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Lenin’s Karl Marx — a Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition … Continued		7:00 pm Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with Adam Hochschild on Her New Book Orwell’s Roses @ 3rd Floor Loft of the McRoskey Mattress Co. Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with Adam Hochschild on Her New Book Orwell’s Roses @ 3rd Floor Loft of the McRoskey Mattress Co. Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing … Continued 7:30 pm Anarchist Study Group – Longhaul @ Longhaul Anarchist Study Group – Longhaul @ Longhaul Oct 19 @ 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	1:00 pm An Evening (Afternoon) with Alicia Garza @ Online An Evening (Afternoon) with Alicia Garza @ Online Oct 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Oneof the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza’s work has helped shape the discourse on activism and empowerment for more than a decade. In 2013, Alicia wrote what she called “a love letter to Black people” on Facebook, in the aftermath of the acquittal of the man who murdered seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. She wrote: Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. Long before #BlackLivesMatter became a rallying cry for this generation, Alicia spent the better part of two decades learning … Continued 6:00 pm Immigration and Points of Entry in CA @ Online Immigration and Points of Entry in CA @ Online Oct 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/nlgsf/status/144545558932943258769388 7:00 pm Modern Monetary Theory and Public Banking @ Online Modern Monetary Theory and Public Banking @ Online Oct 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Is national debt really such a problem? Do we have enough to pay for people’s needs? Learn more about #ModernMonetaryTheory and how it relates to public banking. Wednesday, 10/20, 7pm on Zoom with Ganesh (@balamitran). Special teaser for upcoming documentary @findingmoneydoc. Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtcOurpzIiHt31pEU15rkJRAnJ5lbSLv2l 69423 7:00 pm Understanding Police Misconduct Records with “On Our Watch” @ KQED or online Understanding Police Misconduct Records with “On Our Watch” @ KQED or online Oct 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Online: Choose “livestream” ticket option A look into the “On Our Watch” podcast and how journalists, activists and citizens can access public records to uncover misconduct. In-person location: KQED Headquarters, 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Online: Choose “livestream” ticket option RSVP: https://www.kqed.org/events/167827417323 When California’s SB 1421 was signed into law, it opened the door to previously hidden police files. KQED went to court with a cadre of lawyers and assembled a coalition of media partners to uncover and expose misconduct, abuse and criminal behavior by agencies and individuals engaged … Continued	1:00 pm Rev. Al Sharpton: Rise Up: Confronting a Country at a Crossroads @ Online Rev. Al Sharpton: Rise Up: Confronting a Country at a Crossroads @ Online Oct 21 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets KPFA Radio 94.1 FM with Marcus Books presents: Reverend Al Sharpton + Greg Bridges Rise Up: Confronting a Country at a Crossroads ……………………………………………………………………………………. “Reverend Sharpton addresses our nation’s original sin, explains why we can’t afford to be satisfied with creature comforts while others still suffer, and offers solutions in the non-violent tradition of my father and others regarding where we go from here.” -MARTIN LUTHER KING III “Rev. has been about Black Lives Matter from the jump, also at a time when it was not the most popular or hip … Continued 6:00 pm From Wayback to Way Forward: The Internet Archive turns 25 @ Online From Wayback to Way Forward: The Internet Archive turns 25 @ Online Oct 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Journey through time with us, celebrating the builders and dreamers who have reached for the stars, opening up knowledge for all About this event In 1996, a young computer scientist named Brewster Kahle dreamed of building a Library of Everything on the Internet. He called it the Internet Archive. This year, the Internet Archive is turning 25. On October 21, come on a virtual journey with us through time. First, we’ll go way back with Brewster Kahle to the early days of the Internet, when computers promised to put the published works … Continued

Week of October 17

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.