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Our speakers represent … Continued 11:30 am Press Conference: Commit to Defund the Police @ Eve's Waterfront Press Conference: Commit to Defund the Police @ Eve's Waterfront Jun 28 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Press Conference: In Midst of Mounting Pressure and Day of Action, Oakland Council President Kaplan to Reopen Budget Vote; Commit to Join Bas, Labor, Community to Defund Police #DEFUNDTHEPOLICE COALITION “DRIVE 4 JUSTICE” CAR CARAVAN TO HOMES OF MAYOR, CITY COUNCILMEMBERS TO CONDEMN OAKLAND’S PRO-COP, ANTIDEMOCRATIC BUDGET Oakland, Calif., — Today, Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan will join a press conference of labor and community organizations near her home to commit to reopen the city budget, fund vital life affirming programs, and defund the police. After weeks of unprecedented … Continued	7:00 pm Tax the Rich to Fund Schools and Services: Three Parts @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Tax the Rich to Fund Schools and Services: Three Parts @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Jun 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Zoom connection link EBDSA members have the opportunity to help pass the largest tax increase in history on California’s wealthiest commercial property owners, raising $10-12 billion per year for public education and social services. With the Movement for Black Lives uprising deepening into the call for defunding the police, it will be necessary to expand revenues required to build alternative, sustainable public services, and practices. Progressive taxation—especially taxing the rich—is an essential path to accomplish that goal. “Schools and Communities First” (SCF), on the November 3 ballot, is backed … Continued		1:30 pm Eviction Moratoriums Survey @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Eviction Moratoriums Survey @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Jul 1 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Join the Gray Panthers. Alex Werth from East Bay Housing Organizations will discuss “Eviction Moratoriums 101” – a presentation on the status of renter protections in Alameda County, Berkeley, and Oakland. Slides available with q and a. If you knew Margy Wilkinson, who died Saturday night, we will take a little time to remember her. As time permits, we will conclude with member concerns, and action opportunities, including Berkeley Tenants Convention Online candidates forum July 5 To join Gray Panthers Zoom Meeting Time: July 1, Wednesday 1:30 — This is a … Continued	6:00 pm Planet to Win Reading Group – Chapter 4: Internationalism @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Planet to Win Reading Group – Chapter 4: Internationalism @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Jul 2 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Members of the DSA Green New Deal Committee will discuss chapter 4 of “A Planet to Win”. Anyone who has read the chapter is encouraged to attend. Details Where: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88237561151?pwd=S0FocjZ3TjBzeU5vVE5ySHJDZVZTUT0967994	12:00 pm Julian Assange – Global Birthday Vigil @ British Consulate Julian Assange – Global Birthday Vigil @ British Consulate Jul 3 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets 68003	10:00 am Demilitarize Banner Drop @ Highland Avenue Bridge over the San Jose exit/entrance to Interstate 280 Demilitarize Banner Drop @ Highland Avenue Bridge over the San Jose exit/entrance to Interstate 280 Jul 4 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets National CODEPINK is calling for us to organize car caravans and other peace actions on July 4th with the theme being “Independance from War.” For this banner drop action, we’ll have these messages on banners: DEMILITARIZE, and MAKE AMERICA LOVE AGAIN. Thanks to our friend, Barbara for generously offering to make these banners while being totally “sheltered in place!” All are welcome to join, though we’d most like to be joined by those of you who could walk or ride your bike to the location. (Bernal/Mission/Noe/Glen Park) We already have … Continued 10:00 am INDEPENDENCE from WAR! Banner Drops. @ I80 Overpass Pedestrian Bridge INDEPENDENCE from WAR! Banner Drops. @ I80 Overpass Pedestrian Bridge Jul 4 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Meet up in parking lot in southwest corner of I-80 & University Ave. at 9:50am. National CODEPINK is calling for July 4th mobilizing under this theme: “Independence from War.” Local chapters are organizing small group banner drops to Plaster the Bay with Peace & Justice. We invite you to organize your own banner drop or join one of ours. Bring your own banner, or use one of ours. Our main large banners: -DEFUND the POLICE, DEFUND the PENTAGON -DEMILITARIZE! -HEALTHCARE not WARFARE! All are welcome to join, though we’d prefer … Continued 1:00 pm Black Out @ Lake Merritt Black Out @ Lake Merritt Jul 4 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 67997 8:03 pm Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library: What to a Slave is the Fourth of July? @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library: What to a Slave is the Fourth of July? @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Jul 4 @ 8:03 pm – 9:03 pm Tickets On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery in 1838 at age 20, gave one of his most famous speeches, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” to the Ladies Antislavery Society of Rochester, New York. We will begin by listening to actor and activist Danny Glover reading a six-minute selection from the speech during a performance of Howard Zinn’s “Voices of a People’s History of the United States“ on October 5, 2005, at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles. <https://vimeo.com/1275332> Following a brief introduction … Continued

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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.