Calendar

9896

12 Sun	13 Mon	14 Tue	15 Wed	16 Thu	17 Fri	18 Sat
All-day	Ban New Gas Heat and Water Heaters in Bay Area? Ban New Gas Heat and Water Heaters in Bay Area? Mar 13 all-day Tickets Following the many Bay Area cities that have voted to ban gas in new buildings, along with recent revelations about how fossil gas harms both the climate and human health, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is considering a new rule that would ban the sale of new gas furnaces and water heaters within about eight years. At the same time the California Air Resources Board is developing a similar rule, with a deadline of 2030. The hazards of fossil gas have been getting a lot of publicity lately, … Continued Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online Mar 13 all-day Tickets Register What are the concerns? Biometrics and AI are widely used and there are many questions about their ethically and socially appropriate uses. Questions addressed include: How do they work? How are they being used? What are the dangers of their use? What are appropriate, even good uses? What is the Context, and what are the challenges? 74539	Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online Mar 14 all-day Tickets Register What are the concerns? Biometrics and AI are widely used and there are many questions about their ethically and socially appropriate uses. Questions addressed include: How do they work? How are they being used? What are the dangers of their use? What are appropriate, even good uses? What is the Context, and what are the challenges? 74539	Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online Mar 15 all-day Tickets Register What are the concerns? Biometrics and AI are widely used and there are many questions about their ethically and socially appropriate uses. Questions addressed include: How do they work? How are they being used? What are the dangers of their use? What are appropriate, even good uses? What is the Context, and what are the challenges? 74539	Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online Mar 16 all-day Tickets Register What are the concerns? Biometrics and AI are widely used and there are many questions about their ethically and socially appropriate uses. Questions addressed include: How do they work? How are they being used? What are the dangers of their use? What are appropriate, even good uses? What is the Context, and what are the challenges? 74539	Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online Mar 17 all-day Tickets Register What are the concerns? Biometrics and AI are widely used and there are many questions about their ethically and socially appropriate uses. Questions addressed include: How do they work? How are they being used? What are the dangers of their use? What are appropriate, even good uses? What is the Context, and what are the challenges? 74539
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 The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, by Frederick Engels @ Online The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, by Frederick Engels @ Online Mar 12 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, by Frederick Engels In 1876, Engels complained about “that idealistic world outlook which, especially since the fall of the world of antiquity, has dominated men’s minds. It still rules them to such a degree that even the most materialistic natural scientists of the Darwinian school are still unable to form any clear idea of the origin of man, because under this ideological influence they do not recognise the part that has been … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 12 @ 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 What Can we Learn from Nicaragua? Eyewitness Report! @ Online What Can we Learn from Nicaragua? Eyewitness Report! @ Online Mar 12 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89559844652 What Can we Learn from Nicaragua? Eyewitness Report! Panel Discussion with delegates on the Alliance for Global Justice trip to Nicaragua in January titled “Women in Nicaragua – Power & Protagonism.” Did you know that Nicaragua is a world leader in gender equality? In a historically macho culture, find out how this, and so much more, was achieved by Sandinistas since 2006. Erica Caines is a co-coordinator of The Black Alliance For Peace – Haití/Americas Team. Caines, a member of the Black working-class centered Ujima People’s Progress Party in … Continued	7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Mar 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	10:00 am Ban Ring – Coalition Campaign meeting @ Online Ban Ring – Coalition Campaign meeting @ Online Mar 14 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets For years, anti-surveillance, civil rights, and racial justice groups have been sounding the alarm about the dangers posed by Amazon Ring-police partnerships. Collectively, we’ve successfully petitioned members of Congress to investigate these surveillance partnerships, garnered widespread media attention, and published studies exposing the harms. Despite all the negative attention and backlash, over 2,000 police departments continue to partner with Amazon Ring to surveil communities. In an effort to end these partnerships for good, the Athena Surveillance Table is launching a campaign to pass local ordinances to effectively ban these partnerships … Continued 5:00 pm No Fascists in Davis! @ Credit Union Center, UC Davis No Fascists in Davis! @ Credit Union Center, UC Davis Mar 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/NoMercyForPigs/status/163530888535464755274726	8:30 am Support Historic BAAQMD Clean Air Rule Support Historic BAAQMD Clean Air Rule Mar 15 @ 8:30 am – 9:30 am Tickets Rally in advance of hearing: 8:30 AM. Wear Blue! RSVP here. BAAQMD Board of Directors Hearing: 9 AM – 5 PM And online—see this page for link The danger of burning fossil fuels in our own homes is no joke. Our everyday, domestic gas-powered building appliances actually cause hundreds of deaths each year in the Bay Area, with total health impacts of $890 million. They also account for a quarter of our regional carbon emissions. By exercising its legal authority to regulate NOx—the collective emission of carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides—which … Continued 1:30 pm STOP THE SFPD GIVEAWAY! @ Online STOP THE SFPD GIVEAWAY! @ Online Mar 15 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/Wagnerian/status/163602602750707712074728 4:00 pm Solidarity with Stop Cop City @ GI Partners Solidarity with Stop Cop City @ GI Partners Mar 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets What: Tour Cop City’s Backers in SF’s Financial District San Francisco is home to several of Cop City’s primary funders, financial partners, and general contract managers. We know exactly who is profiting from this police playground and it’s time we paid them a visit. Join us for a gathering and tour of Cop City’s backers in the Financial District. From the Bay Area to Atlanta, STOP COP CITY Email dawg@xrsfbay.org for more info.74719 5:30 pm Reading Group: Ecology of Fear @ Freehouse Reading Group: Ecology of Fear @ Freehouse Mar 15 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/gradepending_/status/163540959889838489674727 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Mar 15 @ 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 7:00 pm APTP General Meeting @ Online APTP General Meeting @ Online Mar 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational organization that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. APTP hosts its general meetings on the 3rd Wednesday of every month; since Covid we have been meeting online. If you want to learn more about our work and figure out other ways to plug in, you can join our next general meeting this Wednesday at 7pm. Register to join us! Where: Online. Register to join us Accessibility: ASL and Live Closed … Continued	7:00 pm Labor Organizingh 101 @ Online or In Person Labor Organizingh 101 @ Online or In Person Mar 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/DSA_SF/status/163604553110457958474729 7:30 pm The World Premiere of ‘Tasha’ @ Z Below Theater The World Premiere of ‘Tasha’ @ Z Below Theater Mar 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets ‘Tasha is a one woman show exploring the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna at the hands of law enforcement in Farifax, Virginia in 2015. The play, written by artist and activist Cat Brooks, directed by Oakland’s Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, and performed by acclaimed actor Jeunée Simon, explores her life and murder from the point of view of several characters, including Natasha herself. “Natasha started talking so loudly I had to get up and write what she was saying,” Brooks said of the script’s genesis in 2015. Trigger warning: This … Continued	9:00 am Climate, Equity, and Race: United Actions @ Online Climate, Equity, and Race: United Actions @ Online Mar 17 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Join the Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force for the last in their third series of summit meetings, Climate, Equity, and Race, UNITED ACTIONS for an Environmentally Just and Regenerative Future. Online. Register here74710 7:30 pm The World Premiere of ‘Tasha’ @ Z Below Theater The World Premiere of ‘Tasha’ @ Z Below Theater Mar 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets ‘Tasha is a one woman show exploring the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna at the hands of law enforcement in Farifax, Virginia in 2015. The play, written by artist and activist Cat Brooks, directed by Oakland’s Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, and performed by acclaimed actor Jeunée Simon, explores her life and murder from the point of view of several characters, including Natasha herself. “Natasha started talking so loudly I had to get up and write what she was saying,” Brooks said of the script’s genesis in 2015. Trigger warning: This … Continued	12:00 pm Not One More Penny For War in Ukraine! @ 24th St. Bart Station Not One More Penny For War in Ukraine! @ 24th St. Bart Station Mar 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets All Out Saturday, March 18, 12 Noon In San Francisco Coinciding with the 20th anniversary weekend of the criminal U.S.-invasion of Iraq, we mobilize to demand: Abolish NATO End U.S. militarism and sanctions Fund peoples needs, not the war machine No war with China End U.S. aid to racist apartheid Israel. Fight racism, LGBTQI discrimination, racistt deportations, and bigotry at home. U.S. hands off Haiti. End AFRICOM. No to Syria sanctions. No to nuclear war. No to climate catastrophe. Free Mumia!Free Julian. Free Leonard 74731 5:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber @ Online Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber @ Online Mar 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. For our March, April and May meetings we are reading Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber (Warwick, Amazon). For our March meeting we’ll be reading the first five chapters. For the April meeting we are reading chapters 6 through 9. For our May meeting will are reading the remainder of the book. Before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Greens 4th Annual Linguistics Townhall @ Online Oakland Greens 4th Annual Linguistics Townhall @ Online Mar 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Which labels are really necessary? — For this installment of the Linguistic Town Hall, your regular cast, special guests, and I ask: “Which identifiers are really necessary?” From gender identifiers on clothing and color, all the way down the rabbit hole to labeling pigment over ancestry – we want to hear your thoughts and ideas virtual doors open at 6 PM (with the best pre-show music diversity). The discussion begins at 6:30 PM PST on ZOOM: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oakland-greens-march-2023-4th-annual-linguistics-townhall-tickets-491376559517?aff=ebdsoporgprofile 74735 7:30 pm The World Premiere of ‘Tasha’ @ Z Below Theater The World Premiere of ‘Tasha’ @ Z Below Theater Mar 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets ‘Tasha is a one woman show exploring the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna at the hands of law enforcement in Farifax, Virginia in 2015. The play, written by artist and activist Cat Brooks, directed by Oakland’s Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, and performed by acclaimed actor Jeunée Simon, explores her life and murder from the point of view of several characters, including Natasha herself. “Natasha started talking so loudly I had to get up and write what she was saying,” Brooks said of the script’s genesis in 2015. Trigger warning: This … Continued

Week of March 12

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.