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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 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 28 @ 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 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		11:30 am Stop Killing Us! An Action Against Police Violence @ California State Capitol Stop Killing Us! An Action Against Police Violence @ California State Capitol Jul 1 @ 11:30 am – 3:00 pm Tickets Almost 600 people of color have been killed by police in California just in the last 5 years. On July 1, people who have been impacted by police violence–family members, formerly incarcerated, community members–will encircle the California Capitol building and hold up the names of those killed by police. Click the Ticket button on this page to receive event updates or to volunteer to hold up a name of the fallen. We call on state legislators to: –Defund the $31B police and prison industrial complex –Hold police who kill accountable … 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 4:00 pm Ella Baker Meeting @ Online Ella Baker Meeting @ Online Jul 1 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets We will be hosting our first virtual monthly member meeting on July 1st! More to come on this, follow our social media for updates. Register for the Member Meeting here. Email Monifa@ellabakercenter.org for more info! About the Membership: Anyone, anywhere can join our membership and become connected to campaigns to move money away from prisons and police, and towards what our communities need: jobs, education, healthcare, and housing. Through our membership, people come together to create more opportunity in our communities, and end injustice. We prioritize the needs and experiences of people who … 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 1:00 pm DSA General Meeting DSA General Meeting Jul 4 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Join us for a voting General Meeting of East Bay DSA! This month, we will hear from committees and hear several candidate endorsements. Virtual voting rules & procedures will be explained during the meeting. Please RSVP and invite other comrades to hear updates on our campaigns and events. The agenda is available here. The meeting will be conducted via ZOOM. RSVP here and we will confirm your membership and you’ll receive an email with the Zoom link. If you are not a member, the meeting will be available to stream via YouTube. 68021 1:00 pm San Francisco 4th of July Freedom Caravan: Defund Police, Defund War, Fund Life! @ San Francisco City Hall San Francisco 4th of July Freedom Caravan: Defund Police, Defund War, Fund Life! @ San Francisco City Hall Jul 4 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets We’re making 4 stops to call for liberty, with a speaker and activity at each stop, and a cool video to be made of the event. We’ll have flags and posters for decorating your cars. We are partnering with SF Bay Extinction Rebellion, DSASF IRIS, and other groups. The stops will center on: defunding police, defunding the Pentagon, funding community, protecting the Earth. 1:00 pm: Meet up at SF City Hall to decorate cars, get instructions and route maps. 1 Carlton Goodlet Place, SF. 1:30 pm: First Caravan Stop, 762 Fulton St., … Continued 2:00 pm Fuck the 4th Rally and March @ Oscar Grant Plaza Fuck the 4th Rally and March @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 4 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 67996 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

Week of June 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.