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In preparation, please re-read the Manifesto itself, and if there are particular passages you want the group to consider, please send the full text of those passages to <cuylerluyle@mac.com> by Saturday morning so they can be included – and bring your own copy to our Zoom meeting … Continued 1:00 pm A Short History of Green Unionism: Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Online A Short History of Green Unionism: Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Online Jul 11 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Gifford Hartman will speak about exemplary moments in labor history that help us imagine possibilities for breaking the current jobs vs. climate-and-community impasse. For one example: the actions of the petrochemical workers at Porto Marghera in Italy, whose struggles from the 1960s to the 1980s arguably made them the world’s first worker-ecologists: “They fought against the bosses, but also against the destruction of the workers’ health and environmental contamination.” (For a deeper dive, see this subtitled documentary: Porto Maghera: The Last Firebrands.) To get the Zoom link, RSVP to action@sunflower-alliance.org.69154 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 11 @ 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: US-China Relations and the New Cold War @ Online Green Sunday: US-China Relations and the New Cold War @ Online Jul 11 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets US-China Relations and the New Cold War K.J Noh – Understanding US-China Relations in the Current Historical Moment From dealing with Covid, to mitigating global climate change, to managing global economic shifts, the most important factor determining the outcome of these critical issues is the nature of US-China relations. Yet, the US is clearly on a path towards conflict with China–“the US is already in the foothills of a cold war”, according to Kissinger–while analyses and news about this critical relationship in the MSM is saturated with misinformation, disinformation, … Continued	7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Jul 12 @ 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 8:45 pm Guerrilla Projection: Arts To Defund Line 3 @ Chase Bank Guerrilla Projection: Arts To Defund Line 3 @ Chase Bank Jul 12 @ 8:45 pm – 9:45 pm Tickets Event by San Francisco Projection Department Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/4t46Ou4lV Join us for one hour: GUERRILLA PROJECTIONS: SF Projection Dept will project Defund Line 3 art on Chase Bank. POP-UP ART SHOW: Outdoor gallery opening gala exhibit of Defund Line 3 art by 11 artists featured in the Defund Line 3 Poster Art Newspaper. STREET MURAL: Help paint a street mural with non-toxic clay and tempera paint. MUSIC: songs by 1000 Grandmothers and other special guests. POSTER ART DISTRO: Come pick up some poster art to put up, display or make … Continued	6:30 pm Red Square: Transit for the People @ Online Red Square: Transit for the People @ Online Jul 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Be it via car, bus, train, or bike, everyone uses some form of transportation as a daily part of their lives. But how does this connect to socialism, class struggle, and racial justice? RSVP Join the People’s Transit Alliance and Political Education to learn about how public transportation is an important site for socialist organizing. From public transit’s role as a unionized labor sector to its crucial position as a tool in the fight for ecosocialism and collective struggle, it’s clear that the stakes of how we move around where … Continued 7:00 pm Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture @ Online Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture @ Online Jul 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In his new book, Cancel This Book, longtime activist and labor lawyer Dan Kovalik argues that cancel culture is entirely mean-spirited, a danger to progressive movement building, and serves only the interests of the extremely powerful. Getting people fired or socially ostracizing them because they ran afoul of the ever-changing language norms or made a simple mistake is a strategy that hands more power to bosses and authority figures. While It may make the accusers feel good, it is destructive,“ Kovalik insists. CANCEL THIS BOOK argues not just for an end to … Continued	6:00 pm DECARCERATE ALAMEDA COUNTY @ Online DECARCERATE ALAMEDA COUNTY @ Online Jul 14 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets We meet virtually on zoom on the second Wednesday of every month from 6-7:30pm. These meetings are open to the public. The content of our meetings span from trainings, campaign updates, teach-ins, debates, roundtable discussions, etc. Click below to join the meeting or use this link: https://zoom.us/j/96555663590 2021 General Meeting Dates: February 10, March 10, April 14, May 12, June 9, July 14, August 11, September 8, October 13, November 10, December 868799 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Jul 14 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or 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, tracking equipment, 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 … Continued 6:45 pm Green New Deal Committee Monthly Meeting – DSA @ Online Green New Deal Committee Monthly Meeting – DSA @ Online Jul 14 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Our Green New Deal Committee meets on the second Wednesday each month. We will discuss eco-socialist issues, upcoming events and actions, committee priorities, and campaigns. All are welcome! Please RSVP to receive the URL to the meeting or email green-new-deal@eastbaydsa.org.69156	2:00 pm Take To The Streets for Civilian Climate Corps @ Senator Feinstein's SF Office Take To The Streets for Civilian Climate Corps @ Senator Feinstein's SF Office Jul 15 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets What: Rally at Sen. Feinstein’s offices On July 15th, Sunrise Movement is leading a protest to put the heat on Sen. Feinstein for her inaction on the climate crisis. Californians will come together to rally outside Feinsten’s offices at three different locations. Can you join the rally in downtown San Francisco to demand a bold and equity-based Civilian Climate Corps? Organizers from Extinction Rebellion SF Bay are collaborating with Sunrise to help fill roles for the action. If you’d like to get involved with planning or support in any way, … 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 Jul 15 @ 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	11:30 am Stop Line 3 Protest at US Army COE Office Stop Line 3 Protest at US Army COE Office Jul 16 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets What: To protest Biden’s inaction on Line 3 and demand that he and the Army Corp of Engineers revoke the permit now. Where: Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse This is being organized by a coalition of Bay Area climate justice activists. Come help us bring the message to Biden and the Corp that it is time to Stop Line 3! RSVP & info on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/2PsKW4Fgi 69171	8:00 pm Good Trouble: Candlelight Vigil for Democracy @ Entrance is on Martin Luther King Good Trouble: Candlelight Vigil for Democracy @ Entrance is on Martin Luther King Jul 17 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets America is at a crossroads. Six months have passed since the failed attack on our nation and our democracy on January 6th. Since that day, anti-voter laws have been passed in states all over the country and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings have made clear that it will not act to protect the sacred right to vote. This summer, Congressional districts risk being redrawn in a way that will allow politicians to choose their voters – rather than the voters fairly choosing who represents them. We have reached an … Continued

Week of July 11

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.