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Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Join us! All Are Welcome!
You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February), scheduled for May 18th in San Francisco (exact location TBA).
We are planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on May 4th, at ARC, 900 Alice St, Oakland, CA @ 3:00 PM on May 4th.
Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery.
Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
A group of gay activists has called a protest against the San Francisco Pride Committee’s rescinding of naming as a Grand Marshal openly gay whistleblower, Bradley Manning, a US Army soldier who was arrested in 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the website Wikileaks. Manning was charged with a number of offenses including communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source and aiding the enemy. The 25 year old’s trial is expected to begin in June 2013.
The action is being organized by gay peace and social justice activists Michael Petrelis, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, and Lisa Geduldig. “Our message to SF Pride is that they should make Manning a Grand Marshal of this year’s Pride March and Celebration because of his brave act of whistleblowing against the military industrial complex,” said Petrelis. “We are fed up with marriage and military concerns sucking the oxygen out of what used to be a queer movement and Pride March and Celebration about social justice for queers,” Petrelis added. Some don’t think Manning should be a Grand Marshal of the parade, albeit in absentia—that he doesn’t represent or further the causes of LGBT people. Co-organizer Geduldig points out, “He’s an antiwar hero, a whistleblower who is gay. He was lipsynching to Lady Gaga while downloading classified documents. It doesn’t get more gay than that.”
“We demand that BPD allow the release of the Coroner’s report and the police report of what happened that night.”
“The city leadership has allowed the police to function without accountability…”
Rally at 6:00 PM and speak out at 7:00 PM.
Last year Burger King made $117,000,000 in profits. Walgreens made $253,000,000.
Downtown Oakland workers deserve a raise!
Hundreds of fast food workers in NYC recently participated in a strike to demand $15/hr. It is time to bring the Fight for Fifteen campaign to Oakland.
With the cost of rent driven up by gentrification, plus childcare, healthcare and other bills, $8/hour is not enough to survive in Oakland. Mayor Jean Quan says Oakland is “rising” but the lowest paid workers, who are more likely to be people of color and women, are left behind.
$15/hr livable wage for all Oakland workers!
Rally, march and noise demo throughout downtown Oakland, exposing the practices of corporations who thrive off of low wage labor.
Town Hall on Drones: Informing Policy in Berkeley.
We will be holding a vigil on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death.
We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th.
We held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general. We have issued a Statement of Solidary with the family of Kayla Moore, dead in the custody of Berkeley Police in February, 2013.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
Come to wheel chair accessible door, press intercom for ARC. Near the Lake Merritt BART station.
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Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery.
We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February) and debating future actions.
Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
We will first meet all together and then divide up into groups that will look something like this:
Study & Research Groups (people interested in tackling specific research questions, reading books together, etc.)
Outreach & Education (people interested in getting our message out – to community groups, churches, etc.)
Direct Action (people interested in organizing Wells Fargo and other actions)
Debtors’ Union (tactical work for collective organizing against private and public debt)
Alternative Institutions (Alternative currencies, public banking, communal living, and more!)
Follow StrikeDebt (NYC) on twitter.
Latest StrikeDebt Analysis: Death By For-Profit Health Care.
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
TELL JEAN QUAN:
OAKLAND IS NOT ARIZONA!
OUR DEMANDS:
Full citizenship rights for all people who live here, go to school here, work here, and otherwise contribute to this society. Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab, Native American, white, immigrants with and without papers—we are ALL Americans.
Open the borders—give people the same rights that NAFTA provides to the corporations for unrestricted passage across borders.
No more deportations.
Make all young people brought by their parents full citizens now.
No fines for the millions of people without papers who are here now.
Stop long probationary periods for people to gain citizenship. Create a quick and cheap pathway to citizenship for all undocumented people.
Pass the Federal DREAM Act Now!
12PM: March from 98th Ave. + International (Oakland)
2PM: Rally & Celebration at 34th Ave. + International (near Fruitvale BART)
It’s not just the post office
that’s being privatized.
Our schools, our public spaces,
parks and services are all at risk.
Join Us!
Help save our public commons!
Come to the rally!
The USPS wants to sell Berkeley’s historic main post office. Citizens to Save the Berkeley Post Office is a grassroots group that has come together to block the sale of our heritage, stop service cut backs, and preserve living wage postal jobs.
Our fight is not unique. Thousands of post office closures across the country mean the largest private auction of public history our nation has ever seen.
Join the movement and spread the word. Our post office is not for sale.
The May 1st march and noise demo for $15/hr was the first step. What’s next? Come help make it happen!
We held a vigil on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death. See photos here.
We are figuring out how to get Miguel Masso, the officer who killed Alan Blueford, fired and prosecuted.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
You’re Invited To A Good Old LAND OCCUPATION With Your Friends At
Occupy The Farm
Liberate the Land!
Celebration! Skill Share! Work Party! Campout!
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Join us! All Are Welcome!
You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February), scheduled for May 18th in San Francisco, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Unite Here, Local 2, near Civic Center BART, 209 Golden Gate Avenue.
We are also planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on June 1, near the Mission St. BART in San Francisco (check OO calendar in the future for details).
Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery.
Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
Held every 2nd & 4th Monday of the month.
2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland CA
The Occupy Oakland (OO) Finance Committee works inclusively to make our process transparent, our membership requirements clear, and to develop clear communication and financial reporting available to associated groups and to OO as a whole.
Our commitments to Occupy Oakland as a whole:
We commit to report back to the GA. We commit to regularly updating our page onoccupyoakland.org with monthly bank statements, meeting notes, summaries of check reimbursements and general OO Finance committee updates. We will not post or make public any sensitive or confidential information including the names of donors or check recipients.
Our membership structure:
Our work demands solid accountability. We are tasked with acting as the liaison between our supporting organization and OO associated groups seeking to be reimbursed for funds spent, check disbursements, sending thank you cards to donors, printing and making available OO general fund bank statements.
Because of the sensitivity of our tasks, our committee demands a high level of commitment and responsibility from our organizers.
To serve this end we have adopted a model utilizing different levels of commitment and expectations. There are three levels of involvement:
OO Finance Committee Observer: If you are interested in understanding the functioning of the OO Finance Committee, or have questions related to OO finances you are welcome to attend a finance committee meeting to observe and ask questions at the end of the meeting.
OO Finance Committee Supporter: You are welcome to attend meetings to observe and ask questions, give suggestions or make requests during appropriate times during the meeting. You can sign up to receive email updates that let you know how you can plug in.
OO Finance Committee Member: You lend regular support, take on tasks, and are a voting member in our meetings. To become a member, you must have attended at least three meetings and fulfill regular responsibilities.
OO Finance Committee Meeting Ground Rules
The following list of common ground rules from various equity, diversity, and social justice organizations and groups. The OO Finance Committee follows in strict adherence to these guidelines and any observer, supporter or member that cannot observe the following practices will be asked to leave.
1. Listen actively: respect others when they are talking.
2. Speak from your own experience instead of generalizing (“I” instead of “they,” “we,” and “you”).
3. Do not be afraid to respectfully challenge one another by asking questions, but refrain from personal attacks — focus on ideas.
4. Participate to the fullest of your ability, but make space for others participation — community growth depends on inclusion
5. Instead of invalidating somebody else’s story with your own spin on her or his experience, share your own story and experience.
6. The goal is not to agree, it is to gain a deeper understanding and improve our work.
7.Threats of physical force, intimidation, and/or any type of harassment will not be tolerated.
8. Be conscious of body language and nonverbal responses which can be as disrespectful as words.
(all ground rules are subject to the sensitivities and needs of the people participating in each meeting)
*Recent critical analysis of common ground rules have resulted in a collective reconsideration of their role. This is because, too often, ground rules that are put in place, whether by an educator/facilitator or by participants, privilege the already-privileged groups in a dialogical experience. When we consider who is protected by ground rules like “do not express anger,” it becomes apparent that, intentionally or not, they protect the participants representing privileged groups.
We also analyze how our ground rules that might ultimately support the status quo by providing safety and comfort for those who, for the sake of their own learning, most desperately need to be made to feel uncomfortable. We must constantly challenge ourselves to make sure that the discussions and dialogues taken place within OOFC meetings do not further oppress historically oppressed people.
Plan the next steps in the Fight for a $15/hr livable wage in Oakland, our manifestation of a national campaign that has already seen actions in Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago and New York City.