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This project aims to leverage the debt collection system as a tool for direct action and mutual aid. We buy defaulted debt for pennies on the dollar, just as debt collectors would, but instead of attempting to collect it, we abolish it. For every dollar of defaulted debt we buy, $20 of debt will be abolished. This program launches on Thursday November 15th with a live “telethon” event in NYC – The People’s Bailout – where the goal is to raise $50,000, every penny of which will go toward abolishing $1,000,000 of defaulted medical debt. (In general, you cannot buy the debt of individuals. Rather, you have to buy categories of debt either by geography–folks in a given zip code, for example–or by category–medical debt, credit card debt, etc.)

After we have purchased and successfully abolished this $1,000,000 worth of debt, those whose debt was abolished will be notified with a letter that explains:

(1) That their debt has been abolished, and how that was done
(2) How to contact credit agencies to make sure the debt cancellation is reflected in their credit score
(3) How they can pay some of the jubilee forward, to abolish others also in debt. This is the “rolling” aspect of the jubilee.

NEXT STEPS/HOW TO HELP:
‘Like’ the StrikeDebt Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Strike-Debt/244850825627699

Share the Rolling Jubilee event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/394920527248194/

Follow @StrikeDebt on Twitter (we’re almost at 1,000 followers!)

Consider loaning your twitter or FB account to for a once-a-day blast: http://donateyouraccount.com/StrikeDebt (choose ‘Gold’ level)

Once you’ve done that, make some buzz! Try to post a few times a day about the Jubilee. Every single post counts. Here are some sample posts: http://bit.ly/RJSampleTweets. Feel free to copy and paste, or customize to your own liking. Just make sure to include the website www.rollingjubilee.org, and the hashtags #PeoplesBailout and #RollingJubilee, if you can.

Email your friends and ask them to do all of the above, too. Here are some articles you can use to get the conversation going:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jeff-mangum-plans-occupy-wall-street-fundraiser-20121024

http://pitchfork.com/news/48326-jeff-mangum-members-of-sonic-youth-fugazi-tv-on-the-radio-to-perform-at-occupy-wall-street-telethon/

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/ows-debtors-coming-out-first-step-toward-resistance

http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/10/ows-debt-resisters-mobilize-arts-education-and-media-for-a-peoples-bailout/

The telethon starts at 8pm eastern time, so 5pm here. It will be streaming live on the internet, (probably on rollingjubilee.org)

**Also, here in Oakland I’m hoping going to host a livestream event at the Holdout Niebel-Proctor Library on the night of the telethon. We’d watch the telethon, and I have a box of Debt Resistors Operations Manuals to distribute, so we can start talking about debt as a broad platform for resistance and direct action, and maybe get a Strike Debt working group going. Please contact me if you’d like to help organize this event!

STAY TUNE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT A LIVESTREAM PARTY!!

TIMELINE:
November 8th: Donation site goes up, promotional video is released, other announcements. We hope to use this day to test and build up our network. We will put up a site for our people to use to send targeted tweets to various celebrities during this time.

November 12th? New York Times article will be published around this day. Then the press embargo will be lifted.

November 15th: The telethon! Massive simultaneous twitter campaign to promote the live stream and our ongoing donation successes.

The Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group is engaged in an eviction defense of Jodie Randolph’s home.

We are going to have a movie night outside in Jodie’s yard. Sort of a
a neighborhood do-it-yourself drive in.

WE’LL BE SHOWING
MY BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER
VIDEOS OF FORECLOSURE DEFENSE ACTIONS
CARTOONS AND OTHER SHORTS

POPCORN, COMMUNITY, AND HOT DRINKS !!

THURSDAY 6PM, JODIE’S DRIVEWAY
1624 Foley St., Alameda

“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.”

The OO Labor Solidarity Committee meets weekly, with every other meeting being held at Oscar Grant Plaza weather permitting. This week’s meeting is tentatively scheduled for the amphitheater at Oscar Grant Plaza, directly in front of City Hall. will be held at the Teamsters Local 70 Hall, 400 Roland Way, Oakland. This is near Hegenberger Road by the airport. PLEASE CHECK BACK BECAUSE THIS LOCATION COULD VERY WELL CHANGE!

Topics will likely include planning for the next Port Workers Assembly on November 17th, another Mi Pueblo action, labor support for Alan Blueford, a discussion of what we might do for December 12th (the one year anniversary of the West Coast Port Shutdown), the Hostess bakery strike, along with possibly ILWU, SEIU, Airport workers, Walmart and other labor activity updates.

There’s No Place Like Home! Homes Not Jails 20th Anniversary Celebration!

This November marks the 20th Anniversary of Homes Not Jails. Since the first San Francisco housing takeover in 1992, Homes Not Jails has been a resource to squatters, a place to share support, and a group that has provided housing for folks in buildings that otherwise would have been left vacant and unused.

Come out and celebrate 20 years of Community and Action! 

The night will be filled with music, dancing, food, and lots of great information. 

Featuring:
Music from:

• Penny Royal 

• The Drops 

• Young Coconut 

• soundcloud.com/young-coconut 

And more TBA

Spoken word by: 
Dee Allen. 
Sarah Menefee 

Free Food! 

All ages

Doors at 7, music starts at 7:30

$5-10 NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS

CONTACT

Norcal International Socialist Organization:

            The Bay Area Marxism Conference will be held at the UC Berkeley campus on Nov. 17 from 10:00AM-6:00PM in rooms VSLB 2060 and MOFFITT 101, 102.  You can find out more about this event at http://norcalsocialism.org/

MEETING LOCATION HAS CHANGED FROM SEIU 1021 TO SIEGEL & YEE!!

Directions: From City Hall cross the street at the 14th St. crosswalk, keep going back between the two big buildings towards the walking mall. To the diagonal left and up a few steps is the building. If there’s no one outside there should be a phone number taped to the door of someone to call.

After our successful rally and march on Saturday, November 10th, we will be planning further steps in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. Come help us out!

We are organizing a fundraiser featuring Angela Davis for December 18th at Laney College. We are planning to make our presence known at the Federal Courthouse in San Francisco on December 13th when Judge Henderson hears oral arguments as to whether to put the Oakland Police into receivership.

We will be discussing other possible actions and steps, and we can use all the help we can get.

Israel launched “Operation Pillar of Clouds” with a series of air strikes. So far Israel have been killed tens of people women and children. International solidarity activists are in the streets all over the world, we have to be in SF.

Please share this event with your networks, bring your banners and signs n spirit to the action!

Saturday Nov 17th at 4:00pm at Israeli Consulate in San Francisco

456 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94104

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

Guests: Cynthia Kaufman & Wilson Riles.

Cynthia Kaufman is the author of Getting Past Capitalism and teaches Philosophy at De Anza College. Wilson Riles is a former Oakland City Council Member and community organizer.

Presented by the Democratic Socialists of America, East Bay Chapter.

ALL OUT FOR GAZA!
Monday
NOVEMBER 19
4:30PM @ Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery Street

Mi Pueblo Is Not For the People!

Protest against Mi Pueblo grocery story chain owner Juvenal Chavez’s anti-immigrant practices: union busting and ICE collaboration. Support Mi Pueblo grocery workers in this second community picket, sponsored by the Dignity and Resistance Coalition.

Please Join us at Oscar Grant Plaza for our 2nd Annual Occupresence Convivial.

This will be a day full of delicious foods, entertainment, the return of “Grateful Mic”, and family fun to help celebrate each other, our friendships, and reaffirm our presence & commitment to community service.

Help make Thursday, November 22nd, a fun loving day of gratitude, by sharing and bringing your favorite food dish, music makers and instruments, movies, videos, and anything else that will help make this day memorable for those who normally go without.

Bring Friends & Family– All are welcome. We’ll be here making merry throughout the day, 10am to 10apm!!!

Please Spread the word on Twitter, FB, INVITE & SHARE!!!

If you’d like to help with donations, oven space, equipment, or set-up, please contact us:

Mike: electionamend at gmail dot com

Ed:  biow at riseup dot net

Jessie: slenderbutter at riseup dot net

As the largest employer in the country, Walmart could be setting a standard for businesses to value workers. Instead, it has become the greatest oppressor of workers everywhere.

Walmart workers have been taking targeted, short term actions for months. Now they have called for a bigger action on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year.

Shut Them Down!

This action continues all night into the next day, until 10:00 AM, November 23rd.

FOOD AND ENTERTAINMENT PROVIDED.

As the largest employer in the country, Walmart could be setting a standard for businesses to value workers. Instead, it has become the greatest oppressor of workers everywhere.

Walmart workers have been taking targeted, short term actions for months. Now they have called for a bigger action on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year.

Shut Them Down!

This action begins on Thanksgiving, November 22nd, at 10:00 PM.

FOOD AND ENTERTAINMENT PROVIDED.

Black Friday at Walmart #5435 San Jose

November 23 • 12:00 pm

777 Story Rd, San Jose, CA

sfbayarea@forrespect.org or 650-302-5576

Stand with Walmart workers in their fight for their rights in San Jose, CA. For decades, Walmart Stores, Inc have dragged down wages, forcing their workers to work irregular schedules, and intimidated and took retribution on any workers who fought back. It’s time for the retribution to end, so come to this local Walmart to show your solidarity and tell Walmart that they need to pay their fair share.  This Walmart store also houses Walmart’s Corporate Market Offices (management, human resources, etc…), so join Walmart Workers from all over the South Bay at a rally Walmart will never forget!

http://corporateactionnetwork.org/events/black-friday-at-walmart-5435

MEETING LOCATION IS CHANGED FOR THIS WEEK — NOT AT OUR USUAL LOCATION!

We are planning to attend the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committe meeting on November 27th, as they are dealing specifically with issues around the hiring of Officer Masso (item 8) and notification of next of kin in the event of an officer involved shooting (item 9).

We are planning to make our presence known at the Federal Courthouse in San Francisco on December 13th when Judge Henderson hears oral arguments as to whether to put the Oakland Police into receivership.

We are organizing a fundraiser featuring Angela Davis for December 18th at Laney College.

We will be discussing all these and other possible actions and steps, and we can use all the help we can get!

Sunday November 25 TIME: 9:15 AM – 10:45 AM Location Details: Unitarian Universalist Breakfast Forum

Martin Luther King Room
First Unitarian Universalist Church, San Francisco
1187 Franklin Street at Geary

Sunday, November 25, 2012
Event Type: Speaker “Occupy Wall Street in Northern California: Challenging Economic Injustices in City Centers, on Campuses, at the Port, on the Farm, and Beyond” with Indybay.org journalist Dave Id. Documentation of the movement’s protagonists and antagonists presented through photographs and video (photo below: Occupy the Farm, April, 2012).

Speaker: Dave Id, Documentary Photographer and Indybay

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Forum gathering time: 9:15am

Speaker introduced a little after 9:30

10:30 Question time

10:45 Adjournment

THIS SUNDAY, NOV 25
7pm @ the Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave., Oakland
$2-$20 no one turned away
a benefit for Columbus Day arrestees in San Francisco

Since the dawn of the most recent crisis of capitalism in 2008 there has been a crescendo of uprisings around the globe. From Egypt, to Oakland, from Athens to Madrid partisans of a different world and different social relations have taken their riots and occupations to the symbols of power and to the localities of their lives. Marianne Maeckelbergh and Brandon Jourdan have been documenting these struggles and the experiences of participants at every step of the way. They will join us this Sunday at the Holdout for a salon and retrospective of their mini documentaries and to present the insights they have gathered in their research and participation in these historic moments.

For more info on their project check out: www.globaluprisings.org

This event will be a benefit for the legal costs of the 19 comrades arrested during the anti-capitalist anti-colonial action in San Francisco in October.

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/554126667935533/
indybay: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/23/18726284.php

maximum capacity for this event is 49