The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall.  If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph.  If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland.  (In prior years we have agreed to meet at 4:00 PM during summer hours, that is, once Daylight Savings Time goes back into effect).

On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 2 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over five years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally. Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.

At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.

General Assembly Standard Agenda

1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
3. Announcements
4. (Optional) Discussion Topic

Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.

Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area

San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv

Organized by: Poor Magazine, Prensa, POBRE, Homefullness & Idle No More SF Bay

Last night the Morton County Sherriff’s Department violated the human rights of Water Protectors in North Dakota and unjured 167 of our relatives. Today, we stand in solidarity and prayer with our relatives on the front lines of protecting the Missouri River.

Details rom the Indigenous Environmental Network:”On November 20th at approximately 6PM CST over 100 Water Protectors from the Oceti Sakowin and Sacred Stone Camps mobilized to a nearby bridge to remove a barricade that was built by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department and the State of North Dakota. This barricade, built after law enforcement raided the 1851 treaty camp, not only restricts North Dakota residents from using the 1806 freely but also puts the community of Cannon Ball, the camps, and the Standing Rock Tribe at risk as emergency services are unable to use that highway.

Water Protectors used a semi-truck to remove two burnt military trucks from the road and were successful at removing one truck from the bridge before police began to attack Water Protectors with tear gas, water canons, mace, rubber bullets, and sound cannons.

At 1:30am CST the Indigenous Rising Media team acquired an update from the Oceti Sakowin Medic team that nearly 200 people were injured, 12 people were hospitalized for head injuries, and one elder went into cardiac arrest at the front lines. At this time, law enforcement was still firing rubber bullets and the water cannon at Water Protectors. About 500 Water protectors gathered at the peak of the non-violent direct action.”

Today we stand in solidarity and prayer with our relatives on the frontlines. We pray for their healing, safety, courage in the face of horrendous acts of violence on the part of the Morton County Sheriff Department.

OccupyForum presents

Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!

Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue

on all sides of these critically important issues!

Film: “13th” by Ava DuVernay

The words of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution were supposed to guarantee that slavery and involuntary servitude effectively were outlawed. With the exception of punishment for a crime where the “party shall have been convicted.” That’s the loophole. And as detailed in Ava DuVernay’s “The 13th”, the injustice system in America has not changed all that much since the earliest days of slavery. The statistics DuVernay puts onscreen say it all: African-Americans make up 6.5% of the U.S. population but a whopping 40% of the prison population  in a country with the highest level of incarceration in the world; up more than tenfold since 1970 and existing mostly to put away black and Latino men.

It all comes down to money. That was the driving force in the beginning, when slavery effectively was ended, but the South had to figure out a way to balance the economics when suddenly short about 4 million slaves. Using the loophole in the 13th Amendment, Southerners started putting blacks in prisons for petty reasons and used them as a workforce without calling them “slaves.” Today the practice is very much alive, overcrowding our prisons and filling them with minorities, the most vulnerable and underprivileged among us. Private prisons, which have become a hot-button political issue, exist to make money off incarceration, as do other factors in a system that is rigged against the poorer elements of our society.

“The 13th” is a remarkable denunciation of that system, detailing its beginnings with the end of slavery, right through the Jim Crow South, the Civil Rights movement and today’s presidential election and the seething white anger and racism on view at Donald Trump rallies. Experts, historians, and politicians such as Angela Davis, Senator Corey Booker, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Michelle Alexander, Van Jones, and the likes of Newt Gingrich explain the sorry state of incarceration today. DuVernay lays out the case that “Black lives matter” and that this movement contains a human obligation to not only understand the history, but to do something about it.

Announcements will follow. Donations to OccupyForum to cover our costs are encouraged; no one turned away.

Trudell is a 2005 documentary film about American Indian activist and poet John Trudell. The film traces Trudell’s life from his childhood in Omaha, Nebraska, through his role as a leader of the American Indian Movement. It also covers his rebirth as amusician and spoken word poet after his wife died in a house fire suspected as arson.

Heather Rae produced and directed the film, which took her more than a decade to complete. Trudell aired nationally in theU.S. on April 11, 2006 as part of the Independent Lens series on PBS.

Join with Indigenous activists and allies for an evening of solidarity with a report back panel, short film, speakers, and cultural performances as we come together to Stand With Standing Rock and raise funds to support the Water Protectors. Mni Wiconi-Water is Life – 100% of the donations will go to the people of Standing Rock.

 Additionally, if you can make it to Athena’s next court date, your presence would be very helpful.  Athena’s next court date is Tuesday, November 22, 9:00 AM in dept 21 (third floor) of the San Francisco Hall of Justice (850 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA 94103).  Please be quiet and respectful in the courtroom; no signs are allowed in the courtroom.

Full background:

I am asking you to help free a transsexual mixed-race war veteran who is being held in San Francisco County Jail. 

Athena Cadence is not a threat to herself or others and is in compliance with all of Judge Jeffrey Ross’ court orders.  However, she is being housed in the male unit of the jail, along with other transsexual, transgender, and intersex individuals.  This is in direct violation of the Sheriff’s policy to house transgender inmates in the units appropriate to their genders.  Athena has been on hunger strike since November 15th to protest this unsafe violation of trans rights.  Every day, Athena and other trans inmates are under threat of sexual assault, violence, and degradation. 

Friends of Athena are asking your help in demanding that transgender, transsexual, and intersex inmates be housed appropriately and safely.  To that end we are asking that you call Judge Ross and Sheriff Vicki Hennessy on Monday, November 21–we are going to flood their offices with phone calls.  In your call:

-Demand that Athena and all transgender, transsexual, and intersex inmates immediately be housed in units appropriate to their gender
-Demand that Athena be freed from custody

Below is an example transcript, but feel free to say what is on your mind when you call:

“Hello, this is _________.  I am calling regarding Athena Cadence, who is a transsexual inmate at San Francisco County Jail.  As you know, the sheriff’s office has made a commitment to house transgender, transsexual, and intersex inmates in units appropriate to their gender.  Athena is a woman and it is unsafe to jail her in the men’s unit.  It is a violation of the Sheriff’s department policy to house her in the men’s unit.  We ask that you immediately house Athena and all transgender, transsexual, and intersex inmates in the units appropriate to their genders.  Furthermore, Ms. Cadence is in compliance with all court orders, and is not a threat to herself or others.  Given this, we ask that you release her from custody.”

Here are the phone numbers to call:
Judge Jeffrey Ross: (415) 551-0321
Sheriff Vicki Hennessy: (415) 554-7225

Additionally, if you can make it to Athena’s next court date, your presence would be very helpful.  Athena’s next court date is Tuesday, November 22, 9:00 AM in dept 21 (third floor) of the San Francisco Hall of Justice (850 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA 94103).  Please be quiet and respectful in the courtroom; no signs are allowed in the courtroom.

I and all of Athena’s friends appreciate your help.  Please forward this message to any interested parties.  Together we can hold our (in)justice system accountable and prevent the ongoing abuse of transsexual, transgender, and intersex people and all inmates.

Please join Berkeley Mayor-Elect Jesse Arreguin and other elected officials to reaffirm our city’s and school district’s commitment to providing a sanctuary for all and bring our sisters and brothers out of the shadows. #lovetrumpshate

Forum on Immigrant Rights with Immigration Attorney Mark Silverman, Tuesday, November 22, 2016, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Longfellow Middle School pic.twitter.com/kNJLj64juC

— loridroste (@loridroste) November 21, 2016

Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage.

The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers.

Our work together encompasses:

(1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers,
(2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and
(3) Efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life.

We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.

Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:00 PM at the SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall, 436 14th Street #200, Oakland, CA

Please love and support one another ~ We have a duty to fight ~ We have a duty to win!

olwa.org

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1568668586707336/

 

If you would like to hand these flyers out at Citi bank  meet at 14th and Broadway on Friday.  Flyers will be available there for that morning and for people to take for other days.  We will also discuss other Bank pickets for which other versions of this flyer are being made.  Please contact me   if you can make it Friday or what you other available times are between Black
Friday and Dec, 1.

Please join us for the 17th annual protest of the shopping mall constructed atop the Ohlone Shellmound in Emeryville. This year we come together to draw connections between the amazing resistance by Water Protectors in Standing Rock and the protection of sacred sites here at home in the Bay Area. Please join us to share solidarity, prayer, ideas, hopes, (and food) at this particularly pivotal moment.

Background: In 1999, the City of Emeryville built the mall that now sits on the corner of Shellmound St and Ohlone Way. This space was once a Ohlone village site and it was one of the largest Shellmounds in the Bay Area. The sacred Shellmound once stood over 60ft high and 350 ft in diameter and it was considered the largest funerary complex of the Ohlone people. When the mall was built, we petitioned the city council and asked them not to destroy our sacred sites, but the developers and the businesses ignored our voices. Although the mall was built, our resistance is alive and it has never died. Hence, every year, on the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year, we’ve organized an educational protest to remind everyone that Ohlone peoples are alive in the Bay Area and we aim to educate the public on why and how the desecration of Ohlone sacred sites hurts the Ohlone and everyone living here in the Bay Area. We also ask people to not shop at this mall.

Bring friends, food to share, appropriate and thoughtful signs and please bring your positive attitudes. The ceremony at the protest will include spoken word, sacred songs and dances. Please contact organizers beforehand if you have an offering you would like to share.

Meet at Oscar Grant Plaza at 14th Avenue & Broadway in Oakland to picket banks that have invested in the DAPL pipeline.

Download a flyer by clicking on the following image:

Download the 4x Flyer

 We feel we should coalesce and concentrate on our most urgent effort of building the movement to FREE MUMIA NOW, during the 50^th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, while groups all over the country are gathering to celebrate that anniversary. In this way all our groups will benefit, and we’ll feel our collective power that will help us win all of our demands in the future. Remember Mumia is a great journalist, who’s been fighting for all of us for the 35 years he’s been behind bars.

Locally, we are building for a rally and march from Oscar Grant Plaza to the Oakland Police Station, on December 9, 4:00 PM. Let’s join together and make this HUGE!

Join the Permaculture Action Network & Rising Appalachia Music for a Bay Area Permaculture Action Day! This special Thanksgiving action day will be taking place at City of Dreams urban farm in San Francisco on Sunday, November 27th following Rising Appalachia’s show at the Great American Music Hall on Saturday the 26th.

This will be a one day, family friendly festival with permaculture projects, live music and as always, pot luck lunch!

Projects include:
– Terracing & Irrigation Install
– Mural Painting and Repair
– Fruit Tree Planting
– Building Beds & Removing Brush
– Outdoor Classroom & Kitchen Build
– Compost System Install

Music & Performance:
– Members of Rising Appalachia Music
– J Brave of the Luminaries
– Jasmine Fuego & the Pop Up Band
– Tatu Vision
– Lydia Violet Music
– Members of Thrive East Bay Choir
– more TBA
– Cypher hosted by: Jada Imani

Contests:
– Freestyle
– Dance-Off

Workshops/Panels:
– Yoga
– Panel of Elders
– More TBA

Please bring:
– Water
– Garden tools
– Dish or snacks to add to Pot Luck meals (rice & beans provided)
– Paint for murals
– Working clothes + Layers (prepare for typical fall Bay weather)
– Stories + Songs to share

About City of Dreams:
City of Dreams is committed to supporting youth living in San Francisco low-income public housing in building a bright future through mentorship and youth leadership development. They have a beautiful established garden and a youth-led garden program operating out of the Oakdale Community Center.

Tickets to Great American show: http://www.risingappalachia.com/tour/
(Permaculture Action Day itself is free, as always)

Please click “Going” on the Facebook event page, invite your friends, and post the link!  https://www.facebook.com/events/646018142228446/

Write to us at ‘ Contact (at) PermacultureAction.org ‘ if you want to contribute or get involved.

Bay Area LGBTQ Town Hall Meeting and Strategy Session in response to the incoming Trump administration’s agenda and threats to our community.

This facilitated Town Hall meeting will focus on needed strategic community organizing and solidarity, and will feature speakers providing updates on the likely impact of Trump’s agenda on LGBTQ lives in the areas of law, legislation, healthcare, immigration and the growing sanctuary movement.

Organized by the ad-hoc Bay Area Queer Anti-Fascist Network. Find us at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1770059716578820/

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall.  If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph.  If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland.  (In prior years we have agreed to meet at 4:00 PM during summer hours, that is, once Daylight Savings Time goes back into effect).

On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 2 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over five years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally. Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.

At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.

General Assembly Standard Agenda

1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
3. Announcements
4. (Optional) Discussion Topic

Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.

Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area

San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv