Calendar
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.
“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
Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall
“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
Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall
“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
Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall
Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall
Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall
Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall
To work on re-formulating the “about” statement on the Occupy Oakland website.
Writing skills, opinions are more relevant than computer/web skills for this one.
meet at 14th and B-way southeast side of OGP.
99% Knowledge Share
Workshop and Info Day for the 99% and Occupy
When: 12:30-7pm, March 3rd, 2012
Where: 1000 Broadway, 5th floor, Oakland CA (Alameda county Public Health Department)
Everyone is encouraged to attend this event, whether you are a veteran activist or new to the Occupy and 99% movement. There will be workshops, discussion groups, info tables, and film screening. We will talk about the movement, the social issues it addresses, and various solutions to those issues. This is a free and public event.
Room A Schedule:
1:00 – 2:00 Intro to the Occupy and 99% movement: Group discussion on frequently asked questions and responses
2:00 – 3:00 Healthcare for the 99%
3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:30 Facilitation skills and non-hierarchical group process training
4:30 – 6:30 Corporate control of the food system and Factory farming
Room B Schedule:
1:00-2:00 Data hacking and mining
2:00 – 3:00 Basic investigative research: How to investigate corporate and public officials for corruption and other wrongdoing
3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 6:30 Media training: How to talk with reporters and get your message
We will also have other activities
– Occupy Listening: Tell us your thoughts on the Occupy movement
– Door-to-door organizing: How to talk to strangers (on-street training)
– Occupy & Nonviolent info table
– Film screening room showing shorts and documentaries on related topics
Some of our speakers:
Gary Ruskin, executive director at Commercial Alert
Bill Skeen, executive director at PNHP California
Kate Sassoon, professional facilitator, co-op co-owner
Katie Cantrell, founder at Coalition to Fight Factory Farming
Vish Arya, Food First, Occupy the Food Supply
JT Yu, Co-chair at Cooperative Roots, entrepreneur, independent organizer
Yvonne Yen Liu, senior researcher, Applied Research Center/Colorlines.com
Invite your friends on facebook here https://www.facebook.com/events/229437887147308/
If you would like to reserve a spot for your children in the children’s room, or request for sign language assitance, please register here:
http://www.99knowledgeshare.com/p/pre-registration.html
Speakers and workshops detail coming soon!
Feel free to email us if you have any questions.
info@99knowledgeshare.com
To work on re-formulating the “about” statement on the Occupy Oakland website.
Writing skills, opinions are more relevant than computer/web skills for this one.
meet at 14th and B-way southeast side of OGP.
What
Hackathon II builds on the demos and tools from the first and turns our collaborative energy on visualizing the 5000+ responses to the OccupyResearch General Demographics and Participation Survey (ORGS), Occupy Oakland Serves the People Survey Results, and R-Shief Twitter #occupy tags aggregating since September 2011.
Where
900 Alice Street, Oakland, CA 94607
3rd Rear Floor conference room (3R)
Between 9th and 10th St., Oakland’s Chinatown. Two blocks from Lake Merritt Bart, six blocks from Oscar Grant Plaza.
When
Saturday, March 24th 2012
10:00am to 6:00pm
More info
Email research@occupyoakland.org
http://bit.ly/occupyhackathon
http://www.occupyresearch.net/2012/03/20/occupydata-hackathon-ii/
RSVP
RSVP by emailing research@occupyoakland.org
What to bring
BYOL (laptop)
Everybody is welcome; you do not need to be a hacker to come to the hackathon. Bring ideas, or things you want to learn or teach.
Come by before the OO BBQ at Rainbow Park starts or stop by afterwards.
Check out some of the COOL things folks created at Hackathon I, like the metameme of the Pepper Spray Cop and comparison of mainstream media coverage of Occupy versus tweets about #OWS.
Metameme of Pepper Spray Cop Mosaic
A mosaic image of the Pepper Spraying Cop was created, composed of many tiny remixed Pepper Spraying Cop images.
Mainstream Media Coverage of Occupy vs. Tweets using hashtags #OWS and #Occupy
Comparison of surface area newspapers devoted to Occupy coverage to tweets of #OWS and #Occupy related hashtags over time. Results show that movement-created information distributed via Twitter is a more reliable, grassroots source of information than mainstream media.
Hackathon sponsors include:
March 24&25, 10am-8pm
This is 20-hour course covering basic patient assessment, recognition of medical emergencies, and first aid in situations where help may be delayed. Developed for wilderness situations, this course is adapted for urban uprisings and will include care for chemical weapons exposure, herbal first aid, and public health considerations for long-term occupations.
The class is dynamic, with a mix of lectures and active scenarios using makeup to simulate injuries. The primary instructor is a Wilderness EMT, Clinical Herbalist and Occupy Oakland medic. Other experienced medics and herbalists will participate in facilitating the workshop.
Certification available through American Red Cross for $20. Scholarships are available.
1.6 CEUs available through IACET for an additional $20.
Please bring: clothes you can move in and get dirty, lunch (or tamale money), note taking supplies, your questions and experiences.
Cost: By donation, pay what you can. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Contact WFAforthestreets@gmail.com
March 24 &25
10am-8pm
at the Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave(@23rd St.), Oakland CA
This is 20-hour course covering basic patient assessment, recognition of medical emergencies, and first aid in situations where help may be delayed. Developed for wilderness situations, this course is adapted for urban uprisings and will include care for chemical weapons exposure, herbal first aid, and public health considerations for long-term occupations.
The class is dynamic, with a mix of lectures and active scenarios using makeup to simulate injuries. The primary instructor is a Wilderness EMT, Clinical Herbalist and Occupy Oakland medic. Other experienced medics and herbalists will participate in facilitating the workshop.
Certification available through American Red Cross for $20. Scholarships are available.
1.6 CEUs available through IACET for an additional $20.
Please bring: clothes you can move in and get dirty, lunch (or tamale money), note taking supplies, your questions and experiences.
Cost: By donation, pay what you can. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Contact WFAforthestreets@gmail.com for more information.
For members to get a grip on the basics of the foreclosure process and the tactics of fighting back. Organizers from several groups already fighting foreclosures will meet up with us to share their knowledge and experience.