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All-day						Rose Foundation Virtual Film Fest Rose Foundation Virtual Film Fest Sep 18 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
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What does that … Continued 1:00 pm Sunflower Alliance: Wildfires on a Warming Planet: Debunking the Myths/Taking Action @ Online Sunflower Alliance: Wildfires on a Warming Planet: Debunking the Myths/Taking Action @ Online Sep 12 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets WHERE: Online. To get the Zoom link, RSVP to action@sunflower-alliance.org. Chad T. Hanson is a forest ecologist with the John Muir Project. Five years ago he wrote, “There are now 66 million dead trees in California’s forests due to several years of drought and native bark beetles, creating a “catastrophic” wildfire threat—or so claims U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. While Vilsack’s assertion may resonate with many in the general public because it makes intuitive sense, it simply isn’t true. Among scientists, there is an overwhelming consensus that weather (hot, dry, windy conditions) … Continued 4:00 pm Is There Still Time to Save the World? Dan Kammen Webinar @ Online Is There Still Time to Save the World? Dan Kammen Webinar @ Online Sep 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Hear from a prominent climate scientist why California must take a more aggressive stance on the climate emergency. Professor Dan Kammen of UC Berkeley will present his latest research and explain the science, economics, and policies behind his recent co-authored report, Accelerating the timeline for climate action in California. As he testified before a State Senate committee in April, “The fact that we are in a climate emergency is plain to see and need not be debated further…. We are now in a position to do better for the climate, for … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 12 @ 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: Housing is a Human Right @ Online Green Sunday: Housing is a Human Right @ Online Sep 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Struggles involving housing issues in Oakland — The policies and organizing involve a multitude of matters from gentrification and the Howard Terminal project, to renters rights and a wave of potential evictions, to ‘affordability’ and homelessness. This is a major point of contention within the labor council and a wide range of community/ housing organizations in the East Bay. Come to a discussion with one of the key activists and political advocates around the right to housing, focusing on Oakland. Carroll Fife is the Oakland City Council member representing District … Continued 5:13 pm Progressive Law Day – NLG @ Hastings College or online Progressive Law Day – NLG @ Hastings College or online Sep 12 @ 5:13 pm – 6:13 pm Tickets Progressive Law Day is a free half-day conference, historically organized and led by law student members of the National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, and open to law students, legal workers, lawyers, activists, and anyone interested in learning about radical lawyering and legal work. Progressive Law Day 2021 will be held in partnership with UC Hastings College of the Law, on the Hastings campus at 200 McAllister Ave in San Francisco. Lunch will be provided for all attendees. Registration is open for both in-person and virtual attendance for all workshops and … Continued	7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Sep 13 @ 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	12:00 pm 20 Years After 9/11: Lessons in Solidarity 20 Years After 9/11: Lessons in Solidarity Sep 14 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Register below to receive the calendar invite and link to the event. Online Event Location: https://mailchi.mp/buildingmovement/20-years-after-911-lessons-in-solidarity WHAT: A teach-in to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and its aftermath, hosted by Building Movement Project and SolidarityIs WHO: Members of the Solidarity Summits, a group of leaders who have been exploring the connections between different social movements WHY: To gain insights around deepening connections, being co-conspirators, and building towards co-liberation 69281	9:00 am Fire and Fury, Throwing a Monkey Wrench at Big Tech @ Online Fire and Fury, Throwing a Monkey Wrench at Big Tech @ Online Sep 15 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Register Hear from activist and community leaders on what matters most as it relates to surveillance, war and peace. About this event 9:00 to 9:30 AM Welcome, Program overview Vahid Razavi Director of Ethics In Technology A technology Veteran of Silicon Valley. Vahid has founded, advised and worked in senior management roles in Silicon Valley. He has published two books, The Age of Nepotism and Ethics In Tech and Lack Thereof. As a lifelong activist and humanitarian he has published hundreds of articles and videos on various social issues including … Continued	5:00 pm Policing and Prisons Policing and Prisons Sep 16 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets As we mark the 50th anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising, we take a moment to reflect upon the ways that policing exists within prisons, the impact, and how conditions can be addressed. Register69322 5:30 pm OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION @ Online OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION @ Online Sep 16 @ 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets To observe the meeting by video conference, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83722596537 at the noticed meeting time. Agenda items of possible interest: Vote to Ratify DGO K-03 Use of Force Policy. Community Policing Policy revision 69329	4:00 pm Author Reading, Book Launch Party: Blessed Disillusionment: Letting Go of What Cannot Save Us, Turning to What Can – Michael Goldstein @ Outdoors at a private residence near Mills College in Oakland. Address on registration page. Author Reading, Book Launch Party: Blessed Disillusionment: Letting Go of What Cannot Save Us, Turning to What Can – Michael Goldstein @ Outdoors at a private residence near Mills College in Oakland. Address on registration page. Sep 17 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Admission is free, but you must RSVP here Are you ready for a politics that goes beyond asking those beholden to the wrong people to do the right thing? Hint: that snippet from the Declaration of Independence at the bottom of the book’s cover reads, “Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it.” (More on the book’s content at https://www.amazon.com/Blessed-Disillusionment-Letting-Cannot-Turning/dp/0578978318.) On the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street (and the 172nd of Harriet Tubman’s escape from slavery), … Continued 6:30 pm The Black Panther Party Legacy @ Online The Black Panther Party Legacy @ Online Sep 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets 69308	1:00 pm Care Village @ Marcus Garvey Park Care Village @ Marcus Garvey Park Sep 18 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 69332 6:00 pm Net Zero Carbon Emissions: A Beginner’s Guide to An Imperialist Fraud @ Revolution Books Net Zero Carbon Emissions: A Beginner’s Guide to An Imperialist Fraud @ Revolution Books Sep 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Presentation and discussion: Net Zero Carbon Emissions: A Beginner’s Guide to An Imperialist Fraud We confront a planet on fire, and a global system of capitalism-imperialism that has done nothing to stop climate change except inject more and more carbon into the air. “Net zero” is NOT the answer, why this is so, and why revolution is what we need. For more event information: https://www.revolutionbooks.org69316

Week of September 12

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.