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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 10:30 am  Town Hall Meeting on Hong Kong @ Niebyl Proctor Library  Town Hall Meeting on Hong Kong @ Niebyl Proctor Library Dec 1 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library Town Hall Meeting on Hong Kong (China) Sen Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep Jim McGovern (D-MA) are sponsoring the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019,” but many believe that the U.S. should not be interfering in the internal affairs of China. After a brief introduction by ICSS member Eugene E Ruyle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cal State Long Beach, and perhaps a few additional speakers, we will have an open discussion of the issue with all opinions … Continued	8:30 am Pack the 9th Circuit! Stop Trump’s Asylum Ban @ US Ninth Circuit, Courtroom 1, 3rd Floor, Rm 338 Pack the 9th Circuit! Stop Trump’s Asylum Ban @ US Ninth Circuit, Courtroom 1, 3rd Floor, Rm 338 Dec 2 @ 8:30 am – 11:00 am Tickets Please spread the word and join us on Monday in San Francisco at the 9th Circuit Court, which will hear arguments in our case to block Trump’s asylum transit ban. Repeatedly in recent months, Bay Area community members have packed federal courts to oppose Trump’s attempts to block people from seeking protection in the U.S. We hope you’ll join us again. WHEN: Plan to arrive before 9am, when the judges begin proceedings for the morning. Let’s gather afterward in solidarity as well. After multiple victories to halt the new rule, … Continued	6:30 pm No Coal Ordinance – Richmond City Council @ Richmond City Council No Coal Ordinance – Richmond City Council @ Richmond City Council Dec 3 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets This is it! Join us when the Richmond City Council will finally vote on the Richmond Coal Ordinance. The ordinance would phase out the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke (pet coke) over a three year period. Doors open at 6:00 PM. We expect many people to show up in opposition, as happened at the Planning Commission hearing, so get there early. Faced with a rowdy show of force, the commission voted to delay approval of the ordinance. We need to show the council members that there are even … Continued	11:00 am Pop Up Care Village @ Oscar Grant Plaza Pop Up Care Village @ Oscar Grant Plaza Dec 4 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Oakland – For the unhoused neighbors and residents who are needing services in Oakland, there will be a “Pop Up Care Village” on Wednesday, December 4, 2019, from 11:00AM to 3:00PM that will be delivering mobile hygene & critical services to those who are in need. The Pop Up Care Village includes free food, clothing, showers, haircuts, acupuncture, art & music, animal care, mental health services, social services, medical services, legal aid, and harm reduction.67455 5:00 pm Stop Criminalizing Homelessness: Special Oakland City Council Life Enrichment Committee @ Oakland City Hall Stop Criminalizing Homelessness: Special Oakland City Council Life Enrichment Committee @ Oakland City Hall Dec 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets The Life enrichment committee has agreed to host a special meeting to focus on homelessness that will include voices and reflect the work of unhoused leaders and advocates in the trenches day in day out. we will breaking down the roots and scope of crisis, evaluate the current approaches and present real, cost effective solutions, new approaches to service providing, and crisis informed models of rapid rehousing. we are hoping the audit of all things related to homeless will also be presented at this meeting. Prior to 2017, Oakland City … Continued 5:30 pm 20th Anniversary of the Shutdown of the World World Trade Organization (WTO) @ Greenlining Institute 20th Anniversary of the Shutdown of the World World Trade Organization (WTO) @ Greenlining Institute Dec 4 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets On November 30, 1999, more than 40,000 activists spanning organized labor, climate justice, migrant justice, indigenous organizing, the peace movement, and the global justice movement, joined forces to disrupt the trade negotiations scheduled to take place at the WTO conference in Seattle. Inspired by mass mobilizations across Asia, Africa, and Latin America against neoliberal policies developed by the WTO and similar financial institutions, the takeover of downtown Seattle re-energized the fight against neoliberalism and strengthened international alliances. Twenty years later, in the context of an intensified neoliberal offensive by the … Continued 7:00 pm Black Software: The Internet, Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter @ City Lights Bookstore Black Software: The Internet, Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter @ City Lights Bookstore Dec 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Black Software: The Internet, Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter Charlton D. McIlwain in conversation with E. David Ellington Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today’s digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know. In fact, it spans nearly five decades and involves a varied group of engineers, entrepreneurs, hobbyists, journalists, and activists. But this is a … Continued 7:00 pm Legacy of Past and Present Anti-War Actions: Strategies to Consider for the Future @ UC Berkeley, Barrows Hall 126 Legacy of Past and Present Anti-War Actions: Strategies to Consider for the Future @ UC Berkeley, Barrows Hall 126 Dec 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets LEGACY OF PAST AND PRESENT ANTI-WAR ACTIONS: STRATEGIES TO CONSIDER FOR THE FUTURE . Wednesday, December 4, 2019 7-9 pm UC Berkeley, Barrows Hall 126 . . David Miller In October, 1965, David Miller, a Catholic pacifist affiliated with the Catholic Worker movement, was the first publicly to burn his draft card after the new law against this action went into effect. He spent 2 years in prison as a result, which ignited a storm of draft card burnings in response . Edward Hasbrouck (Resisters.info) One of millions … Continued 7:30 pm Seattle/WTO Shutdown: 20th Anniversary @ Quezada Center Seattle/WTO Shutdown: 20th Anniversary @ Quezada Center Dec 4 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets On November 30, 1999 the World Trade Organization was prevented from meeting in Seattle by unprecedented phalanxes of self-organized protesters who filled the streets, tied up key intersections, blockaded the convention center, and used video and the internet in ways they’d never been used before. Bay Area activists were in the middle of it all, and veterans of that experience will revisit that moment to help us rethink this moment. With Anuradha Mittal, David Solnit, Eddie Yuen, and Starhawk. 67342	6:00 pm Art-Build with Artist David Solnit, CA Poor People’s Campaign @ Bridge Storage and Art Space Art-Build with Artist David Solnit, CA Poor People’s Campaign @ Bridge Storage and Art Space Dec 5 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Californians will organize the San Francisco tour stop as part of this nine-month, 22-state ‘We Must Do MORE Tour: Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering, Educating’; building towards a Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington on June 20th, 2020. — Richmond, California— Join the Poor People’s Campaign for Art-Build featuring local Bay Area artist David Solnit at David Solnit’s studio. At the Art- Build community members will create colorful banners and signs for our upcoming We Must Do MORE Tour: Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering, Educating visit in Oakland and San Francisco … Continued 7:30 pm SILVIA FEDERICI: Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church SILVIA FEDERICI: Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church Dec 5 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Hosted by Sasha Lilley “Silvia Federici’s new book offers a brilliant analysis and forceful denunciation of the violence directed toward women and their communities. Her focus moves between women criminalized as witches both at the dawn of capitalism and in contemporary globalization.” —Massimo DeAngelis, Professor of Political Economy, University of East London We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside a global expansion of capitalism. In this new work, revisiting some of the main themes of Caliban … Continued	11:00 am Moms 4 Housing – Fight the Eviction Notice! Moms 4 Housing – Fight the Eviction Notice! Dec 6 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets We just received an eviction notice from #Wedgewood. They’d rather see #MomsHouse sit empty than let our kids be safely housed there.We won't go without a fight. Join us TOMORROW, Friday 11 AM at 2928 Magnolia St to learn about our next moves and how you can help.— Moms 4 Housing (@moms4housing) December 5, 2019 Text “Save Moms House” to (510) 800-7810 to join the text alert system so you can throw down! #SaveMomsHouse #EvictTheSpeculators67475 5:00 pm Latin America in Rebellion: What’s Next for Chile and Colombia? @ PLACE Latin America in Rebellion: What’s Next for Chile and Colombia? @ PLACE Dec 6 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Around the world, people are rising up and mobilizing in record numbers against repressive regimes, for democratic rights, and rebelling against the neoliberal austerity measures implemented during the ongoing crises of capitalism. The Chilean rebellion began when young people protested against a public transportation fare, which grew into a general strike on October 24th and 25th coalescing all the accumulated grievances against the government, and later into periods of generalized insurrection. These mass demonstrations have been met by brutal repression. In Colombia on November 21, there was an historic national … Continued 6:00 pm From Democracy to Freedom @ Omni Commons From Democracy to Freedom @ Omni Commons Dec 6 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Democracy is the most universal political ideal of our time. From the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to Occupy Wall Street and the autonomous region of Rojava, practically every government and popular movement calls itself democratic. Today, the far right has also appropriated the rhetoric of direct democracy, while a wave of populism has swept demagogues like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro into power. What is democracy, precisely? How does the rhetoric of democracy serve various agendas? Is there a difference between democracy and self-determination? Are there other ways … Continued 7:00 pm Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now @ East Bay Book Sellers Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now @ East Bay Book Sellers Dec 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Angry about abortion bans? Ready to fight for access without apology?Join @JennyBrownLN of Birth Strike at the Bay Area book launch for Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now! Join us this Friday w/ @meaganmday of @jacobinmag and Allie L. of EBDSA at @EB_Booksellers! 🌹📚 pic.twitter.com/XCR51yajiL— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) December 2, 2019 67466	11:00 am East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest 2019 @ Omni Commons East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest 2019 @ Omni Commons Dec 7 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets The East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest is back at the Omni Commons in Oakland for it’s tenth anniversary! Vendor list and workshops TBA!67357 3:00 pm BASTARD (Anarchist) Conference 2019 @ Longhaul BASTARD (Anarchist) Conference 2019 @ Longhaul Dec 7 @ 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets For nearly twenty years participants in the Berkeley Anarchist Study Group have been organizing the BASTARD Conference: afternoons of presentations & conversations about the beautiful idea of anarchy. This year our presenters are: – Wolfi Landstreicher (Apio Ludd) – Big Katt – Jason McQuinn – Nev Ferox – John Henri Nolette Saturday December 7th 3pm-9pm The Long Haul 3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley Free, though donations for The Long Haul are GREATLY appreciated No meal break this year, instead we’re hoping to do a potlatch! bring something tasty to share in … Continued 4:00 pm Green Strategy: The Path to Fundamental Transformation. @ Niebyl Proctor Library Green Strategy: The Path to Fundamental Transformation. @ Niebyl Proctor Library Dec 7 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets 67471

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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.