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Safer Spaces Needs A LARGE vehicle for 12/12 Port Shutdown!

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Hello World! This is a communiqué from Safer Spaces, a committee with Decolonize/Occupy Oakland. We work to provide anti-oppression advocacy and mental health support to the Decolonize/Occupy movement.   On December 12, 2011 we will be participating in the West Coast Port Shutdown action by organizing a team of “Emotional Medics”. Emotional Medics will work to support those who have been traumatized by police violence at the action. We do this work because the long-lasting effects that police violence has on our mental health makes organizing a sustainable movement very … Continued

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CROSS-USA WALKER SUPPORTs OCCUPY CONVENTION, JULY 4, PHILA,PA

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DEAR FRIENDS:  WARM GREETINGS + MANY BLESSINGS !!   MY DECISION TO START A CROSS-USA WALK WAS NOT A SUDDEN ONE:  DURING THE FIRST SEVERAL WEEKS OF OCCUPY OAKLAND I HEAR’D THAT THERE WILL BE A CONVENTION OF OCCUPY MOVEMENTS IN PHILA.,PA, ON JULY 4, 2012 …   SINCE THEN, I’V DECIDED TO WALK ACROSS THE USA TO HELP PROMOTE +  SUPPORT SUCH A CONVENTION, ARRIVE-ING IN TIME TO PARTICIPATE … I RECKON I NEED TO AVERAGE APPROX. 20 MILES PER DAY:  THIS IS DO-ABLE FOR ME, AS I’V DECIDED TO ACCEPT RIDES … Continued

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12/3 1-4pm: 2-3 hour basic street medic training!

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Hello folks here is a outline of the 2-3hour basic street medic training this Saturday at Oscar grant plaza. This will be in workshop format. We will be involving ourselves with lots of scenarios and group participation. This is just a basic training. There will be a more extensive training that will be held at the Holdout space the weekend of the 10-11th.  Please forward to anyone who you believe would be interested! When: 12/3/2011 1-4pm Where: NW section of Oscar Grant Plaza What to bring: warm clothes that you … Continued

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open teamspeak server for occupiers

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Occupy Michigan has a teamspeak server setup for all occupations to use at there leisure. the server address is digitalfrost.net and there is no password. teamspeak allows for real time voice and text chat as well as file sharing and all sorts of nifty things. we even have our own occupy oakland room. if you have any questions feel free to ask me. teamspeak can be downloaded for free here http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads just thought this would be a great resource for discussion and coordination with other occupations as well as oakland. … Continued

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I will coming our to join you. Looking to ride back from DC

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You can check me out at https://www.facebook.com/marcel.kuemmet. I am coming out to join your movement there.  My services will be at your disposal. I am a veteran video blogger and citizen journalist.  And a former US Army Ranger.  You can check out my work personal blog at http://marcelkuemmetphotography.blogspot.com/. My local news blog is http://greenbayconfidential.blogspot.com/. You can see a report I did recently on the Occupy movement in Green here at http://youtu.be/MeDeFhrVPf4?hd=1. You can see a promo at http://youtu.be/plFaQJQ_d44?hd=1 (this was shot with my Canon HF 10 Consumer Camcorder). I am … Continued

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Occupy World Aids Day Vigil and Open People’s Mic

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DeColonize Womyn and Gurrls Statement In honor and remembrance of those who have lost their lives to HIV/AIDS, we are holding a candlelight vigil on Thursday Dec 1, 2011 at Oscar Grant Plaza. In honor of those still living with HIV/AIDS we hold a candlelight vigil and open (people’s) mic and ask that the governments and people of this world recognize the need for Universal Healthcare as one of our basic rights. We encourage people to come share their experience of how this virus has affected you or the people … Continued

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Occupy Antigone

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A group of theater artists in the Bay Area and beyond are working to create a production based on principals from and related to the struggles of the #OWS movement. We begin with a crowd-sourced text communally edited on a wiki. http://occupyantigone.wikispaces.com/ Here is the description from the wiki: A crowdsourced emergent text contributed to by #OWS protestors, friends, allies, comrades, and fellow artists. The text will form the basis of performances to be developed in a facilitation rather than directorial style. Rather than a director who runs the show … Continued

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Child’s Brigade Families Occupy Oakland

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Hi all , if anyone knows about  a families occupy Oakland or who organized the child brigade , we’d love to get in touch. We have a website and  meeting space etc. http://foccupysf.com/ Occupy Bay Area ! Also we will be marching with Occupy Sf on Dec 10th in Support of Human Rights   8059

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read between the lines

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“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality” – H. L. Mencken The Human Mic might sound like a work-around to restrictive city ordinances, a ‘progressive communication’ tool that allows us to speak and achieve “consensus”, but it may also be the fingerprint of whoever is behind Occupy. The technique seems to have been born after NYPD imposed measures banning megaphones, and … Continued

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