Author Archives: oldwomanstillfightingforjustice

Petition the President to Investigate Attack on Scott Olsen.

November 2, 2011 at 11:54 am.

Posted by I am a 60 year old disabled woman with a long history of standing up to authority. I am also a professional writer and would like to help. I am going to post a piece on gas masks I just posted on Occupy Wall Street.

I just created this petition, asking for an investigation into the injury sustained by Scott Olsen of Occupy Oakland when he was struck in the head by a tear gas or smoke canister. You can sign it here…please forward to others and place on your Facebook page. Please go to this site to sign. http://wh.gov/bBe You will need an account to sign…it’s quick. If you agree, please use email and Facebook to promote the petition. It has 30 days to be collect 25,000 signatures. Otherwise, it will not go to Obama. … Continued

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IN SOLIDARITY

October 27, 2011 at 12:17 pm.

The media says you folks have no real agenda. Basically, you fell out of the sky into the various public places you occupy and stayed there because you have nothing better to do. Well, here is what I say to the media. You are the Talking Heads for Greed. You are part of the Problem, not the Solution. Until that changes, nothing you have to say means anything to me. Of course you cannot understand what is happening here and abroad. You only understand what what the masters and mistresses … 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.