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The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act upholds landlord interests, and – in tandem … Continued 12:00 pm This Is America : A March Against Gentrification @ Lake Merritt, Cleveland Cascade This Is America : A March Against Gentrification @ Lake Merritt, Cleveland Cascade Jul 1 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Alena Museum presents artist activism event on gentrification. We will gather the creative voices and collective power of our community and allies to demonstrate and speak out against the private investors, developers, and politicians who are set out to broaden the gap of wealth at the expense of the people. We will share with you our plans moving forward and how the community can be involved in that process. Displacing the community will not be a silent fight. Stand up for you, your family, your neighbors, and your community as … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 1 @ 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 7:00 pm Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Jul 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We document current events, make films together, steward an editing suite and share a film equipment library. We also host film screenings, often with local directors, and put on an annual short film festival for independent Bay Area filmmakers. Our goal is to make the digital filmmaking accessible – no overpriced college degree or certificate program required! We are also a good group to reach out to if you’d like to screen a film at the Omni. We can be reached at liberatedlens@lists.riseup.net We usually meet in the basement, unless … Continued	5:30 pm Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland General Meeting @ Xolo, back courtyard Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland General Meeting @ Xolo, back courtyard Jul 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland was formed by members of Commonomics and Strike Debt Bay Area in August, 2016. We pressure the Oakland City Council to pass enabling legislation that will create and fund a public bank for Oakland. Our overarching goal is to see a public bank flourish in Oakland while it helps the community, thereby providing an example for other jurisdictions wishing to rid themselves of their dependence on Wall Street banks. We are meeting regularly, have dozens of people on our mailing list in support of our goals (to join … Continued 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Jul 2 @ 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 7:00 pm Tenant And Neighborhood Council (TANC) Meeting @ Omni Commons Tenant And Neighborhood Council (TANC) Meeting @ Omni Commons Jul 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Let’s get organized against the housing market. Come through! ———- We are a group of Bay Area tenants who are fed up with rising rents, evictions, and harassment at the hands of landlords. We are fed up with our neighbors having no option but to live unsheltered and at constant risk of police harassment. We want to stop landlords, developers, and cops from looting our communities. A council is a group of tenants who work together to wield collective power against a shared landlord in order to improve their conditions. … Continued	5:30 pm People’s Assembly on Red/Black Liberation @ E14 Gallery People’s Assembly on Red/Black Liberation @ E14 Gallery Jul 3 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets We are hosting People’s Assemblies on everything from public safety to education. Together we will imagine an Oakland with housing security, true public safety, sanctuary for all, and create a plan to get us there. This People’s Assembly will focus on Native communities and the struggle for Native sovereignty and land reclamation. Join us to talk about Red/Black Liberation on the day before the Farce of July.64822	7:30 pm Food Not Bombs Monthly Meeting @ Longhaul Food Not Bombs Monthly Meeting @ Longhaul Jul 4 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets For 22 years East Bay Food Not Bombs has been providing free food to the public in People’s Park and various locations in Oakland, AND bringing food to protests and encampments. Our message: you’re not poor and homeless because you suck, it’s because a sick society prioritizes war and greed over basic human needs. Free soup for the Revolution!64684		11:00 am Final Signature Gathering for ‘Our City Our Home’ – San Francisco Final Signature Gathering for ‘Our City Our Home’ – San Francisco Jul 6 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets This is it. Saturday, July 7 is the FINAL DAY we have to collect enough signatures to get Our City Our Home on the ballot. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Our City Our Home: This measure would provide $300 million of resources for affordable housing, mental health care and other services needed to house our homeless residents and protect all those who are vulnerable to eviction and displacement. We can finally make homelessness as we know it a thing of the past in San Francisco, and be … Continued 5:00 pm Oakland First Friday Oakland First Friday Jul 6 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Street Fair. Oakland First Fridays brings you “Art Of D.I.Y.,” When we think about Independence Day what usually comes to mind is freedom, but we rarely talk about the formation of something new. Banding together, the United States was a do-it-yourself movement. You can be free, but what are you doing with your freedom? As we reflect on independence this month, we are reminded of all the artists who make works from scratch, highlighting those who do-it-themselves.64855 5:15 pm Occupella Sing Along – Stand with the Vulnerable @ Fruitvale Bart Station Plaza Occupella Sing Along – Stand with the Vulnerable @ Fruitvale Bart Station Plaza Jul 6 @ 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets Occupella will be having a Black Lives Matter/Stand With the Vulnerable sing at Fruitvale BART Friday, July 6th from 5:15-6:15.64846 7:00 pm Disposable-Free Dining: How Do We Get There? @ Ed Roberts Campus Disposable-Free Dining: How Do We Get There? @ Ed Roberts Campus Jul 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our streets, shores, and waterways are littered with single-use disposable foodware, at great cost. China will no longer accept the dirty, disposable foodware that we collect, either. At the panel event, experts will share what cities, corporations, and businesses are doing to move toward Disposable-Free Dining. Speakers include: What Corporations are doing (Conrad MacKerron, As You Sow) What Cities and Countries are doing, policy-wise (TBD) What Businesses are doing (Samantha Sommer, ReThink Disposable) The Recycling Challenges of disposable foodware (Martin Bourque, Ecology Center For more event information: https://ecoctr.org/disposablefreedining64866	1:30 pm San Francisco Mime Troupe: Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical @ Cedar Rose Park San Francisco Mime Troupe: Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical @ Cedar Rose Park Jul 7 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets It’s Election Night 2018 and Bob swears she’ll never vote again. A lifetime of fading fortunes made this former Obama voter take a chance on the new guy promising change-Donald J. Trump. But it’s two years into his presidency and Bob’s still waiting to start winning. Tonight she’s telling everyone in her small-town bar that all politicians are liars, the system is rigged, and nothing’s ever gonna change. Along comes a mysterious stranger with an intriguing offer. He’ll show her an America where working people come together to demand … Continued 2:00 pm Socialist Cuba: Working Class Perspectives @ Starry Plough Socialist Cuba: Working Class Perspectives @ Starry Plough Jul 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Peace and Freedom Party presents Socialist Cuba Working Class Perspectives A product of the first socialist revolution in the Americas, the Republic of Cuba is surrounded by many myths, but what is the reality? To answer this question, members of the Bay Area Black Worker Center toured Cuba earlier this year and will give us a Report-Back. Speakers include: justin king, Jessica Travenia, Cloudell Douglas, and Gerald Smith FREE! (Please buy food & drink at the Pub.) FREE! This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the … Continued

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.