Author Archives: shawnarchy

Why not engage the broader public in critical questions of tactics and strategy?

November 9, 2011 at 3:57 pm.

I understand that at tonight’s GA there are proposals around diversity of tactics etc. I suggest that rather than the usual GA vote, we should seize this opportunity to engage the wider Oakland community in a dialogue, and hold a community-wide plebiscite/encuentros in the streets on tactics/nonviolence/etc. We could take whatever proposal(s) around tactics that were gonna be brought to the GA, and we could frame it as a community survey. Then we could gather opinions on the survey from throughout Oakland. We could agree that once we got to … Continued

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Kittens Action Saturday 10/29 @ 11 am–We want to make our movement unstoppable by taking the movement to the people

October 29, 2011 at 2:13 am.

Posted by shawnarchy

Join us Saturday at 11 am at Oscar Grant Plaza. Let’s take the movement to the people! Here is the proposal that was passed by the GA on Thursday. This is a mass action idea, so the kind of movement we are building reflects the kind of world we want to live in. Where everyone is empowered to speak for themselves. Where decisions are made based on dialog & power with, not domination & power over. Where people break the walls of fear and ignorance to build solidarity across differences. … 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.