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UPDATE: Saturday 5/19/12 3pm – Occupy the Farm Planter Box Rally

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Followed by a Community Forum on Visions for Food Sovereignty and Food Justice
3 PM – Gather at the Gill Tract South Side: Monroe St. at San Pablo Ave
The Planter Box Rally will highlight that land access is fundamental to growing food in an urban environment. UC Berkeley may have forced the public off of the Gill Tract, yet still we farm. The community forum will contextualize the Gill Tract within the larger scope of food sovereignty and food justice issues that affect people throughout the Bay Area and beyond.
Come prepared to BUILD, PLANT and GROW on the Gill Tract South Side (AKA Albany Meadows).
We’ll need more:
  • wood, nails
  • paint, paint brushes
  • hand tools (drills, hammers, shovels, trowels)
  • seeds/seedlings – vegetables and wildflowers
  • water + watering cans
  • clay
  • compost, soil
  • and bring a friend (or two, or three)!
Farmland is for farming!

UC Police Assert Private Control Over Gill Tract Farmers Respond: Farmland is for Farming

” Farm raided: 5 PM reconvergence meeting Tuesday 5/15/12 at the Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Ave.”

Statement from Occupy the Farm:

Albany, CA – This morning (5/14/12), over 100 police officers armed with projectiles, batons, and pepper-ball guns descended on the Gill Tract Farm to attempt to force an end to efforts to reclaim the Gill Tract for community use.

The public land, which is managed by UC Berkeley’s development arm known as Capital Projects, was reclaimed by Occupy the Farm on April 22 and has been used for community-friendly farming education for the three weeks since. Today, using all the power at its disposal, the University of California has reasserted its control over the land.

“This land has been fought over for decades,” said Anya Kamenskaya, a spokesperson for the Gill Tract Farmers Collective. “UC needs to let go of control and supervision of this land. For decades, it has fenced off this land from use by the community. Today’s show of force is merely another in a long history of the UC’s rejection of community access to this prized piece of farmland.”

Using a mixed force made up of police from eight different UC campuses and with Alameda County Sheriff’s Department, police blocked traffic, barricaded the Gill Tract, and arrested nine people. Two of the arrestees had entered the farm after the raid began, to water plants. Seven additional people were arrested while watching the police operation from San Pablo Avenue.

UC representative Dan Mogulof incorrectly told media that ten people were sleeping on the land at the time of the raid. However, the Gill Tract Farmers Collective ended its encampment on the morning of Saturday May 12th by moving all camp infrastructure to outside of the Tract. No one was camped on the land when the police force surrounded and enclosed it. Consistent with agreements made with faculty and adjunct research scientists over the past three weeks, every effort was made by the Gill Tract Farmers Collective to make room for the need to plant their research crops.

The Gill Tract Farmers Collective has called for a reconvergence at the Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Ave., at 5 PM tomorrow, Tuesday May 15th.

Farmland is for farming!

Tweets from morning of 5/14/12:

“10 minute dispersal order at #occupythefarm. Farmers are getting to farming. Request support immediately.” 6:28am

“Farm being raided now. 50 UCP with riot gear. Come NOW!” 6:53am

“All UCPD armed with chemical agents. Large van to take arrestees. 50 outside farm on SP. 20 inside. COME NOW!” 6:55am

Streamer said that has not seen any NLG, and hope some are inside the farm.

Worthoftheworld arrested while streaming”  http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/22583724/highlight/263505

Photo by Susie Cagle: http://twitter.com/#!/susie_c/status/202045213785600001/photo/1

For more info: http://occupythefarm.org/

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Worker’s Assembly – Saturday, 5/19/12, 10:00am to 2:00pm

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The working class is facing an unprecedented assault from
employers and the state. We must build solidarity in collective
struggle. In this spirit we invite all workers – paid and unpaid,
employed and unemployed, union and non-union, full-time and
precarious – to join a Workers’ Assembly.

We aim to encourage communication and solidarity between
different sectors of the working class. We want to encourage
common struggle against the 1% and their agents who exploit
and oppress us, for a society based on justice and equality, where
the needs and desires of all working people are given first priority.

This will be the 2nd meeting of the Workers’ Assembly.

It will be held on Saturday, May 19th, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.

It will take place at the SEIU 1021 Hall, 155 Myrtle St, Oakland, CA,

Please join us — And there is such thing as a free lunch!

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Next week’s Uhuru movement meetings, Oakland Freedom Summer Project, Occupation for Self-Determination

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Occupation for Self-Determination Townhall Meeting Sundays, 4 to 6pm

Uhuru House, 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland

Attend the Weekly Townhall Meetings to build the Oakland Freedom Summer Project!

In the 1960’s, the Black Panther Party was attacked militarily by U.S. government for building programs to feed the people.

In the 1980’s, the Uhuru Movement, under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist party, rebuilt the Black Power movement in Oakland and brought programs for the people back to life.

You can:

  • Volunteer with the free clothing drive program.
  • Help build a commercial kitchen for Black owned catering services.
  • Help build the community garden at the Uhuru House.
  • Help build health and wellness programs out of the Uhuru House.

510-569-9620 Uhurusummerproject.org

Wednesday Political Action Committee Meetings

Committee Meetings Every Wednesday at 6:30pm

Uhuru House, 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland

The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement and the Uhuru Solidarity Movement invites your participation in the work to challenge the police containment of the African community.
Get involved in organizing political actions, community forums, fundraising and outreach to combat the colonial conditions experienced by African people inside Oakland the the U.S.

Writers, graphic designers, filmmakers, social media enthusiasts, activists and other interested parties should join the work.

510-569-9620 Uhurusummerproject.org

Meetings of Uhuru Jiko Project and Uhuru Foods

Meeting 7pm on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month at the Niebyl Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland.

Join the donations, fundraising and construction teams for Uhuru Jiko (freedom Kitchen), the project being build through the Uhuru House Renovation and the Oakland Freedom Summer Project at the Oakland Uhuru House.

Uhuru Jiko will generate economic development for the African community of East Oakland

It will also be a base of operations for Uhuru Foods, a subsidiary of Black Star Industries, building an economic future for African people, wealth and prosperity for Africa and African people everywhere.

Get involved with securing donations from businesses throughout the Bay Area for the Oakland Freedom Summer Project and the Uhuru House Renovation Campaign.

Uhurusummerproject.org 510-394-1780

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Occupy Stockton’s Visit

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Hi All,

We enjoyed meeting you all this evening. Thank you for being so open to our ideas & perspectives. We look forward to this blossoming relationship and are eager to grow alongside our brothers & sisters.

In solidarity!

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Occupy AC Transit Announces Extended Bus Transfer Campaign

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On Wednesday 5/16/12 , Occupy Oakland and rank-and-file AC-Transit drivers announced a campaign that will pressure the MTC to make transportation more accessible for low-income communities and to reverse concessions forced on transit workers. This campaign kicks off today by asking drivers to honor transfers for multiple use and up to 3 hours. Riders and drivers stand in solidarity in this demand for a just transportation system.

Next year, another round of fare increases is scheduled to go into effect. This is in addition to service cuts disproportionately applied to poorer communities of color. Many people have to pay two full fares to get to work, and two more to get back. This means many transfers expire while people are waiting for their second bus. Bus riders, especially economically disadvantaged bus riders, increasingly have had to pay more to get less.

Drivers have also had to give more for less. Sometimes a 12-hr shift is barely paused for a break of ten minutes or less. Besides creating an unsafe work environment and an unsafe ride, frustrated drivers and riders end up fighting with each other over transfers or late buses.

Meanwhile, the people ripping everyone off and gutting service – the 1% – are out of reach. The rich 1% could not make money without the support of hundreds of thousands of workers who ride the bus and the transit workers who take them there.

“For years, bus fares have increased while working conditions and pay have steadily declined,” said Mike King of Occupy Oakland. “This reality can only be rectified by riders and drivers standing together and building collective social power to create a just bus system for everyone.”

This effort around transfers is a small step, but will be one of many as we escalate the campaign in the coming months.

For more information, go to http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003741365182 or email us at occupyactransit@gmail.com.

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Occupy protesters take on AC Transit fare transfers

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Re-posted from KTVU.com

Posted: 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, 2012

OAKLAND, Calif. —

Occupy Oakland, working with Alameda-Contra Costa Transit bus operators, launched a campaign Wednesday asking drivers to honor transfers in ways that will ease the financial pain felt by the system’s riders.

Before the last round of service cuts, it was AC Transit policy to honor transfers for up to three hours. Currently, transfers are only valid for two hours.

At the campaign announcement outside the Fruitvale BART station this afternoon, an Occupy Oakland organizer said that service cuts and fare hikes have made life harder on both riders and drivers, who often sympathize with their riders’ financial hardship.

They said the service cuts disproportionately affect communities of color, as the disappearance of routes has meant riders in poorer neighborhoods need to take additional buses to reach the same destinations.

“Riders increasingly have to pay more to get less. It is the working people that suffer from these cuts.”

Last year’s fare hikes saw the basic adult fare increase by 10 cents and the youth, senior and disabled fare increase by 5 cents, raising the basic bus fare to $2.10 and the discounted fare for seniors, youths and the disabled to $1.05.

Another round of fare increases is scheduled to go into effect next year.

The transfer campaign aims to make transportation more accessible for low-income riders, who represent the majority of the system’s users, and to reverse concessions transit workers made in their current contract, which expires in a little more than a year.

AC Transit spokesman Clarence Johnson declined to comment on the matter other than saying, “We have a bus fare policy in place, and we have no reason to expect that any of our bus operators won’t adhere to it.”    The Occupy Oakland organizer said the transfer approach is a small step “but will be one of any” as the campaign escalates.

Fellow occupier Mike King said that, before taking additional action, the group plans to assess the campaign’s effectiveness in about a month.

“We saw the transfers as a logical first step,” King said, because many passengers pay two fares in a single direction of travel when transfers expire while people are waiting for their connecting bus.

King said the campaign is asking drivers to do their job, which, according to operator Dave Lyons, is to simply state the fare — not enforce collection.

Lyons said that fare disputes, including disagreements over transfers, are the number one cause of assaults on drivers.

“We’re making life harder for them and for ourselves,” Lyons said this afternoon.

Lyons said that bus drivers should use good judgment when weighing whether to allow passengers with expired transfers to board without conflict.

“You have to be reasonable,” he said, and consider the safety and comfort of all passengers because escalating the situation, by demanding a passenger pay a second fare or by calling security, can impact service.

Lyons said the matter boils down to mutual respect, as drivers are capable of showing sympathy but ask that riders not abuse their understanding.

“I think all drivers get at least a little bit annoyed when riders don’t respect drivers,” Lyons said.

King said that increasing bus fares and declining working conditions have roiled passengers and drivers.

“This reality can only be rectified by riders and drivers standing together and building collective social power to create a just bus system for everyone,” King said. “We’ve tried to create an agreed upon system of mutual respect and solidarity.”

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Occupy Transit! Transit Workers & Occupy Movement Team Up

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APRIL 5, 2012 3:18PM
Re-posted from open.salon.com

Calling mass transit “a genuine civil rights issue,” the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), which represents transit workers across the nation, joined with the Occupy Movement, community organizations and transit riders to demand a revitalization of our transit systems. Citing such problems as “older vehicles,  deferred maintenance and longer wait times for overcrowded buses and trains,” the ATU was also critical of service cuts and higher fares which have hit working class riders the hardest.

ATU

ATU national president Larry Hanley was inspired to ally ATU with the Occupy Movement when he learned of a proposal from Occupy Boston for a national day of protest around transit issues. Occupy Boston had issued this statement:

“In Boston and in cities around the country, our hard-won and necessary transportation systems are under attack. Their viability is being threatened by savage cuts and fare hikes in a calculated push toward privatization by corrupt and unresponsive politicians and their corporate benefactors.”

On April 4, the ATU led demonstrations in 15 American cities to draw attention to today’s transit crisis.

The ATU wants our mass transit systems to better serve the needs of poor people so that they can get to jobs and enter the mainstream of society. April 4 was the anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination and ATU leaders made a point of calling public transit “a human right” and quoting from Dr King’s speeches. Dr. King began his career as a civil rights leader by heading up the Montgomery Bus Boycott which sought public transit  equality for all people.

In Newark ATU leader Ray Greaves warned that $100 million in planned budget cuts will affect commuters who don’t use public transit because the cuts will put more cars on the road resulting in worse traffic jams as “gas prices are going through the roof.”

Here in Chicago between 75-100 ATU activists, Occupy Chicago members and transit riders gathered in front of the Chicago Transit Authority headquarters for a scheduled 6pm rally. As the CTA Green Line rumbled overhead every few minutes, ATU members passed out orange “Occupy Transit” T-shirts and signs supporting public transit.

ATU Member

ATU International Vice-president Javier Perez(photo below) congratulated CTA workers for the excellent job they did in the 2011 blizzard, something even the Chicago Tribune acknowledged. But as Perez pointed out, the Tribune failed to mention that these were unionized employees. It seems that when unionized employees respond courageously and competently in emergencies, their union status is forgotten.

Javier Perez

Perez went on to criticize the U.S. Congress for its ‘kick the can down the road” attitude toward transit funding. As an example he raised the issue of CTA maintenance employees who are forced to work in rat infested garages. At that point CTA workers raised a chorus of cheers. Perez made it clear that the ATU is tired politicians and corporate leaders blaming public employees for city budget crises and he strongly stated his opposition to selling off public assets.

The issue of selling off public assets is a critical problem for Chicago public transit. Recently Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a massive 7 billion dollar package of infrastructure initiatives that had been cobbled together from previous proposals. What alarmed some longtime City Hall observers was Emanuel’s emphasis on “public-private” partnerships which they see as merely a back door method of privatization. Chicagoans are still reeling from the public-private leasing of the city’s parking meters which raised drastically parking rates while enriching Chicago Parking Meters LLC for the next 75 years. The Emanuel proposal includes private-public deals for transit infrastructure upgrades.

Members of Citizens Taking Action, a CTA riders organization, expressed their opposition to such deals in a leaflet passed out at the Occupy Transit rally. Charles Paddock, secretary of the group was quoted as saying:

”Public transit is a central municipal service, and we don’t put money into a fare box to make some guy rich. I foresee three things happening: loss of control by the city, increased or added fares and diminished service. You might want to add corruption on a scale never seen before. And once it’s done, there’s no going back. Sometimes these deals are for contracts lasting 99 years.”


A CTA rider makes her views clear

Jan Rodolfo of National Nurses United spoke passionately about how public transit connects us all, how it gets us to our jobs and school, how extended families are often spread across a distance and rely on public transit to come together. It also helps build communities and allows for different communities to connect. As befits a nurse, she made a comparison to the human body:

“Public transportation is no less important than the veins and arteries that bring blood and oxygen to our bodies. And to say that we are going to cut off a neighborhood or a community is like cutting off circulation to a limb and that is totally unacceptable.”

Jan Rolofo
Jan Rolofo of National Nurses United

Karen Louis, President of the Chicago Teachers Union echoed Rolofo’s concern about schools and education while pointing out that the thousands of transit workers have children in the Chicago Public Schools and that teachers and transit workers will always stand together.

Missing from the April 4 ATU message about public transit was how our dependence upon the automobile is an environmental disaster. Automobile pollution is deadly. A 2008 study done in Southern California showed that car pollution killed more people than car crashes. Public transit takes cars off of the road which makes a huge public health difference. This could improve even more as we move toward sustainable energy generation.  Indeed, sustainable public transit is crucial for limiting the dangers of climate change as well.

Hopefully ATU members will raise their voices at the upcoming April 22 Earth Day and show how their work is part of a liveable and breathable environment.

ATU Protest

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National Nurses Union pulling buses to Chicago

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I wrote the union to tell them I am ashamed of what they have done. I send my condolences to anyone who would have gone to Chicago for the May 18 event but was prevented from doing so by their biased and discriminatory action against bay area occupiers. I think you guys do great work, take enormous risks for your beliefs of a better, fairer and more inclusive society. Keep up the good work.

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Alan Blueford’s Family at the Oakland City Council Meeting on 5/15/12 – Photos

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Alan Blueford’s Family at the Oakland City Council Meeting on Tuesday May 15, 2012 – Photos

“Justice for Alan!” and for all those murdered by the killer cops at the Oakland Police Department.

As one of the Alan’s relatives said, people in the community are afraid to speak up because they fear what the Police would do.

Deeply sad to know that the ones that are there to serve us and protect us, and paid by our taxes, are the ones inflicting pain and loss of human life in the Black (and non white) community.

The Oakland Police needs to be stopped, somehow. The City officials do not seem to have control over them. Perhaps the Federal government should intervene, before this gets really worse. I mean, before more people die.

In my personal opinion I fear the police more than me walking in a neighborhood known to be dangerous. And I fear the police because a lot of them  seem anxious to beat people up and  thirsty for blood; mostly Black and Hispanic blood. Just to make sure it is clear, most police officers are racists.

What or who can help us?

The City Council Members, again, have the opportunity to act in our behalf; so that the community gets to see positive changes and perhaps gain their trust little by little as they continue proving that they are working for the good of the people, the 99%.

No Justice! No Peace!

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Proposal Queue for GA Sunday 5/20

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1) Proposal To Endorse Occupy Oakland Media Committee Purpose Statement

2) Proposal for Occupy Oakland to Ratify the proposal created by the National Gathering Working Group

3) Proposal to Endorse Occupy Anti-War Working Group resolution to  END to the militarization and violence of the police, FBI, homeland security, and any other ‘security’ force

4) Proposal to denounce the physical attack on the Revolution Books table at OGP On May Day

5) Proposal for a march against stay away orders and state repression toward Occupy Oakland

1) Proposal To Endorse Occupy Oakland Media Committee Purpose Statement

OCCUPY OAKLAND MEDIA COMMITTEE PURPOSE STATEMENT

The  Occupy Oakland Media Committee (OOMC) is a committee of Occupy Oakland*  (OO) that makes use of the press, social media, multimedia, and other  forms of media to connect with supporters by promoting actions events,  workshops, nurturing political dialogue. The OOMC will develop and  adhere to policies regarding the following responsibilities:

  • Connecting  outside press inquiries to current and relevant sources of information –  rotating “spokespersons,” contacts within committees, or document  archives – primarily within OO but also within the greater Occupy  movement.
  • Working  with other committees to write, edit, and distribute press releases to  the media, Occupy journalists, and community organizations of interest.
  • Keep a list of press contacts and community organizations and other outreach resources.
  • Facilitating or giving aid to other committees in calling press conferences.
  • Using the official OO versions of social media platforms to support our mission. See policies here.
  • Scouring  media sources for journalism positively covering OO activities.  Circulating those stories on to our supporters via social media, email,  etc.
  • Producing media trainings and skill shares for OO.
  • Coordinating  with the Web Committee to ensure that the OO website is serving the  movement’s informational and media needs, for example making sure that  events are updated and accessible on the website.

The  OOMC will develop relationships with members of the press, a general  understanding (and evaluations) of the media outlets and reporters that  cover OO, and lists of resources (human or technological) for media  dissemination. The OOMC will interact with alternative and mainstream  media outlets, including independent and Occupy journalists. Media  committee members will adhere to the resolutions of the General Assembly  (GA) resolutions, especially those relevant to the Media Committee. The  OOMC will not generate its own opinionated content or maintain  (web/technical/media) resources separate from official Occupy Oakland  resources.

2) Proposal for Occupy Oakland to Ratify the proposal created by the National Gathering Working Group

On January 7, 2012, the Philadelphia General Assembly came to consensus  on a proposal from the Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence to form a  national working group dedicated to conceiving of, and implementing a  strategy towards, a National Gathering of the Occupy Movement.

This National Gathering Working Group (NGWG) has met seven times via  conference call with people from across the country using the  InterOccupy system to debate the merits and discuss the logistics of  convening a mass convergence of the Movement in one place at one time.  Participants have included Occupy activists from Sacramento,  Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Asheville, Missoula, Phoenix, Las Vegas, New  York City, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Cruz, Palo Alto,  Denver, DC, Oakland, Albany, Schenectady, Delaware, Alabama, Chicago,  Tampa, San Francisco, Boston, New Hampshire, and Kalamazoo, as well as  Canada.

After several weeks discussing several locations, dates, and purposes we  would like to submit the following proposal to General Assemblies  across the Occupy Movement for general ratification:

We, the National Gathering Working Group (NGWG), propose a National  Gathering of the Occupy Movement on July 4, 2012 in Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania at Independence Mall in order to collectively craft a  Vision for a Democratic Future. We further propose that our convergence  begin on June 30, 2012 for four days of community and Movement building  exercises including speakers, teach-ins, and free-flowing open  discussion at a location to be determined by the Philadelphia General  Assembly.

To facilitate the visioning process we also propose the use of the  attached “National Gathering Visioning Process Proposal” which utilizes a  small network model of communication to organically produce a vision  statement of all those in attendance. We also encourage the creation of  local or national processes by which movement resources could be  directed towards funding travel for active movement participants who  otherwise would not be able to attend. We fully understand that no  single gathering can be representative of our entire movement, but we  cannot ignore the value derived from face-to-face contact. We recognize  that attending in person will be challenging or impossible for many, so  we also commit to pursuing an online component through which anyone can  participate via the Internet.

In keeping with principles of the Occupy Movement, the NGWG will  continue planning this gathering only if this proposal is ratified by a  preponderance of General Assemblies from across the Movement. We are  committed to operating in an open, inclusive, and transparent way.  Therefore, all planning will be done via direct democratic conference  calls through the InterOccupy system.

We convene every Tuesday at 9PM EST/6 PM PST.

All are welcome to participate. We endeavor to convene an historic  gathering that will require a great deal of organization, so we invite  participants from every Assembly to join us in the planning and  facilitation of this effort. We have included a copy of the process  proposal that outlines how to effectively and efficiently produce a  collectively written document. By utilizing this small network,  consensus-based model, we will work together to produce a vision for the  future. We will also prove, through the entire process leading up to  July 4th, that our movement is capable of coordinating mass action and  collaborating on a broad scale, while still holding fast to our  principles. In many ways, the process is more important than the  gathering itself. This Movement will always live primarily at the local  level, but every great Movement should have the chance to gather en  masse as a demonstration of solidarity and strength. A National  Gathering of the movement will provide such a demonstration. At this  pivotal stage in human history, we feel we owe nothing less than a  beautiful expression of our collective will to an anxious world grasping  for reasons to hope again.

Once your Assembly has considered this proposal please email your decision to info@occupynationalgathering.com. For media purposes please feel free to utilize @OccupyNG and #NATGAT for social media coordination.

Updates will be posted to InterOccupy.org and OccupyNationalGathering.com.

-The National Gathering Working Group

3/13/2012

3) Proposal to Endorse Occupy Anti-War Working Group resolution to  END to the militarization and violence of the police, FBI, homeland security, and any other ‘security’ force

Because the Oakland police and all their allies, including various branches of ‘security’ and military are the MOST violent presence on the streets of Oakland and all cities today;

We severely object to and demand the immediate END to the militarization and violence of the police, FBI, homeland security, and any other ‘security’ force called into harm unarmed civilians of our cities

Including, but not limited to:

  • IMMEDIATELY scrapping the Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) bought & paid for by U.S. tax dollars thru ‘Homeland’ ‘Security’, residing with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department – and all other such “vehicles” brought in to terrorize and stifle the public, including but not limited to those exercising Constitutional rights and responsibilities of protest and resistance
  •  IMMEDIATELY identify any DRONES existing and/or allowed in the Bay Area airspace; and should none exist IMMEDIATELY proclaim that such UAV’s are forbidden in our airspace and the entire police forces in California
  •  IMMEDIATELY disarming police including removing shields, all weapons including but not limited to so-called “non-lethal” weapons of tear gas, tasers, flash grenades; guns, batons, steel-toed boots
  • ELIMINATING the police practices of trying to intimidate and silence protestors with a ridiculous presence of number & kinds of police (sometimes outnumbering demonstrators), handcuffs, any number of various and ugly vehicles of bullying, as well as attempting to control and direct expressions of resistance instead of insuring the rights of the people to protest and hold our government accountable.
  • ELIMINATING the current practice of calling up all sorts of police from various outlaying cities and counties, FBI, ‘homeland’ ‘security’, private police, state and BART police, etc.

We recommend to anti-war activists, anti-military prison industrial complex activists, occupy folks, folks concerned with the continued and escalated militarization of our cities, country, and world, that we form a working group to address these violent practices, to propose actions against the county of Alameda, ‘Homeland’ ‘Security’, local city councils and police departments to accomplish the above and more.

4) Proposal to denounce the physical attack on the Revolution Books table at OGP On May Day

“Occupy  Oakland denounces the physical attack carried out by a few individuals  on the Revolution Books table at Oscar Grant Plaza on May Day. Such  actions only aid the system’s agents of repression in their efforts to  isolate, divide, and destroy revolutionary organizations, the Occupy  movement, and the broader movements of resistance. We stand for spirit  of principled unity against this oppressive system. And we stand for a  spirit of serious engagement, principled dialogue and debate over  political differences within our movement.”

5) Proposal for a march against stay away orders and state repression toward Occupy Oakland
The Anti-Repression Committee proposes to host a march to oppose the  systemic repression brought down upon Occupy Oakland as well as other  oppressed communities of Oakland by the OPD, the District Attorney and  the Alameda County District Courts. In particular, we will emphasize the  draconian stay away orders that restrict the movement of Occupy Oakland  activists, while communicating solidarity with those communities  affected by gang injunctions and routine police repression. The march  will commence at 19th and Telegraph, and will then go around the 300  yards that have been issued as a stay away zone for over twenty Occupy  activists and will finish at City Hall, where a short speak out will be  held to issue stay away orders to various City and County officials who  have initiated violence against Occupy Oakland. Visuals will include  masks of those with stay away orders. A proposed date for this action is  June 5th, beginning at 4pm, and to finish in time for the city council  meeting at 6pm. A sub-committee within the Anti-repression committee  will plan this action with final approval given by the larger committee.

 

 

 

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