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All-day					Nationwide Protests @ Everywhere Nationwide Protests @ Everywhere Mar 14 all-day Tickets https://twitter.com/HeatherThomasAF/status/1894468347636715742 78144
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 Labor Exploitation in the Era of the Neoliberal Policy Regime @ Online Labor Exploitation in the Era of the Neoliberal Policy Regime @ Online Mar 9 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Jack Rasmus To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1 Professor Rasmus provides a distinction between primary and secondary exploitation from Marx. Primary exploitation is at the workplace, while secondary exploitation is beyond the workplace. Secondary exploitation can include deferred wage payments, like pensions, interest on household debt, price gouging and other ways of clawing back wage payments. These two forms of exploitation have intensified under neo-liberal capitalism, increasing the rate of surplus value. Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author … Continued 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza Mar 9 @ 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: International Women’s Day, Reflections and Origins: Struggles for Equality, Class Solidarity, and Socialism Green Sunday: International Women’s Day, Reflections and Origins: Struggles for Equality, Class Solidarity, and Socialism Mar 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88083342274 Laura Wells will open with reflections on what the words related to Women’s History Month even mean: feminist, female, woman. There are no easy answers in these times. The question is, how do we — women and all — proceed toward building the big movement that’s needed to move with strength and power toward the world we want? Marsha Feinland will address how the history of women’s struggles for their rights at the workplace and at the ballot box is intertwined with the history of … Continued	7:00 pm Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the Global Fight for Democracy. @ Online & City Lights Book Store Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the Global Fight for Democracy. @ Online & City Lights Book Store Mar 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Eva Galperin, in conversation with Ron Deibert of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, to discuss Rons latest book: Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the Global Fight for Democracy. EFF in Conversation with Ron Deibert This event is free and all are welcome to join! Chasing Shadows provides a front-row seat to a dark underworld of digital espionage, dark PR, and subversion. The book provides a gripping account of how the Citizen Lab, the world’s foremost digital watchdog, has uncovered dozens of cyber espionage … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Mar 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	6:30 pm We Are CA Teach In: Trump’s “Billionaires First” Budget Plan and How We Fight Back @ Online We Are CA Teach In: Trump’s “Billionaires First” Budget Plan and How We Fight Back @ Online Mar 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets We’re inviting you to an urgent We Are California movement meeting Tuesday, March 11th at 6:30 PM to share important updates about the Trump Administration’s plan to use the federal budget to attack our communities, and share upcoming actions you can take to block these efforts. Both the House and Senate will be working on budget proposals that would take away health care, food assistance, and child care from working families, while massively defunding our schools. If successful, these funding cuts will harm over 15 million seniors, children and families … Continued	6:00 pm Public Bank of the East Bay General Organizing Meeting @ Online Public Bank of the East Bay General Organizing Meeting @ Online Mar 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 Mar 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			5:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Techno-Feudalism – What Killed Capitalism @ Online Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Techno-Feudalism – What Killed Capitalism @ Online Mar 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 March, 2025 meeting we will be reading the first four chapters of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis (Penguin Random House, Amazon). For our April meeting, we will be finishing the book. Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. The perfect Christmas gift for the political visionaries in your life. In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world’s … Continued

Week of March 9

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.