Author Archives: kimlehmkuhl

Draft proposal to be submitted re: Diversity of Tactics (feedback welcome!)

November 7, 2011 at 1:54 am.

After attending the GA this evening and watching Friday’s on the livestream, following and contributing to the various discussions on the question of whether this is (or should remain) a nonviolent movement, and seeing a lot of strong feelings being voiced but not anything being done about it in a formal way, I decided to draft this proposal. It’s largely a rip-off of a really excellent Greenpeace blog post at http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blog/choosing-a-diversity-of-nonviolent-tactics/blog/12093/, which contains a lot of great additional information for those who are interested. What I think is important is … Continued

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Some useful insight on how #OO affects the entire movement from NYC

November 4, 2011 at 11:02 pm.

Posted by kimlehmkuhl

I’m reposting this excellent post from yesterday at occupywallstreet.org, which does a pretty good job of encapsulating my sentiment — as someone who was at the former Travelers Aid Society building occupation and then 16th and Telegraph right before the street went up in flames and the police descended with tear gas (I left when it became clear that a violent confrontation with police was going to be deliberately provoked by the massed and masked fake “anarchists” who don’t give a shit about anyone’s physical safety) — about the upshot … 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.