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FREE – but hat will be passed for donations to NPML About Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library A … Continued 2:00 pm Potluck and BBQ at #HousingAndDignityVillage @ Housing and Dignity Village Potluck and BBQ at #HousingAndDignityVillage @ Housing and Dignity Village Oct 28 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Tomorrow, Sun 10/28 at 2PM, the #HousingAndDignityVillage is hosting a Community BBQ + Potluck at Edes Ave & Elmhurst Ave! Join us in building community + solidarity b/t housed & unhoused folks and discussing communal, collaborative, caring solutions for houselessness epidemic pic.twitter.com/pIXM8TkXJa— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) October 28, 2018 65231 6:30 pm Oakland Greens: Free Dinner and a Movie @ It's Your Move Games Oakland Greens: Free Dinner and a Movie @ It's Your Move Games Oct 28 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Dinner: 6:30 PM Movie: 7:30 PM64475 6:30 pm Whither China and humanity? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Whither China and humanity? @ Niebyl Proctor Library Oct 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Striking to Survive records workers’ views of their ongoing strikes in Pearl River Delta. There is also a new movement of idealistic party youth in China for who are looking to Marxism to align with workers’ own aspirations. They have been rounded up by the party-state machine. What future comes from “handling contradictions among the people” according to the “thought of Mao” or now the “thought of Xi Jinping”? What is Marx’s philosophy of liberation in distinction from the party-state? How does it speak to the new movements in China and … Continued 8:00 pm 2018 World Conference Against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs! @ BFUU 2018 World Conference Against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs! @ BFUU Oct 28 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Don’t miss this riveting report on the state of the world and what’s being done to back away from the nuclear brink. A Slide Show & Talk by John Steinbach, Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area Edging toward nuclear war, the world remains balanced precariously on the knife edge of nuclear annihilation. Sponsored by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee.65190	3:00 pm Rally to Support Youth Suing over Climate @ Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Rally to Support Youth Suing over Climate @ Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Oct 29 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Rally to support the #youthvgov plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States. They are suing the US government for knowingly violating their constitutional rights for over 50 years by contributing to climate change. When their trial comes to federal court in Eugene, OR, on October 29, they will march into court to demand a science-based National Climate Recovery Plan. This plan would end the reign of fossil fuels and require the United States government to do its part to stop dangerous climate change for young people and all future generations. Join the rally … Continued 6:30 pm Revisiting Reparations @ Sierra Club Revisiting Reparations @ Sierra Club Oct 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets What are the origins of the racial wealth gap and how can we leverage wealth to undermine, rather than support, the structures of white supremacy? SURJ’s Fundraising Committee will provide historical context, map the limitations of existing institutional financial support for racial justice, and engage participants to rethink their own access to wealth, networks, and other resources in an effort to develop a “reparations mindset.” All proceeds go to support one or more of our partner organizations led by people of color.65211	9:30 am Teach-in on Voting and Housing Insecurity @ Student Center, Laney College Teach-in on Voting and Housing Insecurity @ Student Center, Laney College Oct 30 @ 9:30 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Laney College’s Poor Peoples Campaign Teach-In Committee is hosting a teach-in. Data suggests that at least 14 percent of students at Peralta community colleges are homeless. The number of those who worry about housing stability each month is even higher. The teach-in will discuss: What’s the role of our government in meeting the basic needs of the people, such as housing? Does voting make a difference? The Teach-In is co-sponsored by the Poor Peoples Campaign Teach-In Committee, the Women’s Economic Agenda Project, Associated Students of Laney College (ASLC), and the … Continued 7:00 pm Socialist Night School: The Assault on Education @ East Bay Community Space Socialist Night School: The Assault on Education @ East Bay Community Space Oct 30 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets We’re still finalizing this course. Required Readings Additional details and readings will be added shortly. 65141		5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza Nov 1 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission Agenda: 4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – discussion with staff and take action to adopt sequence of impact analysis and use policy writing for existing Fire Department equipment 5. 5:20pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Unapproved Use of UAV by OPD during exigent circumstances – presentation of staff report and take possible action 6. 5:30pm: Review and discuss Federal Task Force MOU with Drug Enforcement Agency – take possible action 7. 5:50pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Cell Site Simulator Impact Analysis and draft Use Policy – review … Continued 7:00 pm Cuba Report-back with Cindy Sheehan @ BFUU Cuba Report-back with Cindy Sheehan @ BFUU Nov 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Cindy Sheehan and gg Winter have a slide presentation and report from their recent trip to Cuba, including a celebration with four of the released Cuban 5 where Cindy was honored for her work in helping get them released. It was an amazing musical and dancing program put on for her and our group. Nice pictures of the occasion, and many others of the trip will be shown. Please attend and enjoy. Sponsored by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Social Justice Committee. For occasional email notices of peace/eco/social justice … Continued 7:30 pm From the Good War to the Forever War @ Pegasus Bookstore - Solano Ave From the Good War to the Forever War @ Pegasus Bookstore - Solano Ave Nov 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Renowned historian H. Bruce Franklin discusses Crash Course: From the Good War to he Forever War Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America’s victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States, forcing the nation into a disastrous war in Korea. But once he joined the U.S. Air Force and began flying top-secret missions as a navigator and intelligence officer, what … Continued	3:30 pm MisdeamenorLand: Criminal Courts and Social Control in the Age of Broken Windows Policing @ Selznick Seminar Room MisdeamenorLand: Criminal Courts and Social Control in the Age of Broken Windows Policing @ Selznick Seminar Room Nov 2 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets CSLS Book Event with Issa Kohler-Hausmann on Fri., Nov. 2 from 2-3:30p (reception to follow) pic.twitter.com/Pxz8D2x8R9— CSLS at UC Berkeley (@CSLSatBerkeley) October 5, 2018 65144	10:00 am Donations Dropoff for Victims of Fire at The Village @ Omni Commons Donations Dropoff for Victims of Fire at The Village @ Omni Commons Nov 3 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Donations for the 13 people directly impacted by the encampment fire @ e12th & 23rd can be dropped at Omni Commons on Saturday and Sunday, 11/3 and 4, from 10 am-3 pm.Contact T (512) 663-8871 if you have stuff to drop but need to find another time. https://t.co/TdhBWtOklV— ellie hwa (@spectralsex) November 2, 2018 65249 11:00 am Daniela’s New Home Shelter Rebuild and Community Potluck Daniela’s New Home Shelter Rebuild and Community Potluck Nov 3 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Come help us rebuild Daniela’s home. No more leaky roof for her Monica her mom age 43 and her younger brother. In fine barn raising fashion we will also be rebuilding several shelters for her unhoused neighbors. 11 am Opening remarks by encampment resident and project cooridinator Derrick Soo 1pm Community potluck lunch. Please bring food to share 2 – 5 pm finish rebuilding shelters65206 2:00 pm Socialism with Chinese Characteristics @ Starry Plough Socialism with Chinese Characteristics @ Starry Plough Nov 3 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Suds, Snacks, & Socialism at the Starry Plough The Peace and Freedom Party presents Socialism with Chinese Characteristics In 1850, in an essay on Chinese Socialism, Karl Marx wrote: It may well be that Chinese socialism is related to European socialism just as Chinese philosophy is related to Hegelian philosophy. But it is an amusing fact that the oldest and most unshattered Empire on this earth has been pushed, in eight years, by the cotton ball of the English bourgeois toward the brink of a social upheaval that must have … Continued 5:30 pm Ecumenical Peace Institute Autumn Gathering @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Ecumenical Peace Institute Autumn Gathering @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Nov 3 @ 5:30 pm – 8:45 pm Tickets Zahra Billoo on Racisim, Islamophobia and Empire. She is a civil rights attorney and the ED of the SF Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Food Not Bombs will prepare a delicious vegetarian dinner.65174

Week of October 28

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.