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Exposing the role profit-making played in creating the disaster, Gowans shows how capitalism, its incentives, and its power to dominate the political process, impeded the protection of public health and prevented humanity from using … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 6 @ 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 Free Leonard Pelter @ Federal Bldg Free Leonard Pelter @ Federal Bldg Feb 7 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets 69552 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Feb 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82809764186?pwd=eWtjcXlsKzU1QkdSdk5xOUxseFl0Zz09 Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186 If you wish to get the password please subscribe to the Oscar Grant Committee mailing list by sending an email to: oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to … Continued		4:00 pm One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America @ Online One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America @ Online Feb 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Join NOW for a conversation featuring feminist author and activist, Saru Jayaraman, on her recent book titled, “One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America. Time”. Speaker: Saru Jayaraman, One Fair Wage President and UC Berkeley’s Director of the Food Labor Research Center RSVP: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nJSmwZI_RrOhiJoMz2Al8Q After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, Saru Jayaraman co-founded the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), which grew into a national movement of restaurant workers, employers and consumers. She then launched One Fair Wage as a national campaign to end all subminimum wages in the … Continued 6:00 pm Bay Area Debtors’ Union @ Online Bay Area Debtors’ Union @ Online Feb 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Email bayareadebtorsunion@gmail.com for Zoom link. Twice monthly meetings, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays.69546 6:00 pm Stop The Raids, Stand With Sex Worker Rights During Super Bowl LVI 2022 Stop The Raids, Stand With Sex Worker Rights During Super Bowl LVI 2022 Feb 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets An online webinar on the way forward for policy and practices for sex worker rights in LA and California. Register The Stop the Raids Committee (https://stoptheraids.org/) formed to address the onslaught of raids and arrests of members of our sex work community – including our clients. We fully expect that those raids will ramp up in the run up to Super Bowl LVI, which will be held Sunday February 13th, 2022 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. ** Large sporting events like the Super Bowl see a huge increase in … Continued	1:00 pm Social Media: Tackling Misinformation, Hate & Extremism Online for a Just & Safer World @ Online Social Media: Tackling Misinformation, Hate & Extremism Online for a Just & Safer World @ Online Feb 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Join Mother Jones reporter Ali Breland and Ellen Pao as they discuss tech and misinformation More info & RSVP: https://www.motherjones.com/events/in-conversation-with-ellen-pao/ We’ve spent decades communicating, organizing, and connecting online, but the recent surge of hate and extremism during a reckoning for racial justice, — and a pandemic have made social media even more embedded in our daily lives and the fabric of our democracy. These platforms can be filled with lies and bigotry, an issue that has launched a national conversation about the obligations of the companies that own and profit from … Continued 6:00 pm Community Democracy Project: Orientation and Game Night @ Online Community Democracy Project: Orientation and Game Night @ Online Feb 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets What is the People’s Budget amendment? Who is the Community Democracy Project (CDP)? How do I get on their extra special contact list to get personalized text messages about upcoming events? What is participatory budgeting? Why do they want the residents of Oakland to decide the entire city budget? Who’s funding this project? Who’s leading it? Do I get a prize or like… earn a badge for joining? If you have questions, come ask them! If you know some of the answers already, come help answer them from your own … Continued		8:00 am Free Covid-19 Vaccine Fair @ La Familia Free Covid-19 Vaccine Fair @ La Familia Feb 12 @ 8:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/TheUnityCouncil/status/149117028983263232269557 4:30 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber et al @ Online Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber et al @ Online Feb 12 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite. For February, 2022 we’re reading the first three chapters of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by the late David Graber and co-author David Wengrow. For March, we’re reading the next four chapters, 4-7. For April, we are finishing the book. All are welcome! “A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new … Continued

Week of February 6

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.