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All-day	Occupy Silicon Valley @ The Internet Occupy Silicon Valley @ The Internet Sep 17 all-day Tickets AN ONLINE OCCUPATION [OR A DIGITAL VACANCY] WE SHUT DOWN BIG TECH FOR A DAY Big Tech competes for one thing: our attention. They exploit our basic human instincts in the pursuit of unprecedented financial and cultural control. Facebook claims to connect us, but promotes individualism to its most divisive extreme. Amazon endorses endless consumption, prodding people to milk mother earth for all she’s worth. Apple infiltrates every strata of our lives, with the HomePod to the Apple Watch, ensuring its role in everything we do. Google outsources our desires, … Continued
12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 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 7:00 pm Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons Sep 16 @ 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 usually meet in the basement, unless otherwise noted. ~ Liberated Lens ~65048		7:00 pm Socialist Night School: What Exactly Is Neoliberalism? @ East Bay Community Space Socialist Night School: What Exactly Is Neoliberalism? @ East Bay Community Space Sep 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Over the past few years the term “neoliberalism” has become ubiquitous. But what is it exactly? Is it an ideology that espouses “free markets,” a political project to crush the labor movement, or an economic era of globalization and financialization? What is the relationship of neoliberalism to capitalism itself? How can democratic socialists best fight back against neoliberalism? Please join us as we grapple with these questions and many others! Required Readings See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members. RSVP 65080	6:00 pm Punks With Lunch Punks With Lunch Sep 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets West Oakland Punks with Lunch is a guerilla not-for-profit Harm reduction outreach organization providing food and other necessities to people experiencing homelessness. Anyone and everyone is welcome to volunteer with us! We just ask a few simple guidelines to keep PWL running smoothly. Please come wearing closed toed shoes and dressed appropriately for the weather. We ask that you show up with a non-judgemental, come as you are attitude. Be ready to work hard and have fun! Wednesday: Mobile Outreach Meet at: 36th and MLK … Continued 7:30 pm APTP General Membership Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance APTP General Membership Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance Sep 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets APTP meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. For this meeting, the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective will present information about their work and how they are building and supporting TJ. The presentation will talk about TJ and what it is, covering some of the core concepts of TJ. For those who would like to learn more, attendees will be invited to a more in-depth TJ Intro later in the fall, Here are links to the BATJC website: https://batjc.wordpress.com and here is an intro from an interview with BATJC: … Continued	7:00 pm Oil Pipelines Connecting Resistance: Panel Discussion Oil Pipelines Connecting Resistance: Panel Discussion Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Info/RSVP Join Idle No More SF Bay, with the support of Stand, for Oil Pipelines Connecting Resistance: Extraction, Pipelines, and Refineries. This will be a powerful discussion about how resistance to oil pipelines, oil tankers, and refinery expansions connects frontline communities in Canada and the US who are rising to stop climate change. Moderator Isabella Zizi member of Idle No More SF Bay and organizer with Stand Panelists Charlene Aleck, indigenous leader who holds the Sacred Trust Initiative portfolio and works with the STI team to oppose the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline … Continued		10:00 am Bystander Training: Rapid Response to ICE @ Downtown Oakland Library Bystander Training: Rapid Response to ICE @ Downtown Oakland Library Sep 22 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Hey #Oakland SAVE THE DATE for training on rapid response to ICE and police terror #endpoliceterror #endwhitesupremacy pic.twitter.com/vuOtMJrqFc— impostor hoopoe (@thehoopoe) September 6, 2018 65058 2:00 pm Call Me Phaedra: The Life & Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender @ African American Museum & Library Call Me Phaedra: The Life & Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender @ African American Museum & Library Sep 22 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Judge and author Lise Pearlman brings to AAMLO her well-researched book on prisoner rights activist and movement lawyer Fay Stender. Stender achieved amazing legal successes in criminal defense and prison reform, known for defending both Black Panther Party leader Huey Newton and revolutionary prisoner George Jackson, before she ultimately refocused with similar zeal on feminist and lesbian rights.65024 4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Omni Commons Sep 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s projects! Presenting debt and inequality related topics at forums, workshops and in radio productions. Relieving Medical Debt through … Continued 5:00 pm First Aid and Trauma Response Training @ Joyce Gordon Gallery First Aid and Trauma Response Training @ Joyce Gordon Gallery Sep 22 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets 65076

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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.