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May 2014

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				1	2 1st Oakland Privacy & Data Retention Advisory Committee Meeting 1:00 am 1st Oakland Privacy & Data Retention Advisory Committee Meeting May 2 @ 1:00 am – 3:00 am Tickets The committee to create a DAC privacy policy, formed because of the protests against the DAC, will hold its first meeting. By City Council resolution a privacy policy must be in place before the DAC can operate. Open to public. Come and tell the committee members: “The only good DAC is a dead DAC.” 55496	3
4	5	6 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 1:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office May 6 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard. All four Postal Unions have joined together to support maintaining full service, public Post Offices in every community, with expansion … Continued	7	8 Strike Debt Bay Area Reading Group: Politics of Debt. 2:30 am Strike Debt Bay Area Reading Group: Politics of Debt. @ Xolo Taqueria, one block from the 19th St. BART May 8 @ 2:30 am – 4:00 am Tickets Here is the PDF for the final class meeting on Michael Hudson’s The Bubble and Beyond. We will like meet upstairs. HudsonCh19-2055485	9	10
11	12	13 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. 1:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office May 13 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard. All four Postal Unions have joined together to support maintaining full service, public Post Offices in every community, with expansion … Continued Occupy Forum: Anarchism: Its effects – past, present and future. 1:00 am Occupy Forum: Anarchism: Its effects – past, present and future. @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART May 13 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 am Tickets Panel Discussion on anarchism — past, present, and future — with Ramsey Kanaan (AK Press & PM Press), Liz Highleyman (journalist and historian), and Joey Cain (Bound Together Bookstore, LGBT activist) Anarchism is the belief in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion. Anarchism began as what it remains today: a direct challenge by the underprivileged to their oppression and exploitation. It opposes both the growth of state power and the ethos of possessive individualism, which, together or separately, ultimately serve … Continued	14	15	16	17 KPFA West Oakland Town Hall Meeting, 8:00 pm KPFA West Oakland Town Hall Meeting, @ Marcus Garvey Building--Liberty Hall May 17 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets The KPFA Community Advisory Board invites you to an information and music sharing Town Hall gathering in West Oakland . We want to hear from youth, listeners, community members, musicians and media activists about your favorite music, community actions and programming ideas. Learn about creating press releases and posting announcements. Help KPFA to address our cultural, political and economic challenges now.55518 Strike Debt Bay Area: Ideas Into Action! 10:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Ideas Into Action! @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, right next to City Hall May 17 @ 10:00 pm – May 18 @ 12:30 am Tickets New to Strike Debt?? Don’t walk cold turkey into a bunch of radicals talking about debt! Show up a half hour early—at 2:30 PM—for an informal pre-meeting intro session. If you’d like to attend this pre-together please email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com and let us know you’re coming. Join Strike Debt Bay Area in working on some exciting projects locally and nationally to fight unjust debt. Thomas Gokey from Strike Debt New York City – creative debt thinker and Rolling Jubilee organizer – will be joining us! – The latest on our coalition efforts to … Continued
18	19	20 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 1:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office May 20 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard. All four Postal Unions have joined together to support maintaining full service, public Post Offices in every community, with expansion … Continued	21	22 Strike Debt Bay Area: Politics of Debt Reading Group: The End of Growth. 2:30 am Strike Debt Bay Area: Politics of Debt Reading Group: The End of Growth. @ Xolo Cafe, one block from the 19th St. BART May 22 @ 2:30 am – 4:30 am Tickets Or next politics of debt class will be at Xolo Taqueria on Telegraph avenue in downtown Oakland in the upstairs room. We will be reading from Richard Heinberg’s The End of Growth, which looks at the energy limitations facing our politician’s attempts to restart the economic growth machine. There are implications for finance and bubble making as well. Much thanks to Spencer for scanning the chapters! Heinberg doc Heinberg 255724	23	24
25 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 9:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ 3413 Belmont Avenue May 25 @ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets This Sunday, May 25th GA will be held at Mike Wilson’s digs in El Cerrito as part of a festive potluck BBQ that starts at noon. We will stop sucking down brews and scarfing BBQ flesh for a reasonable period between 2PM & 3PM at our normally scheduled OGP GA time and discuss how to overthrow capitalism and all the awesome stuff we’ve done in the past week and plan to do in the next week. A BARBECUE FOR HERBIVORES AND CARNIVORES ALIKE The time of year cries out for … Continued	26	27 CANCELLED: Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 1:00 am CANCELLED: Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Cancelled May 27 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am Tickets The regularly scheduled meeting has been postponed until next week, Monday, June 2nd, at 6:00 PM, at the Downtown Berkeley Post Office at 2000 Allston Way.55827	28 Save the Park Garden, development review at City Hall 11:30 pm Save the Park Garden, development review at City Hall @ City Hall, Oakland May 28 @ 11:30 pm – May 29 @ 12:30 am Tickets Park Garden is under the threat of development. A recent notice posted in the area indicates an intent to build a 6-story building on the lot we garden in. There is a Design Review hearing at City Hall this coming Wednesday, May 28th, at 4:30pm. We need as many friends, neighbors, and allies to show up and speak out on such issues as: – The already dangerous traffic situation along the entire length of Park. – Parking, which is already an issue. – Pedestrian access, or lack of. We have … Continued	29	30 How to keep tasers out of Berkeley. 2:00 am How to keep tasers out of Berkeley. @ Grassroots House May 30 @ 2:00 am – 3:30 am Tickets The strategy meeting for how to keep tasers out of Berkeley. We’ll talk about how to run this campaign and what’s our strategy. Sponsored by Berkeley Copwatch. 55839	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.