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It is not widely recognized that Dr. King was an open socialist who stated that: “There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.” Reading the speech will take about an hour, leaving time for open discussion. … Continued 3:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 26 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 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 the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM … Continued 6:30 pm Free Dinner & Movie Discussion Night: ‘Her’ @ It's Your Move Free Dinner & Movie Discussion Night: ‘Her’ @ It's Your Move Jan 26 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Oakland Greens (OGP) look forward to seeing you at the start of this year’s “Free Dinner & Movie Discussion Night” with MC and producer Vicente Cruz on the “Last Sundays” of every month from January through October. January 26, 2020 will screen the movie “Her” (2013) — a provocative romantic drama film written, directed, and produced by Spike Jonze. The film follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), who is an artificially intelligent virtual assistant personified through a female voice. As … Continued	10:00 am Healthy California for All Commission @ East End Complex Auditorium Healthy California for All Commission @ East End Complex Auditorium Jan 27 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets The first public meeting Links to the agenda and press release Healthy California Now has chartered a bus from the Bay Area with a capacity of 56 people, first-come, first-served. They will be providing lunches to the first 100 people to register. If you do not need the charter bus and are able to carpool, please do so and organize among your colleagues to maximize efficiency. Please RSVP and find more information here. For people who cannot join us in Sacramento there is a teleconference option: Dial-In 877-692-8957; Participant Code: … Continued 3:00 pm Rally Against Mass Evictions Rally Against Mass Evictions Jan 27 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Fred Craves is the owner of Gamechanger LLC. For over a year, he and his lackeys, The Law offices of Alan J horowitz and “the Evictors” have been harrassing The West Oakland Wood St community, all in attempt to develop the land beneath their feet. Join The United Front Against Displacement and The West Oakland Wood St Community in a Rally against the Law offices of Alan J Horowitz. These law offices call themselves “The Evictors” and specialize in helping landlords evict working people. The Billionaire Fred Craves is using … Continued	7:00 pm A Conversation about Consent: Addressing Intimate Partner Surveillance @ Hyatt Regency A Conversation about Consent: Addressing Intimate Partner Surveillance @ Hyatt Regency Jan 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets At USENIX’s Enigma 2020 Conference, please join the Coalition Against Stalkerware for a conversation about how online tools can perpetuate harassment, stalking, abuse, and violence. And, most importantly, the role of Silicon Valley technologists and companies in addressing the intimate partner threat model. Agenda: Hosted: David Ruiz, Online Privacy Writer, (Malwarebytes) Lightning Talk: What’s at Stake ~ Corbin Streett, MSW, Technology Safety Specialist, Safety Net Project, National Network to End Domestic Violence Panel Discussion: Fighting digitally-enabled Intimate Partner Abuse Kim Zetter, award-winning investigative journalist, and author of “Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch … Continued	6:30 pm The Organizer’s Toolbox: How to give a great political speech @ Niebyl Proctor Library The Organizer’s Toolbox: How to give a great political speech @ Niebyl Proctor Library Jan 29 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets In this training for DSA organizers, we will explore our personal stories together, and discover how they inform and support our political movement. Personal stories are important because they allow us to identify with each others experiences, motivate us to fight for common aims and ultimately build solidarity. Adapted from Marshall Ganz’s “Public Narrative,” this training will challenge you to put aside the logical reasons why we need to win a better world and rather consider the emotional & personal reasons. We’ll talk about what makes a story compelling and … Continued 7:00 pm East Oakland Collective General Meeting @ Mills College Faculty Lounge, on Post Road inside campus East Oakland Collective General Meeting @ Mills College Faculty Lounge, on Post Road inside campus Jan 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets EOC General Body Meeting Join us for our monthly general body meetings to learn more about us, pressing topics/issues in East Oakland and how you can take action! The East Oakland Collective (EOC) is a member-based community organizing group invested in serving the communities of deep East Oakland by working towards racial and economic equity. With programming in civic engagement and leadership, economic empowerment and homeless services and solutions, we help amplify underserved communities from the ground up. We are committed to driving impact in the landscape, politics and economic climate … Continued 7:00 pm The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth @ City Lights The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth @ City Lights Jan 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Fake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives? Despite Samuel Woolley’s warnings as early as 2013, the problem of online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Woolley shows in this urgent book, it may pale in comparison to what’s to come: human-like automated voice systems, machine learning, “deepfake” AI-edited videos and images, interactive memes, virtual reality, and more. In stories both deeply researched and compellingly … Continued 7:30 pm MONEY FOR AIDS, NOT WAR @ Quezada Center MONEY FOR AIDS, NOT WAR @ Quezada Center Jan 29 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Veterans of the “Money for AIDS, Not for War” movement invite you to a lecture to discuss direct action as well as connections between war spending and social crises. This ia a Shaping San Francisco lecture. For details, call 415-863-9977. 67648	5:30 pm The ProDemocracy Project: Improving Public Comment @ Tara Pitman Library, South Berkeley The ProDemocracy Project: Improving Public Comment @ Tara Pitman Library, South Berkeley Jan 30 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets The number of social justice movements is growing That means there are more people relying on “Public Comment” at City Council meetings. Why do people rely on “Public Comment”? Because they are locked out of policy-making ! “Public comment” is a form of non-participation, A form of silencing of the people###### The rules of council need to be changed so that: 1. those who will be affected by a policy get to participate in writing and deciding the policy 2. the council stops silencing people with its procedures. … Continued 6:00 pm East Oakland SuSu Lending Circle Program Orientation @ East Oakland Collective East Oakland SuSu Lending Circle Program Orientation @ East Oakland Collective Jan 30 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Do you have a goal to clear debt, start a business, and/or enhance your quality of life? Do you face barriers to loans from traditional financial institutions? Want to improve your credit score? Ever heard of a lending circle? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then the East Oakland SuSu Lending Circle Program is just for you! Join us for an orientation to learn exactly how East Oakland SuSu Lending Circle Program works. Light refreshments provided. Ages 18+ welcome. *Facilities are wheelchair accessible. RSVP>>. ABOUT The East Oakland SuSu … Continued 6:00 pm Sneak Preview: ‘We Cried Power’ documentary @ SEIU Local 1000 Sneak Preview: ‘We Cried Power’ documentary @ SEIU Local 1000 Jan 30 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets About the film: “The documentary We Cried Power is an intimate account of a “season of resistance,” told through his eyes and the mothers, veterans, preachers, and students who are the voices and founding members of this new “fusion” movement. The film bears witness to the profound process by which those without power decide not to accept their powerlessness. Instead, they claim – through protest, dance, song, and poems, through testimony and tears – their birthright: to live decent lives in the United States of America.” Dara Kell, dir. (USA, … Continued 6:30 pm Why the rich are different to you and me: they pay fewer taxes. @ David Brower Center Why the rich are different to you and me: they pay fewer taxes. @ David Brower Center Jan 30 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination with a key policy plank: a new federal wealth tax. The details of the two plans differ, but they share an intellectual heritage: both campaigns consulted with and based their plans largely on the work of two UC Berkeley economics professors, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. At our next Uncharted Evening Ideas Fest on Jan. 30, we have Saez (left) in conversation with Tasneem Raja, Editor-in-Chief of our new Oakland newsroom, on “Why the rich are different to you and me: … Continued 7:00 pm Radical Reading Group @ Omni Commons Radical Reading Group @ Omni Commons Jan 30 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets An informal discussion of Nick Estes’ book Our History is the Future about the history of indigenous resistance to capitalism and colonialism leading up to and including the Standing Rock #NoDAPL movement. This will be an ongoing reading series.67647		2:00 pm The Haitian Revolution @ The Starry Plough The Haitian Revolution @ The Starry Plough Feb 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Haitian Revolution of 1804. The imp-act of the Haitian revolution was immeasurable – to the slave system, anti-imperial struggles, France and the US. To other slave societies it became an example of what could be accomplished and a source of hope. Speakers will be Pierre Labossiere and Gerald Smith.67624 7:00 pm Climate Disruption, Migration, and the Rise of Walls @ South Berkeley Senior Center Climate Disruption, Migration, and the Rise of Walls @ South Berkeley Senior Center Feb 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Climate disruption is driving tens of millions of people from their homes every year. In response to this massive forced migration, governments all over the world have intensified their construction and expansion of border walls along with their criminalization of immigrants. And the U.S. only leads the charge in these dehumanizing policies. Join us to discuss these important issues with Todd Miller, journalist and author of Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World (2019) and Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (2017). … Continued

Week of January 26

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.