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All-day			Rose Foundation Virtual Film Fest Rose Foundation Virtual Film Fest Sep 1 all-day Tickets 2021 VIRTUAL FILM FEST Celebrate the power of grassroots activism and community resilience with the Rose Foundation! 2021 Film Festival will run from September 1-21. Watch a curated selection of short and feature-length films showcasing the power of grassroots activism. Join the live event on September 18th, including an exciting collection of shorts, youth-led film Q&A, and a toast to the grassroots. Visit Event Website >> Cost: $25 We hope our 2021 Film Fest trailer gets you excited for our biggest collection of films yet, featuring over 25 independent shorts … 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 10:30 am Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline? @ Online Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline? @ Online Aug 29 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline? It is almost taken for granted, if not an article of faith, in the progressive milieu that the US empire is in decline. Does this hold up or is it comfort food for the frustrated hoping for the revolution? In the 40-year period between 1917 and 1959, socialist revolutions occurred in Russia, China, Korea, Vietnam, eleven countries across Eastern Europe, and Cuba. Yet during this era, thought to be a period of US ascendency, the US … Continued	12:00 pm protect environmental justice communities @ CalEPA Bldg protect environmental justice communities @ CalEPA Bldg Aug 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Children and families in California frontline communities are sick and dying because the agencies that should be protecting them are in bed with corporate polluters and developers. Join Sunflower Alliance and 22 other sponsoring groups to demand that CalEPA and the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) take immediate action to protect environmental justice communities across California. For Bay Area carpool info, email action@sunflower-alliance.org. EJ communities from Laytonville to LA will converge on the CalEPA Building in downtown Sacramento to speak out and act up against these agencies’ refusal to … Continued	12:00 pm Shut Down All 800 US Bases & Withdraw All US Troops Abroad @ SF Federal Bldg Shut Down All 800 US Bases & Withdraw All US Troops Abroad @ SF Federal Bldg Aug 31 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets The collapse of the US supported government and military in Afhganistan is not an accident or mistake. The US spent over $2.3 trillion or $300 million a month for this bi-partisan operation. It helped train and arm Osama Bin Laden and tens of thousands to fight the Russians and this is now the blowback caused by the US in the Middle East wars in Iraq, Syria and Libya. This war in Afhaniistan killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of people of Afghanistan and thousands of Americans and contractors. The military … Continued 6:00 pm 100th Anniversary of Chinese Communist Party – Not the Party of Mao and Revolution @ Revolution Books 100th Anniversary of Chinese Communist Party – Not the Party of Mao and Revolution @ Revolution Books Aug 31 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Come to Revolution Books to watch and discuss a talk by Raymond Lotta. In July, the Chinese Communist Party of China celebrated its 100th anniversary. Raymond Lotta wrote on http://www.revcom.us: “China’s Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party – Not the Party of Mao and Revolution…But of Counterrevolution and Capitalism-Imperialism.” This article addresses basic questions of why the current regime in China is thoroughly capitalist, and the Chinese Communist Party is a thoroughly capitalist party, how the Chinese revolution was overthrown, and what socialist society is and is not. … Continued 6:30 pm Socialist Night School: Climate Crisis and Capitalism 101 @ Online Socialist Night School: Climate Crisis and Capitalism 101 @ Online Aug 31 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Register This fire season we’ve seen the largest known wildfire ever in California, bringing the climate crisis literally to our front doors. This is not an isolated event. Climate scientists have been warning that extreme weather would be coming if we continued to burn fossil fuels, and yet, because of capitalism, we’ve only seen the use of those fuels skyrocket. In the past month reports about this crisis have come out with dire warnings, letting us know that tipping points that mean an unavoidable cascade of the irreversible climate crisis, … Continued	6:00 pm What is Crimmigration? Ella Baker Meeting @ Online What is Crimmigration? Ella Baker Meeting @ Online Sep 1 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Register Here What role does the immigration system have in upholding the prison industrial complex? What is a “direct transfer” & how have direct transfers impacted our communities? What is the Vision Act and how can you get involved? Learn this and more as we speak with directly impacted community members around these topics. General member meetings take place every 1st Wednesday of the month and are open to everyone! *Due to concerns over the spread of COVD-19 variants, our monthly member meetings will remain virtual for the remainder of … Continued	5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – Police Body Cameras @ Online Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission – Police Body Cameras @ Online Sep 2 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85817209915 Interesting Agenda Items 4. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Body Worn Camera impact report and proposed use policy – review and take possible action 69286 6:00 pm The Meaning of Life… Without Parole @ Online The Meaning of Life… Without Parole @ Online Sep 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Join CCWP (CA Coalition for Women Prisoners) for a special event this coming Thursday featuring four amazing storytellers, two of which are formerly incarcerated CCWP members who will be sharing about Life Without Parole. You can read more about the Stories in Living Color series here. *This event is free and will stream on YouTube, but you must register here to receive the link. 69289	7:00 pm DSA SF Tenant Solidarity Documentary Series @ Online DSA SF Tenant Solidarity Documentary Series @ Online Sep 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Join the DSA SF Tenant Solidarity Committee and East Bay DSA Social Housing Program in viewing and discussing a series of documentaries that address housing, tenancy, and activism in the Bay Area across the last several decades. Each viewing will include approximately one hour of documentary screening plus discussion or some words from folks involved in the creation of the documentary. We would love to see you there! August 20 – Double Feature night of films: “Homeless First” and “Couper Was Here” September 3 – “Quarantine Diary”, “Cob On Wood”, … Continued

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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.