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AFL-CIO: It’s Time to End Its Gov... @ Online

Jul 20 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Speaker: Kim Scipes To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87388824824?pwd=QTWNvr8cGeGo1ZDW7x9Y8W0sDaNxRc.1 Meeting ID: 873 8882 4824 Passcode: 042428 • +1 646 931 3860 US • +1 669 444 9171 US The AFL and then the AFL-CIO have had an imperialist foreign policy program where they have operated in other countries around the world for over 100 years, beginning in the late 1890s. They have never given an honest report of these operations to their members that can be independently verified. Activists and scholars have discovered they have supported military coups that overthrew … Continued

4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Jul 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

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8:30 am Stop Billionaires Summer: Protest W... @ Wells Fargo Global Headquarters

Stop Billionaires Summer: Protest W... @ Wells Fargo Global Headquarters

Jul 23 @ 8:30 am – 12:00 pm

“No bank has bent to the knee to Trump as dramatically as Wells Fargo, the only bank to have dropped its climate commitments, funds Palantir, a company that works with ICE to target and deport immigrants, funds Elbit Systems, a provider of weapons and technologies to the Israeli military, which is committing genocide in Palestine, engaging in full-throated union busting, planning to privatize the post office and sell it off for parts.” RSVP here THIS ACTION IS PART OF “STOP BILLIONAIRES SUMMER, an eight-week campaign focused on mass action, civil disobedience, and … Continued

6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against t... @ Online

Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against t... @ Online

Jul 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

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 privacy, surveillance regulation of both corporations and the state, and government transparency, around the Bay and nationwide. We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment and online tracking, 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 … Continued

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4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Jul 27 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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10:00 am Planning for Refinery Closures that... @ Online

Planning for Refinery Closures that... @ Online

Jul 31 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Valero Refinery, Benicia In the Bay Area, the Valero refinery in Benecia has announced that it’s going to close in 2026 — and other refineries seem to be on the brink. Refineries pollute local communities and add to the climate crisis. But closing them suddenly leaves their workers without jobs, their communities without a major source of tax revenue — and their toxic legacy in the environment. Join The Climate Center in a webinar on Planning for Refinery Closures that Benefit Workers, Communities, and the Environment. Speakers Connie Cho, Asian Pacific Environmental Network … Continued

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5:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: �... @ Online

Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: �... @ Online

Aug 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome! For our July, 2025 meeting we will be reading the first two sections (approximately 115 pages) of Stellar, A World Beyond Limits and How to Get There (Amazon), (Goodreads) For our August meeting, we will finish the book. A bold re-examination of the past, present, and future of humanity, Stellar challenges conventional thinking and offers a vision of hope and optimism – a necessary antidote to the fear and despair that define our times. Stellar uncovers the root causes of … Continued

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4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Aug 3 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting

Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting

Aug 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82809764186?pwd=eWtjcXlsKzU1QkdSdk5xOUxseFl0Zz09 Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186 If you wish to get the password please subscribe to the Oscar Grant Committee mailing list by sending an email to: oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to … 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.