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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
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
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
Occupy Legal, National Lawyers Guild, Anti-Repression Committee, Cop Watch and The Bay Area Committee to Stop Political Repression present a day of community education at The Holdout
February 12th 2012
12noon-6pm
The Holdout – 2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland CA
Join us for a series of workshops and skills shares designed to help empower our movement and community to take the law into our own hands. Topics will include: Know your rights when dealing with the police, documenting/observing police brutality and misconduct, street law, know your rights for building occupiers, investigation techniques for community based accountability efforts and defending our communities against police repression and surveillance.
Lawyers and legal workers will be available from 1-5pm (and after workshops and panels) to share legal information. Literature, Know Your Rights info and other resources on a variety of topics will also be made available.
Food will be provided throughout the day
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Schedule of Workshops and Panels:
12-1pm: Know Your Rights When Dealing With the Police
This know your rights workshop covers interacting with the police, searches, warrants, the court/arraignment process. We use roleplays and real life scenarios to empower activists to assert their rights in protest situations, how to do this effectively but safely and to demystify the legal process.
Hosted by: Occupy Legal and the Occupy Oakland Anti-Repression Committee
1-2pm: Squatting Rights and Strategy with Steve DiCaprio
2-4pm: Investigation Techniques for Community Based Accountability Efforts
This workshop will be presented by Diana Christensen and will focus on how to structure and conduct credible civilian-initiated investigations of police misconduct. Guidelines for conducting and recording interviews, securing physical evidence, or gathering other information and using it in service of accountability will be presented. (Diana Christensen is a former Investigator with the Oakland Police Review Board but also provides trainings on how to conduct trainings at the workplace. )
Hosted by: Copwatch Berkeley
4-5pm: Building a Movement that Can Defend Itself.
This workshop will look at the political process of building a movement that is able to defend itself against repression. We will discuss how various parts of the State: the FBI, the police, courts, Grand Juries, and the press, collaborate to try to split our movements, isolate us from our best support (each other and our allies), and how they use our own words and weaknesses to terrorize and imprison us. We will look at examples of strong political defense combined with strong legal defense- the San Francisco 8 case, the recent case of the 23 people subpoenaed to a Federal Grand Jury in the Midwest, and the frame-up of Carlos Montes in Los Angeles. We will emphasize that our ability to politically defend ourselves against repression is central to building our movements.
Hosted by: CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), San Francisco National Lawyers Guild and The Committee Against Political Repression
5-6pm: Know Your Rights For Building Occupations and Foreclosure/Eviction Defense: This panel and discussion will focus on our rights around political housing actions. Discussion will be centered on building (re)occupations, foreclosure and eviction defense. Lawyers, legal workers and activists will present on what rights we do (and do not) have when engaging in these types of actions and the basics of housing law, foreclosure issues and how these laws can affect the kind of political action we take. The bulk of this workshop will be a guided discussion where housing and occupation activists can share their experiences and knowledge.
Presenters TBA
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.
Join us on Valentine’s Day to express our love for each other, and our beautiful city, on a march through the downtown Oakland area. Participants should wear red and/or pink in celebration of Valentine’s Day, and are encouraged to bring flowers, bubbles, Valentine’s candy to share, glitter, confetti, and flower petals.
We will hold a 6:00 PM rally at LOCATION CHANGED TO 19th & Telegraph. Oscar Grant Plaza (14th and Broadway in downtown Oakland),
This is to be a completely nonviolent, family-friendly action, and will be open to all who are interested in joining us in an expression of love for our community and each other.
– the Tactical Action Committee
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
Discussing upcoming Fruitvale GA project, outreach to Oakland’s community groups, and canvassing efforts.