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In response, the ruling class shames it as “deplorable”, “far-right”, and “Putin’s puppets”. In a world devoid of class identity, American culture proffers individual identity as the new religion, as the new “sigh of the oppressed … Continued 12:00 pm Doclands: SHAKING IT UP: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LIZ CARPENTER @ SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER Doclands: SHAKING IT UP: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LIZ CARPENTER @ SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER May 5 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets WONDERLANDS \| CALIFORNIA PREMIERE ► VIEW TRAILER Directors ABBY GINZBERG, CHRISTY CARPENTER (US 2024) 78 min Pioneering Texan journalist and influential feminist leader Liz Carpenter takes center stage in this documentary co-directed by her daughter Christy Carpenter and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Abby Ginzberg. Carpenter’s journalistic career began during World War II, when she covered political events and rose to prominence in Washington, D.C. Her enduring relationships with leaders including Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson left a significant impact on political narratives; it was Carpenter who wrote Johnson’s public remarks after the … Continued 3:30 pm Drag Queen Story Time @ New Parkway Theater Drag Queen Story Time @ New Parkway Theater May 5 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets 77732 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza May 5 @ 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	7:00 pm Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting May 6 @ 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	3:30 pm Justice 4 Alan Blueford @ Oakland City Hall Justice 4 Alan Blueford @ Oakland City Hall May 7 @ 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Beloved Community, Tomorrow Oakland City Council will vote on a resolution Honoring the Life of Alan Dwayne Blueford, who was murdered by Oakland Police Department 12 years ago today on May 6, 2012 at the age of only 18-years-old. His mother, and our sister in struggle, Jeralynn Blueford, is calling on us to show up in support. We are asking you to show up tomorrow, Tuesday, May 7 at city hall to help this family, forever-impacted by OPD’s terror, continue to fight for Alan and his legacy. WHAT: Support Oakland … Continued 4:00 pm All Out for Rahah @ Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley All Out for Rahah @ Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley May 7 @ 4:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets https://twitter.com/LisTeague/status/178777815407937144577813 6:30 pm Golden State Energy, NOT PG&E! Richmond City Council @ Richmond City Council Golden State Energy, NOT PG&E! Richmond City Council @ Richmond City Council May 7 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Why do we allow a private corporation with a history of convictions for manslaughter to keep making huge profits from selling us electricity? Reclaim Our Power has developed an exciting proposal to make a Just Transition from PG&E to Golden State Energy, a nonprofit public-benefit utility. On May 7, Richmond City Council will hold a hearing on a resolution endorsing this proposal. You can support this transition by showing up and speaking out at the hearing. Your organization can help by signing onto this letter of support. Please view the agenda for instructions about submitting public … Continued 7:30 pm SudoRoom Hardware Hacking Tuesdays + Fixit Clinic @ Omni Commons SudoRoom Hardware Hacking Tuesdays + Fixit Clinic @ Omni Commons May 7 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Hardware Hacking Tuesdays are better than ever! Plus Fix-It Clinic! 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, about 7:30pm until ∞ …whomever’s left standing! We are inside the Omni Commons at 48th and Shattuck, see the link at the end of this text to call in in case the doors are locked! ○ Projects: can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to … Continued				11:00 am Toxic Tour of Richmond Zeneca Site Toxic Tour of Richmond Zeneca Site May 11 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets A self-guided online tour of the Superfund-qualified Zeneca toxic-waste site in Richmond will share the site’s history of contamination, and the dangers it poses to the community. For over a century, the Stauffer Chemical Company manufactured herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, and sulfuric acid at the 86-acre site, dumping hazardous waste onsite and filling in the Bay. Many Richmond residents living nearby don’t know its history, nor are they aware that it was never fully cleaned up. The site on Richmond’s southeast shoreline has been leaking highly contaminated water and vapors for … 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.