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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 Why We Need American Marxism @ Online Why We Need American Marxism @ Online Aug 11 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Carlos L. Garrido For decades American politicians, the representatives of the country’s oligarchs, have lied to the American people about their country’s relation to socialism. America has been presented as fundamentally antithetical to socialism, Marxism, and communism. shows how we have, starting in the early parts of the 19th century, a homegrown tradition of socialist thought that grounds itself in the most progressive components of American history. This is a tradition which holds that the values of 1776 can only be capable of being fully realized in a socialist … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Aug 11 @ 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 Real US & Global Economy: 2024 and After @ Online Green Sunday: The Real US & Global Economy: 2024 and After @ Online Aug 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88083342274 Contrary to recent public statements by US politicians, media and mainstream neoliberal economists, the US economy is not doing ‘great’. How accurate are official claims regarding inflation, jobs, and US GDP? The presentation will review independent data sources, and even often ignored government statistics, to show a picture different from the mainstream ‘spin’ on inflation, jobs and GDP: Why inflation is actually higher than reported in CPI and PCE indexes, why job creation is less than reported in the government’s main CES survey, and why the … Continued 7:00 pm Long Haul Infoshop 31st Birthday Party @ Long Haul Long Haul Infoshop 31st Birthday Party @ Long Haul Aug 11 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Long Haul Infoshop has made it through another year un-demolished. Help us celebrate our 31st birthday – they’ll be music by #freejazzhouseparty, a wacky free raffle of Long Haul t-shirts, cake –> let’s swap stories together. Free and all ages. For more information: http://thelonghaul.org77888	7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Aug 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	8:00 pm Octavia Butler Themed Hardware Hack Night @ Omni Commons Octavia Butler Themed Hardware Hack Night @ Omni Commons Aug 13 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Octavia Butler Science Fiction AI Theme This week’s theme: Print is hardware too! And what better muse can we imagine than Octavia Butler, science fiction Goddess. We’ll have a pre-hardware hack night presentation on creative ways to mix print with electronics, use artificial intelligence in the most open source and ethical way, and work on our SudoRoom print zine! Throw in some 3D models into the mix too! Hack on Anything and Everything ○ Projects: can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to light projection … Continued	6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Online Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Online Aug 14 @ 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		3:30 pm The People’s Clinic @ The People's House The People’s Clinic @ The People's House Aug 16 @ 3:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Earlier this year the Anti Police-Terror Project proudly launched The People’s Clinic with scheduling options every 1st and 3rd Friday at The People’s House in West Oakland. We created The People’s Clinic as an abolitionist healing space for communities affected by police terror and state violence, frontline organizers, and our West Oakland neighbors. We offer free services for community like acupuncture, herbal consultations, massage, healing tools library, monthly workshops, and more. Our Healing Justice framework invites community to envision and manifest a life beyond the violence we survive everyday. Without … Continued	1:00 pm “Respect Our Vote – No Recalls” Says Community Coalition @ Allan Temple Baptist Church “Respect Our Vote – No Recalls” Says Community Coalition @ Allan Temple Baptist Church Aug 17 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Community Meeting A new grassroots coalition has formed in response to what it calls a major conservative threat to voters’ rights in Oakland and Alameda County, bluntly calling itself: “Respect Our Vote – No Recalls.” “We already voted! We shouldn’t have to pay for another expensive election because a handful of multi-millionaires from Piedmont and San Francisco, along with a few billionaires across the country, don’t like the results of the election we already had,” said longtime Oakland activist Mariano Contreras, reflecting a sentiment of some politically aware residents from … Continued

Week of August 11

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.