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All-day					9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! 9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! Jan 13 all-day Tickets FMake sure you SAVE THE DATE for our 9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! Join us January 13-16, 2023 for a weekend of teach-ins, trainings, film screenings, healing justice workshops, and action in King’s honor as we get ready for a year of solidarity, community and liberation. Every year at this time we recommit ourselves to the path of revolution and liberation laid out for us by Dr. King and the long lineage of Black freedom fighters who came before us. Not the white-washed, sanitized version of King … Continued	9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! 9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! Jan 14 all-day Tickets FMake sure you SAVE THE DATE for our 9th Annual Weekend to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy! Join us January 13-16, 2023 for a weekend of teach-ins, trainings, film screenings, healing justice workshops, and action in King’s honor as we get ready for a year of solidarity, community and liberation. Every year at this time we recommit ourselves to the path of revolution and liberation laid out for us by Dr. King and the long lineage of Black freedom fighters who came before us. Not the white-washed, sanitized version of King … Continued
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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 Green Sunday: Conflict in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa: Countering the US Propaganda Narrative @ Online Green Sunday: Conflict in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa: Countering the US Propaganda Narrative @ Online Jan 8 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89559844652 The two-year civil war in Ethiopia has seen far more casualties than the Ukraine War but received a tiny fraction of the press. Estimates are that half a million people, maybe even more, have died, while the highest estimate is 100,000 in Ukraine. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, Ethiopia also saw a record number of people internally displaced by conflict in 2021, over five million. The press it has gotten has been largely that of the genocide industrial complex, which portrays the Tegaru minority as victims in … Continued 7:00 pm The Pursuit of Happiness framed in political-economic terms @ Online The Pursuit of Happiness framed in political-economic terms @ Online Jan 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Location Details: Virtual through Google Meet: The Pursuit of Happiness framed in political-economic terms Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/mqd-jtmf-gkk Join high school US History teacher David Giesen as he vets an overview–seeking your critique–of next year’s approach to US History. The curriculum’s theme is “Liberating the Pursuit of Happiness.” The “elevator pitch” is: The United States was created in the stated belief that governments should exist in order to facilitate a people’s ability to pursue happiness. The pursuit of happiness requires liberty to be playfully expressive. The … Continued	7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Jan 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		1:00 pm Press Conference on Guantanamo 21st Anniversary: Close Guantanamo! Prosecute John Yoo. @ UC Berkeley Law Schoo Press Conference on Guantanamo 21st Anniversary: Close Guantanamo! Prosecute John Yoo. @ UC Berkeley Law Schoo Jan 11 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets If raining, the press conference will be held inside the building, at the Dean’s office. CodePink event page: https://www.codepink.org Berkeley, CA. Human rights groups will gather in person at UC Berkeley Law School on January 11, 2023 @ 1pm to call for the closure of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp on its 21st Anniversary, and for the prosecution of UC Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo for complicity in torture. The press conference is hosted by CodePink for Peace, Berkeley No More Guantanamos, Progressive Democrats of Oakland, Triple Justice, Extinction Rebellion Peace … Continued	10:00 am Building Resilience to Extreme Heat in California @ Online Building Resilience to Extreme Heat in California @ Online Jan 12 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Tickets Last year, the City of Los Angeles spearheaded an innovative community engagement process around the question, “What are you most worried about regarding climate change impacts?” Led by the Climate Emergency Mobilization Office (CEMO) and involving hundreds of stakeholders, the resulting answer was extreme heat. What can be done to address the serious threat that hotter, longer summers pose to our communities? Join The Climate Center and CEMO for a webinar focused on how climate resilience community hubs can keep people safe during extreme heat waves. Presenters include community leaders … Continued 12:00 pm Right to Housing @ Online Right to Housing @ Online Jan 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets Join ACCE for the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy’s event on Right to Housing. RSVP HERE At a time of mass houselessness, deepening tenant precarity, and the criminalization of poverty, housing justice movements are pushing for a right to housing in California. In this convening, current and former UN Special Rapporteurs on Adequate Housing provide insight and guidance on key elements of such a right, how such a right can be informed by an international human rights framework, and how such a right can become an actionable government … Continued 6:00 pm Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it? @ Internet Archive Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it? @ Internet Archive Jan 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1607900661869432832 74443		5:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Less Is More @ Online Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Less Is More @ Online Jan 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite. For December, we are reading the first part, and the beginning of the second part, of Less is More, by Jason Hickel (Amazon, Barnes & Noble). For January, 2023, we are finishing the book. The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate … Continued 6:00 pm What Does a Green Police System Look Like @ Online What Does a Green Police System Look Like @ Online Jan 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets January Oakland Greens Virtual Townhall. Our first event will be the January virtual townhall “What Does a Green Police System Look Like”? Imagine a future of community policing, police commissions with real authority, and registered Green Party police chiefs. What would a Green Party police force look like? Demilitarized officers, biodiesel-fueled vehicles, and hemp weapons? How would you create a police force with Green Party values? Well, the irregular cast with special guests will discuss the possibilities with you and theorize on how to make an entirely new police system … Continued

Week of January 8

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.