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						1 San Francisco Mime Troupe: ‘Breakdown’ 2:00 pm San Francisco Mime Troupe: ‘Breakdown’ @ Cedar Rose Park Jul 1 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwHcRbgydg&t=19s In an insane society how can we help those struggling with actual mental illness? And who is driving the country insane? The social worker drowning in the bureaucracy needed to help their unhoused client? The news anchor, who feeds anxiety with “breaking news” of daily atrocities and political scapegoating rather than the real “Who, What, Where and Why?” We will meet them and more in our new comedy musical aptly titled: BREAKDOWN – A New Musical. Sometimes it’s not all just happening in your mind. BREAKDOWN – A New … Continued
2 San Francisco Mime Troupe: ‘Breakdown’ 2:00 pm San Francisco Mime Troupe: ‘Breakdown’ @ Cedar Rose Park Jul 2 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwHcRbgydg&t=19s In an insane society how can we help those struggling with actual mental illness? And who is driving the country insane? The social worker drowning in the bureaucracy needed to help their unhoused client? The news anchor, who feeds anxiety with “breaking news” of daily atrocities and political scapegoating rather than the real “Who, What, Where and Why?” We will meet them and more in our new comedy musical aptly titled: BREAKDOWN – A New Musical. Sometimes it’s not all just happening in your mind. BREAKDOWN – A New … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 2 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to … Continued	3 Coding Owls – Women & NonBinary Night at SudoRoom! 7:00 pm Coding Owls – Women & NonBinary Night at SudoRoom! @ Omni Commons Jul 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never coded before!). And if you’re an intermediate programmer looking for a challenge, we can help you find problems to work on. No computer? No problem: … Continued Oscar Grant Committee Meeting 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Jul 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82809764186?pwd=eWtjcXlsKzU1QkdSdk5xOUxseFl0Zz09 Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186 If you wish to get the password please subscribe to the Oscar Grant Committee mailing list by sending an email to: oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to … Continued	4	5 Path to Win Single Payer NOW 5:00 pm Path to Win Single Payer NOW @ Online Jul 5 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets UPCOMING EVENT: Path to Win Single Payer NOW — Online Webinar — Register at http://bit.ly/Path2SinglePayer — Join Dr. Jill Stein for an online discussion of U.S. health care with healthcare experts and activists including Dr. Claire Cohen, Don Fitz, Ryan Skolnick, and Dr. Margaret Flowers — The profit-driven U.S. health care system has produced staggering healthcare inequities, patient suffering and death, declining health outcomes, and massive medical debt. A single-payer system would cover comprehensive health care for everyone from head to toe regardless of citizenship or employment. It will be … Continued	6 Oakland Privacy Advisory Committee 5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Committee @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1 Jul 6 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Main Agenda Items: 3. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – DOT – Mobile Parking Payment System a. Review and take possible action on the proposed use policy 4. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Annual Reports a. Review and take possible action on the annual reports for ShotSpotter, Forensic Logic/Coplink, Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) 5. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Fixed Wing Aircraft (with surveillance technology) a. Review and take possible action on a proposed use policy 6. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OPD – Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) a. … Continued	7	8 FREE MUMIA NOW! at LABORFEST 2023 1:00 pm FREE MUMIA NOW! at LABORFEST 2023 @ Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics Jul 8 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets FREE MUMIA NOW! BOOK LAUNCH AND PANEL AS PART OF LABORFEST 2023 [In person event. Attendees are politely requested to mask.] Speakers: Eliot Lee Grossman, attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, 2001-2003 Rachel Wolkenstein, attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1995-1999 Gerald Smith, Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal The Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (LAC) cordially invites you to a panel discussion to launch a new book on the Mumia Abu-Jamal case written by his former attorney, Eliot Lee Grossman. Mr. Grossman represented Mumia, with his colleagues Marlene Kamish, … Continued
9 US Imperial Policy in Korea. 10:30 am US Imperial Policy in Korea. @ Online Jul 9 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Simone Chun. Can there be peace in Korea under the US imperialistic strategy? Can there be peace in Korea when the US is at a virtual war with China? Simone Chun’s talk will show that the greatest threat to peace and stability in northeast Asia is the U.S. imperialistic quest and military encirclement of China. She will argue that the US peace movement must seriously oppose US imperial policy as a focal point of its struggle, and join its voice with the South Korean public as they campaign to … Continued DSA Summer 2023 Social 1:00 pm DSA Summer 2023 Social @ Snow Park Jul 9 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Maybe you’ve been getting our emails for months or years but never come to a DSA event. Maybe you’re a veteran leftist with decades of battles under your belt. Maybe you’re a new member ready to take the next step and get organized. Wherever you’re coming from, we want to hang out with you! 🌹 Hear what we’re currently working on 💪 Get more involved in critical fights right here in the East Bay 🥨 Eat some snacks Right now, we’re grappling with a conservative attack on our reproductive rights, … Continued Film Screening — Finite: The Climate of Change 1:00 pm Film Screening — Finite: The Climate of Change @ Little Roxie Cinema Jul 9 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Extinction Rebellion presents this film, “an insider’s view of the world of direct action . . . the battle between frontline communities, activists and fossil fuel corporations,” followed by a discussion with Michael Levitin, author of Generation Occupy: Reawakening American Democracy. Finite: The Climate of Change tells the story of a community in Germany where activists stepped forward to save an ancient forest from one of Europe’s biggest coal mines. They formed an unlikely alliance with a frustrated community in rural England who were forced into action to protect their homes from … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to … Continued Green Sunday : Human Rights and Non Intervention in Nicaragua today 5:00 pm Green Sunday : Human Rights and Non Intervention in Nicaragua today @ Online Jul 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Diana Bohn and Don Macleay will discuss the current situation in Nicaragua and what it me ans for the US solidarity movements and the Green Party. Our speakers have a long history with Nicaragua dating back to the time of the Sandinista Popular Revolution 1979-1990. Since then they have both been involved in Nicaragua solidarity and support of human rights. The current government of Nicaragua has the Sandinista name, but not the revolutionary practice, the human rights record and has lost the support of almost all of the original generation … Continued	10 The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela, reading & discussion 5:00 pm The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela, reading & discussion @ Online Jul 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets SPEAKER: Mariya P Ivancheva Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, The Alternative University outlines the origins and day-to-day functioning of the colossal effort of late President Hugo Chávez’s government to create a university that challenged national and global higher education norms. The session will commence with reading from the book and outlining some of its main themes. It will then open a dialogue will participants about some of the lessons that the book carries and challenges that the Venezuelan experiment poses to the possibility of revolutionary change in higher education. Register 75109 Coding Owls – Women & NonBinary Night at SudoRoom! 7:00 pm Coding Owls – Women & NonBinary Night at SudoRoom! @ Omni Commons Jul 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never coded before!). And if you’re an intermediate programmer looking for a challenge, we can help you find problems to work on. No computer? No problem: … Continued Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Jul 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	11 Hardware Hacking Tuesdays – SudoRoom 7:00 pm Hardware Hacking Tuesdays – SudoRoom @ Omni Commons Jul 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Hardware hack night – each Tuesday, we welcome sudoers new and old to bring their hardware projects to the space, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, 7pm til… whomever’s left standing! You can also jump in virtually via https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles ! Some stuff people have been working on: Pimping out cool bicycles with lights for the East Bay Bike Party the dancing robot arm stable diffusion watercolor painting IRL 75083	12 Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Online Jul 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info. (THE JANUARY 17TH MEETING, 2024 WAS MOVED TO JANUARY 24TH) Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for privacy, surveillance regulation of both corporations and the state, and government transparency, around the Bay and nationwide. We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” … Continued	13	14 Climate Justice Block Party @ Wells Fargo 11:00 am Climate Justice Block Party @ Wells Fargo @ Wells Fargo HQ Jul 14 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Join Oil and Gas Action Network for an electrifying block party/action against Wells Fargo, one of the top four US banks funding the climate crisis. Before Wells Fargo releases their quarterly earnings report, we’ll party in a high-energy day with talented musicians, dancers, street theater, and more. Dance, sing, and help harness the power of community to escalate resistance to profit-driven climate destruction. Host Contact: info@oilgasaction.org 75125 Homies Empowerment Town Nights 6:00 pm Homies Empowerment Town Nights @ Arroyo Park Jul 14 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 75004	15 ‘Street Spirit’ Comeback Party and Fundraiser 3:00 pm ‘Street Spirit’ Comeback Party and Fundraiser @ Tamarack Jul 15 @ 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets After nearly 30 years of continuous publication, we have lost our funding. Street Spirit ceased publication on July 1, but we will not give up! Our newspaper is an invaluable source of East Bay news, and a vital resource for the people who sell it. Come party with us to support our effort to relaunch. Tickets: We are selling tickets on a sliding scale of $5 to $500. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds, so come even if you can’t pay and you’ll be invited in! Learn: Alexis Madrigal will … Continued Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond 5:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond @ Online Jul 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. For our June and July meetings we are reading Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond. For our June meeting we’ll be reading the first five chapters. For the July meeting we will finish the book. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on … Continued What does a green police system look like? 6:00 pm What does a green police system look like? Jul 15 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Imagine a future of community policing, police commissions with real authority, and registered Green Party police chiefs. What would a Green Party police force look like? Demilitarized officers, biodiesel-fueled vehicles, and hemp weapons? How would you create a police force with Green Party values? Well, the irregular cast with special guests will discuss the possibilities with you and theorize on how to make an entirely new police system a reality. Join us – virtual doors open at 6 PM (witth the best pre-show music diversity). The discussion begins at 6:30 … Continued
16 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 16 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to … Continued	17 Coding Owls – Women & NonBinary Night at SudoRoom! 7:00 pm Coding Owls – Women & NonBinary Night at SudoRoom! @ Omni Commons Jul 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never coded before!). And if you’re an intermediate programmer looking for a challenge, we can help you find problems to work on. No computer? No problem: … Continued	18 Book Launch: Anarchist Popular Power – Dissident Labor & Armed Struggle in Uruguay ’56-76 6:00 pm Book Launch: Anarchist Popular Power – Dissident Labor & Armed Struggle in Uruguay ’56-76 @ Tamarack Jul 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Troy’s book examines a piece of critical and understudied Latin American social movement and anarchist history involving the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU). Militants the FAU were involved shop floor struggles, neighborhood organizing, and armed guerrilla warfare–alongside the Tupamaros–against the US backed dictatorship which took power in Uruguay starting in 1973. This event will feature readings from the book, a broader contextual discussion about revolutionary social movements in Latin America during the period, and lessons for revolutionaries today. RSVP on Facebook by clicking this link! 75165 Socialism 101 Night School: Capitalism – Contradictions and Crises 6:30 pm Socialism 101 Night School: Capitalism – Contradictions and Crises @ Online or EBDSA Office Jul 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets We will be discussing the basics of capitalism. It is highly recommended to read the required readings as this night school will be geared more toward discussion. Required Readings: Capitalism’s Gravediggers (excerpt) by Ellen Meiksins Wood (Jacobin) The Marxist Dialectic by John Molyneux The Contradictions of Capital by John Molyneux Recommended Readings TBD Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87659579868?pwd=OHU3TFdLNVZ5c215MVVVcnBWcFd1QT09 Meeting ID: 876 5957 9868 Passcode: 94547675167 Hardware Hacking Tuesdays – SudoRoom 7:00 pm Hardware Hacking Tuesdays – SudoRoom @ Omni Commons Jul 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Hardware hack night – each Tuesday, we welcome sudoers new and old to bring their hardware projects to the space, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, 7pm til… whomever’s left standing! You can also jump in virtually via https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles ! Some stuff people have been working on: Pimping out cool bicycles with lights for the East Bay Bike Party the dancing robot arm stable diffusion watercolor painting IRL 75083	19 Using Art to Protect Our Planet 12:00 pm Using Art to Protect Our Planet @ Online Jul 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Online. Register here Activists in the Bay Area have long felt incredibly lucky to have David Solnit creating the art that has brought life and energy to our actions for decades. Now we have the privilege of seeing him and another environmental artist, Emily Robinson, in an online discussion of Creative Activism: Using Art to Protect Our Planet. Emily Robinson, a Florida-based artist who turns plastic she pulls from the ocean into art pieces to raise awareness about plastic pollution (see her work on Instagram @plasticpresents) Our own David Solnit, as we know, … Continued APTP Monthly General Meeting 7:00 pm APTP Monthly General Meeting Jul 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Register to join us Accessibility: ASL and Live Closed Captioning available. Register to Join! 75246 San Francisco Mime Troupe: ‘Breakdown’ 7:00 pm San Francisco Mime Troupe: ‘Breakdown’ @ Lakeside Park Jul 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwHcRbgydg&t=19s In an insane society how can we help those struggling with actual mental illness? And who is driving the country insane? The social worker drowning in the bureaucracy needed to help their unhoused client? The news anchor, who feeds anxiety with “breaking news” of daily atrocities and political scapegoating rather than the real “Who, What, Where and Why?” We will meet them and more in our new comedy musical aptly titled: BREAKDOWN – A New Musical. Sometimes it’s not all just happening in your mind. BREAKDOWN – A New … Continued	20 San Francisco Mime Troupe: ‘Breakdown’ 7:00 pm San Francisco Mime Troupe: ‘Breakdown’ @ Lakeside Park Jul 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwHcRbgydg&t=19s In an insane society how can we help those struggling with actual mental illness? And who is driving the country insane? The social worker drowning in the bureaucracy needed to help their unhoused client? The news anchor, who feeds anxiety with “breaking news” of daily atrocities and political scapegoating rather than the real “Who, What, Where and Why?” We will meet them and more in our new comedy musical aptly titled: BREAKDOWN – A New Musical. Sometimes it’s not all just happening in your mind. BREAKDOWN – A New … Continued	21 Climate Emergency Task Force: Climate and H2O 9:00 am Climate Emergency Task Force: Climate and H2O @ Online Jul 21 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Info/registration here The Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force presents the first in its new series of summits on Climate, Social Justice, and the Rights of Nature. This first event, Climate and H2O, will explore climate and justice issues relating to water. Speakers include: Corrina Gould, Tribal Chair, Confederate Villages of Lisjan, co-founder Sogorea Te Land Trust: Salmon, H2O, and Ceremony Ellen Plane, environmental scientist, Resilient Landscapes Program, San Francisco Estuary Institute: Sea Level Rise, Groundwater Rise, and Adaptation for the San Francisco Bay Shoreline Aundi Mevoli, Field Investigator and Policy Advocate, … Continued	22 Free Ink Day! (Poster Printing) 12:00 pm Free Ink Day! (Poster Printing) @ Long Haul Jul 22 @ 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Join us for a “FREE INK DAY” of free anti-capitalist poster printing and other activities at Long Haul Infoshop. Featuring… fun print-making and all-ages activities (Riso, screen printing, bookmark drawing); DJ SINECURE; LOTS of FREE posters to take home or share around; light snacks and drinks. ALL 100% FREE!!!! DO you want to PRINT something? This is a chance to print FAST AND DIRTY on a thin paper suitable for wheatpasting. We will not be doing complex multi-color, multi-page, or tight-registration Riso prints. We are trying to use up our … Continued NO COAL IN OAKLAND! Rally 12:00 pm NO COAL IN OAKLAND! Rally @ West Side Missionary Baptist Church Jul 22 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets CALL TO ACTION No Coal in Oakland Community Rally For years, developer Phil Tagami has been pushing to build a massive coal terminal in West Oakland. In 2016, Oakland City Council voted unanimously to ban coal and, after defending a federal lawsuit, the city is now fighting in state court to end the threat of an Oakland coal terminal for good. No Coal in Oakland, Interfaith Council of Alameda County, and Care 4 Community Action are cosponsoring a community rally against coal on July 22. Come to share our determination … Continued
23 Sunday at the Marxist Library: Open discussion on the U.S. Election. 10:30 am Sunday at the Marxist Library: Open discussion on the U.S. Election. @ Online Jul 23 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Our scheduled speaker has requested a later date, so we will have a round table discussion of the coming U.S. elections, considering what posistion U.S. leftists should take. We are looking forward to an informed and information discussion. Bring your opinions and be prepared to defend them! Our Zoom room will be opened up as usual at 10:15 am for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will begin at 10:30 am and will end at 12:30pm.\ Join … Continued Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 23 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to … Continued	24 Coding Owls – Women & NonBinary Night at SudoRoom! 7:00 pm Coding Owls – Women & NonBinary Night at SudoRoom! @ Omni Commons Jul 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never coded before!). And if you’re an intermediate programmer looking for a challenge, we can help you find problems to work on. No computer? No problem: … Continued	25 Decarbonizing San Francisco’s Transit System – Next Generation Trolleybuses 10:00 am Decarbonizing San Francisco’s Transit System – Next Generation Trolleybuses @ Online Jul 25 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Register Electrifying and expanding transit infrastructure will be crucial to meeting climate goals. In San Francisco, the city has operated electrified trolleybuses for over 85 years and this transit technology could be crucial to its decarbonization strategy. According to a new report, leveraging San Francisco’s existing trolleybus infrastructure and updating it with next-generation In-Motion Charging (IMC) technology is the cheaper, more resource-efficient, and faster way to electrify and decarbonize its fleet in comparison to battery electric buses. Join labor union representatives, researchers, and advocates as they explore how cutting-edge trolleybus … Continued Hardware Hacking Tuesdays – SudoRoom 7:00 pm Hardware Hacking Tuesdays – SudoRoom @ Omni Commons Jul 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Hardware hack night – each Tuesday, we welcome sudoers new and old to bring their hardware projects to the space, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, 7pm til… whomever’s left standing! You can also jump in virtually via https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles ! Some stuff people have been working on: Pimping out cool bicycles with lights for the East Bay Bike Party the dancing robot arm stable diffusion watercolor painting IRL 75083	26 Fertilizers and Fossil Fuels: The Climate Impact of Big Agriculture 12:00 pm Fertilizers and Fossil Fuels: The Climate Impact of Big Agriculture @ Online Jul 26 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets The fossil fuel industry and the agro-chemical industry work together to continue the destructive patterns that are poisoning and cooking the planet. Join a discussion with Steven Feit, Senior Attorney and Legal and Research Manager in the Fossil Economy Program of the Center for International Environmental Law. He will present and take questions about CIEL’s new report, Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk This is an especially important year for these issues because the federal Farm Bill is … Continued Winning Tenants’ Rights Across Alameda County 12:00 pm Winning Tenants’ Rights Across Alameda County @ Online Jul 26 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets 75275 Making the Best Use of Federal $ for Climate Justice 2:30 pm Making the Best Use of Federal $ for Climate Justice @ Online Jul 26 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Online. Register The federal Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure and Jobs Investment Act will bring billions of dollars into communities. The goals are to create 9 million good jobs and reduce carbon emissions 40% below 2005 levels by 2030. How can we make sure this money is used in ways that will really reduce CO2 emissions and benefit communities that need it most? The Sierra Club ‘s Bay Area Virtual Workshop, Harnessing the Power of the Inflation Reduction Act, will discuss ways to support the best implementation of these programs, at the state … Continued	27	28 Convict Fletcher! 9:00 am Convict Fletcher! @ Rene C. Davidson Courthouse Jul 28 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets 75279	29
30 Wokeism – Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, Academic Freedom, Class Struggle and Radical Change 10:30 am Wokeism – Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, Academic Freedom, Class Struggle and Radical Change @ Online Jul 30 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Norman Finkelstein first made his name while still in graduate school when he exposed an acclaimed national bestseller as a hoax. He went on in subsequent decades to subject Israel’s apologists as well as Holocaust hucksters to withering scrutiny. In his new book – I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom – Finkelstein focuses his keen forensic eye on the canonical texts of identity politics. After methodically parsing them, he concludes that they are lacking in intellectual substance, … Continued Wokeism – Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, Academic Freedom, Class Struggle and Radical Change 10:30 am Wokeism – Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, Academic Freedom, Class Struggle and Radical Change @ Online Jul 30 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Norman Finkelstein first made his name while still in graduate school when he exposed an acclaimed national bestseller as a hoax. He went on in subsequent decades to subject Israel’s apologists as well as Holocaust hucksters to withering scrutiny. In his new book – I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom – Finkelstein focuses his keen forensic eye on the canonical texts of identity politics. After methodically parsing them, he concludes that they are lacking in intellectual substance, … Continued DSA Summer General Membership Meeting! 11:00 am DSA Summer General Membership Meeting! @ Zoom and Omni Commons Jul 30 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Come one come all! At the East Bay DSA Summer General Membership meeting, we will come together to vote on key issues, discuss high-needs efforts, and continue organizing for socialism together! Social to follow the meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82052332825?pwd=OVlwUUpPeWVacm1BUWdvdDhPVnlTdz09 Meeting ID: 820 5233 2825 Passcode: 94254475168 Occupy Oakland General Assembly 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 30 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to … Continued Free Movie Discussion: “History of The World Part 1” 6:00 pm Free Movie Discussion: “History of The World Part 1” Jul 30 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Oakland Greens July Free Dinner & a Movie Discussion Series “History of The World Part 1” (1981) — Human history is traced through a series of vignettes, beginning with cavemen. Then Moses (Mel Brooks) receives the tablets containing the “15” commandments, and Emperor Nero (Dom DeLuise) presides over a madcap Rome with his wife, Nympho (Madeline Kahn). Jumping ahead, the Spanish Inquisition softens repression with song and dance, and a few centuries later Madame Defarge (Cloris Leachman) is fomenting revolution in France — Organized by the Oakland Greens: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oakland-greens-july-free-dinner-a-movie-discussion-series-tickets-525283205207?aff=erelpanelorg 75224	31 Coding Owls – Women & NonBinary Night at SudoRoom! 7:00 pm Coding Owls – Women & NonBinary Night at SudoRoom! @ Omni Commons Jul 31 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never coded before!). And if you’re an intermediate programmer looking for a challenge, we can help you find problems to work on. No computer? No problem: … 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.