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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.

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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

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!

Safer Spaces will have a trauma support group today, February 1, 2012 for members of the community dealing with effects of police violence against the movement. The group is being offered as a direct response to requests from the community for trauma services.

Our second Trauma Support Group is Today, Wednesday, 2/1/12 @

The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave@23, Oakland

Time: 7P-8:30P

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. *

5pm @ Farley’s

33 Grand Ave. Oakland, CA 94612

(Grand Ave at Broadway)

We are still a group in progress so don’t be intimidated, its not too late to come check it out!

Email us at Oaklandoccupypatriarchy@gmail.com for the location!

Our beginning forum discussion will be:

Why do you think that we need a seperate organizing space for Women, Trans and Queer people only?

We will also be discussing “point of unity” number two:

Women, Trans people, Queers, Fags, Dykes, need a space that is OURS because we are marginalized, harassed, and attacked in other spaces all the time. We do not all have the same needs and desires, and our relationships with one another are structured by the intensified oppression of people of color, trans people and poor folks. However we think that we can sup- port and increase our power by working with each other.

Hope to see you there!

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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.

Finance Committee Page

Discussing upcoming Fruitvale GA project, outreach to Oakland’s community groups, and canvassing efforts.

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

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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.

HELLO OCCUPY OAKLAND!

Please join us this Sunday, February 5, 6:30-8:30pm for a Healing Circle for Occupy Activists with:

Starhawk, and fellow healers Luisah Teish, Riyanna, George Franklin, Evelie Delfino Sales, and more.

In recent weeks, activists with the Occupy movement have been hard-hit by police violence, arrest and imprisonment. Join us in a safe space to acknowledge, release and heal from the pain, fear, rage and trauma, so we can come back stronger. In sacred space, we can connect from the heart. Open to those of all spiritual persuasions—or none at all! Sponsored by Occupy Oakland Safer Spaces.

Location:
Oakland Peace Center
Fellowship Hall 29th St. at Fairmount
Oakland
BART 19th St. Station
51A Bus

Safer Spaces contact: Erica psychrights@gmail.com

This event is Free–donations gratefully accepted.

Occupy Oakland has faced heavy police repression since its inception.  From the first police raid on October 25th, when the camp was violently destroyed and people were brutally tear gassed and shot with rubber bullets, to the recent targeted snatchings and arrests of the last couple weeks, and finally to the attack on Occupy Oakland in its attempt to move into a vacant building which manifested itself in tear gas, rubber bullets, assault grenades and the mass arrest of up to 400 people last night, Oakland’s Police Department and City Government have made it clear that they will continue to target and repress those in Occupy Oakland in the attempt to squash the movement that challenges their exploitation, and oppression of the people of Oakland and the 99%. Often those arrested have had their charges dropped after spending several days in jail due to lack of evidence.  The newest tactic being used by the state is stay away orders, given to those arrested, making it illegal for those arrested to be in the vicinity of Oscar Grant Plaza, essentially making it illegal to participate in future Occupy Oakland events. Many of these people have been around since the beginning of occupy and are key organizers for different committees and actions.

While many members of Occupy have come to support those arrested at arraignments, picked people up from jail when they were released, called local officials or marched in solidarity with those who have been repressed, Occupy Oakland has yet to have a chance to present our side of the facts in court. Feb 6th will be Occupy Oakland’s day for that.  On this day, it will be the first time that lawyers working with Occupy will be able to argue against the repressive tactics used by the OPD and present evidence of unlawful activities and arrests.

We the Anti-Repression Committee of Occupy Oakland are proposing a Day of Action in solidarity with those that have been arrested and targeted by the local government and OPD. We will begin the day with Coffee Not Cops at the Wiley Manuel Courthouse starting at 9:00 AM, then at noon we will be organizing a rally at OGP with speakers that will address local and state police repression and the prison industrial complex. At 1:00 PM, we will march to the courthouse to stand in solidarity with those in court at 2:00 PM. Occupy Oakland endorses this action.

Additionally, in light of the massive amounts of arrests on Move-in Day, there will be a day of arraignments that come out of those arrests. We want to have a Day of Action Against Police Repression on the day of those arraignments as well. This day will be planned with a similar schedule as the Day of Action on February 6th.

We want all of Occupy Oakland to stand in solidarity with those who have been arrested and who have faced any form of police repression. Stand with us on February 6th!

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