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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.
Live at Occupy Oakland! A film about the 1990 Oakland car bombing of Earth First! organizers Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney and the FBI’s & OPD’s attempt to frame them. Screening will be at Oscar Grant Plaza on Monday, March 26th at 7:30pm. in case of rain or other stormy weather, the screening will be moved to the Holdout, 2313 San Pablo on 23rd street, if necessary.
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.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Fremont High School at 3:00 PM
OUSD building, Oakland at 4:30 PM
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“Acceleration TSA”–an idea whose time has come?
- Teachers told they must reapply for their current jobs!
- Or is it another hastily designed OUSD experiment on flatland students of color?
OEA members across the district have varying opinions on the merits of this idea.
BUT WE AGREE THAT:
NO member should accept the unlawful method by which Superintendent Smith unilaterally imposed yet-to-be-described working conditions upon our fellow members.
NO member will question that by refusing to communicate, collaborate, and problem solve with those democratically elected to safeguard our best interests, Superintendent Smith has made it easier to ignore member’s rights in the future. If we fail to answer these divide and conquer techniques that undermine our collective strength, then we fail our bargaining team, and more importantly, we fail our kids.
NO member should suffer the indignity of having to apply for a job already held.
Your OEA bargaining team is preparing for negotiations with the OUSD for a new contract. How will you add strength to their efforts?
OEA SOLIDARITY ACTIONS
Join one or both actions on Wednesday, March 28, 2012.
3:00-4:00 – Fremont High School: 4610 Foothill at High Street, Fremont
4:30-6:00 – OUSD School Board Meeting – OUSD Building: 1025 2nd Avenue, Oakland
Honor joint OEA/OUSD agreements! Support your OEA bargaining team! Reject unilateral actions by Tony Smith! Wear OEA green on Wednesdays!
Weekly meeting to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org.
The next Nonviolent Caucus meeting will be brief and take place at Berkeley Fellowship Hall, Thursday, March 29th, at 5:30 pm.
This will precede the Strategic Dimensions of Resistance conference with Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D. that is being sponsored by the Nonviolent Caucus, and being held on Thursday, March 29th 7:30 PM
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 the California Nurses Association, at 20th & Franklin, a block off Broadway towards Lake Merritt.
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.