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All-day			Film Screening: The Boys Who Said No Film Screening: The Boys Who Said No Oct 14 all-day Tickets During unsettling times, it helps to remember how we survived past struggles. The Boys Who Said NO! focuses on the nonviolent warriors who actively opposed the military draft during the Vietnam War and whose brave actions would eventually lead to the end of both the draft in the United States and the long-standing, devastating war. Offering a thorough and fascinating (recent) history lesson, Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Judith Ehrlich (The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, MVFF32) highlights several heroes of the anti-war movement—from iconic figures like Martin Luther … Continued			Freedom Side: People’s Tribunal and Congress Freedom Side: People’s Tribunal and Congress Oct 17 all-day Tickets Register here Join The Rising Majority — including the Climate Justice Alliance, the Movement for Black Lives, 350.org and many other progressive organizations — for a two-day event on “Rising Against White Supremacist Terror Toward a Just World.” The Rising Majority writes: “We are on the precipice of a historic moment, where we the people have to choose the political, economic, and moral direction of our communities and country. . . climate change staring us down as wildfires blaze out of control; millions of people impacted by COVID and over 175,000 senseless deaths … 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.