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.

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.

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 Oscart Grant Plaza. We generally congregate on the steps to the north of the amphitheatre, near the pedestrian mall that takes you to Clay Street.

Topics 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. In this regard, A Labor Forum is to be held April 21st from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, at the California Nurses Association, 2000 Franklin. Link to this event.

For location contact: occupy4prisoners@gmail.com or 510-333-7966
www.occupy4prisoners.org

Planning Working Group meeting to set up Gatherings to Re-imagine the OO GA

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.

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!

Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting

Location: The Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, in Oakland, California

Everyone who’s interested in doing research to empower Oakland’s 99% and target the city’s 1% is welcome. Bring an open mind and be prepared to learn together.

For more information, email research@occupyoakland.org or visit our website: occupyoaklandresearch.org

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.

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

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.

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

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 held at 400 Roland Way, Oakland, CA 94621 (Teamsters Local 70.). For those coming exclusively by public transportation It’s about two miles away from the Oakland Coliseum BART, (10 minutes on the 98 bus.) Otherwise Rich has volunteered to carpool from the Coliseum BART at 5:30 PM. Others who want to offer rides can meet there too if they want.

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will be focused on evaluating last weekend’s worker’s assembly and planning for events leading up to and for May Day, May 1st, International Workers’ Day and Immigrants’ Rights Day.

Planning Working Group meeting to set up Gatherings to Re-imagine the OO GA

We’ll reflect on the Earth Day actions and plan new directions.  Moved to be closer to the Farm.