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All-day				LAUNCH OF UC CENTER FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE LAUNCH OF UC CENTER FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE Apr 22 all-day Tickets A special program will celebrate Earth Day and launch a system-wide University of California Center for Climate Justice, an initiative to address climate change as a social justice and equity issue. “The UC Center for Climate Justice seeks solutions that address the root causes of climate change and, in doing so, simultaneously address a broad range of social, racial, and environmental injustices.” The Center for Climate Justice launch event will be held over two days, April 22-23, 2021, beginning on Earth Day. It will feature: * Keynote presentations by food … Continued Wild & Scenic Film Festival @ Online Wild & Scenic Film Festival @ Online Apr 22 all-day Tickets Tickets and film info here. Celebrate Earth Day 2021 at this year’s Wild and Scenic Film Festival! While it’s not possible to gather at The Goldman Theater at The Brower Center due to the pandemic, this year’s online program will include twenty of the year’s top environmental films for viewing at home. The exciting lineup is hosted by the Alameda County chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) and this year’s co-hosts, The David Brower Center, Earth Island Institute, Communities for a Better Environment, and Green the Church. (All ticket proceeds go to support their work.) The program features … Continued	LAUNCH OF UC CENTER FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE LAUNCH OF UC CENTER FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE Apr 23 all-day Tickets A special program will celebrate Earth Day and launch a system-wide University of California Center for Climate Justice, an initiative to address climate change as a social justice and equity issue. “The UC Center for Climate Justice seeks solutions that address the root causes of climate change and, in doing so, simultaneously address a broad range of social, racial, and environmental injustices.” The Center for Climate Justice launch event will be held over two days, April 22-23, 2021, beginning on Earth Day. It will feature: * Keynote presentations by food … Continued
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It will be in the overall … Continued 2:30 pm Honoring Steven Taylor: A Celebration of Life @ San Leandro Marina Park Honoring Steven Taylor: A Celebration of Life @ San Leandro Marina Park Apr 18 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets 68949 2:30 pm Justice 4 Steve Taylor @ Marina Park Justice 4 Steve Taylor @ Marina Park Apr 18 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/surjbayarea/status/137920588991204148568927 3:00 pm “The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution” Film & Panel w/ Filmmaker @ Online “The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution” Film & Panel w/ Filmmaker @ Online Apr 18 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets This event will be Closed Captioned and ASL interpreted. RSVP for Zoom here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L3O0lLQeSSeOfzk5TGgr3w Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/californiappc/ Please join us Sunday April 18, 2021, 3:00 PM PT for a screening of the documentary “Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution”, a powerful film chronicling this little know history from the 1960’s. There will be a panel discussion following the viewing of a 30 minute version of the film. Panelists will include Barbara Berney, the filmmaker; a low waged health care worker; a representative from the Indigenous People’s Contingent; and the California … Continued 3:00 pm Environmental Destruction and the Ecosocialist Solution @ Online Environmental Destruction and the Ecosocialist Solution @ Online Apr 18 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Today’s ecological reality is that we are on the edge of a mass extinction, while corporations protect their bottom lines by pushing reusable bags, cups, straws, and “green” carbon offsets. Individual responsibility and greenwashed products are not the solutions we need. Addressing the full scope of the problem will take ecosocialist remedies, to change the system from the ground up – literally. Join us for a riveting discussion of real climate fixes from a socialist feminist perspective. The program will highlight Samuel Rubin, Marxist geographical anthropologist, ecosocialist and member of … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 18 @ 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	5:00 pm Refund, Restore, & Reimagine: Oakland Faith Community Panel @ Online Refund, Restore, & Reimagine: Oakland Faith Community Panel @ Online Apr 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Online Event https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdR7f6H3U2m9iFkCDMlucjAAkNONOQhpeh4xBO7h6f-sOO_kw/viewform Join Event *Note: Please click the link above to register. Thank you!* We extend an invitation to people of faith and congregations in Oakland from the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy and the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. The recent wave of anti AAPI violence and the ongoing impacts of policing and the COVID pandemic on Oakland communities give us reason to consider what it would look like to refund local communities, restore dignity, and reimagine public safety. Many communities and congregants are struggling to pay … Continued 7:00 pm Film Premiere: Occupy the Farm @ Online / On Television Film Premiere: Occupy the Farm @ Online / On Television Apr 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Many of us will remember the heroic struggle to save the Gill Tract Farm in Albany, when 200 urban farmers walked onto a publicly-owned research farm and planted two acres of crops in order to save the land from becoming a real estate development. Occupy The Farm, a documentary films about this struggle, will have its broadcast premiere on Sonoma and San Mateo PBS affiliates for Earth Day. You can see the trailer here, and the whole film at these locations: ______________________________________________________________________________________ KRCB (Sonoma). April 20, 7-9 PM 90 min film, … Continued	4:00 pm Introduction to the Green New Deal @ Online Introduction to the Green New Deal @ Online Apr 20 @ 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. Register for Tuesday, April 20, 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! The workshop is centered around a 17 minute video, http://www.vimeo.com/grandmothers4aGND/APathForward. Please watch the video before the workshop. The video addresses the question: What … Continued 6:00 pm You’ve submitted your request for public records, now what? You’ve submitted your request for public records, now what? Apr 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Online Event Location: https://nlgsf.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=68 You’ve submitted your request for public records, now what? This training will cover what happens after you’ve drafted and submitted your California Public Records Act request. Topics include; Agency deadlines Agencies fees Practical tips for when an agency doesn’t produce what you’d like CPRA lawsuits basics Training conducted by Abenicio Cisneros (Follow on Twitter @CPRAlawyer). The NLG-SFBA is organizing this training with two main goals in mind: 1) Per the request of movement partners as well as NLG projects and committees, and 2) To train up law students, … Continued 7:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Public Bank of the East Bay @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Apr 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets We meet over Zoom. If you’d like to join us, and aren’t on our organizers’ list, drop us an email and we’ll send you an invitation. If you would like to join the meeting 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 we’ll see you online at 6:30. Donate to keep us moving forward It is the mission of Public Bank East Bay to provide community oversight and stewardship in the formation and … Continued 7:30 pm Fight to Protect Rent Control in Alameda @ Online Fight to Protect Rent Control in Alameda @ Online Apr 20 @ 7:30 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Register here Alameda Renters Coalition needs help from social and housing justice allies to fight against this plan to change the CIP formula. It will lead to many evictions of renters who have already suffered through the Covid19 Pandemic Shelter-In-Place. This benefits the largest corporate landlords. City Council will consider revisions to the current rent control law that allow for a new Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). ARC has been fighting this plan since it was brought to our attention back in the summer of 2020. We have had numerous meeting … Continued	10:30 am WHO CARES? A CONVERSATION ON FEMINIST CLIMATE ACTION @ Online WHO CARES? A CONVERSATION ON FEMINIST CLIMATE ACTION @ Online Apr 21 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Tickets REGISTER HERE. After registering you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join. Women’s Earth Alliance and Sierra Club’s Gender, Equity and Environment Program will host a conversation with leaders from the U.S. Grassroots Accelerator for Women Environmental Leaders, Julia Jackson of Grounded, A.Tianna Scozzaro of Sierra Club, and Kahea Pacheco of WEA. They will discuss what CARE—Collective Action, Agency, Resilience, Equity—looks like in their communities and in the climate justice movement as a whole, and how you can take action for our communities and climate this Earth Day. They write: “For millennia, women … Continued 5:00 pm Heal Our Communities Heal Our Communities Apr 21 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/ellabakercenter/status/138423861936007168468969 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' - SEE BELOW Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' - SEE BELOW Apr 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to obtain Zoom meeting access info. 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 … Continued 6:45 pm Justice 4 Mario Gonzalez Justice 4 Mario Gonzalez Apr 21 @ 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/138490112967122534868973 7:00 pm APTP Virtual General Meeting @ Online APTP Virtual General Meeting @ Online Apr 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join us for our virtual monthly membership meeting to hear what’s going on and talk about how you can get involved Register in advance for this webinar using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G9lm8G1GTuGhobwlSnJsBQ Each attendee must separately register. Do not share your registration confirmation with others. We will have updates on the following: – City Council budget process & our campaign to Defund OPD – MH First – More TBD! APTP General Membership meetings are held the third Wednesday of every month at 7pm. Join us to find out how you can … Continued	12:00 pm People’s Earth Day Rally @ SF City Hall @ Polk St. Steps People’s Earth Day Rally @ SF City Hall @ Polk St. Steps Apr 22 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Environmental Justice for Bayview Hunters Point & Treasure Island Residents! Meet at San Francisco City Hall/Polk Street Steps to Demand that Mayor Breed & Board of Supervisors: -Declare MORATORIUM on Lennar’s Shipyard development and unsafe soil excavation -Declare PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY! -Conduct full retesting, safe cleanup and removal of all radioactive and toxic waste at the Shipyard Superfund Site & Treasure Island Please Social Distance and Wear a Mask Sponsors: Hunters Point Community Lawsuit Plaintiffs, Treasure Island Community Lawsuit Plaintiffs, Bayview Hunters Point Mothers and Fathers Committee, Greenaction for Health … Continued 6:30 pm DSA Night School: Tenant Power and Socialism @ Online DSA Night School: Tenant Power and Socialism @ Online Apr 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Register here Since the start of the pandemic-induced shutdowns, the housing terrain has exploded with organized political activity. Be it from state-mandated shutdowns, or from poor economic conditions, millions of workers have found themselves without their usual wages. Of course, many workers are also tenants, and landlords have not ceased demanding high rents despite the ongoing economic turbulence. This has produced a series of system-wide tensions around housing in general and with the tenant-landlord relation in particular. In other words, the crisis has thrown light onto previously obfuscated fault lines … Continued 7:00 pm Film Premiere: Occupy the Farm @ Online / On Television Film Premiere: Occupy the Farm @ Online / On Television Apr 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Many of us will remember the heroic struggle to save the Gill Tract Farm in Albany, when 200 urban farmers walked onto a publicly-owned research farm and planted two acres of crops in order to save the land from becoming a real estate development. Occupy The Farm, a documentary films about this struggle, will have its broadcast premiere on Sonoma and San Mateo PBS affiliates for Earth Day. You can see the trailer here, and the whole film at these locations: ______________________________________________________________________________________ KRCB (Sonoma). April 20, 7-9 PM 90 min film, … Continued	11:00 am Making Communities Whole: From Incarceration to Building Homes @ Online Making Communities Whole: From Incarceration to Building Homes @ Online Apr 23 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Join the Ella Baker Center for a virtual panel discussion with formerly incarcerated community members to share their personal journey coming home and their wisdom why communities should invest in the liberation of incarcerated community members. Our theme focuses on centering incarcerated peoples’ leadership, building together to make our communities whole, and the urgent need for Governor Newsom to grant mass clemency and emergency releases to save lives from the devastating effects of COVID-19 in CA’s prisons. We will also have actions you can take to support incarcerated community members … Continued 11:00 am Making Communities Whole: From Incarceration to Building Homes @ Online Making Communities Whole: From Incarceration to Building Homes @ Online Apr 23 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Join us for a virtual panel discussion with formerly incarcerated community members to share their personal journey coming home and their wisdom why communities should invest in the liberation of incarcerated community members. Our theme focuses on centering incarcerated peoples’ leadership, building together to make our communities whole, and the urgent need for Governor Newsom to grant mass clemency and emergency releases to save lives from the devastating effects of COVID-19 in CA’s prisons. We will also have actions you can take to support incarcerated community members with pending clemency applications. … Continued 4:00 pm Protest in Solidarity With Hunger Strikers for Yemen Protest in Solidarity With Hunger Strikers for Yemen Apr 23 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets The current War on Yemen is starving millions of Yemenis as the country faces bombings, blockades, and partition. Foreign powers seek to divide the country in order get their slice of the pie. While some members of the U.S. establishment give lip service to ending the war, it is clear that they have no interest in doing so and do not care about the Yemeni people! We say no to this hypocrisy! We say no to the War on Yemen! We will be gathering to discuss the hunger strike and … Continued	11:00 am Ecology Center Meeting @ Online Ecology Center Meeting @ Online Apr 24 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Virtual Member’s Meeting Calling all community members! We are gathering online on Saturday, April 24, to reflect on the past year and to talk about the exciting initiatives we have planned for the year ahead. In the Member’s Meeting, Ecology Center members will: hear about the state of plastic waste and recycling from Ecology Center’s Executive Director Martin Bourque; find out what our local and state programs are working on; meet fellow community members, including the Ecology Center Board Members; receive a thank-you-for-being-a-member gift; and more. If you are not … Continued 12:00 pm Save 1921 Walnut, Save People’s Park! Save 1921 Walnut, Save People’s Park! Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets End the UC’s displacement, gentrification, and violence! Protect community, protect history, protect People’s Park and 1921 Walnut Street! The University of California, Gov. Newsom and their billionaire cronies is trying to evict tenants of 1921 Walnut Street, a rent-controlled building, and destroy affordable housing in Berkeley, California to create student dorms. The UC is also trying to destroy People’s Park, an open space, center for arts and culture, mutual aid, and poor people in the East Bay. We say NO! Meet at 1921 Walnut Street on April 24th at 12PM. … Continued 2:00 pm Demand Action Against Police Violence @ Hayward City Hall Demand Action Against Police Violence @ Hayward City Hall Apr 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/ellabakercenter/status/138597709097824256268976 4:00 pm Earth Week Gathering Oakland @ Snow Park & Lake Merritt Amphitheater Earth Week Gathering Oakland @ Snow Park & Lake Merritt Amphitheater Apr 24 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Spring is here and it’s EARTH WEEK! Dust off your stilts, put on an animal onesie, bring out your pots and pans, and come celebrate our hard work towards climate regeneration and environmental justice. Connect with community and a shared vision for change. Who: Activists, Concerned Citizens, Speakers, Families, Workers, Youth, Global Citizens: You! All people are welcome at this event. In association with Extinction Rebellion Bay Area, 350 Bay Area and many individuals and satellite supporters. Let us know if your organization is interested in co-sponsoring. Featured talk by: … Continued

Week of April 18

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.