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In the Civil War, he … Continued 11:00 am GILL TRACT CELEBRATION @ Gill Tract GILL TRACT CELEBRATION @ Gill Tract Oct 16 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets You’re invited to stop by the Gill Tract Community Farm on October 16 – from 11am to 4pm – to celebrate the harvest and local birds. You can explore the Albany based community farm, enjoy family activities, bird walking tours, vegan lunch, and more. Walking shoes and a refillable water bottle are recommended. You’re also invited to bring new or gently used items for the free store. No animals permitted in the growing fields and parking is limited. For more information, visit gilltractfarm.org.70343 2:00 pm Socialist Jobs Fair! @ See below Socialist Jobs Fair! @ See below Oct 16 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets If you’re looking for work, or looking for a way to put your socialism into practice at work and don’t think that’s viable at your current workplace, join us on Sunday, October 16th to learn about jobs you can get organizing a workplace or strengthening existing unions with other East Bay DSA members at a strategic employer! RSVP here for the exact location.70339 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Oct 16 @ 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	7:00 pm This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song. @ Freight and Salvage This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song. @ Freight and Salvage Oct 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets TICKETS / MORE INFO AVAILABLE HERE Please join KPFA Radio for a very special evening when we welcome the legendary Barbara Dane (and Friends) in celebration of the release of Barbara’s autobiography, This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song. This live, in-person event will be hosted by KPFA’s Kris Welch and will include special guests such as: Tammy Hall, Holly Near, Maureen Gosling, Avotcja, Mark Hummel and Pablo Menedez. Pegasus Books will be on-site selling copies of This Bell Still Rings, published by Heyday The autobiography of … Continued	6:00 am Clampdown on City Hall – Northgate Land to the Wood St. Evictees @ Oscar Grant Plaza, outside City Hall Clampdown on City Hall – Northgate Land to the Wood St. Evictees @ Oscar Grant Plaza, outside City Hall Oct 18 @ 6:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/ZZZZZZZZZZZack/status/158212435721147596870773 7:00 pm How to Build Business Support for Single Payer How to Build Business Support for Single Payer Oct 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets SPECIAL EVENT WITH WENDELL POTTER! Have you stopped to imagine what it would mean to have businesses across the state pushing for single payer in California? How can we bring them on board? There is no pre-registration. Click here at the start of the event. The link will be operative at that point. It’s clearly in their interests. Expensive and inadequate employer-based insurance hurts both the bottom line and workers. Small business owners yearn for good health care for themselves and their employees. How best to activate the business community? … Continued	5:00 pm Internet Archive’s Annual Bash—Building Democracy’s Library Internet Archive’s Annual Bash—Building Democracy’s Library Oct 19 @ 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Come help us celebrate 26 years of Universal Access to All Knowledge! The Internet Archive’s Annual Bash—Building Democracy’s Library—will be this Wednesday, October 19, from 5-10 PM. We are closing the street and throwing a block party for our friends, partners, and neighbors. Get your tickets now for a night of fun, food, and entertainment! REGISTER NOW The evening will start off at 5 PM with tacos and some silky, soulful crooning from Bay Area local Jackie Gates. Circus Bella will join us with their unusual antics. The organist from the Castro … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Oct 19 @ 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 7:00 pm APTP General Meeting @ Online APTP General Meeting @ Online Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Register here! APTP general meetings happens on the 3rd Wednesday of every month, and since the pandemic we’ve been meeting online. As Mayor Libby Schaaf’s term comes to an end, check out our co-founder Cat Brooks’ latest op-ed in the SF Gate about Libby’s shameful legacy. Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families … Continued 7:00 pm Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman. @ Grand Lake Theater Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman. @ Grand Lake Theater Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets TICKETS / MORE INFO AVAILABLE HERE Please join KPFA Radio when we welcome iconoclastic media personality Greg Palast for a very special screening of his brand new film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman. This live, in-person event will be hosted by KPFA’s Dennis Bernstein. Greg Palast and his investigations team bust the most brazen, racist attack on voting rights yet – engineered by Georgia’s Brian Kemp to ensure victory in his rematch with Stacey Abrams. You’ll meet Kemp’s army of vigilante vote challengers. One dresses up like Old-West vigilante Doc … Continued	10:00 am DA Jenkins: Prosecute Killer Cops DA Jenkins: Prosecute Killer Cops Oct 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Tickets https://twitter.com/ACLU_NorCal/status/158280334864576102570938	7:00 pm Film showing of: Persepolis @ Revolution Books Film showing of: Persepolis @ Revolution Books Oct 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Revolution Books supports the uprising in Iran – courageous people, especially young women, taking to the streets across Iran in the face of police tear gas, batons and bullets. This rebellion was sparked when Iran’s “morality police” killed Mahsa Amini in custody. Her “crime”? Her hair was not completely covered by her hijab, the mandatory headscarf. The fury of young women burning their hijabs in bonfires in the streets has touched people everywhere women are oppressed – that is, the entire world. Come see Persepolis. This is the first of … Continued	3:00 pm Bay Area Solidarity Rally For Railroad Workers! Defend The Right To Strike! @ Port of Oakland, Shoreline Park Bay Area Solidarity Rally For Railroad Workers! Defend The Right To Strike! @ Port of Oakland, Shoreline Park Oct 22 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Defend The Right To Strike! An Injury To One Is An Injury To All! Repeal The Anti-labor Railway Labor Act US railroad workers are continuing to mostly vote against a proposed contract that does nothing to defend their health and safety condition on he job with long dangerous hours. Using the Railway Labor Act as a union busting tool which it is, workers are being told they really don’t have the right to strike and have to accept a contract that destroys workers lives and conditions. Working people and unions … Continued

Week of October 16

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.