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July 2012

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1 1st of JULY GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2:00 pm 1st of JULY GENERAL ASSEMBLY Jul 1 @ 2:00 pm – Jul 1 @ 5:00 pm Tickets The 1st General Assembly of Occupy Oakland in the month of July is this Sunday, and there are a number of interesting proposals that are being put forth, such as: 1. The proposal to endorse and help organize the Occupy Oakland Liberate Everything Conference this summer, geared towards providing a more radical tone and communicating the unique perspective of Occupy Oakland to others and the world, 2. A proposal to jointly plan an Occupy Oakland July 4th action of some sort or another 3. A proposal to deal with the … Continued OOCON Meeting (Tuesdays) 12:00 am OOCON Meeting (Tuesdays) @ Oscar Grant Plaza (14th and Broadway) Aug 1 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 am Tickets A meeting designed to address issues related to the organizing of the Occupy Oakland Liberate Everything Conference. If a question or idea comes up in discussion, that question or idea is immediately dealt with, be it through email, phone, or advice through discussion. Geared towards practical results, not necessarily debate over ideas or arguments. Not that that won’t occur, anyways. (this is Occupy Oakland!) OOCON Meetings: Tuesdays and Thursdays at Oscar Grant Plaza (14th and Broadway) at 5pm – 7pm. OOCON Working Meetings: Sundays at Farley’s East, off of Grand … Continued Rally for Justice 4 Alan Blueford 12:00 am Rally for Justice 4 Alan Blueford @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 1 @ 12:00 am – 1:30 am Tickets Rally and Performances @ 5:00 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza before the now-cancelled Oakland City Council meeting on July 31st. Just after midnight on Saturday May 6th, Alan Blueford and two of his friends were waiting for some girls to pick them up on 90th Ave., in East Oakland, after the Floyd Mayweather fight. Not long after Alan had phoned his parents to check-in with them, a car slowly pulled up to them with its lights off. Alan ran. One officer gave chase. A few blocks later Alan was shot … Continued	2 Dinner and a Movie at the Lakeview Sit-In 1:00 am Dinner and a Movie at the Lakeview Sit-In @ Lakeview Elementary Jul 2 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets Dear friends, comrades, neighbors, and colleagues, Please join us to celebrate Day 16 of the Lakeview Sit-In and the People’s School with a community potluck and film screening this Sunday, July 1st, at 6 pm. For two weeks now we’ve been running a free summer program out of occupied Lakeview Elementary, serving over 30 children with programming in social justice, art, PE, and gardening. At the same time, we’ve been organizing to pressure Tony Smith and the school board to reopen all five closed elementary schools, repudiate the state debt, … Continued	3 Medicare For All Town Hall 6:30 pm Medicare For All Town Hall @ Alameda County Administration Building Jul 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Now is the time to protect, improve, and expand Medicare — let’s build support now for Medicare for All! One of a series of rallies being held all over California by the California Nurses Association and other Health Care advocacy groups. Details. Tour Sponsored By THE CAMPAIGN FOR A HEALTHY CALIFORNIA: California Alliance for Retired Americans/ California Health Professional Student Alliance / California Nurses Association / The Progressive Caucus of California/ Health Care For All – California/ Communication Workers of America-District 9 / Physicians for a National Health Program – … Continued	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11 Occupy Marin Eviction Defense Rally 5:00 pm Occupy Marin Eviction Defense Rally @ 4th Street Plaza Jul 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Wells Fargo Bank taking home from 60-year old woman, help is needed! Come to the rally on Wed, July 11 at 5 PM at the 4th St Plaza in San Rafael. Show your support for Pat and John and for all of our neighbors who are victims of the banking system. If you are facing foreclosure yourself, please come and share your story. The way we can pressure the banks is to turn out in LARGE numbers!!! Occupy Marin35777	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20 IRREPRESSIBLE VOICES: A benefit for the Occupy Oakland Anti-Repression Committee on 7/19/12 @8pm 3:00 am IRREPRESSIBLE VOICES: A benefit for the Occupy Oakland Anti-Repression Committee on 7/19/12 @8pm @ The Starry Plough Pub Jul 20 @ 3:00 am – 6:45 am Tickets IRREPRESSIBLE VOICES: A benefit for the Occupy Oakland Anti-Repression Committee Featuring: Mad Noise, The 21st Century, Kent Decide Thursday July 19th. 8PM @ The Starry Plough Pub (21+) 3101 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA Suggested donation 5-20 dollars. Larger donations gladly accepted. No one turned away for inability to pay. All proceeds will go directly towards prisoner support and bail funds for Occupy’s political prisoners. 35269	21 BBQ: Justice For Alan Blueford Speakout 8:00 pm BBQ: Justice For Alan Blueford Speakout @ Arroyo Park Jul 21 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Justice 4 Alan Blueford Free Food. Rally. Music. Workshops. Arts & Crafts. Children’s Village. Literature. “Just after midnight on Saturday May 6th, Alan Blueford and two of his friends were waiting for some girls to pick them up on 90th Ave., in East Oakland, after the Floyd Mayweather fight. Not long after Alan had phoned his parents to check-in with them, a car slowly pulled up to them with its lights off. Alan ran. One officer gave chase. A few blocks later Alan was shot by OPD officer Miguel Masso. … Continued
22	23	24	25 Free Melvin: Court and Jail Support 4:00 pm Free Melvin: Court and Jail Support Jul 25 @ 4:00 pm – Jul 26 @ 11:00 am Tickets Melvin was arrested on 7/23/2012 and he’s got court tomorrow. We need a show of support for this comrade. The inmate locator says his arraignment is 7/25/2012, 9am in Dept 107, but since he’s in custody, it’ll probably be 2pm. We’re hoping to get him bailed tomorrow too, and we need carpools ready to head down to Santa Rita for another jail party. Who’s down?37099	26	27 Solidarity March with Anaheim 5:30 pm Solidarity March with Anaheim @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 27 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Via IndyBay: On July 21 Anaheim Police Chased and shot Manuel Angel Diaz in the back of his head Killing him. Diaz was Unarmed. The Latino Community that the Killing had happened in had already been the victim of several other shootings in the Past done by Anaheim Police. confronted the police in Protest of Diaz killing. and were viciously attacked by Police the Extreamly Cruel repression that the Anaheim police unleashed on the community was horrible. you see the Police shot Rubber Bullets into the crowd including Woman and … Continued	28 1946 Oakland General Strike Historical Walk 7:00 pm 1946 Oakland General Strike Historical Walk @ Oakland Jul 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets LaborFest is giving a historical walking tour of Oakland’s 1946 General Strike, the last ‘real’ General Strike to occur in the United States. Meet at 12:00 noon where Telegraph and Broadway intersect just above 14th & Broadway. When the walking tour is over join the Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity Committee in Oscar Grant Park for a presentation about the “2011 Oakland General Strike and the relationships between Occupy Oakland and Labor Struggles” More information about the walk.36804 2011 Oak. General Strike, OO & Its Relationship with Labor Struggles 9:00 pm 2011 Oak. General Strike, OO & Its Relationship with Labor Struggles @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 28 @ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Oakland General Strike 2011 and the relationships between Occupy Oakland and Labor Struggles Join organizers and workers of some of the most notable actions to date of the Occupy movement, including the general strike and the coordinated West Coast port shutdown, as well as many actions with workers at American Licorice, Castlewood, Pacific Steel and other sites. Learn about how these events developed. What were the successes, failures, and difficulties? What have we learned? Discuss the ongoing efforts and how we see the fight continuing from here. This event takes … Continued
29 Re-Imagine the General Assembly 10:30 pm Re-Imagine the General Assembly @ 19th and Telegraph Jul 29 @ 10:30 pm – Jul 30 @ 1:00 am Tickets The second gathering to Re-imagine the General Assembly will be held on Sunday, July 29, after the General Assembly, at 19th and Telegraph (approximately 3:30/4:00 to 6:00). The goal is to “get down to business” about concrete ways to improve the OOGA.36240	30 Lessons From the ILWU Battle Against EGT in Longview And the Struggle Ahead 2:00 am Lessons From the ILWU Battle Against EGT in Longview And the Struggle Ahead @ First Unitarian Universalist Church Jul 30 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets An ongoing union-busting drive is being waged against the ILWU, one of the most militant unions in the United States, from Bush’s invoking of Taft-Hartley during the 2002 lockout by PMA to Obama’s sending an armed Coast Guard vessel to escort a scab ship to the EGT dock in Longview, Washington. The Occupy Wall Street movement was instrumental in building solidarity for port truckers and longshore workers during the Longview struggle. Shackled with a concessionary EGT grain contract, the ILWU now faces negotiations for a master grain agreement. The Northwest … Continued	31

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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.