Re-imagine the GA

The Re-Imagine the Occupy Oakland General Assembly Working Group is coordinating a gathering (or series of gatherings) to “Re-Imagine the General Assembly." We envision that planning a conference of the scope takes a lot of work, and the work of this group is to plan the gathering(s).
The scope of this working group will likely include some or all of the following:
(1) Logistics of the gathering(s) (date, time, location, food, childcare, etc);
(2) Planning the gathering agenda(s);
(3) Working with other OO committees;
(4) Administrative work of the group (Web presence, announcements, etc)
(5) Outreach to the greater OO community."

To help you decide where to participate, here are descriptions of the Working Group or the Gatherings:

- Working Group: The Working Group will meet to plan the Gatherings, and will not be addressing specific changes to the GA, which will be done during the Gatherings. The working group will make regular reports to the community at the General Assembly, and meeting minutes will be available online. The Working Group meets every Friday from 6:00-8:00pm at the Holdout (2313 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612).

- The Gatherings. In these large events, anyone in the community can participate in bringing and incorporating our desires, ideas, and solutions, as together we create and design a re-imagined GA. This will likely be done in stages. Invitations to the Gatherings will be distributed widely. The first Gathering will be held on June 16. At any time, you can send your ideas, suggestions, desires to reimaginethega@occupyoakland.org.

Re-Imagine the General Assembly Survey

May 11, 2012 at 12:39 pm.

Posted by reimagine-the-ga

In preparation for re-imagining the General Assembly, we’d like to hear your thoughts about the GA. Please take a couple minutes and tell us what you think in our survey: English: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8YDSBC2 Spanish: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8FBFRGT Much feedback has been received about the Occupy Oakland General Assembly over the months. Some people find that the General Assembly works well as an effective decision-making process and as a community forum. Others feel that it is not serving the needs of everyone who may want to participate. We acknowledge that some have felt injured … Continued

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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.