GA Statements

Declaration of Solidarity with Neighborhood Reclamations

November 6, 2011 at 3:31 pm.

Passed on 10/31/11 Occupy Oakland, in solidarity with the Occupy movement and with the local community, has established the principle of claiming for open use the open space that has been kept from us. We are committed to helping this practice continue and grow. Here in Oakland, thousands of buildings owned by city, banks, and corporations stand idle and abandoned. At the same time social services such as child and healthcare, education, libraries and community spaces are being defunded and eliminated. Occupy Oakland supports the efforts of people in all … Continued

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Resolution to prevent deliberate misrepresentation of Occupy Oakland 10/31/11

November 1, 2011 at 12:33 pm.

Posted by Facilitation-Committee

Approved by the Occupy Oakland General Assembly 10-31-11: RESOLUTION TO PREVENT DELIBERATE MISREPRESENTATION OF OCCUPY OAKLAND As Occupy Oakland’s profile and power have grown, politicians, police, and other established authorities have begun trying to open lines of communication with Occupy Oakland, and wish to identify representatives of our movement with whom they can negotiate demands. Their proposed transaction frames our power as a commodity that we have wrested from established authorities, and we are expected to give it back it to them – to spend it – in return for … Continued

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Solidarity Statement for all striking workers and students

October 20, 2011 at 5:14 pm.

Posted by Bruce Paul

This statement was passed by the Occupy Oakland General Assembly last night. Please pass along this information to any and all unions, workers, students, and whoever else might be interested. 1. From this point forward, we offer our support for all strikes taking place in the Bay Area and specifically within Oakland. 2. We commit to offer practical and creative support to those who walk out from union or non-union work places, with or without union leadership. 3.This statement also applies to student strikes. By issuing this statement, we wish to send … Continued

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Declaration of Support for Strikes from Occupy Oakland 10/19/2011

October 20, 2011 at 2:24 pm.

Posted by krystof

The following statement was approved by the Occupy Oakland General Assembly on 10/19/2011: 1. From this point forward, we offer our support for all strikes taking place in the Bay Area and specifically within Oakland. 2. We commit to offer practical and creative support to those who walk out from union or non-union work places, with or without union leadership. 3.This statement also applies to student strikes. By issuing this statement, we wish to send a message to everyone in this city, that if you are fighting back, then we … Continued

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Letter in Solidarity with California Prison Hunger Strike 10/17/2011

October 20, 2011 at 12:20 pm.

Posted by Bruce Paul

10/17/2011 A Letter to the prisoners on hunger strike in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of Pelican Bay State Prison and those in other units joining them. We, as members of Occupy Oakland, send our support for your strike against the cruel and inhumane conditions of imprisonment. We honor you as defenders of human and civil rights, and stand in solidarity with your demands in the struggle over prison conditions. Our community at Oscar Grant Plaza has the opportunity to incorporate great lessons from your strike; the challenge will be to match your courage and … Continued

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Resolution In Solidarity With #OWS and Condemning NYPD From Occupy Oakland 10/14/2011

October 20, 2011 at 12:19 pm.

Posted by Bruce Paul

10/14/2011 Occupy Oakland denounces the violent police repression of protesters on Wall Street. Several of these protesters were brutally beaten and arrested, and one legal observer from NLG was run over by a police motorcycle and had his leg broken. We here in Oakland say SHAME on the NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg and demand that all the protesters be freed and all charges dropped. We demand that Occupy Wall Street be allowed to continue without police repression. Occupy Oakland stands in solidarity with the occupation movement that is growing in … Continued

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In solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, the many occupations underway across the country and Indigenous Resistance Day, Occupy Oakland lives! 10/8/2011

October 20, 2011 at 12:15 pm.

Posted by Bruce Paul

To the people (aka the 99%): Our only demand is an invitation: Join Us! We are reclaiming public space to use as a forum for the people to come together, meet one another, listen to each other, and build power for ourselves. Occupy Oakland is more than just a speak-out or a camp out. The purpose of our gathering here is to plan actions, to mobilize real resistance, to defend ourselves from the economic and physical war that is being waged against our communities. We look forward to making … 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.