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Sign up … Continued 10:30 am The Class Nature of the Chinese State, with Wadi’h Halabi @ Online The Class Nature of the Chinese State, with Wadi’h Halabi @ Online May 15 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library What is China today? What about the Communist Party and the unions in China? Do they represent gains or setbacks for humanity? Wadi’h Halabi of the CPUSA and the Center for Marxist Education will be discussing these and related questions. Halabi studies the material basis for revolutionary optimism, with a focus on developing and advancing the architecture to complete humanity’s transition from capitalism to socialism. Leaders in China first invited Halabi in 2000, based on an economics column published in the People’s World. … Continued	2:00 pm Community Policing Uncovered: Surveillance, Displacement & Counterinsurgency in Our Cities @ Online Community Policing Uncovered: Surveillance, Displacement & Counterinsurgency in Our Cities @ Online May 16 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Community Policing Uncovered: How Surveillance, Displacement and Counterinsurgency Happens in Our Cities Host: Othering and Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley RSVP for reminder: https://secure.everyaction.com/4dHkmUy-C0mtI4HbQHtNeg2 WATCH HERE: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/community-policing-uncovered-how-surveillance-displacement-and-counterinsurgency-happens-our-cities Our communities know how brutal our police systems are and have been rising up to demand new visions of community safety and care. Less understood is the history and harms of reforms like community policing – a counter-revolutionary attempt to legitimize policing. Militarized counterinsurgency and surveillance tactics are impacting neighborhoods daily. From housing displacement and gentrification to corporate power and incarceration, these systems are long-term strategies … Continued 3:00 pm Student Debt Cancellation Campagin Update @ Online Student Debt Cancellation Campagin Update @ Online May 16 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets It’s starting to smell a lot like winning in the student debt cancellation. A bunch of important things happened last week To learn more about the student debt cancellation fight, join our Campaigns Update call, tonight at 6PM EST. First, a bombshell news story broke that confirms what we’ve been saying all along: tying student debt cancellation to income is virtually impossible. From the article: “Education Department officials have concluded that the agency is unable to cancel federal student loans based on a borrower’s income level without requiring some action … Continued 6:00 pm Fair Share Business Tax Town Hall @ Online Fair Share Business Tax Town Hall @ Online May 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Our virtual town hall on Oakland’s proposed Fair Share Business Tax initiative is coming up soon this upcoming Monday May 16th at 6pm, and we’d love to see you there! Members and supporters of the Oakland small business community are all welcome. At the town hall, you’ll learn about the state of Oakland’s current inequitable tax system and possibilities to tax corporate wealth to fund better city services. You’ll also have an opportunity to ask both Councilmembers Carroll Fife and Nikki Bas any questions you might have about how this … Continued	12:30 pm Find Affordable Housing in Alameda County @ Online Find Affordable Housing in Alameda County @ Online May 17 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/EBHO_Housing/status/152628761037253427269768	4:30 pm Book Club: ‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition’ @ Online Book Club: ‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition’ @ Online May 18 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/StrikeDebt/status/152400714676085555269750 7:00 pm Essie Justice @ Online Essie Justice @ Online May 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets SURJ Bay Area is presenting our ongoing speakers series featuring our Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Accountability Partners. This series gives the community an opportunity to hear from our Partners, learn about what they are doing in the community and find out how we can support their work. We invite you to join us to hear from Essie Justice, a nonprofit organization of women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration. Their award-winning Healing to Advocacy Model brings women together to heal, … Continued		6:30 pm NASRIN: story of a courageous Iranian lawyer and political prisoner @ Online NASRIN: story of a courageous Iranian lawyer and political prisoner @ Online May 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets VIA ZOOM https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81874845936?pwd=Y2RCOVV2UDlCNVhjMUd6TGdmOHpqZz09 Meeting ID: 818 7484 5936 Passcode: 205900 SENSIBLE CINEMA UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO NASRIN Nasrin is a powerful feature documentary by filmmakers Jeff Kaufman and Marcia Ross, that was filmed inside Iran by people risking arrests and imprisonment to bring this inspiring ‘candle in the dark’ to the bright screen. The film is narrated by Academy Award winner Olivia Colman and includes an original song performed by internationally known artist Angélique Kidjo. Nasrin traces the journey of Nasrin Sotoudeh—Iranian defense lawyer, political prisoner, human rights … Continued	4:30 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things @ Online Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things @ Online May 21 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite. For May, 2022 we’re reading the first four chapters of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, And the Future of the Planet, by Raj Patel and Jason W Moore. UC Press, Amazon For June, 2022, we’ll be finishing the above book. All are welcome! “Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things … 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.