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National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners:
In the Bay Area we will “Occupy San Quentin,” to stand in solidarity with the people confined within its walls and to demand the end of incarceration as a means of containing those dispossessed by unjust social policies. Prisons have become a central institution in American society, integral to our politics, economy, and culture. Between 1976 and 2000, the United States built on average one new prison each week, and the number of imprisoned Americans increased tenfold. Prison has made the threat of torture part of everyday life for millions of individuals in the United States, especially the 7.3 million people (who are disproportionately people of color) currently incarcerated or under correctional supervision… More Info
Support the workers at the Castlewood Country Club in their contract fight.
The two year anniversary of the lockout of the Castlewood Country Club workers is on February 25, 2012. We will be marching from downtown Pleasanton to the country club for a rally and protest. We are planning on bringing tents and occupying an unclaimed area adjacent to the country club in protest of the inhumane treatment of the workers who have been locked out in a clear attempt to break their union. We are also planning a mock counterprotest by the 1% (i.e. the country club members). Keeping in mind that the goal is to end the lockout and get the workers back to work, all actions should keep strategy, discipline, and accountability in mind when considering tactics. We will be having another planning meeting at the UNITE-HERE 2850 office on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 5:00 PM. Please reply directly to Eric Larsen at (510)326-5259 if you would like to be added to the working group list (and check your spam folders for invitations, some people have not received them who should have).
*** This event is being called by the Occupy Oakland Tactical Action Committee. It will continue weekly. ***
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you identify as peaceful and are likely to interfere with the actions of your fellow protestors in any way (including telling them to stop performing a particular action, grappling, assaulting or holding them for arrest), you may not want to attend this march. It is a militant action. It attracts anti-capitalists, anti-fascists and other comrades of a revolutionary bent. It is not a march intended for people who are not fully comfortable with diversity of tactics.
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The Oakland Police Department has harassed and brutalized Occupy Oakland and participants in the vigil. Camps and liberated foreclosed buildings have been raided and shut down. OOers at the vigil have been arrested for as little as standing nearby when the police decide to raid, all the way up to the ridiculous charge of lynching. People have been physically assaulted by those supposed to protect and serve, but only do so in the interests of the 1%.
With dozens of our comrades having been arrested in the past couple of weeks, and culminating in the city’s revocation of the vigil’s permit and the immediate threat of another police raid to clear the plaza, the time has come to rise up and let them know what we think of them and that we will no longer meekly accept their violations of our civil and human rights.
This event will be held weekly. Spread the word, send the invite, join us as we march in solidarity against police repression.
Wear black
Rally at 7:00 pm
March on OPD HQ at 9:00 pm
On Leap Day you’re invited to attend:
A Funeral for Capitalism
eulogy, procession through the streets with a brass band, burial – dancing on the grave to follow
Gather at 6pm, Oscar Grand Plaza
Use your extra day to bid farewell to a system that brings us meaningless jobs, billionaires, shopping malls and ecological collapse. May it roast in hell or rot in peace. Let’s ressurrect a world of cooperation, justice, plasure and beauty from its moldy bones.
*** This event is being called by the Occupy Oakland Tactical Action Committee. It will continue weekly. ***
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you identify as peaceful and are likely to interfere with the actions of your fellow protestors in any way (including telling them to stop performing a particular action, grappling, assaulting or holding them for arrest), you may not want to attend this march. It is a militant action. It attracts anti-capitalists, anti-fascists and other comrades of a revolutionary bent. It is not a march intended for people who are not fully comfortable with diversity of tactics.
***
The Oakland Police Department has harassed and brutalized Occupy Oakland and participants in the vigil. Camps and liberated foreclosed buildings have been raided and shut down. OOers at the vigil have been arrested for as little as standing nearby when the police decide to raid, all the way up to the ridiculous charge of lynching. People have been physically assaulted by those supposed to protect and serve, but only do so in the interests of the 1%.
With dozens of our comrades having been arrested in the past couple of weeks, and culminating in the city’s revocation of the vigil’s permit and the immediate threat of another police raid to clear the plaza, the time has come to rise up and let them know what we think of them and that we will no longer meekly accept their violations of our civil and human rights.
This event will be held weekly. Spread the word, send the invite, join us as we march in solidarity against police repression.
Wear black
Rally at 7:00 pm
March on OPD HQ at 9:00 pm
The January 28th Move-In Day arrest arraignments are coming up. Join the Anti-Repression Committee for Coffee Not Cops outside of the Wiley Manuel Courthouse. There will be free coffee and pastries for everyone who is not a cop.
The arraignments will be at 8:30 AM at the Wiley Manuel Courthouse (7th and Washington), Department 112, on the following days:
Monday, February 27, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Every weekday of March 5 – 9, 2012
Also, Khali will need our support on Wednesday, March 7th, at 9:00 AM in Department 704 at the Gale-Schenone Hall of Justice in Pleasanton. Khali was picked up on minor charges during the December 16th raid of the plaza. After four days of incarceration during which his mental health medication was witheld, Khali was charged with a violent felony inside Santa Rita Jail. The baseless misdemeanors with which he was originally charged have thus morphed into a felony that could lead to a long prison term. Free Khali!
Please come support your Occupy Oakland comrades against police and state repression!
The January 28th Move-In Day arrest arraignments are coming up. Join the Anti-Repression Committee for Coffee Not Cops outside of the Wiley Manuel Courthouse. There will be free coffee and pastries for everyone who is not a cop.
The arraignments will be at 8:30 AM at the Wiley Manuel Courthouse (7th and Washington), Department 112, on the following days:
Monday, February 27, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Every weekday of March 5 – 9, 2012
Also, Khali will need our support on Wednesday, March 7th, at 9:00 AM in Department 704 at the Gale-Schenone Hall of Justice in Pleasanton. Khali was picked up on minor charges during the December 16th raid of the plaza. After four days of incarceration during which his mental health medication was witheld, Khali was charged with a violent felony inside Santa Rita Jail. The baseless misdemeanors with which he was originally charged have thus morphed into a felony that could lead to a long prison term. Free Khali!
Please come support your Occupy Oakland comrades against police and state repression!
The January 28th Move-In Day arrest arraignments are coming up. Join the Anti-Repression Committee for Coffee Not Cops outside of the Wiley Manuel Courthouse. There will be free coffee and pastries for everyone who is not a cop.
The arraignments will be at 8:30 AM at the Wiley Manuel Courthouse (7th and Washington), Department 112, on the following days:
Monday, February 27, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Every weekday of March 5 – 9, 2012
Also, Khali will need our support on Wednesday, March 7th, at 9:00 AM in Department 704 at the Gale-Schenone Hall of Justice in Pleasanton. Khali was picked up on minor charges during the December 16th raid of the plaza. After four days of incarceration during which his mental health medication was witheld, Khali was charged with a violent felony inside Santa Rita Jail. The baseless misdemeanors with which he was originally charged have thus morphed into a felony that could lead to a long prison term. Free Khali!
Please come support your Occupy Oakland comrades against police and state repression!
The January 28th Move-In Day arrest arraignments are coming up. Join the Anti-Repression Committee for Coffee Not Cops outside of the Wiley Manuel Courthouse. There will be free coffee and pastries for everyone who is not a cop.
The arraignments will be at 8:30 AM at the Wiley Manuel Courthouse (7th and Washington), Department 112, on the following days:
Monday, February 27, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Every weekday of March 5 – 9, 2012
Also, Khali will need our support on Wednesday, March 7th, at 9:00 AM in Department 704 at the Gale-Schenone Hall of Justice in Pleasanton. Khali was picked up on minor charges during the December 16th raid of the plaza. After four days of incarceration during which his mental health medication was witheld, Khali was charged with a violent felony inside Santa Rita Jail. The baseless misdemeanors with which he was originally charged have thus morphed into a felony that could lead to a long prison term. Free Khali!
Please come support your Occupy Oakland comrades against police and state repression!
Got thoughts on Occupy?
The Applied Research Center (publisher of Colorlines) is conducting focus groups with young organizers (between 18 to 30 years of age) to understand what motivates you to participate in the Occupy movement.
The focus group will run an hour and a half, from 3:00 to 4:30pm, this Thursday, 3/8 at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo and 19th St., Oakland.
Participants will receive a $25 gift certificate from Arizmendi Pizza or AK Press (both are worker-owned coops!) for their time.
RSVP here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/occupyoakland
Contact millennials@arc.org if you have any questions.
The January 28th Move-In Day arrest arraignments are coming up. Join the Anti-Repression Committee for Coffee Not Cops outside of the Wiley Manuel Courthouse. There will be free coffee and pastries for everyone who is not a cop.
The arraignments will be at 8:30 AM at the Wiley Manuel Courthouse (7th and Washington), Department 112, on the following days:
Monday, February 27, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Every weekday of March 5 – 9, 2012
Also, Khali will need our support on Wednesday, March 7th, at 9:00 AM in Department 704 at the Gale-Schenone Hall of Justice in Pleasanton. Khali was picked up on minor charges during the December 16th raid of the plaza. After four days of incarceration during which his mental health medication was witheld, Khali was charged with a violent felony inside Santa Rita Jail. The baseless misdemeanors with which he was originally charged have thus morphed into a felony that could lead to a long prison term. Free Khali!
Please come support your Occupy Oakland comrades against police and state repression!
The BBQ assembly will be heading to Arroyo Park to cut some grass and make it into a better venue for the BBQ and People’s Community Medics event on March 17th. 10 am, bring gloves, garbage bags, snacks to share, and friends! Meet at 85th Avenue and Bancroft.
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/
| Tristan is a long time activist who was seriously injured after getting hit with a high velocity tear gas grenade fired by Israeli troops in the West Bank. Please join us on the 3rd anniversary of this tragic event. From Oakland to Palestine, our cry for freedom knows no borders!Rally at 4 pm at Oscar Grant Plaza. March at 5 pm. Panel Discussion and Feast 6- 8 pm at the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (ICCNC) 1433 Madison St, Oakland
http://www.facebook.com/events/223844184380309/ http://justicefortristan.org/ |
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
Occupy Oakland will have its 2nd BBQ and Speak Out event on Saturday, March 24, 2012. It will be in East Oakland at 1-5pm at Rainbow Park located near Seminary and International, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. We are requesting help with side dishes and desserts from all cooks who are able to help.
March 24 &25
10am-8pm
at the Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave(@23rd 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.