IRREPRESSIBLE VOICES: A benefit for the Occupy Oakland Anti-Repression Committee Featuring: Mad Noise, The 21st Century, Kent Decide Thursday July 19th. 8PM @ The Starry Plough Pub (21+) 3101 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA Suggested donation 5-20 dollars. Larger donations gladly accepted. No one turned away for inability to pay. All proceeds will go directly towards prisoner support and bail funds for Occupy’s political prisoners. 35274
We have rescheduled the gathering to re-imagine the GA, originally planned for July 14. We are planning to have the next event to Re-Imagine the GA after an upcoming Sunday GA in late July. At this gathering we will look at concrete suggestions from the surveys and post-its and generate new ideas for the GA. We will post the date soon. We invite others to join our Working Group as we would like to be inclusive of as many perspectives as possible in our planning process. The Working Group to … Continued
Friday, July 6th, anti-police brutality advocates will march in solidarity with the family of Raheim Brown Jr, gunned down by Oakland School Police officers Bhatt and Bellusa January 22, 2011. Unarmed Raheim was barely out of his teens when he was gunned down by school police on Joaquin Miller Rd. Officers Bhatt and Bellusa attempted to pull Raheim out of the vehicle he sat in with a female friend, then shot him seven times, twice in the head. They also brutalized the young woman. Instead of counselors, the city of … Continued
The BBQ will feature a speak-out by AC-Transit drivers and riders. There will also be a presentation by Occupy AC-Transit on our current campaign around bus transfers, as well as our plans to not only fight fare increases and worker concessions, but get free bus passes for low-income people and improvements for drivers. Come out and see how you can get involved. We will have free buttons and will be making Occupy AC-Transit t-shirts (bring a blank shirt if you want one). Occupy Oakland committees will also be speaking briefly … Continued
On Saturday, Occupy AC-Transit, a subcommittee of Occupy Oakland and Occupy Oakland’s BBQ Committee, will co-host a rider-driver Speakout at Arroyo Park in East Oakland. Community members on both sides of the fare transaction will talk about AC-Transit’s institutional racism and classism and how it impacts the lives of both riders and drivers. Along with the Speakout, there will be campaign buttons and t-shirt making which will provide visible signs of solidarity with the ongoing action as it ramps up in the coming months. There will also be workshops, music, … Continued
The agreed upon purpose of Occupy Oakland Nonviolent Caucus (OONV) is as follows: Consensus decision 2/2/12—1st general meeting It is NOT the purpose of the group to pass NV resolution for all of #OO, but determine what tactics we will engage in to be strategic about a specific goal, and plan actions from there. Also agree not to turn in others to police or try to be “peace police” or to try to enforce NV in others. This covenant was the basis for founding of OONV. Without this agreement, many … Continued
The 1st General Assembly of Occupy Oakland in the month of July is this Sunday, and there are a number of interesting proposals that are being put forth, such as: 1. The proposal to endorse and help organize the Occupy Oakland Liberate Everything Conference this summer, geared towards providing a more radical tone and communicating the unique perspective of Occupy Oakland to others and the world, 2. A proposal to jointly plan an Occupy Oakland July 4th action of some sort or another 3. A proposal to deal with the … Continued
19th and Telegraph, Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm: Help plan and envision the Occupy Oakland Conference that the Events Committee has started working on! Work meeting Sundays at Cafe Madrid at 11 am, 20th and Broadway. Taglines: HOW TO STRIKE THE EMPIRE BACK REVOLT FOR A LIFE WORTH LIVING tactics; unity, vision, strategy 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 Liberate Everything conference at (hopefully) Laney College here in Oakland. The desire to organize a … Continued
Please check out notes about the first gathering here: http://occupyoakland.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Letter-and-Notes-RIGA-Gathering-6-16-12.pdf 34528
Please join us for the next Re-Imagine the General Assembly working group meeting on Friday 6/29 at 6:00p at Cafe Madrid (20th and Broadway)! The meeting on Friday 6/22 has been cancelled. 34489