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Oakland City workers will take their message for a fair, no concessions contract to City Hall.
The rally will be the highlight of a day-long hearing on the city’s budget, where we will tell city leaders to cut elsewhere than the hard-working members of SEIU Local 1021.
Workers have given back wages, benefits and jobs since 2008, but now livelihoods are at risk. Enough is enough.
Wear purple to show solidarity.
“Join activists from CREDO, 350, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Center for Biological Diversity and others, to send President Obama a big message: Stop Keystone XL!
The last time we protested the President’s San Francisco fundraiser we shocked the President with a huge crowd of 1,000 people. We know from insiders that we caused a big buzz in the White House, and our pressure worked. Now, with the President again considering Keystone XL, we need a huge crowd outside his San Francisco fundraiser to deliver the message: Stop Keystone XL.”
New schedule and additional location!
Bi-Monthly meetings to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org.
We meet the first Thursday of the month at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave Oakland,CA 94612 @ 6PM
And the third Sunday of the month at 19th Street / Rashida Muhammad Street (one block away from 19th Street/Telegraph avenue) @ 2PM
If interested on helping us out, please come and join us!
Web@occupyoakland.org
Come to our phone blast AND ORGANIZING party!
lunch – pot luck, bagels and cheese. beer, wine, and soda
ACOUSTIC MUSIC
LEARN HOW OR TEACH OTHERS THE TEDIOUS JOB OF PHONE BLASTING
if u can/t make phone blast party do a phone blast on ur own and forward this
u can phone blast any time on thursday april 4th.
please help us to PHONE BLAST IT IS A SUCCESSFUL TACTIC
call 10 times THAT DAY leaving a message
we give u the script to read just like those annoying phone soliciters
it usually shuts down there system but before the system shuts down
they get the Message and then they realize GG is not alone.
PHONE BLAST SCRIPT FOR GG’S HOME:
US Bank: Phone: 510-891-2990
My name is ___________________, and I am calling on behalf of my neighbor, Gwen Winter, who you are trying to evict from her home at 1415 Allman Street, Oakland, CA. She’s been fighting you in court to no avail. I demand you stop the eviction, lower her principal and give her an affordable mortgage now! Your lawyers call themselves: US Bank NA as trustee for Chevy Chase Bank. Her loan number is (Chevy Chase Bank) #0555083294.
Austerity and its Discontents: A Public Forum with David Graeber.
David Graeber is an anthropologist operating out of Goldsmiths, University of London. He emerged as the organic intellectual of the Occupy movement, and has made important contributions to the renovation of antinomian thought. Among his books are “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology” and “Debt: The First 5000 Years.”
David Graeber Wikipedia entry.
You are invited to a FRIDAY BANK DEMO in oakland, april 5 330pm. we meet and decide which bank CALL me orion 510 541 3835 for meeting location. the demonstration will be run by ACCE: ALLIANCE OF CALIF0RNIANS FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT. I HAVE BEEN TO 5 acce BANK ACTIONS – NOBODY GETS ARRESTED AND IT/S TONS OF FUN AND extremely empowering . WE BASICALLY DEMAND TO TALK TO THE MANAGER TO restructure loans or stop the sale of homes etc. there will be 3 other home owners besides gg.
Even if u don/t go in the bank u should come to the demo to stand out side and be witness. Bring signs if u like – I especially like ITS NOBODYS FAULT BUT THE BANKSTERS. Learn and enjoy how ACCE puts fire to the feet of the 1%.
WHAT KIND OF PIE ? OCCUPY ! VIVA LA HUELGA GENERAL QUE VIVA
FUCK THE POLICE MARCH
14 and broadway 7:00pm
FTP 3.0 – FUCK THE POLICE Take our pigs for a walk. They need the exercise. And it only costs the city $50K a week!
*** This event is being called by the Occupy Oakland Tactical Action Committee. It might continue weekly.
The Tactical Action Committee was approved by Occupy Oakland’s GA to perform autonomous actions at their discretion. In that sense it is not an “official” Occupy Oakland event, in the sense that it was not directly, but indirectly, approved through the GA.***
IMPORTANT NOTE: NV folks are welcome, this is a peaceful protest — whatever that means.
FTP March, Iteration – Tactical Parameters
Due to the fact that most of our internal issues on each march and action to date have come from a lack of information on what the tactical parameters of a particular action are expected to be, TAC will be calling for tactical parameters on this and all future FTP marches that may change as we learn and practice our skills in the streets.
Note that these are the wishes by the callers of the march. In the interests of solidarity please respect these parameters. These are being called for this march only. This goes both ways — please be respectful enough of the event to not pursue certain actions at this time if they are being put on the “please don’t” list; likewise, if you are uncomfortable with someone performing an action that is acceptable within the march parameters DO NOT INTERFERE with them. This is respect for diversity of tactics, and also proper solidarity in the face of our common enemy. There will come a day that this practice, discipline and restraint will serve us well as a unit.
If you cannot follow the parameters DO NOT ATTEND. They will be read before the march during the rally. People will be given the opportunity to back out if they feel they cannot respect the tactics, with no loss of face.
So, for this march, TAC is asking for the following:
SHIELDS: If you have the capability and the will to march in the front line, make a shield to carry for this Saturday’s action.
NO DAMAGE TO PRIVATE PROPERTY of any kind — people’s cars, any Oakland businesses (especially small businesses – but the Starbucks that was hit last time actually gives free coffee and food to our vigil so we prefer to leave all of them out at this time).
PROPERTY THAT IS FAIR GAME IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED – police vehicles and equipment. The police are not our friends, never have been, and never will be.
NO FRONTAL ASSAULTS ON THE POLICE – i.e., no bottle throwing. Defensive actions are fully accepted and encouraged. Shields, unarresting, disarming cops that are beating comrades, etc. MAKE THE POLICE STRIKE THE FIRST BLOW.
SPLIT-OFF MARCHES AND AUTONOMOUS ACTIONS ARE NOT DISCOURAGED. If you do decide to go your own route, please respect the above parameters. Large banks, huge international corporations that run this city with their money, political organization HQ such as the Democrat campaign office or the chamber of commerce are not considered private property for the purposes of the parameters. If you decide to split off, do your autonomous actions away from the main march, not right next to it.
We are not encouraging anyone to attack any property whatsoever, but some property is more acceptable than others if you really must risk your freedom by doing something of that nature.
FIRE CAN BE FUN – if you want to burn a usa flag in the street (that isn’t somebody’s car) then more power to you. If someone is burning a flag in the street then DO NOT INTERFERE.
BLOC UP: If you hear the shout, “Bloc up!” Or “Tighten up!” It is in your best interest to clump together with the main group in tight formation. Be aware of distance and do not string out along the march route. Do not give the police an opportunity to snatch you and plant evidence on you to conflate charges with.
And to repeat:
NO INTERFERING IN OTHER PEOPLE’S ACTIONS EVEN IF YOU DO NOT PERSONALLY AGREE WITH THEM. Do not yell stop. Do not grab your comrades. If you feel unsafe, move away. The parameters listed above are for our own use so that we can hold one another accountable afterwards for things that may not have gone according to plan. But in the face of the enemy WE SHOW FULL SOLIDARITY. Afterwards we can argue about stuff. Not during the action.
We are all adults. We are all comrades. We have a common enemy and we will have to learn to work as a unit. Following the action parameters on each FTP march should mitigate the fighting and problems we have consistently had after every action to date.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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The Oakland Police Department has harassed and brutalized Occupy Oakland and participants in the vigil. Camps and liberated foreclosed buildings have been raided and shut down. OOers at the vigil have been arrested for as little as standing nearby when the police decide to raid, all the way up to the ridiculous charge of lynching. People have been physically assaulted by those supposed to protect and serve, but only do so in the interests of the 1%.
With dozens of our comrades having been arrested in the past couple of weeks, and culminating in the city’s revocation of the vigil’s permit and the immediate threat of another police raid to clear the plaza, the time has come to rise up and let them know what we think of them and that we will no longer meekly accept their violations of our civil and human rights.
Spread the word, send the invite, join us as we march in solidarity against police repression.
Wear black Bring shields if you are able and willing
Rally at 7:00 pmMarch on OPD HQ at 9:00 pm
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING OCCUPY OAKLANDSOLIDARITY
We are Anonymous,
We are legion,
We never forgive,
We never forget,
Expected us.
We are planning an outreach barbeque on April 13th! (Yum!)
Expect delicious home-cooked food, great music, powerful speakers, kid-friendly activities, a nurse’s station – all donated to this community event in honor of Alan Blueford, a Skyline High School student who was murdered by OPD Officer Miguel Masso almost one year ago on May 6th, 2012.
We will be holding a vigil on the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death, May 6th.
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 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!
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition website.
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Poster design and production by Sandy Sanders.
A public forum to save the life and win the freedom of radical attorney Lynne Stewart, suffering from Stage 4 lung cancer.
• Victim of a government frame-up conviction on charges of aiding and abetting terrorism •Imprisoned for ten years for defending
the civil liberties and democratic rights of the Egyptian cleric (the “blind sheik’) Omar Abdel Rachman
• Lynne has Stage 4 lung cancer and is seeking “compassionate release” to the New York City hospital that treated her original and now metastasized breast cancer. Citing “prison regulations” at FMC Carswell in Forth Worth, Texas, the warden denied release on the grounds that their medical experts claim that Lynne does not fall under this release program because she has at least two years to live before being overtaken by her metastasized cancer. Lynne’s medical experts say that if she is allowed the state-of-the-art treatment available today, she can recover. Meanwhile Lynne’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her case is pending.
• Lynne is lifelong civil liberties attorney, social justice and human rights activist, coordinating committee member of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and a member of the National Lawyers Guild
Hear: Jeff Mackler, West Coast Coordinator, Lynne Stewart Defense Committee; lifelong friend of Lynne Stewart; director, The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal; Administrative Committee, UNAC
Saturday, April 6, 2 PM
Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists , 1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley
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).
We are planning an action for Tax Day, April 15th.
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 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
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
Meet to help plan the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition BBQ, Sat. April 13 1:00 PM Arroyo Park. We need help setting up, cooking, serving, with tables (buttons, literature), trash pick-up, etc.
We are also meeting at the First Congregational Church of Oakland on Friday, April 12th at 11 AM to cook. 2501 Harrison Street at 27th, Oakland. We need more cooks spoiling the brew.
We are meeting at the First Congregational Church of Oakland on Friday, April 12th at 11 AM to cook for the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition BBQ on Saturday, April 13th at 1 PM at Arroyo Park. Come join us chopping and roasting our way to justice. The cooks are meeting up the stairs from the stairway on the parking lot on the Harrison side of the complex.
Event: http://occupyoakland.org/2013/04/justice-4-alan-blueford-coalition-bbq-april-13-100-pm-500-pm-arroyo-park/
NOTE: Due to a senior-moment by the poster this action was originally listed as happening from 1 PM on the calendar (although correctly listed at 11AM in the text in the body of the Event listing). I promise to try to do better next life-time.
Join us for the April 13 National Day of Action to say, “U.S. Drones Out of Africa, Middle East, Asia and Here!”
Having killed more than 4,700 people through U.S. drone strikes in Central Asia, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, the U.S. government is now putting all of Africa in the crosshairs…
Inside the U.S., drones are being used by many police agencies. The U.S. government has deployed drones along the US-Mexico border as part of the campaign to arrest and deport over 1.5 million immigrants since President Obama took office four years ago.
Free food!
The Justice 4 Alan Blueford coalition is hosting a community BBQ in Arroyo Park on Saturday, April 13th. We hope you’ll come out with friends and family to eat, play, and connect as we build the strength of our community.
Expect delicious home-cooked food, great music, powerful speakers, kid-friendly activities, a nurse’s station – all donated to this community event in honor of Alan Blueford, a Skyline High School student who was murdered by OPD Officer Miguel Masso almost one year ago on May 6th, 2012.
Please join us in demanding the arrest of Officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford, and an end to racial profiling and violent, unaccountable police in Oakland.
Officer Masso must be fired because factual evidence exists that:
– he participated in an illegal ‘Stop & Frisk,’ precipitating Alan’s death
– he did not activate his lapel camera as required by OPD protocols
– he executed Alan Blueford, firing three shots at someone who was unarmed
– he lied after the fact about the events of May 5th & May 6
– he should never have been hired in the first place because of his NYPD record
– he refused a prisoner medical treatment, as documented by NYPD Internal Affair
– he is not psychologically fit to be a police officer, as evidenced by his own statements in the District Attorney’s report
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 (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, place yet to be determined, probably in Oakland.
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.