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All-day						First Annual Social and Economic Justice Film Festival First Annual Social and Economic Justice Film Festival May 1 all-day Tickets All featured movies Global Women’s Strike/Bay Area, part of the Alliance for Social and Economic Justice, invites you to take part in the film festival (info below) to help raise funds to launch a Center for Social and Economic Justice in the Redstone Labor Temple in SF. The mission of the San Francisco Social and Economic Justice Film Festival is to provide a platform for films made by independent filmmakers who are exploring and advocating for social and economic justice. The Social and Economic Justice Film Festival highlights films and … 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 12:00 pm People’s Park 52nd Anniversary @ People's Park People’s Park 52nd Anniversary @ People's Park Apr 25 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets 68950 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 25 @ 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	3:00 pm Imagining and Remaking a World Without Prisons @ Online Imagining and Remaking a World Without Prisons @ Online Apr 26 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Online Event Location: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-and-remaking-a-world-without-prisons-visions-study-and-practice-tickets-149366973639?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch In partnership with local and national community-based organizations that continue to lead the way to shape abolition – groups like Critical Resistance, Black & Pink, Love & Protect, Parole Illinois – Prison+Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (PNAP) is kicking off two years of programming with two events featuring key thinkers in conversation about teaching and learning, cultural work, and abolition. Join us and learn from local and national organizers, cultural workers, educators, and scholars who are building radical teaching and learning pathways for currently and formerly incarcerated communities, sustaining … Continued	12:00 pm Justice 4 Mario Gonzalez @ Alameda City Hall Justice 4 Mario Gonzalez @ Alameda City Hall Apr 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/138682770565661081868990 5:30 pm Protect Your Home from Foreclosure @ Online Protect Your Home from Foreclosure @ Online Apr 27 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/EBCLCNews/status/138680960678609715268993 6:30 pm DSA Night School: Socialists and the Non Profit Industrial Complex @ Online DSA Night School: Socialists and the Non Profit Industrial Complex @ Online Apr 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Many people work at nonprofits for the same reason they become socialists – they see the ills of the world and want to have a hand in changing them. Join us for this EBDSA Night School exploring the relationship between the fight for socialism and nonprofits. We’ll look at the limits of philanthropy and enacting change through nonprofits, and explore what it means to build working-class power to fight capitalism. Readings https://midwestsocialist.com/2019/07/29/non-profits-in-the-coming-struggle/ https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/peter-singer-charity-effective-altruism/ Audio Not for Profit? The Nonprofit Industrial Complex Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82065674829?pwd=Yjh4OFVveDNvRUFCSjFHNkVPRDlOdz09 Meeting ID: 820 6567 … Continued	3:00 pm Art Build for May Day Mass Action @ San Pablo Park Art Build for May Day Mass Action @ San Pablo Park Apr 28 @ 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Whether you’ve got zero crafting ability or you’re a design genius, we need you to help create the art for the May Day Action! Hundreds of DSA members are joining the May Day March to call for the passage of the PRO ACT, so that means we need a lot of people to help make hundreds of red flags for DSA members to wave at the march! Join us for a socially distant art build on Wednesday, April 28th, 3-7 pm at San Pablo Park, Berkeley near the intersection of … Continued 6:00 pm DSA Medicare for All Committee Meeting @ Online DSA Medicare for All Committee Meeting @ Online Apr 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets With the pandemic and its multiple, intersecting crises, and the polling popularity of Medicare for All, our commitment to the movement is more important than ever. Come learn about our committee’s efforts, as well as local, state, and national initiatives around Medicare for All and single-payer healthcare. All are welcome! Join Zoom Meeting – Feb 24th RSVP https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81235048894?pwd=RDZHcnRDQ0FpV3ZndzdUenVJZ3JaZz09 Meeting ID: 812 3504 8894 Passcode: M4A One tap mobile +16699006833,,81235048894#,,,,,,0#,,956134# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,81235048894#,,,,,,0#,,956134# US (Tacoma) Join Zoom Meeting – March 24th RSVP https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81235048894?pwd=RDZHcnRDQ0FpV3ZndzdUenVJZ3JaZz09 Meeting ID: 812 3504 8894 Passcode: … Continued	10:00 am Clean Mobility with Speed and Equity @ Online Clean Mobility with Speed and Equity @ Online Apr 29 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Transportation accounts for over half of all greenhouse gas emissions in California. Join the Climate Center in this webinar on equitable transportation and clean mobility strategies that can wean us off fossil fuels. Speakers: Assemblymember Phil Ting Rebecca Fisher, Bay Area Air Quality Management District Dr. Joseph K. Lyou, Coalition for Clean Air Andrea Vidaurre, Peoples Collective for Environmental Justice Ricardo Hidalgo, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Register here To see the full lineup of the Climate Center’s Climate-Safe California webinar series, as well as recordings of past webinars, click here.68961 12:00 pm REIMAGINING PUBLIC SAFETY – Cat Brooks @ Online REIMAGINING PUBLIC SAFETY – Cat Brooks @ Online Apr 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Register Amid nationwide reckoning with racial justice and calls to reimagine policing in America’s cities, Oakland has moved ahead with plans to change its public safety funding and performance. The Defund OPD campaign was launched by the Anti Policy Terror Project five years ago. Join us for a discussion with two leaders in the effort to change the criminal justice system. About the Speakers Cat Brooks is an activist, performer, politician and speaker or who has served as the communications director for Coaching Corps, as executive director of Youth Together … Continued 6:00 pm Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration @ Online Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration @ Online Apr 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Aviva Chomsky restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today. At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of asylum in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten History, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” She outlines how we often fail to remember the circumstances and ongoing effects of Central America’s historical inequality and … Continued 6:30 pm MACRO – Non police emergency response – learn more @ Online MACRO – Non police emergency response – learn more @ Online Apr 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/oakcopoversight/status/138657687635789824268987		10:00 am North Oakland Mutual Aid at the OMNI Commons @ Omni Commons North Oakland Mutual Aid at the OMNI Commons @ Omni Commons May 1 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/omnicommons/status/138746699275652710568996 10:00 am SF Bay Area May Day Parade & Rally for Workers’ Rights & Racial Justice @ Embarcadero & Market St. SF Bay Area May Day Parade & Rally for Workers’ Rights & Racial Justice @ Embarcadero & Market St. May 1 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets SF Bay Area May Day Parade & Rally for Workers’ Rights & Racial Justice Join Bay Area Labor on May 1st as we recreate the famous 1934 May Day march up Market Street from the Embarcadero to Civic Center for a rally. Wear your union shirts and jackets! Organizations should sign up HERE. You can also download the FLIER. Celebrations of International Workers’ Day, also called May Day, date back over 100 years to the fight for an eight hour work day. In San Francisco, May 1 has also played … Continued 1:00 pm Celebrate May Day! A salute to the rebels who sparked this international working-class holiday @ Online Celebrate May Day! A salute to the rebels who sparked this international working-class holiday @ Online May 1 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Register Salute the working-class rebels who sparked this international holiday A story in song, dramatic readings and images Explore May Day’s origins in the world struggle for an eight-hour day and honor the heroes who put their lives on the line for the rights of every worker.68983 2:30 pm May Day Oakland – Car Caravan and Rally @ Lake Merritt BART Parking Lot May Day Oakland – Car Caravan and Rally @ Lake Merritt BART Parking Lot May 1 @ 2:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets From copy violence to military violence to workers’ rights, SOLIDARITY is our strength! People Over Profit! Educate! Agitate! Organize! 5pm Rally in West Oakland at a to-be-disclosed location. 68998 4:30 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Optimist’s Telescope – Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age @ Online Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Optimist’s Telescope – Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age @ Online May 1 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets We still meet via Zoom. Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com for the invite. For our April meeting we’ll be reading the first five chapters of The Optimist’s Telescope – Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age by Bina Venkataraman. “Instant gratification is the norm today—in our lives, our culture, our economy, and our politics. Many of us have forgotten (if we ever learned) how to make smart decisions for the long run. Whether it comes to our finances, our health, our communities, or our planet, it’s easy to avoid thinking ahead. The consequences of … Continued 8:00 pm Abolish The Police Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza Abolish The Police Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 1 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets No Livestreaming. No Pictures. No Snitches. Wear All Black. Group Up, Mask Up. Bring Some Soup for your Family. 😉 68975

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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.