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RSVP and we’ll see … Continued 1:00 pm The Plastics Disaster: Sunflower Alliance Meeting The Plastics Disaster: Sunflower Alliance Meeting Jun 13 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Vastly increasing the production of plastic is the new fossil fuel industry strategy to maintain its profits—which means increasing toxic pollution at every step, from oil/gas extraction to production to waste. Join us to learn more about this racist and ecocidal campaign, and how people are fighting to stop it. The program includes: A short animated film, The Story of Plastic,which summarizes a longer documentary explaining the whole disastrous process. Speakers: — Julie Teel Simonds, Center for Biological Diversity, providing an overview of this strategy; — Miriam Gordon, Upstream Solutions, sharing … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jun 13 @ 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 Green Sunday: United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America Green Sunday: United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America Jun 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (and what you can do about it) * With Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff * The role of news media in a free society is to investigate, inform, and provide a crucial check on political power. But does it? Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82620271999?pwd=S3ZwUklteGI5YjJsMEtMSnJXRzU3UT09 Meeting ID: 826 2027 1999 Passcode: 2020 It’s no secret that the goal of corporate-owned media is to increase the profits of the few, not to empower the many. As a result, people are increasingly immersed in an … Continued	11:00 am FROM PARADISE TO PACIFIC HEIGHTS: YOUTH DEMAND A CIVILIAN CLIMATE CORPS @ H. Dana Bowers Northbound Rest Area FROM PARADISE TO PACIFIC HEIGHTS: YOUTH DEMAND A CIVILIAN CLIMATE CORPS @ H. Dana Bowers Northbound Rest Area Jun 14 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Sunrise Movement leaders from across California are marching 266 miles from Paradise to San Francisco for the Civilian Climate Corps. We’re marching to demonstrate the urgency of the climate and economic crisis, and need for Congress and Biden to pass an ambitious CCC by the end of Summer 2021 as an immediate first-step solution. The Civilian Climate Corps is a vision of a federal jobs program (modeled after the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps) that will put our generation to work combatting the climate crisis with equity and equality, scaled … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Jun 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	6:00 pm David & Margaret Talbot: By the Light of Burning Dreams @ Online David & Margaret Talbot: By the Light of Burning Dreams @ Online Jun 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a unique Zoom Event: David & Margaret Talbot By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Second American Revolution Hosted by Greg Bridges ……………………………………………………………………………… New York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate “America’s second revolutionary generation” in this gripping history of one of the most dynamic eras of the twentieth century— brought to life through seven radical episodes that offer urgent lessons for today. The political landscape of the 1960’s and ‘70’s was probably the most tumultuous in this country’s … Continued 7:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Public Bank of the East Bay @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM' Jun 15 @ 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	12:00 pm CARE NOT COPS Noise Demo @ New City Hall CARE NOT COPS Noise Demo @ New City Hall Jun 16 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/Copwatch411/status/1404849098163822593 We are gathering every Wednesday at noon on the steps of City Hall to demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE Not Cops! The City Manager is proposing a budget that INCREASES funding for the Berkeley Police from last year! This is despite the city’s supposed commitment to “reimagine public safety” and decrease funding to the police. In advance of the final budget vote on June 29, we are gathering EVERY WEDNESDAY AT NOON on the steps of City Hall to make them hear us and demand a community … Continued 5:00 pm A Conversation with Angela Davis @ Online A Conversation with Angela Davis @ Online Jun 16 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets “An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend.”—TIME Join a live conversation with activist and scholar Angela Davis, who has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice for decades. The Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz has also taught at UC Berkeley, UCLA, the Claremont Colleges, Stanford, and other universities. The author of nine books, most recently, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, has lectured around the world and will be joined … Continued 7:00 pm APTP General meeting @ Online APTP General meeting @ Online Jun 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets join us tonight at 7 p.m. for our monthly virtual general meeting to learn more about our #DefundOPD budget fight from our policy director, James Burch, and partners from our Defund Police coalition. The City has until June 30 to finalize a two-year budget for our town. Tomorrow, Thursday 6/17 at 10:30 am, Oakland City Council will consider Council President Bas’s budget amendments. There’s some good stuff in there — like investing in MACRO, violence prevention, and a top-to-bottom audit of OPD — but we still need to pressure all the councilmembers for greater … Continued 7:00 pm CA Public Banking Act Review @ Online CA Public Banking Act Review @ Online Jun 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/publicbankeb/status/140452682648403149069132 7:00 pm WANT A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF PUBLIC BANKING? @ Online WANT A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF PUBLIC BANKING? @ Online Jun 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Register here Dear Friends and Public Banking Allies, We’d like to invite you to our next Public Banking 101 session, an educational series hosted by the Friends of the Public Bank East Bay exploring public banking in the context of our ongoing efforts to create a public bank in the East Bay. Our speaker will be Sylvia Chi, co-author of the landmark 2019 California Public Banking Act (AB 857) and former policy director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN). Sylvia will give an overview of AB857 and how it … Continued	6:00 pm California Doughnut Economics Coalition Book Group – All We Can Save @ Online California Doughnut Economics Coalition Book Group – All We Can Save @ Online Jun 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Are you hungry for deeper dialogue about the climate crisis and building community around solutions? We are too. A group of us at California Doughnut Economics Coalition are reading All We Can Save — it’s a book club! The book club helps us build on our doughnut economics foundation, further connect the (social & ecological) dots, and think more like a 21st-century economist. We want to extend the invite to all. About Book Club: A unique opportunity to read and share some information and inspirational conversation on important issues. The book club is an unbiased … Continued

Week of June 13

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.