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With … Continued 11:00 am Massive National Action to End Fossil Fuels Massive National Action to End Fossil Fuels Sep 17 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Tickets If you’re in the Bay Area, you can secure a spot in our charter bus, which will be leaving from the Ashby BART station at 8:30 AM, taking you to and from the action! The United Nations is calling on world leaders to take real steps to lead us off fossil fuels to protect people and the planet. On September 20th in New York, the UN Climate Ambition Summit will gather world leaders to commit to phasing out fossil fuels. The “ticket to entry” will be tangible action to keep fossil fuels … Continued 12:00 pm Art & Soul @ Oscar Grant Plaza Art & Soul @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 17 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/Victory4Oakland/status/170343884693399996075611 3:00 pm Omni Commons Tour @ Omni Commons Omni Commons Tour @ Omni Commons Sep 17 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets 75543 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Sep 17 @ 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 Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: ‘End Times’ by Peter Turchin @ Online Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: ‘End Times’ by Peter Turchin @ Online Sep 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. For our August and September meetings we are reading End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin. For our August meeting we’ll be reading the first two sections, which is about half of the book. For the September meeting we will finish the book. Back in 2010, when Nature magazine asked leading scientists to provide a ten-year forecast, Turchin used his models to predict that America was in a spiral of social disintegration that would lead to a … Continued		2:00 pm Not More Cops and Surveillance! @ Oakland City Hall Not More Cops and Surveillance! @ Oakland City Hall Sep 19 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Members of our city council are pretending to do something about crime by proposing more of the same destructive policing approach that has never kept us safe instead of investing in our communities. There’s always more money for cops. Only for cops, not for schools or jobs or healthcare or parks or libraries — not for any of the things that actually make healthy and safe communities. Conservatives and moderate democrats are mobilizing to give public comment at tomorrow’s Oakland City Council meeting, on Tuesday, September 19, and your voice … Continued	6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Online Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Online Sep 20 @ 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. (THE JANUARY 17TH MEETING, 2024 WAS MOVED TO JANUARY 24TH) Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for privacy, surveillance regulation of both corporations and the state, and government transparency, 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,” … Continued 7:00 pm Naomi Klein: “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” @ First Presbyterian Church Naomi Klein: “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” @ First Presbyterian Church Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Bestselling author and Intercept contributing editor Naomi Klein’s new book, “Doppelganger,” dives deep into what she calls the “Mirror World”: our destabilized present rife with doubles and confusion, where far-right movements playact solidarity with the working class, AI-generated content blurs the line between genuine and spurious, and so many of us project our own carefully curated digital doubles out into the social media sphere. Klein will be in conversation with Annalee Newitz discussing “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” tomorrow, September 20 at 7 p.m. PDT at the First … Continued	3:30 pm Screening: A RISING TIDE: A look at homelessness in Alameda County @ Grand Lake Theater Screening: A RISING TIDE: A look at homelessness in Alameda County @ Grand Lake Theater Sep 21 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Through the eyes of children, their families, and the helping industry that has developed from the housing crisis, A Rising Tide follows the strategies of families and service providers struggling with homelessness. The film results from a conversation between the filmmaker and Dr. Christine Ma. Dr. Ma is the Medical Director of two clinics working with houseless children and their families. 75603 7:00 pm New Copwatcher Orientation @ Grassroots House New Copwatcher Orientation @ Grassroots House Sep 21 @ 7:00 pm – 7:15 pm Tickets New Copwatcher Orientation Wanna get involved in Berkeley Copwatch? Sign up for an orientation this month. Learn about how we do the work and find where you can plug in! Wed. September 13, 7:00-8:00pm Wed. September 21, 7:00-8:00pm There will be more new copwatcher orientations in the future, please email us if you can’t make the sessions above: berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com Do you want to get involved in Berkeley Copwatch? Learn more or contact us directly at berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com Donate 75500 9:00 pm Screening: A Clockwork Orange @ New Parkway Theater Screening: A Clockwork Orange @ New Parkway Theater Sep 21 @ 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets A CLOCKWORK ORANGE In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn’t go as planned. Stanley Kubrick’s controversial adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s dystopian nightmare of youthful mayhem and madness remains just as provocative now as it did upon first release. It creates its own language both literally and cinematically, a dark satire of one possible future that seems more likely every day. 75503		10:30 am Democracy 101 in Need of an Update and the Role of Third Parties @ Online Democracy 101 in Need of an Update and the Role of Third Parties @ Online Sep 23 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Laura Wells The United States was a leading democracy two centuries ago. Now many other nations have leap-frogged over the US by developing better political/electoral systems. As a consequence, they also have better systems for healthcare, higher education, housing, and justice combined with increased personal safety. The locked-down two-party system has joined with the vast inequality of wealth and power in the US in order to raise hurdles to block solutions that people want, create, and support. We will take a good look at those hurdles, many of … Continued 1:00 pm Celebrating The Legacy of Eugene Norman “Gus” Newport @ Paramount Theater Celebrating The Legacy of Eugene Norman “Gus” Newport @ Paramount Theater Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets A memorial service celebrating the legacy of Eugene Norman Newport lovingly known as Gus Newport. Gus Newport dedicated his life to protecting the rights of all people to live in peace and realize their full potential. Gus is best remembered for serving two terms as mayor of Berkeley, where he championed progressive causes — from police reform to rent control — that drew national attention. But Gus fought for social justice long before he was elected to office — and long after his tenure. He was a crusader, both at … Continued 1:00 pm Memorial services for Gus Newport @ Paramount Theater Memorial services for Gus Newport @ Paramount Theater Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/jeanquan/status/170509145213578056875660

Week of September 17

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.