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All-day				Dia De Madonnari: Berkeley Street Painting Festival Dia De Madonnari: Berkeley Street Painting Festival Aug 20 all-day Tickets Dia De Madonnari is a street painting festival taking place August 20th-25th, 2020. We are searching for participants and help spreading the word. Sign up to be a participant to receive free chalk pastels and potentially prize money! The aim of the event is simple: Enhance community spirits during an unprecedentedly turbulent time through a vibrant celebration of the arts, while also lending support to local organizations, businesses, and artists. To achieve this, the event will work as follows: 1. Individuals or groups sign up to be an artist on … Continued
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Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83648786240?pwd=cm5GQkNYVGU5MCtCdmFxNmxSYU1Bdz09 Meeting ID: 836 4878 6240 Passcode: 334139 … Continued 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Zoom Meeting @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Sunflower Alliance Zoom Meeting @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Aug 16 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets We’re looking forward to getting together with you for a regular meeting. We’ll discuss the latest developments in our fight to keep new oil and gas wells out of eastern Contra Costa County and ban new fossil fuel development in the county. Plus we’ll catch up on campaigns against coal exports in Richmond and Oakland, just transition, regional climate planning, and more — and check in with each other. We need your participation and your voice! RSVP to action@sunflower-alliance.org to get the link68094 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 16 @ 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	4:00 pm Memorial for Mike Lee @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Memorial for Mike Lee @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Aug 17 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 68103	5:30 pm Climate Change and Human Health, @ Online Climate Change and Human Health, @ Online Aug 18 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Health professionals will talk about how changes in environmental conditions — including fluctuations in temperature, increased pollution, and deterioration of food and water systems — affect multiple dimensions of human health. You will learn about why it’s important to recognize the impacts of climate change on individual and population health in the East Bay Area. In addition, you will hear about work being done right now by local climate action organizations — and how you can get involved. Presented by the Environmental Health Working Group of the Berkeley Climate Action Coalition … Continued	6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' - SEE BELOW Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' - SEE BELOW Aug 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to obtain Zoom meeting access info. Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay and nationwide. We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing. We … Continued 6:45 pm Let’s Own PG&E Campaign @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Let’s Own PG&E Campaign @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Aug 19 @ 6:45 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Learn about why a for-profit PG&E will never work for the people or the planet and be a part of winning a Community-owned, Community-controlled PG&E. Where: Zoom: RSVP for link for 8/19 Zoom: RSVP for 9/16 68049 6:45 pm Let’s Own PG&E Campaign @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Let’s Own PG&E Campaign @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Aug 19 @ 6:45 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Learn about why a for-profit PG&E will never work for the people or the planet and be a part of winning a Community-owned, Community-controlled PG&E. Where: Zoom: RSVP for link68059 7:00 pm Anti Police-Terror Project @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Anti Police-Terror Project @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Aug 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Thanks to The People’s persistent voice at City Hall, a “Reimagining Public Safety Task Force” is now in development, which will be charged with defunding the police by 50% in next year’s budget cycle. Together we can defund OPD and get closer to our ultimate goal of abolishing the police! Join us online tomorrow for our monthly general meeting to debrief our work so far to #DefundOPD, to learn about the upcoming launch of our Mental Health First program, and more! Where: Register here to join us online or on … Continued	5:00 pm The Future Climate: Conversation with Climate Leader Marquita Price @ Online The Future Climate: Conversation with Climate Leader Marquita Price @ Online Aug 20 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Online Event Location: Join the discussion Join us for a candid conversation with climate leader Marquita Price of the East Oakland Collective. As part of Greenbelt Alliance’s Future Climate Webinar Series we invite you to join us as we sit down with notable Bay Area climate leaders. In each 30 minute session you will have the opportunity to connect with these inspiring professionals, hear their stories, and get an inside look into the amazing work that they do on issues relating to climate adaptation planning, equity, community engagement and more. This … Continued	5:30 pm Extinction Rebellion Welcome Call @ Online Extinction Rebellion Welcome Call @ Online Aug 21 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Hosted by Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area and Extinction Rebellion South Bay 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_J6bDAEEqc 68101 6:00 pm ilm Screening and Discussion of “Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed” @ Online ilm Screening and Discussion of “Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed” @ Online Aug 21 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Film Screening and Discussion of “Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed” Join the film screening and discussion of the documentary on the historic presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first woman & first Black major-party candidate to run for President of the United States in 1972. Cost: FREE RSVP Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-zoom-discussion-of-chisholm-72-unbought-and-unbossed2004-77-minutes-registration-115289140924 Born in Brooklyn to Caribbean immigrants, Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005) became one of the most consequential American politicians of the latter twentieth century. Raised in Brooklyn and Barbados, she excelled at academics, earning a BA from Brooklyn College in … Continued	11:00 am Save the Post Office @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Save the Post Office @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Aug 22 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Join us for the “#SaveThePostOffice Saturday” day of action! Saturday, August 22 is “#SaveThePostOffice Saturday!” At 11 a.m, we will show up at the Berkeley Main Post Office, 2000 Allston Way to save the post office from Trump and declare that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy must resign. Join us and Move-On Saturday to rally for our post offices and postal workers. See you there! Hali Hammer and our Save the Post Office Committee. 68114 4:00 pm Discussion: What Lies Ahead @ Online Discussion: What Lies Ahead @ Online Aug 22 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Economist Jack Rasmus Speaking About “What Lies Ahead” The response to COVID-19 by those in power has been a total disaster. They’ve focused on maximizing their profits while turning a virus into a health crisis that has killed over 140,000 people and sickened millions in the U.S. The overall economic impact from this pandemic has been devastating for tens of millions of working people. The continuous attempts to reopen the economy have meant workers have had to do more work for lower wages while risking our our health and our … Continued

Week of August 16

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.