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Among the values are a single-payer “Medicare for All” healthcare system, real justice not increasing criminalization, truly affordable housing, public ownership of energy, ending wars for profit, … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 17 @ 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	7:00 pm Alice Walker and her book, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire. @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley Alice Walker and her book, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire. @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley Apr 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join KPFA for this very special, IN-PERSON EVENT, when Beverly Guy-Sheftall hosts Alice Walker and her book, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire. Alice Walker with Beverly Guy-Sheftall Gathering Blossoms Under Fire From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize�winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and wwriter Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual. *Proof of COVID-19 vaccination required for entry, masks strongly encouraged. [TICKETS / … Continued	6:00 pm ACLU California Action Conference @ Online ACLU California Action Conference @ Online Apr 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Lead the way in bringing change to the California State Capitol and all our communities! Virtual. Link will be shared upon registration. SIGN UP Led by organizers from the three ACLU California affiliates and ACLU California Action, the 2022 ACLU California Action Conference will kick off on Tuesday, April 19 and be followed with training and visits to lawmakers’ offices to lobby for the change we seek. This legislative session, activists like you will help pass key bills to: Increase oversight of officer-involved deaths. Protect students from unnecessary interactions with … Continued	9:00 am Tell the Air District: Ban Gas Hookups in New Buildings @ Online Tell the Air District: Ban Gas Hookups in New Buildings @ Online Apr 20 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Add your support for a proposed Bay Area Air Quality Management rule that would ban gas hookups in new buildings. This measure would update the Air District’s guidelines for applying the California Environmental Quality Act. It’s a way to extend the good work that dozens of Bay Area cities have done with reach codes and regulations to require all-electric new construction. This would apply a similar standard to the whole region. Methane ( 80 – 90% of “natural gas”) is a much more potent greenhouse has than carbon dioxide. Extraction, transportation … Continued 3:00 pm Tech Wars Building the force against surveillance and policing in the digital world. @ Online Tech Wars Building the force against surveillance and policing in the digital world. @ Online Apr 20 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets This 5-part course is designed for anyone interested in studying technology and data as the new frontier in organizing against the systems of enforcement and criminalization that harm our communities. Three years since beginning our monumental #NoTechForICE campaign, we’re launching this course to share resources we’ve developed and to create a digital space for deepening our collective understanding of the ever-expanding state of surveillance––and how to organize against it. By signing up for this course, you will hear from organizers, professors, and movement leaders who contribute towards this powerful movement for a … Continued 6:30 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ Online Public Bank of the East Bay @ Online Apr 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets WE NEED YOUR HELP! Friends of the Public Bank East Bay is a completely volunteer-run, nonprofit organizing to create and build community support for the first public bank in California’s history! If you’re committed to economic justice and interested in helping us build new financial systems by the people for the people, we look forward to having you join us! HOW WE OPERATE: We have five committees working together to create a Public Bank in the East Bay: Advocacy builds relationships with community groups and city governments. Communications assists other … Continued	7:00 pm Ecology Center’s 52nd Earth Day @ Online Ecology Center’s 52nd Earth Day @ Online Apr 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Earth Day 2022 marks the 52nd anniversary of world-wide Earth Day and of your local Ecology Center. Our history runs deep, and our commitment remains strong in 2022. Join us for an exclusive members only gathering. We’ll celebrate our successes over the past year, share what’s coming up in 2022, and revisit the importance of Earth Day past and present. You’ll meet our staff and board members, get insider updates and information, receive digital door prizes, and more. Best of all, we will reconnect as a community behind a powerful vision—of … Continued	9:00 am #CancelStudentDebt: A Conversation with Organizers from the Debt Collective @ Online #CancelStudentDebt: A Conversation with Organizers from the Debt Collective @ Online Apr 22 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am Tickets CancelStudentDebt: A Conversation with Organizers from the Debt Collective — A panel of organizers from the Debt Collective, the nation’s first debtors’ union, make the case for cancelling all student debt — THE ISSUE OF STUDENT DEBT GETS TO THE HEART of questions about inequality, democracy, and the future of the economy in the United States. It also poses a challenge to the way higher education is currently organized in the country. Please join HANNAH APPEL and BRAXTON BREWINGTON, organizers from the Debt Collective, the nation’s first debtors’ union, as … Continued 10:00 am Youth Earth Day Rally @ Civic Center Bart Station Youth Earth Day Rally @ Civic Center Bart Station Apr 22 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Next Friday: Earth Day Youth Rally What: Show Up to Support the Youth Earth Day Rally This Earth Day, join Youth Vs. Apocalypse and other allies at 10 AM at Civic Center Bart Station to demand environmental and climate justice. Demands to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor Breed, the EPA, State Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Water Quality Control Board, and all elected officials include: Retesting with independent community oversight of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site & adjacent areas Full and comprehensive cleanup of all … Continued 12:15 pm Immigration Prison: Hard Questions About Abolition. @ Online Immigration Prison: Hard Questions About Abolition. @ Online Apr 22 @ 12:15 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/UCLA_CILP/status/150886487093396685169666 6:30 pm Wild and Scenic Film Festival @ David Brower Center Wild and Scenic Film Festival @ David Brower Center Apr 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer. Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more. Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to save endangered wildlife, protect frontline communities, and raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions. IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22 Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm Films: 7 pm … Continued	10:00 am Press Rights 101 @ Online Press Rights 101 @ Online Apr 23 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/FACoalition/status/151680714599545652069706 10:00 am Press Rights 101: Understanding Your Newsgathering Rights and Limitations in California @ Online Press Rights 101: Understanding Your Newsgathering Rights and Limitations in California @ Online Apr 23 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Join us for a comprehensive overview of legal protections and practical considerations for covering protests, filming police in the field and more. This free webinar is presented by: Asian American Journalists Association, Los Angeles, California News Publishers Association, Californians Aware, First Amendment Coalition, Los Angeles Press Club, Media Alliance, Media Guild of the West, National Association of Black Journalists of Los Angeles, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, National Press Photographers Association, Pacific Media Workers Guild, NewsGuild-CWA Local 39521, SPJ/LA, SPJ NorCal Register for the Webinar 69687 10:30 am The United-Front: History, Application, Prospects @ Online The United-Front: History, Application, Prospects @ Online Apr 23 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sun, Apl 24, 2022: 10:30am-12:30pm Pacific The economic depression ongoing since 2008 has put the dangeers of fascism and imperialist world war, but also popular revolts and revolutions, back on the agenda. While the working class and oppressed communities around the world have been rising in revolt for more than a decade, no revolutionary organization adequate to face up to the task of bringing down the bourgeois order has crystallized. Meanwhile, the Covid-19 pandemic and the danger of fascism have been ravaging humanity. In this presentation, we will consider the … Continued 11:00 am Earth Day SF Earth Day SF Apr 23 @ 11:00 am – 8:00 pm Tickets An environmental street fair that educates, informs, and inspires people with a call to action for more sustainable choices in the way we live and work. Join us for this family- friendly, FREE EVENT in San Francisco on April 23, 2022. 11 AM – 8 PM. http://earthdaysf.org/ Dedicated to San Francisco’s annual Earth Day celebration, and to raising environmental awareness. We are resuming our family-friendly street fair after the global hiatus. Join us for fun and for ideas on how to live sustainably. Live Bands • Environmental Speakers • Hands-on Eco … Continued 6:30 pm Wild and Scenic Film Festival @ David Brower Center Wild and Scenic Film Festival @ David Brower Center Apr 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer. Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more. Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to save endangered wildlife, protect frontline communities, and raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions. IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22 Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm Films: 7 pm … Continued

Week of April 17

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.