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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.
Work to fight foreclosures and evictions. Meetings are currently on Sunday at 12:30 PM at 19th & Telegraph before the General Assembly. We will have an information table at the 2nd OO Barbeque & Speakout (which will have taken place a day before this meeting).
We need people for lots of roles, including media outreach, leafleting, initial home visits, information gathering, investigation, bank actions, home actions, admin and other stuff.
We’ve helped save Gayla Newsome’s and Miss Katy’s homes. Help us help more people.
Weekly meeting of the Occupy Oakland Research Working Group. We meet every
Sunday from 5:00-7:00pm at the Applied Research Center’s conference rooms,
900 Alice Street, 3rd Rear Floor, between 9th and 10th St., Oakland. Two
blocks from the Lake Merritt Bart or six blocks from 12th St Bart and OG
Plaza. For more info: http://occupyresearch.net/oakland.
Come and help be a part of Occupy Oakland’s planning for May 1st, 2012, and the call for an international general strike, otherwise known as a Day without the 99%. Meetings are held at 5pm at 19th and Telegraph due to stay away orders, and will be moved into an indoor location if the weather forces the situation.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Fremont High School at 3:00 PM
OUSD building, Oakland at 4:30 PM
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“Acceleration TSA”–an idea whose time has come?
- Teachers told they must reapply for their current jobs!
- Or is it another hastily designed OUSD experiment on flatland students of color?
OEA members across the district have varying opinions on the merits of this idea.
BUT WE AGREE THAT:
NO member should accept the unlawful method by which Superintendent Smith unilaterally imposed yet-to-be-described working conditions upon our fellow members.
NO member will question that by refusing to communicate, collaborate, and problem solve with those democratically elected to safeguard our best interests, Superintendent Smith has made it easier to ignore member’s rights in the future. If we fail to answer these divide and conquer techniques that undermine our collective strength, then we fail our bargaining team, and more importantly, we fail our kids.
NO member should suffer the indignity of having to apply for a job already held.
Your OEA bargaining team is preparing for negotiations with the OUSD for a new contract. How will you add strength to their efforts?
OEA SOLIDARITY ACTIONS
Join one or both actions on Wednesday, March 28, 2012.
3:00-4:00 – Fremont High School: 4610 Foothill at High Street, Fremont
4:30-6:00 – OUSD School Board Meeting – OUSD Building: 1025 2nd Avenue, Oakland
Honor joint OEA/OUSD agreements! Support your OEA bargaining team! Reject unilateral actions by Tony Smith! Wear OEA green on Wednesdays!
Weekly meeting to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org.
The next Nonviolent Caucus meeting will be brief and take place at Berkeley Fellowship Hall, Thursday, March 29th, at 5:30 pm.
This will precede the Strategic Dimensions of Resistance conference with Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D. that is being sponsored by the Nonviolent Caucus, and being held on Thursday, March 29th 7:30 PM