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Occupation Begins!
4:00 pm
Occupation Begins!
Oct 10 @ 4:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The occupation begins – join your community as we take Frank Ogawa Plaza!30
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Face Painting for kids
5:30 pm
Face Painting for kids
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 12 @ 5:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Free face painting for children of all ages. This event will help kick off the children’s space in Oscar Grant Plaza.212
General Assembly
6:00 pm
General Assembly
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.229
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What Does Racism Have to Do with It? Come Find Out!
1:30 pm
What Does Racism Have to Do with It? Come Find Out!
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 13 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Saturday, October 15 at 1:30: What Does Racism Have to Do with It? Come Find Out! At Seminary of the Street, we are aware that some white occupiers have raised questions about what racism has to do with protesting Wall Street, what a critique of the police has to do with that, and why they might be asked to leave a meeting of a subcommittee on issues faced by people of color. We are coordinating some antiracism trainers to be available for those conversations on Saturday, October 15, at 1:30. … Continued
Tar Sands Action
4:15 pm
Tar Sands Action
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 13 @ 4:15 pm – Oct 13 @ 5:15 pm
Meet at camp then we go to Obama’s office nearby.242
Live Hip-Hop feat. Boots Riley
5:00 pm
Live Hip-Hop feat. Boots Riley
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 13 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Performances by Bay Area artists! Come enjoy, listen, dance, talk, meet some new friends, stay the night… MC Lovelle Boots Riley and Gabby La La 40 Thieves (anti-state, pro-street) potentially more TBA! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181562455257798209
Occupy the mic poetry slam
8:00 pm
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OccupySF Solidarity Action
8:30 am
OccupySF Solidarity Action
Oct 14 @ 8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Occupy San Francisco has asked Occupy Oakland to join them in their action today to protest Jeb Bush and Rupert Murdoch as they meet to plan the further privatization of education. Please join them at Montgomery and Market street in SF. They need the numbers that Occupy Oaklands support can bring.281
People of color caucus
5:30 pm
General Assembly
6:00 pm
General Assembly
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.229
Candlelight vigil for Troy Davis
8:00 pm
Candlelight vigil for Troy Davis
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 14 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Vigil for Troy Davis and to end the death penalty.241
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What Does Occupy Oakland Mean for People of Color
12:00 pm
What Does Occupy Oakland Mean for People of Color
@ Revolutionary Cafe
Oct 15 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Occupy Oakland started today. It was a beautiful gathering of people from all races and walks of life. This has the potential to be an amazing shift in the power structures that run Oakland. That said, we need to be sure that there is an agenda that includes our immediate and long term needs as historically oppressed people. The question is … what is that agenda? We are calling on people of color to come together at the Revolution Cafe and figure out what we would like to see out … Continued
Jobs Not Cuts rally with Danny Glover
3:30 pm
Jobs Not Cuts rally with Danny Glover
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 15 @ 3:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Danny Glover will take part in the Jobs Not Cuts rally at Oscar Grant Plaza this Saturday at 3:30. The demonstration will gather at Laney College at 1:00pm, and begin marching to the Plaza at 2:30. Along the way they will stop at the Federal Building to nail their demands to the door. More info at: http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2011-10-11/article/38563230
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All Day Workshops at Oscar Grant Plaza
All Day Workshops at Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 16 all-day
11am? Contemporary Uprisings! (Greece, Chile, Oaxaca, Egypt, Tunisia , etc.) 1pm Occupy Everything! Connecting the University Occupation Movement and the Current Occupation Movement 2 pm Occupy! An Oral History- Workshop on Recording and Giving Oral Histories. 3pm U.S. Labor history 4pm Work It! Own It! Discussion and Workshop on Developing Worker Cooperatives at Occupy Oakland.255
Poets of the People: Open reading
12:00 pm
Poets of the People: Open reading
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 16 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
POETS OF THE PEOPLE: Radical Poets Open Reading ! Sunday, October 16, 2011, NOON, Oscar Grant Plaza steps @ Broadway & 14th ! If you’re interested in reading, pick a radical poet and come to the reading! Here are some suggestions: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Adrienne Rich Noémia de Sousa Gwendolyn Brooks Gabriela Mistral Lola Ridge Genevieve Taggard Margot Heinemann Alda Espírito Santo The Free School/Library should have copies of at least some of these poets’ work.297
Singer Imani I Ameni at the Children’s Village
4:00 pm
Singer Imani I Ameni at the Children’s Village
Oct 16 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 16 @ 5:00 pm
Popular Singer Imani I Ameni will lead our young ones in song! Please come join us! Word is he may bring some musician friends with him! A good time is guaranteed for all – this is a treat for the young and the young at heart! Please bring healthy snacks to share!280
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Yoga
8:00 am
Yoga
8:00 am
Occupation Movement (plazas, schools, forcelosed homes)
1:00 pm
Occupation Movement (plazas, schools, forcelosed homes)
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 17 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Capitalim (destroying it)
3:00 pm
Capitalism in Crisis, Ecology in Crisis and Global Restistance
3:00 pm
Capitalism in Crisis, Ecology in Crisis and Global Restistance
@ Entrance
Oct 17 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Discussion facilitated by Eddie Yuen.416
Radical Yoga
4:00 pm
The Three Hikers
5:00 pm
The Three Hikers
@ Amphitheater
Oct 17 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Recently freed activists, Shane, Josh and Sarah-the three Hikers imprisoned in Iran- are going to talk about the connections that can be drawn between the ordeal they went through and the situation in U.S. Prisons, including linking their hunger strike with the current hunger strikers in California prisons, torture and brutality, and other issues. This is the first time when all three have been together to speak out about what happened.417
General Assembly
6:00 pm
General Assembly
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.229
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Police/state/prisons
1:00 pm
Oakland Schools
3:00 pm
Organic Gardening with Aquaponic Technique
4:00 pm
Black Panther Gerald Smith on History of the Black Panthers
5:00 pm
Black Panther Gerald Smith on History of the Black Panthers
@ Amphitheater
Oct 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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Workshop: What Would It Take To Defeat The 1%
5:00 pm
Workshop: What Would It Take To Defeat The 1%
@ Rahiem Brown Free School
Oct 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Come to a presentation and discussion regarding why we have a realistic chance to defeat the 1%, why we have more power than we recognize and what it would take to unleash it. At the Rahiem Brown free school tent Tues at 5pm304
Conflict/Resolution
6:00 pm
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Race, Class, Gender
1:00 pm
Anti-colonialism – organize against gentrification, gang injunctions, immigration, native struggles
3:00 pm
Anti-colonialism – organize against gentrification, gang injunctions, immigration, native struggles
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 19 @ 3:00 pm – Oct 19 @ 5:00 pm
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Surviving Radical Demos
3:00 pm
Surviving Radical Demos
@ hay bales
Oct 19 @ 3:00 pm – Oct 19 @ 5:00 pm
Sesai Mike and Melissa from Suigetsukan, a martial-arts dojo in Oakland, are going to do a physical training on protecting yourself and useful techniques in confrontational demonstrations.462
Black Panthers David Hilliard, Melvin Dixon, and Eseibio Halliday
4:00 pm
Black Panthers David Hilliard, Melvin Dixon, and Eseibio Halliday
@ Amphitheater
Oct 19 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 19 @ 6:00 pm
530
Black Panther Elder Freeman and guests
6:00 pm
General Assembly
6:00 pm
General Assembly
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.229
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Yoga
8:00 am
Yoga
8:00 am
Speakers on Gang Injunctions
11:30 am
Speakers on Gang Injunctions
@ amphitheater
Oct 20 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
information about Gang Injunctions and how to challenge them. In preparation for the following weeks City Council meeting on proposed extension of gang injunctions, day/night cufew and loitering laws.551
Anti-Authoritarian/Anti-capitalist Caucus
4:00 pm
Anti-Authoritarian/Anti-capitalist Caucus
@ Near Port-O-Potties
Oct 20 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 20 @ 5:00 pm
900
Anti-Capitalism
5:00 pm
Anti-Capitalism
@ Entrance to the plaza near the info tent
Oct 20 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Larry Everest, author of Oil, Power, and Empire will speak on building an Anti-Capitalist movement.550
Marxism 101 (ISO)
5:30 pm
Marxism 101 (ISO)
@ Amphitheater, Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 20 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Discussion of Marxism and scientific socialism with members of the International Socialist Organization.921
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What is a Gang Injunction? What is Happening in Oakland?
3:00 pm
What is a Gang Injunction? What is Happening in Oakland?
@ Amphitheater, Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 21 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Come learn about the Oakland gang injunctions from the folks at Stop the Injunction Coalition (STIC).918
Labor History
4:00 pm
Labor History
@ entrance to the plaza stairs near the info tent
Oct 21 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 21 @ 5:00 pm
Labor Struggles, including conflict in the Appalachias. 552
Ken Knabb on his recent writings
5:00 pm
Ken Knabb on his recent writings
@ Amphitheater
Oct 21 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Ken Knabb from Bureau of Public Secrets, will hold a discussion around his recent piece, The Awakening in America, which views the Occupation Movements from a situationist perspective.553
General Assembly
6:00 pm
General Assembly
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 21 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.229
Student Speak Out!
6:00 pm
Post-Colonialism and Anarchism
6:30 pm
Post-Colonialism and Anarchism
@ Amphitheater, Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 21 @ 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Andrej Grubačić is a US-based Yugoslavian anarchist theorist, sociologist, activist, lecturer, and co-author with Staughton Lynd, of the book Wobblies and Zapatistas.556
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Resistance Trainings
Resistance Trainings
@ Amphitheater
Oct 22 all-day
How do we retain an uncompromising analysis of the violence of the status quo, including corporate capitalism, racism, and the police system that upholds both, while transcending the tired dynamics of us (the self-righteous good guys) and them (in this case corporate execs and cops)? How do we channel our anger into resistance of systems rather than struggles with individual figureheads for those systems? Three mini…-workshops on Saturday, October 22: 9am-noon Making It Personal: Understanding the Violence of the Status Quo: In this workshop, we’ll connect our personal suffering (often … Continued
Medic Training With the Black Cross
9:00 am
Medic Training With the Black Cross
@ Meet by the Med tent
Oct 22 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Get trained before Saturday’s mass march!1063
Occupy Everything! Liberate Oakland! Rally
11:00 am
Occupy Everything! Liberate Oakland! Rally
@ Grant Ogawa Plaza
Oct 22 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
We live in a world where unemployment and staggering levels of debt are the new normal, where poverty and homelessness are met by police violence and incarceration. The entire global economy is broken, and politicians in the US and elsewhere remain powerless to do anything about it. It’s time to take power into our own hands, to occupy the spaces from which we have been excluded and reclaim everything that has been stolen from us. Solidarity with the worldwide Occupy movement Opposition to an economic system that has never worked … Continued
Occupy Everything! Liberate Oakland! March
12:00 pm
Occupy Everything! Liberate Oakland! March
@ Grant Ogawa Plaza
Oct 22 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
We live in a world where unemployment and staggering levels of debt are the new normal, where poverty and homelessness are met by police violence and incarceration. The entire global economy is broken, and politicians in the US and elsewhere remain powerless to do anything about it. It’s time to take power into our own hands, to occupy the spaces from which we have been excluded and reclaim everything that has been stolen from us. Solidarity with the worldwide Occupy movement Opposition to an economic system that has never worked … Continued
Yoga
3:00 pm
Yoga
@ Front entrance/corner of 14th and Broadway
Oct 22 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Y.O.G.A. = You Occupy, Get Access!1105
What Happens When The Police Come
4:00 pm
What Happens When The Police Come
@ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater
Oct 22 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 22 @ 5:00 pm
997
Know Your Rights With Berkeley Cop Watch
5:00 pm
Know Your Rights With Berkeley Cop Watch
@ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater
Oct 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
998
Oakland General Strike
6:00 pm
Oakland General Strike
@ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater
Oct 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
“Oakland’s Work Holiday” is a multimedia presentation that includes 80 original photos of the 1946 strike, in addition to video clips of newsreel footage and short interviews of participants in the strike (from a video of the 60th anniversary commemoration). It aims to not only to bring to life this nearly forgotten piece of working class history, but also to serve as a call to reinvigorate the traditions of solidarity and militant tactics that made the post-World War II strike wave the fiercest episode of class struggle in United States … Continued
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Radical Poetry Reading!
12:00 pm
Radical Poetry Reading!
@ Oscar Grant Plaza front entrance steps
Oct 23 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Come read your favorite poems from the radical tradition or your own work.943
Meditation Group
1:00 pm
Storytime for Adults with Oakland Librarians
1:30 pm
Indigenous Grandmothers
2:00 pm
Indigenous Grandmothers
@ @ Entrance
Oct 23 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Elders from native communities will discuss what this Occupation means in relation to the understanding that we have been on occupied and stolen land.403
CANCELLED: ILWU and the Port of Longview Report Back
3:00 pm
CANCELLED: ILWU and the Port of Longview Report Back
@ Amphitheater
Oct 23 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Hear about the ILWU workers militant train blockade outside the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview that resulted in scuffles with riot police and 19 arrests. How can we at Occupy Oakland support Longshoremen and the next steps they are taking and build solidarity.896
$16 trillion bank bailout and how make them pay it back
4:00 pm
$16 trillion bank bailout and how make them pay it back
@ Entrance to north Plaza by the Info Tent
Oct 23 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 23 @ 5:00 pm
This workshop is being presented by Jack Gerson and Bob Mandel, who are former teachers, well-known OEA leaders, and radical activists.686
NLG Know Your Rights Training
5:00 pm
NLG Know Your Rights Training
@ Entrance to Plaza by 14th and Broadway Bart station
Oct 23 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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Oakland City Unions on Occupy Oakland
5:00 pm
Oakland City Unions on Occupy Oakland
@ Amphitheater
Oct 23 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Come hear a union member explain the various city unions’ debates about Occupy Oakland.1104
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Meditation Group
1:00 pm
Yoga (corrected time)
4:00 pm
Yoga (corrected time)
@ Front entrance/corner of 14th and Broadway
Oct 24 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 24 @ 5:00 pm
Y.O.G.A. = You Occupy, Get Access!1167
Party for Occupy Oakland!
5:00 pm
Party for Occupy Oakland!
Oct 24 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Today is our 2 week party! Bring cake, candy, snacks, party favors, etc. Stay for the general assembly and through the night. with numbers we won’t let the police spoil our party.1267
“Hollering Back” Screening
6:00 pm
“Hollering Back” Screening
@ amphitheater
Oct 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Ines Ixierda’s short film “Hollering Back” is a film about street harassment. There will also be a discussion about sexism in the Occupy Oakland space led by the filmmaker and Victoria. Come through and support.1265
General Assembly
6:00 pm
General Assembly
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 24 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.229
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Meditation Group
1:00 pm
Security and Deescalation Workshop
3:00 pm
Security and Deescalation Workshop
@ North Plaza (follow the porta-potties)
Oct 25 @ 3:00 pm – Oct 25 @ 5:00 pm
This workshop is especially geared towards folks on the Security and Safer Spaces committees, and is open to all who want to practice deescalation and have more options for resolving conflict.1229
Yoga
3:00 pm
Yoga
@ Front entrance/corner of 14th and Broadway
Oct 25 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Y.O.G.A. = You Occupy, Get Access!1105
EMERGENCY: Regroup at Library
4:00 pm
EMERGENCY: Regroup at Library
@ Oakland Library Main Branch
Oct 25 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 25 @ 7:00 pm
Occupy Oakland will reconvene for an emergency meeting at the Oakland Library main branch (125 14th Street near Madison) at 4pm today. We need as many people there as possible, please spread the word.1377
Conflict/Mediation
5:00 pm
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Meditation Group
1:00 pm
General Assembly
6:00 pm
General Assembly
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 26 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.229
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Meditation Group
1:00 pm
Yoga
3:00 pm
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Meditation Group
1:00 pm
Yoga
3:00 pm
Yoga
@ Front entrance/corner of 14th and Broadway
Oct 28 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Y.O.G.A. = You Occupy, Get Access!1111
General Assembly
6:00 pm
General Assembly
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.229
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Meditation Group
1:00 pm
Yoga
3:00 pm
Yoga
@ Front entrance/corner of 14th and Broadway
Oct 29 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Y.O.G.A. = You Occupy, Get Access!1112
Police Brutality Speak-Out
6:00 pm
Police Brutality Speak-Out
@ Amphitheater
Oct 29 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Oscar Grant Committee will be moderating and facilitating a speak-out against police brutality from 6-8 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza in front of the amphitheater. Medics are especially invited to talk about what they have witnessed or to urge those they have treated to come forward. . Those who suffer from the everyday attacks of the OPD will also be speaking. This will be followed up with a march against police brutality.1963
March Against the Police State
8:00 pm
March Against the Police State
@ 14th and Broadway
Oct 29 @ 8:00 pm – 11:45 pm
statement read: I want to preface by saying that many of you are new to Occupy Oakland, many of you are white and middle class. This means you have most likely not experienced police violence in the same manner as those who are queer, people of color or poor. As this movement grows, we ask for respect of our lifelong experiences and the recognition that self defense is not violent. This Saturday evening, nearly a year after the murderous pig Johannes Mehserle was sentenced with a slap on the wrist … Continued
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Meditation Group
1:00 pm
Yoga
3:00 pm
Yoga
@ Front entrance/corner of 14th and Broadway
Oct 30 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Y.O.G.A. = You Occupy, Get Access!1109
Occupations and Student Strikes: Mexico, Egypt, Spain
7:00 pm
Occupations and Student Strikes: Mexico, Egypt, Spain
Oct 30 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Multimedia presentation2344
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Meditation Group
1:00 pm
Press Conference: Nov 2nd General Strike
4:00 pm
Press Conference: Nov 2nd General Strike
@ Site of 1946 General Strike
Oct 31 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 31 @ 5:30 pm
General Strike Press Conference to announce more details of Nov 2 plans: 4pm Telegraph & Broadway, site of 1946 Oakland General Strike2607
Yoga (corrected time)
4:00 pm
Yoga (corrected time)
@ Front entrance/corner of 14th and Broadway
Oct 31 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 31 @ 5:00 pm
Y.O.G.A. = You Occupy, Get Access!1167
General Assembly
6:00 pm
General Assembly
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 31 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.229
1946 General Strike Presentation
8:30 pm
1946 General Strike Presentation
@ amphitheater
Oct 31 @ 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Now that the General Strike is upon us in just a few days, it is important to try to place this triumphant day in historical context. Immediately after the General Assembly there will be a multimedia presentation on the 1946 General Strike in Oakland CA presented by Gifford Hartman. (Gifford Hartman has worked as an EFL/ESL teacher for the past 15 years; he has worked in South Korea, Greece and in the Bay Area. He is presently partially unemployed after an unsuccessful 4-day strike at a San Francisco ESL school … Continued
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