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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
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.
National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners:
In the Bay Area we will “Occupy San Quentin,” to stand in solidarity with the people confined within its walls and to demand the end of incarceration as a means of containing those dispossessed by unjust social policies. Prisons have become a central institution in American society, integral to our politics, economy, and culture. Between 1976 and 2000, the United States built on average one new prison each week, and the number of imprisoned Americans increased tenfold. Prison has made the threat of torture part of everyday life for millions of individuals in the United States, especially the 7.3 million people (who are disproportionately people of color) currently incarcerated or under correctional supervision… More Info
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.
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!
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!
<3 Oakland Occupy Patriarchy
Cafe Madrid, 2001 Broadway (at 20th St.), Oakland
5:00 – 6:00 PM
California Nurses Association, 2000 Franklin (at 20th St.), Oakland
6:00 PM
Discussing upcoming Fruitvale GA project, outreach to Oakland’s community groups, and canvassing efforts.
Support the workers at the Castlewood Country Club in their contract fight.
The two year anniversary of the lockout of the Castlewood Country Club workers is on February 25, 2012. We will be marching from downtown Pleasanton to the country club for a rally and protest. We are planning on bringing tents and occupying an unclaimed area adjacent to the country club in protest of the inhumane treatment of the workers who have been locked out in a clear attempt to break their union. We are also planning a mock counterprotest by the 1% (i.e. the country club members). Keeping in mind that the goal is to end the lockout and get the workers back to work, all actions should keep strategy, discipline, and accountability in mind when considering tactics. We will be having another planning meeting at the UNITE-HERE 2850 office on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 5:00 PM. Please reply directly to Eric Larsen at (510)326-5259 if you would like to be added to the working group list (and check your spam folders for invitations, some people have not received them who should have).
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.
***
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
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.
To work on re-formulating the “about” statement on the Occupy Oakland website.
Writing skills, opinions are more relevant than computer/web skills for this one.
meet at 14th and B-way southeast side of OGP.