Calendar
“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
This Thursday, December 8th, The Stork Club in Oakland is hosting a benefit show for Scott Olsen. Suggested donation is $6 (more if you can afford it) and there will be drink specials all night long.
Five great Bay Area bands will be playing: Surveyor, The Dangs, One Punch Machine Gun, Machine Zero, and Golda Supernova. Doors @ 8pm. All proceeds go to the Veterans for Peace Scott Olsen Support Fund. Come out to hear some great local bands and raise some money for Scott as he continues his recovery.
co-sponsored by Occupy the Hood, People of Color Caucus and Occupy Oakland’s West Coast Port Shutdown Committee BY the West Oakland community FOR the West Oakland community
10:00 am-11:00am: Activists and community members from across West Oakland and beyond will gather in DeFremery park for outreach training about the Port Blockade Action.
11:00 am-1:00 pm: Groups will disperse from the park to engage Oakland community members in real conversation around why the West Coast Port Blockade is crucial to achieving solidarity with the working class who live next to and work in the Port of Oakland.
1:00 pm-3:30 pm: BBQ handled by Oakland’s own Jabari Shaw @ DeFremery Park as everyone regroups, reflects and visualizes the co-creation of port blockades across the state and the nation to defeat Wall Street on the Waterfront!
As a mass action on Saturday, December 10th, we will take the movement to the people and do the “Kittens Action” (named so because kittens–unlike sheep–are not herd animals; they can’t be herded or corralled).
12:00 pm- 4:00 pm: We will converge at Oscar Grant Plaza at 12 pm, form teams or affinity groups of say 2-5 people, do mini-trainings and share materials–surveys, flyers, posters, chalk, scripts, etc.–choose neighborhoods, and then fan out around the city, to engage the community in thinking and talking together about the realities we share and the future we want and the movement we’re building.
4:00 pm- Evening: We will re-converge at the Plaza at 4 pm to share our stories and insights, and to hold a celebration rally.
Note: Affinity groups and teams are autonomous in what materials they want to use, but collectively we will especially focus on 2 things:
1) Getting the word out about the West Coast Port shutdown and
2) Getting feedback from the people of Oakland about how the Occupy movement can be stronger and more inclusive for them.
For the second purpose we will use a simple survey with the following questions:
• What do you think about the Occupy movement?
• Have you been involved in any Occupy-related events or activities?
• How can it be more effective or inclusive?
• What would you like to do to contribute to a stronger movement?
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?
A weekend of presentations and discussions on non-violent movements and diversity of tactics at Oscar Grant Plaza
Saturday December 10th
4-5pm Former Black Panther discusses the Civil Rights Movement and black liberation.
5-6pm Workshop on non-violence and diversity of tactics
6-7pm “Gandhi and the Politics of Nonviolence” a lecture by UT Austin professor Snehal Shingavi, filmed at Occupy Austin
Sunday December 11th
6:00 Strikes, Occupations, Rebellions– Historical uses of diversity of tactics within struggles in the U.S. and beyond
7:00 “Black Bloc Tactics-10 Quick Points!” filmed presentation by Harsha Walia, South Asian activist, based in Vancouver)
Occupy Oakland calls for a coordinated port shut down in solidarity with Longshoremen Against EGT and Port Workers and Occupy L.A. Against Goldman Sachs
Together we are unstoppable!
12.12.2011
Coordinating Meetings at 5pm, Mon Wed Fri and Sun at Oscar Grant Plaza
Oakland’s Grand Lake Theater announced today that it will hold a special benefit film night for Occupy Oakland on December 13. This is the first time that a local business has hosted a major fundraiser for the Occupy Oakland movement.
The movie “V for Vendetta” will be shown at 7:35 p.m. and 10:00 p.m on Tuesday, December 13. The film is a 2006 sci-fi thriller depicting freedom fighters battling a totalitarian state. There will be free popcorn and the organ will be played before this special benefit event. All ticket proceeds will be given to 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.
Drama games and Theatre of the Oppressed for community building, working through dynamics with “isms” within the movement, and practicing embodying our ideals together. A great warm up for the GA. All are welcome, including shy people!
*no class on Dec. 25, Jan. 1, and on the weekends when there is the Anti-racist/decolonization teach-in on Saturdays because we will support their work those days instead of our Sunday Workshop
“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
Drama games and Theatre of the Oppressed for community building, working through dynamics with “isms” within the movement, and practicing embodying our ideals together. A great warm up for the GA. All are welcome, including shy people!
*no class on Dec. 25, Jan. 1, and on the weekends when there is the Anti-racist/decolonization teach-in on Saturdays because we will support their work those days instead of our Sunday Workshop
“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
Drama games and Theatre of the Oppressed for community building, working through dynamics with “isms” within the movement, and practicing embodying our ideals together. A great warm up for the GA. All are welcome, including shy people!
*no class on Dec. 25, Jan. 1, and on the weekends when there is the Anti-racist/decolonization teach-in on Saturdays because we will support their work those days instead of our Sunday Workshop
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.
Occupy Patriarchy!
Come to the Feminist/Queer block event on Jan 8 , noon to 5, at the lot on 19th and Telegraph.
Occupy Oakland’s feminist/queer block is organizing to eventually occupy/decolonize a building and establish a collective space in Oakland (at a location that remains undisclosed).
On January 8th we will kick off with an event at 19th and Telegraph, noon to 5pm. Presentations, discussions, and a direct action are being planned.
The first two points of unity for the group are:
1. This capitalist society is based on a racist, white supremacist, patriarchal order. Our organizing must confront and attack the structural racism and white supremacy in this city and our own spaces.
2. Women, Trans people, Queers, Fags, Dykes, need a space that is OURS. We are marginalized, harassed, and attacked in other spaces all the time.
To find out more about the group and the January 8th event, visit: http://oaklandoccupypatriarchy.wordpress.com/
To get involved, email: occupypatriarchy@gmail.com.