Calendar
Mon/Thursdays At 19th and Telegraph at 6pm
Monday, October 1st at Snow Park.
Come and help plan the one year anniversary of Occupy Oakland!
http://www.facebook.com/events/365114273563528/
What books would be good for Occupiers to know about? What books can help us “change the world”? If you’re aware of any, please attend, and share what you know. Or if you might possibly be curious to hear from others, please also attend!
Rally at the 12th Street entrance to the County Superior Court, 1225 Fallon Street (location of the district attorney’s office)
March to city hall for the 5:30 city council meeting.
Conscience demands that we stand against excessive force, harassment, and racial profiling by the Oakland Police Department–practices that contributed to the death of Alan Blueford–and that we call upon city officials to stand against them, too. To date, the city has been unwilling to take a stand; city council adjourned several hours early on September 18 rather than deal with the grief and anger of the citizens, and now they are seeking to change meeting policies to avoid being confronted with such feelings in the future
At the district attorney’s office and then at city hall, we will issue the following demands of the Blueford family, their friends, and supporters:
* Release a police report that includes a thorough investigation of Alan’s murder
* Terminate Officer Masso’s employment with the Oakland Police Department
* Bring criminal charges against Officer Masso
* Hold Chief Jordan accountable for changing his story to the family about what happened the night of Alan’s death.
*End de facto stop-and-frisk and other racial profiling practices of the OPD
* Work with state legislators to repeal the so-called Police Officers’ Bill of Rights that shields violent cops from prosecution and keeps them on the street.
An essay: Searching for answers to a Police Killing
Justice 4 Alan Blueford website
Sign the Petition for Justice 4 Alan Blueford
Come hear Jeralynn Blueford, Alan Blueford’s mother, speak about her son and the fight for justice here in Oakland. This is a chance to find out how to get involved in the fight to stop police brutality in Oakland.
Sponsored by the Black Student Union and the International Socialist Organization standing in solidarity with the Blueford family.
New schedule and additional location!
Bi-Monthly meetings to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org.
We meet the first Thursday of the month at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave Oakland,CA 94612 @ 6PM
And the third Sunday of the month at 19th Street / Rashida Muhammad Street (one block away from 19th Street/Telegraph avenue) @ 2PM
If interested on helping us out, please come and join us!
Web@occupyoakland.org
Mon/Thursdays At 19th & Telegraph at 6pm
Come and help plan the one year anniversary of Occupy Oakland!
http://www.facebook.com/events/365114273563528/
NOTE: Folks attending Monday changed the venue from OGP, hence the dueling events announcements.
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.”
The OO Labor Solidarity Committee meets weekly, with every other meeting being held at Oscar Grant Plaza weather permitting. This week’s meeting will take place in the amphitheater at Oscar Grant Plaza, just outside of City Hall.
PLEASE CHECK BACK AS THERE IS STILL A CHANCE THE LOCATION MAY CHANGE!!
The main topic for this meeting will be discussion of and preparation for an Oakland Port Workers’ rank-and-file Assembly scheduled for October 6th. Non-unionized airport workers (the Port of Oakland runs the Oakland Airport) have been targeted for union-organizing activity while UNITE HERE is trying to organize them. SEIU Port workers have no contract currently and ILWU contracts at various locales on the West Coast are due to expire soon. Couple that with deep labor unrest at various ports up and down the East Coast, and there seems to be a lot of possibility to work together and show solidarity.
Other topics may include the aftermath of the Chicago Teachers’ strike, recent events in South Africa, United Food Workers Union troubles, massive protests in Portugal and Spain, the Castlewood settlement, and Alan Blueford Coalition organizing.
We meet biweekly. After our BBQ, our speakout, and our events at City Hall in September, we will be planning further steps in our search for Justice For Alan Blueford. Come help us out!
Please visit the Justice 4 Alan Blueford website.
Please sign the petition demanding Justice For Alan.
Party, feast, slide show, games, toasts, music. We are awesome, let’s celebrate.
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.”
The OO Labor Solidarity Committee meets weekly, with every other meeting being held at Oscar Grant Plaza weather permitting. This week’s meeting will take place at UNITE HERE, on the 2nd floor of 1440 Broadway.
Topics will include a review of the Port Workers Assembly put on by this committee Saturday, a discussion of what we might do for November 2nd, the one year anniversary of the General Strike, possibly a report back from the ILWU Executive Board meeting with the Blueford family, along with ILWU, Castlewood, Airport workers, United Food Workers and other labor activity updates.
On December 11th, civil rights attorney Jim Chanin will file a motion to put OPD under Federal receivership.
How would Federal control affect the people of Oakland?
Will a federally controlled police force be more interested in crime suppression or political repression?
How much will the people pay?
Presentation and Speakout with update on court case by Jim Chanin.
A number of comrades are having their arraignments at 1:30 PM in San Francisco. They were attacked and beaten by police on Saturday, charged with felony conspiracy and other charges, and had astronomical bails set.
Come out and support them!
(If you were at the protest peeps in the know suggest that you NOT go to the courthouse in support)
My understanding is that one comrade from Seattle, Cami (?), is having her arraignment at 9:00 AM at the same location tomorrow. According to the latest information, Cami is being arraigned at 1:30 PM as well.
NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT OUR NORMAL MEETING PLACE. WHILE IT IS AN SEIU HALL, IT IS A DIFFERENT SEIU HALL (on Oak St, not Myrtle St).
We are now meeting weekly. After our BBQ, our speakout, and our events at City Hall which drew much attention to Alan’s cause in the media and hence the general public, and the DA’s pronoucement that Masso was justified in gunning Alan down, we will be planning further steps in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. Come help us out!
A couple of the things we are planning are to put further pressure on the District Attorney to charge Officer Masso with murder, and we are in the early stages of organizing a large march in November with an emphasis on opposition to Stop & Frisk, the policy which led directly to Alan’s death, and the repeal of the Police Officers’ Bill of Rights, a California law which protects Officer Masso from investigation unlike ordinary citizens.
NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT OUR NORMAL MEETING PLACE. WHILE IT IS AN SEIU HALL, IT IS A DIFFERENT SEIU HALL (on Oak St, not Myrtle St).
WHAT: COINTELPRO Panel with Diane Fujimo and Gerald Sanders
WHEN: Saturday October 13th at 7:30pm
WHERE: The HoldOut – 2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland CA
NOTE: Post originally created by WiseOldSnail and posted at: http://hellaoccupyoakland.org/calendar/cointelpro-panel-with-diane-fujimo-and-gerald-sanders/?utm_medium=twitter
“Today
7:30pm
the HOLDOUT
From the Red Scare of 1919-1920 to the McCarthy period of the 1950′s to the COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) era of the 1960′s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has operated primarily as America’s political police. With the recent alegations that long time activist and former Black Panther member Richard Ioki was an FBI informant it is imperative that militants become familiar with the History of COINTELPRO.”
Post created/copied by/from WiseOldSnail at:
Please join us tomorrow Sunday at 1:00pm at:
19th and Rashida Muhammad (a block away from Telegraph)
if you’re interested in getting involved in this!
Since there currently is no communal space for them, people can contribute time and resources, assist in organizing, and share this information with others who may have resources to contribute.
Most Immediate need:
- Safe shelter (Do you know of any vacant shelter, or
- an affordable apartment for rent?
- Are you able to put a Mom and her child/ren up for a couple of nights?
- Do you have other suggestions for housing resources?)
Other needs:
- Diapers
- Food
- Transportation (for donations as well as helping Mom’s get from one safe place to another)
- Baby Clothes
Over the next month we hope to organize an event to raise awareness about this issue, to ask for donations of goods or funds, and to organize an affinity or working group that can help build a sustainable commune where the needs of those who face the most challenging circumstances will be central.
If any Occupy Oakland Committee is interested in helping in this area and working together, please let us know!
We can be contacted at OOMothersAndChildren@gmail.com.
Oakland Cryptoparty
Simultaneous classes for beginners and Advanced.
Cryptography another essential tool for everyone, not just activists.
Techliminal
268 14th St.
Oakland, CA 94612
Sunday, October 14, 2012 from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM (PDT)
- Doors open
- Welcome to Oakland Cryptoparty!
3pm –
- aestetix (sudoroom) – A beginners guide to cryptography: Codes vs Ciphers, Classical vs Modern Crypto, symmetric, asymmetric, RSA, DES, and more. (Downstairs)
- ryanj (sudoroom) – What do you want from a cryptoparty? Planning session and feedback for future events – which will enevitibly devolve into an open discussion (Upstairs)
- Micah Lee (EFF) – An Introduction to Public Key Crypto, the Web ofTrust, and Certificate Authorities: Start encrypting IMs, emails, and text messages today (Downstairs)
- cooperq – Full Disk Encryption (Upstairs)
- leif – introduction to Tor (Downstairs)
- legind – OTR (Upstairs)
- Mark Burdett (EFF) – textsecure, gibberbot (downstairs)
- Garret Robinson – Building systems using open source cryptographic primitives: using Tor, GPG, and Bitcoin (Upstairs)
- Wrap up – upcoming events and closing announcements
https://cryptoparty.org and http://cryptoparty.eventbrite.com