Calendar

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Apr
6
Sat
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Offices, East Oakland
Apr 6 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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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.

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A public forum to save the life and win the freedom of radical attorney Lynne Stewart @ Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
Apr 6 @ 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm

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

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Strike Debt Bay Area: Ideas into Action @ The Eric Quezada Center for Culture & Politics
Apr 6 @ 10:00 pm – Apr 7 @ 12:30 am

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!)

Our web page.

Follow StrikeDebt (NYC) on twitter.
Latest StrikeDebt Analysis: Death By For-Profit Health Care.

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Apr
7
Sun
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
Apr 7 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

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

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Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
Apr 7 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

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

47972
Apr
11
Thu
JAB BBQ organizing meeting @ SF Pizza, Oakland
Apr 11 @ 2:00 am – 3:15 am

Meet to help plan the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition BBQ,  Sat. April 13 1:00 PM Arroyo Park.  We need help setting up, cooking, serving, with tables (buttons, literature), trash pick-up, etc.

We are also meeting at the First Congregational Church of Oakland on Friday, April 12th at 11 AM to cook. 2501 Harrison Street at 27th, Oakland. We need more cooks spoiling the brew.

Event: http://occupyoakland.org/2013/04/justice-4-alan-blueford-coalition-bbq-april-13-100-pm-500-pm-arroyo-park/

 

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Apr
12
Fri
Help cook for the Justice 4 Alan Blueford BBQ (Sat.) @ First Congregational Church
Apr 12 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

We are  meeting at the First Congregational Church of Oakland on Friday, April 12th at 11 AM to cook for the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition BBQ on Saturday, April 13th at 1 PM at Arroyo Park.  Come join us chopping and roasting our way to justice.  The cooks are meeting up the stairs from the stairway on the parking lot on the Harrison side of the complex.

Event: http://occupyoakland.org/2013/04/justice-4-alan-blueford-coalition-bbq-april-13-100-pm-500-pm-arroyo-park/

NOTE: Due to a senior-moment by the poster this action was originally listed as happening from 1 PM on the calendar (although correctly listed at 11AM in the text in the body of the Event listing).  I promise to try to do better next life-time.

 

 

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Apr
14
Sun
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
Apr 14 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

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

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Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
Apr 14 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

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

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Strike Debt Bay Area Organizers Meeting: You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone… @ San Francisco Pizza
Apr 14 @ 11:30 pm – Apr 15 @ 1:00 am

Join us! All Are Welcome!

You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.

We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February), scheduled for May 18th in San Francisco (exact location TBA).

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 May 4th, place yet to be determined, probably in Oakland.

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.

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Apr
18
Thu
On May Day: Fight for Fifteen! @ The statues
Apr 18 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am

Recently hundreds of fast food workers participated in a wildcat strike in New York City to demand $15/dollars per hour. Now it looks like workers in Chicago are going for it as well. We need to Fight for Fifteen in Oakland!

Rampant gentrification and exploitation abounds in Oakland, with stores run by massively profitable corporations thriving off the labor of workers barely making minimum wage or more, but we know we can’t survive in this town on $8/hr. Bring this class tension to the forefront by fighting for a livable wage!

The May Day Fight for Fifteen assembly is planning for and publicizing a noise demo through downtown Oakland on May 1st aka May Day, the traditional holiday to commemorate workers’ struggles.

And, as we all know, whatever they do in New York, we can do better in Oakland.

This is a project of the Livable Wage Assembly, originally initiated by Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity.

48430
Apr
20
Sat
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Offices, East Oakland
Apr 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

We will be holding a vigil on May 5th on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death.

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!

48492
Apr
21
Sun
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
Apr 21 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

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

46745
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
Apr 21 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

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

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Web Committee Meeting
Apr 21 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

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

34357
Apr
23
Tue
Keep Families Together, Restore Due Process and Put an End to Scomm in the County! @ Alameda County Board of Supervisors, 5th floor
Apr 23 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Join us in Support of a resolution to Keep Families Together, Restore Due Process and Put an End to Scomm (Secure Communities, i.e., Deportation) in the County!

We will gather to share food at 10:30am, will have a press conference/rally at 11am and at 12 Noon we will head inside to the 5th floor to give testimony in support of a resolution that the Board of Supervisors will be voting on calling for an end to S-comm in the County. Join us, together we can “Keep Families Together, Restore Due Process and Put an End to S-comm in the County”!

please rsvp here:

48486
Apr
25
Thu
On May Day, Fight for $15! @ The statues
Apr 25 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am

Recently hundreds of fast food workers participated in a wildcat strike in New York City to demand $15/dollars per hour. Now it looks like workers in Chicago are going for it as well. We need to Fight for Fifteen in Oakland!

Rampant gentrification and exploitation abounds in Oakland, with stores run by massively profitable corporations thriving off the labor of workers barely making minimum wage or more, but we know we can’t survive in this town on $8/hr. Bring this class tension to the forefront by fighting for a livable wage!

The May Day Fight for Fifteen assembly is planning for and publicizing a noise demo through downtown Oakland on May 1st aka May Day, the traditional holiday to commemorate workers’ struggles.

And, as we all know, whatever they do in New York, we can do better in Oakland.

This is a project of the Livable Wage Assembly, originally initiated by Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity.

48487
Apr
27
Sat
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ SEIU 1021 Offices, East Oakland
Apr 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

We will be holding a vigil on May 5th on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death.

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!

48644
Apr
28
Sun
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ by the statues
Apr 28 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

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

46745
Foreclosure Defense Group Meeting @ in the park by the statues
Apr 28 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

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

47972