Calendar
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
Committee that helps facilitate the operation of the General Assembly. Meetings every Wednesday at 12pm and Saturday at 4pm.
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.
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.
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
The OO Labor Solidarity Committee meets weekly, with every other meeting being held at Oscar Grant Plaza weather permitting. This week’s meeting will be at the California Nurses Association, at 20th & Franklin, a block off Broadway towards Lake Merritt.
Topics generally include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and we will be focused on planning events leading up to and for May Day, May 1st, International Workers’ Day and Immigrants’ Rights Day.
Email environmentaljustice@occupyoakland.org for address of meeting to coordinate plans for Chevron action, community gardens, Earth Day literature, EJ collaborations
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.
Calling a Decolonize & (UN)Occupy Oakland Anti-War Working Group Organizing Meeting
Inviting all folks deeply concerned about wars the U.S. continues to engage in, against mostly peoples of color around the world and at home, to come to our first Anti-War Working Group meeting this Wednesday before the G.A., 5:15pm, at Oscar Grant Plaza.
We want to form a working group because we realize that war is not an “issue,” but the integral foundation of our nation: in addition to the millions of people we are killing and the immutable damage to Mother Earth, we are spending $2 billion a DAY for these atrocities, making some extremely rich, while severely hurting others.
Also, Occupy Oakland has adopted the resolution to participate in the NO WAR ON IRAN April 17th Tax Day of Global Action Against Military Spending, at the Oakland Federal Building on 1301 Clay Street.
We want to have a vibrant and meaningful action & presence, so PLEASE come to this organizing and planning action meeting!
THANKS!
In solidarity and action,
Xan Sam Joi
DISARM DISARM DISARM
work for peace; hold all life sacred; eliminate violence
www.codepinkjournals.blogspot.com
Weekly meeting to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org.
The OO Labor Solidarity Committee meets weekly, with every other meeting being held at Oscar Grant Plaza weather permitting. This week’s meeting will be at Oscar Grant Plaza. We usually congregate on the steps to the north of the amphitheater.
Topics generally include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and we will be focused on planning events leading up to and for May Day, May 1st, International Workers’ Day and Immigrants’ Rights Day.