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SJ Merc — 5:10 p.m. Police distributing eviction notices at Occupy Oakland

November 11, 2011 at 5:21 pm.

5:10 p.m. Police distributing eviction notices at Occupy Oakland In the pouring rain, police are distributing eviction notices to campers at Occupy Oakland asking them to leave or be arrested. Meanwhile, a few hundred people are marching against traffic north on Broadway, likely toward the Oakland Police Department. They are chanting, “Stop beating veterans.” Two vets have been injured over the last month in clashes with police over the Occupy Oakland movement, witnesses have said. http://www.mercurynews.com/occupy-oakland/ci_19315180?source=most_viewed 5653

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Green Party Mayor Welcomes Occupy Protests To Her City

November 10, 2011 at 11:50 am.

Posted by victronix

Thursday, November 10, 2011 By Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle At least one Bay Area mayor is actually welcoming the Occupy Wall Street movement to her city: Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin. That’s good news because there will be an Occupy Wall Street speak out at 11 a.m. Friday near McLaughlin’s Civic Center Plaza office. People are invited to tell their stories of how they’ve lost their job, their home, can’t pay their student loans, can’t find a job, etc. Full story here. 5250

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On not speaking to Quan

November 8, 2011 at 12:50 pm.

Posted by victronix

From today’s Chron: She has pleaded with protesters to try and talk to them. Two nights after the raid, the mayor was booed off the City Hall’s outdoor amphitheater as she tried to address their gathering. The following day, she had a news conference in which she stated nine times that she would like to directly talk to campers. “I tried to talk to the members of Occupy Oakland,” she said on Oct. 28. “I still want to talk to them. We stand ready to talk to them any time … 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.