Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting

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

The family of Alan Blueford has asked allies to come to the Oakland City Council Meeting at 6 pm on Tuesday to demand justice for the OPD killing of their son! Get there by 6 pm to demand a real investigation into the circumstances of the killing! The police officer should not be on paid leave, beyond that, what is his name, and why are they still on the force?

March from San Pablo Park (Ward and Mabel) to Bayer (Grayson and 7th) in Berkeley to protest production of pesticide that is killing off the bees!

The OO Labor Solidarity Committee meets weekly, with every other meeting being held at Oscar Grant Plaza weather permitting. This week’s meeting will be held at Oscar Grant Plaza, on the steps between the amphitheatre and the trees. But check back here on the afternoon of May 17th in case of inclement weather — we might move indoors and the new location would be announced here.

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will likely include planning for our upcoming second Workers’ Assembly, scheduled for May 19th at 10:00 AM at the SEIU 1021 Hall at 155 Myrtle St, Oakland, CA.

The working class is facing an unprecedented assault from
employers and the state. We must build solidarity in collective
struggle. In this spirit we invite all workers – paid and unpaid,
employed and unemployed, union and non-union, full-time and
precarious – to join a Workers’ Assembly.

We aim to encourage communication and solidarity between
different sectors of the working class. We want to encourage
common struggle against the 1% and their agents who exploit
and oppress us, for a society based on justice and equality, where
the needs and desires of all working people are given first priority.

This will be the 2nd meeting of the Workers’ Assembly.
It will take place at the SEIU 1021 Hall, 155 Myrtle St, Oakland, CA.

Please join us — And there is such thing as a free lunch!

Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting

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

Castlewood workers have been locked in a dispute over health care benefits for more than two years now. Last winter Occupy Oakland supported their cause and helped organize a march and rally. Now they would like our help again:

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Walmart Supplier Plans to Cross Our Picket Line!

Join us on the line – Monday, 5/21, 12:30 pm

Acosta Sales and Marketing is having a golf
tournament at Castlewood on Monday, May 21st.
Acosta is a national food brokering company
for Walmart and other stores.

Come join us on the picket line and add your voice to the struggle.
Tell Acosta to respect the workers’ boycott of Castlewood!

Valley Course, Castlewood Country Club
(Castlewood Drive between Pleasanton-Sunol Rd. and Foothill Rd.)

Questions or Rides? Contact Sarah Norr at (510) 502-5344 or norr.sarah@gmail.com

Come out, come out wherever you are!!! Please, please, please join us
to picket the Bank of America next Monday, May 21, 5-6pm at the Albany
Branch, Solano at Neilson, next to Safeway. Nine of us, mainly
community senior citizens ranging in age from the early 60s to 85
years asked for a meeting with the manager. After he consulted with
his superiors he refused to give us any appointment. Instead, we
should submit our questions on paper without expecting a meeting
afterward. In fact, the manager wouldn’t even give us his business
card. When we tried to explain why we wanted to talk with him, his
only response was to insist that we leave immediately.

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 1440 Broadway, on the 2nd floor in the UNITE HERE conference room.

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will likely include planning for our upcoming third Workers’ Assembly, scheduled for June 9th and a discussion of a proposed “March of the Unemployed.”

Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting

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

On May 30th, people will travel from around the world to descend on San Ramon, CA and confront Chevron at its annual shareholder meeting.

Join us for a colorful and fun rally outside Chevron’s headquarters in support of human rights, environmental, economic and climate justice, and more!

DIRECTIONS
From Berkeley or SF, take 80 to 24 (Caldicott Tunnel). Then 680 South. Off at Bollinger Canyon. Make a left onto Bollinger over bridge. Chevron HQ on right.
Drivers will have to park in Whole Foods parking lot across the street or at San Ramon Central Park (on left after Bishop Ranch One E).

From 580, take 680 N. Make a right at Bollinger Canyon Exit.

Chevron HQ is between Walnut Creek and Dublin Pleasanton BART stations. There are buses from these stations that go to Bishop Ranch (the corporate business park that Chevron HQ is located in).

Carpooling can be arranged at
http://www.facebook.com/events/317844888283134/

There’s also a teach in the night before in Berkeley.  Tuesday, May 29, 7pm David Brower Center  2150 Allston Way.   Community and Union leaders will travel from Ecuador, Angola, Nigeria, Brazil, Texas, Richmond and more to expose the True Cost of Chevron and encourage us to join them in fighting back.  Please come to hear these and other accounts and to join the discussion on what you can do.

May Day! May Day! Shut down Stockton! Come out May 31 to Stockton, California and help shut down the town to protest racist police murders, criminally greedy banks and a corrupt and incompetent city government!

Justice for James Rivera!
Justice for Luther Brown
Justice for the People of Stockton!

1-130pm– Meet-up/drop off point-Eden Park (El Dorado St)
2-3pm– Rally @ MLK park (El Dorado & Fremont)
3-5pm– Bank Shutdown Parties and Justice for the
Families march through Downtown Stockton
5-8pm– “the Right–to-Assemble” Street Dance Party

All-day BBQ and Services @ Fremont & Sutter St

Free buses leaving Oakland
14th and Broadway 11am
19th & Telegraph 11:30am

Speaker:  Nichola Torbett, Seminary of the Street

Sharing to follow: Telling our own stories of personal experiences of violence and how that has shaped us as individuals

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, near or on the steps of the amphitheater. In case of inclement weather, please check back here for an alternative location.

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will likely include discussion about a labor resolution decrying the death of Alan Blueford and a proposed “March of the unemployed.”

Pack the court: Trial readiness for Ted and Colin, arrested on October 26th, 2011, after Oscar Grant Plaza was reclaimed

Over the last few months, we have been enheartened by the revolt taking shape in the streets of Montreal. The students of Quebec have taken a struggle against tuition hikes and mobilized hundreds of thousands against austerity and state repression. What began as a one-week university student strike has precipitated into an anti-capitalist revolt against universities, banks and police in what many are calling a general and indefinite social strike. In the face of intense state repression, including the draconian law 78 more or less banning protest, court injunctions against university picket lines, and mass arrests, the rebels of Montreal return to the streets night after night for over 100 days. They have called for solidarity actions from everyone and everywhere that can connect with the struggle, saying that if the strike “cannot inspire disruptions of its own, then it will die out quick.”

In the Bay Area, we, too, have seen revolt spread from universities into the community through Occupy, and we’ve seen tens of thousands come together against state repression for the November 2nd general strike and December 12th west coast port shutdown. And during those days of intense struggle, we drew strength and joy from the solidarity extended to us from as far as New York to Mexico City to Cairo.

It is now time for us to extend our solidarity to our comrades in Montreal and work to inspire the same solidarity and desire to disrupt business as usual in our friends, families and neighbors.

Keep striking and don’t ever stop!

Infinite solidarity with the infinite social strike!

Bring pots, pans, and red squares of cloth. These are the symbols of solidarity with our Quebec comradies

The carre rouge, or red square, has become the Canadian symbol of revolt. It comes from the French phrase carrement dans le rouge, or “squarely in the red,” referring to those crushed by debt… The din of citizens beating pots and pans reverberates nightly in cities in Quebec. The protesters are part of what has been nicknamed the army of the cacerolazo, or the casseroles. — Truth Out