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All-day				Bioneers Conference, March 28 – 30 — Earlybird Rates Before February 21 @ UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall and locations in downtown Berkeley Bioneers Conference, March 28 – 30 — Earlybird Rates Before February 21 @ UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall and locations in downtown Berkeley Mar 28 all-day Tickets Bioneers, “Revolution from the Heart of Nature,” will hold its 35th annual conference in Berkeley this year. Leaders, activists, and healers will give talks and lead discussions and workshops on a wide range of topics including: indigenous rights and wisdom, climate issues, digital rights and democracy, many approaches to personal healing, effective persuasion, reproductive justice, dealing with conflict, debtors’ rights, just transition, fossil fuels in the Amazon, the danger of rising fascism — and many more. The conference will also include films, social gatherings, and more. The introduction to this … Continued	Bioneers Conference, March 28 – 30 — Earlybird Rates Before February 21 @ UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall and locations in downtown Berkeley Bioneers Conference, March 28 – 30 — Earlybird Rates Before February 21 @ UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall and locations in downtown Berkeley Mar 29 all-day Tickets Bioneers, “Revolution from the Heart of Nature,” will hold its 35th annual conference in Berkeley this year. Leaders, activists, and healers will give talks and lead discussions and workshops on a wide range of topics including: indigenous rights and wisdom, climate issues, digital rights and democracy, many approaches to personal healing, effective persuasion, reproductive justice, dealing with conflict, debtors’ rights, just transition, fossil fuels in the Amazon, the danger of rising fascism — and many more. The conference will also include films, social gatherings, and more. The introduction to this … Continued	Bioneers Conference, March 28 – 30 — Earlybird Rates Before February 21 @ UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall and locations in downtown Berkeley Bioneers Conference, March 28 – 30 — Earlybird Rates Before February 21 @ UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall and locations in downtown Berkeley Mar 30 all-day Tickets Bioneers, “Revolution from the Heart of Nature,” will hold its 35th annual conference in Berkeley this year. Leaders, activists, and healers will give talks and lead discussions and workshops on a wide range of topics including: indigenous rights and wisdom, climate issues, digital rights and democracy, many approaches to personal healing, effective persuasion, reproductive justice, dealing with conflict, debtors’ rights, just transition, fossil fuels in the Amazon, the danger of rising fascism — and many more. The conference will also include films, social gatherings, and more. The introduction to this … 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 Neoliberalism: The new class-correlation and new-age crisis Neoliberalism: The new class-correlation and new-age crisis Mar 24 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Basudev Nag Chowdhury, People’s Brigade, India Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1 Neoliberalism began in the last quarter of the 20th century, when the accumulated capital in the G-7 was allowed to penetrate much of the world that had closed its doors to foreign capital: Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Vietnam. India, Africa and Latin America. These are the countries which together today have the vast majority of the global low wage working class in numbers. Yet, only after a decade and a half, the economic crisis returned in 2008. It was … Continued 11:00 am Advance climate and health justice in Berkeley @ MLK / Civic Center Park Advance climate and health justice in Berkeley @ MLK / Civic Center Park Mar 24 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Ready to advance climate and health justice in Berkeley? A grassroots community and worker coalition is organizing to get two exciting ballot measures on the Berkeley ballot in 2024! Join us for a signature gathering launch and training. We will meet in the middle of the Park across from the flag poll. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided! If you can’t make it this weekend, stay tuned for a subsequent kick-off announcement for next weekend. RSVP Here Berkeley Large Buildings Fossil Fuel Emissions Tax Learn More Healthy City Buildings Ordinance … Continued 12:00 pm Rally: US Supreme Court Hands Off the Abortion Pill! @ Federal Bldg Rally: US Supreme Court Hands Off the Abortion Pill! @ Federal Bldg Mar 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets The Supreme Court announced it will begin hearing oral arguments on the abortion pill (mifepristone) on March 26th. This is why we demonstrate on the previous Sunday MARCH 24! This will be the Court’s first serious return to the issue of abortion since overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. If successful, this case can impact healthcare access for millions of women across the US —INCLUDING IN STATES WHERE ABORTION IS LEGAL. People with disabilities and people of color are disproportionally underserved with reproductive care. Speakers will address this as well … Continued 4:00 pm Justice for Ryan Gainer: Disability Justice Demonstration and Vigil @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater Justice for Ryan Gainer: Disability Justice Demonstration and Vigil @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater Mar 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Ryan Gainer was a 15-year-old child with autism who was senselessly murdered by San Bernardino Sheriffs after his family called 911. Murdering a 15-year-old Black boy experiencing a crisis is enraging and another example why the carceral system must be dismantled. Black people with disabilities face compounded risks when interacting with police. Black neurodivergent children who are having an episode deserve to live. Black children deserve to live. PERIOD. We shouldn’t have to say anymore names. No one should have to bury their child. Ryan Gainer should still be here. … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 24 @ 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 Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970 Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970 Mar 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets In partnership with the Wellstone Club: a viewing of Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970. This film serves as a powerful reminder of the conditionsand demands that inspired the movement for abortion rights fifty years ago, and speaks to the need for safe, legal abortion and the broader fight for reproductive justice today. Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970 Directed by Catha Maslow, Jane Pincus, Mary Summers, and Karen Weinstein Sunday, March 24 at 7:00 PM On Zoom Introductions by Kate Harrison and Karen Weinstein Karen Weinstein made this film with three … Continued		1:00 pm From Awareness to Action @ Online From Awareness to Action @ Online Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets ACLU NorCal is pleased to partner with Colmena Consulting to offer From Awareness to Action, a three-hour workshop designed especially for you, our donor community. You’re aware of racial inequity. You know what inclusion is. You consider yourself anti-racist. But you’re wondering: Now what? What else can I actually do, day-to-day and over the long-term, to make a concrete change? From Awareness to Action is an interactive, virtual workshop that takes you through a unique process to arrive upon tangible steps – designed for you by you – to make … Continued	6:00 pm Socialist Fundamentals: Historical Materialism Banquet (Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone) @ EBDSA Office Socialist Fundamentals: Historical Materialism Banquet (Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone) @ EBDSA Office Mar 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join us for dinner to discuss the second reading in our Socialist Fundamentals series, on historical materialism. Dress to impress. Register here To prepare: Reading: Elementary Concepts of Historical Materialism by Marta Harnecker, Chapter 5 “Base and Superstructure”, Chapter 6 “The ideological structure”, Chapter 7 “Juridico-Political Structure”, Intro, Chapter 4 “Economic Structure of Society”. Supplemental reading for context: The Philosophy of Marxism, the section titled “Materialism”. Readings are also available in audio format on our podcast feed. This will be the second installment of the chapter’s new Socialist Fundamentals series, which was approved at our November 2023 chapter … Continued			10:00 am The Trial of Eric Swalwell @ Castro Valley Library and online The Trial of Eric Swalwell @ Castro Valley Library and online Mar 30 @ 10:00 am – 1:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/DSAEastBay/status/177308475928082874677767

Week of March 24

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.