All out for the very first official Occupy Oakland action
forward widely…
Saturday October 22 2011
11am Rally
Amphitheater of Oscar Grant Plaza (formerly Frank Ogawa Plaza)
14th and Broadway, Downtown Oakland
12 noon March
Through Downtown & around the north side of Lake
We live in a world where unemployment and staggering levels of debt are the new normal, where poverty and homelessness are met by police violence and incarceration. The entire global economy is broken, and politicians in the US and elsewhere remain powerless to do anything about it. It’s time to take power into our own hands, to occupy the spaces from which we have been excluded and reclaim everything that has been stolen from us.
– Solidarity with the worldwide Occupy movement
– Opposition to an economic system that has never worked for us
– No gang injunctions, no youth curfews
– Keep Oakland schools and libraries open
Please note that this is not a permitted march but is being organized to encourage maximum participation
#occupyoakland
facebook: Occupy Oakland
OCCUPYOAKLAND.ORG
March agreed upon by the Occupy Oakland General Assembly on October 19, 2011
Occupying parks is a good start, but Russia’s October Revolution only succeeded when people began occupying government buildings.
Also don’t forget the cops are not on your side, and are between you and the freedom which we must at this important time defend like our own endangered child.
Men and women of action and ideals (in that order) please step forward and become the spearhead which the momentum of the Occupy Movement can drive through our oppression.
It was really sad to see that there was some symbolic attempt to rename Frank Ogawa plaza. It was really sad what happened to Oscar, but Frank Ogawa Deserves his Plaza…He would be a far better face of the movement.
The problem, Diana, is that OO has not agreed upon a message from the group to the world regarding sentiments about politicians, gang injunctions, etc. It has already been said, but I will say again – individuals who might agree may have expressed statements or might have released statements through flyers, but as a group nothing was voted upon nor was it agreed to (regarding topics on this thread).
Have you witnessed these acts? I haven’t, and I’ve spent time at the camps and at the assemblies.
Freedom is a Natural Right.
The day you were born, your government stole your freedom.
Thereafter, your government demanded allegiance in exchange for the return of some, but not all, of your freedom.
You have no freedom.
You only have the illusion of freedom.
Not in my back yard is all your comment projects.
1. all of the people in occupy oakland are not represented by the statements on that flyer. one or a group of individuals created it.
2. youth curfews have not been shown to protect youth from surrounding violence on the streets. sad to say that someone can get shot right in their own van with parents right there in broad daylight. those issues need to be address – not locking youth down. oakland’s youth crime rate has been going down, so the curfews will not be needed in that aspect, either.
w3rd
Yes, they think this is being tolerant. Was looking forward to this march, but after attending the GA and seeing how this is just a co-opting of the occupation movement with its own agenda, I’ll be skipping it.
I had the feeling within the first week that the Oakland Occupation was doing it wrong with the embracing of the “anti-capitalist” “socialist” and “communist” messages that I heard being embraced through out the crowd. Embracing those ideals further marginalizes those of us who cannot and will not support or be a part of a movement or group that embraces such ideologies. Instead of trying to push the idea of a revolution out to overthrow the current system this movement would do itself some good by embracing itself as a renaissance in thinking about how our system should work as opposed to how it’s currently working. You’re not gonna make any new friends or widen the appeal of the movement by promoting ideas that have historically been proven to lead to tyranny.
Funny I don’t see a lot of critical thinking here, “Critical thinker”. The protest is not in support of gang violence, its against the allocation of our scarce resources towards policing/jailing our youth rather than providing them with alternatives to gangs. Its against the racial profiling that gang injunctions represent.
Perhaps instead of just flinging a bunch of insults around like so much manure, why don’t you offer constrictive criticism? Or are you just here to sow discontent and divisions?
“reclaim everything that has been stolen from us”
Occupy City Hall bathrooms! Down with the man, except when we need to use their services! Occupy public property and deny its legitimate use to the rest of the community! How do you think the dozens of kids from the youth group that use that park every day (well, used to use it) feel about your “99%”?
You protest police brutality and then do worse to one of your own. The rank hypocrisy of your entire approach is staggering and makes me sicker to my stomach than the stench coming from the port-o-lets of your “sustainable community.” Now, of course you can’t afford them any more so you’re sending everybody into the CITY HALL BUILDING to use the john. You deny police and SANITATION WORKERS access to the park that you’re squatting in – in the process ruining a once-beautiful park – but all your grand principles go out the window when the bladder is full.
The damage that your idiotic methods are doing to a tremendously valuable movement and an incredibly important message may never be undone. All you’re doing is handing propaganda on a silver platter to the corporate machine that they will use to further marginalize the TRUE revolutionaries who actually work for change. Smoking a ton of weed, holding drum circles, shouting slogans whose meaning you don’t understand, promoting marches in support of gang violence, and wrecking public property while decrying the collapse of municipal services make you out to be the fools that you so clearly are, and don’t do one iota of good. Meanwhile the people who are actually working for change see their cause set back years by a pack of idiots playing at being revolutionaries. You all ought to be embarrassed.
So we’re making demands now? I would like to add to the list. I demand the arrest of George Bush for war crimes, the return of native lands to the hawaiians, and declare Piccard better than Kirk. If you’re going to allow a few loud voices to hijack this movement, instead of allow the ground swell to continue until there is a critical mass…I’m out.
AMEN.
Please obey the city laws or your protest will be meaningless.. Top urinating on the streets, fighting, and having sex in public.
By the way, you vote for your politicians so you do have control over the political process. If other politicans are stopping your politicians then other people disagree with you.
Seriously this whole thing is turning disappointing fast. What happened to inclusiveness and 99%. That’s folks of all ages, races, beliefs and employment paths, including reporters. What’s with the hate? And seriously, are we just another “revolutionary front” that’s gonna get bogged down in bullshit and Robert’s Rules of Order OR are we going to try to grab onto the forefront of this National and now Worldwide movement? Shall we be looser assholes? Or shall we really try to join the real people? You see the real people basically just want things to be better, to get their fair chance/slice and/or to restore things to a less corrupt format. They aren’t looking to overthrow capitalism per se. Rather, they want to reform it, yank the corruption out of it. Are we going to waste time and play childish games of “revolution” or are we going to work with a REAL movement to continue to try to make some REAL changes? What’s it going to be? Because right now they ARE listening.
Really? End gang injunctions and youth curfews? Does OccupyOakland support gangbangers being out on the streets and gunning down our children? Really? Wow.
The demands on this flyer, while all good things, do not represent the demands of Occupy Oakland as a whole, but I can only assume the demands of the people who made the flyer.
the people depicted on that flyer are not representative of the average oaklanders.
You say politicians can do nothing to help us? I don’t think that’s true at all, and if it is, than who exactly are you hoping will respond to your requests? Politicians can help us, and they have the responsibility to. They need to wake up and start making decisions that benefit the people, even if it does mean less money in their pockets. Don’t let them get away with the “helpless to help” argument. I’m totally with you Occupy Oakland, but get your messaging straight.