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With … 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 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			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 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.