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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.
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
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
TONIGHT: Sunday, August 19 – 7:30pm
Gather to bring in the sunset for our sister Tsega.
Join us as we gather at the site of Tsega’s murder for a candlight vigil and open mic.
Lake Merritt (on Grand Avenue between Harrison and Bay, near Fairy Land)
“I didn’t come to die. I came to sunshine.”
REST in POWER TSEGA!
“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 Francesco’s Restaurant, 8520 Pardee Dr, off Hegenberger near the Airport, across from the ILWU hall.
At 6:30 we will be listening to a presentation by someone from the Chicago Teachers’ Union. Here is the blurb:
This Thursday, August 23rd, you will have the opportunity to hear a skype presentation from Jim Cavallero of the Chicago Teachers Union. Jim is a high school teacher in Chicago, who is a union district supervisor working with a group of CTU delegates, a member of the 30 person rank&file bargaining team, and an activist in CORE (the grassroots caucus which has provided much of the current militant union leadership and is active with community mobilizations). He will discuss the CTU organizing model linked to rank&file activati including the involvement of the rank & file in the contract struggle.
The key questions around membership involvement in the union, the fights against school closures and mayoral control, resisting the Rahm/Arnie/Barack deforms and building labor-community unity are issues all too familiar to the struggles in Oakland and the Bay Area. The Chicago contract fight is one with national implications.
We invite all OEA members, other union and labor solidarity activists, and anyone involved in the battle to preserve and expand public education to come on Thursday. It is all part of ONE BIG STRUGGLE. Please be there to show solidarity with the CTU and learnfrom their experiences.
After the presentation the Labor Solidarity Committee will have an abbreviated meeting.
Topics 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 OO General Assembly, and other topics as they may arise.
Planning Working Group meeting to set up Gatherings to Re-imagine the OO GA
We meet biweekly. The next meeting will be held at SEIU 1021, 155 Myrtle Street in West Oakland, at 11:30 AM on Saturday, August 25th.
We have multiple events we are planning for, including a speak out at the next City Council meeting and a BBQ in East Oakland.
Justice 4 Alan Blueford website
I am Einar Stensson, a sociologist at the Stockholm university and activist in the Occupy Stockholm movement during the fall of 2011. After studying the Occupy Oakland movement during my two months in the Bay Area, I will share my conclusions about the occupy movement based on the interviews (no identities will be revealed, only perspectives) I have conducted with various activists in the Occupy Oakland movement.
Why did the movement start and spread so quickly around the globe?
How is Occupy organized? Who matters in the movement and why?
What is the future of Occupy?
I will first talk for around 40 minutes and then open up for questions/discussion. Please buy something at the cafe when you arrive 🙂
Einar Stensson’s web site: http://people.su.se/~eist7232/index.html
“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 held at Oscar Grant Plaza in the amphiteatre just outside of City Hall.
Topics 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, support for the Alan Blueford coalition, support for the South African miners and other topics as they may arise.
Check out the Poster for more info.
Check out a writeup of the event.
A Documentary Release Screening and Party.
Performances by SuperNatural, Jabari Shaw, Shareef Ali and the Radical Folksonomy.
OO’s Nomads are hosting a potluck BBQ at Snow Park at 2 PM on Labor Day, September 3rd. Bring a dish to share with your comrades & cronies.
OK, Labor Day is the establishment’s alternative to May 1st, International Workers’ Day, celebrated by progressives all over the world. May Day started as a commemoration of 7 anarchists unjustly sentenced to execution after being railroaded after an incident at a workers’ demonstration in Chicago in 1866. But even that attempted cooptation of workers’ own celebration of their solidarity had to be rung out of the ruling class after 13 workers had been shot down by US Marshals & about 12,000 army troops sent to crush the Pullman Strike in 1882.
But I guess Americans have to be grateful that their corporate masters give them any time off at all, the US government does not mandate it, and indeed, a quarter of American workers get no paid vacation time, not even the miserly number of often-paid national holidays. At least 24 industrialized nations mandate a minimum of 4 weeks of paid vacation, in addition to more generous allocations of national holidays. Brazil, France & Finland guarantee 6 weeks of paid vacation. But in this ‘No-Vacation Nation’ many workers are afraid to even take off the 2 weeks of vacation time their companies might offer them because so few legal protections are in place to prevent them from being laid off. Besides, with the ever-increasing pace of work many employees are afraid they wouldn’t be able to cope with the backlog of work awaiting them when they returned from holiday. And with the increasing prevalence of electronic gizmos tying Americans to their jobs 24/7 taking time off often just means working from somewhere other than the office. Americans have less vacation time than citizens of any other advanced economy, working an extra 350 hours a year more than Europeans (the equivalent of 9 full working weeks). Even in Japan, where they have a special word for working yourself to death (Karōshi), the government mandates 25 days of paid time off of work each year.
Anywho, it should be more fun than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Why not attend the Chevron march
at Point Richmond and make a day of it?
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