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OccupyForum has been meeting for over two years with the mission of educating ourselves about the main Occupy issues, building an affinity group, (and holding space for Occupy folks to get together), and building coalitions with our allies (like Greenaction, International Forum on Globalization, Homes Not Jails, Sunflower Alliance, Strike Debt, Global Exchange, Save City College and many more). We’ve held over 90 Forums with insightful panelists and Q&A sessions which have led to further participation in planning and holding actions, coalitioning, and to understanding how our movement works.
Now it is time to evaluate how we’re doing; what could be improved, and where we should be going with this group, including how we work together at the Forum sessions. Some suggestions have been to show some of the great documentaries on our situation and have breakout groups, to have potlucks to build the affinity aspect, to have nights where we hold an action (like the Fed Up With the Fed action), to talk more intimately and honestly about how we see the future of this country unfolding and visioning what we’d like to see. We are looking for more active participation, where each of us takes a role in co-creating the OccupyForum.
Please come on Monday, June 23rd, to contribute ideas and energy to pushing the OccupyForum to its next iteration with a mandate to match the times in which we find ourselves, 3 years after Occupy began. See you there!!
Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments & social hour at 6:30 pm,
followed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by optional discussion after the film.
UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
Episode 7: Johnson, Nixon, and Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune
by Oliver Stone
Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street
Peeps are continually staffing a table outside of Staples, 24-7, ongoing for almost a week now. Come by and say hello, hang out, and give them your support!
Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA) has launched a new series of workshops focused on helping you:
> – understand how to access credit,
> – address credit reporting problems, and
> – address debt collection problems
Please come if you have questions for us, or documents you want us to review- you name it. We’re covering everything from student loan debt, auto loan questions, and medical debt to how to access the credit that you want and need.
Rising Tide will be hosting a teach-in/fundraiser on anti-extraction/direct action movements in North America.
The wealthy few are destroying our climate, our ecosystems and our
communities. They destroy Appalachia’s mountains for profit they make from
coal. They’ve poisoned the Gulf of Mexico and Indigenous and frontline
communities from Alberta to the Gulf Coast for profit they make from oil.
They are destroying communities from New York to American West for profit
they’ll make from natural gas.
In California and the Bay Area, the fight against extraction is becoming a
reality as industry is paving the way for more and more fracking while
“oil by rail” proposals are becoming more prevalent.
Now frontline communities and grassroots direct action allies from across
the continent have risen up against the fossil fuel industry. In the past
three years, from Washington D.C. to the streets of St. Louis and
Richmond,CA to the highways and byways of rural Idaho and Montana, the
fight against fossil fuels has intensified with massive amounts of direct
action and grassroots organizing.
Event to include:
– Panel on the North American anti-extraction movements; speakers TBA
– Amazing videos from recent direct actions
– Snacks, booze
Please join Rising Tide North America as we host a climate forum on the
growing movement against fossil fuel extraction in North America.
This event is a fundraiser for Radical Action for Mountain People’s
Survival [RAMPS]. A non-violent direct action campaign based in the
southern coal fields of West Virginia, dedicated to ending all forms of
strip mining in Appalachia.
This event is a Rising Tide production.
The KONO Community Benefit District invites you to an open meeting about Oakland First Fridays. The event will be hosted by KONO Board President Phil Porter, KONO Executive Director Shari Godinez and Oakland First Fridays Fundraiser/Coordinator Sarah Kidder.
Come find out more about the event-ask questions, bring ideas, share concerns. We’re also actively seeking volunteers to get involved with the workings of the event before, during and after the first Friday of each month on either a short or long-term basis. The meeting is open to anyone with an interest in the Oakland First Fridays.
Thursday there was music in front of the staples store in Berkeley (Shattuck & Durant) from 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. A great new singer/guitarist named Josh Foster, as well as Redd Welsh on vocals and electronic organ. During that time there were consistently about a dozen people at the Boycott Staples table, not counting the many passers-by who stopped and showed their support.
TOMORROW FRIDAY there will be more music from 4:00 to 7:00 PM. Redd Welsh will be there, and the call has gone out to other musicians to join us. Come one, come all! Let’s get a big crowd out there! Dancing, anyone??
Boycott Staples. Stop the privatization of our Post Office.
Support the 24/7 occupation at Berkeley Staples.
Organized by First They Came for the Homeless.
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On the 5th Anniversary of the Coup in HONDURAS Protest 5 years of Death, Fraud, Repression, Militarization, and Corruption Stop the Violence! Defend Human Rights!
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VENEZUELA: Defend the Bolivarian Revolution! Stop US interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs! Recognize the Maduro government!
Five years after the coup in Honduras on June 28, 2009 that overthrew democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, the US government continues to support a repressive government and its neoliberal economic policy, recognizing highly contested 2013 presidential election results with less than 30% of the votes counted.
At the same time, the same US government has refused to recognize Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela. More than a year after the election took place, it does everything in its power to undermine and destabilize the Maduro government. Join us to say:
STOP THE VIOLENCE in Honduras and DEFEND THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION in Venezuela.
Called by Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Coalition/BALASC and Hondurans in Resistance of Northern CA. Endorsed by ANSWER Coalition, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front/FMLN, FNRP/LIBRE NOR- CAL, Freedom Archives, Haiti Action Committee, International Action Center, Marcha Patriótica – Capítulo California/Colombia, Marin Task Force on the Americas, NICCA, Peacemakers, National Committee to Free the Cuba 5, SOAW – San Francisco, Workers World Party
In November last year Socialist Alternative broke through into national politics when its candidate Kshama Sawant won nearly 100,000 votes in a Seattle city council election that made her the first Socialist representative there in 100 years.
Sawant was elected by fighting for a $15/hr minimum wage. In January Socialist Alternative and Sawant launched 15 Now to pressure City Hall to pass legislation for $15 in Seattle. This month the mayor and city council unanimously passed a $15/hr minimum wage. This was a historic victory that continues to have national repercussions.
Come hear how socialists won $15 in Seattle and what we can do to challenge inequality and build a grassroots socialist movement here in Oakland and the Bay Area.
SPEAKERS:
Ty Moore 2013 Socialist Alternative candidate for Minneapolis City Councils
Dan Siegel Independent candidate for Oakland Mayor and $15 supporter
Erin Brightwell Founder of Campaign for Renters Rights and local Socialist Alternative organizer
Friends and comrades,
In the aftermath of Saturday night’s protest against KINK’s prison themed party, the police brutally attacked, detained, and charged many members of our community.
Please join us in continuing and advancing the struggle for liberation from the prision industrial complex by calling in to the SF DA’s office to demand that the charges against Rebecca, Prisca, and Sarai are dropped.
Please call in to either
(415) 553-1751
(415) 553-1754
basic ask:
“We demand that the DA’s office Drop the Charges against Rebecca Luisa Ruiz-Lichter, Prisca Carpenter, Sarai Robles-Mendez.”
Please feel free to add any additional comments and spread the word.
No Justice, No Peace! Keep the calls rolling in!!
Information, discussion & community!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues.
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Leverage Points and Tipping Points: Deconstructing Political Influence
with Patrick McKercher
Patrick McKercher will begin with a brief historical overview of how the 1% and corporations gained their influence, offer an interactive tour of the map of the “Death Star,” then strategize with us how to use what it reveals for maximum leverage.
When scientists and the world were increasingly certain about global warming — including our driving it – why were Americans less and less concerned? As the fossil fuel industry was revealed as the leading climate denier, McKercher, using data visualization software to map the web of information and money flows, saw the infamous Powell Memo (the right-wing gameplan to defend corporations from the People’s will) at the heart of the industry’s gambit. At the end of a long chain, the Koch brothers (who brought much more money and created “the incubator” which recruits, trains and supports college students to be conservative activists, then generously funds the infrastructure to keep them employed for a lifetime) carried the torch.
However, the good news is that once we understand how the system works we can look for leverage points, where small pushes can create tipping points.
Dr. Patrick McKercher teaches for the Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz at the Environmental College. He participated in Occupy San Jose, and currently is involved with Move To Amend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dLAQr8p2wI&list=PL02F8ECC3CDB39BB1&index=2&feature=plpp_video
Q&A and Announcements will follow.
The annual AK Press anti-state event is here again. Tons of sale books priced between $1 and $5…and discounts on everything else! Snacks, refreshments, and friendly anarchists.
Come for the books, stay for the scintillating conversation.
WHY: Because you can never have too many great (cheap) books.
BAY AREA ACTION ALERT PRESS CONFERENCE:
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Tomorrow our community welcomes the arrival of the immigrant parents and children from Texas in CA here in the Bay Area
Originally they were set to be processed at the Border Patrol Station in Murrieta, until anti-immigrant groups with vitriolic messages blocked the buses and they were rerouted to Chula Vista. However many immigrant families are still expected to arrive in the Inland Empire in the next few days. Community groups and organizations throughout the Inland Empire are mobilizing to provide emergency resources and monitoring to ensure the safety of arriving families.
In contrast to the small group of anti-immigrant agitators in Murrieta, diverse community groups and residents throughout the Inland Empire and CA welcome the opportunity to show hospitality and lend a hand to the immigrant families the humanity and respect they deserve.
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Please join us tomorrow in solidarity with these immigrant families and hear more about the human crisis at the border and in detention centers.
Find ways how you can get involved and join our immediate action to help these families.
Please join us for a tour of the Gill Tract Community Farm with acclaimed agro-ecology professor Miguel Altieri and Rene Zazueta. Learn about the farm, planting methods and patterns, and urban agro-ecology.
Come get our new “Public Bank of Oakland” shirts!!
Learn about debt and how it is screwing everyone… or just come and hang out!
Look for our table somewhere between 24th & 25th streets.
Follow us on twitter @strikdebtba
And join us at our next meeting!
Come show solidarity with the Palestinian people and demand an end to the collective punishment and occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
At least eleven Palestinians have died since Israel launched its massive crackdown, invasions and siege on June 12.
More than 1,000 homes have been raided, nearly 600 Palestinians have been detained, and Israel has conducted dozens of airstrikes on occupied Gaza.
Human rights organizations have described Israel’s actions as collective punishment, a violation of international law.
Film showing: “Miners Shot Down.”
“Bloody Thursday” July 5th commemorates the police murder of maritime workers in the 1934 Big Strike which provoked the San Francisco General Strike. All US West Coast ports are shutdown to honor the 6 labor martyrs killed during the strike.
In 2012, at the Marikana mine in South Africa, 34 striking miners were massacred by police. ILWU Local 10 sent a letter of protest to the ANC-led government. Andrew Chirwa, president of NUMSA, the largest union in that country will address workers about the massacre and miners strike, the longest in South African history, and the impending metalworkers stroke.
On July 1, both the South African metalworkers union and the ILWU longshore contracts expire. NUMSA is preparing for a “full-blown strike” much like the maritime workers did in 1934. Now is the time for international labor solidarity.
Organized by the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee.