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How to Protect Students from Sexual Violence? Pepper Spray Them!

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Last week, the UC Davis “Pepper Spray Incident Task Force,” dubbed the “Reynoso Task Force” for its chair, Law School Professor Emeritus and former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, released its report. The conclusion was that the pepper spraying of studentsseated in the Quad on November 18, 2011 “should and could have been prevented.” Well it’s a relief that the task force’s three-and-a-half-month investigation proved what pretty much all of us who watched the red spray come out of that hose over and over again on our television screens … Continued

Truth and Reasons for Occupying America’s Streets

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Truth and Reasons for Occupying America’s Streets If you leave your freedom in the hands of those in public office then you will no longer have that freedom. Democracy is the fraud of plutocracy! This is the most important information presently obtainable about the evil forces that are trying to destroy your family’s lives. Make no mistake, this is the truth and you need to give it your complete attention now. There is a war going on, the plutocracy’s nominees in governments all over the world are supporting, destroying and … Continued

Join Reverend Billy (political street theater) in Berkeley this Saturday!

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  The world-renowned Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping will be in Berkeley this Saturday!  As part of his Fear of Banking tour, he will be performing an exorcism on a large, big, bad bank and invites Occupy Oakland to join him. Come to the Caffe Mediterraneum on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley this Saturday, 2/18, at noon. We will gather and then walk to a large bank, where Rev. Billy will exorcise the demons of evil from the bank. Dramatic participation will be encouraged! Further info at: http://revbilly.com/events/hilarious-exorcism-of-bank-of-america

Benefit Show1/15 for OO Move-in!!!

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Come one come all! Last minute benefit show to fund Occupy Oakland’s move-in on Sunday January 28! Bring yr friends! SUNDAY JANUARY 15 AT PURPLE HAUS ALL AGES $5 OR MORE, no-one turned away. STILL SUIT +2TBA! (Want to play? see e-mail address below) Grub from FNB! Cheap beerz! PLUS Monday’s a holiday, so you either don’t have work, or being tired and/or hungover is an option! If you want to help plan the event please contact parasiticyouth@gmail.com . If you can’t make it to the show but want to … Continued

Research Working Group Meeting

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All are welcome to the… RESEARCH WORKING GROUP MEETING _____DATE: Sunday, January 8th _____TIME: 3:00-4:00pm _____LOCATION: Farley’s East, 33 Grand Ave (bet. Broadway and Webster), Oakland, 94612. Two blocks north of the 19th St. BART. _____MORE INFO: Contact Yvonne at yvonnegrapher at gmail.com or Darwin at darwinbondgraham at gmail.com. GOALS: 1) To build a research community in Oakland and to share skills 2) To support Occupy Oakland’s upcoming actions, such as the building occupation on 1/28 3) To provide research for long-term strategy and action, such as targeted research about … Continued

The NDAA Passed – where where you?? Occupy Earth – this is a priority…

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Well, we went out there to the occupy SF raleigh, was a scene as usual, sisters, brothers out on the streets peacefully protesting against the treatment of the majority, us, by the selfish, greedy 1% that don’t care about anything other than themselves and their power and monetary gain. I was saddened that on today, on “Bill of Rights” Day – congress was able to pass the NDAA – indefinite detention without trial. You think Guantanamo was bad, this is Guantanamo on a worldwide stage, and President Obama looks like … Continued

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

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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

Are you willing to look in the mirror?

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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

Decolonize Oakland: Creating a More Radical Movement

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Decolonize Oakland: Creating a More Radical Movement       Oakland is the ancestral homeland of the Chochenyo Ohlone, an indigenous community that has no collective territory of their own and no recognized legal status or rights.   As detailed in The Memorandum of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples, which the General Assembly passed with 97% support on 28 October 2011, the Chochenyo Ohlone have survived a brutal colonial history and ongoing occupation, which makes them strong members, allies, leaders, and guides to the movement of the 99%.  In passing that memorandum … Continued

An Occupy Manifesto for Change

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“Those Dirty, Smelly, Rat-Infested, Bad-for-Local-Business, Unfocused Sidelines”             Every movement is met with the inertia of those who sit on the sidelines yelling in and wagging a critical finger.   Occupy is no different.  The media are filled with editorials lambasting the Occupiers for lack of focus and abundance of distracting forms of health and local- business hazards, as well as the costs associated with these.  As well, there is apparently the sad state of public affairs that while most people polled agree with the sentiment of the Occupy Movement a … Continued

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