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OO Brooms Collective: Neighborhood Cleanup & Community Garden Planning – 32nd & San Pablo, Oakland – Saturday, March 31, 2012 – 10:00 AM & 12:00 PM

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  Neighborhood Cleanup – 10:00 AM – 32nd & San Pablo Please come join us for our ongoing cleanup at St. Andrew’s Park in West Oakland (in collaboration with the San Pablo Corridor Coalition). We will have plenty of equipment and safety gear, and there will be free coffee, doughnuts, and maybe even a barbecue. We’re there from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, and those who wish to will have the opportunity to move on to other cleanup sites once we’re done at St. Andrew’s. Lookin’ forward to it. Community … Continued

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OO BBQ & March to Take Back the Town – North Oakland – Saturday, March 31, 2012 – 2:00 & 6:00 PM

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Occupy Oakland is hosting its third neighborhood BBQ on Saturday, March 31, 2012, from 2:00 to 6:00 PM, at 52nd and MLK in North Oakland. This BBQ is in support of the North Oakland Neighborhood Assembly and the fight to save Santa Fe Elementary. HEPAC will be providing free HIV tests on site, and passing out condoms and safe sex kits! Workshops will be hosted by the People’s Community Medics, Foreclosure Defense Committee, and more. Following the BBQ at 6:00 PM: March to Take Back the Town • From 52nd & … Continued

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OO BBQ – Rainbow Park, Oakland – Saturday, March 24, 2012 – 1:00 to 5:00 PM

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Please join Occupy Oakland and friends as we host our second neighborhood BBQ and speak out this Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 1:00 PM in Rainbow Park (Seminary and International in East Oakland). This BBQ will follow the weekly free food program in Rainbow Park and will last until 5:00 PM. Events during the BBQ include: emergency first aid training, a foreclosure defense workshop, an open forum on gang injunctions and repression in Oakland, the Children’s Village, Occupy Patriarchy’s Danger Zone, and a general speak out. Stay tuned to oobbq.org … Continued

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Wilderness First Aid for the Streets – The Holdout, Oakland – March 24 & 25, 2012 – 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM

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Where: The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Avenue (@ 23rd Street), Oakland, CA When: March 24 & 25, 2012, 10am-8pm Cost: By donation, pay what you can. Scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds. Contact: WFAforthestreets@gmail.com for more information. Brought to you by the Occupy Oakland Medics Committee, this 20 hour course will cover basic patient assessment, how to recognize medical emergencies, and how to give first aid when help may be delayed. Developed for wilderness situations, this course is adapted for urban uprisings, and will include care for … Continued

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OO Puppet Guild – Rainbow Park, Oakland – Saturday, March 24, 2012 – 1:00 to 5:00 PM

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On Saturday, March 24, 2012, at the second Occupy Oakland BBQ (in Rainbow Park at Seminary and International Blvd.), there will be a Children’s Puppet-Making Workshop available for all, in which we will provide the materials for you to create and perform your very own puppet show! Those interested in being part of long-term puppet workshops, be it with the kids, for building giant puppets for actions, etc., are encouraged to come by and plug in and participate! The more, the merrier! Here is a brief list of materials that … Continued

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Occupy Oakland Hackathon – Chinatown, Oakland – Saturday, March 24, 2012 – 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

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What Hackathon II builds on the demos and tools from the first and turns our collaborative energy on visualizing the 5000+ responses to the OccupyResearch General Demographics and Participation Survey (ORGS), Occupy Oakland Serves the People Survey Results, and R-Shief Twitter #occupy tags aggregating since September 2011. Where 900 Alice Street, Oakland, CA 94607 3rd floor rear conference room (3R) Between 9th and 10th St., Oakland’s Chinatown. Two blocks from Lake Merritt Bart, six blocks from Oscar Grant Plaza. When Saturday, March 24th, 2012 10:00am to 6:00pm More info This event … Continued

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Occupy Interfaith Service (Sanctuary for Stay Aways) – OGP, Oakland – March 21, 2012 – 6:00 PM

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The General Assembly on March 21, 2012 be moved back one hour to 7 pm so that we can offer a national Occupy Interfaith Service and act of solidarity and resistance at Grant/Ogawa Plaza from 6-7 pm. The service will feature faith leaders from all over the United States, members of the Occupy Faith network, who will be attending a national gathering March 20-22, hosted by the Interfaith Tent at Oakland. As part of the Interfaith Service on March 21, the Interfaith Tent will exercise our First Amendment rights by … Continued

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Strategic Dimensions of Resistance: Presentation by Erica Chenoweth, PhD – Berkeley Fellowship Hall – Thursday, March 29, 2012 – 7:30 PM

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Thursday, March 29th, 7:30 PM Berkeley Fellowship Hall • 1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita Avenue), Berkeley What are the strategic costs and consequences of civil resistance methods? What have other campaigns found effective in past struggles? Are nonviolent resistance methods or violent resistance methods more effective in achieving strategic goals? Under what conditions do certain tactics work and why? How have the tactical evolutions of nonviolent and violent insurgencies affected their strategic outcomes? How do non-state actors best combat police violence? Dr. Erica Chenoweth will discuss her recent research on … Continued

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Reimagine the GA Working Group – The Holdout, Oakland – Friday, March 16, 2012 – 6:00 to 7:30 PM

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illustration by Susie Cagle

The Occupy Oakland Facilitation Committee is forming a working group and planning a convening to “Reimagine the General Assembly.”  This will be open to any member of Occupy Oakland or the Oakland community. The General Assembly has been a vital part of our movement even before the camps were established.  We’ve created a rich, diverse, and fluid process for radical participatory democracy and consensus-building.  As Occupy Oakland has evolved from the days of the camps to an ever-expanding movement of working groups and direct action, it feels useful to ask … Continued

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Emergency Demonstration Against Hate Crime Charges for Oak3 – Monday, March 12, 2012

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In solidarity with and via Oakland Occupy Patriarchy: Monday, March 12th, 2012, from 12-3pm Wiley E. Manual Courthouse 661 Washington St. Oakland Join your comrades in Oakland Occupy Patriarchy as we tell the cops and the DA that we will NOT TOLERATE them pretending like they give a shit about our oppression as women, fags, dykes, queers, and trans people, so they can use us against our friends in their war of attrition against Occupy Oakland! http://oaklandoccupypatriarchy.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/pigs-are-no-friends-of-ours/ 23292

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