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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.
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.
Dr. Erica Chenoweth will discuss her recent research on dynamics of civil resistance. Based on her global data set of armed and unarmed resistance campaigns from1900 to 2006, and drawing upon both statistical findings as well as case studies from conflicts around the world, Dr. Chenoweth will explore the reasons resistance campaigns succeed and fail.
Protest the US massacre of Afghans and end the US war and militarism. No more killings. No more apologies.
Friday, March 30th, 2012
2:30pm – Meet at the Fremont BART.
3:00pm – March to the Army Recruiting Center (39194 Paseo Padre Parkway).
Why:
1) Protest the US massacre of Afghans in Panjwai, Kandahar, as well as all other atrocities related to this war.
2) Protest the US military recruitment of poor people in this country.
3) Raise awareness about and rally support against the “US/Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement.”
We’d like to clearly state that this is a NONVIOLENT direct action.
Organized by: Afghans for Peace, Autonomous Afghans, and SF Bay Area Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Endorsed by: Courage to Resist, Decolonize Oakland, Education Not Incarceration, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Occupy Oakland, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, and World Can’t Wait SF Bay.
For more info: www.AfghansForPeace.org, www.facebook.com/AfghansforPeace,https://www.facebook.com/events/372239879462997.
On November 3rd, Truth was beaten by police and charged with multiple felonies on his way back to his tent after the General Strike. An occupier from day one, Truth had a probation hold from 2008 that allowed the police to keep him in jail for 5 months despite the dropping of his Nov. 3rd charges. On March 28th, he will have a probation hearing. His NLG lawyer believes that he will be released on time served for the “probation violation.”
Momo, also swept up during a large day of action, has a similar story. Though the charges he incurred on January 28th were never pressed, his probation status allowed the county to hold him for 60 days. His release date is March 29th. Taken together, the stories of both comrades are a disturbing reminder of the local authorities’ will and ability to exploit any vulnerability to punish and suppress our movement.
But our love and solidarity are fiercer than the city’s acts of repression. On Friday, March 30th, we’re going to give our long-jailed comrades a resounding welcome-back. Meet at 19th & Telegraph at 7pm on March 30th to party in support of Truth and Momo. The anti-repression committee will provide food and music. When you go down for Occupy Oakland, Occupy Oakland has your back!
Email environmentaljustice@occupyoakland.org for address of meeting to coordinate plans for Chevron action, community gardens, Earth Day literature, EJ collaborations
2-6pm in the triangle park at the intersection of 52nd, MLK & West
in support of the North Oakland Neighborhood Assembly & the fight to save Santa Fe Elementary. HEPAC will be providing free HIV tests on site and passing out condoms and safe sex kits! + Workshops from the People’s Community Medics, Foreclosure Defense Committee and more.
Occupy Oakland is hosting its third Neighborhood BBQ this coming Saturday at 52nd and MLK in North Oakland. The BBQ will last from 2pm to 6pm and is in support of the North Oakland Neighborhood Assembly & the fight to save Santa Fe Elementary. HEPAC will be providing free HIV tests on site and passing out condoms and safe sex kits! + Workshops from the People’s Community Medics, Foreclosure Defense Committee and more.
FOLLOWING THE BBQ AT 6PM:
MARCH to TAKE BACK the TOWN
one month countdown to May 1…
• From 52nd & MLK
• To Santa Fe Elementary
one of five Oakland schools set to close in 2012
• To Oscar Grant Plaza
no more stay away orders!
free all occupy political prisoners!
part of the Spring Offensive 2012
STRIKE! OCCUPY! DECOLONIZE!
in conjunction with FTP 14a & 14b
Organized by the Occupy Oakland BBQ Assembly
Come for the glamor, glitter & fierceness, stay to plan some smashing of capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy & the fascist state!
Right now our bodies are under attack by the state and its rightwing minions. And we’re ready and waiting to bash the fuck back against this attack on reproductive freedoms and bodily autonomy. So on this May Day we’re going to be organizing around reproductive labor and we invite all queers, women and trans* folks to come every or any possible sunday to the planning meetings with ideas and open ears!!
We will be meeting at 5pm on Sundays after the GAs at 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.
Come support the Occupy Oakland Press Conference on the DA’s targeted prosecutions and stayaway orders and help spread resistance! Hear statements from the Attorney for the IceCream 3; the attorney for victims of hate crimes frustrated at city’s indifference in non politicized cases; a ‘stayaway’ activist from UCB, and much much more!
We need your support, as does everyone facing repression from the OPD and the ACDA!
For members to get a grip on the basics of the foreclosure process and the tactics of fighting back. Organizers from several groups already fighting foreclosures will meet up with us to share their knowledge and experience.
Calling a Decolonize & (UN)Occupy Oakland Anti-War Working Group Organizing Meeting
Inviting all folks deeply concerned about wars the U.S. continues to engage in, against mostly peoples of color around the world and at home, to come to our first Anti-War Working Group meeting this Wednesday before the G.A., 5:15pm, at Oscar Grant Plaza.
We want to form a working group because we realize that war is not an “issue,” but the integral foundation of our nation: in addition to the millions of people we are killing and the immutable damage to Mother Earth, we are spending $2 billion a DAY for these atrocities, making some extremely rich, while severely hurting others.
Also, Occupy Oakland has adopted the resolution to participate in the NO WAR ON IRAN April 17th Tax Day of Global Action Against Military Spending, at the Oakland Federal Building on 1301 Clay Street.
We want to have a vibrant and meaningful action & presence, so PLEASE come to this organizing and planning action meeting!
THANKS!
In solidarity and action,
Xan Sam Joi
DISARM DISARM DISARM
work for peace; hold all life sacred; eliminate violence
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