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ALONG WITH THE BELOW SCHEDULE, COMMUNITY PICKET SHUTTLES COURTESY OF THE SEIU WILL BE LEAVING THE WEST OAKLAND BART STARTING AT 5:00 AM !!
TUESDAY: Shuttles will pick people up from West Oakland BART station from 5 AM to 8AM, 12 NOON and again from 4 PM to 6 PM.
Buses will be picking up from the Union Hall at 100 OAK St. throughout the day.
Shuttles will return people to West Oakland BART from 7-8 PM.
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SEIU 1021 Port Workers are Going on Strike against Unfair Labor Practices engaged in by the Port of Oakland. The Port of Oakland has a $37 million surplus, yet refuses to give workers the proper information that they are required to by law. This is one of the richest Port’s in Oakland, the Federal Government has invested in the expansion of the Port to create good jobs in Oakland… and now the Port is refusing to Bargain.
Stop Unfair Labor Practices at the Port!
Support SEIU 1021 strike!
We are asking for your support!
Please come out on Tuesday, November 21 at the Port of Oakland:
9 AM: SSA Terminal 1717 Middle Harbor, Berth 57-59
12 PM Noon: Terminal 1 Oakland Airport
5 PM: SSA Terminal 1717 Middle Harbor, Berth 57-59
FULL SCHEDULE
Kick-Off our 24 hour strike:
Monday, Nov. 19th, 9 PM at Oakland Airport, Terminal 1
TUESDAY, NOV. 20th COMMUNITY PICKET SCHEDULE:
5 AM: 100 Oak Street, Shuttle to Port Terminals
9 AM: SSA Terminal, Berth 57-59 Press Event
12 Noon: Oakland Airport, Terminal 1
4 PM: 100 Oak Street, Shuttle to Port Terminals
5 PM: SSA Terminal, Bert 57-59 Press Event
9 PM: End Time
We will have shuttles from SEIU 1021 office at 100 Oak Street, 2 blocks from the Lake Merritt BART at 5 AM!
Background:
After 16 months without a contract, management at the Port of Oakland still refuse to negotiate fairly. They are demanding cuts, even with a $37 million surplus… and are lying about their finances to the workers and the public. We need more, good jobs in Oakland–not line Goldman Sachs pockets.
Stand up for Good Jobs!
Stand up for Oakland!
Stand up for Fair Bargaining!!!
For more info, call 415-412-1982 or visit:
http://www.seiu1021.org/content/portworkers
Now we take the eviction defense of Jodie Randolph to the banks’ doorstep! Again!
We’ve got round-the-clock defense of the home. We put Morgan Stanley on notice and shut down their Oakland office with a group delegation two weeks ago. We’ve shut down the phone lines to one of their executive’s offices with a 2-day phone blast campaign.
Now that we’ve got their attention, we demand that we speak with someone with decision making ability.
We are ready to negotiate a repurchase agreement and we demand a shotcaller be put on the case!
NO MORE RUNAROUND!
NO MORE EXCUSES, MORGAN STANLEY!
WHEN: TUESDAY, 1PM
WHERE: MONTGOMERY BART STATION, SF
We gather at the BART station for a pre-action briefing, then march to the SF offices of Morgan Stanley where we will deliver our demands and seek a sitdown meeting with John Sheldon, the SF managing director. Press conference afterwards.
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
Come rally with us outside the US Maine Corps officers recruiting office and demand that Bradley’s mistreatment be accounted for! Speakers will include leading members of the Bradley Manning Support Network and partner organizations.
The City Council Public Safety Committee will be taking a report from the police on their hiring practices (e.g., as to why they hire people like Officer Masso who, before he killed Alan Blueford, tortured a prisoner in NY and then refused to call for medical aid), and also taking another report on what police standards are when dealing with the family of a victim of an officer-involved shooting (e.g., do you keep the family sitting around for hours and then misidentify the victim, as happened to the Bluefords?).
Come join us in witness and in support of Justice 4 Alan Blueford.
We’ll go through assorted tactics & actions (debtors assemblies, an Oakland-specific jubilee effort, Debt Resistors Operations Manuals outreach and teach-ins, etc) and see who is interested in doing what. This project is 100% ours to shape to Oakland-specific priorities.
Also check out the Rolling Jubilee for background.
“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. While this week’s meeting would normally be held at OGP, because it will almost certainly be pouring rain, we will meet at San Francisco Pizza at
15th & Broadway, next to OGP. PLEASE CHECK BACK BECAUSE THIS LOCATION COULD VERY WELL CHANGE!
Topics may include a review of the SEIU shutdown of the port, ILWU issues in Portland, Oregon, 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 recent Walmart nationwide action, and
other local or national labor issues.
Join activists, foreclosure fighters and elected officials as we talk about the state of the fight for housing justice in Bernal Heights, where neighbors have been organizing neighbors to keep each other in their homes. Discuss how our efforts fit into the rich history of organizing for affordable housing–in the neighborhood and beyond. Hear from supervisors and activists organizing to ensure that anyone fighting foreclosure has the same protections as tenants to stay in their homes; and discuss the next steps in the fight to make sure all San Franciscans have a right to safe, decent, affordable housing. Come to this event and find out how you can get involved in the movement for housing justice.
*Ross Rhodes, Bernal Heights Foreclosure Fighter
*Grace Martinez, Organizer with Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
*Amy Beinart, Housing Director, Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
*Buck Bagot, Occupy Bernal
*Assemblymember Tom Ammiano
*SF Supervisor John Avalos
This public forum is sponsored by Occupy Bernal. For more info, email info@occupybernal.org or call 415-483-9138, or visit www.occupybernal.org
Join us for an ongoing monthly discussion of the COINTELPRO and its implications for contemporary activists.
COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counterintelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.
The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971. COINTELPRO tactics include[d] discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination. The FBI’s stated motivation was “protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order.”
MEETING LOCATION IS NOT THE REGULAR PLACE!!!! IT IS A DIFFERENT SEIU HALL. THIS LOCATION IS FAIRLY NEAR THE LAKE MERRITT BART, PAST THE FREEWAY TOWARDS ALAMEDA.
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 also be planning our next visit to City Hall.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get!
Sundays – 2:00 PM, 19th Street and Telegraph Avenue
Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally and has equal decision-making power. Occupy Oakland’s General Assembly uses a participatory decision-making process appropriately called, “Occupy Oakland’s Collective Decision-Making Process.” Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
Decision Making
Proposals are brought to the Facilitation Committee, either in person at their regular meetings (19th and Telegraph on Wednesdays at 12:00 PM and Saturdays at 4:00 PM) or through an email to: facilitation@occupyoakland.org, and then are brought to Occupy Oakland’s General Assembly. A proposal becomes a resolution only when it is approved through the mechanics of Occupy Oakland’s collective decision-making process. If the community passes a proposal, then it becomes an official Occupy Oakland resolution.
Autonomous Action & the General Assembly
The bulk of the work of Occupy Oakland does NOT happen in the General Assembly. It happens in various committees, caucuses, and associated groups that report back to the general assembly. Everyone participating in Occupy Oakland should be part of at least one associated group. Occupy Oakland encourages autonomous actions that do not require consensus from the General Assembly. This encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
- Welcome
- Welcome Announcements
- Agenda Overview
- Forum
- Reports from Committees, Subcommittees, Caucuses, & Working Groups
- Overview of Process
- Proposal Queue
- Sample Proposal 1
- Sample Proposal 2
- Sample Proposal 3
- Action Announcements
- General Announcements
* An agenda is subject to change at the discretion of the Facilitation Committee or the facilitators of the GA.
Schedule and Records
Meeting notes, resolutions, and decisions are posted online so that participants can keep track of what is going on with the occupation.
GA Statements | GA Minutes | GA Agendas | GA Proposals | GA Resolutions
Facilitation Committee
Helps facilitate the operation of the General Assembly. The Facilitation Committee meets at 19th and Telegraph on Wednesdays at 12:00 PM and Saturdays at 4:00 PM. If you would like to join our committee, please email us at: facilitation@occupyoakland.org, or see our page on this website for more information: Facilitation Committee.
How to Make a Proposal
- Create a group of at least three people that have attended at least one Occupy Oakland General Assembly prior to drafting the proposal.
- Submit your proposal in writing to: facilitation@occupyoakland.org or during a Facilitation Committee meeting.
- Please include contact information for at least three members of your group.