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Pledged to restoring Cuba’s 1941 constitution that dictator Batista abrogated, the Castro … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 26 @ 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			12:00 pm Press Conference – Vehicle Community Faces Eviction Press Conference – Vehicle Community Faces Eviction Sep 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/Copwatch411/status/144309013586878873869376 2:00 pm How Plastics Fuel the Climate Crisis @ Online How Plastics Fuel the Climate Crisis @ Online Sep 29 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets The fossil fuel industry is successfully promoting a huge increase in the production of single-use plastics, adding GHG and toxic pollution at every step. This webinar will explore how this strategy is increasing fossil-fuel production and worsening the climate crisis. Judith Enck, President of Beyond Plastics and former Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will discuss the nexus between plastic production and climate change, including the immense environmental justice impacts. Graham Forbes, Global Project Leader of the Plastic-Free Future campaign at Greenpeace, will discuss Greenpeace USA’s new report, The Climate Emergency Unpacked: How … Continued 3:00 pm The Normalizing Gaze: Surveillance from Drones to Phones The Normalizing Gaze: Surveillance from Drones to Phones Sep 29 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Online Event Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aQf3z5OvR2Wc98wvOidkNA Digital Sanctuary Cities: Surveillance, Immigration, and Protecting Black Dissent Featuring Jacinta González, Carin Kuoni, and Mizue Aizeki, moderated by Albert Fox Cahn While the borders of the US are often conceived as clear lines, in reality they manifest as a labyrinth of agencies, individuals, and surveillance technologies. Border surveillance encompasses numerous technologies: US Customs and Border Protection drones can observe the majority of American homes, flying anywhere within 100 miles of a land border or coast; immigrants awaiting court dates are forced to wear electronic GPS shackles; … Continued 4:00 pm Cornel West on “The Wretched of the Earth” 60th Anniversary @ Revolution Books Cornel West on “The Wretched of the Earth” 60th Anniversary @ Revolution Books Sep 29 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets 60th Anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth featuring Cornel West in conversation with Andy Zee Watch the livestream at Revolution Books Berkeley This Revolution Books program, produced in partnership with the Brooklyn Book Festival, will feature scholar-activist Cornel West, who wrote the introduction for this new edition of the book, in conversation with Andy Zee of Revolution Books and The RNL—Revolution Nothing Less—Show. This will be a program for all who are outraged by the horrors of the world today, and all who ache for liberation. One … Continued	3:00 pm Let Cuba Live: Ending the US Blockade Today @ Online Let Cuba Live: Ending the US Blockade Today @ Online Sep 30 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Online Event Location: https://act.dsausa.org/signup/let-cuba-live/ Since its genesis in 1960, the US embargo of Cuba has been a criminal disaster. US sanctions have besieged socialist Cuba for over six decades. While 2018 UN estimates have calculated a direct loss of $130b in trade alone, the toll of the embargo on Cuban life can hardly be quantified. Most recently, US economic interference has stymied Cuba’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in deteriorating conditions on the island. With escalating tensions coming from the Biden administration against the Cuban people, solidarity is more timely … Continued 5:30 pm California Donut Economic Coalition – General Meeting @ Online California Donut Economic Coalition – General Meeting @ Online Sep 30 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/california-doughnut-economics-coalition-general-meeting-tickets-172777210287?keep_tld=1 We are the California Doughnut Economics Coalition, a band of rogue dough-nutters trying to help our great state transition to an economy that provides for the wellbeing of all people while staying within the ecological limits of our planet. We need your help. Join us! The final meeting agenda will be forthcoming – but in this meeting, we will review the basics of Doughnut Economics, catch you up on what we have accomplished so far and map out our work over the next few months. Join us if: you have been … Continued		9:00 am Alameda: Women’s March for Reproductive & Human Rights @ Washington Park Alameda: Women’s March for Reproductive & Human Rights @ Washington Park Oct 2 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets We will march to City Hall to uphold our rights as women, especially our reproductive rights, but also our civil, immigrant, LGBTQIA+, worker’s and disability rights. And, we will speak out for an end to violence against both women and our planet. Poster making will begin at 9am at Washington Park and we will end with a program at City Hall. Please join us for this uplifting, and very necessary, gathering. DATE & TIME: Saturday, Oct. 2 @ 9 AM poster making; 10 AM march begins MORE EVENT INFO: https://act.womensmarch.com/event/oct-2-2021-march/1884 NATIONAL … Continued 7:00 pm COINTELPRO 101 @ Online COINTELPRO 101 @ Online Oct 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Online Event Location: https://nlgsf.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/info?id=84&reset=1 In partnership with Freedom Archives, the NLG-SFBA will host a series of virtual film screenings and discussions on Saturday, October 2nd and Saturday, October 9th. Topics will include COINTELPRO, the life of George Jackson, the Attica uprising, and “We Know Our Rights,” a multimedia toolkit produced by the chapter for people dealing with law enforcement. All panels, guided discussions, and films will be livestreamed. October 2nd – Screening of COINTELPRO 101 and George Jackson Commemoration October 9th – Scrrening of Attica (1974) & We Know Our Rights These events commemorate the 50th anniversary of George Jackson’s assassination … 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.