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via Occupy Oakland Patriarchy:

Monday, Wiley Manuel Courthouse, 12-3

Join yr comrades in Oakland Occupy Patriarchy as we tell the cops and the DA that we will NOT TOLERATE them pretending like they give a shit about our oppression as women, fags, dykes, queers and trans* people so they can use us against our friend in their war of attrition against Occupy Oakland!

http://oaklandoccupypatriarchy.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/pigs-are-no-friends-of-ours/

Last night, NYPD’s raid on OWS was brutal.

We need an emergency proposal and march after GA in solidarity with our beaten friends in NY.
Let’s take to the street in a show of love and solidarity!
This is an open event! Invite everyone you know!

Rally 5PM, march 6PM

National faith leaders will offer religious sanctuary and protection to those to whom police have issued “stay away” and “non-loitering” orders that prohibit them from being on the plaza. The Service will honor their Constitutional First Amendment rights and challenge police actions against peaceful, lawful protesters. The service is expected to draw people from faith communities and Occupy encampments from across the state of California.

Note: The General Assembly time has been changed to 7:00 PM to accommodate this event.

What
Hackathon II builds on the demos and tools from the first and turns our collaborative energy on visualizing the 5000+ responses to the OccupyResearch General Demographics and Participation Survey (ORGS), Occupy Oakland Serves the People Survey Results, and R-Shief Twitter #occupy tags aggregating since September 2011.

Where
900 Alice Street, Oakland, CA 94607
3rd Rear Floor conference room (3R)
Between 9th and 10th St., Oakland’s Chinatown. Two blocks from Lake Merritt Bart, six blocks from Oscar Grant Plaza.

When
Saturday, March 24th 2012
10:00am to 6:00pm

More info
Email research@occupyoakland.org
http://bit.ly/occupyhackathon
http://www.occupyresearch.net/2012/03/20/occupydata-hackathon-ii/

RSVP
RSVP by emailing research@occupyoakland.org

What to bring
BYOL (laptop)

Everybody is welcome; you do not need to be a hacker to come to the hackathon. Bring ideas, or things you want to learn or teach.
Come by before the OO BBQ at Rainbow Park starts or stop by afterwards.
Check out some of the COOL things folks created at Hackathon I, like the metameme of the Pepper Spray Cop and comparison of mainstream media coverage of Occupy versus tweets about #OWS.

Metameme of Pepper Spray Cop Mosaic

A mosaic image of the Pepper Spraying Cop was created, composed of many tiny remixed Pepper Spraying Cop images.

Mainstream Media Coverage of Occupy vs. Tweets using hashtags #OWS and #Occupy

Comparison of surface area newspapers devoted to Occupy coverage to tweets of #OWS and #Occupy related hashtags over time. Results show that movement-created information distributed via Twitter is a more reliable, grassroots source of information than mainstream media.

Hackathon sponsors include:

March 24&25, 10am-8pm

This is 20-hour course covering basic patient assessment, recognition of medical emergencies, and first aid in situations where help may be delayed. Developed for wilderness situations, this course is adapted for urban uprisings and will include care for chemical weapons exposure, herbal first aid, and public health considerations for long-term occupations.

The class is dynamic, with a mix of lectures and active scenarios using makeup to simulate injuries. The primary instructor is a Wilderness EMT, Clinical Herbalist and Occupy Oakland medic. Other experienced medics and herbalists will participate in facilitating the workshop.

Certification available through American Red Cross for $20. Scholarships are available.

1.6 CEUs available through IACET for an additional $20.

Please bring: clothes you can move in and get dirty, lunch (or tamale money), note taking supplies, your questions and experiences.

Cost: By donation, pay what you can. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Contact WFAforthestreets@gmail.com 

March 24 &25

10am-8pm

at the Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave(@23^rd St.), Oakland CA

This is 20-hour course covering basic patient assessment, recognition of medical emergencies, and first aid in situations where help may be delayed. Developed for wilderness situations, this course is adapted for urban uprisings and will include care for chemical weapons exposure, herbal first aid, and public health considerations for long-term occupations.

The class is dynamic, with a mix of lectures and active scenarios using makeup to simulate injuries. The primary instructor is a Wilderness EMT, Clinical Herbalist and Occupy Oakland medic. Other experienced medics and herbalists will participate in facilitating the workshop.

Certification available through American Red Cross for $20. Scholarships are available.

1.6 CEUs available through IACET for an additional $20.

Please bring: clothes you can move in and get dirty, lunch (or tamale money), note taking supplies, your questions and experiences.

Cost: By donation, pay what you can. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Contact WFAforthestreets@gmail.com for more information. 

Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Fremont High School at 3:00 PM
OUSD building, Oakland at 4:30 PM

• “Acceleration TSA”
  –an idea whose time has come?
• Teachers told they must reapply for their current jobs!
• Or is it another hastily designed OUSD experiment on flatland students of color?

OEA members across the district have varying opinions on the merits of this idea.

BUT WE AGREE THAT:

NO member should accept the unlawful method by which Superintendent Smith unilaterally imposed yet-to-be-described working conditions upon our fellow members.

NO member will question that by refusing to communicate, collaborate, and problem solve with those democratically elected to safeguard our best interests, Superintendent Smith has made it easier to ignore member’s rights in the future. If we fail to answer these divide and conquer techniques that undermine our collective strength, then we fail our bargaining team, and more importantly, we fail our kids.

NO member should suffer the indignity of having to apply for a job already held.

Your OEA bargaining team is preparing for negotiations with the OUSD for a new contract. How will you add strength to their efforts?

OEA SOLIDARITY ACTIONS

Join one or both actions on Wednesday, March 28, 2012.

3:00-4:00 – Fremont High School: 4610 Foothill at High Street, Fremont

4:30-6:00 – OUSD School Board Meeting – OUSD Building: 1025 2nd Avenue, Oakland

Honor joint OEA/OUSD agreements! Support your OEA bargaining team! Reject unilateral actions by Tony Smith! Wear OEA green on Wednesdays!

Protest the US massacre of Afghans and end the US war and militarism. No more killings. No more apologies.

Friday, March 30th, 2012
2:30pm – Meet at the Fremont BART.
3:00pm – March to the Army Recruiting Center (39194 Paseo Padre Parkway).

Why:
1) Protest the US massacre of Afghans in Panjwai, Kandahar, as well as all other atrocities related to this war.
2) Protest the US military recruitment of poor people in this country.
3) Raise awareness about and rally support against the “US/Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement.”

We’d like to clearly state that this is a NONVIOLENT direct action.

Organized by: Afghans for Peace, Autonomous Afghans, and SF Bay Area Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Endorsed by: Courage to Resist, Decolonize Oakland, Education Not Incarceration, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Occupy Oakland, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, and World Can’t Wait SF Bay.

For more info: www.AfghansForPeace.org, www.facebook.com/AfghansforPeace,https://www.facebook.com/events/372239879462997.

Occupy Oakland is hosting its third Neighborhood BBQ this coming Saturday at 52nd and MLK in North Oakland. The BBQ will last from 2pm to 6pm and is in support of the North Oakland Neighborhood Assembly & the fight to save Santa Fe Elementary. HEPAC will be providing free HIV tests on site and passing out condoms and safe sex kits! + Workshops from the People’s Community Medics, Foreclosure Defense Committee and more.

FOLLOWING THE BBQ AT 6PM:

MARCH to TAKE BACK the TOWN
one month countdown to May 1…

• From 52nd & MLK

• To Santa Fe Elementary
one of five Oakland schools set to close in 2012

• To Oscar Grant Plaza
no more stay away orders!
free all occupy political prisoners!

part of the Spring Offensive 2012

STRIKE! OCCUPY! DECOLONIZE!

in conjunction with FTP 14a & 14b

Organized by the Occupy Oakland BBQ Assembly

Come support the Occupy Oakland Press Conference on the DA’s targeted prosecutions and stayaway orders and help spread resistance! Hear statements from the Attorney for the IceCream 3; the attorney for victims of hate crimes frustrated at city’s indifference in non politicized cases; a ‘stayaway’ activist from UCB, and much much more!

We need your support, as does everyone facing repression from the OPD and the ACDA!

For members to get a grip on the basics of the foreclosure process and the tactics of fighting back. Organizers from several groups already fighting foreclosures will meet up with us to share their knowledge and experience.

A Day of Action to protest Alameda County District Attorney O’Malley’s stay-away orders, specifically those against UC Berkeley students but also all those who have been given stay-aways in relation to Occupy events.

A press conference and march are tentatively planned.

Updates:

From 9 am there will be cellphone stations on Sproul Steps with lists of phone numbers to call and request that the DA drop the charges against the “Sproul 13” Occupy Cal protesters.

A press conference will be held at 11:00 am. Afterwards, the absurdity of the 100 yards stay away orders will be put on display via maps that carve out that region.

Celebrate James and Portest Police violence!

Join family and friends in remembrance of James Rivera, Jr., the 16 year old boy murdered by Stockton Police and County Sherrifs on July 22nd, 2010.

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012. Meet at Stockton Court house, 222 E Weber Ave, with a march to city hall at 5pm.

Buses will be leaving from oakland, at 19 th andTelegraph at 11:30 am and will be returning form Stockton at 6pm, jsut in tiome to make the 6 month Birthday Party of Occupy Oakland at Oscar Grant Plaza that evening!

Donations are requested for a headstone on James’ Grave.

Sponsored by Mothers Cry for Justice, a group of family members, friends, and concerned community members seeking justice for James Tivera, Jr. and all victims of police abuse and violence! We are all Oscar Grant!

On Tuesday, April 10, 2012, Occupy Oakland is having its Six Month Anniversary Party at Oscar Grant Plaza!

Come down to Oscar Grant Plaza and enjoy the atmosphere of the camp and the amazing experiences we have all been through together, with a concert, speak-out, feast, and picture and movie slideshows of Occupy Oakland!

The evening will end with a dance party, as we re-occupy for one night to honor the space we have all fought so hard for.

Get in touch with the Events Committee for more information, and if you have pictures/performers/food to donate, please email:

events@occupyoakland.org

BANK ACTION THIS WEDNESDAY!

We have been meeting with Richard Harris, a  homeowner in the Fruitvale who is facing foreclosure and who has just been denied a loan modification. An ex-state police officer and an ex-SF firefighter, he has been in his home for 25 years and the bank thinks he is just another entry on their balance sheets.  They think they are going to sell his home from out from underneath him in a month.  The system is rigged, his old unions are absent, and the banks are giving him the same old paperwork runaround while the clock ticks.  Time for Occupy to step in and take this fight public.

WHAT: SAVE RICHARD HARRIS’  HOME!!  Bank Action and Street Canvass

WHEN: Wednesday,  April 11,  2:30-4:00 pm

WHERE:  Fruitvale BART to gather and hold a pre-action briefing before we leave for the bank.

WHAT:  We will be delivering a demand letter to the branch manager, seeking to initate good faith negotiation and escalation of Mr Harris’ case as well as holding an informational picket outside the bank and street canvassing on foreclosures in the neighborhood.  This isn’t a bank closure although the banks often try to close rather than deal with their own customers. Livestreamers will respect our media parameters or will be deemed “hostile” and be dealt with accordingly. This is a disciplined action with a set of agreements that will be discussed at the pre-action briefing.

See you there!!

This is a public fight now!!

Stand and join a march with the workers who dedicate their lives to operating and maintaining the Golden Gate Bridge, and the buses & ferries that take fans to Giants games.

Tell the Bridge District to keep its promises. Don’t let them break their promises by: Reducing vested retiree benefits; Reducing current employees’ benefits, making quality health care unafforable for families; Rewarding non-union employees with raises while punishing union workers.

Meet @ Market Street & the Embarcadero (across from the Ferry Bldg) at 4 PM for rally. March to AT&T Park.

GGLC flyer

No war on Iran, End all wars!

On this tax day, REFUSE your give your tax money for continuous wars & occupations, including the threatened invasion of Iran!

Redirect our resources! Bring yourselves along with your tax dollars, food, books, plants, bicycles, medical supplies, sings, etc. – any of the things you want our taxes to go for – to the Oakland Federal Building and help distribute our resources to the people, NOT to wars, occupations, genocides!!!

Stand with CodePINK, Occupy Oakland, Northern California War Tax Resistance, BAY-Peace, Courage to Resist, Afghans for Peace, Women in Black, IVAW, Stanford says NO to Wars, Global Exchange, Grandmothers and all concerned US folks to insist NO NEW WARS AND END ALL WARS!

Street theater, music, food, visuals: wherever our tax money is going, our war economy and military attacks on other countries (off the US Land mass) since 1798!

Last Organizing meeting, Saturday, April 14th, 11am -1pm, Mudrakers Cafe, 2801 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley.

www.bayareacodepink.org

info@bayareacodepink.org

ATTENTION!!!!
ALL MAIL HANDLERS AND POSTAL WORKERS!
The National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the American Postal Workers Union are working together on Tax Day April 17th on a very important informational leafleting to the people!
We as postal workers along with support from our community will be outside Oakland Main Post office 1675 7th St from 8:30 am until 10:30pm. There will be a speak out/rally from 3:30pm until 7:30pm.
Together we can stop the fraudulent, disastrous & totally unnecessary attack on our postal service and its workers!
The Postmaster General wants to kill the Postal Service: slash 200,000 + jobs, delay the mail, and close 3,700 Post Offices.
Most shutdowns are in poor and rural communities, where jobs and service are needed most.
The postal service is NOT in financial crisis. It is subject to ridiculous and unfair requirements imposed by Congress in 2006.
This could be the last chance before a bill comes from Congress for us to lift OUR voice and stop the back door PRIVATIZATION of the postal service.
Take a day of leave or come to work a few hours early or stay after work for a few hours this is YOUR chance to fight for your Job.
SEE YOU OUT THERE!!!

DAY OF ACTION!
Occupy the Post Office!
Stop the fraudulent, disastrous & totally unnecessary attack on our postal services!

 The Postmaster General wants to kill the Postal Service: slash 200,000+ jobs, delay the mail, and close 3,700 Post Offices.
 Most shutdowns are in poor and rural communities, where jobs and service are needed most.
 The postal service is NOT in financial crisis. It is subject to ridiculous and unfair requirements imposed by Congress in 2006.
Let your voice be heard:
 No reduction in postal service – keep 6-day delivery!

 No Post Office Closings – expand the postal service, don’t destroy it!

 Stop PRIVATIZATION of the P.O. –postal services belong to the people!

 Demand a government-funded Jobs program at union wages for all, regardless of immigration status

 Jobs for Youth – NOT JAILS!

 Join with the postal workers’ unions to Save the People’s Post Office:

DATE: April 17, 2012 (Tax Day)

Place: Main Post Office Speak Out / Rally 1675 7th St Oakland CA, 94615

Time: Speak Out / Rally 3:30 pm until 7:30pm

(There will be an event going on all day from 8:30 am until 10:30 pm come out for an hour or all day stand with postal workers and help save the Peoples’ Post Off