Monthly meeting of people of faith seeking to engage effectively with community partners in direct action to create needed change. This group works cooperatively with WeThePeopleEugene for people-powered Democracy, Health Care for All Oregon for Single Payer Health Care, Opportunity Eugene for solutions to homelessness & Occupy Eugene. Looking for action-oriented members of Eugene/Springfield faith communities to grow our numbers and show up in solidarity with others working for big change now. All are welcome.
When: Sunday, March 25, 1 -3pm
Where: Universalist United Church, 477 East 40th Avenue, Eugene
Occupy Eugene invites everyone to an Open House and Volunteer Fair at our building OEV, 1274 W 7th, on Saturday, March 24, from 2 to 4 pm. (Please park on the side streets.)
Come meet us, enjoy some refreshments, and find out what we are up to and where we are headed. We hope you will find a place to participate and help us create the kind of democracy we can all be proud of.
If you’ve been curious about what we are doing what are plans are, this is your chance to find out.
In celebration of Women’s history month
Movie and Discussion: Whose Counting?
Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics
Tues. March 20th/7 pm
@Reality Kitchen/245 Van Buren
Contact:icononoclasmo.scott@gmail.com
Cosponsored by the Lane branch-Industrial Workers of the World,
Occupy Eugene,, Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network,
& AFSME 3214
Cost: Free
Marilyn Waring is the foremost spokesperson for global feminist economics, and her ideas offer new approaches for political action. With persistence and wit she has succeeded in drawing attention to the fact that GDP has no negative side to its accounts–such as damage to the environment & ignores the unpaid work of women. “Why is the market economy all that counts?” Waring asks.
Dr. Gordon Lafer, political economist and associate professor at the U of O’s Labor Education and Research Center, will lead a training session focused on strategic planning. The training will assist organizers and activists determine our movement’s goals for 2012 and how we can successfully reach those goals.
Hosted by Lotus and Art Bollman of the Occupy Eugene Zinn/Chomsky library! Please let Jennifer Frenzer-Knowlton know if you would like to sign up to read/recite poetry or perform spoken word. Original Works Encouraged! Please donate Works of Art toward the Benefit SalesTable!
Event contact: Jennifer Frenzer-Knowlton, kokomojo0664@msn.com
In the final moments of our last gathering at the Washington/Jefferson Occupation a single acorn fell into the center of our silent meditation/prayer circle. As the Equinox approaches, along with the 25th gathering of Occupying the Heart and Mind, the call has come to plant this seed, a symbol of our vitality and future strength from the trees that once formed the basis of a gift economy within our bio-region.
Regardless of our names and affiliations, those of us who have come together to create a transformation of global consciousness will only continue to dig our roots deeper as we reach toward the light, nurtured by the love and support each of holds in our hearts and minds.
Please come join us in celebration on Saturday March 17th from 2:00-4:00 at the Occupy Headquarters (7th and Polk). We are putting out the call for 25 members of our community to hold the circle on this special day. After an hour of silent meditation/prayer, there will be a sharing circle, followed by a brief planting ceremony. Everyone is invited to bring a handful of sacred earth and/or holy water, as an offering to the earth that sustains us. You may also choose to bring something for the altar. Don’t forget to DRESS WARM* and RSVP, if possible.
2:00-2:15pm Gather and set up alter
2:15-3:30 Silent Meditation/Prayer Circle
3:30-4:00 Sharing Circle and Planting Ceremony
(A bell will be rung at 15 minute intervals signifying an opportunity to enter or exit the space without disturbing others)
Indubious headlines, with local bands Swagsensi & The Tip from Eugene playing in addition to 3 speakers: OE’s own Alley Valkyrie, Charity Madison from Fields Of Food, Rick Staggenberg from Soldiers Of Peace.
I will be tableing for OE, we have permission to sell items for fundraising. We need donations of items & printing of t-shirts if at all possible to avoid having to ask finance to fund that cost up front.
Join Charles Eisenstein, author of “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition” for an evening conversation this Saturday, March 10th, 7pm at Columbia Hall rm 150, University of Oregon. Charles Eisenstein has written several articles addressing some of the core issues of the Occupy movement including “No Demand Is Big Enough” which was a direct response to calls early on from Occupy critics for the movement to clearly state “what our demands are.”
Discover a powerful, mind-opening account of history, social analysis, solutions and new possibilities for the future of money, economics and the quality of our lives and our future. Learn how we can all benefit in this vision and contribute to it. Explore a new economic world filled with:
gifting, sharing, and generosity
local money and resilient communities
a commons that’s thriving and expanding
negative interest that generates greater, truer wealth
liberated human passion, caring, and contributions
societies freed of concentrated, corrupted power
economics that into account nature and people
Discover economics as if people and nature really mattered….enlightened economics that knows we are all connected…
We are very excited to extend this invitation to join us for a family-friendly celebration of human personhood, community, and interdependence.
Please take a look at this brief video introduction:
We are People United, an affinity group of local Eugene and Springfield citizens who have gathered to organize a free event called “People United: More Than A March.” This event is scheduled for Saturday, February 25th and will begin with a rally at the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza at 8th & Oak Street at 11 am. There will be a rally, live music, and other entertainment before we set out to parade through town in celebration of our community. We have been working for the past several months with different groups in our area, including Occupy Eugene, to organize this event. Our goal is, essentially, twofold.
First, we are gathering to celebrate human personhood. We are gathering in a gesture of solidarity as individuals in our diverse community to make a clear statement that Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling and the legal fiction of corporate personhood are unacceptable. We are gathering to make it very clear to all elected officials that personhood is for people. In order to punctuate this point, we are asking participants to bring a simple sign that reads: “My Name Is (write name) And I Am A Person.” Several sign making stations will also be set up during the rally.
Second, we are rallying together to establish a moment in time and space where we are able to set aside our different political leanings, worldviews, or ideas about effective tactics or strategies for change, in order to focus upon our nearly universal agreement that our democracy has been watered down by corrupt relationships between corporations and our government and that we all desire a more level playing field for everyone. We are gathering because this is what democracy looks like in this day and age where most feel dis-empowered and we are only able to make a statement through our relationships with each other. In this light, we are gathering to celebrate the incredible community that we share and the power that we have when we are able to act interdependently.
We at People United are working in collaboration with Occupy Eugene, Empowering the 99%, the Oregon Country Fair, and other local businesses and organizations, and we would like to invite you to join us in this effort. This event was originally constructed as a march, but has grown into much more. Several local groups will be participating by carrying banners of their own while marching with the rest of the community. We invite you to join us – either as an individual or as part of a group – as we celebrate together! If you are a part of a group and someone from your group would like to speak during the rally, please contact Marcus Farley at farleymft [at] gmail [dot] com
Also: Please join us after the event for the Occupy Oregon Statewide Assembly at 3pm at Occupy V (1274 W. 7th Avenue in Eugene). Food and music will follow the assembly.
