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We are organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing. … Continued 4:00 pm Cancelled: OO GA Cancelled: OO GA Aug 2 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Folks are spread all over creation, many of us are meetinged out for the week, see you next week at the Omni at 2PM. Special Ed59245		6:00 pm Coalition for Police Accountability Coalition for Police Accountability Aug 4 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Agenda: · review the latest draft of our proposed ballot measure, · discuss proposals for how to ensure we get the best Commissioners · talk about the work that lies ahead: growing the Coalition, getting important endorsements, educating the public and meeting with our Council members. · We’ll also need to put on some community events and do some fundraising.59255 6:00 pm Police Militarization Study Group @ Unitarian Universalist Center Police Militarization Study Group @ Unitarian Universalist Center Aug 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The BFUU is embracing the call from our Unitarian Universalists Association to engage in a program about the widening gap in well-being and incomes in the United States. This segment of our related series of study groups will focus on police militarization, its impact on our communities, its relationship to the widening gaps in our society and economy, and what we can do about it. Our guest speaker will be Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb; who will inform us of the latest developments and give us contact information for community involvement. Sponsored … Continued 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Neibyl Proctor Library Aug 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets 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 stopping police brutality. In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and … Continued	7:30 pm Politics of Debt Reading Group: Greece, Debt and Austerity. @ Omni Commons Politics of Debt Reading Group: Greece, Debt and Austerity. @ Omni Commons Aug 5 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets We discuss various monetary and debt-related topics. For our next meeting we will be discussing Greece, it’s debt, the recent referendum and its implications on the world monetary system, and Greece’s prospects. A continuation of our last meeting. See there for a list of background reading and please read the latest articles in the news about what is happening in Greece. The Politics of Debt Reading Group is affiliated with the Bay Area Public School and Strike Debt Bay Area.59228	8:00 am 70 Years of Nuclear Weapons – At What Cost? @ Livermore Labs 70 Years of Nuclear Weapons – At What Cost? @ Livermore Labs Aug 6 @ 8:00 am – 10:00 am Tickets Today, after 70 years, nearly 16,000 nuclear weapons-94% of them held by the USA and Russia-continue to pose an intolerable threat to humanity, and the danger of nuclear war is growing. Whether a nuclear exchange is initiated by accident, miscalculation or madness, the radiation will know no boundaries. The USA plans to spend a trillion dollars over the next thirty years “modernizing” its nuclear arsenal. The human cost of this is immeasurable-to our health, environment, ethics, and democracy, to our prospects for global peace, and to our confidence in human … Continued 12:00 pm EMERGENCY ACTION AND MEETING TO DEFEND HUCHIUN – KNOWLAND PARK! @ Oakland Zoo Knowland Park entrance EMERGENCY ACTION AND MEETING TO DEFEND HUCHIUN – KNOWLAND PARK! @ Oakland Zoo Knowland Park entrance Aug 6 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets EMERGENCY ACTION AND MEETING TO DEFEND HUCHIUN – KNOWLAND PARK! PLEASE SHARE AND INVITE! http://www.facebook.com/events/1621914134725011/ 12:00 PM – Thursday August 6th – The Knowland Park entrance by the intersection of Malcolm and Snowdown Ave. 6:00 PM – Planning Meeting – The Knowland Park entrance by the intersection of Malcolm an Snowdown Ave. Please join us this Thursday to stop the construction and plan a long term resistance to defend the park and neighborhood from the Zoo! Over the weekend the Oakland Zoo began constructing a fence around the proposed development … Continued 6:00 pm Film Screening: The Breach @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall Film Screening: The Breach @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall Aug 6 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join Slow Food East Bay and Transition Berkeley for an evening delving into the prickly world of fish, fishing and the health of the oceans. We’ll start at 6pm with a potluck dinner (true to Slow Food USA local and sustainable values!) then see the amazing new film about salmon and the northwest, The Breach, at 7. (http://www.thebreachfilm.com) The evening comes to a point with a short panel of local fisher(wo)men, fish mongers and others involved with keeping this huge part of our ecosystem healthy and in balance and Q&A … Continued	4:00 pm Anniversary of the Police Murder of Mike Brown @ Oscar Grant Plaza Anniversary of the Police Murder of Mike Brown @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 7 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets August 8-10: Mark the Anniversary of the Police Murder of Mike Brown and the Heroic Uprising that Followed: It Was – AND IS – Right to Rebel!! On August 9, it will be one year since a Ferguson, Missouri, cop, Darren Wilson executed Michael Brown for walking in the middle of the day on a sleepy street. Mike Brown was unarmed, running away, and had his hands up when he was shot multiple times and then his body was left lying dead in the street for four-and-a-half hours. This brutal … Continued 6:00 pm Internationalism and Cuba Today Internationalism and Cuba Today Aug 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets 59254 7:00 pm Eyewitness Report from Cleveland: Black Lives Matter! Eyewitness Report from Cleveland: Black Lives Matter! Aug 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets In Cleveland, Ohio, a delegation of the Party for Socialism and Liberation joined 1000 other attendees at the first ever Movement for Black Lives National Convening. The activists met and engaged with others who are part of the resurgence of the struggle against racist police terror. Then, shortly after the conference ended, a stunning indictment was handed down in Cincinnati, charging a police officer with murder in the death of a Black motorist. This indictment is clearly a result of a powerful country-wide movement. The thousand people gathered in Cleveland … Continued 7:00 pm First Friday’s at The Alan Blueford Center for Justice @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice First Friday’s at The Alan Blueford Center for Justice @ Alan Blueford Center for Justice Aug 7 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Tata Vision presents a night of live performances from multi-talented youth from the bay area! Don’t sleep.59305	12:00 pm Omni Commons Work Party @ Omni Commons Omni Commons Work Party @ Omni Commons Aug 8 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Omni Commons is throwing a work party. We welcome volunteers who’d like to work on: – rehanging doors, putting on closers & panic bars – learning how electricity works – laying ethernet cable – fixing other small things around the building All skill levels welcome. We will feed & teach you. If you can, RSVP to volunteers@omnicommons.org. Otherwise, just show up! 59256 1:30 pm San Francisco Mime Troupe: Freedomland @ Willard Park San Francisco Mime Troupe: Freedomland @ Willard Park Aug 8 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets A door is blown off its hinges! Into a blasted room of scarred walls and shattered windows, armed with M-16’s, America’s bravest duck and dodge for cover, finally training their deadly gunsights on… an old black man watching TV on his couch? This isn’t Baghdad or Kandahar – its home, and for ex-Black Panther Malcolm Haywood it’s just another wrong door police raid in the War on Drugs. So of course Malcolm is horrified when the grandson he’s tried to protect, Nathaniel, returns from serving in Afghanistan only to find … Continued 4:00 pm #DayofRage @ Oscar Grant Plaza #DayofRage @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 8 @ 4:00 pm – 11:45 pm Tickets #DayofRage is in honor of Sandra Bland. We, the people of the Bay Area, and the United State of Amerika need to stand up and fight the racist, and militant police force that controls us. Its time for us to stand up for our rights and make our voices heard. We do not want to cause any more violence than we are already accustomed to, but we do need to raise hell. We need to stick up for our brothers and sisters nation wide. We need full police reform. We … Continued 6:30 pm Bay Area Peace Lantern Ceremony @ Aquatic Park Bay Area Peace Lantern Ceremony @ Aquatic Park Aug 8 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets North end of Aquatic Park in Berkeley. The Bay Area Peace Lantern Ceremony draws forth something beautiful: a community coming together to express visions of a peaceful future and re-commit to bringing those visions to life out of something nightmarish: the incineration of the bustling cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs on August 6 and 9, 1945. Today, we who are organizing the Peace Lantern Ceremony have our own, new “beautiful nightmare.” In past years the Peace Lantern Ceremony has drawn between 100 and 650 people. So far … 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.