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Help plan Chevron demonstration, community gardens, Earth Day literature
Occupy Oakland is planning our first BBQ and Speak Out event for Saturday, March 17, 2012. It will be in East Oakland at Arroyo Park, near 77th and Bancroft, from noon to 5:00 PM. There will be free medic training hosted by the People’s Community Medics, plus arts and crafts, music, a children’s village, literature, workshops, and free food. We are requesting help with side dishes and desserts from all cooks who are able to help.
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!
Our proposal to be recognized as a formal committee passed the GA with 98% approval.
Work to fight foreclosures and evictions. Meetings are currently at 12:30 PM at 19th & Telegraph before the General Assembly.
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
Be part of the Occupy Oakland May Day Assembly, planning events for International Workers’ Day and Immigrants Rights Day, May 1st, 2012.
Safer Spaces is a Decolonize/Occupy Oakland committee that works to address issues of trauma & oppression within the movement towards the goals of increased participant sustainability, and collective liberation. We work for the movement by offering direct support services, advocacy, and accountability processes on interpersonal, collective, and systemic levels. We also offer relevant workshops and events in response to community identified needs.
We meet every Tuesday from 7:00-8:30. Our location is often subject to change, so if you’d like to attend a meeting, or check in about how you’d like to participate, please email us at: saferspaces@occupyoakland.org.
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.
The OO Labor Solidarity Committee meets weekly, with every other meeting being held at Oscar Grant Plaza weather permitting.
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.
Occupy4Prisoners meeting, Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 7:00 PM.
Awaken Cafe at 1429 Broadway (at 15th Street), Oakland.
occupy4prisoners.org
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
Occupy Oakland will have its 2nd BBQ and Speak Out event on Saturday, March 24, 2012. It will be in East Oakland at 1-5pm at Rainbow Park located near Seminary and International, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. We are requesting help with side dishes and desserts from all cooks who are able to help.
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.