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MASS RALLY & MARCH
14th & Broadway! 2:00pm
LONG LIVE THE OAKLAND COMMUNE
• Solidarity with the worldwide Occupy Movement
• End police attacks on our communities
• Defend Oakland schools & libraries
• Housing for all, No more foreclosures
• Against a capitalist system built on inequality & corporate power that perpetuates racism, sexism & the destruction of the environment
called for by Occupy Oakland & Bay Area Labor
“At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause.
I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. “I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.” Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.”
-Emma Goldman
This is a Mobile Event–it will take place wherever Occupy Oakland decides to set up camp
Come one Come all. Feel free to bring your kids and a dish of food to share.
There will be live painting, hoola hooping, and dance music.
Bring your donations for the campers. Lets build a community again.
! ! ! LINE UP ! ! !
Mermaid – disco & stuff
Atish Mehta – funky deep house
Dao & Pwny Show – dirty funky tech house tag team
Skye X – drum & bass/techno
Brian Demodulate – post acid crunky dubstep
Bert – 2 step/garage
Indigo – drum & bass or psy breaks
Drag’n’fly – tech trance (or whatever she calls it these days)
Br@in – breaks
Please note – this lineup is subject to change. no refunds in case of rain. by attending this event, you accept all liability for train wrecks, dirty hippy hugs, tear gassing, billy clubbing, seal clubbing, bad dancing, and regime change. offer not valid in NV or where legal.
Love to bake & cook? There will also be a potluck brunch, for ourselves and the camp as a whole while we are there, & we would love it if you want to bring something. Even a carafe of coffee, or a dozen bagels is a welcome contribution – home cooked brunchy goodies are also greatly encouraged!
Join us while we dance our way into a new era!
Facbook Event page: Occupy Oakland Renegade
Thursday morning, as an act of unity with the Indigenous People’s Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island, Occupy Oakland will be broadcasting the Sunrise Ceremony at Oscar Grant Plaza.
We will be assembling a community altar space beginning in the early morning and continuing throughout the day. All are invited to bring sacred objects to share. In particular, we’re requesting sage, copal, objects symbolizing the 4 directions, images of indigenous resistance, and images of indigenous life before conquest.
The community is also invited to bring breakfast and warm drinks to share with one another after the Sunrise Ceremony is broadcast.
From noon until 5, Terrance Nelson, Clyde Bellecourt, Oglala Vice President Tom Poor Bear and many other will be joining us for a series of speeches, performances and a mid-day feast.
Immediately following, the community will gather for Grateful Mic: Music and Words of Gratitude and Solidarity from the Oakland Community.
Come out to Oscar Grant plaza to help us prepare a feast for the Occupy Oakland community. Food donations welcome and much appreciated.
Please join us in Oscar Grant plaza to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with the Occupy Oakland community.
Please join us in Snow Park to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with the Occupy Oakland community.
Black Friday Protest at Emeryville Mall:
Stop the Desecration of Indigenous Land
Did you know that the Bay Street Mall is built upon a
Sacred Ohlone shellmound burial ground? It is the oldest and largest
burial ground in the bay area – older than the pyramids in Eygpt.
In 2000, it was desecrated to make way for the mall.
Join in the annual action to educate the public about this sacred site.
Bring snacks and signs as we ask holiday shoppers to boycott this mall
to respect the original (and still present!) inhabitants of the Bay Area.
Children and families are welcome.
Annual Emeryville Shellmound Protest
Marking the historic 10 year anniversary of this gathering
Where: *Bay St Mall in Emeryville, Corner of *Ohlone Way and Shellmound
Street
*When: *Friday November 25th 12-3pm
For More Information: ipocshellmoundwalk.intuitwebsites.com,
Shellmoundwalk@yahoo.com
Both Occupy Oakland and Occupy San Francisco stand in solidarity with this
action and will be there to support
On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at noon, Occupy Oakland activists will retake Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland with a 24-hour, 7 day-a-week vigil. Occupiers hope to create a model for a new wave of “Occupation” protest throughout the United States.
More info on:http://www.occupyoakland.org/2011/11/re-occupying-oscar-grant-a-k-a-frank-ogawa-plaza/
At five pm on Wednesday, November 30th, activists and
community members of Oakland will rally at Fruitvale Plaza to say no to criminalization, incarceration, and corporate profiteering at the expense of our communities.
Occupy Oakland will host an informational session on ALEC
from noon to 4pm at the Oscar Grant Plaza. Occupy Oakland’s
General Assembly will proceed after the rally in Fruitvale.
More info on: http://www.occupyoakland.org/2011/11/occupy-oakland-rally-to-decolonize-criminalized-communities/
On Wednesday, November 30th, the General Assembly will be held at Fruitvale BART.
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In honor and remembrance of those who have lost their lives to HIV/AIDS, we are holding a candlelight vigil on Thursday Dec 1, 2011 at Oscar Grant Plaza. In honor of those still suffering with HIV/AIDS we hold a candlelight vigil and open (people’s) mic and ask that the governments and people of this world recognize the need for Universal Healthcare as one of our basic rights. We encourage people to come share their experience of how this virus has affected you or the people you are close to. We encourage a safe space, a comfortable space, and a compassionate space for people to talk amongst each other and possibly through the human mic if you so choose. Please reach out to your neighbors, support systems, and organizations that may be interested in participating.
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This year’s hoodstock will be a fundraiser for legal defense for people arrested at occupy oakland.It will be donation based with no one turned away for lack of funds…
Follow us on Twitter to be the first to know about any event changes: Bands:
Joey Casio
Bobby Joe Ebola Casey and Brian Mortar and Pestle Moderate excess bad coyotes Buttons Chump Change cycloptopus Bob Ross Band Pony Loco Burning Monk Rnb Millionaires Turbo Sonidero x MexTape Yacob traces hellllllla more…. Facebook Invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/231359070261660/
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You have the right to remain observant!
Learn how to protect that right!
Come and learn:
The History of Copwatching
National Attacks on Civilians Observers
Videos of Police Abuse Against People Filming Cops
Local Issues Concerning the Right to Observe
Know your Rights Training Information
Event hosted by Oscar Grant Committee and Berkeley Cop Watch
Suggested donation of $5-10
(No one will be turned away for lack of funds)
A workshop of simple practices for stress relief, trauma healing, and wellness that anyone can learn. It is based on Capacitar(Capacitar International) work and also on other trauma healing work. Please come out!
Hi everyone, we will be meeting up this coming monday the 5th from noon-4pm to help two garden friends with their plot on the corner of 37th and West, Oakland. We are linking up with community gardens and they are excited to receive support from us. We will mainly be filling in the planter beds with starts, basic upkeep, elaborating on the edges near the fence line, possibly planning a green house and bee hive for the space, enjoying company, and snacking. bring food or drinks if you’d like. We are hoping to get some bricks together to use as retainer walls. so if you have that resource shoot us a line before monday. see you then, with love
The Lobby for War and Apartheid in Oakland!
Join us to welcome AIPAC, the “Apartheid Israel Public Affairs Committee”, as they celebrate their occupation of Congress and misappropriation of $3 Billions each year to oppress Palestinians and constantly fan the flames of war and conflict. They are the 1%.
Rally at 5:30 pm @ Marriott Hotel
On Tuesday, December 6th ACCE, Occupy Oakland, Labor, Community Groups and families facing foreclosure are coming together once again to continue our call for stopping Foreclosures and Making Banks Pay! Please join us in this National Day of Action called by Occupy Wall St.
Here’s a partial list of the “Occupy Our Homes” events happening next Tuesday:
9:30am: ACCE & The Home Defender’s will be meeting @ Snow Park (20th & Harrison by the Lake) for a “Speak out on Foreclosures” to stop the sale of homes prior to the Holiday Season!
2pm: Causa Justa::Just Cause and Occupy the Hood will be rallying and marching from West Oakland BART to demand the Banks work with an Oakland Family to put them back in their home.
4pm: Occupy Oakland, ACCE and allies will be meeting @ Defremery Park on 16th & Adeline St. in West Oakland to support families who plan to Reclaim their Homes and fight back against the attack on working families across the country!
The national Occupy Our Homes campaign challenges a deliberate Wall Street strategy that has made billions for those at the top while devastating the 99%:
Banks created a housing bubble, deliberately designing predatory loans with balloon payments, variable rates, and other features that would yield short-term profits while preying on families least able to pay.
They knew that many of these loans could not be repaid, but they didn’t care because they planned to package and re-sell the mortgages to investors who then were left holding the bag.
The economy crashed as a result of this bank-created house of cards, putting tens of millions of Americans out of work. Unemployment is overwhelmingly the primary cause of foreclosures, not over-extended consumers.
If you have ANY questions, please feel free to email us or hadasalterman@gmail.com from the Occupy Oakland Housing Network.
“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 Thursday, December 8th, The Stork Club in Oakland is hosting a benefit show for Scott Olsen. Suggested donation is $6 (more if you can afford it) and there will be drink specials all night long.
Five great Bay Area bands will be playing: Surveyor, The Dangs, One Punch Machine Gun, Machine Zero, and Golda Supernova. Doors @ 8pm. All proceeds go to the Veterans for Peace Scott Olsen Support Fund. Come out to hear some great local bands and raise some money for Scott as he continues his recovery.