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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!
Before GA : Wednesday,March 7 5:30, OGP. A chance to meet everyone else, hear what is in the pipeline, get an update on our current fight for Mrs Katy, and find out how to start working on our various projects.
Also, we will be presenting our proposal to the GA that we be recognized as an official committee with all the privileges and responsibilites that such entails. Come on out to get started!!
OOFDG’s first GENERAL MEETING!! Yay!
This is a meeting for people who self-identify as people of color/ queer people of color. We meet with the goal of strengthening our participation in the Occupy movement here in Oakland and beyond, and to likewise strengthen the Occupy movement by situating it in the context of our local, living communities and the ongoing work being done by those communities.
Our meeting location sometimes changes based on the availability of spaces. Please contact us at peopleofcolor@occupyoakland.org for up-to-date information. Please also be patient (and persistent) if we don’t respond as quickly as we would like to. We’re growing and evolving our capacities!
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!
We are still a group in progress so don’t be intimidated, its not too late to come check it out!
Email us at Oaklandoccupypatriarchy@gmail.com for the location!
Our beginning forum discussion will be:
Why do you think that we need a seperate organizing space for Women, Trans and Queer people only?
We will also be discussing “point of unity” number two:
Women, Trans people, Queers, Fags, Dykes, need a space that is OURS because we are marginalized, harassed, and attacked in other spaces all the time. We do not all have the same needs and desires, and our relationships with one another are structured by the intensified oppression of people of color, trans people and poor folks. However we think that we can sup- port and increase our power by working with each other.
Hope to see you there!
<3 Oakland Occupy Patriarchy
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.
Together we will build a world where many worlds fit.
Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos.
What: Encuentro [Convergence]
When: March 10, 2012 1-4PM
Where: Corazón del Pueblo, 4814 International Blvd, Oakland
RSVP: decolonizetoliberate@gmail.com OR (510) 969-9745 OR https://www.facebook.com/events/305409626184269/
WHO? An invitation to the people of Oakland who are building and resisting in their communities.
To all those who fight or want to fight for humanity.
What is an encuentro? An Encuentro is a space for people to come together; it is a gathering or an encounter. An Encuentro is not a meeting, a panel or a conference, it is a way of sharing further developed by the Zapatistas as another form of doing politics: from below and to the left.
One of the initial and most important exchanges and dialogues occurred in the summer of 1997 at the Encuentro Chican@-Zapatista. This encuentro was attended by 120 Los Angeles-based artistic youth and several hundred Zapatista representatives. This encuentro had a huge impact on transnational organizing. It’s time for Oakland to converge and contribute!
Why Oakland? We are already a community in resistance. Oakland is a place of ongoing struggle with a rich history of indigenous resistance, the Great Railroad Strike of 1894, the General Strike of 1946, the birth of the Black Panthers and much more. Most recently, Oakland has fought against:
- -gang injunctions, curfews, and the criminalization of youth
- -S-comm and the recent raids on immigrant communities
- -the closure of 5 Oakland schools, most of which are in East Oakland
- -the gentrification of Oakland’s North, West, and Fruitvale districts
- -the recent wave of homophobic hate crimes and suicides of queer youth
- -the unemployment rate in Oakland’s people of color neighborhoods
- -the disproportionate affect that the sub-prime mortgage crisis has had on working families of color
Sadly, these are all struggles that many cities and communities of poor people throughout the world are facing.
According to the 2010 census close to 75% of Oakland’s population is of African, Asian, Latino, Indigenous, Pacific Islander, or of mixed racial decent. Women, men, transgendered and queer people of color, immigrants, and the homeless have a history as the most marginalized groups.
The Invitation: For our first Encuentro, we are inviting your participation so that we can connect our stories of resistance with others across the city and across the world. We have joined our voices with our other compañer@s who have been ignored, forgotten and marginalized by the neoliberal capitalist system throughout history and into the present.
We hope people will share their struggle in whatever way they feel the most comfortable, whether it be verbally, through song, poetry or rhyme, through a video, through artwork or however people can best express their struggle.
Please come enjoy a meal while we share our struggles!!
We will provide yummy healthy food, free childcare and Spanish/English translation.
RSVP is required. Please RSVP (with number of attendees, children, and translation needs) by March 7 to decolonizetoliberate@gmail.com OR (510) 969-9745 OR https://www.facebook.com/events/305409626184269/
Who We Are: Decolonize Oakland is a collective of queer people of color and people of color.
- We decolonize because this land is already occupied.
- We decolonize because communities of color, women of color, and queers of color have been on the front lines of the struggle against male supremacy, heterosexism, capitalism, and colonial exploitation.
- We decolonize because our current system was founded on settler colonialism, genocide, and slavery.
- We decolonize to claim spaces for the self-determination of communities of color in Oakland.
- We decolonize because any movement that doesn’t confront the continuing force of colonization, patriarchy, hetero-normativity, and white supremacy replicates these oppressions.
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
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/ |
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
We are still a group in progress so don’t be intimidated, its not too late to come check it out!
Email us at Oaklandoccupypatriarchy@gmail.com for the location!
Our beginning forum discussion will be:
Why do you think that we need a seperate organizing space for Women, Trans and Queer people only?
We will also be discussing “point of unity” number two:
Women, Trans people, Queers, Fags, Dykes, need a space that is OURS because we are marginalized, harassed, and attacked in other spaces all the time. We do not all have the same needs and desires, and our relationships with one another are structured by the intensified oppression of people of color, trans people and poor folks. However we think that we can sup- port and increase our power by working with each other.
Hope to see you there!
<3 Oakland Occupy Patriarchy
Help plan Chevron demonstration, community gardens, Earth Day literature
Together with a group of neighborhood organizers and concerned citizens, some folks from the Brooms Collective, Occupy Earth Day, and other committees and working groups of Occupy Oakland are planning to build a community garden from the ground up. We have planning meetings, every Saturday at 12:00 PM, at a lot on 28th and Market Streets. NOTE WE DO NOT HAVE CURRENT CONFIRMATION THIS MEETING IS OCCURRING Every Week FOREVER. –(Web Editor)
Sometimes we even have a BBQ. We will canvass the neighborhood for support, determine the garden’s decision making apparatus, and participate in skill shares. All are welcome to attend. See you there!
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.
Committee that helps facilitate the operation of the General Assembly. Meetings every Wednesday at 12pm and Saturday at 4pm.