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Judy will present a … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 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 “Let’s Agree to Disagree” — with Mickey Huff!! Director of Project Censored @ Online “Let’s Agree to Disagree” — with Mickey Huff!! Director of Project Censored @ Online Apr 10 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets “Let’s Agree to Disagree” — with Mickey Huff!! Director of Project Censored His new book is sub-titled: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management and Critical Media Literacy Breaking through the polarization is essential, so don’t miss this riveting program! Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89559844652 Meeting ID: 895 5984 4652 In this age of extreme polarization, hyper-partisanship and “siloed information,” our society is challenged on agreeing to disagree, and our democracy has become fragile, and political future seems almost hopeless. America is in need for re-establishing a more tolerant and … Continued	5:30 pm Establishment of an ALCO Sheriff’s Oversight Board – Public Comment Establishment of an ALCO Sheriff’s Oversight Board – Public Comment Apr 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/UCBRachelB/status/1511440710771249157 Register here to receive email confirmation and a link: https://tinyurl.com/ALCOAB1185 69679 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Apr 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	6:30 pm 🌹Socialist Night School: Capitalism and Class Struggle @ SPARC-it-Place 🌹Socialist Night School: Capitalism and Class Struggle @ SPARC-it-Place Apr 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” – Karl Marx This history is the history of class struggle. To understand the class struggle is to understand the fundamental conflict within capitalism, between capitalists and workers, and the means to move beyond it. It keeps our hope for a better world from becoming sentimental and anemic and empowers it with the means for fundamental change. … Continued	6:00 pm Bay Area Debtors’ Union @ Online Bay Area Debtors’ Union @ Online Apr 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets 69688 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Apr 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info. Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay and nationwide. We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what … Continued	6:00 pm Azar Nafisi “Read Dangerously” Virtual Event @ Online Azar Nafisi “Read Dangerously” Virtual Event @ Online Apr 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets GET TICKETS Please Join KPFA on Thursday, April 14th at 6:00 pm, when we welcome Azar Nafisi in celebration of the release of her fantastic and timely new book, Read Dangerously. This very special virtual event will be hosted by Steve Wasserman, publisher and executive director of Heyday Books. The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood. “[A] stunning look at the power … Continued 6:00 pm Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times @ Online Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times @ Online Apr 14 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Join KPFA for this special Zoom event when Steve Wasserman hosts Azar Nafisi and her book, Read Dangerously Afar Nafisi with Steve Wasserman : A KPFA Zoom Event Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood. [TICKETS / MORE INFORMATION] Buy Tickets69650		12:00 pm Empty Homes Tax Mobilization & BBQ – SF Empty Homes Tax Mobilization & BBQ – SF Apr 16 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/DSA_SF/status/151505830586492928269693 12:00 pm Join Berkeley Copwatch! @ Grassroots House Join Berkeley Copwatch! @ Grassroots House Apr 16 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets New Member Orientation! Get involved with community-based police accountability and the struggle for justice! Copwatch will be hosting a new volunteer orientation (with snacks) where we will have info sessions on copwatching shifts, Know Your Rights trainings, creative projects, casework, and our police incident database. This even will be held outside, socially distanced with masks. Accessibility: The location is at ground level, in a grassy area. For questions, email: berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com69668 12:00 pm Justice 4 Steven Taylor @ Steven Taylor Park Justice 4 Steven Taylor @ Steven Taylor Park Apr 16 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/CURYJ/status/151466017074322640569690 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 Apr 16 @ 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

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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.