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Sundays – 2:00 PM, Oscar Grant Plaza
Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally and has equal decision-making power. Occupy Oakland’s General Assembly uses a participatory decision-making process appropriately called, “Occupy Oakland’s Collective Decision-Making Process.” Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
Decision Making
Proposals are brought to the Facilitation Committee, either in person at their regular meetings (19th and Telegraph on Wednesdays at 12:00 PM and Saturdays at 4:00 PM) or through an email to: facilitation@occupyoakland.org, and then are brought to Occupy Oakland’s General Assembly. A proposal becomes a resolution only when it is approved through the mechanics of Occupy Oakland’s collective decision-making process. If the community passes a proposal, then it becomes an official Occupy Oakland resolution.
Autonomous Action & the General Assembly
The bulk of the work of Occupy Oakland does NOT happen in the General Assembly. It happens in various committees, caucuses, and associated groups that report back to the general assembly. Everyone participating in Occupy Oakland should be part of at least one associated group. Occupy Oakland encourages autonomous actions that do not require consensus from the General Assembly. This encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
- Welcome
- Welcome Announcements
- Agenda Overview
- Forum
- Reports from Committees, Subcommittees, Caucuses, & Working Groups
- Overview of Process
- Proposal Queue
- Sample Proposal 1
- Sample Proposal 2
- Sample Proposal 3
- Action Announcements
- General Announcements
* An agenda is subject to change at the discretion of the Facilitation Committee or the facilitators of the GA.
Schedule and Records
Meeting notes, resolutions, and decisions are posted online so that participants can keep track of what is going on with the occupation.
GA Statements | GA Minutes | GA Agendas | GA Proposals | GA Resolutions
Facilitation Committee
Helps facilitate the operation of the General Assembly. The Facilitation Committee meets at 19th and Telegraph on Wednesdays at 12:00 PM and Saturdays at 4:00 PM. If you would like to join our committee, please email us at: facilitation@occupyoakland.org, or see our page on this website for more information: Facilitation Committee.
How to Make a Proposal
- Create a group of at least three people that have attended at least one Occupy Oakland General Assembly prior to drafting the proposal.
- Submit your proposal in writing to: facilitation@occupyoakland.org or during a Facilitation Committee meeting.
- Please include contact information for at least three members of your group.
Join Justice 4 Alan Blueford & SEIU pickets at the Eastmont Mall in support of SEIU civilian workers inside OPD and for civilianization and Internal Affairs reforms.
OPD is around the back of the mall. You can enter the parking lot from Foothill.
Pickets at City Hall and the other City administration buildings around OGP begin at 6:00 AM.
Major rally at Oscar Grant Plaza with speakers including elected officials, religious and community leaders, BART & City of Oakland workers.
Hear Sara Flounders, author of War Without Victory – The Pentagon’s Achilles Heel, Co-Director of the International Action Center and Workers World Party Secretariat, discuss:
* What is imperialism?
* Why must the working class break with its own ruling class on the question of imperialist war
* How do internationalism and solidarity strengthen the worldwide class struggle?
Join us for the 1st Annual Declaration of Independence Protest Party at People’s Park in Berkeley, California, to show your support for the fight for restoring America. This event is designed to show that protest is patriotic and that the people coming together in unity can bring about effective change that’s needed right now instead of waiting on a government that has been polarized by the corruption from lobbyists and wall streets’ too big to fail banks.
This event is a celebration of freedom with dance, music, food and the learning of different cultures. This is a positive peoples movement!!! THIS IS NOT A TEA PARTY EVENT! This is a working persons event that wants to bring back a goverment that is more representative of working people than corporations. So please join us with a positive attitude, music and food and let us start a positive tradition that brings about change from the grassroots up.
It takes a lot of courage for non-union, low-wage workers to go on strike – especially when their co-workers have been fired for organizing. The workers are ready, but they need your support! Please join us on the 5th and 14th and support these courageous worker leaders!
Non-Union Airport Fast Food Workers Ready to STRIKE!
Strike Build-Up Actions at Oakland Airport Terminal 2:
Friday, 7/5: 11:30 am -1:30 pm.
Sunday, 7/14: 7 am, noon, 5 pm.
It’s going to be a hot summer: as East Bay public workers struggle for justice on the job, non-union workers at Oakland Airport fast food restaurants are preparing to strike!
“My bosses cut my hours to punish me for trying to form a union. They fired my co-worker for organizing, and they still haven’t brought her back to work. I’m tired of waiting for justice – I’m ready to fight!” said Oakland Airport Subway cashier Hayat Selmani.
A year ago, airport fast food workers launched a public campaign for better jobs – including a fair process to decide whether to form a union. Some workers have faced serious retaliation: the National Labor Relations Board just charged two OAK restaurants with breaking labor laws and firing workers who spoke out. And the Port of Oakland found that these same employers violated the living wage and fired workers who complained about it. But so far, the employers haven’t faced real consequences.
Now the workers are taking action to protest their bosses’ unfair labor practices. At Thursday’s Port Commission meeting, workers announced a strike deadline of July 11th. While the strike date itself was not announced, workers are calling for a picket on Friday, July 5th, and a full day of action on Sunday, July 14th.
Si se puede!
UNITE HERE Local 2850 Facebook Website
Brought to you again by Fresh Juice Party. Check out their previous artwork.
What new beautiful design will be etched in chalk at OGP this time? Come find out and help out.
The Interfaith Tent will once again be handing out fliers, talking with people, and reading the names of those killed by police on July 5th @ OPD Headquarters on 7th and Broadway.
A group of us walked from the police station up Broadway and Telegraph, talking with people as we went. That was very effective. Our “Stop Police Violence” signs made people want to talk with us.
Join Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition members and Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity supporters calling attention to injustice both within prison walls and on the outside.
The SHU (Solitary Holding Unit) mockup is rumored to be making another appearance.
Come check it all out!
How Philadephia’s police and DA actively manufactured Mumia’s guilt and suppressed his innocence.
A short film by Stephen Vittoria, writer/director of “Mumia, Long Distance Revolutionary.”
Speakers: Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia, and a member of Mumia’s family
Sponsors: Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and Oakland Teachers for Mumia.
How Philadephia’s police and DA actively manufactured Mumia’s guilt and suppressed his innocence.
A short film by Stephen Vittoria, writer/director of “Mumia, Long Distance Revolutionary.”
Speakers: Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia, and a member of Mumia’s family
Sponsors: Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and Oakland Teachers for Mumia.
Coffee Not Cops- Coffee & Snacks and Outreach in support of the Prisoner Hunger Strikers.
More info about the Hunger Strike.
Website for the Prisoner Hunger Strike supporters.
Memorial services will be held for Jodie Randolph on Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 11 a.m. at First African Methodist Episcopal Church. There will be a viewing/quiet time between 9:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. on the same date.
For more on Jodie Randolph and the fight to save her house by the Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group:
We Can No Longer #defendjodie.
Showing are at the Grand Lake Theatre. Showtimes are 1:00 PM, 3:30 PM, 6:00 PM, 8:15 PM and 10:30 PM.
The Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition may be handing out literature as later showings end.
In 2011, over 12,000 prisoners and their family and community members participated in statewide hunger strikes protesting the inhumane conditions in California’s Security Housing Units (SHU or solitary confinement). California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation promised meaningful reform as a result of those protests, but nothing meaningful has reached the people living in these cages. Prisoners have announced another hunger strike will begin July 8th because of CDCR’s failure to fulfill that promise.
On July 8, prisoners living in the SHUs at Pelican Bay and other prisons will resume their hunger strike and work stoppages if decisive action is not taken by the State before then.
On July 13, we will mobilize from around California to Corcoran State Prison—which isolates over 1,600 people in solitary confinement—to stand in solidarity with striking prisoners across the state. We must take this movement to the prison gates and show the Governor and the Department of Corrections that we support the prisoners and demand that the Governor meet with prisoner representatives immediately to negotiate their demands!
California currently holds nearly 12,000 people in extreme isolation. The state spends over $60 million per year on maintaining prisoners in isolation.
Demand the State of California stop the torture!
Rally at Corcoran State Prison on July 13th!
Caravans leaving from MacArthur BART in Oakland at 10:30 9:00 AM
Show your support for the hunger strikers!
Organize to help win their demands!
Occupy Oakland @OccupyOakland 16m
#hoodiesup. OGP @ 10 pm tonight. Bring ur hoodie.
OccupythePort @occupytheport 13m
#OGP @ 10 pm tonight. Bring ur hoodie.
#hoodiesup
OccupythePort @occupytheport 13m
Call has gone out in#Oakland: Meet 10PM at #OGP. Bring your hoodies. #JusticeForTrayvon
INVASION BIOLOGY
OR INTEGRATION BIOLOGY?
Who is behind the deforestation and pesticiding of
the East Bay Hills, from Richmond to Hayward?
**Slideshow with narration, followed by discussion**
DAVID THEODOROPOULOS
Conservation Biologist and Author:
Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience
+ Update from Save Mt. Sutro Forest
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2013, 6:30PM (doors open 6PM)
Historic Hall, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
1924 Cedar (one block east of MLK, Jr. Way), Berkeley, California
Hear about Invasion Biology from a different perspective of non-native species, based on Evolutionary Biology, and find out about the native plant restoration movement’s connection to the pesticide industry.
**Please refrain from using scented products prior to attending
**Wheelchair accessible
Co-sponsored by East Bay Pesticide Alert (http://www.dontspraycalifornia.org) (see wildfire pages) & the Social Justice Committee of BFUU (http://www.bfuu.org)
More info and photos: http://www.milliontrees.me