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Why has this struggle become a focal point … Continued 2:00 pm Sign Garden for Justice – Threatened! @ Civic Center Sign Garden for Justice – Threatened! @ Civic Center Nov 15 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets This black youth-led event is being threatened ‘oath keepers’ and other violent white identity extremists today. Please come support local youth organizers. 68334		1:00 pm Transitioning from Fossil Fuel Dependency @ Online Transitioning from Fossil Fuel Dependency @ Online Nov 17 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Join a conversation about the transition away from a fossil fuel economy and learn about some of the implications and strategies for facilitating a just transition. Speakers will address will national-level economics, state approaches, and community initiatives at the center of our clean energy transition. Panelists are: Patrick Heller, Natural Resource Governance Institute Roger Lin, UC Berkeley Environmental Law Clinic Sarah White, Governor’s Office of Planning & Research Sponsored by the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at Berkeley Law. Register here.68336	10:00 am Utility Service is a Human Right @ Online Utility Service is a Human Right @ Online Nov 18 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Register here The economic disasters affecting so many people during this pandemic have made even it more clear that we must stop shutoffs of energy and water — basic human needs. Join the Network for Energy, Water, and Health in Affordable Buildings for a webinar on protecting the right to these basic necessities. Leading innovators will share stories on how they are changing the narrative in this country on energy justice and utility service as a human right. Learn from a local organizer who mobilized during the pandemic to stop the … Continued 2:00 pm Understanding the Moment: Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going w/ Women’s March @ Online Understanding the Moment: Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going w/ Women’s March @ Online Nov 18 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/womensmarchaction/event/363000/ For the past four years, we’ve been marching, organizing millions of women voters, and mobilizing this women-led movement to defeat Trump. We’re beyond proud of this moment, but what does it mean? What do the exit polls tell us, or not? What if Trump doesn’t concede? Where do we go from here? What else can we do? Join Women’s Marchers on Wednesday evening for an hour-long webinar to celebrate our collective win, reflect on how we got here, understand the moment we’re in, and what is still to come. … Continued 3:00 pm ‘Through the Night’: Film & Discussion on Rise of Multiple Job Workers & 24 HR Daycare @ Online ‘Through the Night’: Film & Discussion on Rise of Multiple Job Workers & 24 HR Daycare @ Online Nov 18 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets VIRTUAL SCREENING: “Through the Night” A Virtual Watch Party & Panel Discussion of the documentary THROUGH THE NIGHT by Black womxn director, Loira Limbal RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/through-the-night-screening-panel-discussion-tickets-125979376707 In collaboration with our partners at 1199 SEIU Rhode Island and Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV), SISTA Fire RI will be hosting a virtual screening of the documentary “Through the Night”. The documentary looks at the impact the modern economy is having on Womxn of Color and our families. We invite you to join us on the evening of November 18th, 2020 at … Continued 5:00 pm Demilitarize Oakland PD Town Hall  @ Online Demilitarize Oakland PD Town Hall  @ Online Nov 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Register Here. Join us for a youth-led conversation on how militarized police impacts our communities and how we can work toward influencing local policy that #DefundsThePolice. With testimony by Oakland youth on police militarization and from Mental Health First, moderated by BAY Peace. With small group discussions led by 67 Sueños, Urban Peace Movement, Young Women’s Freedom Center, The Village, BAY Peace, Council of American Islamic Relations, AFSC, and National Lawyers Guild.68347 6:30 pm Intro to DSA @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Intro to DSA @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Nov 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Democratic Socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib 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 working-class Americans 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? How do socialists look at the crises of … Continued	11:00 am A Just Transition for Labor @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' A Just Transition for Labor @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Nov 19 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Tens of thousands of workers have jobs in fossil fuel and related industries. How do we secure a just transition that guarantees good jobs with benefits for these workers in the new clean energy economy? Carol Zabin is a labor economist who recently completed a comprehensive report for the California legislature called Putting California on the High Road to answer that question. Please read the executive summary of the report before joining this deep-dive discussion. You will also hear from the perspective of the state agency charged with implementing the report’s findings and … Continued 11:00 am Out of Mesopotamia @ Online Out of Mesopotamia @ Online Nov 19 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Online Event Location: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/azadeh-moaveni-and-salar-abdoh-tickets-126610642841 Azadeh Moaveni and Salar Abdoh discuss the intersections of their new books ReTargeting Iran – published by City Lights Books & Out of Mesopotamia – published by Akashic Books. About ReTargeting Iran, edited by David Barsamian, with Azadeh Moaveni and others The United States and Iran seem to be permanently locked in a dangerous cycle of brinkmanship and violence. Both countries have staged cyber attacks and recently shot down one another’s aircraft. Why do both countries seem intent on escalation? Why did the U.S. abandon the nuclear … Continued 5:00 pm Creating police-free schools: A national conversation  @ Online Creating police-free schools: A national conversation  @ Online Nov 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Register Here The safety of students of color is jeopardized by use of police in schools—and across the country, students and allies are working for police free schools. In this webinar we will hear from young organizers from St. Louis, Chicago, and Oakland about the successful strategies and stumbling blocks in their work on this issue. Whether you are already engaged in a campaign locally, or just want to learn more, please join us to envision a future that invests in school safety through student wellbeing, not policing.68348	8:30 am Bay Area Summit: The Way Forward for Climate Justice @ Online Bay Area Summit: The Way Forward for Climate Justice @ Online Nov 20 @ 8:30 am – 12:00 pm Tickets RSVP Join the Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force for the finale of its Virtual Summit Series: For an Environmentally Just and Regenerative Future. This final summit — “Where Do We Go From Here for Climate Justice?” — will review the previous topics and discuss plans for the future. WHEN Friday, November 20 8:30 – 9:00 am Doors Open / Meet & Greet Attendee Mixer 9:00 – 9:15 am Land Acknowledgement / Welcome/ Plenary Councilmember Cheryl Davila, City of Berkeley Corrina Gould, Co-Founder, Sogorea Te Land Trust Amos White, Vice … Continued 4:00 pm Fighting State Murder: Racism, the Police, and the Death Penalty @ Online Fighting State Murder: Racism, the Police, and the Death Penalty @ Online Nov 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fighting-state-murder-racism-the-police-and-the-death-penalty-tickets-127358860781 Cost: FREE or donation Join family members of death row prisoner Rodney Reed, Rodrick and Sandra Reed, police torture victim and former juvenile life without parole prisoner Mark Clements, author and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and journalist Liliana Segura for a discussion about fighting racism in the criminal “injustice” system. The massive uprising this year against police brutality and murder has sharply illuminated the racism of not only the police, but also the institutions that protect them. This struggle has thrown into sharp relief questions about the true nature of … Continued

Week of November 15

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.