anarchism

Revolutionary Reading: David Graeber’s Debt

February 24, 2012 at 11:24 am.

The revolutionary reading group is meeting for the first time, ever, on Wednesday, February 29 at 7:00pm in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s conference room: Electronic Frontier Foundation 454 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110 EFF is within walking distance of the 16th Street/Mission BART station. We will be reading and discussing the first half of David Graeber’s book, Debt: The First 5000 Years (Melville House, July 2011). The book is available online in PDF form. RSVP to David Johnson. 21681

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Indefinite detention for U.S. citizens – We need to act now – this threatens us all.

December 15, 2011 at 8:39 am.

Posted by Hummingbird

This is of the up most important – Congress is trying to put though a bill that will allow government, and our military, to detain U.S. citizens INDEFINITELY WITHOUT TRAIL. Please at the least spread this around – sign the petition, call congress and the senate. https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3897&s_subsrc=SEM_Google_search-indefinite-detention_Indefinite-detention_indefinite%20detention%20obama_p_9302629342 And if you can get to Occupy Oakland, please make banners & boards speaking out against this, demanding that we remain a democracy. This new bill, if it goes through and isn’t veto’d, threatens us all, it’s so broad, any one of us … Continued

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Are you willing to look in the mirror?

December 6, 2011 at 10:01 am.

Posted by basharr

I know that most of the people who begin to read this will not have the balls to finish it because they fear their own reality and the actual truth. I am going to post a video link here that I have knowingly spammed to numerous comments here in hopes that some of you are actually willing to take a good long look in the mirror. You see, you all complain about things you think are wrong and your choice is to protest. The problem is however most of you are … Continued

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Positive Thoughts About the Occupy Movements

December 5, 2011 at 5:13 pm.

Posted by mangogarcia

My positive thoughts about the many OWS type movements are collected in the articles listed below. The hope is that some of these thoughts may help young and active participants to develop better ideas of their own. These articles were also written to refute many of the criticisms of the Occupy Movement (OM), and to push back on the hostility of “the establishment” to OM. At my blog (http://manuelgarciajr.wordpress.com) I show links to videos and articles by others, which go deeper into the financial and economic roots of the crisis … Continued

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#14JA : WORLD POPULAR ASSEMBLY DAY

November 11, 2011 at 1:23 pm.

Posted by nmalo

#14Ja: World day of popular assemblies Since May 15, 2011 a movement unprecedented in form and substance challenges the”representative democracy”. This movement has spread from Spain around the world despite the countless media manipulation and police repression. The probability of a global revolution has rarely been this strong. Democracy is a political system where the “people” have the power. The words “representative democracy” are operations to make us believe that we are a democracy. But we have never lived in democracy; freedom of expression is not enough. In our political system, the masses give all power to a minority, without any control. The … Continued

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Open Questions for the Former Occupiers of the Former Traveler’s Aid Society

November 4, 2011 at 6:17 pm.

Posted by The Kids call me Mister Double You

I appreciate your willingness to speak. Dialogue is one thing that distinguishes civil disobedience & direct action from crime & thuggery. At the moment, I do not think your actions were an Occupation. I think what you did was an Exploitation. I am telling you what I think, & the questions I have, in hopes of changing your mind, or learning from your answers. While you were moving in library books (but not food, water, toilets, or any other essentials for an actual Occupation?), the tens of thousands of people … Continued

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Links to 2 in-depth articles on Occupy Protests

November 2, 2011 at 10:20 pm.

Posted by faz

Following are links to two in-depth articles that deal with the most fundamental questions, problems and solutions, and strategy and tactics of the 2011 American Protests (Occupy Protests). These need to be reviewed and considered for the creation of goals, agenda, strategy, and tactics. 1. http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/occupy-wall-street-potentials-and-limitations-of-the-2011-american-protests-by-fazal-rahman-ph-d/ 2. http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/occupy-wall-street-problems-of-the-dialectics-of-diversity-uniformity-and-unity-by-fazal-rahman-ph-d/ 3346

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Upcoming Events

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.