors have been on rent strike for 4 months & are on brink of historic victory – they need our support! Please join us at Rally Against Fear Thursday, 2/27, 6:30 pm, 1534 29th Ave. Moms will be speaking & sharing updates"— Anti Police-Terror (@APTPaction) February 26, 2020 67780 7:30 pm E. J. Dionne: Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country @ Hillside Club E. J. Dionne: Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country @ Hillside Club Feb 27 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets New York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne sounds the alarm in Code Red, calling for an alliance between progressives and moderates to seize the moment and restore hope to Americas future for the 2020 presidential election. Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns? Or will they take advantage of the greatest opportunity since the New Deal Era to strengthen American democracy, foster social justice, and turn back the threats of the Trump Era? The country is at a crossroads. Principled opposition to Trumps presidency … Continued	11:00 am STOP THE MONEY PIPELINE @CHASE @ Oscar Grant Plaza - Downtown Oakland STOP THE MONEY PIPELINE @CHASE @ Oscar Grant Plaza - Downtown Oakland Feb 28 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area along with other Bay Area climate groups (Rainforest Action Network, 350 Bay Area, 350 Silicon Valley, XR Youth, Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Front Bay Area, Diablo Rising Tide, CodePINK, and others) have joined an extended, escalating campaign aimed at putting pressure on JPMorgan Chase to stop financing the fossil fuel industry. Stay tuned for more Friday actions through the coming months. Learn more about the national campaign at StopTheMoneyPipeline.67774 4:30 pm Gracias Chelsea Manning & Julian Assange for Exposing Bush’s War Crimes Gracias Chelsea Manning & Julian Assange for Exposing Bush’s War Crimes Feb 28 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets GRACIAS! CHELSEA MANNING&JULIAN ASSANGE FOR PUBLISHING BUSH’S WAR CRIMES join our EVERY friday demo’s @ 4:30 to save them from torture or death @MacArthur&Fruitvale Oak Ca. Start your own VIGIL EMAIL ME ohohorion99@gmail.com . also CHECK OUT OUR WEB https://bayaction2freeassange.org LATEST NEWS JOIN 60,000&FREE CHELSEA FROM TORTURE https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-free-chelsea-manning-now 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 … Continued 6:30 pm Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay – Performance and Panel @ Place Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay – Performance and Panel @ Place Feb 28 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets A benefit for the 25th anniversary of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and the Free Sitawa Campaign~ Please join us for a performance of Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison. The one-hour two-person play with music by Fred Johnson and Charlie Hinton will be followed by a panel discussion with the producers alongside Dejohnette from CCWP to speak on the DROP LWOP (Life Without Parole) campaign and CCWP’s 25th anniversary, and Minister King with updates on the campaign to free Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and the resistance … Continued 7:00 pm Puzzles for Justice Returns! @ ACCE Puzzles for Justice Returns! @ ACCE Feb 28 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Puzzles for Justice has returned! Love jigsaw puzzles? Love social justice? Join us for three hours of solving puzzles Friday, February 28th from 7 to 10pm! This quarter’s Puzzles for Justice is a fundraiser for CRC’s Safety, Survival & Self Determination Program. Think of it like a walk-a-thon except instead of raising money based how far people walk, we’re raising money based on how many puzzle pieces we can put together (a puzzle-a-thon?). You can help out by either coming to the event and helping us put these puzzles together, … Continued 7:30 pm Richard Wolff: Understanding Socialism @ First Presbytarian Church of Berkeley Richard Wolff: Understanding Socialism @ First Presbytarian Church of Berkeley Feb 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Democracy at Work present: RICHARD D. WOLFF Understanding Socialism With Sabrina Jacobs advance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, $15 door, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events “Richard Wolff’s book is the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is, was, and should be.” – Cornel West A blend of history, analysis, and theory, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures and the challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history, and offers a … Continued	9:00 am Heading for Extinction Talk @ Sports Basement Heading for Extinction Talk @ Sports Basement Feb 29 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets Reserve a spot: https://www.facebook.com/events/242973056729410/ In this in-person, public talk, climate speakers from Extinction Rebellion will share the latest climate science on where our planet is heading and offer solutions through the study of social movements. The talk itself goes from 9:00 – 10:15. Afterwards, until 10:50, we’ll answer any questions, including how to get involved in XR SF Bay!67775 1:00 pm TheGreenNewCity March & Rally for Housing, Climate Justice and Animals @ Near Golden Gate Fields TheGreenNewCity March & Rally for Housing, Climate Justice and Animals @ Near Golden Gate Fields Feb 29 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Southwest of Golden Gate Fields, West of Gilman houseless encampment (Golden Gate Fields horse track, 1100 Eastshore Hwy, Berkeley, CA 94710) Marching to Berkeley City Hall, 2180 Milvia St, Berkeley, CA 94704 WHERE: Southwest of Golden Gate Fields, West of Gilman houseless encampment (Golden Gate Fields horse track, 1100 Eastshore Hwy, Berkeley, CA 94710) Housing, climate justice, and animal rights activists are wearing GREEN and marching from the houseless encampment at Golden Gate Fields to Berkeley City Hall to demand #TheGreenNewCity. Join this plant-based food serve and trash pick-up, then … Continued 2:00 pm Leap Day Action – Declare Climate Emergency – extravagant spectacle, roving street party @ Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza Leap Day Action – Declare Climate Emergency – extravagant spectacle, roving street party @ Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza Feb 29 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Use your Extra Day to Declare Climate Emergency and keep carbon in the ground For life, beauty and joy & against eco-destroying robber barons!  The earth is not dying – it is being killed. The corporations killing it have locations near you (including in downtown Berkeley) Roam downtown visiting, decorating and disrupting banks and corporations Build zero waste compostable altars for the 1 billion dead animals at each target Dress as an Australian or Amazonian animal Marching band / mobile bike sound system Kid friendly Bring disguises, decorations, musical … Continued 6:00 pm REVOLUTION BOOKS 40th Anniversary Celebration! @ Revolution Books REVOLUTION BOOKS 40th Anniversary Celebration! @ Revolution Books Feb 29 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join Sahar Delijani, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, Julia Scheeres and Andy Zee to Celebrate Revolution Books’ 40th Anniversary. 6pm Reception with wine and light refreshments $25-50 7pm Program & champagne toast $5-up This is a celebration – as well as a renewed and urgent call for people to support the bookstore. Right as now we face a moment of stark contrast between our hopes and dreams for a better world and the stark reality that great catastrophe looms as fascist regimes rise, and as we confront environmental disaster–Revolution Books embodies the … Continued

Week of February 23

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.