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All-day 9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! 9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! Jan 15 all-day Tickets FMake sure you SAVE THE DATE for our 9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! Join us January 13-16, 2023 for a weekend of teach-ins, trainings, film screenings, healing justice workshops, and action in King’s honor as we get ready for a year of solidarity, community and liberation. Every year at this time we recommit ourselves to the path of revolution and liberation laid out for us by Dr. King and the long lineage of Black freedom fighters who came before us. Not the white-washed, sanitized version of King … Continued	9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! 9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! Jan 16 all-day Tickets FMake sure you SAVE THE DATE for our 9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! Join us January 13-16, 2023 for a weekend of teach-ins, trainings, film screenings, healing justice workshops, and action in King’s honor as we get ready for a year of solidarity, community and liberation. Every year at this time we recommit ourselves to the path of revolution and liberation laid out for us by Dr. King and the long lineage of Black freedom fighters who came before us. Not the white-washed, sanitized version of King … Continued
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 10:30 am 8 Years Before Donbas Documentary Filmmaker – Jeff Monson. @ Online 8 Years Before Donbas Documentary Filmmaker – Jeff Monson. @ Online Jan 15 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets 8 Years Before is an independently-funded documentary film directed by international journalist Donald Courter and produced collaboratively with international heavyweight fighting champion Jeff Monson. The film portrays in stark detail the long saga of suffering that the Donbass people endured at the hands of the Ukrainian military, following the 2014 Euromaidan Coup d’etat. Through primary source accounts and interviews with ordinary citizens of Donbass, human stories with a perspective never before seen in the mainstream media are brought to light. Speaker: Jeff Monson Moscow-based filmmaker, international heavyweight fighting champion, and … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 15 @ 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 The Pursuit of Happiness framed in political-economic terms @ Online The Pursuit of Happiness framed in political-economic terms @ Online Jan 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Location Details: Virtual through Google Meet: The Pursuit of Happiness framed in political-economic terms Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/mqd-jtmf-gkk Join high school US History teacher David Giesen as he vets an overview–seeking your critique–of next year’s approach to US History. The curriculum’s theme is “Liberating the Pursuit of Happiness.” The “elevator pitch” is: The United States was created in the stated belief that governments should exist in order to facilitate a people’s ability to pursue happiness. The pursuit of happiness requires liberty to be playfully expressive. The … Continued	11:00 am MLK March & Car Caravan @ Middle Harbor Shoreline Park MLK March & Car Caravan @ Middle Harbor Shoreline Park Jan 16 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/161145894029821133074500 5:00 pm Stop CA Fossil Fuel Production: Grassroots Leaders Meeting @ Online Stop CA Fossil Fuel Production: Grassroots Leaders Meeting @ Online Jan 16 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Join the Last Chance Alliance for a look ahead at 2023 priorities and strategies for the statewide grassroots movement to stop fossil fuel production in California. We won a big victory with the new law banning new drilling permits near “sensitive areas” like neighborhoods and schools. This year we have defend that victory and push to go farther. Meeting participants will discuss specific actions and leadership roles we can take on for more victories this year. Last Chance Alliance is a coalition of more than 900 organizations urging Governor Newsom to STOP … Continued	6:30 pm DSA Night School: MLK in His Own Words @ East Bay Community Space and Online DSA Night School: MLK in His Own Words @ East Bay Community Space and Online Jan 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/DSAEastBay/status/161504943303259340974518 8:00 pm State of the Debtors’ Union State of the Debtors’ Union Jan 17 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We know it has been quite 2022 and a lot to come in 2023, so join our STATE OF THE DEBTORS UNION January 25, 8pm ET / 5pm ET as we highlight some accomplishments in the fight against housing debt, medical debt, carceral debt and student debt. We’ll discuss lessons from 2022 and take stock for the year ahead. Register 74521	6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Jan 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or 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, tracking equipment, 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 … Continued 6:30 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ Online Public Bank of the East Bay @ Online Jan 18 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 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 The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover Up in Oakland – Author Event @ Green Apple Books The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover Up in Oakland – Author Event @ Green Apple Books Jan 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover Up in Oakland By Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham (Atria Books; 480 pages; $30) 9th Ave. presents “Riders” authors in conversation with Joe Eskenazi: 7 p.m. Jan. 19. Free. Green Apple Books, 1231 Ninth Ave., S.F. www.greenapplebooks.com Uncovering Brutality, Cover-Up, and Corruption in Oakland: “Riders” authors in conversation with Otis Taylor. Live stream only. 3 p.m. Jan. 25. $10-$40, free for members. Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, S.F. www.commonwealthclub.org “Riders” authors in conversation with Karym Sanchez: 4 p.m. Jan. 28. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal … Continued 8:00 pm Student Debt Forgiveness: Legal Lay of the Land @ Online Student Debt Forgiveness: Legal Lay of the Land @ Online Jan 19 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join At this event we’re going to give a breakdown of the legal challenges to debt cancellation, where things stand now, and what we can do next. Come with your questions, leave with an action plan. 74520	9:00 am Climate & the Economy Workshop / Conference @ Online Climate & the Economy Workshop / Conference @ Online Jan 20 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets The Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force presents: CEMTF 3RD Virtual Summit Series: CLIMATE & the ECONOMY Which Green Matters Most? 9:00 – 9:20 AM Land Acknowledgement Corrina Gould, Tribal Chair, Confederated Villages of Lisjan & Co Director Sogorea Te Land Trust Welcome Cheryl Davila, Chair CEMTF & Former Councilmember Speakers & Co-Speaker 9:20 – 10:00 AM Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder Code Pink 10:00 – 10:30 AM “The Doughnut that’s good for CA” Franziska Raedeker & Anne Sheridan, California Doughnut Economics Coalition 10:30 – 11:00 AM Public Banks, A Tool for building pathways to a just and … Continued 11:00 am Extinction Rebellion: Joye Braun Day of Action @ San Francisco Federal Bldg Extinction Rebellion: Joye Braun Day of Action @ San Francisco Federal Bldg Jan 20 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets January 20th marks the 2 year anniversary of President Biden’s inauguration, and the halfway point for his current administration. It also marks the birthday of an extraordinary activist and pillar of the national fossil fuel resistance movement, Joye Braun, who we sadly lost in November. Joye was instrumental in fighting and ending devastating fossil fuel projects such as Keystone XL – we are also celebrating the two year anniiversary of its death – and the Dakota Access Pipeline. We are showing up, along with People vs. Fossil Fuel groups across … Continued	10:00 am Free All Political Prisoners Rally @ Grand Lake Theater Free All Political Prisoners Rally @ Grand Lake Theater Jan 21 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Rally in front of the Grand Lake Theater, Oakland Saturday, January 21: 10 AM – 12 PM Victory to the people of Ukraine, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Belarus & India! Flyer 74528 10:30 am Berkeley People’s Assembly @ Berkeley Public Library Berkeley People’s Assembly @ Berkeley Public Library Jan 21 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Peoples Assemblies are new for 2023. Collaborative actions and mutual aid are valuable community responses to concerns and as alternatives to relying on unresponsive government. An Extinction Rebellion demand is to hold Peoples Assemblies to take action because government is not acting quickly or effectively on the climate emergency, threat of nuclear annihilation, racism, poverty, and other problems. Together we can generate solutions, connect in community, be heard, be creative. Limited seating; you must register for the assembly in advance and to reserve free childcare: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/berkeley-community-peoples-assembly-tickets-503288949797 Agenda: Welcome and introductions, … Continued 11:30 am Bigger Than Roe: Rally then Counter Protest West Coast Walk for Life @ Philip Burton Federal Courthouse Bigger Than Roe: Rally then Counter Protest West Coast Walk for Life @ Philip Burton Federal Courthouse Jan 21 @ 11:30 am – 2:00 pm Tickets On January 22, 2023, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, as we mourn the loss of nearly 50 years of constitutional protections, we send a clear message: We are not defeated. We are not going gently. Women are rising, and we are on the march. We are taking our fight to every state house and every state legislator in this country. We are putting all politicians at every level of government on notice: If you come for our families, our freedoms, or our future, we are coming for your seat. … Continued

Week of January 15

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.