10/20/2012 1:00 pm 1630 High st, High St and Foothill Oakland Ca [MENSAJE BILINGÜE /BILINGUAL MESSAGE] The Dignity and Resistance Coalition invites you to say NO to worker and immigrant repression by picketing Mi Pueblo Market! After years of unresolved labor disputes, the Mi Pueblo Market chain has retaliated against employees by implementing E-Verify, a government database that allows Mi Pueblo to refuse work to undocumented workers. Now Mi Pueblo [...]
OCCUPY OAKLAND MEDIA COLLECTIVE STATEMENT ON THE OAKLAND COMMUNE Occupy Oakland began on October 10, 2011. Since then it has become clear that a rigid distinction needs to be made between Occupy Oakland and the self-described Oakland Commune. The Media Collective is making this statement to provide clarity by describing this dysfunctional relationship, including links to documents created by the Oakland Commune. While the general purpose of a press release [...]
Article written by Yvonne Metiche, crossposted from Decolonize Oakland Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? During a recent visit to the Bay Area, a about a half-dozen activists from Decolonize Seattle shared their ideas about decolonization at Holdout Books in West Oakland. The panel discussion and subsequent Q/A session included a variety of dense topics, with a complete running time of over 3 hours. As a past participant of Occupy Oakland [...]
So far, two music compilations have emerged as fundraisers: one in New York City, another in Oakland. If there are other benefit comps in other locations, please leave a comment below and tell us about them. Here are the fundraising albums we have seen emerge from Year One of the Occupy movement… Occupy This Album (Occupy Wall Street) http://musicforoccupy.org/2012/05/pre-order-occupy-this-album/ cost : $9.99 running time : 77 songs, 300:00 (99 [...]
by Dana Lone Hill (crossposted from Just A Rez Chick) I am 40 years old, while I feel that is kind of old at the same time I feel as I always have. I don’t feel old-er at all. I don’t feel that out of my four children, two are adults. I feel I could jump through puddles and make mud pies, but yet the silver hairs that are [...]
Since early times, MUSIC has brought communities together. It has unified us in dance, and has taught us lessons in harmony. It has been an agent of celebration, joining people from around the world through propulsive rhythms and voices of ecstasy. It has created a heightened state of awareness, reenergizing our spirit so that we may continue down our paths graciously. Its power is as vast as the cosmos from [...]
An interview with one of the Anonymous organizers of OpBART, which is set to return Aug. 13 On Aug. 12, 2011, I was drinking my morning coffee and reading Twitter when I noticed that Jacob Appelbaum had posted a link to a story about BART shutting down cell and wi-fi service in some of its stations the previous day. The reason for the shutdown? To thwart another protest against the [...]
We are calling for the immediate release of our friend Anna Karewicz (often called Ankah), a much beloved member of the SF Bay Area activist community and beyond. She is currently being held with an ICE (immigration) hold and is fighting imminent deportation. Anna was contacted by police Thursday August 3rd, after her bicycle tour group mistakenly turned, riding their bikes on the wrong side of a one way street [...]
People of Color and Women of Color: here are two new opportunities to discuss your experiences in the Occupy Movement. Amber Kelsie is in Oakland until July 31st to make an oral history of our voices in this social movement. If you are not able to contact her before she leaves, or if you live outside of Oakland and you’d like to contribute to the project, be sure to contact [...]
by The Oakland Coalition to Stop Goldman Sachs from http://stopgoldmansachs.blogspot.com/ 6/29/12 What: A very IMPORTANT council meeting will take place that will signal the beginning of the erosion of greedy capitalist forces in Oakland. Council will decide how to proceed with ending the toxic interest-rate swap with Goldman Sachs that has drained Oakland of $32 million dollars. This drain will continue until 2021 unless we put a stop to it NOW. Where: Oakland City Hall [...]
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