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Our speaker, Mark Alberstson, is the historical research … Continued 12:30 pm Non-Violent Direction Action Training for Climate Action @ The Studio Non-Violent Direction Action Training for Climate Action @ The Studio Mar 13 @ 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets This training will take participants through many of the strategies, tools and considerations of direct action, including power and privilege, de-escalation, blockades, legal, direct action organizing models, and the opportunity to form affinity groups. This training will be an important place to get plugged into for upcoming actions in 2022. COVID Protocols: Please stay home if you have tested + for COVID, have COVID symptons or have been exposed to someone who has tested + for COVID. We’ll be in an inside/outside space. Part of the time in a warehouse … Continued 1:00 pm CANCELLED: MARRIOTT – STOP YOUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA! (THEY PULLED OUT) @ Marriott Hotel CANCELLED: MARRIOTT – STOP YOUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA! (THEY PULLED OUT) @ Marriott Hotel Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets MARRIOTT – STOP YOUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA! DEMONSTRATE AT THE MARRIOTT HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN OAKLAND SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1 PM Hundreds of international corporations have suspended their business operations in Russia. Coca Cola stopped business with this statement: “Our hearts are with the people who are enduring unconscionable effects from these tragic events in Ukraine.” Starbucks said on Tuesday it is suspending all business activity in Russia, including shipment of its products and closing cafes. But there are many corporations that continue to do business in Russia. The Marriott … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 13 @ 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 4:00 pm Sunflower Alliance meeting: Climate crisis & militarism — Note new time! @ Online Sunflower Alliance meeting: Climate crisis & militarism — Note new time! @ Online Mar 13 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets For Zoom link, RSVP to action@sunflower-alliance.org Join local activists with the Veterans for Peace Climate Crisis & Militarism Project and Code Pink for a discussion of how US militarism—the single largest institutional source of greenhouse gases on the planet—fuels the climate crisis, and the growing movement to expose and fight this dangerous threat. Vince DiJanich, a longtime activist in Veterans for Peace and the Climate Reality Project, will present the Veterans for Peace “Climate Crisis and Militarism” slide show that the horrific climate impacts of US military operations. He will describe the … Continued 5:00 pm Green Sunday: The Struggle Against School Closures @ Online Green Sunday: The Struggle Against School Closures @ Online Mar 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets The Oakland Unified School District board majority has again moved to close schools this school year, with others looming in the near future. As with other rounds of such arbitrary action (most recently in 2019), the brunt of such austerity measures is felt in flatland schools overwhelmingly populated by black and brown students. Hillary Chen is both a teacher in one of these schools and a community anti-racist activist involved in the Oakland Education Association (OEA) and the DSA. She will discuss her experiences and the campaign of resistance to … Continued	7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Mar 14 @ 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		7:00 pm APTP Meeting @ Online APTP Meeting @ Online Mar 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets APTP general meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month. These meetings are a great way to get updates about our work and plug in. ASL and closed captioning is provided. Join us at the next one this upcoming Wednesday, March 16 on Zoom. RSVP to General Meeting Last week we emailed you with a community care request for James Ramsey, a young Black Oakland resident with multiple disabilities who was arrested during a mental health crisis and potentially faced years in prison. Thanks to your support, we … Continued 7:00 pm Fossil Fuel, the Military, and National Security @ Online Fossil Fuel, the Military, and National Security @ Online Mar 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Register here Join the Green Sofa Cinema Series for a Zoom chat with Andrea Marr, a retired military officer and award-winning climate activist. Before the event, settle into a comfy sofa and watch The Burden from writer/director Roger Sorkin. The Burden has been called “the most effective communications tool ever made for shifting the debate on clean energy as one of urgent national security.” The film underscores the US military dependence on oil. Our military is the largest global institutional producer of greenhouse gas emissions. For every $1 the price of a barrel of … Continued	9:00 am March 17 Day of Action to Save CA Solar! @ Steps of the CPUC March 17 Day of Action to Save CA Solar! @ Steps of the CPUC Mar 17 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets We will gather on the steps of the CPUC at 9 AM, where we will hear from coalition partners followed by a collective call-in to the virtual PUC meeting taking place at 10 AM. Donuts and coffee provided! If you cannot join in person, please RSVP to call in to the virtual meeting by clicking here. 69634 5:00 pm Diversion Programs and Alternatives to Incarceration – Alameda County @ Online Diversion Programs and Alternatives to Incarceration – Alameda County @ Online Mar 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/150451843841220198669641		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 Mar 19 @ 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 6:30 pm No World Order — Call for Assembly of Disassembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza No World Order — Call for Assembly of Disassembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 19 @ 6:30 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets Gather at Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland—bring your friends and party favors. Masks are great for more than one reason NO WORLD ORDER – CALL FOR AN ASSEMBLY OF DISASSEMBLY The world is not ok. We are in year 3 of a pandemic. The wars never stop, inside or outside this country. People are sick, tired, broke, unhoused, and soon even more people will be hungry. They are laughing in our faces. This system uses us as fuel to make the world they want. Why don’t we light the … Continued

Week of March 13

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.