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All-day					Racial Justice Act Symposium Racial Justice Act Symposium Feb 2 all-day Tickets Register: RJA Symposium @ Berkeley Law Friday, February 2nd, 8:30 a.m. � 8:00 p.m.. Contact cljc@berkeley.edu with questions. Join us at the Racial Justice Act Symposium, a dynamic collaboration between the Berkeley Criminal Law & Justice Center and the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, bringing together public defenders, data scientists, legal scholars, and the author of the California RJA, Assemblymember Ash Kalra, who will deliver the keynote lecture. This Symposium aims to serve as an opportunity for strategic coordination, sharing of best practices and lessons learned, expert witness development, and … Continued
12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm 10:30 am Are Fascism and Liberalism Partners in Capitalist Crime? @ Online Are Fascism and Liberalism Partners in Capitalist Crime? @ Online Jan 28 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1 Speaker: Gabriel Rockhill According to the dominant ideology, fascism constitutes an exceptional break with the protocols of liberal democracy, which has only happened at rare moments in the history of the West, such as in Mussolini’s Italy and Nazi Germany. Liberalism is thereby postulated as a bulwark against fascism, an idea that’s been consolidated through the massive perpetuation of a historical narrative regarding the supposed democratic defeat of Nazism in WWII. This presentation will critically interrogate these assumptions by re-examining the historical relationship between liberal democracy … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Jan 28 @ 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 4:00 pm Sunflower Alliance Webinar: Richmond’s Bold Climate Initiatives @ Online Sunflower Alliance Webinar: Richmond’s Bold Climate Initiatives @ Online Jan 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Richmond was once an industrial powerhouse, building automobiles and battleships. It’s still home to a sprawling oil refinery owned by global fossil fuel colossus, Chevron. But it’s also well on its way to becoming a cutting-edge laboratory for progressive policy experimentation. Join us to hear some of the prominent Richmond environmental justice leaders working on the climate challenges facing Richmond: planning for a just transition, tackling the impacts of sea-level rise, and dealing with the financial impact of closing the Chevron refinery. We’ll also take a look at the plan … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Greens Free Dinner and a Movie : Eight Below (2006) @ Online and in person Oakland Greens Free Dinner and a Movie : Eight Below (2006) @ Online and in person Jan 28 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Eight Below is a 2006 American survival drama film, a remake based on the 1983 Japanese film Antarctica by Toshirô Ishidô, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Tatsuo Nogami and Susumu Saji. It was produced by Patrick Crowley and David Hoberman, directed by Frank Marshall, with music by Mark Isham and written by David DiGilio. It stars Paul Walker in the leading role. It also stars Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood and Jason Biggs. It was released theatrically on February 17, 2006 by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States. The film is set in Antarctica but was … Continued	11:00 am Stop Mountain Valley Pipeline, Funded by Wells Fargo @ Wells Fargo HQ Stop Mountain Valley Pipeline, Funded by Wells Fargo @ Wells Fargo HQ Jan 29 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Join actions all over the country targeting banks that fund the Mountain Valley Pipeline. We have one of the top funders right here in the Bay Area: Wells Fargo, headquartered in San Francisco, has poured $86.7 million into this destructive project. For starters, the pipeline is planned to carry fracked gas across Appalachia, from extraction fields of northern West Virginia, blasting through the Blue Ridge mountains and Virginia before reaching its end in North Carolina. Construction on the MVP mainline has already severely harmed clean water sources across Appalachia. Its … Continued	8:00 pm SudoRoom Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night + Fixit Clinic + Group Sewing @ Omni Commons SudoRoom Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night + Fixit Clinic + Group Sewing @ Omni Commons Jan 30 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Nights are better than ever! Each Tuesday we welcome all to bring their hardware (and software and firmware) projects to Omni Commons, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, 7pm til ∞ …whomever’s left standing! ○ Projects: can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to light projection art, to people building their own microchip boards! We provide the space, tools and peer learning – you bring your project and enthusiasm! ○ Group Sewing: Learn to do simple mending … Continued	12:00 pm The UAW Strike and Building Worker Power for a Just Transition @ Online The UAW Strike and Building Worker Power for a Just Transition @ Online Jan 31 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tickets photo: Thomas Good In last year’s historic strike against the Big Three automakers, climate activists rallied to support union workers fighting for better pay and working conditions—including protections for workers during the transition to electric vehicles. Leaders of the strike made it clear that their aim was not just to win their immediate demands but to build working class power for progressive change. What can we learn from the strike about how to build worker power for a just transition to a green economy? Find out in a discussion with … Continued	8:30 am Pack the Court for the Bay Bridge 78! Pack the Court for the Bay Bridge 78! Feb 1 @ 8:30 am – 10:30 am Tickets Bay Area: Pack the court for the Bay Bridge 78! The #BayBridge78 are back in court on the heels of San Francisco’s historic ceasefire resolution, joining the millions demanding an end to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Join us to tell San Francisco DA @BrookeJenkins_SF to DROP THE CHARGES! 77703 9:30 am After Berkeley Setback: More on How Cities Can Decarbonize Buildings @ Online After Berkeley Setback: More on How Cities Can Decarbonize Buildings @ Online Feb 1 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am Tickets Despite the Ninth Circuit Court ruling against Berkeley’s gas ban for new buildings, cities and states are finding legal pathways to decarbonize buildings. Hear — from the people who are making this happen — about the many policy approaches, including building codes and building performance standards, that are still available to states and localities to protect their residents from the impacts of fossil-fuel use. This panel discussion will include: * Jonny Kocher and Denise Grab from Rocky Mountain Institute, which is a longtime leader in designing effective climate policy * … Continued	8:30 am Pack the Court for the Bay Bridge 78! Pack the Court for the Bay Bridge 78! Feb 2 @ 8:30 am – 10:30 am Tickets Bay Area: Pack the court for the Bay Bridge 78! The #BayBridge78 are back in court on the heels of San Francisco’s historic ceasefire resolution, joining the millions demanding an end to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Join us to tell San Francisco DA @BrookeJenkins_SF to DROP THE CHARGES! 77703	12:00 pm Chevron Out of Palestine @ Chevron Richmond Refinery, Gate 14 Chevron Out of Palestine @ Chevron Richmond Refinery, Gate 14 Feb 3 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets RSVP at https://bit.ly/ChevronOutOfPalestine For the past three months, the Israeli Occupation Forces have indiscriminately bombed and killed over 30,000 Palestinians living in Gaza, half of them children. This is a genocide and an attempted land-grab. Israel’s apartheid regime depends on Chevron’s gas reserves, which provide 70% of Israel’s electricity and powers the ongoing massacres of Palestinians. Both Israel and Chevron are profiting from this genocide: Chevron operates two of the largest offshore natural gas fields off of the coast of Palestine. The extraction of these resources, enabled by the apartheid regime … Continued

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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.