Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette

The Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette aims to be a voice and record of the historic Occupy Oakland movement, and part of a national and international movement of resistance. Please consider writing your thoughts, reflections, opinions, and what you’ve seen – you are part of this movement and we want to get your words out there! Send submissions to: gazette@oscargrantplazagazette.com. We will strive to publish all materials received. We reserve the right to decline materials which would render us legally liable.

THE OSCAR GRANT PLAZA GAZETTE Friday, October 14 2011 Day 5.

October 19, 2011 at 1:57 pm.

Posted by Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette

THE OSCAR GRANT PLAZA GAZETTE Friday, October 14 2011 Day 5. “the commons is back” FROM A COMRADE Today, many of those of us who came of age in the past decade are waking ourselves or being awoken from the mire of irony, depression, pity, ignorance, and self-abnegation that characterized being young in America since 9/11. I became an adult in that decade dedicated to war, impoverishment, loneliness, arrogance, mincing cynicism, finicky mockery, class antagonisms sublimated into insipid “culture wars,” the fragmentation of common intellect, the decline of … Continued

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Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette now online

October 17, 2011 at 2:18 pm.

Posted by Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette

OSCARGRANTPLAZAGAZETTE_Day7 The Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette aims to be a voice & record of the historic Occupy Oakland movement, part of a national & international movement of resistance. Please consider writing your thoughts, reflections, opinions, and what you’ve seen — you are part of this movement & we want to get your words out there ! Please send submissions to oscargrantplazagazette@gmail.com or drop a hard copy by the information tent at Oscar Grant Plaza. We will endeavor to publish all materials received. For the purposes of collective self-defense we will … Continued

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THE OSCAR GRANT PLAZA GAZETTE Thursday, October 13 2011

October 13, 2011 at 11:23 pm.

Posted by Liberate Oakland

THE OSCAR GRANT PLAZA GAZETTE Thursday, October 13 2011 Day 4. “the commons is back” THIS IS A MODEL OF THE SOCIETY WE WANT Every day that we are here together we get stronger. Information is circulating, people are meeting one another, we’re putting down roots. The food tent is feeding hundreds of people a day, hundreds of people are attending the general assemblies, and our plaza is becoming more and more a vision of what life could be like, if we collectively worked for peoples’ needs (food, water, shelter, … 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.