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Carbon capture has equally captured the imagination and endorsement of multiple Big Green organizations. But many in the environmental … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 10 @ 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: The abortion battle in Texas and what it says about American politics today @ Online Green Sunday: The abortion battle in Texas and what it says about American politics today @ Online Oct 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Via Zoom: please see access info below We will explore the Texas anti-abortion law (SB8) and the struggle against it (and similar legislation). But we want to go deeper, by locating this struggle in the context of the polarization of politics in America and other countries. The US is more severely divided than it has been for decades. Trump is no longer President, but Trumpism is very much alive. In the sixties and seventies, the last period of major polarization, our movement, including radical feminism, was growing. Now, despite some … Continued	6:00 am Annual Alcatraz Sunrise Ceremony on Indigenous People’s Day (broadcast) @ Radio broadcast on KPFA 94.1 FM or IITC Facebook page Annual Alcatraz Sunrise Ceremony on Indigenous People’s Day (broadcast) @ Radio broadcast on KPFA 94.1 FM or IITC Facebook page Oct 11 @ 6:00 am – 8:00 am Tickets The Indigenous Peoples’ Day Sunrise Gathering at Alcatraz Island on October 11th is organized by the International Indian Treaty Council in commemoration of the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes. Join the commemoration broadcast at KPFA or on the International Indian Treaty Council Facebook page. When: Monday, October 11, 2021 at 6:00 AM – 8:00 AM PDT Radio: KPFA 94.1 FM or https://kpfa.org/ Simulcast: https://www.facebook.com/treatycouncil/ ABOUT: Indians of All Tribes and the Occupation of Alcatraz (Nov. 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971) The Native American occupation of this … Continued 5:00 pm Copwatch Class on Community-based Accountability @ Online Copwatch Class on Community-based Accountability @ Online Oct 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/Copwatch411/status/143318957545149644869290 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oct 11 @ 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	1:30 pm Protect MACRO – Oakland Public Safety Cmte @ Online Protect MACRO – Oakland Public Safety Cmte @ Online Oct 12 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Protect Our MACRO Victory & Police out of Special Events Thanks to the leadership of local community groups, labor and key City Council members, Oakland is one step closer to leading the country in the development of MACRO – the City’s police alternative to responding to non-violent emergencies. However to ensure MACRO lives up to its transformative potential we need your support! Please plan to make public comment tomorrow at 1:30pm at the Public Safety Committee meeting! Where: Online : go to bit.ly/macro101221 at 1:30pm tomorrow To make public comment: … Continued 4:00 pm Rapid Response Call: Helping Afghan and Haitian Families Seeking Asylum @ Online Rapid Response Call: Helping Afghan and Haitian Families Seeking Asylum @ Online Oct 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Rapid Response Call for Afghan and Haitian Families Hosts: Families Belong Together, Haitian Bridge Alliance, and Welcome with Dignity Campaign RSVP for Zoom: https://domesticworkers.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ahfHwbeoSkGVy-h52SKIRA In just under a month, thousands of Haitian families in Del Rio were expelled back to danger, put in ICE detention, or completely abandoned — including mothers with babies only a couple days old. At the same time, roughly 53,000 Afghan families have been living on military bases as they wait to be welcomed into our communities. This Tuesday, Families Belong Together, the Haitian Bridge Alliance, and … Continued 6:30 pm Concord City Council to Decide on Police Drones @ Online Concord City Council to Decide on Police Drones @ Online Oct 12 @ 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets Concord City Council meeting Zoom Webinar ID: 844 9368 0542 Zoom Passcode: 097684 Concord city council will make a decision on the police department’s request for approval to operate drones. Private business interests have offered to pay for the initial purchase of the devices, meaning that business leaders are using their money and influence to shape policing policy in the city. If business leaders hadn’t offered to buy the machines, the city wouldn’t be considering a police drone program. Additionally, the police department is refusing public demand for any oversight. … Continued 7:30 pm Anarchist Study Group – Longhaul @ Longhaul Anarchist Study Group – Longhaul @ Longhaul Oct 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Reading for 10/5 Next week we’ll kick off October by beginning what will hopefully end up being a complete reading over the coming months of a true classic: Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life. One of the high water marks of Situationism, a profound influence on “second-wave”/type 3 anarchisms, and an under-acknowledged example of egoist thought, this is a reading I’m very stoked to discuss with all of you. Each and every page of this text gives us ample material to unpack, so for this first reading let’s go from … Continued	3:00 pm Building Surveillance: Three Chapters in US History @ Online Building Surveillance: Three Chapters in US History @ Online Oct 13 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AP2jIRfDQsCEG67lyDqdsw Building Surveillance: Three Chapters in US History Featuring Simone Browne, Assia Boundaoui, and Omar Farah, moderated by Lilly Irani. This panel discussion invites three speakers to share important chapters in US surveillance history: analog surveillance in the early colonial era, FBI surveillance of Black and Muslim communities in the 1970s through 1990s, and NYPD and federal surveilance of Muslim communities after 9/11. The speakers will then weave the chapters together, showing the historical, tactical, and social connections between agencies, approaches, and philosophies and how surveillance undergirds the need … Continued 6:00 pm DECARCERATE ALAMEDA COUNTY @ Online DECARCERATE ALAMEDA COUNTY @ Online Oct 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets We meet as a coalition on the 2nd Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30p. We also have a google group where we share updates. If you’d like to be added to those meetings or google group, please contact decarceratealameda@gmail.com. Link to General Meetings: https://zoom.us/j/96555663590 General Questions about DAC or to get involved please contact Cynthia Nunes at Cynthia@Restoreoakland.org If you have a media request, please contact Ashley Chambers at ashley@ellabakercenter.org. If you still have questions, we have four workgroups to our coalition: If you’re interested in connecting with the Budget and Legislative … Continued 6:45 pm DSA- Green New Deal Committee Monthly Meeting DSA- Green New Deal Committee Monthly Meeting Oct 13 @ 6:45 pm – 8:45 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.69363	10:00 am Effective Implementation of AB1185: Community Oversight of Alameda County Sheriff & Jail @ Online Effective Implementation of AB1185: Community Oversight of Alameda County Sheriff & Jail @ Online Oct 14 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ Public Protection Committee is taking up further AB1185 sheriff/jail oversight implementation planning on Thursday, October 14th @ 10am. Make Your Voice Heard. Links will be posted here: https:// bos.acgov.org/ committee-meetings/ Your emails to the Committee prior to the Oct 14th meeting can be sent to Chair Valle, richard.valle@acgov.org and Supervisor Miley at nate.miley@acgov.org supporting the principles that ICJJ, FIAEB, CPA and allies are advocating (link) For additional followup information, contact Bruce @ brucds@pacbell.net Faith In Action East Bay, the Interfaith Coalition for Justice in … Continued 4:00 pm Mitch Jeserich of KPFA’s Letters & Politics – the importance of public broadcasting and the art of conversation. @ Online Mitch Jeserich of KPFA’s Letters & Politics – the importance of public broadcasting and the art of conversation. @ Online Oct 14 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Mitch Jeserich, host of KPFA’s Letters and Politics, speaks on the importance of public broadcasting and the art of conversation. Mitch Jeserich is a veteran broadcast journalist. In 2009 he launched a pilot program called Letters from Washington, chronicling the first 100 days of the Obama administration, that would become Letters and Politics—a look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and the world. You must register for this free online event, hosted by the Magazines and Newspapers Center of the San Francisco Public … Continued 5:00 pm Policing and the war on terror @ Online Policing and the war on terror @ Online Oct 14 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The post 9/11 war on terror framework further legitimized the targeting and criminalization of Muslim, immigrant and Black communities and produced techniques, agencies, and concepts of policing that are increasingly being used on all communities of color and protesters. We will look at militarized policing, the development of ICE, fusion centers, “pre-crime,” the use of community leaders and social service organizations in surveillance, and what local communities are doing to push back. Register: https://www.afsc.org/action/policing-and-war-terror69392	9:00 am CLIMATE EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION TASK FORCE SERIES @ Online CLIMATE EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION TASK FORCE SERIES @ Online Oct 15 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets We are the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force (CEMTF) a Bay Area coalition of elected officials, city & county staff, nongovernmental organizations, youth, environmental activists, social activists, and front line communities addressing the inequities and causes of the climate emergency. We meet Fridays from 9am-noon, from July-November 2021. Below are our planned meetings. Visit our website to learn more: https://www.cemtf.org/. July 30th: Fossil Fuel Free Bay Area August 20th: Clean and Just Transportation September 17th: Ecological Protection October 15th: Just Transition & Green New Deal November 19th: United Climate Actions … Continued 10:00 am People Vs. Fossil Fuels Solidarity Action People Vs. Fossil Fuels Solidarity Action Oct 15 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets From October 11 to 15, thousands of people will take action at the White House, participate in civil disobedience, and demand that President Biden choose a side: People vs. Fossil Fuels. This Friday we will take the message of the People Vs. Fossil Fuels week of action to our local federal building, in solidarity with the hundreds of activists that will be putting their liberty on the line in Washington, D.C. Join us in making these demands: https://peoplevsfossilfuels.org/demands/69411 12:00 pm Stop Political Repression in El Salvador @ El Salvador consulate Stop Political Repression in El Salvador @ El Salvador consulate Oct 15 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets Protest the political repression under president Bukele. Free the FMLN prisoners. Show respect for human rights and democratic institutions in El Salvador. Respect the 1992 Peace Accords. We will picket outside the consulate.69407 1:00 pm ‘Dear Homeland’ with Diana Gameros @ KQED ‘Dear Homeland’ with Diana Gameros @ KQED Oct 15 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Join us for a screening of the KQED-produced documentary “Dear Homeland” by award-winning Colombian documentary filmmaker Claudia Escobar. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the film’s director and singer-songwriter Diana Gameros, whose story is the heart of this film, and a live musical performance. —–Unete para la proyeccion del documental producido por KQED “Querida Tierra” (o “Dear Homeland” en ingles) de la galardonada cineasta documental colombiana Claudia Escobar. La proyeccion sera seguida de una conversacion con la directora de la pelicula y cantautora Diana Gameros, quien compartira … Continued	11:00 am March for Reparations to African People: One year after the murder of George Floyd @ Snow Park March for Reparations to African People: One year after the murder of George Floyd @ Snow Park Oct 16 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets March for Reparations to African People: One year after the murder of George Floyd, it’s not over. The struggle continues. On Saturday October 16, 2021, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement is hosting a March for Reparations to African People in four cities across the U.S.. The march is part of a decades-long campaign calling on white people to go beyond protest and get organized under the leadership of the African working class. Oakland’s march will begin at Snow Park (Harrison St & 19th St, Oakland, CA 94612) at 11:00am. This campaign … Continued 2:30 pm Rally and March to Demand Justice for Jonathan Cortez @ Oscar Grant Plaza Rally and March to Demand Justice for Jonathan Cortez @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 16 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets We’re calling on everybody to support Jonathan’s family in this moment. Jonathan took a trip to the corner store a month ago and never came home because he was gunned down by the FBI. Unknown law enforcement agents have continued to call, harass, and follow members of his family, including at his funeral. This is terrorism. On Saturday, let’s show the feds that the community is united in support of the family! We condemn Jonathan’s murder, call out the horrific acts of law enforcement on the day of his … 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.