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Occupy the hood
This is a meeting for people who self-identify as people of color/ queer people of color. We meet with the goal of strengthening our participation in the Occupy movement here in Oakland and beyond, and to likewise strengthen the Occupy movement by situating it in the context of our local, living communities and the ongoing work being done by those communities.
Our meeting location sometimes changes based on the availability of spaces. Please contact us at peopleofcolor@occupyoakland.org for up-to-date information. Please also be patient (and persistent) if we don’t respond as quickly as we would like to. We’re growing and evolving our capacities!
We are still a group in progress so don’t be intimidated, its not too late to come check it out!
Email us at Oaklandoccupypatriarchy@gmail.com for the location!
Our beginning forum discussion will be:
Why do you think that we need a seperate organizing space for Women, Trans and Queer people only?
We will also be discussing “point of unity” number two:
Women, Trans people, Queers, Fags, Dykes, need a space that is OURS because we are marginalized, harassed, and attacked in other spaces all the time. We do not all have the same needs and desires, and our relationships with one another are structured by the intensified oppression of people of color, trans people and poor folks. However we think that we can sup- port and increase our power by working with each other.
Hope to see you there!
<3 Oakland Occupy Patriarchy
Cafe Madrid, 2001 Broadway (at 20th St.), Oakland
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Discussing upcoming Fruitvale GA project, outreach to Oakland’s community groups, and canvassing efforts.
Media Committee is dedicated to spreading our message throughout the world via digital content and more traditional forms of media. Meetings on Saturdays, 4pm at Oscar Grant Plaza.
Meeting for reps. from committees, caucuses and working groups from Occupy Oakland.
This meeting is a place for all the work groups, committees, and caucuses of Occupy Oakland to meet up, update each other on events, procedures, concerns etc. It is designed so that there is more transparency and solitary, and between the work groups. Please send two reps with an update from your work group.
Meeting at 4pm in front of city hall.
To plug your commitee into this group check out the Facebook Group Page.
Occupy the hood
This is a meeting for people who self-identify as people of color/ queer people of color. We meet with the goal of strengthening our participation in the Occupy movement here in Oakland and beyond, and to likewise strengthen the Occupy movement by situating it in the context of our local, living communities and the ongoing work being done by those communities.
Our meeting location sometimes changes based on the availability of spaces. Please contact us at peopleofcolor@occupyoakland.org for up-to-date information. Please also be patient (and persistent) if we don’t respond as quickly as we would like to. We’re growing and evolving our capacities!
We are still a group in progress so don’t be intimidated, its not too late to come check it out!
Email us at Oaklandoccupypatriarchy@gmail.com for the location!
Our beginning forum discussion will be:
Why do you think that we need a seperate organizing space for Women, Trans and Queer people only?
We will also be discussing “point of unity” number two:
Women, Trans people, Queers, Fags, Dykes, need a space that is OURS because we are marginalized, harassed, and attacked in other spaces all the time. We do not all have the same needs and desires, and our relationships with one another are structured by the intensified oppression of people of color, trans people and poor folks. However we think that we can sup- port and increase our power by working with each other.
Hope to see you there!
<3 Oakland Occupy Patriarchy
OO Labor Solidarity Meeting – OGP at 6:00 PM
The Occupy movement has embraced the 99% in this country who are suffering under the policies, institutions, and acts of the 1%.
But what does the 99% say about wars? Especially with yet another threatened war, this time on Iran.
We invite you, the 99%, to join an Action Assembly on Saturday, March 3rd, 2012, at the La Pena Cultural Center on 3105 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. This event is hosted by Code Pink and WAK (Women Against Killing).
Meeting for reps. from committees, caucuses and working groups from Occupy Oakland.
This meeting is a place for all the work groups, committees, and caucuses of Occupy Oakland to meet up, update each other on events, procedures, concerns etc. It is designed so that there is more transparency and solitary, and between the work groups. Please send two reps with an update from your work group.
Meeting at 4pm in front of city hall.
To plug your commitee into this group check out the Facebook Group Page.
To work on re-formulating the “about” statement on the Occupy Oakland website.
Writing skills, opinions are more relevant than computer/web skills for this one.
meet at 14th and B-way southeast side of OGP.
Before GA : Wednesday,March 7 5:30, OGP. A chance to meet everyone else, hear what is in the pipeline, get an update on our current fight for Mrs Katy, and find out how to start working on our various projects.
Also, we will be presenting our proposal to the GA that we be recognized as an official committee with all the privileges and responsibilites that such entails. Come on out to get started!!
OOFDG’s first GENERAL MEETING!! Yay!
This is a meeting for people who self-identify as people of color/ queer people of color. We meet with the goal of strengthening our participation in the Occupy movement here in Oakland and beyond, and to likewise strengthen the Occupy movement by situating it in the context of our local, living communities and the ongoing work being done by those communities.
Our meeting location sometimes changes based on the availability of spaces. Please contact us at peopleofcolor@occupyoakland.org for up-to-date information. Please also be patient (and persistent) if we don’t respond as quickly as we would like to. We’re growing and evolving our capacities!
We are still a group in progress so don’t be intimidated, its not too late to come check it out!
Email us at Oaklandoccupypatriarchy@gmail.com for the location!
Our beginning forum discussion will be:
Why do you think that we need a seperate organizing space for Women, Trans and Queer people only?
We will also be discussing “point of unity” number two:
Women, Trans people, Queers, Fags, Dykes, need a space that is OURS because we are marginalized, harassed, and attacked in other spaces all the time. We do not all have the same needs and desires, and our relationships with one another are structured by the intensified oppression of people of color, trans people and poor folks. However we think that we can sup- port and increase our power by working with each other.
Hope to see you there!
<3 Oakland Occupy Patriarchy
Together we will build a world where many worlds fit.
Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos.
What: Encuentro [Convergence]
When: March 10, 2012 1-4PM
Where: Corazón del Pueblo, 4814 International Blvd, Oakland
RSVP: decolonizetoliberate@gmail.com OR (510) 969-9745 OR https://www.facebook.com/events/305409626184269/
WHO? An invitation to the people of Oakland who are building and resisting in their communities.
To all those who fight or want to fight for humanity.
What is an encuentro? An Encuentro is a space for people to come together; it is a gathering or an encounter. An Encuentro is not a meeting, a panel or a conference, it is a way of sharing further developed by the Zapatistas as another form of doing politics: from below and to the left.
One of the initial and most important exchanges and dialogues occurred in the summer of 1997 at the Encuentro Chican@-Zapatista. This encuentro was attended by 120 Los Angeles-based artistic youth and several hundred Zapatista representatives. This encuentro had a huge impact on transnational organizing. It’s time for Oakland to converge and contribute!
Why Oakland? We are already a community in resistance. Oakland is a place of ongoing struggle with a rich history of indigenous resistance, the Great Railroad Strike of 1894, the General Strike of 1946, the birth of the Black Panthers and much more. Most recently, Oakland has fought against:
- -gang injunctions, curfews, and the criminalization of youth
- -S-comm and the recent raids on immigrant communities
- -the closure of 5 Oakland schools, most of which are in East Oakland
- -the gentrification of Oakland’s North, West, and Fruitvale districts
- -the recent wave of homophobic hate crimes and suicides of queer youth
- -the unemployment rate in Oakland’s people of color neighborhoods
- -the disproportionate affect that the sub-prime mortgage crisis has had on working families of color
Sadly, these are all struggles that many cities and communities of poor people throughout the world are facing.
According to the 2010 census close to 75% of Oakland’s population is of African, Asian, Latino, Indigenous, Pacific Islander, or of mixed racial decent. Women, men, transgendered and queer people of color, immigrants, and the homeless have a history as the most marginalized groups.
The Invitation: For our first Encuentro, we are inviting your participation so that we can connect our stories of resistance with others across the city and across the world. We have joined our voices with our other compañer@s who have been ignored, forgotten and marginalized by the neoliberal capitalist system throughout history and into the present.
We hope people will share their struggle in whatever way they feel the most comfortable, whether it be verbally, through song, poetry or rhyme, through a video, through artwork or however people can best express their struggle.
Please come enjoy a meal while we share our struggles!!
We will provide yummy healthy food, free childcare and Spanish/English translation.
RSVP is required. Please RSVP (with number of attendees, children, and translation needs) by March 7 to decolonizetoliberate@gmail.com OR (510) 969-9745 OR https://www.facebook.com/events/305409626184269/
Who We Are: Decolonize Oakland is a collective of queer people of color and people of color.
- We decolonize because this land is already occupied.
- We decolonize because communities of color, women of color, and queers of color have been on the front lines of the struggle against male supremacy, heterosexism, capitalism, and colonial exploitation.
- We decolonize because our current system was founded on settler colonialism, genocide, and slavery.
- We decolonize to claim spaces for the self-determination of communities of color in Oakland.
- We decolonize because any movement that doesn’t confront the continuing force of colonization, patriarchy, hetero-normativity, and white supremacy replicates these oppressions.