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All-day	Coded Bias – Film Premiere on PBS Coded Bias – Film Premiere on PBS Mar 22 all-day Tickets https://twitter.com/CodedBias/status/136497679109031936668887
12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm 10:00 am Art Against Imprisonment @ Online Art Against Imprisonment @ Online Mar 21 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Please Join The Palestinian Youth Movement, Addameer, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Freedom Archives, The Arab Resource and Organizing Center and US Palestinian Community Network for Art Against Imprisonment, a Virtual Art Exhibit, that features art from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in Palestine and in the US. As a small testament to their creativity, imagination, and expressions of solidarity! Join us in launching this exhibit with former political prisoners: Hafez Omar, Linda Evans, and Oscar Lopez Rivera. Also, we will have and Anmar Rafeedie, cultural worker and long time … Continued 10:30 am The Great Labor Rebellion of the 1930s. The Great Labor Rebellion of the 1930s. Mar 21 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets The topic will be the history of the 1930s. Not the Great Depression but the responses to it. Firstly the Great Labor Rebellion: the CP-led California farmworkers strike, the three left-led general strikes of 1934, the sitdown strikes, and the rise of the CIO. And secondly the capitalist response, the New Deal and FDR, how the capitalist class coopted Labor’s Giant Step, and how black people, Chicanos and women were mistreated under New Deal legislation. Our speaker is John Holmes who teaches history at Merritt College in California, and is currently on the executive … Continued 11:00 am How to Change the World in One Generation @ Online How to Change the World in One Generation @ Online Mar 21 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Right now the most vulnerable individuals are being exploited on a massive scale and it will only get worse if we don’t take action now. But can we as average citizens really make a difference to help them? The answer is YES. In Direct Action Everywhere’s workshop, you will learn the history of social movements, the groundbreaking new research that shows the power of ordinary people, and the bold plan to nonviolently abolish the most harmful industry on earth that kills billions of animals every year. Join this Zoom link … Continued 1:00 pm Two Faces of the Industry: Biofuels and Fossil Fuels – Sunflower Alliance @ Online Two Faces of the Industry: Biofuels and Fossil Fuels – Sunflower Alliance @ Online Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets RSVP to action@sunflower-alliance.org to get the Zoom link. Major developments are afoot on Contra Costa’s refinery row. Two petroleum facilities are applying for to the county for permission to pivot to biofuel refining. Is this rejection of fossil fuels cause for celebration, or closer scrutiny? Is this a real climate solution or a climate dead end? Our Spring Equinox meeting will feature in-depth presentations on biofuels and renewable diesel refining. Our speakers are: Jackie Garcia Mann, of 350 Contra Costa Gary Graham Hughes, California Policy Monitor, Biofuelwatch Maureen Brennan, Rodeo resident and … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 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 … Continued 6:00 pm Movie Series: “Who Is The International Working Class Today?” @ Online Movie Series: “Who Is The International Working Class Today?” @ Online Mar 21 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets March 7th Event RSVP There are many discussions today about the nature of the working class and their capacity to fight for their own interests. Usually, we look at history to learn about the workers’ movement, but what potential exists in the modern international working class? What does a modern workers’ struggle really look like? What recent examples are there of workers organizing against the conditions they face and exerting their power? Join us in this movie series as we explore these questions by looking at workers’ struggles that happened … Continued 9:00 pm Film Screening: Kiss the Ground @ Online Film Screening: Kiss the Ground @ Online Mar 21 @ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that sheds light on a new, old approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world. Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil … Continued	9:00 pm Film Screening: Kiss the Ground @ Online Film Screening: Kiss the Ground @ Online Mar 22 @ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that sheds light on a new, old approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world. Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil … Continued	6:30 pm Socialist Night School: What is the Rank & File Strategy? @ Online Socialist Night School: What is the Rank & File Strategy? @ Online Mar 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets As socialists, we believe workers play a particular role under capitalism that makes them central in the fight for socialism. But in recent history in the US, labor and the left have been separated, leaving us vulnerable to capitalism attacks. How do we rebuild a fighting labor movement that can meaningfully challenge capital? Enter the Rank & File Strategy. What is the Rank & File Strategy? How should socialists engage with it? How is it different from just “socialists taking rank & file jobs”? Join the East Bay DSA Political … Continued	12:00 pm Feet on the Street Community Safety Walk @ St. Mary's Center Feet on the Street Community Safety Walk @ St. Mary's Center Mar 24 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Brockhurst St. and nearby neighbors are walking for community safety. Join us in the parking lot at St. Mary’s Center and we’ll pick the route for the day! We are looking for “hosts” for Wednesdays in April to bring friends & neighbors, and organize the walk. Interested?68876 4:30 pm Virtual Training to Stop DAPL @ Online Virtual Training to Stop DAPL @ Online Mar 24 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Join a virtual training to learn about what’s currently happening with DAPL and how you can take action. Very soon the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will head to court and share their findings from the environmental impact review of the Dakota Access pipeline and the danger it poses to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. This April 9th hearing is critical because the court could order the Army Corps of Engineers to shut it down. We need to stand in solidarity with Indigenous water protectors and allies! Every single day … Continued 6:00 pm DSA Medicare for All Committee Meeting @ Online DSA Medicare for All Committee Meeting @ Online Mar 24 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets With the pandemic and its multiple, intersecting crises, and the polling popularity of Medicare for All, our commitment to the movement is more important than ever. Come learn about our committee’s efforts, as well as local, state, and national initiatives around Medicare for All and single-payer healthcare. All are welcome! Join Zoom Meeting – Feb 24th RSVP https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81235048894?pwd=RDZHcnRDQ0FpV3ZndzdUenVJZ3JaZz09 Meeting ID: 812 3504 8894 Passcode: M4A One tap mobile +16699006833,,81235048894#,,,,,,0#,,956134# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,81235048894#,,,,,,0#,,956134# US (Tacoma) Join Zoom Meeting – March 24th RSVP https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81235048894?pwd=RDZHcnRDQ0FpV3ZndzdUenVJZ3JaZz09 Meeting ID: 812 3504 8894 Passcode: … Continued 7:00 pm Berkeley Copwatch: Behind the Mask, panel of speakers & community discussion @ Online Berkeley Copwatch: Behind the Mask, panel of speakers & community discussion @ Online Mar 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets In early January of this year, Vincent Bryant, a Black, unhoused man was shot in the face at point blank range by the Berkeley Police while experiencing a mental health crisis. Berkeley Copwatch invites you to analyze footage of this incident. The public is invited, we will be joined by a panel of professionals working in mental health to explore the rising opportunity for alternative responses to mental health emergencies in Berkeley, our current state, as well as a look at other communities already doing this work. Break out groups … Continued	11:30 am Reimagining Public Safety @ Online Reimagining Public Safety @ Online Mar 25 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/1370870287718223874 Amid nationwide reckoning with racial justice and calls to reimagine policing in America’s cities, Oakland has moved ahead with plans to change its public safety funding and performance. The Defund OPD campaign was launched by the Anti Policy Terror Project five years ago. Join us for a discussion with two leaders in the effort to change the criminal justice system. About the Speakers Cat Brooks is an activist, performer, politician and speaker or who has served as the communications director for Coaching Corps, as executive director of Youth Together … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Police Commission – Thanks but No Tanks @ Online Oakland Police Commission – Thanks but No Tanks @ Online Mar 25 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Oakland Police Commission 3/25 6:30 PM https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Police-Commission-3.25.21-Agenda-Packet.pdf Interesting Agenda Items: V. 2021 California Police Reform Legislation Former Commissioner Tara Anderson and Gabriel Garcia of Youth Alive will review 2021 bill language currently being considered by the State of California. The Commission will discuss and may vote to send letters of support for these bills. VI. Reimagining Public Safety Task Force Update Former Commissioner Ginale Harris will share an update on the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force. VII. Resolution on Sunsetting the Use of the BearCat The Commission will review, and … Continued	12:00 pm Protect Immigrants & Stop Deportations Now! Digital Rally @ Online Protect Immigrants & Stop Deportations Now! Digital Rally @ Online Mar 26 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Protect Immigrants & Stop Deportations Now! Digital Rally Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/UnitedWeDream/ Last November, voters rejected the previous administration’s horrifying and racist scapegoating of immigrants. But more than 26,000 people have been deported since Biden’s inauguration. This week, the Biden administration opened its first migrant detention center for children. And with hate crimes against Asian Americans on the rise, we must act. Join our next mass call, “On the Frontline: Protect Immigrants & Stop Deportations Now” as we discuss the need for immediate AND long-term solutions to protect all immigrant communities. We need … Continued 4:00 pm Introduction to the Green New Deal @ Online Introduction to the Green New Deal @ Online Mar 26 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Grandmothers for a Green New Deal, a small group of elder women (members of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations), invite you to a 90-minute, interactive zoom workshop to examine the Green New Deal as a blueprint toward a sustainable future. Sign up for one of these workshops by clicking on the registration links below Register for Thursday, March 18, 4-5:30 PM Register for Friday, March 26; 4-5:30 PM Register for Thursday, April 1, 4 – 5:30 PM PLEASE NOTE: Each presentation is limited to 12 participants so everyone has a chance to share their ideas. Please register early! … Continued 5:00 pm Support Youth Demanding to Defund Line 3 @ Golden Gate Bridge (meet at flagpole on the SF side) Support Youth Demanding to Defund Line 3 @ Golden Gate Bridge (meet at flagpole on the SF side) Mar 26 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets On March 26 youth, teachers and other supporters will join to ask State Superintendent of Education Tony Thurmond why California Teachers are invested in Line 3 through CalSTRS, the statewide teacher’s retirement fund which invests billions in fossil fuels companies, and in Enbridge, which is building Line 3. We will join Youth vs. Apocalypse and Earth Guardians Bay Area in solidarity action on March 26th at 5pm at the Golden Gate Bridge. Youth know that their teachers don’t want to fund environmental destruction — come by on Friday to show … Continued 6:30 pm Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem Mar 26 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets New film screening. “Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem.” This just-released film from Robert Greenwald’s “Brave New Films” documents the issues surrounding 13 million (mainly black, brown, and poor) Americans who are being incarcerated every day for petty “crimes” like Jaywalking, loitering, vagrancy, walking the railroad, insulting language or gestures, petty theft, disturbing the peace, etc. etc. The practice is then monetized during the detainees’ time in jail (averaging 30 days before seeing a judge) feeding the $80 billion a year prison system. And the imprisoned wind up with a criminal … Continued 8:00 pm Introduction to MMT: The online launch of MMA’s very first animated video @ Online Introduction to MMT: The online launch of MMA’s very first animated video @ Online Mar 26 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets This two-part video is a clear, down-to-earth introduction to the “paradigm busting” economics of Modern Monetary Theory. You are invited to make a big bowl of popcorn (or your favourite movie food), and from the comfort of your own living room, enjoy twelve minutes of delightful animation, and about thirty minutes of friendly discussion (or quiet lurking!). Meet the video creators. Meet your fellow MMT-curious and MMT-advocates. Ask your questions in person or anonymously. Whether you are new to this brand of economics, or are the veteran of in-depth debates with … Continued

Week of March 21

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.