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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 U.S. Middle East Policy Under Trump: How it Will Differ (and How it Won’t) from Biden @ Online U.S. Middle East Policy Under Trump: How it Will Differ (and How it Won’t) from Biden @ Online Feb 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88083342274 A second Trump administration will push U.S. policy in the Middle East in a very dangerous direction. Already, Trump has thrown his weight behind the most extremist elements in Israel while effectively renouncing international legal precedence, embracing Arab dictatorships, and making the U.S. very much of an outlier even among our pro-Western allies. However, the Biden administration pursued many of these dangerous policies as well. As a result, supporters of Palestinian rights–and proponents of human rights and international law in general–must be willing to challenge the … Continued	7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Feb 10 @ 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		6:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay General Organizing Meeting @ Online Public Bank of the East Bay General Organizing Meeting @ Online Feb 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Friends of Public Bank East Bay host general organizing meetings every Wednesday at 6pm via zoom If you’d like to join us, send us an email and one of our members will be in touch. We can match your interests and skill set to our needs! Public Bank East Bay hopes to open by 2025, as a transformative institution that keeps our money local, allowing local governments to divest from Wall Street and reinvest its profits back into our community. Public Bank East Bay’s initial loan policies will support … Continued 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Online Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Online Feb 12 @ 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. 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 and online tracking, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws, and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — to list just a few invasions … Continued 8:00 pm 100 Days: Debtors’ Assembly @ Online 100 Days: Debtors’ Assembly @ Online Feb 12 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Debtors of the world, unite! Alone, our debts are a burden. Together they give us power. When we share our experiences of debt and economic pressure with each other, we begin to see our collective power to change the systems that exploit us. Everyone is welcome to participate in this debtors assembly, whether or not you are currently debt-burdened. This is a 100 Days to Build Debtor Power event. Over the first 100 days of the new presidential administration, we’re embarking – together – on an intensive campaign of organizing trainings, political education, and … Continued			11:00 am Extinction Rebellion U.S. All-Chapter Gathering @ Online Extinction Rebellion U.S. All-Chapter Gathering @ Online Feb 15 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Where do we go from here? Come to the next All-Chapter Gathering and join the discussion! RSVP HERE One by one and in groups, people are peacefully resisting. An Episcopal bishop, mayors of sanctuary cities, states’ attorneys general. What is the role of a grassroots climate group dedicated to non-violent civil disobedience? Our newly-formed Strategy and Action Circle, working with break-out room ideas from our last All -Chapter Gathering, will report on their developing recommendations for the Spring Rebellion and gather your input. We need your experiences, wisdom, expertise, and energy … Continued 11:00 am Reaffirming Sanctuary @ St. Mark's Lutheran Church Reaffirming Sanctuary @ St. Mark's Lutheran Church Feb 15 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Tickets REAFFIRMING SANCTUARY Join the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity next Wednesday, for a press conference, procession, and day of remembrance vigil. We gather to reaffirm sanctuary, a sacred tradition across many faiths of welcoming immigrants and standing against actions that would tear families and communities apart. RSVP HERE 78138 5:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Making Sense of Chaos @ Online Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Making Sense of Chaos @ Online Feb 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome. For our January, 2025 meeting we will be reading the first seven chapters Making Sense of Chaos by by J. Doyne Farmer (Yale University Press, Amazon). For our February meeting, we will be finishing the book. We live in an age of increasing complexity—an era of accelerating technology and global interconnection that holds more promise, and more peril, than any other time in human history. The fossil fuels that have powered global wealth creation now threaten to … Continued 5:51 pm Report-back from Syria @ Online Report-back from Syria @ Online Feb 15 @ 5:51 pm – 6:51 pm Tickets Speaker: Dan Kovalik https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1 Our speaker, international human rights advocate and lawyer Dan Kovalik just returned from Syria, once a beautiful country and the cradle of civilization. He visited so that we could speak out for people there who can’t speak out because they fear violent repression. Dan will report back on the current situation in light of historical developments. The new de facto government was in large part brought to power by the US and other foreign entities and does not have a mandate or right to rule. Multiculturalism … 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.