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On his birthday and in the spirit of Dr. King’s vision for racial and economic equality, peace, and non-violence, we are holding candlelight vigils to unite our world in a global movement for systemic change.
Wherever we may be, whether in our homes, in city squares, online, Occupies, or at work, we lift a beautiful message high above the political dialogue. We light the dream of a more equitable world in our hearts. We can overcome!
Dr. King said “A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and say: ‘This is not just.’ ”
Vigils are being organized around the world — from California to Cairo, New York to New Orleans, Germany to Nova Scotia. Pete Seeger, K’naan, Ramy Essam, Sol Guy, Joan Baez, Steve Earle, Russell Simmons and many more have committed their support.
We gather to empower a great and global dream, a dream we have all dreamt of for thousands of years. We will sing, because freedom songs are the soul of the movement.. Together, we will make the dream a reality.
The Local action:
We, the Womyn and GURRLS Caucus of Ocupy Oakland invite you to step into and mediate upon the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
You are welcome to bring your favorite reading from Dr, King to share!
There will be an opportunity for all to speak – all are welcome!
*Please bring tee lights, and open hearts!
To learn more about the Global Action:
http://www.j15global.com/
Occupy City Council January 17 and let your voice be heard. Sign up to speak during public comments or speak against a specific agenda item. Fill the meeting chambers to let Oakland City Council know they are responsible for how Occupy Oakland protesters have been treated. Stand up, use your voice, Occupy City Council!
email: oakcitycouncil@gmail.com
Twitter: @OakCityCouncil
Website: www.occupyoakcitycouncil.w
Every Wednesday and Saturday 12-4:40 at the OG Plaza we are doing work parties (making banners, puppets and signs) for the January 20th action in SF (shutdown of the financial district). It was approved by the GA that Occupy Oakland will do reclaim the streets action on that day in SF.
“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop.
North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza
First edition of Occupy Oakland Book Club! This first meeting will include a meet and greet, discussion on book club format, and finally, we will discuss potential books and choose one for the next book club meeting.
#OccupyEducated has determined a list of 5 essential reads for the movement. We can consider reading these or hear other great book ideas.
http://occupyeducated.org/2011/11/15/hello-world/
Invite your smart friends and not-so-smart friends, anyone interested in educating themselves on the issues relating to the movement and the 99%!
Corporations are not people! Money is not speech! Come join us for a national day of action to end corporate personhood. There will be speakers and entertainment.
Protest, Street Theater… *All Day*
Friday, January 20, 2012, 8:00 AM
Oakland Federal Courthouse
Clay Street, between 13th and 14th Streets
Take BART to SF to join Occupy Wall Street West Actions
Friday, January 20, 2012, 11:00 AM
Pick the action you want to join:
* SF Occupy the Courts (11:45 AM: Meet at Civic Center BART and march to Federal Courthouse/9th Circuit Court of Appeals at 7th and Mission.)
* Occupy Oakland’s Reclaim the Streets (Embarcadero BART)
For more information, please see our website at: http://occupyoaklandcourts.org.
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
*** 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.
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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
Drama games and Theatre of the Oppressed for community building, working through dynamics with “isms” within the movement, and practicing embodying our ideals together. A great warm up for the GA. All are welcome, including shy people!
*no class on Dec. 25, Jan. 1, and on the weekends when there is the Anti-racist/decolonization teach-in on Saturdays because we will support their work those days instead of our Sunday Workshop
Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall
“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop.
North Side, Oscar Grant Plaza
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/
*** 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
Drama games and Theatre of the Oppressed for community building, working through dynamics with “isms” within the movement, and practicing embodying our ideals together. A great warm up for the GA. All are welcome, including shy people!
*no class on Dec. 25, Jan. 1, and on the weekends when there is the Anti-racist/decolonization teach-in on Saturdays because we will support their work those days instead of our Sunday Workshop
Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall
“Record Occupy Oakland” will encourage all comers to write their personal experience and their personal observations. We’ll read and review essays, poems, stories, memoirs, plays, speeches, and help make them vivid and powerful. And we will be a connecting house to places where a record can be published. We can also entertain the idea of building a SLAM team. Bring paper and pens that work, or laptops, to the workshop.
North Side, 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
Drama games and Theatre of the Oppressed for community building, working through dynamics with “isms” within the movement, and practicing embodying our ideals together. A great warm up for the GA. All are welcome, including shy people!
*no class on Dec. 25, Jan. 1, and on the weekends when there is the Anti-racist/decolonization teach-in on Saturdays because we will support their work those days instead of our Sunday Workshop
Benjamin will be holding office hours near the steps of City Hall
HELLO OCCUPY OAKLAND!
Please join us this Sunday, February 5, 6:30-8:30pm for a Healing Circle for Occupy Activists with:
Starhawk, and fellow healers Luisah Teish, Riyanna, George Franklin, Evelie Delfino Sales, and more.
In recent weeks, activists with the Occupy movement have been hard-hit by police violence, arrest and imprisonment. Join us in a safe space to acknowledge, release and heal from the pain, fear, rage and trauma, so we can come back stronger. In sacred space, we can connect from the heart. Open to those of all spiritual persuasions—or none at all! Sponsored by Occupy Oakland Safer Spaces.
Location:
Oakland Peace Center
Fellowship Hall 29th St. at Fairmount
Oakland
BART 19th St. Station
51A Bus
Safer Spaces contact: Erica psychrights@gmail.com
This event is Free–donations gratefully accepted.