The GA Clearinghouse

Many Occupy Oakland committees as well as many other groups in the Bay are in the midst of organizing actions and events for this spring and summer that we are all excited about. We have been looking forward to sharing information and getting feedback from one another and believe that the General Assembly is the proper space / time to have this discussion.
This is why we will have an organized process for sharing actions/events on Wednesday April 25nd at 6pm at the Occupy Oakland GA at Oscar Grant plaza (14th and Broadway).

Goals:

Support coordination & communication for Spring/Summer Actions and Events and increase capacity for those projects.
Encourage action feedback and coordinating calendaring of events
Re-vitalize the GA’s process for this spring. The hope is to get a lot of people there, because this is a new approach.

General format:

Groups present what they are working on, folks can give feedback, and individuals hear about lots of actions and can find ways to hook up them.
Coordinating breakout discussions for groups working on similar themes
It will NOT be a decision-making space. No large group decisions made that day.
We see this as an experiment and if it works then hope make it happen periodically

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND CONTENT:

The structure we have come up with so far is that the day will begin with multiple groups giving 5 minute presentations about the current work they are doing followed by some time for questions.
Please send us a description of your work. It does not have to be anything formal, just a few words to give us the gist of your project, so we can facilitate scheduling of the day’s events.
We are asking for your input on how this assembly can benefit the work you are doing. Some questions we would like to ask include: Would you be interested in being a part of a facilitated discussion with other groups who work on projects that fall within a theme you associate your work with? (For example, if you do work against police brutality, would want to be a part of a breakout centered around that idea). If so, what are some themes you think your work falls under and how does the work you are currently doing fit under these themes? Do you know any other groups that share similar interests who you would like to coordinate with?

Please send your projects to actionclearinghouse@gmail.com by Sunday April 22nd. All project need to be represented by at least 3 people. Hopefully we can find room in the day to accommodate all proposals but unfortunately we can’t guarantee there will be time in the day for everything. We promise to do our best.

Clearing house group

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 400 Roland Way, Oakland, CA 94621 (Teamsters Local 70.). For those coming exclusively by public transportation It’s about two miles away from the Oakland Coliseum BART, (10 minutes on the 98 bus.) Otherwise Rich has volunteered to carpool from the Coliseum BART at 5:30 PM. Others who want to offer rides can meet there too if they want.

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will be focused on evaluating last weekend’s worker’s assembly and planning for events leading up to and for May Day, May 1st, International Workers’ Day and Immigrants’ Rights Day.

Planning Working Group meeting to set up Gatherings to Re-imagine the OO GA

We’ll reflect on the Earth Day actions and plan new directions.  Moved to be closer to the Farm.

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

With May Day approaching in less than two weeks, the Safer Spaces committee invites activists and allies together for a two and a half hour panel and skill share session on:

*Basic tips for a sustainable street action

*Emotional First Aid: trauma education, emotional self care tips for pre, during and post action

*First Aid: simple street medic tips, physical self-care for pre, during and post action

*Coping with activist burnout and keeping the movement connected

When: 4/29/12 (Sunday)

Time: Noon-2:30 (hope everyone is ok with a slight overlapping of the GA)

Where: 19th and Telegraph

Formerly the Move-In Assembly, now planning 4 BBQ’s across Oakland to bring Occupy Oakland into The Town!

Dates, places:

March 17th-Deep East Oakland, Arroyo park, 77th and bancroft

March 24th-East Oakland, Rainbow Park, seminary and international

March 31st- North Oakland, 52nd and MLK

April 7th- West Oakland, Little Bobby Hutton/de Fremery Park

Come and help be a part of Occupy Oakland’s planning for May 1st, 2012, and the call for an international general strike, otherwise known as a Day without the 99%. Meetings are held at 5pm at 19th and Telegraph due to stay away orders, and will be moved into an indoor location if the weather forces the situation.

Stand up for ATU Members, Stop Cuts in Para Transit!
Called by the ATU 192 who represents the workers there in Para Transit: as part of a campaign against Substandard conditions, contract concessions, arbitrary discipline & firings, and service cuts.

Support by Occupy AC Transit
as part of a campaign for transit equity and organizing to unite AC workers and transit riders to stop budget cuts, oppose concessions,and make the Banks pay. Passengers and Transit workers Unite. Free passes for the working poor and youth.

Directions: Bart to Hayward Station
AC Bus 86 towards W Winton (about 13 minutes)
Stop at W Winton and Corsair.
Clawiter is across from Corsair, walk left on Clawiter to A-Para Transit

More info

Formerly the Move-In Assembly, now planning 4 BBQ’s across Oakland to bring Occupy Oakland into The Town!

Dates, places:

March 17th-Deep East Oakland, Arroyo park, 77th and bancroft

March 24th-East Oakland, Rainbow Park, seminary and international

March 31st- North Oakland, 52nd and MLK

April 7th- West Oakland, Little Bobby Hutton/de Fremery Park

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.

This week’s meeting will be held at 400 Roland Way, Oakland, CA 94621 (Teamsters Local 70.). For those coming exclusively by public transportation It’s about two miles away from the Oakland Coliseum BART, (10 minutes on the 98 bus.)

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will likely be focused on reviewing May Day activities and planning for our upcoming second Workers’ Assembly, tentatively scheduled for May 19th.

In response to the May 1st vandalism of small businesses and private property in this largely working class neighborhood, we at the Brooms Collective are planning on gathering at the 16th Street Mission BART Station at 11:30 on Saturday morning to participate in a neighborhood clean-up and outreach action. Many people seem to believe that these deplorable actions were attributable to supporters of the Occupy Movement, and even Occupy Oakland in particular. Many of us in the Brooms Collective found this truly senseless destruction wholly out of step with our beliefs, political, social or otherwise, and we believe that many others feel the same way. An action such as this is the only way that we could even hope to repair the damage that was done in the name of a movement that many of us believe would never have condoned it in the first place.

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 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 10th 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 be focused on reviewing May Day activities and planning for our upcoming second Workers’ Assembly, tentatively scheduled for May 19th.

This Friday, May 11th, there will be an action in front of the OPD Station at 7th and Broadway to protest and bring light to the murder of 18 year old Alan Bluford this past weekend. It will begin at 5pm and will include such speakers as Jack Bryson from Occupy Oakland amongst others.

This Saturday, May 12th, there will be a march at 3pm from the corner of 90th and Birch in East Oakland and will go to the Eastmont Pol ice Substation at 73rd ave and MacArthur. Alan’s family has called for the march and has asked for a peaceful assembly and march.

Alan was shot in the back by Oakland police last Sunday. The family is asking why the OPD has changed their story of what happened 3 times, why they consider the offer competent after he shot himself in the foot and a young man who posed no threat to the officer as he was running away, and why this same officer is on paid leave.

Supplies to make picket signs will be available at 11am Saturday at Arroyo Park.