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June 2024

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						1 Bay Area Book Festival Bay Area Book Festival @ Downtown Berkeley Jun 1 all-day Tickets 10th Anniversary Bay Area Book Festival Brings Top Authors, Critical Conversations, and Family Fun The Bay Area Book Festival is throwing a 10th anniversary party, where festivalgoers will be treated to the top-tier speakers the festival is known to showcase as well as new attractions, including a full day of workshops for emerging writers, three evening headliner events, a reimagined Outdoor Fair in the park (Sunday only) and the inaugural Native California stage. The icing on the birthday cake? Almost everything is free. This year’s ticketed headliners include the incomparable … Continued
2 Bay Area Book Festival Bay Area Book Festival @ Downtown Berkeley Jun 2 all-day Tickets 10th Anniversary Bay Area Book Festival Brings Top Authors, Critical Conversations, and Family Fun The Bay Area Book Festival is throwing a 10th anniversary party, where festivalgoers will be treated to the top-tier speakers the festival is known to showcase as well as new attractions, including a full day of workshops for emerging writers, three evening headliner events, a reimagined Outdoor Fair in the park (Sunday only) and the inaugural Native California stage. The icing on the birthday cake? Almost everything is free. This year’s ticketed headliners include the incomparable … Continued Artificial Intelligence, Cure or Curse? On the class structure of AI and the reasons that a productive force appear as a destructive force of capitalism. 10:30 am Artificial Intelligence, Cure or Curse? On the class structure of AI and the reasons that a productive force appear as a destructive force of capitalism. @ Online Jun 2 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Özgür Narin Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1 Machine Learning Algorithms running on Artificial Neural Networks and particularly reinforcement learning were real breakthroughs of 2010s, Generative AI and transformers are of 2020s, all of them developed and spread to various branches. And nowadays they even talk about an “existential risk” created by AI as if capitalism itself was not the real existential risk for centuries. So we should talk about capitalist production process of AI and the class structure of it. Hence, I will first try to analyse the path from machine … Continued	3	4 SudoRoom Hardware Hacking Tuesdays + Fixit Clinic 7:30 pm SudoRoom Hardware Hacking Tuesdays + Fixit Clinic @ Omni Commons Jun 4 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Hardware Hacking Tuesdays are better than ever! Plus Fix-It Clinic! Each Tuesday we welcome all to bring their hardware (and software and firmware) projects to Omni Commons, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, about 7:30pm until ∞ …whomever’s left standing! We are inside the Omni Commons at 48th and Shattuck, see the link at the end of this text to call in in case the doors are locked! ○ Projects: can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to … Continued	5	6 Justice 4 Eric Salgado 4:00 pm Justice 4 Eric Salgado Jun 6 @ 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets June 6th marks 4 years since CHP murdered Erik Salgado. Join his family to honor his life on his angelversary at 96th and Cherry in East Oakland. Please bring altar items/offerings and wear purple, white or black. Follow @/justice4eriksalgado on Instagram for updates. https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/1798067172402704514 77837	7	8
9 The Ideology of the Cold War – Origin and Evolution 10:30 am The Ideology of the Cold War – Origin and Evolution @ Online Jun 9 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Mathew Ehret Mathew Ehret will recall the Gouzenko Hoax of 1945 that started the Cold War against socialism and tie it to the current anti-Communist psyop propaganda blitzkrieg. Our speaker, Matthew Ehret, is a journalist and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Patriot Review, Senior Fellow at the American University of Moscow and co-host of The Great Game on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media. He has authored the book series “The Untold History of Canada”, the four volume “Clash of … Continued	10	11	12	13	14	15
16 Elections in India 10:30 am Elections in India @ Online Jun 16 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Raj Sahai General elections were held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect 543 members of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s bicameral Parliament. The results, announced on 4 June 2024, gave incumbent Prime Minister Narendrea Modi, a third consecutive term. Our speaker, Raj Sahai, is a native of India who has lived in the US for over 50 years and is an American citizen. He is a member of the ICSS Planning Committee. Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1 77846	17 5th Annual Oakland Greens Education Townhall 7:00 pm 5th Annual Oakland Greens Education Townhall @ Online and... Jun 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Education: What is the current system teaching us? Join the Oakland Greens & special surprise guests, Monday, June 17. Discussion starts at 7:00 pm and will end no later than 9:30 pm. The Oakland Greens Townhall Discussion Series is a community discussion event. Get virtual tickets and information thru www.oaklandgreens.org/events These community engagement events are held the 3rd Monday of the month, January thru October. All Oakland Greens events are held in community partnership with It’s Your Move Games & Hobbies, 4920 Telegraph Ave., Suite B, Oakland. Please register by … Continued	18	19 People’s Park Last Stand? The Struggle Continues! Save the Heart and Soul of Berkeley – Panel Discussion 7:00 pm People’s Park Last Stand? The Struggle Continues! Save the Heart and Soul of Berkeley – Panel Discussion @ East Bay Media Center Jun 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets with Jovanka Beckles CA State Senate Candidate Margot Smith CA State Asssembly Candidate Moni Law Affordable Housing and Police Accountability Activist Joe Liesner People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group People’s Park supporters cry “Foul!” in response to the California State Supreme Court’s recent ruling to allow the University of California (UC) to destroy the park. We pledge to continue the fight to save it. Native American site of significance: People’s Park sits in Huichin, the name given the land by indigenous inhabitants of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan (local Ohlone … Continued	20 Student debt cancellation strategy call 4:30 pm Student debt cancellation strategy call @ Online Jun 20 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Join our next student debt cancellation strategy call on June 20 at 7:30 PM ET. Until all the debts are cancelled, we have our marching orders: keep making our movement irresistible. We’re still glowing from our action two weeks ago, when we told the President to use his executive orders to liberate students debtors, not accelerate genocide in Gaza. We also told the Department of Ed to fire MOHELA, the multibillion-dollar loan servicing company that steals from student debtors and has blocked debt relief for all (we even crashed their … Continued NLG Legal Observer Training 5:00 pm NLG Legal Observer Training Jun 20 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets 77845	21	22 Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Persuaders 5:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Persuaders @ Online Jun 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. For our May meeting we will be reading The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Giridharadas (Amazon, Penguin). For our June meeting we will finish the book. An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York … Continued
23 Building of Socialism in Laos. 10:30 am Building of Socialism in Laos. @ Online Jun 23 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Grahmn Harrington of the CP of Ireland The Lao People’s Democratic Republic came into being in 1975, after a decade of relentless US bombing. Laos is per capita the most bombed country in the world. 10% of its population were killed directly by US bombs and a similar number left the country. US-financed opium traffickers and terrorist attacks continued up to the end of 20th century. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA cut-out, still maintains a presence in Laos. Building socialism in this context was, and is, … Continued	24	25	26 Drawdown’s Neighborhood: San Francisco Bay Area, a climate solutions short documentary series 6:30 pm Drawdown’s Neighborhood: San Francisco Bay Area, a climate solutions short documentary series @ David Brower Center Jun 26 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets jJoin local climate heroes, community members, and supporters for the launch of Drawdown’s Neighborhood: San Francisco Bay Area, a climate solutions short documentary series (premiering at drawdown.org/neighborhood in late August 2024) passing the mic to voices that often go unheard in global climate solutions conversations. The series is presented by Project Drawdown. This event is hosted by Project Drawdown’s Stories team and Matt Scott, Director of Storytelling & Engagement and the host of Drawdown’s Neighborhood. The event will serve as a sneak peek screening of the series (showing clips from the 7 full episodes), before the global … Continued Where Olive Trees Weep: Film Screening 7:00 pm Where Olive Trees Weep: Film Screening @ Grand Lake Theater Jun 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets “Where Olive Trees Weep” is a powerful documentary about the brutal conditions in Gaza pre-2022. If you want to catch it on the big screen, the Grand Lake has scheduled another showing tomorrow, June 26, at 7pm. The central character of the film, Ashira Darwish, will participate in a Q&A after the film.77860	27	28	29
30 Iran, and the Global Struggle For Multipolarity 10:30 am Iran, and the Global Struggle For Multipolarity @ Online Jun 30 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Bahman Azad Since the election of the late President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, in 2021, Iran has adopted an active pro-east foreign policy and has become a key player, along with China and Russia, in the global struggle of the countries of the South for building a multipolar world. This active redirection of Iran’s foreign policy is considered by the U.S. imperialism as a serious obstacle to its continued domination of the unraveling unipolar world and an existential threat to its closest ally, Israel, in West Asia. With the … Continued THE REGENERATION HANDBOOK – Author Event 1:00 pm THE REGENERATION HANDBOOK – Author Event @ Ecology Center Jun 30 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Event info & registration: click here (please register so we can plan the space accordingly) You are invited to join Transition Berkeley at the Ecology Center, for this inspiring & interactive event to learn how to powerfully activate yourself and your community in these complex times! The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring changemakers to step into their full power at this time of unprecedented global crisis. By introducing readers to a different kind of activism – based on universal … 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.