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Occupy, Have the Courage to Be Relevant

November 3, 2011 at 4:42 pm.

The Occupy Movement is the best chance in 40 years to establish a working class political agenda that benefits the majority. The impact of this movement is so strong that the Sacramento Bee (The Sacramento Bee!) is calling for policies that will actually cost banks money to help people keep their homes. But we stand right on the brink of squandering that chance for another generation. Ocupy needs to: 1. Keep all actions focused on big banks and the right wing, mostly within the Republican Party. Stop messing with Jean … Continued

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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.