Author Archives: handsandfeet

People’s Tax (apologies for cross posting)

October 29, 2011 at 1:02 pm.

PEOPLE’S TAX IDEA: I suggest we circulate the list of these people, ask for a $1,000,000 people’s tax from each of them, and locate a nonprofit (Oakland Rising?) to administer the funds collected as a people’s tax. I further suggest we use the funds to 1) create a lobbying network for the people 2) establish a people’s policy institute 3) provide a wage booster supplement of $10,000 to anyone who earns less than $30,000 per year in Oakland (and other dynamic and wonderful ideas that people will no doubt come … Continued

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People’s Tax

October 29, 2011 at 12:34 pm.

Posted by margaret hanzimanolis

PEOPLE’S TAX IDEA: I suggest we circulate the list of these people, ask for a $1,000,000 people’s tax from each of them, and locate a nonprofit (Oakland Rising?) to administer the funds collected as a people’s tax. I further suggest we use the funds to 1) create a lobbying network for the people 2) establish a people’s policy institute 3) provide a wage booster supplement of $10,000 to anyone who earns less than $30,000 per year in Oakland –with plans to expand the people’s tax to all of california next … Continued

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Upcoming Events

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.