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 Unite Here, 1440 Broadway. Go in pass the guard, up the stairs to the 2nd floor, turn left and then, well, it’s complicated but it shouldn’t be too hard to find us; explore
the corridors.

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting will likely include discussion about the ILWU and Longview, which Occupy Oakland participated in back in January, the March in Solidarity with the Quebec Students’ Union which took place on Friday, June 1 and will be taking place again on Friday, June 8th, and possibly the status of the IBC (boatman’s union) strike, the next Workers’ Assembly, organizing the unemployed, the Wisconsin debacle and other labor related issues.

Over the last few months, we have been enheartened by the revolt taking shape in the streets of Montreal. The students of Quebec have taken a struggle against tuition hikes and mobilized hundreds of thousands against austerity and state repression. What began as a one-week university student strike has precipitated into an anti-capitalist revolt against universities, banks and police in what many are calling a general and indefinite social strike. In the face of intense state repression, including the draconian law 78 more or less banning protest, court injunctions against university picket lines, and mass arrests, the rebels of Montreal have returned to the streets night after night for over 100 days. They have called for solidarity actions from everyone and everywhere that can connect with the struggle, saying that if the strike “cannot inspire disruptions of its own, then it will die out quick.”

In the Bay Area, we, too, have seen revolt spread from universities into the community through Occupy, and we’ve seen tens of thousands come together against state repression for the November 2nd general strike and December 12th west coast port shutdown. During those days of intense struggle, we drew strength and joy from the solidarity extended to us from as far as New York to Mexico City to Cairo.

It is now time for us to extend our solidarity to our comrades in Montreal and work to inspire the same solidarity and desire to disrupt business as usual in our friends, families and neighbors.

Keep striking and don’t ever stop!

Infinite solidarity with the infinite social strike!

Our first Solidarity March on June 1 was tons of fun and a big success! Join us for our 2nd Solidarity March June 8th. Invite all your friends. Bring pots, pans, and red squares of cloth. These are the symbols of solidarity with our Quebec comrades.

The carre rouge, or red square, has become the Canadian symbol of revolt. It comes from the French phrase carrement dans le rouge, or “squarely in the red,” referring to those crushed by debt… The din of citizens beating pots and pans reverberates nightly in cities in Quebec. The protesters are part of what has been nicknamed the army of the cacerolazo, or the casseroles. — Truth Out

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 3rd meeting of the Workers’ Assembly.
It will take place at Lakeside Park (Belleview & Grand, Oakland, CA).
The exact location within the park is yet to be determined
and the starting time of 11:30 AM is subject to change. Please check
back.

An Occupy Oakland barbecue will be taking place at 2:00 PM at the same
location; the Workers’ Assembly will transition into that event.

This meeting’s primary goal will be to figure out the organization of the Workers’
Assembly and its future roles.

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

If you want to help organize fast food workers, come to our next meeting Sunday, June 10, noon, at 19th and Telegraph.

We meet near the statues a block in past the deserted lot, where the Sunday GA is held.

General meeting of the Occupy Oakland Nonviolent Caucus. Business/Structural meeting followed by break and then Discussion/Theory.

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 Oscar Grant Plaza, in or close to the amphitheater.

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting may include discussion about the OOLSC’s next actions, the ILWU and Longview, which Occupy Oakland participated in back in January, the Marches in Solidarity with the Quebec Students’ Union which on Friday,have taken place June 1 and June 8th, a report back from the 3rd Workers’ Assembly that OOLSC has organized, organizing the unemployed, organizing fast food workers in Oakland, the Wisconsin debacle and other labor related issues.

COMMUNITY OF POLICE WALKING TOUR!  – LUNCH WITH THE SHERIFFS!

Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group with the Anti Repression Committee
offers a walking tour and info picket of cop and capital headquarters downtown.

Friday, June 15th
11:30-1:30
Meet at 19th and Telegraph in the park.

If the community had control over the police would thousands of of people be evicted under the threat of violence from armed sheriffs?

If the community had control over the police would Alan Blueford, a 17 year old high school senior, have been shot dead in the street? Would his killer remain at large on paid leave?

If the community had control over the police would Santa Rita be an instrument of abuse and torture?

If the community had control over the police would Occupy Oakland members be subject to the summary judgement and violence we have endured these last 6 months?

NOTE!: AS OF THIS POSTING, ANOTHER COMRADE WAS SNATCHED OFF THE STREET AFTER THE H.E.A.T. ACTION AND IS FACING $110K IN BAIL!!

IF THE COMMUNITY HAD CONTROL OVER THE POLICE, WOULD MELVIN BE KIDNAPPED AND SITTING IN SANTA RITA BLUES??!!  FREE MELVIN!

Community Control of Police was rightfully one of the points of the Black Panther Program. It still is rightfully at the top of the people’s agenda and this includes control of the Sheriffs, the armed agents of the foreclosure crisis and the keepers of the county prison system.

We will be touring various relevant sites and offices downtown during lunch hour on Friday to picket, canvass and shine the light on the repressive, displacing, anti-social apparatus of the sheriffs department.

Speakers at stops along the way will include members of the Anti-Repression Committee, homeowners fighting evictions, and more.

We will have plenty of flyers and handbills for everyone so come prepared to canvass and engage your fellow Oaklanders on the street.

And come ready to MAKE SOME NOISE!

Join the Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group and the Anti-Repression Committee as we rally and march against evictions, and pay a visit to the Alameda Sheriff (responsible for doing the banks’ dirty work of evicting people from their homes), perhaps the Alameda County DA, and some big banks in the downtown area.

We’ll assemble at 19th & Telegraph and move on from there.

Speakers will include Boots Riley and a homeowner fighting eviction.

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

Oscar Grant Plaza,  Tuesday and Thursday at 6pm: Help plan and envision the Occupy Oakland Conference that the Events Committee has started working on!

Here’s a working draft of the what the conference may look like:

This August 17th through 19th we hope to host Occupy Oakland’s Long Live the Commune conference at Laney College here in Oakland.

The desire to organize a conference started after the planned J28 Move-In Festival fell apart, the necessity arose when folks at Inter-Occupy started seeking endorsements of “Occupy National Gathering” conference of theirs happening in Philadelphia on June 28th-July 4th. Inter-Occupy is organizing what seems to be a second Constitutional Philadelphia Convention, with two “representatives” from every occupation, and urge that Occupy adopt a new “social contract.” With electoral politics heating up and eager to coopt the energy of Occupy, it’s vital that we push the Occupy movement in a more radical direction.

The purpose of the conference is to provide skills, tactics, strategy, and vision within and across occupations. The Long Live the CommuneConference will explore how nonprofits coopt social movements, the criminalization of pre-crime and radical politics, radical history, and the crisis of capitalism this time, among more.

The Events Committee is responsible for actions, workshops, shows, teach-ins, etc. If you would like to perform or organize any kind of action, you should speak with us.

events@occupyoakland.org

Kali was originally arrested December 16th on minor misdemeanor charges,
but because of a probation violation hold he was incarcerated for 4 days
before any charges were formally filed.

While most people would have been released from jail and asked to appear
for a future court date given the minor nature of the misdemeanor charges,
the DA denied Kali’s release because of the county’s assertion
that he is homeless.

At his arraignment Kali immediately notified the
judge that he did have a residence and provided the address. The staff
that could confirm this residence was gone for the day and it was
concluded that Kali would have to remain in jail until his next court date.

Meet at 19th and Telegraph at 7:30 am. Caravan leaves at 8 am SHARP! more cars would be very much appreciated.

Address is: 24405 Amador St , Hayward, CA 94544

Wear red in support of Kali’s favorite color!

Since he was an active member of the Kitchen Committee, there will be Coffee not Cops as well as a potluck afterwards.

Formerly known as the Move-in Assembly, now infamous for the 6 BBQ’s or so we’ve thrown in parks all across Oakland, bringing folks together to Take Back the Town!

Also, a group wherein every member does work and helps out, be it with food prep, outreach, emceeing the event, or generally being amazing, awe-inspiring, and mad revolutionary without pomposity.

19th and Telegraph, Wednesdays at 4:30, Sundays at 12:30.

FROM BBQ’S TO BARRICADES

OCCUPY OAKLAND, OCCUPY YOUR HOOD, HATERS GONNA HATE WHEN THEY SEE YOU DOING GOOD

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 UNITE HERE (Go up the stairs, turn left, left again down a hall, left again down another hall, or ask someone). But check back here Thursday in the event of a change of venue.

Topics include coordination with labor groups (union and non-union) around the Bay Area, and this meeting may include discussion about the OOLSC’s next actions, organizing the unemployed, organizing fast food workers in Oakland, support for the Lakeview School Occupation, the Workers’ Assembly, the Castlewood action this Saturday, and more.

RAISE YOUR VOICE!

Castlewood Country Club Valley Course
(Castlewood Dr. at Pleasanton-Sunol Rd, Pleasanton)
Saturday, June 23, 8-11 am

Once again, the golfers of Castlewood Country Club are gearing up for their biggest tournament of the year – while keeping their workers out on the street. Remember last year’s tournament?

Most of the golfers have been deaf to the workers’ cries for affordable health care, job security and respect. So this year, let’s see if music gets through.

Bring your voices, bullhorns, whistles, trombones, and vuvuzelas, and sing out for justice!

Occupy Oakland has supported the locked out Castlewood workers on their picket lines and in helping to organize a march and a mock 1% rally. (“Golf Is A Human Right!”)

They are still locked out, and they could still use our support.

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LOGISTICS

For questions or rides, contact Sarah Norr at 510-502-5344 or norr.sarah@gmail.com.

Want to caravan from Oakland? Meet at 14th and Broadway at 7 am (RSVP first to make sure we have enough cars).

Driving/parking directions: Castlewood’s Valley Course is located along Castlewood Drive between Foothill Road and Pleasanton-Sunol Road. Coming from the Oakland area, take 580 East to 680 South. Take the 3rd exit for Castlewood Dr/Sunol Blvd and turn right at the exit onto Pleasanton-Sunol Road. The first right is Castlewood Drive. Park along Pleasanton-Sunol Road, then walk up Castlewood Drive to the golf course.

Can’t make it? Consider making a donation to the hardship fund instead.

After our regular 10 AM clean-up at St. Andrew’s Plaza on 32nd and San Pablo, those who wish to can come along with us to Lakeview Elementary at 746 Grand Ave. at 11:00 AM to assist in cleaning the school and the sit-in site, and whatever else the teachers and parents might need to help prep. for the rally.

As always, there will be free coffee and pastries at 32nd and San Pablo at 10:00, and plenty of brooms, dust pans, trash bags and gloves. Alright, hope to see you all there. Help the teachers, save the schools! Re-Open or Resign!