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We will sanitize and package your donations add a hot packaged meal and fresh fruit to the care kits to be distributed to North Oakland Encampments and surrounding encampments. In order to properly sanitize and maintain social distancing we are collecting the materials … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 19 @ 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	11:00 am Climate Activists Show Up for Essential Workers @ Mosswood Park Climate Activists Show Up for Essential Workers @ Mosswood Park Jul 20 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Join Sunflower Alliance, the Sunrise Movement, and other climate activists to support workers at the Oakland Telegraph Ave. MacDonald’s, who have been on strike since May demanding PPE, sick pay, hazard pay and social distancing. The workers report that they were asked to wear dog diapers for PPE, that they got no sick pay when they were sick and thought they had COVID, and that the store was not enforcing social distancing. Of the 33 workers, 12 ended up getting COVID and 31 of them are now on strike. See news … Continued 12:00 pm Strike for Black Health and Vitality @ Highland Hospital Strike for Black Health and Vitality @ Highland Hospital Jul 20 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Join workers walking out for Black Health and Vitality! Black healthcare workers, patients, and communities are on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic, mismanagement of our public hospital system was depriving workers of access to vital resources and proper staffing. Unequal health outcomes for Black patients continue to pose a significant threat to public well being. With lives on the line, health professionals and patients alike are demanding action. Alameda Health System must become accountable to the public and put an end to its racist health … Continued 7:00 pm Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It – A discussion @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It – A discussion @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Jul 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Register to attend here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvdOGhpz4uG9X4aoyOS3UAPQPLiQqSId3b Join us to talk about the relevance of this topic in the era of #45 and the upcoming elections. We will have a couple of presentations, and then open the floor for discussion. Among the readings we will refer to are: – Leon Trotsky’s “FASCISM: What It Is and How To Fight It” https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm – Alan Merson, Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany: https://www.scribd.com/doc/299197148/Communist-Resistance-in-Nazi-Germany-Allan-Merson-1985 – Leslie Feinberg, Lavender and Red: https://www.workers.org/book/lavender-red/ – “Pirate” gangs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelweiss_Pirates – Sweezy on the Rise of Fascism – A synopsis by … Continued	6:00 pm Community Meeting on Police Brutality @ Willow Park Community Meeting on Police Brutality @ Willow Park Jul 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets 68028	5:00 pm Hear Just Transition Alliance Founders @ ONLINE Hear Just Transition Alliance Founders @ ONLINE Jul 22 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Register here Hear founders of the Just Transition Alliance, which brings together people of color in fenceline communities, Indigenous Peoples, workers, and unions in polluting industries in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. to address environmental and economic justice issues together. This is the third webinar in the Just Transition Listening Project, hosted by the Labor Network for Sustainability. SPEAKERS: Les Leopold, Author of “The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzochi,” and Director of the Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute. José Bravo, Executive Director, … Continued 6:30 pm Intro to DSA @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Intro to DSA @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Jul 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Democratic Socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are raising the expectations of millions of people across the United States and bringing them into a political awakening. The membership of DSA, the largest socialist organization in the United States, is rapidly growing by the thousands. Millions of everyday people are calling for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, universal rent control, and more. But what is democratic socialism? What does it mean to be a member of DSA? Let’s talk about it. This event will be … Continued		5:30 pm Extinction Rebellion: Welcome Call @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Extinction Rebellion: Welcome Call @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Jul 24 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Been to a “Heading for Extinction” Talk or seen us in the media? Want to get more involved? Attend a Zoom (video) Orientation Call! Note that this call is phone friendly! If you want to call in by phone, you can call in using the zoom meeting number (disclosed once you sign up). Sign up here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkcuuhqzMoG9Gkaji1tKcqCT_J6bDAEEqc68025	11:00 am Join Berkeley Copwatch! – Training Session @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Join Berkeley Copwatch! – Training Session @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Jul 25 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Tickets Join Berkeley Copwatch! Register today for our new Berkeley Copwatch Volunteer Training 2020! If you’ve been looking for a way to plug into the movement that is happening NOW, this could be what you’re looking for. Topics Include: 1. Know Your Rights 2. How to Film Police 3. Shift Procedures 4. Overview of Berkeley Municipal Codes 5. De-Escalation Techniques and much more! Think globally, ACT LOCALLY! Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuceysrj0uGNaFx1Bb7m9SXbOVALR6vFrl DONATE NOW! 68054 12:00 pm The 1946 Oakland General Strike – Presentation @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' The 1946 Oakland General Strike – Presentation @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Jul 25 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets In order to view or participate, a Zoom registration is required. Register here for this event: https://laborfest.net/event/oakland-general-strike-walk-1200-noon-free-meet-at-the-fountain-in-latham-square-telegraph-broadway/ After registration, participants will receive a Zoom invitation. This year is the 74th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike. This presentation will revisit the sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday” that spontaneously began with rank-and-file solidarity with the striking, mostly women retail clerks at Kahn’s and Hastings department stores, where picket lines were broken by police-escorted scabs. Within 24 hours, it involved over 100,000 workers and shut down nearly all commerce in the East Bay for … Continued

Week of July 19

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.