Calendar
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:
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8YDSBC2
Please spread the word!
Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting
Date: Sundays
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
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.
Kali was originally arrested December 16th on minor misdemeanor charges,
but because of a probation violation hold he was incarcerated for 4 days
before any charges were formally filed.
While most people would have been released from jail and asked to appear
for a future court date given the minor nature of the misdemeanor charges,
the DA denied Kali’s release because of the county’s assertion
that he is homeless.
At his arraignment Kali immediately notified the
judge that he did have a residence and provided the address. The staff
that could confirm this residence was gone for the day and it was
concluded that Kali would have to remain in jail until his next court date.
Meet at 19th and Telegraph at 7:30 am. Caravan leaves at 8 am SHARP! more cars would be very much appreciated.
Address is: 24405 Amador St , Hayward, CA 94544
Wear red in support of Kali’s favorite color!
Since he was an active member of the Kitchen Committee, there will be Coffee not Cops as well as a potluck afterwards.
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
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 (Go up the stairs, turn left, left again down a hall, left again down another hall, or ask someone). But check back here Thursday in the event of a change of venue.
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, organizing the unemployed, organizing fast food workers in Oakland, support for the Lakeview School Occupation, the Workers’ Assembly, the Castlewood action this Saturday, and more.
RAISE YOUR VOICE!
Castlewood Country Club Valley Course
(Castlewood Dr. at Pleasanton-Sunol Rd, Pleasanton)
Saturday, June 23, 8-11 am
Once again, the golfers of Castlewood Country Club are gearing up for their biggest tournament of the year – while keeping their workers out on the street. Remember last year’s tournament?
Most of the golfers have been deaf to the workers’ cries for affordable health care, job security and respect. So this year, let’s see if music gets through.
Bring your voices, bullhorns, whistles, trombones, and vuvuzelas, and sing out for justice!
Occupy Oakland has supported the locked out Castlewood workers on their picket lines and in helping to organize a march and a mock 1% rally. (“Golf Is A Human Right!”)
They are still locked out, and they could still use our support.
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LOGISTICS
For questions or rides, contact Sarah Norr at 510-502-5344 or norr.sarah@gmail.com.
Want to caravan from Oakland? Meet at 14th and Broadway at 7 am (RSVP first to make sure we have enough cars).
Driving/parking directions: Castlewood’s Valley Course is located along Castlewood Drive between Foothill Road and Pleasanton-Sunol Road. Coming from the Oakland area, take 580 East to 680 South. Take the 3rd exit for Castlewood Dr/Sunol Blvd and turn right at the exit onto Pleasanton-Sunol Road. The first right is Castlewood Drive. Park along Pleasanton-Sunol Road, then walk up Castlewood Drive to the golf course.
Can’t make it? Consider making a donation to the hardship fund instead.
After our regular 10 AM clean-up at St. Andrew’s Plaza on 32nd and San Pablo, those who wish to can come along with us to Lakeview Elementary at 746 Grand Ave. at 11:00 AM to assist in cleaning the school and the sit-in site, and whatever else the teachers and parents might need to help prep. for the rally.
As always, there will be free coffee and pastries at 32nd and San Pablo at 10:00, and plenty of brooms, dust pans, trash bags and gloves. Alright, hope to see you all there. Help the teachers, save the schools! Re-Open or Resign!
MARCH TO SUPORT LAKEVIEW AND THE STRUGGLE FOR OAKLAND SCHOOLS!
Reconvergence as well if lakeview gets raided earlier in the week
Leaving from 19th and Telegraph at 12pm, to Lakeview
You can sign up for text blast system to receive instant updates on police threats and responses.
Text the message “lakeviewsitin” to 41411 (i.e. put 41411 instead of the normal 10 digit phone number).
Lakeview School
(across from the Grand Central Theater)
For more info: http://www.saveoaklandschools.org/
Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting
Date: Sundays
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
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 Liberate Everything conference at (hopefully) 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 Occupy Oakland Liberate Everything Conference 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.
Donate here:
https://www.wepay.com/donations/occupy-oakland-liberate-everything-conference-donations
Stop Starving the Postal Service. No cuts! No closures!
Coinciding with a nation Hunger Strike in Washington DC.
The Postal Service has threatened to eliminate 220,000 living-wage jobs and close 3700 post offices. And they are targeting poor and rural communities, those who need their community post office the most.
Help support a nationwide effort, from NYC to Baltimore, to Chicago to San Francisco and Portland, OR.
4pm @ Lakeview Elementary
5pm @ OUSD offices ( 1025 2nd ave.)
This Wednesday is the last OUSD school board meeting until the fall. All year, we have been attending school board meetings to protest school closures, union busting, cuts and privatization, and we have been ignored and silenced. The school board has pushed our agenda items until the end of their discussion, and after hours, we have been permitted just 2 minutes to share our concerns with barely present board members.
We refuse to continue to have our concerns ignored and dismissed! The school board doesn’t represent our communities, so we must represent ourselves. On Wednesday 6/27, the parents, students and teachers of the Lakeview Sit-in are organizing our own hearing – the “People’s School Board Meeting”! We invite all parents, teachers, students and community members to join us to share your vision for Oakland public schools, and speak out against the continuous disrespect Tony Smith and the elected school board members have shown the school communities they are supposed to serve!
Planning for the Occupy AC transit BBQ this Saturday, June 30th, at Arroyo Viejo Park from 2-6 will be meeitng at the Lakeview Sit-In this Wednesday, 6/27/12.
Folks who are interested in helping cook or serve food, as well as facilitating discussion and a general grand ole time, are all most welcome.