May 14, 2012: 12 years ago, May 14 2012, University of California police raided and [...]
12 years ago, May 14 2012, University of California police raided and destroyed an occupation of Albany’s Gill Tract, a 104-acre UC-owned property, arresting nine people. For a month, Occupy the Farm held and farmed the land, which was slated to be sold for private development Activists had fought since …
July 3, 2012: 11 years ago, July 3 2012, Oakland school police raided a sit-in at the [...]
11 years ago, July 3 2012, Oakland school police raided a sit-in at the recently-closed Lakeview Elementary School, arresting two. Parents and activists organized by the Education Committee of Occupy Oakland had been camping at the school to protest its closure for 18 days Lakeview was one of 5 schools …
August 13, 2012: Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez
August 13 2012, a group of activists began to occupy the vacant building that previously housed the Miller Avenue Library Branch and Emiliano Zapata Street Academy High School in East Oakland, transforming the space into the Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez. Organizers, many connected to Occupy Oakland, cleaned the space, constructed …
June 25, 2013: 8 years ago, Jun 24 2013, Oakland and Alameda County agreed to pay a [...]
8 years ago, Jun 24 2013, Oakland and Alameda County agreed to pay a $1,000,000 settlement to demonstrators and legal observers who had been arrested in 2010 while protesting the 2-year sentence given to BART police officer Johannes Mehserle for the murder of Oscar Grant
January 2, 2014: 10 years ago, January 1 2014, hundreds marched and rallied in the Mission [...]
10 years ago, January 1 2014, hundreds marched and rallied in the Mission against gentrification and policing in the neighborhood after business owners launched an anti-homeless “Clean Up the Plaza” campaign. Flyers circulated on the street read “Cops & Condos Go Hand in Hand”