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The effects of these bills, which coerce individuals and companies into signing what is tantamount to a loyalty oath against the BDS movement, are far … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 8 @ 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 Does One Size Fit All for Addressing Homelessness? @ Online Does One Size Fit All for Addressing Homelessness? @ Online May 9 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets The Braver Angels event, “We the People’s Forum: Does One Size Fit All for Addressing Homelessness?” is coming up! The Zoom meeting will open to participants at 7:55 pm EST on Monday, May 9. Here is your Zoom link to join: https://braverangels-org.zoom.us/j/82190712365 For troubleshooting questions ahead of the event, email dlapp@braverangels.org We the People’s Forum is an initiative of We the People’s Project at Braver Angels, an effort to build a politically and racially diverse team of working-class Americans to build a house united in America. To learn more or 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 May 9 @ 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	3:30 pm Radical Black Women Series Presents: Honoring the Radicalism of Margaret Prescod @ Online Radical Black Women Series Presents: Honoring the Radicalism of Margaret Prescod @ Online May 10 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets RegisterFor the fifth installment of the #RadicalBlackWomenSeries, we will have a discussion with renown activist, author, radio host, and journalist, Margaret Prescod! Margaret Prescod is a co-founder of Black Women for Wages for Housework, coordinator of Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike, and joint coordinator of the Care Income Now Campaign. She is on the board of the National Welfare Rights Union. She is founder of the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders and is the host of “Sojourner Truth” a nationally syndicated show on Pacifica Radio. She … Continued	9:00 am Close California Prisons! @ California State Capitol Building - Steps on West Side Close California Prisons! @ California State Capitol Building - Steps on West Side May 11 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/surjbayarea/status/1521302775610544128 Each year in early May, Governor Newsom releases the May Revise budget after receiving input from state government bodies and community members. While the 2022-23 proposed budget (released in January) contained many positive investments, it also allocated $18.6 billion to corrections and included no plans to close more prisons in California, despite historically low, downward trending prison populations It’s time for Governor Gavin Newsom and elected officials to do what’s right and commit to a smart plan to close prisons in California, like The People’s Plan for Prison Closure, … Continued 11:00 am End Pretextual Stops by SFPD @ Online End Pretextual Stops by SFPD @ Online May 11 @ 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/GLIDEsf/status/152389586641462067369752 5:24 pm Sunflower’s May Event: Weigh in vs Drilling @ Online Sunflower’s May Event: Weigh in vs Drilling @ Online May 11 @ 5:24 pm – 6:24 pm Tickets Agenda and zoom link will be posted here Our campaign to ban oil and gas drilling in Contra Costa is at a key point: On May 11 the county Planning Commission will meet to consider the new oil and gas policy in the Conservation Element of the General Plan, which will determine land use decisions for the next twenty years. Let’s all show up (via Zoom) to tell them: Ban drilling! Under the current proposed plan, the county would keep approving more oil and gas drilling, with unspecified mitigation of negative … Continued 6:45 pm DSA Green New Deal Committee Monthly Meeting @ Online DSA Green New Deal Committee Monthly Meeting @ Online May 11 @ 6:45 pm – 8:45 pm Tickets Our Green New Deal Committee meets on the second Wednesday each month. We will discuss eco-socialist issues, upcoming events and actions, committee priorities, and campaigns. All are welcome! Please RSVP to receive the URL to the meeting or email green-new-deal@eastbaydsa.org.69732	10:00 am Oppose “A Place For All” @ SF City Hall, Rm 250 Oppose “A Place For All” @ SF City Hall, Rm 250 May 12 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/TheCoalitionSF/status/152407748693755904169749 11:00 am Envisioning an Ecological Civilization @ Online Envisioning an Ecological Civilization @ Online May 12 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Envisioning an Ecological Civilization – with Jeremy Lent Our civilization is currently hurtling headlong toward catastrophe, as a result of climate breakdown, ecological overshoot, and gaping inequalities. Redirecting humanity’s trajectory will require transformation at a foundational level: moving from a wealth-based, extractive civilization to one that is life-affirming – an Ecological Civilization. An Eccological Civilization represents an exciting potential future of human flourishing on a regenerated Earth. It would require a transformation of our current economy, politics, and mainstream culture, leading to a fundamentally different civilization based of different values, … Continued		8:45 am A Conversation with David Wengrow, co-Author of “The Dawn of Everything” @ Online A Conversation with David Wengrow, co-Author of “The Dawn of Everything” @ Online May 14 @ 8:45 am – 10:00 am Tickets A Conversation with David Wengrow, co-Author of “The Dawn of Everything” Register David Wengrow to discuss key themes from “The Dawn Of Everything” – Free Online Event hosted by Prefigurative Education Project The Prefigurative Education Project (PEP) is pleased to announce that it will host a conversation with David Wengrow – co-author of the international bbestseller The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity — This event, a live Q&A with the author, will seek to contextualize the big ideas of The Dawn of Everything in a way that … Continued 10:00 am East Bay Green Home Tour @ Online East Bay Green Home Tour @ Online May 14 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets A free virtual tour of 12 local homes Register Today Looking for inspiration to make your home climate resilient? Join us at the East Bay Green Home Tour! With a fresh line-up of homes and rentals, this free virtual event will be a helpful source of resources and ideas to help you stake your claim on a green and healthy future. Enjoy live Q&A with homeowners, renters, and experts in a neighbor-to-neighbor format that makes offerings locally relevant. Topics include electrification, water efficiency, carbon sequestration, fireproofing, and more! Sign up … Continued 1:00 pm Mass Protest: We Refuse to Let the Supreme Court Take Away Abortion Rights! @ 24th St. BART Mass Protest: We Refuse to Let the Supreme Court Take Away Abortion Rights! @ 24th St. BART May 14 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets The Supreme Court stands poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established the right of women to abortion. Forced motherhood is female enslavement. When women are not free, no one is free. Our only way forward and our best way forward is to resist. NOW is the time to rouse thousands and soon millions in struggle so that we can look every woman and girl in the eye with the promise in word and deed that they will have a future as full human beings. NOW … Continued

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.