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Friday, January 20, 2012
San Francisco Financial District
DAYLONG NONVIOLENT MASS OCCUPATION
Of the Wall St. Banks & Corporations Attacking our Communities, Homes, Education, Environment, Livelihood and Democracy
Description: On the eve of the anniversary of the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling, a day of mass action centered in the SF Financial District involving mass occupation, mobilization, nonviolent direct action and disobedience.
Goals: End corporate personhood. Save our homes from evictions and foreclosures for profit. Stop attacks on our democracy, education, and livelihood.
More info at: www.occupywallstwest.org
Join other committed organizers and activists for a day long Bay Area convergence. We will share visions, distill them into 5 ideas, and get to work to launch them by Spring, all in one day. Saturday January 21, 10am – 6pm 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley (BFUU) Endorsed by Occupy Oakland GA on 1/8/12 Please commit to staying the whole day. Bring your ideas and allies, and food if you are able. Contact 5ideasforoccupy@gmail.com to get involved or give feedback. Let us know if you need transportation/child care. Child friendly. Let us know if you will be bringing a child. Wheelchair accessible. AGENDA Establish trust: Get to know each other and the plan for the day Share Knowledge: Celebrate local and global efforts Inspire Possibilities: Share upcoming events and envision others Plant seeds: Generate and share ideas for the Spring Lunch @ 1pm: Bringing a dish or donation appreciated Whittle Ideas: Select 5 most inspiring ideas to implement (vote through action) Go! Form worki
ng groups and begin planning and production Celebrate: Re-converge to share our successes and next steps
See more details and RSVP on occupii:
http://occupii.org/events/event/show?id=6469644%3AEvent%3A70029&xgi=5vWIsfoVGTdAjQ&xg_source=msg_invite_event
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
Do you want to help organize with the Safer Spaces? Do you have a service you would like to provide? Do you want to find out when the next Trauma group is, or to just check in with someone about what is going on for you? Is there something that you and your group want that you would like us to set up?
COME VISIT US ON SUNDAYS, AT THE NEW WEEKLY WELLNESS CENTER @ 19th and Telegraph, 12-5pm!
We’re there to talk, organize, brainstorm, answer questions, or whatever else we haven’t thought of. The Wellness Clinic includes Medic care, free healthy food from the amazing Kitchen staff, and Safer Spaces organizing and support.
Come see us, or, as always, you can contact Safer Spaces at: saferspaces@occupyoakland.org
*Safer Spaces is a radical mental health committee of OO participants who are dedicated to organizing and providing support around issues of mental health and wellness in our movement.*
Come plan Occupy Oakland’s Building Occupation on January 28th
Drama games and Theatre of the Oppressed for community building, working through dynamics with “isms” within the movement, and practicing embodying our ideals together. A great warm up for the GA. All are welcome, including shy people!
*no class on Dec. 25, Jan. 1, and on the weekends when there is the Anti-racist/decolonization teach-in on Saturdays because we will support their work those days instead of our Sunday Workshop
Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall
Meeting for reps. from committees, caucuses and working groups from Occupy Oakland.
This meeting is a place for all the work groups, committees, and caucuses of Occupy Oakland to meet up, update each other on events, procedures, concerns etc. It is designed so that there is more transparency and solitary, and between the work groups. Please send two reps with an update from your work group.
Meeting at 4pm in front of city hall.
To plug your commitee into this group check out the Facebook Group Page.
Regular meeting times: Tuesdays & Thursday @ 6:30PM, Sundays @ 4:00PM.
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!
Hello Caravaners! Occupy Oakland will be caravaning to Longview, WA to join Occupy Portland, Occupy Seattle, Occupy Olympia, and Occupy Longview to blockade the notorious EGT ship who is busting Longshormen jurisdication. EGT is a multinational grain exporter rsponsible for economic and enviromental devastation around the world. While the date for the arrival of the ship in Longview is uncertain,it IS approaching quickly!! Here in Oakland we need to have a preparation meeting to get ready for our caravan. We will be meeting Sunday January 22nd at 410 14th st, between Broadway and Franklin, at 4.30 (after the GA).
In this meeting we will discuss everything – how we’ll be alerted, how the actual caravan will be organized and who is going with who, where we’ll meet, what to bring (and not bring), what to expect during the day of action in Longview, etc. We will be hosted by Occupy Longview and Occupy Portland who are very excited to take action with Occupy Oakland! Every chance you can get, tell people to sign up or donate at on our website occupytheegt.org !! Thanks, see you all on Sunday!
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.
Occupy the hood
Safer Spaces is a Decolonize/Occupy Oakland committee that works to address issues of trauma & oppression within the movement towards the goals of increased participant sustainability, and collective liberation. We work for the movement by offering direct support services, advocacy, and accountability processes on interpersonal, collective, and systemic levels. We also offer relevant workshops and events in response to community identified needs.
We meet every Tuesday from 7:00-8:30. Our location is often subject to change, so if you’d like to attend a meeting, or check in about how you’d like to participate, please email us at: saferspaces@occupyoakland.org.
“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
Come plan Occupy Oakland’s Building Occupation on January 28th
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!