Author Archives: occupiedoaklandjournal

Voices from the Occupation: GA Can Also Stand for Getting off your Ass

November 22, 2011 at 11:45 am.

by Jaime Omar Yassin (Omar is a member of the Occupy Oakland Media Committee and also blogs at http://hyphenatedrepublic.wordpress.com/) I made a joke earlier about Occupy Oakland’s General Assembly being a clever device designed to make occupiers so frustrated with bullshit that they would actually go out and do things themselves. That’s an exaggeration, of course. The GA has been responsible for some unequivocally fantastic things: the November 2nd General Strike; the November 19th Rally and March that led to the new, brief, but important occupation at 19th and Telegraph; … Continued

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Welcome to the New Blog!

November 19, 2011 at 4:11 am.

Posted by The Occupied Oakland Journal

by Cami G. Hi all! As our movement matures, some of us on The Media Sub-Committee have realized that there’s a necessity to keep you all up-to-date and interested and provide a consistent alternative media source direct from those involved in the movement and that is the purpose of this blog. We’d like to post relevant news and articles and feature some of the great work our local activists are doing every day. But, we also want to invite input from all of you! We welcome your personal stories, interviews, … Continued

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News of the Occupation: Occupiers Past and Present – Oakland Union of the Homeless

November 17, 2011 at 5:55 pm.

Posted by The Occupied Oakland Journal

by Kevin Seal (Kevin is a member of the Occupy Oakland Media Committee as well as a freelance journalist) Several new proposals for action are underway in Occupy Oakland. As these initiatives take root, occupiers are careful to note that this movement happens in the context of a lengthy history of protest in Oakland. From the Black Panthers to the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights to Color of Change, there is a rich legacy of civil disobedience in Alameda County, and Occupy Oakland is helping bring these varied and … Continued

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Voices of the Occupation: Why I got arrested at Oscar Grant Plaza

November 17, 2011 at 4:27 pm.

Posted by The Occupied Oakland Journal

by Cami G (personal reflections of a member of the OO Media Committee) On February 1, 1960, four students from the all-black Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina—Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond—strolled into the Woolworth store in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, sat down at the lunch counter, and ordered coffee. Because of the counter’s “whites only” policy, they were refused. Several employees and a manager asked them to leave, but they remained until the store closed, when they peacefully dispersed. The next day, the … 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.