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Sing for Justice & Peace

Aug 8 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Between Acton and Bonar, beside “The Way”, in front of the bike path.

(Please leave the left lane of bike path clear.)

We’re holding these on the 2nd and 4th Fridays, from 5 to 6 pm, for just an hour. This is our 4th “Sing for Justice and Peace.” The first 3 were great fun, and meaningful with many drivers honking support, giving thumbs up etc. If you don’t like to sing, beat a drum or just hold a protest sign and/or bring a poem about peace for the open mic.

The leafy location marks an entrance to a shady bike path, and there’s oodles of car traffic passing by.

Everyone Is welcome to join this fun-loving, rebellious, and collaborative event. There’s a sound system, and extra noisemakers if getting loud helps heal your spirit in these war-torn and troubled times. Join this Friday’s FUN protest, open mic, and sing-along for Justice & Peace!

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/20/18878153.php

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Categories: Action Event

Aug

Sun

Just Transition: A Real-Life Story, In Our Own Backyard

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Aug 10 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Green Sunday: Just Transition: A Real-Life Story, In Our Own Backyard

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85449203697

Meeting ID: 854 4920 3697

For years, many in the labor and environmental justice movements have been discussing and debating how to transition from the fossil fuel (and military) sectors of the economy to socially constructive industry, without creating major unemployment for the workers impacted or disruption to the communities in which they are located.

Most often these debates are in very general terms (with few exceptions, such as the Lucas firm in the UK) but now we see a concrete plan in our own region, with great possibility of implementation.

Tonight we will hear from two labor leaders directly involved in the Contra Costa Refinery Transition Plan: Josh Anijar, a leader of the Contra Costa Central Labor Council, and Tracy W. Scott, of United Steel Workers, Local 5, the union which represents workers in these refineries.

Joshua Anijar started his career at the Florida AFL-CIO in 2007 trying to stop the rising tide of fascism that took over the sunshine state. After the 2012 election, Anijar was offered a position with the AFL-CIO where he worked on campaigns, organizational restructuring and leadership development. In 2019, Anijar became the executive director of the Contra Costa Labor Council, a federation of 85 unions. Anijar,is a member of IATSE 122 and Teamsters 665. Anijar graduated from Arizona State and from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a masters in Labor Studies. Josh is a lover of science fiction, live music and lives in the Bay Area with his wife.

Tracy W. Scott was hired in 1981 at the Chevron Richmond Refinery as a process Operator and worked for 10 years in the Hydroprocessing department. He moved to Tosco in Martinez in 2000. His career consisted of being an oil industry Process Operator along with being an Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers/USW (United Steel Workers) union member. Tracy worked to become a OCAW/USW Union Steward Worker Committee Member, ending with his serving for the last 6 years of his career as USW Local 5’s President.

Tracy has spent his career advocating for Worker rights and improved Process Safety Management for the Oil Industry for the benefit of the members of his Union, community members living along the fenceline and the environment, by reducing Refinery system failures through regulations promoting more responsible safe operation of Petroleum and Renewable Fuels facilities.

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Categories: Event

Aug

Fri

Sing for Justice & Peace

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Aug 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Between Acton and Bonar, beside “The Way”, in front of the bike path.

(Please leave the left lane of bike path clear.)

The leafy location marks an entrance to a shady bike path, and there’s oodles of car traffic passing by.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/20/18878153.php

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Categories: Action Event

Sep

Sat

Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets and States @ Online

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Sep 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome!

For our September, 2025 meeting we will be reading Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets and States. (Amazon) (Pluto).

Elinor Ostrom was both a groundbreaking thinker and one of the foremost economists of our age. The first and only woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics, her revolutionary theorizing of the commons opened the way for non-capitalist economic alternatives on a massive scale. And yet, astonishingly, most modern radicals know little about her.

Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals fixes that injustice, revealing the indispensability of her work on green politics, alternative economics, and radical democracy. Derek Wall’s analysis of her theses addresses some of the common misconceptions of her work and reveals her strong commitment to a radical ideological framework. This helpful guide will engage scholars and activists across a range of disciplines, including political economy, political science, and ecology, as well as those keen to implement her work in practice. As activists continue to reject traditional models of centralized power, Ostrom’s theories will become even more crucial in creating economies that exist beyond markets and states.

Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included (in chronological order) Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth, Revenge Cap italism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, Less is More, Cannibal Capitalism, Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America, End Times, Jackson Rising Redux , The Feminist Subversion of the Economy, How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems that Shape our World, Wealth Supremacy, The Persuaders, The Path to a Livable Future, Solidarity, Mutual Aid, Breaking Together, Making Sense of Chaos , TechnoFeudalism, and Stellar.

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Categories: Event Meeting

August – September 2025 Aug – Sep 2025

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.