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Self-defense class focused on concerns of people who are camping and occupying foreclosed homes, but all women/queer people welcome. We will probably be holding this class weekly on Sundays (time and location may vary).

Sunday 11/27 class is 1-2:30pm in North Plaza.

Class on Sunday 12/4 will also be 1-2:30pm, location to be announced.

To RSVP or inquire about future class dates:  girlarmyoakland@gmail.com.

Self-defense class focused on concerns of people who are camping and occupying foreclosed homes, but all women/queer people welcome.

Class on Sunday 12/4 will be 1-2:30pm, Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza, north plaza (near flower shop)

To RSVP or for information on future class dates:  girlarmyoakland@gmail.com.

A workshop of simple practices for stress relief, trauma healing, and wellness that anyone can learn.  It is based on Capacitar(Capacitar International)  work and also on other trauma healing work. Please come out!

“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop. 

North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza

Indigenous Solidarity Planning Meeting and Teach-Ins will explore some of the questions raised at the “Occupy Oakland” General Assembly on October 28 when the Memorandum of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples passed by a 97% voting majority. It will also examine subsequent discussions about a proposed name change of Occupy Oakland to Decolonize/Liberate Oakland as well as the politics of another effort to establish a teepee at OGP to honor “historic struggles of the Sioux Indians on the Plains of the U.S…. and the redwood occupations of Judi Bari and Running Wolf.”

§ What does it mean to acknowledge the United States as a colonial and imperial power? What is colonialism and imperialism?
§ What does it mean to respect and honor that Oakland is already occupied land? Who are the Chochenyo Ohlone people?
§ What does decolonization of the United States and Oakland mean? What can it mean?
What are the larger goals of Occupy Oakland and how do those goals speak to histories and realities of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism?
§ Does the name change align with the large political and economic goals of Occupy Oakland?
§ Does the name change effectively communicate these goals to a broader base of people than the word “occupy”?
§ What actions or events would speak to a decolonial movement and communicate that to folks in and outside Occupy Oakland?

“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop. 

North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza

Ongoing class covering verbal, physical and emotional skills for self defense and intervening in violence.

Class on Sunday 12/18 will be 12:30-2pm, Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza, north plaza (near flower shop)

To RSVP or for information on future class dates:  girlarmyoakland@gmail.com.

“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop. 

North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza

“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop. 

North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza

Every Wednesday and Saturday 12-4:40 at the OG Plaza we are doing work parties (making banners, puppets and signs) for the January 20th action in SF (shutdown of the financial district). It was approved by the GA that Occupy Oakland will do reclaim the streets action on that day in SF.

Every Wednesday and Saturday 12-4:40 at the OG Plaza we are doing work parties (making banners, puppets and signs) for the January 20th action in SF (shutdown of the financial district). It was approved by the GA that Occupy Oakland will do reclaim the streets action on that day in SF.

“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop. 

North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza

Every Wednesday and Saturday 12-4:40 at the OG Plaza we are doing work parties (making banners, puppets and signs) for the January 20th action in SF (shutdown of the financial district). It was approved by the GA that Occupy Oakland will do reclaim the streets action on that day in SF.

Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall

Every Wednesday and Saturday 12-4:40 at the OG Plaza we are doing work parties (making banners, puppets and signs) for the January 20th action in SF (shutdown of the financial district). It was approved by the GA that Occupy Oakland will do reclaim the streets action on that day in SF.

“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop. 

North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza

Every Wednesday and Saturday 12-4:40 at the OG Plaza we are doing work parties (making banners, puppets and signs) for the January 20th action in SF (shutdown of the financial district). It was approved by the GA that Occupy Oakland will do reclaim the streets action on that day in SF.

Indigenous Solidarity Planning Meeting and Teach-Ins will explore some of the questions raised at the “Occupy Oakland” General Assembly on October 28 when the Memorandum of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples passed by a 97% voting majority. It will also examine subsequent discussions about a proposed name change of Occupy Oakland to Decolonize/Liberate Oakland as well as the politics of another effort to establish a teepee at OGP to honor “historic struggles of the Sioux Indians on the Plains of the U.S…. and the redwood occupations of Judi Bari and Running Wolf.”

§ What does it mean to acknowledge the United States as a colonial and imperial power? What is colonialism and imperialism?
§ What does it mean to respect and honor that Oakland is already occupied land? Who are the Chochenyo Ohlone people?
§ What does decolonization of the United States and Oakland mean? What can it mean?
What are the larger goals of Occupy Oakland and how do those goals speak to histories and realities of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism?
§ Does the name change align with the large political and economic goals of Occupy Oakland?
§ Does the name change effectively communicate these goals to a broader base of people than the word “occupy”?
§ What actions or events would speak to a decolonial movement and communicate that to folks in and outside Occupy Oakland?

Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall

Every Wednesday and Saturday 12-4:40 at the OG Plaza we are doing work parties (making banners, puppets and signs) for the January 20th action in SF (shutdown of the financial district). It was approved by the GA that Occupy Oakland will do reclaim the streets action on that day in SF.