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This also takes place in the midst of … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Apr 30 @ 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 The Riders Come Out At Night; Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland. @ Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery The Riders Come Out At Night; Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland. @ Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery Apr 30 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets From the Polk Award–winning investigative duo comes a critical look at the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, and the more than two-decades-long saga of attempted reforms and explosive scandals. No municipality has been under court oversight to reform its police department as long as the city of Oakland. It is, quite simply, the edge case in American law enforcement. The Riders Come Out at Night is the culmination of over twenty-one years of fearless reporting. Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham shine a light on the jackbooted … Continued 6:00 pm Oakland Greens Free Movie & online discussion: “The Name of the Rose” @ Online Oakland Greens Free Movie & online discussion: “The Name of the Rose” @ Online Apr 30 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets In the 14th century, William of Baskerville (Sean Connery), and his apprentice, Adso of Melk (Christian Slater), travel to an abbey where a suspicious death has occurred. William begins investigating what he believes to be murder. The church leaders call forth Bernardo Gui (F. Murray Abraham), William’s nemesis, to find the truth. The Oakland Greens Free Movie discussion series is a virtual community building event held on Zoom. A relaxed fun space organized by The Oakland Greens to discuss solutions to local issues that hurt us and many others. Registration … Continued	1:00 pm MUNICIPALISM AND LABOR @ Online MUNICIPALISM AND LABOR @ Online May 1 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets You are invited to the Municipalism and Labor panel, hosted by the Municipalism Learning Series. Workers are rising up and taking back cities from capitalists and corporations. Unions are negotiating for benefits for the community and not just members, emerging from behind the fortress. This moment of labor insurgency in the aftermath of the pandemic, which laid bare the disposability of the working class, has echoes in historical struggles to make cities more livable and democratic. RSVP to receive the Zoom link at http://municipalism.org Panelists: BIANCA CUNNINGHAM, Bargaining for the … Continued 6:00 pm SF May Day 2023 “Break The Chains For Solidarity & Internationalism” SF May Day 2023 “Break The Chains For Solidarity & Internationalism” May 1 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets May Day 2023 For Workers Struggle Victories In The US & Around The World Join Labor Troubadour Mike Stout From Pittsburgh, PA and Others Who Will Perform & Sing Out. The world is on fire from the general strikes in France, in Greece and struggles around the world to defend public services, against privatization, to stop union busting, to protect the planet and to stop the growing repression, racism, fascism and danger of world war. Workers are fighting for unions throughout the country from Amazon, Starbucks. From the railroads, airlines, … Continued 7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting May 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82809764186?pwd=eWtjcXlsKzU1QkdSdk5xOUxseFl0Zz09 Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186 If you wish to get the password please subscribe to the Oscar Grant Committee mailing list by sending an email to: oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to … Continued 7:00 pm Rebecca Solnit talk – Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility @ The Green Arcade Rebecca Solnit talk – Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility @ The Green Arcade May 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit, climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it’s an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. Not To Late is latest in the … Continued		12:00 pm On World Press Freedom Day: A Day Of Action To Free Assange/ Mumia & Against Censorship @ KQED Television On World Press Freedom Day: A Day Of Action To Free Assange/ Mumia & Against Censorship @ KQED Television May 3 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets May 3 is the annual World Press Freedom Day. Throughout the world journalist are being targeted, tortured and murdered and there is growing censorship by governments & corporate media. In the United States, the two most world known journalists are Julian Assange who was also publisher of Wiki-leaks and Mumia Abu-Jamal. Julian Assange is member of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance in Australia and has been imprisoned in the UK for “espionage” and Mumia was a member of CWA NABET and working as a journalist on Philadelphia’s NPR (National … Continued	5:00 pm Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Oakland City Hall May 4 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets AGENDA ITEMS: 4. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – DPW – Illegal Dumping Cameras a. Third party sharing (Use Policy Sec. H) notice and report b. Review and take possible action, including to receive the report and possibly make recommendations to the City Council. 5. Dept. of Transportation – Speed Safety System Pilot Program a. DOT will present on AB 645 and request a motion of support for the bill. The SOS Initiative aims to prevent severe and fatal traffic crashes, eliminate injury inequities, and carefully assess and mitigate any equity impacts … Continued		2:00 pm Socialist City Councilor Kshama Sawant in Oakland! @ Rockridge Library Socialist City Councilor Kshama Sawant in Oakland! @ Rockridge Library May 6 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Rally and Discussion Kshama only takes an average worker’s wage, donating the rest to a solidarity fund to support working class people fighting for their rights. Through Kshama’s office, we’ve won: – the first $15/hr minimum wage in the country, launching the 15 now movement nationally – a tax on Amazon’s profits to build affordable, green housing in Seattle – the nation’s first ban on caste discrimination – caps on late fees for renters in Seattle Now Workers Strike Back, initiated by Kshama and Socialist Alternative, is building a movement … Continued 4:00 pm Join Us to Celebrate People’s Park! @ Heyday Books Join Us to Celebrate People’s Park! @ Heyday Books May 6 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Join Us to Celebrate People’s Park! Join the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group for a moment of refreshments and celebration of the recent appellate court victory and People’s Park’s placement on the National Register of Historic Places. We want to thank the historians, writers, gardeners, everyone who came together and continues to work toward the longevity of Berkeley’s most famous landmark. Tom Dalzell, author of “1969; the Struggle for People’s Park”, will speak, and we’ll have additional speakers to clarify where we are now in our effort to educate … Continued

Week of April 30

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.