Black Friday Strike Meeting

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When:
November 17, 2011 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Where:
Meet under the trees on the north end of the plaza then perhaps move somewhere warm depending on numbers
Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA 94612
USA
Meeting

Meeting to discuss the nation wide Black Friday General Strike and how Occupy Oakland can participate.

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2 Responses to “Black Friday Strike Meeting”

  1. CommonSense2011

    I will be at the strike. In solidarity against the racism of the capitalist system, I would like to issue a call for as many signs like this to be made….
    1. State that the use of the word “Black” with regards to profits (such as how during black Friday business make 50% of their annual profits) relates to the fact that African slaves used to produce these super-profits (and today many working class blacks still do). This racist use of the word black has endured since plantation slavery and should be called out as such.
    2. State that the use of the word “Red” such as “in the red” (not profitable) as opposed to “in the black” (profitable), also stems from capitalism’s racism used to describe the economic impact for wealthy 1% whites who first tried using Native American slaves who tended to die of Eurpean diseases and from the brutal exploitation on their bodies. Being that the so called “Thanksgiving” is on the day before this Strike, protesting the use of “In the RED” would be a wonderful act of antiracism and anticapitalism (since production for the profits of the 1% are so linked to racism as a divide and rule tool).
    3. Let us not forget to connect that the profits of the 1% are intimately linked to the theft of Native American land and resources, while exploiting their labor and then enacting genocide on their population. Let us also not forget that replacing the Native American workers was done by uprooting Africans from their homelands and working them as animals to produce super-profits off of Native American land privatized for the use of the 1%.
    4. On this note, it is abhorrant that the system has baited the OWS movement in NYC to actually move to private property for their occupation, instead of public. Mayor Quan has advocated that our movement do the same. Some thoughts…
    1. Constitutionally, by occupying private property, we will lose our legal claim to occupy and be subject to far worse police brutality than we have yet experienced.
    2. Constiutionally, we are protected to assemble and protest the government on public property. Hence, in solidarity with OWS in NYC we should work with them to reclaim the public property that is rightfully theirs as “the public” and should caution our own to adamantly defend our own rights to use public property.

  2. Occupy M

    As an oakland resident and biz owner in Berkeley, I would like to help with this, but I can’t be there until 7:30-8. We need to do community outreach to local small biz so they know they are part of the 99%. When small biz sees “Black Friday Strike” they think we mean them too. This hurts our message. We need our community not divided. Anyone involved in coordinating this send me an email! Thanks occupymainstreetnow@yahoo.com

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