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Check here close to the date each week for subject matter and Zoom info if not below: https://icssmarx.org/icss-sched-latest.html … Continued 12:00 pm Lessons of the 1930s for the 2020s @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Lessons of the 1930s for the 2020s @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Nov 8 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets RSVP here (scroll down) Join the East Bay DSA Labor Committee for a 7-part study series on labor organizing in the 1930s, open to all and designed for anyone engaged or interested in workplace or non-workplace based movement work. The Left has always played an essential role in building movements for social justice. The current pandemic and the deepening economic crisis presents us with urgent challenges. Especially since ours is a new socialist movement without tons of experience in labor and other working-class movements, we need to learn as much … Continued	6:00 pm Refuse to Be Abused! Volunteer with Berkeley Copwatch! @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Refuse to Be Abused! Volunteer with Berkeley Copwatch! @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Nov 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Berkeley Copwatch would like to invite you to get involved in the movement to abolish policing, defend human rights, stand up for the rights of Black people, Indigenous people, Unhoused people, and all the marginalized members of our community. Since 1990, Berkeley Copwatch has taken a stand against police brutality, injustice, and the overreaching arm of authoritarian capitalism. Stand with us now and refuse to be abused! There are so many different ways to get involved in Copwatch (writing, art, activism, data entry), and no experience is necessary. Meeting ID: … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Nov 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	1:00 pm One Fare System for Bay Area Transit @ Online One Fare System for Bay Area Transit @ Online Nov 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets RSVP here Learn about the plan for a fully unified system that would enable riders to travel seamlessly across the nine-county Bay Area with a single transit fare and free transfers. This webinar will explain the Integrated Transit Fare Vision recently proposed by Seamless Bay Area, with a map on their website showing how it would work. The Bay Area has 27 transit agencies with different fare structures — so using transit can be confusing, expensive, and sometimes unfair. What if there were one simple map to figure out how much you pay … Continued 7:00 pm Chris Hedges: The Culture of Despair @ Online Chris Hedges: The Culture of Despair @ Online Nov 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Eventbrite webinar link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-hedges-the-culture-of-despair-tickets-120320183909 With the election over, it’s the perfect time to get the reliably candid response of one of our few great journalists. “Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual warrior who confronts American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The insights he provides into the deeply troubled state of our nation cannot be found anywhere else. Like many of our most important thinkers, he has been relegated to the margins because … Continued 7:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Public Bank of the East Bay @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Nov 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets We meet over Zoom. If you’d like to join us, and aren’t on our organizers’ list, drop us an email and we’ll send you an invitation. If you would like to join the meeting early and get an introduction to the concepts of public banking, or more locally to who we are and what we do, please email us and we’ll see you online at 6:30. Donate to keep us moving forward It is the mission of Public Bank East Bay to provide community oversight and stewardship in the formation and … Continued 7:00 pm Socialist Night School: What Just Happened? Election Recap and Analysis @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Socialist Night School: What Just Happened? Election Recap and Analysis @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Nov 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join the East Bay DSA Political Education Committee for an analysis of what’s happened since election day. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84783105991?pwd=Tlk5SENqWHFHV216M1lSZkRtUGk2dz09 Meeting ID: 847 8310 5991 Password: 89702868327	6:45 pm DSA Green New Deal Committee Monthly Meeting @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' DSA Green New Deal Committee Monthly Meeting @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Nov 11 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our Green New Deal Committee meets on the second Wednesday each month. We will discuss eco-socialist issues, upcoming events and actions, committee priorities, and campaigns. All are welcome! Please RSVP to receive the URL to the meeting or email green-new-deal@eastbaydsa.org. Zoom – please RSVP for the URL & instructions.68295	3:00 pm Where We Go From Here: All In For Climate & Equitable Communities w/ Sierra Club @ Online Where We Go From Here: All In For Climate & Equitable Communities w/ Sierra Club @ Online Nov 12 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Livestream here: https://www.facebook.com/SierraClub/ Take a good rest everyone, because our work begins again now! To secure a more stable climate and equitable communities, it will take a mass movement uniting to fight for climate, racial and economic justice for all. Join us for the third in our series of Sierra Club mass calls, where we’ll be talking about the path towards historic climate action under a Biden-Harris administration, drilling down into the specifics of our plan to get there (hint: it involves you!), and sharing next steps for how each of … Continued 6:00 pm Intro to Socialism — What is Socialism and Economic Democracy @ Online Intro to Socialism — What is Socialism and Economic Democracy @ Online Nov 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Join DSA San Francisco’s education committee as we dive into the topics of socialism, economic democracy, and what a more just world could look like. This event is for people of all background but will taught with those new to socialism in mind. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZUldOqsqTwjGtM0RER2hAuP1PSen… After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.68331 6:00 pm One More Time: No Nuclear Energy for the East Bay @ Online One More Time: No Nuclear Energy for the East Bay @ Online Nov 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets RSVP The proposal to put nuclear energy into East Bay Community Energy’s power mix was defeated in April, but it’s back! Join the Local Clean Energy Alliance, first in a webinar, then at the EBCE directors’ meeting to tell them: No nukes! In April, the board voted 10-5 against a proposal to accept PG&E’s offer of nuclear energy from its Diablo Canyon power plant, after 64 community members spoke out against accepting it. However, EBCE staff has once again proposed accepting PG&E’s nuclear energy. This time the issue is being … Continued 7:00 pm Demanding Transformative Politics in an Era of Resegregation @ California Endowment Demanding Transformative Politics in an Era of Resegregation @ California Endowment Nov 12 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets As resegregation reshapes the Bay Area, low-income communities of color are increasingly living at the expanding edges of our region, where they struggle to find quality jobs, schools, and public transportation, decent affordable housing, and a political voice. Generating policy alternatives to the region’s unjust land use, housing, and transportation systems have not been enough to stop this trend. To truly achieve regional equity in an era of resegregation, we must demand transformative politics that increases the political power of disenfranchised communities.68313 7:00 pm Ectopia 2050 – Ecology Center Lecture Series @ Online Ectopia 2050 – Ecology Center Lecture Series @ Online Nov 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets ECOTOPIA 2050 5-PART SPEAKER SERIES Ecotopia 2050 is designed as a 5 Episode speaker discussion series with the first episode serving as an introduction/prelude to the event. The speaker discussion series is paired with corresponding book club meetings that give participants a more intimate opportunity to discuss the themes of the book in the community. Based on the 1975 blockbuster utopian novel Ecotopia, this discussion and book club event series revisit some of the futuristic visions of the Ernest Callenbach classic. His visionary ideas, and those of his generation, that he … Continued	7:30 pm The Coming Extinction and What to do about it @ Online The Coming Extinction and What to do about it @ Online Nov 13 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Sierra Club’s Green Friday programs are back — and now, virtual! This educational and entertaining monthly series brings you speakers on the most important environmental issues of our time. Join us the second Friday of each month. The Zoom room opens at 7:00 PM and the program begins at 7:30 PM. Please register to receive meeting sign-in info: https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7013q0000020SiSAAU&mapLinkHref= On November 13th, Extinction Rebellion speakers will address “The Coming Extinction and What to do about it.” Founded by youth in Britain in 2018, Extinction Rebellion is a global movement … Continued	4:00 pm The Elections are Over – But the Problems Remain @ Online The Elections are Over – But the Problems Remain @ Online Nov 14 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets This pandemic has drawn the priorities of this society into focus, and they are neither our well-being nor the health of the planet. And with the elections over, working people still face the continued threat of this virus, a planet that continues to heat up, increasing economic uncertainty, a wave of cuts to social services, and more. Our power to confront these problems was never in the ballot box, but in our collective strength when we can stand together. This is the challenge we face today. Join us for a … Continued

Week of November 8

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.