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All-day 7th Annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy Weekend 7th Annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy Weekend Jan 17 all-day Tickets It’s that time of year again! The 7th Annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy Weekend will take place January 15th-18th 2020. This year’s theme is Re-Imagine. Reimagine and remember King’s unrealized dream. Oaklanders have a dream: We dream of a total transformation of how Oakland defines and implements public safety. We dream of REfunding our communities with 50% of OPD’s dollars to create true public safety. We dream of housing our unhoused. We dream of being able to afford our rent. We dream of an equitable and competent response to our … Continued
12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm 10:30 am The Farmer’s Movement in India @ Online The Farmer’s Movement in India @ Online Jan 17 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Our speaker, Cde. Nagraj, is an agronomist based in Karnataka State of India in South-India. This state is now ruled by BJP but was ruled by the Congress Party in 1983. He resigned from his state gov. job in 1983 over what he saw was unfairness to the farmers. He then worked with farmers unions. I think he is associated with CPI-M (to be confirmed). He is available both for the 17th and 31st of January 2021. I have asked him to send me a synopsis of his talk by email. Since … Continued 6:00 pm #DefundOPD Teachin @ Online #DefundOPD Teachin @ Online Jan 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/135088969467910963268591	12:00 pm 7th Annual Day of Action to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy – Car Caravan Edition @ Port of Oakland 7th Annual Day of Action to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy – Car Caravan Edition @ Port of Oakland Jan 18 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Gather your friends and family. Reach out to your schools, unions, churches and other organizations. On Monday, January 18, join the Anti Police-Terror Project for the 7th Annual March to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! This year’s Reclaim “march” will be a car caravan that begins at the Port of Oakland, makes its way down International/E14 and ends in East Oakland with a short program. (See our separate event for how you can also support by calling related events all weekend -except MLK Day: https://www.facebook.com/events/855403635222329.) For seven years running, the APTP … Continued	10:00 am Car Caravan: Climate Resistance in Richmond Car Caravan: Climate Resistance in Richmond Jan 19 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Join Idle No More SF Bay and Urban Tilth on the day before the Inauguration for a #BuildBackFossilFree Day of Action. Facebook info and RSVP Call on Joe Biden to kick off his term by taking executive action to: Protect and invest in the Black, Indigenous, Brown, and working-class communities that have borne the brunt of fossil fuel pollution and climate disasters. Reject new fossil fuel projects, eliminate giveaways to oil gas, and coal corporations, and end the era of fossil fuel production. Launch a national climate mobilization to Build … Continued 6:00 pm Reflections On Politics, Race and Culture: Where We Are and Where We’re Going @ Online Reflections On Politics, Race and Culture: Where We Are and Where We’re Going @ Online Jan 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Busboys and Poets and the Center for Popular Democracy are proud to present this virgual gathering to welcome in a new presidential administration: Reflections On Our Current Political Climate: Where We Are and Where We’re Going Tuesday January 19, 2021 6:00-8:00pm ET. This virtual gathering will bring together organizers, activists, artists, entertainers and political leaders to give a nonpartisan toast to the incoming administration and to share our ideas and visions of how we make sure that it is responsive to the needs, hopes and dreams of our communities. Join us … Continued 6:30 pm Socialist Night School: MLK In His Own Words @ Online Socialist Night School: MLK In His Own Words @ Online Jan 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In the decades since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination at sanitation workers strike in Memphis, his legacy has been appropriated by just about every political movement out there. From Fox News pundits claiming he would oppose tax increases on the rich because he was “for freedom,” to the more typical whitewashing of his radical politics for a broad audience, anyone and everyone claim the sainted image2 of the good Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as their own. But in his own time, MLK was viewed as the radical … Continued	5:55 pm Workers’ Rally Against Racism and Fascism! For a General Strike! @ SF City Hall Workers’ Rally Against Racism and Fascism! For a General Strike! @ SF City Hall Jan 20 @ 5:55 pm – 6:55 pm Tickets Fascism and racism are on the rise! Covid-19 is claiming lives! Poverty, unemployment and homelessness are suffocating the working class! Biden is not going to save us with his neoliberal agenda and suppressive policies! Join us in this rally to raise workers’ own united, independent voice against racism, fascism, poverty and the virus! Make sure to bring your masks and keep socially distant.68580 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 Jan 20 @ 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	12:00 pm End the Harassment of the Union Point Encampment @ Union Point Park End the Harassment of the Union Point Encampment @ Union Point Park Jan 21 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets 68593 6:00 pm A Socialist Strategy for Defeating The Far Right @ Online A Socialist Strategy for Defeating The Far Right @ Online Jan 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets RSVP here Zoom Link It has been two weeks since the attempted far-right coup at the US Capitol, egged on by Trump and some Republicans. Though in many ways the aftermath of January 6th was a defeat for Trump, the far right isn’t going anywhere, and we need to take the riots seriously as a possible embryo for a more organized far right movement. In response, left and establishment Democrats, along with some Republicans have started impeachment proceedings. While impeachment is positive, it does virtually nothing to neutralize the conditions … Continued 6:00 pm East Oakland SuSu Lending Circle Informational @ Online East Oakland SuSu Lending Circle Informational @ Online Jan 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Do you face barriers to accessing loans from traditional banks? Interested in programs that will help with debt management, jump start a business and enhance your quality of life? Join us to learn more about collective economics through the East Oakland SuSu Lending Circle program! Online Event Location: Register via Zoom 68588		11:00 am Saturday Virtual Dialogues: Creating a Call-in Culture @ Online Saturday Virtual Dialogues: Creating a Call-in Culture @ Online Jan 23 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets This space is to support the difficult emotional work of dismantling white supremacy within ourselves and our communities in order to fortify our hearts, minds, and bodies to continue to show up for racial justice. We will provide opportunities to explore internal barriers that are holding us back from living out our desire to work for racial justice and practice how to deeply listen to each other to create a culture that supports calling people into the movement from a place of love. We utilize large group and small group … Continued

Week of January 17

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.