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 Oscar Grant Plaza, near or on the steps of the amphitheater. In case of inclement weather, please check back here for an alternative location.

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will likely include discussion about a labor resolution decrying the death of Alan Blueford and a proposed “March of the unemployed.”

Meeting of the OO Media Committee.

Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting

Location: The Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, in Oakland, California

Everyone who’s interested in doing research to empower Oakland’s 99% and target the city’s 1% is welcome. Bring an open mind and be prepared to learn together.

For more information, email research@occupyoakland.org or visit our website: occupyoaklandresearch.org

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, 1440 Broadway. Go in pass the guard, up the stairs to the 2nd floor, turn left and then, well, it’s complicated but it shouldn’t be too hard to find us; explore
the corridors.

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will likely include discussion about the ILWU and Longview, which Occupy Oakland participated in back in January, the March in Solidarity with the Quebec Students’ Union which took place on Friday, June 1 and will be taking place again on Friday, June 8th, and possibly the status of the IBC (boatman’s union) strike, the next Workers’ Assembly, organizing the unemployed, the Wisconsin debacle and other labor related issues.

The working class is facing an unprecedented assault from
employers and the state. We must build solidarity in collective
struggle. In this spirit we invite all workers – paid and unpaid,
employed and unemployed, union and non-union, full-time and
precarious – to join a Workers’ Assembly.

We aim to encourage communication and solidarity between
different sectors of the working class. We want to encourage
common struggle against the 1% and their agents who exploit
and oppress us, for a society based on justice and equality, where
the needs and desires of all working people are given first priority.

This will be the 3rd meeting of the Workers’ Assembly.
It will take place at Lakeside Park (Belleview & Grand, Oakland, CA).
The exact location within the park is yet to be determined
and the starting time of 11:30 AM is subject to change. Please check
back.

An Occupy Oakland barbecue will be taking place at 2:00 PM at the same
location; the Workers’ Assembly will transition into that event.

This meeting’s primary goal will be to figure out the organization of the Workers’
Assembly and its future roles.

What’s Next? Occupy Oakland BBQ

Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting

Location: The Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, in Oakland, California

Everyone who’s interested in doing research to empower Oakland’s 99% and target the city’s 1% is welcome. Bring an open mind and be prepared to learn together.

For more information, email research@occupyoakland.org or visit our website: occupyoaklandresearch.org

If you want to help organize fast food workers, come to our next meeting Sunday, June 10, noon, at 19th and Telegraph.

We meet near the statues a block in past the deserted lot, where the Sunday GA is held.

General meeting of the Occupy Oakland Nonviolent Caucus. Business/Structural meeting followed by break and then Discussion/Theory.

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 Oscar Grant Plaza, in or close to the amphitheater.

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting may include discussion about the OOLSC’s next actions, the ILWU and Longview, which Occupy Oakland participated in back in January, the Marches in Solidarity with the Quebec Students’ Union which on Friday,have taken place June 1 and June 8th, a report back from the 3rd Workers’ Assembly that OOLSC has organized, organizing the unemployed, organizing fast food workers in Oakland, the Wisconsin debacle and other labor related issues.

COMMUNITY OF POLICE WALKING TOUR!  – LUNCH WITH THE SHERIFFS!

Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group with the Anti Repression Committee
offers a walking tour and info picket of cop and capital headquarters downtown.

Friday, June 15th
11:30-1:30
Meet at 19th and Telegraph in the park.

If the community had control over the police would thousands of of people be evicted under the threat of violence from armed sheriffs?

If the community had control over the police would Alan Blueford, a 17 year old high school senior, have been shot dead in the street? Would his killer remain at large on paid leave?

If the community had control over the police would Santa Rita be an instrument of abuse and torture?

If the community had control over the police would Occupy Oakland members be subject to the summary judgement and violence we have endured these last 6 months?

NOTE!: AS OF THIS POSTING, ANOTHER COMRADE WAS SNATCHED OFF THE STREET AFTER THE H.E.A.T. ACTION AND IS FACING $110K IN BAIL!!

IF THE COMMUNITY HAD CONTROL OVER THE POLICE, WOULD MELVIN BE KIDNAPPED AND SITTING IN SANTA RITA BLUES??!!  FREE MELVIN!

Community Control of Police was rightfully one of the points of the Black Panther Program. It still is rightfully at the top of the people’s agenda and this includes control of the Sheriffs, the armed agents of the foreclosure crisis and the keepers of the county prison system.

We will be touring various relevant sites and offices downtown during lunch hour on Friday to picket, canvass and shine the light on the repressive, displacing, anti-social apparatus of the sheriffs department.

Speakers at stops along the way will include members of the Anti-Repression Committee, homeowners fighting evictions, and more.

We will have plenty of flyers and handbills for everyone so come prepared to canvass and engage your fellow Oaklanders on the street.

And come ready to MAKE SOME NOISE!

Join the Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group and the Anti-Repression Committee as we rally and march against evictions, and pay a visit to the Alameda Sheriff (responsible for doing the banks’ dirty work of evicting people from their homes), perhaps the Alameda County DA, and some big banks in the downtown area.

We’ll assemble at 19th & Telegraph and move on from there.

Speakers will include Boots Riley and a homeowner fighting eviction.

Join us for the first gathering to begin re-imagining the General Assembly on Saturday June 16 at Mosswood Park, starting with music and food at 1:00pm.

Please fill out our survey to share you thoughts on the GA:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8YDSBC2

Please spread the word!

Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting

Location: The Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, in Oakland, California

Everyone who’s interested in doing research to empower Oakland’s 99% and target the city’s 1% is welcome. Bring an open mind and be prepared to learn together.

For more information, email research@occupyoakland.org or visit our website: occupyoaklandresearch.org

Oscar Grant Plaza,  Tuesday and Thursday at 6pm: Help plan and envision the Occupy Oakland Conference that the Events Committee has started working on!

Here’s a working draft of the what the conference may look like:

This August 17th through 19th we hope to host Occupy Oakland’s Long Live the Commune conference at Laney College here in Oakland.

The desire to organize a conference started after the planned J28 Move-In Festival fell apart, the necessity arose when folks at Inter-Occupy started seeking endorsements of “Occupy National Gathering” conference of theirs happening in Philadelphia on June 28th-July 4th. Inter-Occupy is organizing what seems to be a second Constitutional Philadelphia Convention, with two “representatives” from every occupation, and urge that Occupy adopt a new “social contract.” With electoral politics heating up and eager to coopt the energy of Occupy, it’s vital that we push the Occupy movement in a more radical direction.

The purpose of the conference is to provide skills, tactics, strategy, and vision within and across occupations. The Long Live the CommuneConference will explore how nonprofits coopt social movements, the criminalization of pre-crime and radical politics, radical history, and the crisis of capitalism this time, among more.

The Events Committee is responsible for actions, workshops, shows, teach-ins, etc. If you would like to perform or organize any kind of action, you should speak with us.

events@occupyoakland.org

Formerly known as the Move-in Assembly, now infamous for the 6 BBQ’s or so we’ve thrown in parks all across Oakland, bringing folks together to Take Back the Town!

Also, a group wherein every member does work and helps out, be it with food prep, outreach, emceeing the event, or generally being amazing, awe-inspiring, and mad revolutionary without pomposity.

19th and Telegraph, Wednesdays at 4:30, Sundays at 12:30.

FROM BBQ’S TO BARRICADES

OCCUPY OAKLAND, OCCUPY YOUR HOOD, HATERS GONNA HATE WHEN THEY SEE YOU DOING GOOD