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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!
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.
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
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.
First edition of Occupy Oakland Book Club! This first meeting will include a meet and greet, discussion on book club format, and finally, we will discuss potential books and choose one for the next book club meeting.
#OccupyEducated has determined a list of 5 essential reads for the movement. We can consider reading these or hear other great book ideas.
http://occupyeducated.org/2011/11/15/hello-world/
Invite your smart friends and not-so-smart friends, anyone interested in educating themselves on the issues relating to the movement and the 99%!
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
Corporations are not people! Money is not speech! Come join us for a national day of action to end corporate personhood. There will be speakers and entertainment.
Protest, Street Theater… *All Day*
Friday, January 20, 2012, 8:00 AM
Oakland Federal Courthouse
Clay Street, between 13th and 14th Streets
Take BART to SF to join Occupy Wall Street West Actions
Friday, January 20, 2012, 11:00 AM
Pick the action you want to join:
* SF Occupy the Courts (11:45 AM: Meet at Civic Center BART and march to Federal Courthouse/9th Circuit Court of Appeals at 7th and Mission.)
* Occupy Oakland’s Reclaim the Streets (Embarcadero BART)
For more information, please see our website at: http://occupyoaklandcourts.org.
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.
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!