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BANK ACTION THIS WEDNESDAY!
We have been meeting with Richard Harris, a homeowner in the Fruitvale who is facing foreclosure and who has just been denied a loan modification. An ex-state police officer and an ex-SF firefighter, he has been in his home for 25 years and the bank thinks he is just another entry on their balance sheets. They think they are going to sell his home from out from underneath him in a month. The system is rigged, his old unions are absent, and the banks are giving him the same old paperwork runaround while the clock ticks. Time for Occupy to step in and take this fight public.
WHAT: SAVE RICHARD HARRIS’ HOME!! Bank Action and Street Canvass
WHEN: Wednesday, April 11, 2:30-4:00 pm
WHERE: Fruitvale BART to gather and hold a pre-action briefing before we leave for the bank.
WHAT: We will be delivering a demand letter to the branch manager, seeking to initate good faith negotiation and escalation of Mr Harris’ case as well as holding an informational picket outside the bank and street canvassing on foreclosures in the neighborhood. This isn’t a bank closure although the banks often try to close rather than deal with their own customers. Livestreamers will respect our media parameters or will be deemed “hostile” and be dealt with accordingly. This is a disciplined action with a set of agreements that will be discussed at the pre-action briefing.
See you there!!
This is a public fight now!!
Occupy Oakland Patriarchy is hosting a BBQ and speak out “reflecting on cycles of violence.”
Stand and join a march with the workers who dedicate their lives to operating and maintaining the Golden Gate Bridge, and the buses & ferries that take fans to Giants games.
Tell the Bridge District to keep its promises. Don’t let them break their promises by: Reducing vested retiree benefits; Reducing current employees’ benefits, making quality health care unafforable for families; Rewarding non-union employees with raises while punishing union workers.
Meet @ Market Street & the Embarcadero (across from the Ferry Bldg) at 4 PM for rally. March to AT&T Park.
Members of Occupy Portland media Coalition present “Occupation Nation” film screenings this weekend in Oakland and Berkeley
A slam-packed episode of political remix videos that is hotter than mace in your face
B Media’s latest video variety show is an hour-long episode that remixes historic struggles for freedom of speech, the labor movement and international land occupations with local and national actions like #F29, interviews with David Graeber, and Obama in Disney World. Special appearances by Mr.Bean, Clint Eastwood and Janet Jackson’s boob.
Watch the trailer here:http://bit.ly/occupationpromo
About the Events:
Sat 14th 7-9pm
Occupation Nation (screening/discussion)
Longhaul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck Ave
About B Media Collective:
B Media Collective is a community-based video art collective from
Portland, OR, that uses political remix videos, documentary films, and
skill-sharing workshops to catalyze collaborative work for social
justice.
About the Variety Show:
The Variety Show is a bi-monthly mash up of art, humor and politics
remixing local social justice events with found internet detritus.
Centered around a relevant theme, the show is an eclectic,
ever-evolving experiment in collaborative filmmaking.
No war on Iran, End all wars!
On this tax day, REFUSE your give your tax money for continuous wars & occupations, including the threatened invasion of Iran!
Redirect our resources! Bring yourselves along with your tax dollars, food, books, plants, bicycles, medical supplies, sings, etc. – any of the things you want our taxes to go for – to the Oakland Federal Building and help distribute our resources to the people, NOT to wars, occupations, genocides!!!
Stand with CodePINK, Occupy Oakland, Northern California War Tax Resistance, BAY-Peace, Courage to Resist, Afghans for Peace, Women in Black, IVAW, Stanford says NO to Wars, Global Exchange, Grandmothers and all concerned US folks to insist NO NEW WARS AND END ALL WARS!
Street theater, music, food, visuals: wherever our tax money is going, our war economy and military attacks on other countries (off the US Land mass) since 1798!
Last Organizing meeting, Saturday, April 14th, 11am -1pm, Mudrakers Cafe, 2801 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley.
www.bayareacodepink.org
info@bayareacodepink.org
ATTENTION!!!!
ALL MAIL HANDLERS AND POSTAL WORKERS!
The National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the American Postal Workers Union are working together on Tax Day April 17th on a very important informational leafleting to the people!
We as postal workers along with support from our community will be outside Oakland Main Post office 1675 7th St from 8:30 am until 10:30pm. There will be a speak out/rally from 3:30pm until 7:30pm.
Together we can stop the fraudulent, disastrous & totally unnecessary attack on our postal service and its workers!
The Postmaster General wants to kill the Postal Service: slash 200,000 + jobs, delay the mail, and close 3,700 Post Offices.
Most shutdowns are in poor and rural communities, where jobs and service are needed most.
The postal service is NOT in financial crisis. It is subject to ridiculous and unfair requirements imposed by Congress in 2006.
This could be the last chance before a bill comes from Congress for us to lift OUR voice and stop the back door PRIVATIZATION of the postal service.
Take a day of leave or come to work a few hours early or stay after work for a few hours this is YOUR chance to fight for your Job.
SEE YOU OUT THERE!!!
DAY OF ACTION!
Occupy the Post Office!
Stop the fraudulent, disastrous & totally unnecessary attack on our postal services!
The Postmaster General wants to kill the Postal Service: slash 200,000+ jobs, delay the mail, and close 3,700 Post Offices.
Most shutdowns are in poor and rural communities, where jobs and service are needed most.
The postal service is NOT in financial crisis. It is subject to ridiculous and unfair requirements imposed by Congress in 2006.
Let your voice be heard:
No reduction in postal service – keep 6-day delivery!
No Post Office Closings – expand the postal service, don’t destroy it!
Stop PRIVATIZATION of the P.O. –postal services belong to the people!
Demand a government-funded Jobs program at union wages for all, regardless of immigration status
Jobs for Youth – NOT JAILS!
Join with the postal workers’ unions to Save the People’s Post Office:
DATE: April 17, 2012 (Tax Day)
Place: Main Post Office Speak Out / Rally 1675 7th St Oakland CA, 94615
Time: Speak Out / Rally 3:30 pm until 7:30pm
(There will be an event going on all day from 8:30 am until 10:30 pm come out for an hour or all day stand with postal workers and help save the Peoples’ Post Off
Members of Occupy Portland media Coalition present “Occupation Nation” film screenings this weekend in Oakland and Berkeley
A slam-packed episode of political remix videos that is hotter than mace in your face
B Media’s latest video variety show is an hour-long episode that remixes historic struggles for freedom of speech, the labor movement and international land occupations with local and national actions like #F29, interviews with David Graeber, and Obama in Disney World. Special appearances by Mr.Bean, Clint Eastwood and Janet Jackson’s boob.
Watch the trailer here:http://bit.ly/occupationpromo
About the Events:
Sat 14th 7-9pm
Occupation Nation (screening/discussion)
Longhaul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck Ave
About B Media Collective:
B Media Collective is a community-based video art collective from
Portland, OR, that uses political remix videos, documentary films, and
skill-sharing workshops to catalyze collaborative work for social
justice.
About the Variety Show:
The Variety Show is a bi-monthly mash up of art, humor and politics
remixing local social justice events with found internet detritus.
Centered around a relevant theme, the show is an eclectic,
ever-evolving experiment in collaborative filmmaking.
The working class is facing an unprecedented assault from employers and the state. We must
build solidarity in collective struggle. In this spirit we invite all workers – paid and unpaid,
employed and unemployed, union and nonunion, full-time and precarious – to join a
Worker’s Assembly. We will communicate across sectors – from city workers to the private sector,
from domestic and service work to industrial labor – and begin to develop common struggles.
Sponsored by the Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity Committee
Free Lunch provided.
TUESDAY, APRIL 24TH AT 10AM
Meet at Justin Herman Plaza
Near the Embarcadero BART where Market St. ends at Stuart
March to Merchants Exchange Building 465 California St.
Wells Fargo profits at the cost of our communities:
- America’s Biggest Tax Dodger – Hoarding billions of tax dollars that should be paying for public services and putting America back to work
- Leads in Foreclosure – Continuing to foreclose on families in an economy it helped to ruin
- Predatory Lender – Targeting those who can least afford it with exploitive mortgages and payday lending,especially low-income communities of color
- Corrupting our Democracy – Protecting its profits by quadrupling spending on lobbying since the financial crisis began
- Prison Profiteer – Profiting from increased incarceration by investing heavily in for-profit prison corporations and anti-immigrant legislation
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4PM – Rally and Truth Mob at Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th & Broadway
5PM – March to Federal Building, then to:
6PM – Putting the Injustice System on Trial at 19th and Telegraph. Charges include: Mass Incarceration, Police Brutality and Murder, Inhumane Treatment of People in Prison, and more.
This action is in solidarity with the Occupy the Justice Department protest happening in Washington DC on April 24th, Mumia Abul-Jamal’s birthday. Occupy4Prisoners joins the growing list of endorsers.
HELP US TIP THE SCALES!
occupy4prisoners.org/occupythejusticedepartment.com
occupy4prisoners@gmail.com
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
Hey there! As a fun way to get ready for may day, we will host a wonderful medic l.a.r.p.ing event.
This event might be more useful if you have already been a street-medic, and or you have been trained. We will not go over a whole training at this event, this is just to practice your skills and for us to hangout and have fun!
Please bring: Clothes you will get dirty in! supplies to share! A lunch or money/ebt etc to get one. friends who want to be lovely actors, your awesome skills,
Tentative schedule:
9am-12pm workshop skill share discussion, social, maybe breakout groups for detailed workshops
12-1pm lunch and social and supply swap!
1 til 4pm scenarios, feedback, and live action role playing.
4 til 5pm socialize
5pm end of the event!
First come First on the list. Limited room. Please RSVP to bayareastreetmedics@gmail.com
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
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.
International Worker’s Day and Immigrants’ Rights Day. Occupy Los Angeles has called for a General Strike on May 1st, an action which Occupy Oakland has endorsed.
Posters and flyers here and here.
Synposis:
6AM:
Occupy the Golden Gate bridgepicket with Golden Gate Labor Unions or attend a rally near the Golden Gate Bridge.
Meet at 19th & Telegraph to occupy the Golden Gate Bridge. Buses will be available. More info here and here.
9AM – NOON: 3-4 morning actions, Some events here.
NOON – 1PM: Everyone Converge on Downtown
1PM – 3PM: Themed Actions & Marches Around Downtown
3PM: March for Dignity and Resistance
All are encouraged to join the march starting at Fruitvale BART station at 3pm.
More info here and here and here.
6PM – 7PM: Reconvergence downtown to coincide with the march arrival
Stand up for ATU Members, Stop Cuts in Para Transit!
Called by the ATU 192 who represents the workers there in Para Transit: as part of a campaign against Substandard conditions, contract concessions, arbitrary discipline & firings, and service cuts.
Support by Occupy AC Transit
as part of a campaign for transit equity and organizing to unite AC workers and transit riders to stop budget cuts, oppose concessions,and make the Banks pay. Passengers and Transit workers Unite. Free passes for the working poor and youth.
Directions: Bart to Hayward Station
AC Bus 86 towards W Winton (about 13 minutes)
Stop at W Winton and Corsair.
Clawiter is across from Corsair, walk left on Clawiter to A-Para Transit
For individual or group trauma support, mediations and anti-oppression advocacy, please contact Safer Spaces:
Tel: (510) 502-9466
Email:saferspaces@occupyoakland.org
Healing can take place in the form of reconnecting with Mother Earth.
It can be little steps like birdwatching, hiking, going to the beach or eating freshly picked berries. Ask your five senses what do I see, hear, taste, touch, smell?
Have you tried gardening? Or are you already a gardener? What does your body, mind and soul experience when you dig that dirt, plant the seed, water, trim the weeds, ask the ladybugs to kindly tell some insects to be nice to your plants and watch the phenomenon of seeds turning into fruits,vegetables or flowers? What does it feel like to struggle with a plant that won’t thrive but one day you go out and it turned into something beautiful? What does it feel like when you can be sustainable and self-efficient through this entire process? What does it feel like to share stories and tips with your fellow Green Thumbs? What does it feel like when you can share your harvest with your friends, family or community?
Healing from trauma is about your body regenerating and flourishing much like plants. Sometimes you may have to become a seed again in order to recover. There may be ups and downs but because you are part of Mother Earth, you have the resilience and strength to overcome, no matter how difficult. You are also your own gardener. What can you do for your garden? Our movement went from seeds to the bountiful harvest that it is now because of the care, faith and dedication you and your comrades gave to it.Take care and be kind to yourself. Take care of each other. We can heal as a community.
On that note, there’s some beautiful healing going on at Occupy the Farm today! Please come if you can.
When: Thursday, May 3
Event Schedule:
“Occupy the Farm”: Permaculture workshop and Maypole
Join Starhawk and friends to support the wonderful farm being created on a piece of vacant land in the East Bay by the Occupy movement.
Permaculture workshop, 3:00 p.m: Learn some of the basic ethics and principles of permaculture as we put them into practice at this reclaimed farm site.
Maypole celebration, 6:00 p.m.: Dance the Maypole to celebrate the rising tides of life, the diverse forms of love, and the power of regeneration.
Bring food to share. Donations of seeds and starts for the farm are much appreciated.
Cost: Free! Kids welcome.
Location: Marin between San Pablo and Jackson streets, Albany, California
For more information: http://www.takebackthetract.com/
Occupy Oakland will have a table set up at Art Murmur this Friday, May 4th. The exact location of the table is to be determined, but we will be raising money for OO by selling prints and other things for folks passing through.
In response to the May 1st vandalism of small businesses and private property in this largely working class neighborhood, we at the Brooms Collective are planning on gathering at the 16th Street Mission BART Station at 11:30 on Saturday morning to participate in a neighborhood clean-up and outreach action. Many people seem to believe that these deplorable actions were attributable to supporters of the Occupy Movement, and even Occupy Oakland in particular. Many of us in the Brooms Collective found this truly senseless destruction wholly out of step with our beliefs, political, social or otherwise, and we believe that many others feel the same way. An action such as this is the only way that we could even hope to repair the damage that was done in the name of a movement that many of us believe would never have condoned it in the first place.