Calendar
Join other committed organizers and activists for a day long Bay Area convergence. We will share visions, distill them into 5 ideas, and get to work to launch them by Spring, all in one day. Saturday January 21, 10am – 6pm 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley (BFUU) Endorsed by Occupy Oakland GA on 1/8/12 Please commit to staying the whole day. Bring your ideas and allies, and food if you are able. Contact 5ideasforoccupy@gmail.com to get involved or give feedback. Let us know if you need transportation/child care. Child friendly. Let us know if you will be bringing a child. Wheelchair accessible. AGENDA Establish trust: Get to know each other and the plan for the day Share Knowledge: Celebrate local and global efforts Inspire Possibilities: Share upcoming events and envision others Plant seeds: Generate and share ideas for the Spring Lunch @ 1pm: Bringing a dish or donation appreciated Whittle Ideas: Select 5 most inspiring ideas to implement (vote through action) Go! Form worki
ng groups and begin planning and production Celebrate: Re-converge to share our successes and next steps
See more details and RSVP on occupii:
http://occupii.org/events/event/show?id=6469644%3AEvent%3A70029&xgi=5vWIsfoVGTdAjQ&xg_source=msg_invite_event
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.
*** This event is being called by the Occupy Oakland Tactical Action Committee. It will continue weekly. ***
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you identify as peaceful and are likely to interfere with the actions of your fellow protestors in any way (including telling them to stop performing a particular action, grappling, assaulting or holding them for arrest), you may not want to attend this march. It is a militant action. It attracts anti-capitalists, anti-fascists and other comrades of a revolutionary bent. It is not a march intended for people who are not fully comfortable with diversity of tactics.
***
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.
This event will be held weekly. Spread the word, send the invite, join us as we march in solidarity against police repression.
Wear black
Rally at 7:00 pm
March on OPD HQ at 9:00 pm
Come plan Occupy Oakland’s Building Occupation on January 28th
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.
Regular meeting times: Tuesdays & Thursday @ 6:30PM, Sundays @ 4:00PM.
This is a meeting for people who self-identify as people of color/ queer people of color. We meet with the goal of strengthening our participation in the Occupy movement here in Oakland and beyond, and to likewise strengthen the Occupy movement by situating it in the context of our local, living communities and the ongoing work being done by those communities.
Our meeting location sometimes changes based on the availability of spaces. Please contact us at peopleofcolor@occupyoakland.org for up-to-date information. Please also be patient (and persistent) if we don’t respond as quickly as we would like to. We’re growing and evolving our capacities!
Hello Caravaners! Occupy Oakland will be caravaning to Longview, WA to join Occupy Portland, Occupy Seattle, Occupy Olympia, and Occupy Longview to blockade the notorious EGT ship who is busting Longshormen jurisdication. EGT is a multinational grain exporter rsponsible for economic and enviromental devastation around the world. While the date for the arrival of the ship in Longview is uncertain,it IS approaching quickly!! Here in Oakland we need to have a preparation meeting to get ready for our caravan. We will be meeting Sunday January 22nd at 410 14th st, between Broadway and Franklin, at 4.30 (after the GA).
In this meeting we will discuss everything – how we’ll be alerted, how the actual caravan will be organized and who is going with who, where we’ll meet, what to bring (and not bring), what to expect during the day of action in Longview, etc. We will be hosted by Occupy Longview and Occupy Portland who are very excited to take action with Occupy Oakland! Every chance you can get, tell people to sign up or donate at on our website occupytheegt.org !! Thanks, see you all on Sunday!
4:30, Brown Couch Cafe at 14th and Webster.
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.
Occupy the hood
Come plan Occupy Oakland’s Building Occupation on January 28th
This is a meeting for people who self-identify as people of color/ queer people of color. We meet with the goal of strengthening our participation in the Occupy movement here in Oakland and beyond, and to likewise strengthen the Occupy movement by situating it in the context of our local, living communities and the ongoing work being done by those communities.
Our meeting location sometimes changes based on the availability of spaces. Please contact us at peopleofcolor@occupyoakland.org for up-to-date information. Please also be patient (and persistent) if we don’t respond as quickly as we would like to. We’re growing and evolving our capacities!
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
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.
Discussing upcoming Fruitvale GA project, outreach to Oakland’s community groups, and canvassing efforts.
The intention is that this space will become the new home for Occupy Oakland, providing ample space for all of our committees and activities, room for assemblies, and sleeping space. (It must be added, however, for those who are concerned about it, that there was much support at the GA for retaining a presence at Oscar Grant Plaza, and even re-encamping at the plaza at a later date, projects which many in attendance at the GA did not think were in opposition to each other)
Starting sunday January 8th we will meet sundays at 1pm and wednesdays at 5pm. If needed the frequency of these meetings will be increased by the assembly.
To read the proposal that was passed, please click on this link: http://occupyoakland.org/2011/12/proposal-for-the-taking-of-a-large-social-center-for-occupy-oakland-10-in-queue-for-december-7-ga/
Meeting to set the agenda for Sunday’s General Assembly