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Why has this struggle become a focal point … Continued 1:00 pm Dr. Benjamin Madley, “An American Genocide” Zoom Presentation @ Online Dr. Benjamin Madley, “An American Genocide” Zoom Presentation @ Online Nov 29 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Please join us for this Zoom meeting using the link below: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87119438221?pwd=YUNnVkEwYUh2d29tWnpDamJoelo2QT09 Meeting ID: 871 1943 8221 Passcode: 025469 Dial by your location +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Dr. Benjamin Madley, author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 We are honored to be able to present Professor Benjamin Madley at this holiday weekend Zoom meeting. In our quest to educate ourselves about American history, and after celebrating our most American holiday, Thanksgiving, it is fitting that we look closely at the … Continued		12:00 pm Abolition Then and Now: Robin D. G. Kelley and Isaac Julien @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Abolition Then and Now: Robin D. G. Kelley and Isaac Julien @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Dec 1 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Register here Join historian Robin D. G Kelley and artist Isaac Julien for an online conversation about the anti-slavery movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and current abolitionist uprisings against racist police brutality and the prison industrial complex. The conversation is informed by “Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass” (2019), Julien’s immersive, ten-screen film installation about the famed abolitionist currently on view at McEvoy Arts. The conversation takes place online via Zoom on Wednesday, December 1, 2020 at 12pm PST. Attendance is free with registration. With excerpts of his speeches … Continued 6:30 pm Community Dialogs – Mass Incarceration and Higher Education @ Online Community Dialogs – Mass Incarceration and Higher Education @ Online Dec 1 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets We’re excited to announce Community Dialogs, a public education program offering events on topics related to mass incarceration and higher education. Events will feature guest speakers including students, our local community, and national experts; film and book discussion groups featuring Mount Tamalpais College faculty; and online workshops free of charge. The first event is scheduled for Tuesday, December 1, 6:30pm-7:45pm, and will feature the premiere screening of With This Knowledge, a short documentary series following two former students on their reentry journey. Film subjects Sumit Lal and Sajad Shakoor, and … Continued 7:00 pm Socialist Night School: Why the Working Class? @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Socialist Night School: Why the Working Class? @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Dec 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Socialists talk a lot about the working class. Why is that? Well, we think workers play a particular role under capitalism that makes them central in the fight for socialism. As the main producers of society’s wealth, workers have the potential power to halt the system. What does it mean to build this power and how does that inform our organizing today? Join the East Bay DSA Political Education Committee for a discussion of these questions and more! Reading + Listening Hal Draper, Why the Working Class Vivek Chibber, Why the Working … Continued		6:00 pm Anti-Racism 101: How to Show Up For Racial Justice @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Anti-Racism 101: How to Show Up For Racial Justice @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Dec 3 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Register here If you are feeling called to action but are not sure how to or where to begin, this workshop is for you. In this introductory workshop, we’ll start by understanding systemic racism as a system of advantage rooted in the beliefs and institutionalization of white supremacy, rather than a product of individuals who are “good” or “bad”. We’ll also discuss how individuals can engage in an ongoing practice of anti-racism to actively dismantle racism in their daily lives. Attendees will have opportunities to engage in small-group dialogue and … Continued 7:00 pm Ectopia 2050 – Ecology Center Lecture Series @ Online Ectopia 2050 – Ecology Center Lecture Series @ Online Dec 3 @ 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	12:00 pm Zoom Letter-Writing Party To Protect The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Zoom Letter-Writing Party To Protect The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Dec 4 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets This is a letter-writing party to get together on Zoom and write letters together for this campaign organized by XR DC. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83713470647?pwd=SEVXeW5nc25wRncwM041aWNxNGxLZz09 Info about the campaign: The Trump administration is working to open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil mining before leaving office in January. This is something that climate deniers and extinction profiteers have been trying to accomplish for decades, but was too extreme for even the George W. Bush administration. Now, after the election, and with no hope of holding onto power, they’re trying to rush it through … Continued 4:00 pm Alec Karakatsanis on “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers…” @ Online Alec Karakatsanis on “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers…” @ Online Dec 4 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Carl Dix will be in conversation with Alec Karakatsanis. This virtual program will stream on YouTube and FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/revbooksnyc/live/ To register for the event, go here. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alec-karakatsanis-on-usual-cruelty-the-complicity-of-lawyers-tickets-131059812427 Alec Karakatsanis is interested in what society chooses to punish. For example, it is a crime in most of America for poor people to wager in the streets over dice; dice-wagers can be seized, searched, have their assets forfeited, and be locked in cages. It’s perfectly fine, by contrast, for people to wager over international currencies, mortgages, or the global supply of wheat. Alec Karakatsanis … Continued	9:00 am Workers and Just Transition: A Global View @ Online Workers and Just Transition: A Global View @ Online Dec 5 @ 9:00 am – 10:15 am Tickets REGISTER HERE. Worldwide transitions deserve a worldwide response! An exciting webinar produced by the Labor Network for Sustainability and the Just Transition Listening Project Organizing Committee will bring together labor and policy leaders to share perspectives, stories, and strategies from the frontlines of the struggle for a global just transition. This webinar is the sixth in a series of the Just Transition Listening Project. In addition to the webinar series, they have conducted interviews with more than 100 community leaders and workers to learn of their experiences and perspectives on Just … Continued 10:30 am A Mobile Protest to Ban Evictions and Cancel Rent Debt @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater A Mobile Protest to Ban Evictions and Cancel Rent Debt @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater Dec 5 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets We’re calling on our landlords and legislators to cancel rent debt, ban evictions, and stop putting the burden of a shut down economy on renters’ backs. Roll up on your bikes, boards, blades ready to take our rally around the town to spread the word.. Cars welcome to caravan too! Everyone should come masked up and socially distanced from people not in your household. 68378 10:30 am France: Mass Protests Against a Government Crackdown @ Online France: Mass Protests Against a Government Crackdown @ Online Dec 5 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets For more event information: https://speakoutsocialists.org/th-12-05-20/ The French government recently passed a new “security law” that forbids the release of footage showing police violence. Days later French cops were caught on film viciously beating young migrant refugees and destroying their tents in Paris. And then footage was released of French cops beating a Black music producer in Paris just for exiting his car without a mask on. And now, similar to events in the U.S. following the murder of George Floyd, the result in France has been an upsurge against the new … Continued 2:30 pm Suds, Snacks, and Socialism…BYO Election 2020: WTF!? @ Online Suds, Snacks, and Socialism…BYO Election 2020: WTF!? @ Online Dec 5 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Connect with https: https://tinyurl.com/election2020-WTF Speakers and themes include: * Dr. Laurence Shoup: The factors behind the vote: Historical, economic, social and political * Michael Rubin: The political reality revealed: What should socialists do now? * Marsha Feinland: California politics unmasked: What ballot initiatives have become This event is sponsored by the Oakland Greens, Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change, and the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party.68354 4:30 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Economics Book Group – Revenge Capitalism @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Strike Debt Bay Area Economics Book Group – Revenge Capitalism @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Dec 5 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets EMAIL STRIKE.DEBT.BAY.AREA@GMAIL.COM FOR ZOOM INFO A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE MEETING. MAX HAIVEN, THE AUTHOR, WILL BE JOINING OUR DISCUSSION IN DECEMBER! Strike Debt Bay Area hosts a non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, and The Deficit Myth. For our October discussion we will be reading the first two chapters of ‘Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling … Continued

Week of November 29

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.