Calendar
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 Oscart Grant Plaza. We generally congregate on the steps to the north of the amphitheatre, near the pedestrian mall that takes you to Clay Street.
Topics 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. In this regard, A Labor Forum is to be held April 21st from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, at the California Nurses Association, 2000 Franklin. Link to this event.
For location contact: occupy4prisoners@gmail.com or 510-333-7966
www.occupy4prisoners.org
Planning Working Group meeting to set up Gatherings to Re-imagine the OO GA
Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting
Date: Sundays
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
Location: The Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, in Oakland, California
Everyone who’s interested in doing research to empower Oakland’s 99% and target the city’s 1% is welcome. Bring an open mind and be prepared to learn together.
For more information, email research@occupyoakland.org or visit our website: occupyoaklandresearch.org
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.
The GA Clearinghouse
Many Occupy Oakland committees as well as many other groups in the Bay are in the midst of organizing actions and events for this spring and summer that we are all excited about. We have been looking forward to sharing information and getting feedback from one another and believe that the General Assembly is the proper space / time to have this discussion.
This is why we will have an organized process for sharing actions/events on Wednesday April 25nd at 6pm at the Occupy Oakland GA at Oscar Grant plaza (14th and Broadway).
Goals:
Support coordination & communication for Spring/Summer Actions and Events and increase capacity for those projects.
Encourage action feedback and coordinating calendaring of events
Re-vitalize the GA’s process for this spring. The hope is to get a lot of people there, because this is a new approach.
General format:
Groups present what they are working on, folks can give feedback, and individuals hear about lots of actions and can find ways to hook up them.
Coordinating breakout discussions for groups working on similar themes
It will NOT be a decision-making space. No large group decisions made that day.
We see this as an experiment and if it works then hope make it happen periodically
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND CONTENT:
The structure we have come up with so far is that the day will begin with multiple groups giving 5 minute presentations about the current work they are doing followed by some time for questions.
Please send us a description of your work. It does not have to be anything formal, just a few words to give us the gist of your project, so we can facilitate scheduling of the day’s events.
We are asking for your input on how this assembly can benefit the work you are doing. Some questions we would like to ask include: Would you be interested in being a part of a facilitated discussion with other groups who work on projects that fall within a theme you associate your work with? (For example, if you do work against police brutality, would want to be a part of a breakout centered around that idea). If so, what are some themes you think your work falls under and how does the work you are currently doing fit under these themes? Do you know any other groups that share similar interests who you would like to coordinate with?
Please send your projects to actionclearinghouse@gmail.com by Sunday April 22nd. All project need to be represented by at least 3 people. Hopefully we can find room in the day to accommodate all proposals but unfortunately we can’t guarantee there will be time in the day for everything. We promise to do our best.
Clearing house group
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 held at 400 Roland Way, Oakland, CA 94621 (Teamsters Local 70.). For those coming exclusively by public transportation It’s about two miles away from the Oakland Coliseum BART, (10 minutes on the 98 bus.) Otherwise Rich has volunteered to carpool from the Coliseum BART at 5:30 PM. Others who want to offer rides can meet there too if they want.
Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will be focused on evaluating last weekend’s worker’s assembly and planning for events leading up to and for May Day, May 1st, International Workers’ Day and Immigrants’ Rights Day.
Planning Working Group meeting to set up Gatherings to Re-imagine the OO GA
We’ll reflect on the Earth Day actions and plan new directions. Moved to be closer to the Farm.
Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting
Date: Sundays
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
Location: The Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, in Oakland, California
Everyone who’s interested in doing research to empower Oakland’s 99% and target the city’s 1% is welcome. Bring an open mind and be prepared to learn together.
For more information, email research@occupyoakland.org or visit our website: occupyoaklandresearch.org
With May Day approaching in less than two weeks, the Safer Spaces committee invites activists and allies together for a two and a half hour panel and skill share session on:
*Basic tips for a sustainable street action
*Emotional First Aid: trauma education, emotional self care tips for pre, during and post action
*First Aid: simple street medic tips, physical self-care for pre, during and post action
*Coping with activist burnout and keeping the movement connected
When: 4/29/12 (Sunday)
Time: Noon-2:30 (hope everyone is ok with a slight overlapping of the GA)
Where: 19th and Telegraph
Formerly the Move-In Assembly, now planning 4 BBQ’s across Oakland to bring Occupy Oakland into The Town!
Dates, places:
March 17th-Deep East Oakland, Arroyo park, 77th and bancroft
March 24th-East Oakland, Rainbow Park, seminary and international
March 31st- North Oakland, 52nd and MLK
April 7th- West Oakland, Little Bobby Hutton/de Fremery Park
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.
Formerly the Move-In Assembly, now planning 4 BBQ’s across Oakland to bring Occupy Oakland into The Town!
Dates, places:
March 17th-Deep East Oakland, Arroyo park, 77th and bancroft
March 24th-East Oakland, Rainbow Park, seminary and international
March 31st- North Oakland, 52nd and MLK
April 7th- West Oakland, Little Bobby Hutton/de Fremery Park
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 held at Oscar Grant Plaza, on the steps between the amphitheatre and the trees.
This week’s meeting will be held at 400 Roland Way, Oakland, CA 94621 (Teamsters Local 70.). For those coming exclusively by public transportation It’s about two miles away from the Oakland Coliseum BART, (10 minutes on the 98 bus.)
Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will likely be focused on reviewing May Day activities and planning for our upcoming second Workers’ Assembly, tentatively scheduled for May 19th.
Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting
Date: Sundays
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
Location: The Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, in Oakland, California