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Academics hail the news that it will mean a … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 14 @ 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 Green Sunday: The Climate Emergency and Direct Action @ Online Green Sunday: The Climate Emergency and Direct Action @ Online May 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets The climate crisis is a global emergency. Government action is beginning to turn things around, and yet the pace is still much too slow. Tonight Dr. Bernadette Rodgers will talk about the current state of the climate crisis, and what we can do. She’ll tell us about her own path to activism, the many ways to engage, what activists call the “Ladder of Engagement”, the rise of Scientist Rebellion (among others), and the surprising personal rewards of direct action. We are living in an “all hands on deck” moment, so … Continued	3:00 pm Tenants’ Rights Workshops @ Online Tenants’ Rights Workshops @ Online May 15 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets The Debt Collective: Our weekly online Tenants Rights Workshops for California renters. During these training sessions, we talk about the eviction process, reasons so many tenants are facing eviction, and what tenants can and are doing to defend themselves. These meetings are held on Zoom every 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Monday of the month. The next meeting will be held on April 24th at 3 PM Pacific time – you can register here for the meeting. Register for Meeting 74792	4:00 pm Demonstration in Solidarity with the Haitian People @ UN Plaza Demonstration in Solidarity with the Haitian People @ UN Plaza May 16 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets 74905	10:00 am Rally to Cut GHG and Pollution from Ports @ Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 Rally to Cut GHG and Pollution from Ports @ Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 May 17 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets Info/RSVP Join Sunflower Alliance, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, and other climate justice advocates in an action demanding stronger federal and state rules to protect us from the toxic pollution and greenhouse gas emitted by ocean-going vessels. Governor Newsom and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently announced they would delay implementation of a rule that CARB passed in 2020. It requires most ocean-going vessels to plug into onshore electricity rather than burning fossil fuels while at port. The rule was supposed to go into effect early in 2023 — … Continued 6:00 pm East Bay & SF DSA Joint Labor Social @ Anchor Brewing Company East Bay & SF DSA Joint Labor Social @ Anchor Brewing Company May 17 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee is holding a joint social with San Francisco DSA’s Labor Working Group. Meet rank and filers in local unions, workers organizing their workplace, and other labor activists from the City, the Town, and beyond. Learn about the exciting work our members are doing in both chapters and build solidarity across the bay. Bring your union swag and come with any announcements and events you’d like to share with committee members and comrades!74873 6:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay @ Online Public Bank of the East Bay @ Online May 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch. Friends of the Public Bank East Bay is a completely volunteer-run, nonprofit organizing to create and build community support for the first public bank in California’s history! If you’re committed to economic justice and interested in helping us build new financial systems by the people for the people, we look forward to having you join us! HOW WE OPERATE: We have five committees working together to create … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online May 17 @ 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	6:00 pm Extreme Heat: The Deadliest Climate Health Hazard @ Online Extreme Heat: The Deadliest Climate Health Hazard @ Online May 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Online. Register here Extreme heat is the deadliest—and fastest-growing—climate-related health hazard, especially for the most vulnerable patients, workers, and lower-income and frontline communities. Physicians for Social Responsibility SF Bay Chapter is hosting a discussion on ways we can advocate for achievable protections against the health threats of extreme heat, including “equitable access to medical care, health info, and warning systems during extreme heat events; affordable cooling such as heat-cooling pumps; affordable and protected access to electricity; community cooling centers; labor laws to protect workers; and the phase out of fossil fuels … Continued		11:00 am The Riders Come Out at Night – Author Talk @ 81st Ave Branch, Oakland Public Library The Riders Come Out at Night – Author Talk @ 81st Ave Branch, Oakland Public Library May 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/awinston/status/165928480337888460874946 5:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber @ Online Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber @ Online May 20 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. For our March, April and May meetings we are reading Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber (Warwick, Amazon). For our March meeting we’ll be reading the first five chapters. For the April meeting we are reading chapters 6 through 9. For our May meeting will are reading the remainder of the book. Before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems … Continued 6:00 pm No Ethics In Big Tech, NSA Comedy. @ Online No Ethics In Big Tech, NSA Comedy. @ Online May 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Hey there, folks. Are you ready for a night of fun, education, and controversy? We’ve got just the event for you: the No Ethics in Big Tech and NSA Comedy Night! Featuring some of the most insightful comedians around, Will Durst, Mean Dave, Chloe McGovern, and Alicia Dattner will be sure to get you laughing and thinking about the intersection of surveillance, technology, and society. Accompanied by talented musician Mike Rufo, this evening promises to be a great mix of entertainment and education. The stars of the evening are the … Continued 6:00 pm Non-Monogamy & Anti-Capitalism, do they intersect @ Online Non-Monogamy & Anti-Capitalism, do they intersect @ Online May 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets When my activism was in the streets, breathing tear gas, getting arrested, legal observing, and beaten/shot at by police we all knew there were people (cis men) that were there for the fanny. Which they used their direct action was a pick up line, rather than conviction which hurts the movement. It was rarely talked about in the open but does this mean that all alternative relationship paradigms are not at the core anti-capitalist? Within my mad hatters tea party the guests practicing alternative relationship paradigms do not cross the … 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.