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Event will include activities for children, drumming, and dancing.62256 6:00 pm OccupyForum: The Trump Presidency and the Crisis of United States Imperialism @ SEIU Local 2 OccupyForum: The Trump Presidency and the Crisis of United States Imperialism @ SEIU Local 2 Jan 9 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum presents Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! The Trump Presidency and the Crisis of United States Imperialism Almost daily since the 2016 election, the Obama administration and the Democratic Party Establishment has intensified its anti-Russia propaganda – while President-elect Trump claims that he plans to normalize relations with Russia. To explain the significance of that policy divergence, Professor George Wright will, first, outline the current geo-political situation in relationship … Continued	10:00 am Stop Urban Shield! @ Alameda County Board of Supervisors, 5th Floor Stop Urban Shield! @ Alameda County Board of Supervisors, 5th Floor Jan 10 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Press Conference and Rally Standing Up, Fighting Back: Moving Forward Against Trump and Militarism in the New Year From the disturbing images of police repressing indigenous resistance in Standing Rock to the often unreported near-daily SWAT raids in Black and Brown neighborhoods in our cities, we know that police militarization is a violent strategy of containment, control, and warfare. But we also know that all over the world, people are fighting back. The Stop Urban Shield coalition sees its work as a tangible and winnable step toward diminishing the destructive impacts of … Continued 10:30 am Mobilization to Demand a Vote Against Jail Expansion @ County Building, across the street from the Courthouse Mobilization to Demand a Vote Against Jail Expansion @ County Building, across the street from the Courthouse Jan 10 @ 10:30 am – 2:00 pm Tickets We got word late yesterday, that Alameda County is racing forward with a terrible plan next Tuesday to spend over $61 million taxpayer dollars to build a new “mental health unit” at Santa Rita Jail. We need you to say NO to jail expansion and YES to community-based mental health care. The Alameda Jail Fight Coalition has been organizing to stop the jail expansion for over a year, and we need you next Tuesday! Join us, January 10th to stop the Alameda Board of Supervisors from selecting a contractor to … Continued	3:00 pm Speak-Out: Stop Restarting Japan’s Nuclear Reactors @ Japanese Consulate Speak-Out: Stop Restarting Japan’s Nuclear Reactors @ Japanese Consulate Jan 11 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets A speak out against the restarting of more than 40 of Japan’s nuclear power plants. The government has told the residents of Fukushima that it is safe but independent surveys show that it is still highly contaminated. Over 175 children have already been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and this is expanding. While the government is subsidizing Tokyo Electric Power Company which has had to be nationalized the Abe government is telling families and children that they have to return to Fukushima or their subsidy will be cut. The are economically … Continued 6:30 pm Book Discussion: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age @ UC Labor Center Book Discussion: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age @ UC Labor Center Jan 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets “Meaningful change can only happen with organizing that puts ordinary people at the center of their own struggle: there are no shortcuts to lasting social change.” A scholar and longtime organizer in the student, environmental and labor movements, McAlevey makes a compelling case that the gains of the two most successful social movements–labor and civil rights–gained their power from mass organizing, a strategy today’s progressives have mostly abandoned in favor of shallow mobilization or advocacy. In order to win, progressive movements need strong unions built from bottom-up organizing strategies that … Continued	5:30 pm No to SFPD Violence @ Minnie & Lovie Ward Recreational Center No to SFPD Violence @ Minnie & Lovie Ward Recreational Center Jan 12 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Come out to support the family of Sean Moore, who survived shooting by SFPD on January 6, 2017. Police need to use mental health professionals and their deescalation training instead of guns. The town hall is used to placate community members concerned about police violence and to promote the myth that additional weapons such as tasers would prevent future abuses of power. In fact, tasers kill. Announcement of Town Hall from Ingleside Police Station http://inglesidepolicestation.blogspot.com/2017/01/jan-6-2017.html Town Hall Meeting A town hall meeting will be held on Thursday, January 12, 2017 … Continued 7:00 pm Screening of: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Screening of: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall Jan 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets This “Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits” is Greg Palast’s documentary about steering an election through calculated racist disenfranchisement. Beginning with the 2000 election and continuing to the 2016 campaign, Palast interviews those who’ve been victimized, identifies schemes and villains, and presents the case for powerful corruption of the election system in the United States. Sponsored by the BFUU Social Justice Ctee as part of our Conscientious Projector series. Wheelchair accessible.62193		11:00 am Clear Your Criminal Background – Clean Slate Workshop @ Cosmopolitan Baptist Church Clear Your Criminal Background – Clean Slate Workshop @ Cosmopolitan Baptist Church Jan 14 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Pray 4 Oakland has partnered with the Alameda County Public Defender’s Office & Clean Slate Program as well as America Works Inc. to help community members clean their criminal records & obtain jobs! We have the ability to assist residents reduce convictions, clear some criminal records, terminate probation early, seal juvenile records and more! America Works Inc.specializes in job placement for “hard to employ” individuals. East Bay Works will be present to speak about their job opportunities for people with criminal records/backgrounds. The Traffic Amnesty program will be closing in … Continued 12:00 pm People Get Ready: Building Resistance in the Trump Era @ Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley People Get Ready: Building Resistance in the Trump Era @ Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Jan 14 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets The People Get Ready conference is just a week away! We hope this conference will be an empowering place for organizers and activists to think together to deepen our understanding of the political moment and ways to struggle for shifts in power. SESSIONS: Clampdown: Understanding Fascism, Imperialism, and White Supremacy Trying Times: Understanding the Impacts of Neoliberalism under Trump Are You Going to Go My Way?: Considering Alliances, Fronts, and other Left Formations Rocksteady: Exploring the Radical Potential of Community Defense Many Rivers to Cross: Navigating Opportunities and Tensions between … 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.