Author Archives: gnuworldorder

Resist the Pablumization of the Albany Bulb, RE-OCCUPY!

May 8, 2014 at 6:09 pm.

Recap added May 14: The Albany Bulb is a form garbage dump formed when cities and corporations dumped waste in the Bay and even demolished a natural hill to make room for a parking lot for a race track. When the infill was halted by a law suit in 1983. The City of Albany talked with developers about turning this wasteland of concrete & rebar into a Marina and high-rise luxury hotel but was finally discouraged by community opposition and the costs developing on tidal mudflats covered with construction detritus. … Continued

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Arrests and rotten deal at the Albany Bulb

April 22, 2014 at 11:50 am.

Posted by GNUWorldOrder

From: Amber Whitson <phlamber.the.bull AT gmail DOT com> The settlement is public information now and will be announced at the Council meeting tonight: “On Friday, April 11th, Albany Police raided a camp on the Albany Bulb, arresting two Bulb residents at one of their longtime homes. One of those arrested is currently dealing with serious medical issues and missed an extremely important surgery while locked down. Not content to merely criminalize the homeless, the city used their arrests as a pretext to exclude the two targeted Bulb residents (who happen to … Continued

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The battle for a democratic Pacifica and KPFA

March 18, 2014 at 3:05 pm.

Posted by GNUWorldOrder

There is an ongoing struggle over control at listener sponsored Pacifica radio right now, including an ongoing occupation of the national headquarters by supporters of the Pacifica Executive Director of Pacifica, Summer Reese that has been going on for the last week. The issues are very complicated, and came to a head when the Pacifica National Board (PNB) voted to fire Summer Reese despite the fact that she has a 3 year contract. Supporters of the PNG then padlocked the door to the Pacifica offices on March 14th. Summer Reese … Continued

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GA at Mike’s house this Sunday! Hike & feed

December 18, 2013 at 6:23 pm.

Posted by GNUWorldOrder

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly will convene over food and libation this week at Mike’s house in El Cerrito. We normally meet at 2:00 PM, but our holiday GA, hike and social will begin later than our usual time: 3:00 PM for a hike on the Albany Hill, 4:30 PM for a short meeting, 5:30 PM for a holiday meal. If you would like to attend either: – send email to Mike (electionamend@gmail.com) for directions – call Mike at 510-299-0493 for directions – show up at the Oscar Grant Plaza … Continued

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GA will be at the SUDOROOM through Jan.: CRYPTOPARTY Dec. 15th & Jan. 19th

December 15, 2013 at 3:41 am.

Posted by GNUWorldOrder

EDIT: On December 22nd GA will be held in El Cerrito, combined with a hike and holiday meal. Bring something to share and comfortable shoes! http://occupyoakland.org/2013/12/ga-mikes-house-sunday-hike-feed/ The few stalwarts who attended General Assembly last week at OGP decided they were tired of losing extremities to frost bite and voted to re-locate GA to the SUDOROOM through the end of January, at the normal time, 2 PM Sunday afternoon. The sudoroom is a wonderful community hacker-space dedicated to positive social change, open source and making communication accessible without corporate control. … Continued

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Defend Berkeley’s Historic Post Office, Concert & Teach-In Saturday 8/31

August 30, 2013 at 1:53 pm.

Posted by GNUWorldOrder

Afternoon Concert on the Steps of Berkeley’s Historic Post Office Sat. August 31 – 12:00 Noon – Music · Anne Feeney, labor troubadour · Michael O’Brien, Canadian hip hop artist · Boomer and friends will get you dancing · Redd Welsh, songs of struggle On the steps of the Berkeley Post Office 2000 Allston Way (1 block from Downtown Berkeley BART, corner Milvia St.) To Celebrate the month-long people’s encampment in tents on the steps of the Berkeley Post Office, which brought wide attention to the Post Office struggle. To … Continued

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All out to defend the Berkeley Post Office, EVICTION IMMINENT!

August 3, 2013 at 1:27 am.

Posted by GNUWorldOrder

URGENT UPDATE: About 5 PM a dozen uniformed postal police showed up and delivered some papers and ordered all tents down and all persons away from the Berkeley Post Office by the end of business today, Monday, August 5th. The PO closes at 6 PM and the doors are locked at 8 PM, we need folks down there now to defend the occupation. Me, I have vacation plans in the Bahamas and have already booked my flight…. Save the Berkeley Post Office FRIDAY: A little before 2 pm today (Friday … Continued

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Stop the Oakland DAC surveillance city, speak out at City Council Tuesday, July 30

July 19, 2013 at 9:46 pm.

Posted by GNUWorldOrder

Everyone was sure the Oakland City Council would simply rubber stamp a resolution to accept, appropriate and administer upwards of $2 million to implement phase 2 of the systems enhancements and integration of the Domain Awareness Center (DAC) this past Tuesday night. Thanks to the efforts of a few concerned Oakland residents who brought facts and hard questions before the Council they decided to hold off on the vote and postponed a decision to the following regular Council meeting taking place on Tuesday, July 30. The DAC, which is a … Continued

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Sign up and speak out against government surveillance at City Council

July 16, 2013 at 2:36 am.

Posted by GNUWorldOrder

Tuesday, July 16, 5:30PM, City Council Meeting Council is seeking to pass a resolution to administer a $2 million payout to major defense contractor, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for needed software and infrastructure to integrate “Phase 2” of the Domain Awareness Center (DAC) a mass centralized virtual data center for intelligence gathering in Oakland. If this gross violation of privacy has you concerned come out and voice your opinion on Big Oakland Brother the DAC to the Council. http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center Sign up to speak against increased government surveillance, Item 7.19: … Continued

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly to be at 19th & Telegraph this Sunday, Aug. 4 Only @ 2PM

July 3, 2013 at 12:17 am.

Posted by GNUWorldOrder

GA will be held at the Humanitarian Statues, at Kaiser Park at 19th/Telegraph Sunday, August 4th only. The City of Oakland is privatizing public space and shutting down public access to OGP – $10 admission is required – for a commercial purpose, namely Art and Soul Festival next weekend. Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally and has equal decision-making power. Occupy Oakland’s General Assembly uses a participatory decision-making process appropriately called, “Occupy Oakland’s Collective Decision-Making … 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.