Sunday April 21 after the 2:00 pm General Assembly at OGP, Occupy Oakland participant Laura Wells will report back on the Venezuelan election after serving there as an international elections monitor. Hugo Chavez’s successor and incumbent President Nicolas Maduro has been declared the victor. She will then lead a discussion on “What California Can Learn from Hugo Chavez and Venezuela.”
http://eastcoastrenegades.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/the-flatbush-rebellion.pdf
A Call for Men to React to Sexual Assault From Amendment Twenty Eight/Mike Wilson Reposted from Occupy Oakland Open Forum on FB I’ve been jolted into action by a FB comrade, Sri Louise, who pointed out that it should be the heterosexual men among us who call attention to the gang-rape in Steubenville, OH last August, and the very official cover-up and defense which is still going on. In response, I’d like any and all who are willing to form an assembly to draft statements direct…ed at the Steubenville rapists … Continued
http://www.claradelfuego.blogspot.com/2012/08/chevron-addiction.html?m=1
The East Bay Social Forum celebrates eleven years of Social Forums and half a year of Occupys. Join us on Friday, April 27, from 6:00 to 8:00, at the Oakland Peace Center, 111 Fairmount Ave. (29th St.), Oakland, for the first of many Social Forum Socials to come. We’ll announce People’s Movement Assemblies (PMAs) to be held in the next months and plans for the upcoming Forum, discuss your proposals for PMAs, and provide a space to connect with other engaged folks. Please join us—we look forward to meeting you. … Continued
Resolution adopted March 15, 2012 meeting, SEIU Local 1000 District Labor Council 743 (San Francisco), Regina Whitney, District Labor Council President. In Support of May 1 2012 March for Dignity and Justice, Oakland, California. “SEIU 1000 District Labor Council 743 (San Francisco) endorses the May 1 2012 March for Dignity and Justice in Oakland. Scheduled to begin at 3:00 pm at the Fruitvale BART and conclude at the Frank Ogawa Plaza that evening, this peaceful, family-friendly, immigrant and labor rights and anti-racist march has the full support of the Council. … Continued
This essay gets it right. After all, the American people claiming democratic rights is just oh so inconvenient for the 1% and their representatives. Oakland’s municipal legal experiments are part of a national project to destroy American civil liberties. Tactics and strategies for repression, as well as legal innovations, to make the American people “sit down and shut up” are doubtless being shared across jurisdictions nationally. Stand up, fight back! http://www.salon.com/2012/02/14/occupy_fights_the_law_will_the_law_win/singleton/ John Hayakawa Torok
Despite all the lamestream media’s crying about the truck drivers losing a day’s wages, check out Seattle now: http://cleanandsafeports.org/blog/2012/02/01/breaking-america%E2%80%99s-truck-drivers-shut-down-port-of-seattle-to-expose-dangers-of-the-job/
This is offered in the spirit of an Occupy Oakland Committee for Absurd Ideas which I understand is primarily focused on political performance art. The idea though is not just about performance art, but rather about developing further the inter/national conversation of the DeColonize/Occupy moment. We may want to think about proposing a transitional national council for the lands now called the United States in #DO or #OO and then on through Inter-Occupy nationally. Transitional national councils were previously established in Libya, Egypt and there is presently one in Syria … Continued
Encampment Matters in the 2011 Decolonize/Occupy Moment. John Hayakawa Torok, Nov. 19, 2011. “Is this an occupation or an infestation?” Washington Post, Nov. 15, 2011. “For the poor citizenship consists of supporting and sustaining the power and idleness of the rich. They must work for those goals before the majestic equality of the laws, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.” Anatole France, 1894. To the memory of the April 1914, Ludlow, Colorado campers. The Occupy/Decolonize encampment … Continued