Calendar
Join us for the Anti Repression Committee’s weekly meeting
we will be discussing things like legal updates, bail needs and strategies to support those that have been arrested or brutalized at Occupy Oakland.
Events Committee is responsible for the actions, workshops, shows, teach-ins, etc. Meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:00 pm at Brown Couch Cafe at 14th above Webster.
“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
Occupy Oakland is a resurrection movement, and it has once again risen from the dead after the police raid early Monday morning! Join us Wednesday for our weekly “Liberation Bible Study” at Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza. just prior to General Assembly, which begins at 6.
We are excited to announce that this week, the Bible study will be led by Gerald O. West, a visiting South African liberation worker and Bible scholar who was active as a white man in the anti-Apartheid movement and now teaches at the Ujaama Center.
In these Bible studies, we read scripture together for guidance in how to decolonize our minds and spirits in the context of the Occupy (to Decolonize) Oakland movement. Join us every Wednesday or whenever you can.
We will meet at the entrance to the plaza just north of Tully’s at 14th and Broadway. Look for the circle of people with a stack of Bibles in the middle.
Help to organize the action that will Happen on December 12 on all West Coast Ports! Meetings every GA day (Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun) at 5pm.
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.
Events Committee is responsible for the actions, workshops, shows, teach-ins, etc. Meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:00 pm at Brown Couch Cafe at 14th above Webster.
Supply is coordinating all our equipment and supply needs. Contact them if you have questions about donations. Meetings every Thursday t 5pm.
More info on http://www.occupyoakland.org/generalassembly/committees/supply-committee/
Finance is coordinating all official Occupy Oakland financial donations. Meetings every Thursdays at 6pm at SF Pizza on 15th and Broadway. New members welcome — please join us.
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.
Events Committee is responsible for the actions, workshops, shows, teach-ins, etc. Meetings on Fridays at 4:30, Brown Couch Cafe at 14th and Webster.
Help to organize the action that will Happen on December 12 on all West Coast Ports! Meetings every GA day (Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun) at 5pm.
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.
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?
Meeting to set the agenda for Sunday’s General Assembly
Media Committee is dedicated to spreading our message throughout the world via digital content and more traditional forms of media. Meetings on Saturdays, 4pm at Oscar Grant Plaza.
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)
Meeting for reps. from committees, caucuses and working groups from Occupy Oakland.
This meeting is a place for all the work groups, committees, and caucuses of Occupy Oakland to meet up, update each other on events, procedures, concerns etc. It is designed so that there is more transparency and solitary, and between the work groups. Please send two reps with an update from your work group.
Meeting at 4pm in front of city hall.
To plug your commitee into this group check out the Facebook Group Page.