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We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are planning an outreach barbeque on April 13th! (Yum!)
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
New schedule and additional location!
Bi-Monthly meetings to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org.
We meet the first Thursday of the month at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave Oakland,CA 94612 @ 6PM
And the third Sunday of the month at 19th Street / Rashida Muhammad Street (one block away from 19th Street/Telegraph avenue) @ 2PM
If interested on helping us out, please come and join us!
Web@occupyoakland.org
Debt is affecting all of us! Come join us to fight against unjust and crushing debt burdens.
At this Sunday’s meeting we will debrief from last week’s Ideas Into Action session, and talk about the role of the organizers group going forward now that we have five other affinity groups:
Direct Action;
Outreach & Education;
Debtors Union;
Research & Study;
Alternative Institutions.
We will also talk about outreach and organizing for the upcoming Direct Action on tax day – April 15th.
Oakland based civil rights attorney James Chanin will discuss the
federalization of Oakland police and the recent movement to hire William
Bratton, the champion of “Stop and Frisk” policing. With over 40 years in the
struggle for police accountability, from the establishment of the Berkeley
Police Review Commission to the Negotiated Settlement Agreement (NSA) that
guides Oakland’s police, James Chanin is a leading voice in the fight to stop
police abuse.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Organize to bring a livable wage to everyone (in Oakland, in Alameda County, in California…).
Note: This meeting will likely not start until after the solidarity rally for the family of Kimani Grey and the Brooklyn protesters is over.
Please check back here in case plans change.
We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th.
We will have just held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are planning an outreach barbeque on April 13th! (Yum!)
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February).
We are planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on April 6th, place yet to be determined, probably in San Francisco.
Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery.
Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
This month we are focusing on repression against
women in revolutionary movements. We will be
focusing specifically on Polish/German
Communist Rosa Luxemburg, Assata Shakur of
the Black Panthers and Black Liberation Army,
Anna Mae Aquash of the American Indian
Movement, and (Karen Pickett of Earth First will
be with us to present on) the FBI repression and
bombing of Judi Bari. As usual, we will be
dissecting the repressive tactics used, as well as
discussing lessons to be learned from these cases,
in order to strengthen our practice in the face of
ongoing efforts to neutralize our movements.
We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th.
We just held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are planning an outreach barbeque on April 13th! (Yum!)
We will be holding a vigil on the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death, May 6th.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
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Poster design and production by Sandy Sanders.
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
StrikeDebtBayArea peeps will be talking about their projects at the Occupy SF Forum on April 1st.
Cassie Thorton, of one SDBA’s founding members,
will present three years of research and art making about debt
and its relationship to contemporary notions of work, behavior,
emotions and the unconscious. In this talk Cassie will explore the
nature of debt as a tulpa, which, in Tibetan mysticism, is a being or
object created out of a shared willpower, attention, focus, and
ritual. If enough people think it, believe it, and have fear of it,
the tulpa manifests as a powerful physical thing. How do we shift the
collective idea of debt so that it doesn’t create fear and shame?
Others will join her to talk about other SDBA projects, foreclosure and its
relationship to debt, the Rolling Jubilee, etc.
Time will be allotted for Q&A and open discussion.
Monday April 1st 6 – 9 pm.
2017 Mission Street, 2nd Floor (push: 200 to be buzzed in), near Mission/16th Street BART
New schedule and additional location!
Bi-Monthly meetings to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org.
We meet the first Thursday of the month at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave Oakland,CA 94612 @ 6PM
And the third Sunday of the month at 19th Street / Rashida Muhammad Street (one block away from 19th Street/Telegraph avenue) @ 2PM
If interested on helping us out, please come and join us!
Web@occupyoakland.org
Austerity and its Discontents: A Public Forum with David Graeber.
David Graeber is an anthropologist operating out of Goldsmiths, University of London. He emerged as the organic intellectual of the Occupy movement, and has made important contributions to the renovation of antinomian thought. Among his books are “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology” and “Debt: The First 5000 Years.”
David Graeber Wikipedia entry.
We are planning an outreach barbeque on April 13th! (Yum!)
Expect delicious home-cooked food, great music, powerful speakers, kid-friendly activities, a nurse’s station – all donated to this community event in honor of Alan Blueford, a Skyline High School student who was murdered by OPD Officer Miguel Masso almost one year ago on May 6th, 2012.
We will be holding a vigil on the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death, May 6th.
We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th.
We held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition website.
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Poster design and production by Sandy Sanders.
A public forum to save the life and win the freedom of radical attorney Lynne Stewart, suffering from Stage 4 lung cancer.
• Victim of a government frame-up conviction on charges of aiding and abetting terrorism •Imprisoned for ten years for defending
the civil liberties and democratic rights of the Egyptian cleric (the “blind sheik’) Omar Abdel Rachman
• Lynne has Stage 4 lung cancer and is seeking “compassionate release” to the New York City hospital that treated her original and now metastasized breast cancer. Citing “prison regulations” at FMC Carswell in Forth Worth, Texas, the warden denied release on the grounds that their medical experts claim that Lynne does not fall under this release program because she has at least two years to live before being overtaken by her metastasized cancer. Lynne’s medical experts say that if she is allowed the state-of-the-art treatment available today, she can recover. Meanwhile Lynne’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her case is pending.
• Lynne is lifelong civil liberties attorney, social justice and human rights activist, coordinating committee member of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and a member of the National Lawyers Guild
Hear: Jeff Mackler, West Coast Coordinator, Lynne Stewart Defense Committee; lifelong friend of Lynne Stewart; director, The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal; Administrative Committee, UNAC
Saturday, April 6, 2 PM
Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists , 1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley
Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery.
We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February).
We are planning an action for Tax Day, April 15th.
Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
We will first meet all together and then divide up into groups that will look something like this:
Study & Research Groups (people interested in tackling specific research questions, reading books together, etc.)
Outreach & Education (people interested in getting our message out – to community groups, churches, etc.)
Direct Action (people interested in organizing Wells Fargo and other actions)
Debtors’ Union (tactical work for collective organizing against private and public debt)
Alternative Institutions (Alternative currencies, public banking, communal living, and more!)
Follow StrikeDebt (NYC) on twitter.
Latest StrikeDebt Analysis: Death By For-Profit Health Care.