Calendar
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 Oscar Grant Plaza, on the steps between the amphitheatre and the trees. But check back here on the afternoon of May 10th in case of inclement weather — we might move indoors and the new location would be announced here.
Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will likely be focused on reviewing May Day activities and planning for our upcoming second Workers’ Assembly, tentatively scheduled for May 19th.
This Friday, May 11th, there will be an action in front of the OPD Station at 7th and Broadway to protest and bring light to the murder of 18 year old Alan Bluford this past weekend. It will begin at 5pm and will include such speakers as Jack Bryson from Occupy Oakland amongst others.
This Saturday, May 12th, there will be a march at 3pm from the corner of 90th and Birch in East Oakland and will go to the Eastmont Pol ice Substation at 73rd ave and MacArthur. Alan’s family has called for the march and has asked for a peaceful assembly and march.
Alan was shot in the back by Oakland police last Sunday. The family is asking why the OPD has changed their story of what happened 3 times, why they consider the offer competent after he shot himself in the foot and a young man who posed no threat to the officer as he was running away, and why this same officer is on paid leave.
Supplies to make picket signs will be available at 11am Saturday at Arroyo Park.
Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting
Date: Sundays
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
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
The family of Alan Blueford has asked allies to come to the Oakland City Council Meeting at 6 pm on Tuesday to demand justice for the OPD killing of their son! Get there by 6 pm to demand a real investigation into the circumstances of the killing! The police officer should not be on paid leave, beyond that, what is his name, and why are they still on the force?
March from San Pablo Park (Ward and Mabel) to Bayer (Grayson and 7th) in Berkeley to protest production of pesticide that is killing off the bees!
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 Oscar Grant Plaza, on the steps between the amphitheatre and the trees. But check back here on the afternoon of May 17th in case of inclement weather — we might move indoors and the new location would be announced here.
Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will likely include planning for our upcoming second Workers’ Assembly, scheduled for May 19th at 10:00 AM at the SEIU 1021 Hall at 155 Myrtle St, Oakland, CA.
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 non-union, full-time and
precarious – to join a Workers’ Assembly.
We aim to encourage communication and solidarity between
different sectors of the working class. We want to encourage
common struggle against the 1% and their agents who exploit
and oppress us, for a society based on justice and equality, where
the needs and desires of all working people are given first priority.
This will be the 2nd meeting of the Workers’ Assembly.
It will take place at the SEIU 1021 Hall, 155 Myrtle St, Oakland, CA.
Please join us — And there is such thing as a free lunch!
Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting
Date: Sundays
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
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
Castlewood workers have been locked in a dispute over health care benefits for more than two years now. Last winter Occupy Oakland supported their cause and helped organize a march and rally. Now they would like our help again:
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Walmart Supplier Plans to Cross Our Picket Line!
Join us on the line – Monday, 5/21, 12:30 pm
Acosta Sales and Marketing is having a golf
tournament at Castlewood on Monday, May 21st.
Acosta is a national food brokering company
for Walmart and other stores.
Come join us on the picket line and add your voice to the struggle.
Tell Acosta to respect the workers’ boycott of Castlewood!
Valley Course, Castlewood Country Club
(Castlewood Drive between Pleasanton-Sunol Rd. and Foothill Rd.)
Questions or Rides? Contact Sarah Norr at (510) 502-5344 or norr.sarah@gmail.com
Come out, come out wherever you are!!! Please, please, please join us
to picket the Bank of America next Monday, May 21, 5-6pm at the Albany
Branch, Solano at Neilson, next to Safeway. Nine of us, mainly
community senior citizens ranging in age from the early 60s to 85
years asked for a meeting with the manager. After he consulted with
his superiors he refused to give us any appointment. Instead, we
should submit our questions on paper without expecting a meeting
afterward. In fact, the manager wouldn’t even give us his business
card. When we tried to explain why we wanted to talk with him, his
only response was to insist that we leave immediately.
- Release the cop’s name
- Take him off paid leave
- Charge him with murder
- Fire him
Our comrade Jesus is being sentenced on Thursday, but a show of our strong community support can improve his sentence.
Jesus was originally charged with three counts of felony assault of an officer with a folding chair, among other things, for an incident that occurred during the December 30th raid of Oscar Grant Plaza. A jury has convicted him of one felony count of deterring an officer. Jesus has been inside Santa Rita Jail since late January; on Thursday we’ll find out how long he’ll have to stay there.
Let’s show the judge and DA how real our solidarity is!
When: 9AM, Thursday, May 24, 2012
Where: Dept 14, Rene Davis Courthouse
The OO Labor Solidarity Committee meets weekly, with every other meeting being held at Oscar Grant Plaza weather permitting. This week’s meeting will take place at 1440 Broadway, on the 2nd floor in the UNITE HERE conference room.
Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will likely include planning for our upcoming third Workers’ Assembly, scheduled for June 9th and a discussion of a proposed “March of the Unemployed.”
Join Occupy Oakland and Earth First! for
Occupy Oakland Research Working Group weekly meeting
Date: Sundays
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
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
On May 30th, people will travel from around the world to descend on San Ramon, CA and confront Chevron at its annual shareholder meeting.
Join us for a colorful and fun rally outside Chevron’s headquarters in support of human rights, environmental, economic and climate justice, and more!
DIRECTIONS
From Berkeley or SF, take 80 to 24 (Caldicott Tunnel). Then 680 South. Off at Bollinger Canyon. Make a left onto Bollinger over bridge. Chevron HQ on right.
Drivers will have to park in Whole Foods parking lot across the street or at San Ramon Central Park (on left after Bishop Ranch One E).
From 580, take 680 N. Make a right at Bollinger Canyon Exit.
Chevron HQ is between Walnut Creek and Dublin Pleasanton BART stations. There are buses from these stations that go to Bishop Ranch (the corporate business park that Chevron HQ is located in).
Carpooling can be arranged at
http://www.facebook.com/events/317844888283134/
There’s also a teach in the night before in Berkeley. Tuesday, May 29, 7pm David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way. Community and Union leaders will travel from Ecuador, Angola, Nigeria, Brazil, Texas, Richmond and more to expose the True Cost of Chevron and encourage us to join them in fighting back. Please come to hear these and other accounts and to join the discussion on what you can do.