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An attempt at a bourgeois revolution was too late and had started during the Ottomans but was cut short, crushed, due to occurring in the age of imperialism, Bourgeois had changed character in this age and was no longer what used to be called a “national bourgeoisie.” Better … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 24 @ 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 Copwatch Class on Community-based Accountability @ Online Copwatch Class on Community-based Accountability @ Online Oct 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/Copwatch411/status/143318957545149644869290	6:00 pm Spooky Socialist Social @ Eli's Mile High Club Spooky Socialist Social @ Eli's Mile High Club Oct 26 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets RSVP A specter is haunting the Bay Area – the specter of communist unionism. Join East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for our Spooky Socialist Social, the second in-person committee-sponsored social of 2021 on Tuesday, October 26th, between 6 pm and 9 pm at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland! Come meet members of the committee, friends of the committee, fellow travelers, DSA members, and the socialism and unionism curious! We’ll have announcements on upcoming committee events to share, organizers on committee projects to chat with if you’re curious to plug … Continued 7:30 pm Anarchist Study Group – Longhaul @ Longhaul Anarchist Study Group – Longhaul @ Longhaul Oct 26 @ 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	6:00 pm DSA – Medicare for All Committee Meeting DSA – Medicare for All Committee Meeting Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets With the pandemic and its multiple, intersecting crises, and the polling popularity of Medicare for All, our commitment to the movement is more important than ever. Come learn about our committee’s efforts, as well as local, state, and national initiatives around Medicare for All and single-payer healthcare. All are welcome! Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81235048894?pwd=RDZHcnRDQ0FpV3ZndzdUenVJZ3JaZz09 Meeting ID: 812 3504 8894 Passcode: M4A69364 6:00 pm Ella Baker 25th Anniversary Celebration with Michelle Alexander Ella Baker 25th Anniversary Celebration with Michelle Alexander Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/ellabakercenter/status/144259811112629862969374 6:00 pm Ella Baker 25th Anniversary With Alicia Garza, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Ella Baker 25th Anniversary With Alicia Garza, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Celebrate our 25th Anniversary With Alicia Garza, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ … Continued 6:00 pm Reject the Babu Settlement @ Online Reject the Babu Settlement @ Online Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/nlgsf/status/145133486352561356969432	4:00 pm Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups: A Workshop Series @ Online Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups: A Workshop Series @ Online Oct 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups Thu Oct 28th 4:00pm – 5:00pm Online Event Location: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-capacity-for-mutual-aid-groups-workshop-1-no-masters-no-flakes-tickets-170367620138 Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups: A Workshop Series 4 Sessions, Thursdays, 7 p.m. ET: Oct 28, Nov 18, Dec 9, Jan 20 Sponsored by BCRW, Fireweed Collective, and Survived & Punished NY In this series, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next), will present four interactive workshops designed for people working in mutual aid groups. Each workshop provides tools for addressing common obstacles and growth areas for people doing sustained work together to … Continued	9:00 am BlackRock, Banks, and Biden: Defund Fossil Fuels BlackRock, Banks, and Biden: Defund Fossil Fuels Oct 29 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Youth march 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM As we approach the global climate talks in Glasgow, join a global day of action against the biggest funders of climate chaos to demand that banks and finance companies like BlackRock stop funding fossil fuels. The Youth Climate Finance Alliance and many climate justice organizations have called this worldwide day of action. A growing network of Indigenous Land Defenders, community organizations, climate activists, and student strikers are preparing local events like the one in San Francisco. Big banks are accelerating the climate crisis … Continued 9:00 am Extinction Rebellion: Global Day of Action, SF Extinction Rebellion: Global Day of Action, SF Oct 29 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets What: Global Day of Action to Defund Climate Chaos and Fossil Fuels Where: 400 Howard St., San Francisco One of the world’s biggest financier of climate fires, climate chaos and deforestation, BlackRock investments have set the world on fire, from CA to the Amazon. On the eve of the Glasgow climate summit, let’s send them a message to stop funding Climate Chaos: 9am-1pm: STREET MURAL ACTION: Help paint a block-long street mural with paint made from California wildfire ashes and charcoal. Street Mural Action Initiated by: NDN Collective, Idle No … Continued 6:00 pm Countdown to Glasgow—And Wrenching a Different Future at a Time of Existential Crisis @ Revolution Books Countdown to Glasgow—And Wrenching a Different Future at a Time of Existential Crisis @ Revolution Books Oct 29 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Glasgow Conference Of Parties will meet from Oct. 31-Nov. 12, but they do not represent the billions of people now facing a bleak future, if they have a future at all; no. The system of capitalism-imperialism has ravaged the earth, shredded crucial ecosystems, driven many species to extinction, and continues to inject massive quantities of carbon and other greenhouse gases into the air, driving the temperature of the atmosphere and oceans higher and higher. Storms, droughts, extreme heat and cold lash the planet, and there is a real danger … Continued	12:00 pm Day of the Dead Vigil and Rally for Medicare for All in San Francisco @ Alta Plaza Park Day of the Dead Vigil and Rally for Medicare for All in San Francisco @ Alta Plaza Park Oct 30 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets We will gather at Alta Plaza Park (Jackson St. & Steiner St.) in the Presidio neighborhood of San Francisco at 12 noon and proceed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s residence in the style of a funeral procession. In mourning the tens of thousands of lives lost, we demand Speaker Pelosi take actions to support the passage of Medicare for All into law! On Saturday, October 30, 2021, we will be mourning the unnecessary deaths of 68,000 Americans annually due to lack of healthcare and also the estimated 285,000+ deaths for the … Continued 2:00 pm DSA Berkeley/Albany/Emeryville Social @ Live Oak Park DSA Berkeley/Albany/Emeryville Social @ Live Oak Park Oct 30 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Throughout autumn, members of East Bay DSA’s Branches Working Group are organizing socials so you can connect with comrades and local DSA work in your own cities and neighborhoods! Calling on residents of Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville, and beyond! Join us on Saturday, October 30 at 2-5 PM for a social potluck at Live Oak Park in Berkeley. Bring family, comrades, and prospective East Bay DSA members! We’ll share some info about local East Bay DSA work, as well as the Branches Working Group — but mostly it’s an opportunity … Continued 4:30 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Origins of Wealth @ Online Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Origins of Wealth @ Online Oct 30 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite. For September, 2021 we’re reading the first two sections of “The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society.” by Eric D. Beinhocker. (e.g. Amazon, Powell’s, possibly available in libraries. For October, we’ll be finishing the book. Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this system? And how … Continued

Week of October 24

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.