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What are the strategies that have been taken by the movement to … Continued 1:00 pm DSA East Bay General Meeting @ Online DSA East Bay General Meeting @ Online Mar 14 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Join us for a voting General Meeting of East Bay DSA! We will debate and vote on resolutions and hear reports from projects and committees around the chapter. This month, we will debate and vote on a resolution regarding out 2021 Local Convention and its Priorities Resolution Process. Please see the agenda here. If you would like to submit an amendment for consideration at the March GM, please send it to resolutions@eastbaydsa.org by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, March 9th, 2021. The meeting will be conducted via Zoom — please register and find the call-in … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 14 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to: occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to … Continued 5:00 pm Coronavirus, Health Management, and Media @ Online Coronavirus, Health Management, and Media @ Online Mar 14 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82620271999?pwd=S3ZwUklteGI5YjJsMEtMSnJXRzU3UT09 Meeting ID: 826 2027 1999 Passcode: 2020 How are our federal agencies working for us during the pandemic, and what can they do better? Could special interests and regulatory capture of key agencies (such as the CDC, FDA, etc.) be affecting current US coronavirus policies? How is the mass media covering the pandemic? What are the important aspects and/or information not being discussed, which we should be aware of? And what can we learn from other countries in how they are managing this crisis? How about … Continued		1:00 pm Recalculating the Social Cost of Carbon @ Online Recalculating the Social Cost of Carbon @ Online Mar 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Join a conversation with David Anthoff, Professor with UC Berkeley’s Energy & Resources Group, about his recent research on how to recalculate the social cost of carbon (SCC). Anthoff helped create a roadmap for the Biden Administration to set an SCC in a way that is both scientifically rigorous and transparent; as well as specific suggestions including updating the way they calculate damage and including the inequitable effects of climate change. The roadmap was published in the journal Nature last month. The UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment hosts … Continued 1:00 pm Yes on MACRO (Oakland) @ Online Yes on MACRO (Oakland) @ Online Mar 16 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/sassmasterdeane/status/1371882310295953409 https://twitter.com/sassmasterdeane/status/137188235970068480468873 7:00 pm Electrify Your Ride @ Online Electrify Your Ride @ Online Mar 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Learn EV Basics. We’ll review available electric vehicles, charging at home and on the road, incentives, total cost of ownership, and you’ll have the chance to ask the questions you’ve always wondered about EVs. These are the following dates and times we are presenting. Tuesday, March 16th, 7pm REGISTER Wednesday, March 24th, 12pm REGISTER Monday, March 29th, 5pm REGISTER Wednesday, April 14th, 7pm REGISTER Tuesday, April 20th, 4:30pm REGISTER Thursday, April 29th, 12:30pm REGISTER 68864 7:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Public Bank of the East Bay @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Mar 16 @ 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	4:00 pm Stop UC’s Eviction! Stop UC’s Eviction! Mar 17 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Join us March 17 at 4pm at 1921 Walnut St in downtown Berkeley to protest UC’s planned evictions + demolition of our rent controlled homes. All are welcome! Help us SAVE 1921 Walnut St and save affordable housing in Berkeley! Share our poster & share our story. Thank you @TANCBay 68851 6:00 pm Re imagining Public Safety @ Online Re imagining Public Safety @ Online Mar 17 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets We need your support on March 17 to show the mayor and OPD what’s right for Oakland. Join us for the LAST MEETING of the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force! On the table are some of the most forward-thinking proposals in the country. Thanks to our organizing, the Task Force advisory boards have proposed a set of bold, smart, transformative recommendations that will completely reimagine public safety in the Town. These proposals are overwhelmingly popular across Oakland’s communities. But opponents aligned with the Mayor and OPD are fighting tooth and … Continued 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 Mar 17 @ 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	10:00 am Inside the Fight for Public Information @ Online Inside the Fight for Public Information @ Online Mar 18 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets Online Event Location: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inside-the-fight-for-public-information-tickets-143848549885?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_cid=92bf61b020 In 2020, access to public information became even more challenging. Government at all levels cited the pandemic for refusing to respond to records requests. Yet news organizations across the country published essential accountability journalism, breaking through barriers to open government. Hear from journalists from The Advocate, The Brown Institute, plus a First Amendment Coalition attorney, on how they navigated barriers to public records to tell important stories about COVID-19, official misconduct and beyond. 68848 2:00 pm Banking for All @ Online Banking for All @ Online Mar 18 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets JOIN US FOR THE AB 1177 ADVOCATES’ BRIEFING. Join us for a briefing call and learn more about this crucial new bill to help close the racial financial access gap. Advocates’ briefing invite and Zoom registration link. Nearly 1 in 4 Californians are unbanked or underbanked – they either do not have a baank account, or despite having a bank account, still largely rely on alternative financial services, such as payday lenders, prepaid debit cards, and pawn shops. The unbanked and underbanked pay more for their financial services, have fewer … Continued 4:00 pm Introduction to the Green New Deal @ Online Introduction to the Green New Deal @ Online Mar 18 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Grandmothers for a Green New Deal, a small group of elder women (members of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations), invite you to a 90-minute, interactive zoom workshop to examine the Green New Deal as a blueprint toward a sustainable future. Sign up for one of these workshops by clicking on the registration links below Register for Thursday, March 18, 4-5:30 PM Register for Friday, March 26; 4-5:30 PM Register for Thursday, April 1, 4 – 5:30 PM PLEASE NOTE: Each presentation is limited to 12 participants so everyone has a chance to share their ideas. Please register early! … Continued 5:30 pm Just Transition Town Hall: Decommissioning Refineries in the Bay Area @ Online Just Transition Town Hall: Decommissioning Refineries in the Bay Area @ Online Mar 18 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Register here. Join Communities for a Better Environment, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, and the Richmond Our Power Coalition (ROPC) at the first of a series of ROPC Just Transition town halls. At Decommissioning Refineries in the Bay Area, imagine the progressive closure of Bay Area refineries where the host communities and workers are protected economically and socially! For the City of Richmond, this means imagining a future Beyond Chevron. Richmond is trapped in a toxic relationship with Chevron. For over a century: Chevron has polluted Richmond’s air, water, land, and politics, Chevron has pitted … Continued		10:00 am Panel Discussion: Farmers’ Struggle in India @ Online Panel Discussion: Farmers’ Struggle in India @ Online Mar 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Hundreds of thousands of farmers and farm-workers in India have been protesting for over 111 days seeking repeal of the three new farm laws. What started in the Indian state of Punjab as a protest against the deregulation of the agrarian economy and doing away with the limited protections the farmers have had, quickly evolved into the largest mass mobilization in post-colonial India. Despite efforts from the hyper-nationalist ruling party to derail and delegitimize the movement, it continues to grow having cut across class, caste, and gender, and threatens to … Continued 10:30 am Workers of the World: Growth, Change and Rebellion (online townhall) @ Online Workers of the World: Growth, Change and Rebellion (online townhall) @ Online Mar 20 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Join us for a discussion with Kim Moody, a longtime activist, socialist, a founder of Labor Notes, and author of many books on rank and file unionism and politics. For more event information: https://speakoutsocialists.org/th-03-20-21/ Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82158800683?pwd=N2J6UjgxNWhNak1WRWdUdm9CUit4QT09 Meeting ID: 821 5880 0683 Passcode: 340756 One tap mobile +16699009128,,82158800683#,,,,,,0#,,340756# US (San Jose) +13462487799,,82158800683#,,,,,,0#,,340756# US (Houston) 68877 11:00 am Non Violent Direct Action (NVDA) Training Non Violent Direct Action (NVDA) Training Mar 20 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Part II: Non Violent Direct Action (NVDA) Training Discussion facilitated by Marian Doub and Nikki Sachs We are deeply grateful to The Society of Fearless Grandmothers for offering this training in August 2020 during the cocooning enforced by the global pandemic crisis. The Society of Fearless Grandmothers trains older women in NVDA, how to organize, how to become a police liaison, and how to nonviolently stand between law enforcement and those behind us conducting nonviolent direct actions. The Society of Fearless Grandmothers is a wholly volunteer community service organization. This … Continued 1:00 pm Oakland Solidarity With Amazon Workers – Car Caravan and Rally @ Lake Merritt BART Parking Lo Oakland Solidarity With Amazon Workers – Car Caravan and Rally @ Lake Merritt BART Parking Lo Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Join the bike and car caravan to support the Alabama Amazon Workers’ union drive. March 20 is the International Day of Solidarity. The caravan will start at 1 p.m at Lake Merritt BART Parking Lot, 8th and Oak, travel to several Oakland Amazon hubs and then end at Snow Park, 19th and Harrison at 2:30 p.m. for a rally. https://supportamazonworkers.org/march20/ Between Feb 8, and March 29, approximately 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama will begin voting by mail on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale Department Store … Continued 1:00 pm Spill the Disabili-Tea: A Disability Justice Workshop @ Online Spill the Disabili-Tea: A Disability Justice Workshop @ Online Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Follow this link to register: https://www.surjbayarea.org/events/spill-the-disabili-tea-a-disability-justice-workshop_2021_03_20 What is Disability Justice? People often express feeling intimidated and ill-equipped to unpack what we’ve been taught about disability, and how to support and advocate for disabled people in our everyday lives. This workshop is a fabulous opportunity for you to dive into the magic of disability justice with SURJ and Alex Locust at the helm. With “Spill the Disabili-Tea™”, Alex will be facilitating an interactive discussion of disability justice for those committed to elevating their support for disabled folks in their community. … Continued 9:00 pm Film Screening: Kiss the Ground @ Online Film Screening: Kiss the Ground @ Online Mar 20 @ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that sheds light on a new, old approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world. Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil … Continued

Week of March 14

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.