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Occupy Patriarchy!
Come to the Feminist/Queer block event on Jan 8 , noon to 5, at the lot on 19th and Telegraph.
Occupy Oakland’s feminist/queer block is organizing to eventually occupy/decolonize a building and establish a collective space in Oakland (at a location that remains undisclosed).
On January 8th we will kick off with an event at 19th and Telegraph, noon to 5pm. Presentations, discussions, and a direct action are being planned.
The first two points of unity for the group are:
1. This capitalist society is based on a racist, white supremacist, patriarchal order. Our organizing must confront and attack the structural racism and white supremacy in this city and our own spaces.
2. Women, Trans people, Queers, Fags, Dykes, need a space that is OURS. We are marginalized, harassed, and attacked in other spaces all the time.
To find out more about the group and the January 8th event, visit: http://oaklandoccupypatriarchy.wordpress.com/
To get involved, email: occupypatriarchy@gmail.com.
4:30, Brown Couch Cafe at 14th and Webster.
Join us for the Anti Repression Committee’s weekly meeting
we will be discussing things like legal updates, bail needs and strategies to support those that have been arrested or brutalized at Occupy Oakland.
Events Committee is responsible for the actions, workshops, shows, teach-ins, etc. Meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:00 pm at Brown Couch Cafe at 14th above Webster.
Every Wednesday and Saturday 12-4:40 at the OG Plaza we are doing work parties (making banners, puppets and signs) for the January 20th action in SF (shutdown of the financial district). It was approved by the GA that Occupy Oakland will do reclaim the streets action on that day in SF.
“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop.
North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza
Occupy Oakland is a resurrection movement, and it has once again risen from the dead after the police raid early Monday morning! Join us Wednesday for our weekly “Liberation Bible Study” at Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza. just prior to General Assembly, which begins at 6.
We are excited to announce that this week, the Bible study will be led by Gerald O. West, a visiting South African liberation worker and Bible scholar who was active as a white man in the anti-Apartheid movement and now teaches at the Ujaama Center.
In these Bible studies, we read scripture together for guidance in how to decolonize our minds and spirits in the context of the Occupy (to Decolonize) Oakland movement. Join us every Wednesday or whenever you can.
We will meet at the entrance to the plaza just north of Tully’s at 14th and Broadway. Look for the circle of people with a stack of Bibles in the middle.
This is a meeting for people who self-identify as people of color/ queer people of color. We meet with the goal of strengthening our participation in the Occupy movement here in Oakland and beyond, and to likewise strengthen the Occupy movement by situating it in the context of our local, living communities and the ongoing work being done by those communities.
Our meeting location sometimes changes based on the availability of spaces. Please contact us at peopleofcolor@occupyoakland.org for up-to-date information. Please also be patient (and persistent) if we don’t respond as quickly as we would like to. We’re growing and evolving our capacities!
This week, Safer Spaces will begin offering Trauma support groups for members of the community dealing with effects of police violence against the movement. These groups are being offered as a direct response to requests from the community for Trauma services, especially after the brutality this Saturday night.
The 1st group will be this Wednesday, 1/11 @ The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland.
As we are able to secure spaces, we will announce future dates. (If you have a space, let us know!) We are also available to talk one-on-one, just give us a call or send us an email and one of us can set up a time to get together. And as always, we want to hear what people need so let us know!
*Safer Spaces is a radical mental health committee of OO involved people. We believe that Trauma is used by the State, with intention, to suppress dissent, and we aim to interrupt and mend its effects on our community. *
Occupella is having a song circle every Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in the amphitheater
Events Committee is responsible for the actions, workshops, shows, teach-ins, etc. Meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:00 pm at Brown Couch Cafe at 14th above Webster.
Supply is coordinating all our equipment and supply needs. Contact them if you have questions about donations. Meetings every Thursday t 5pm.
More info on http://www.occupyoakland.org/generalassembly/committees/supply-committee/
Finance is coordinating all official Occupy Oakland financial donations. Meetings every Thursdays at 6pm at SF Pizza on 15th and Broadway. New members welcome — please join us.
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Lets meet each other and begin to work on the focus and mission and future actions for this committee!Late Lunch pot luck!
Children as most welcome! I look forward to meeting you all! Hello all I apologize for the abrupt cancellation of the last meeting – and i know that this time wont work for everyone. but i want us to get started. i plan to create a ustream channel for our committee so meetings can be viewed later or live on computer… I will keep you informed on how that goes! Our meeting after this one will be scheduled in the evening. PLEASE RSVP TO THIS SO I KNOW WHO IS COMING! |
Events Committee is responsible for the actions, workshops, shows, teach-ins, etc. Meetings on Fridays at 4:30, Brown Couch Cafe at 14th and Webster.
Every Wednesday and Saturday 12-4:40 at the OG Plaza we are doing work parties (making banners, puppets and signs) for the January 20th action in SF (shutdown of the financial district). It was approved by the GA that Occupy Oakland will do reclaim the streets action on that day in SF.
Second meeting of the OO workers cooperative group.
Take a minute to read up on workers cooperatives before the meeting. Take some time to think about what sort of workers cooperative you would like to be a part off!
Meeting to set the agenda for Sunday’s General Assembly
Media Committee is dedicated to spreading our message throughout the world via digital content and more traditional forms of media. Meetings on Saturdays, 4pm at Oscar Grant Plaza.
*** This event is being called by the Occupy Oakland Tactical Action Committee. It will continue weekly. ***
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you identify as peaceful and are likely to interfere with the actions of your fellow protestors in any way (including telling them to stop performing a particular action, grappling, assaulting or holding them for arrest), you may not want to attend this march. It is a militant action. It attracts anti-capitalists, anti-fascists and other comrades of a revolutionary bent. It is not a march intended for people who are not fully comfortable with diversity of tactics.
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The Oakland Police Department has harassed and brutalized Occupy Oakland and participants in the vigil. Camps and liberated foreclosed buildings have been raided and shut down. OOers at the vigil have been arrested for as little as standing nearby when the police decide to raid, all the way up to the ridiculous charge of lynching. People have been physically assaulted by those supposed to protect and serve, but only do so in the interests of the 1%.
With dozens of our comrades having been arrested in the past couple of weeks, and culminating in the city’s revocation of the vigil’s permit and the immediate threat of another police raid to clear the plaza, the time has come to rise up and let them know what we think of them and that we will no longer meekly accept their violations of our civil and human rights.
This event will be held weekly. Spread the word, send the invite, join us as we march in solidarity against police repression.
Wear black
Rally at 7:00 pm
March on OPD HQ at 9:00 pm