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Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting
Date: Sundays
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
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 second gathering to Re-imagine the General Assembly will be held on Sunday, July 29, after the General Assembly, at 19th and Telegraph (approximately 3:30/4:00 to 6:00). The goal is to “get down to business” about concrete ways to improve the OOGA.
An ongoing union-busting drive is being waged against the ILWU, one of the most militant unions in the United States, from Bush’s invoking of Taft-Hartley during the 2002 lockout by PMA to Obama’s sending an armed Coast Guard vessel to escort a scab ship to the EGT dock in Longview, Washington.
The Occupy Wall Street movement was instrumental in building solidarity for port truckers and longshore workers during the Longview struggle. Shackled with a concessionary EGT grain contract, the ILWU now faces negotiations for a master grain agreement. The Northwest Grainhandler’s Association has notified the union that it is terminating its agreement. Will employers demand the EGT contract? How will that impact the major container ports in Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle and Tacoma?
What are the lessons of the recent ILWU struggles as well as the Boron miners Rio Tinto struggle? How will this effect the organized labor movement in this country in the midst of the worst capitalist economic crisis in decades?
Come hear ILWU union activists discuss the class struggle today.
SPEAKERS:
Mike Fuqua, ILWU Local 21 Longview*
Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10*
Howard Keylor, ILWU Local 10 retired
Jack Mulcahy, ILWU Local 8 Portland* invited
Jack Heyman, ILWU Local 10 retired
Robbie Donohoe, Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity Committee and IBEW Local 6*
* for identification only
A meeting designed to address issues related to the organizing of the Occupy Oakland Liberate Everything Conference. If a question or idea comes up in discussion, that question or idea is immediately dealt with, be it through email, phone, or advice through discussion. Geared towards practical results, not necessarily debate over ideas or arguments. Not that that won’t occur, anyways. (this is Occupy Oakland!)
OOCON Meetings: Tuesdays and Thursdays at Oscar Grant Plaza (14th and Broadway) at 5pm – 7pm.
OOCON Working Meetings: Sundays at Farley’s East, off of Grand and Broadway.
LLOC & FTP
Rally and Performances @ 5:00 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza before the now-cancelled Oakland City Council meeting on July 31st.
Just after midnight on Saturday May 6th, Alan Blueford and two of his friends were waiting for some girls to pick them up on 90th Ave., in East Oakland, after the Floyd Mayweather fight. Not long after Alan had phoned his parents to check-in with them, a car slowly pulled up to them with its lights off. Alan ran. One officer gave chase. A few blocks later Alan was shot by OPD officer Miguel Masso. Masso also shot himself in the foot. Over a dozen witnesses all said that Alan had no weapon and posed no threat to the officer.
More info at justice4alanblueford.org
New schedule and additional location!
Bi-Monthly meetings to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org.
We meet the first Thursday of the month at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave Oakland,CA 94612 @ 6PM
And the third Sunday of the month at 19th Street / Rashida Muhammad Street (one block away from 19th Street/Telegraph avenue) @ 2PM
If interested on helping us out, please come and join us!
Web@occupyoakland.org
A meeting designed to address issues related to the organizing of the Occupy Oakland Liberate Everything Conference. If a question or idea comes up in discussion, that question or idea is immediately dealt with, be it through email, phone, or advice through discussion. Geared towards practical results, not necessarily debate over ideas or arguments. Not that that won’t occur, anyways. (this is Occupy Oakland!)
OOCON Meetings: Tuesdays and Thursdays at Oscar Grant Plaza (14th and Broadway) at 5pm -78pm.
OOCON Working Meetings: Sundays at Farley’s East, off of Grand and Broadway.
LLOC & FTP
Free Food!
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.”
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 the Teamsters’ Hall in South Oakland near the airport (exit Hegenberger). If you need a ride from the Coliseum BART stop send email and one will be arranged.
There will be a main course and refreshment provided. You are asked to bring a pot luck salad or dessert if you are able.
Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area and nationally. This meeting may include discussion about the OOLSC’s next actions, the OO Occupy Everywhere Conference, a report back from the ILWU forum on Longview last Sunday, support for organizing efforts by UNITE HERE at the Oakland Airport (an action by UNITE HERE is planned for August 3rd), organizing the unemployed, support for the Lakeview School, the OO General Assembly, the Hyatt workers’ struggle, and other topics as they arise.
After the meeting will be some time for socializing.
Free Food!
Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting
Date: Sundays
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
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
Facilitation Committee Needs Help!
There will be a facilitation meeting Sunday Aug 05th at 1:30pm at 19th and Telegraph.
All are welcome!~ We’re looking for help!
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.”
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 at OGP (Oscar Grant Plaza). Refreshments may be served.
Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area and nationally. This meeting may include discussion about the OOLSC’s next actions, the OO Occupy Everywhere Conference, support for organizing efforts by UNITE HERE at the Oakland Airport (an action by UNITE HERE is planned for August 3rd), the nascent janitors’ strike in San Francisco, organizing the unemployed, the OO General Assembly, and other topics as they arise.
After the meeting will be some time for socializing.
Alex Mahan, a Stockton comrade, was killed in a driveby shooting the same evening. Everyone remembers Alex as very kind, energetic, and totally committed to the struggle we have all been building together. He never missed an opportunity to fight for the world he believed in. We all remember him coming up with the Stockton crew, to join us in Oakland, often with his Anonymous Mask. He and his comrades planned on how to bring the struggle to Stockton, which they did! He was an unwaivering comrade and friend and will be painfully missed. Like Tsega, Alex’s murder was not just the result of a few bad people. It was the result of a society structured on violence, a society where brown and black young men are murdered every day with no notice from society at large. It was the result of a violent economic system which forces whole communities into deprivation, with no options but to fight each other, and a violent political system that leaves us in constant fear of incarceration or death at the hands of the police and the state. These structural forms of violence are the foundation of the violence we experience every day, the violence that took Alex from us.
This Saturday, buses are being organized to take folks out to Stockton, for a rally at Alex’s house followed by a march and speak out in honor of his memory.
The buses will leave at 12:30.
March through the neighborhood departing from Bianchi and Calandria at 2:00.
Come out and celebrate the life of our fallen friend.
more info at:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/03/18718827.php
Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting
Date: Sundays
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
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
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.”
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 UNITE HERE, 1440 Broadway, 2nd floor (down the hall and then left down another hall). But check back here Wednesday evening or Thursday in case the location changes, as it often does!
Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area and nationally. This meeting may include discussion about the OOLSC’s next actions, the OO Occupy Everywhere Conference, support for organizing efforts by UNITE HERE at the Oakland Airport, the nascent janitors’ strike in San Francisco, organizing the unemployed, the OO General Assembly, and other topics as they arise.
Show up at Justin Herman Plaza at 6:30pm with signs, brightly colored outfits, your Pussy Riot inspired masks and tambourine, harmonica, drums, xylophone, ukulele, triangle or noismaker of your choice and get down to the beats of a revolution.
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#Occupy, come and meet the neighbors tomorrow @ Biblioteca Popular for a BBQ at 2pm. 1449 Miller Ave, Oakland.