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This presentation will explain: * Why the SCS–and the Phillipines–are critical to US global geostrategy * The SCS arbitral tribunal decision that the US claims as justification for Phillipine claims * The history & context of the … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jul 18 @ 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		1:00 pm All Out To Stop Privatization Of Howard Terminal: Port Workers & Community Unite @ Oscar Grant Plaza Amphiteater All Out To Stop Privatization Of Howard Terminal: Port Workers & Community Unite @ Oscar Grant Plaza Amphiteater Jul 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Come to rally just before city council: July 20th, 2021 1pm PST Oakland City Hall Oscar Grant Plaza , 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA Get on speakers list for city council meeting by contacting: committeeforlaborparty(at)gmail.com or For a Mass Labor Party in the USA @masslaborpartyusa on Facebook and Twitter https://www.facebook.com/masslaborpartyusa/ https://foramasslaborparty.wordpress.com On July 20th, 2021, Oakland City Council will take a vote on Oakland Athletics proposal for the development of a baseball stadium and accompanying condominium complex in the current Howard Terminal and connecting area to Jack London Square. … Continued 1:00 pm What Can We Do About Voter Suppression & The Threat To Democracy? Activists Respond. @ Online What Can We Do About Voter Suppression & The Threat To Democracy? Activists Respond. @ Online Jul 20 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Tuesday, July 20, 1 PM, SF Gray Panther Meeting What Can We Do About Voter Suppression & The Threat To Democracy? Activists Respond. This year 17 states have enacted 28 new laws to make it harder for people to vote. There have been nearly 400 voter suppression bills introduced in 48 states. What does this mean for our democracy? And what can we do or should we do about it? Find out from a panel of Bay Area activists. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86273983265; Meeting ID: 862 7398 3265; call in: 1 669 … Continued	8:00 am Policing in the Era of Big Data @ Online Policing in the Era of Big Data @ Online Jul 21 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets REGISTER: [Click here] In the age of algorithms and informatics, law enforcement agencies across the country have turned to data-driven programs to help fight crime. But what happens when such programs infringe on civil rights, amplify racial biases or become abusive? And how can journalists hold those agencies accountable while detailing the steep human costs for those targeted? In this webinar, 2021 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporters Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi will explain how they unearthed a secretive policing operation in Florida that used data to harass residents and profile … Continued 8:00 am UC Regents Public Assembly UC Regents Public Assembly Jul 21 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets The Coalition for a Truly Public UC is a group of students, staff, faculty, and community members calling for justice and a truly public University of California. We come together as a group with the understanding that, although each of our respective struggles has its own unique details and dynamics, they are ultimately all rooted in the same foundation. In that spirit, we are uniting our efforts to expose and fight against the ongoing privatization of the University of California system, and accompanying exploitation of working class people in the … Continued 8:30 am BAAQMD Refinery PM Regulation Vote @ Online BAAQMD Refinery PM Regulation Vote @ Online Jul 21 @ 8:30 am – 12:00 pm Tickets BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING: WHERE Join Zoom call with option for public speaking here. Update: After an hour of staff presentations, questions from the Board of Directors, and 5 1/2 hours of impassioned public testimony, the Board lost its quorum and the clock ran out on the scheduled June vote on BAAQMD’s Rule 6-5. It has been continued to July 21st at 8:30 AM. There will be further opportunity for public comment, but those comments will be limited to 30 seconds, and only if you didn’t speak at the June 2nd meeting. … Continued 12:30 pm Speculative Nonfiction: Re-writing Law in an Interdependent World @ Online Speculative Nonfiction: Re-writing Law in an Interdependent World @ Online Jul 21 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets RSVP (scroll down) If you love sci-fi, fantasy, and other speculative fiction, chances are you love futuristic world-building and supernatural elements. What if we made more space for daydreaming, re-imaginings, and inventions in the real world? If our systems of law and property were designed around a flawed worldview of separation and dominance, then what does it look like if we rebuild them on a foundation of interdependence? Bring your imagination! Sustainable Economies Law Center staff, interns, and partners will share about our on-the-ground work and visions for the … Continued 1:00 pm Views from An Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body @ Online Views from An Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body @ Online Jul 21 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Thirty years since the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, awareness of disability rights, advocacy, and visibility has increased, yet there is still a long way to go toward equality and understanding. Examining the complexities of disability issues with wisdom, humor, and honesty, author and disability advocate Rebekah Taussig offers a roadmap for broadening our awareness and expanding our understanding to help build a more inclusive world. Growing up as a paralyzed girl in the 1990s and early 2000s, Rebekah saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of … Continued 7:00 pm Anti Police-Terror Project @ Online Anti Police-Terror Project @ Online Jul 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Community, Oakland’s police budget was increased yet again, but $18 million that the mayor would have given to the cops were reallocated because of our collective organizing. We have a lot more work to do to reach our goal of defunding OPD by 50%, but the tide is finally starting to turn with Oakland beginning to build its investment in violence prevention and alternatives to policing. Join us tomorrow Wednesday, July 21 for our monthly virtual general meeting to learn more, and to hear what’s next in our fight to … Continued		7:00 pm Fukushima, The Pandemic & Olympics On The Opening Of the Olympics @ Online Fukushima, The Pandemic & Olympics On The Opening Of the Olympics @ Online Jul 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Register 7/23 Fukushima, The Pandemic & Olympics On The Opening Of the Olympics http://www.laborfest.net July 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PST free The plans by the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese Suga government to go ahead with the Olympics in the middle of a pandemic could create a new virus according to Japanese scientists. It also takes place with the government threatening to release over 1 million tons of radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean and the failure to remove the melted nuclear rods from … Continued	10:00 am Medicare for All March in San Francisco Medicare for All March in San Francisco Jul 24 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets March for Medicare for All in San Francisco! CPA invites you join progressive organizations throughout the Bay Area for Medicare for All March in San Francisco this Saturday, July 24th. There are over 40 Medicare for All Marches in cities across the country that we stand in solidarity with for national day of action. As we continue to fight the worst healthcare crisis in a century, Americans still suffer from an inefficient and unsustainable healthcare system. Experts have long said universal, single-payer healthcare would save thousands of lives … Continued 4:30 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Degrowth Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Degrowth Jul 24 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Assuming it is open, we will be meeting in-person at our old haunt, the OMNI, and, as an experiment, with a Zoom live link for those who can’t be there physically. Check back here a few days before the event to insure the availability of the OMNI, otherwise we will meet again solely online. Due to the exponential growth of Delta COVID in Alameda County we will still be meeting online in July. The August meeting may be held dually online and at the OMNI Commons. Stay tuned! Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com … Continued

Week of July 18

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.