Yearly Archives: 2012

Max Rameau Visits Occupy Eugene!

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Housing is a Human Right

Author and Noted Housing Rights Activist, Max Rameau will be in Eugene for several events starting Wednesday, April 18. Rameau is the author of “Take Back the Land” and director of the national movement of the same name, which specializes in “liberating” vacant government land and foreclosed homes by moving homeless families into them.

Schedule of Events

April 18th – Activist training session 6:30p – 8:30p at Occupy V (1274 W. 7th Ave.)
Learn to utilize Positive Action (a form of Direct Action) campaigns to advance organizational objectives and build a movement for social justice. The training will focus on land, housing rights, and the fight against foreclosures. Desert and drinks afterwards.

April 19th – Benefit for “Take Back the Land” and Max Rameau 6p – 9p at Reality Kitchen (245 Van Buren)
Hour presentation, preceded by a social with food and music by David Rogers, tickets are $10/$12 day-of, but no one will be turned away for inability to pay. Get info at realitykitchen.org.

April 20th – Kesey Square Revival ~2 – 2:30p (Willamette St. & Broadway)
Brief speech and comments to media.

April 20th – Bank of America Protest ~4:45p – 5:15p (11th Ave. & Pearl St.)
Brief speech and comments to media.

April 20th – Lane Peace Symposium 6p – 8:30p (Lane Community College, 4000 East 30th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97405)
Plenary Panel: “The State of the Global and U.S. Democracy Movement.

April 21st – Lane Peace Symposium 3:30 – 5 p (Lane Community College, 4000 East 30th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97405)
Keynote address

Facebook Event Invite Page

Rameau’s Eugene visit is co-sponsored by Reality Kitchen, Occupy Eugene, Civil Liberties Defense Center, Lane Peace Symposium, and A Community Together – Lane County (ACT). Visit co-coordinated by Majeska Seese-Green (ACT) and Jim Evangelista (Reality Kitchen).

Occupy The Trees (The Mother Earth Tree Convention)

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EARTH DEFENSE WEEK: Occupy the Trees
www.occupythetrees.org

Occupy Eugene and Cascadia Forest Defenders, in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, have put an “Occupy the Trees” call-out to activists around the world to protest the destruction of our Earth for the week of April 22-27.

Here in Eugene on Sunday the 22nd (formerly known as Earth Day), there will be an Earth Defense Day celebration at the park blocks in downtown Eugene, with speakers, music, teach-ins, and food.

Activities are planned in Eugene throughout the week: Monday is Public Lands Day, Tuesday is World Day for Animals, Wednesday is Kids Need Forests Day, Thursday is Eco-feminism Day, Friday is Global Climate Change Awareness Day. There will be speakers, musical performances, marches and rallies throughout the week. Tree occupations are planned as well.

See a full schedule here:

https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=occupythetrees%40gmail.com&ctz=Asia/Kabul

 

Our Call to Action includes 3 main points:

1. Immediate attention and reversal to Global Climate Change which threatens all llife on Earth.

2. Disruption of the Earth-destroying profit machines led by the richest 1% of the world and their government lackies.

3. Ending all Commercial Extraction from Public Lands in all nations of the Earth.

 

Contacts:
Moon, Occupy Eugene
Jim Flynn, Cascadia Forest Defenders

Sacred Economics and the Divine Commons

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Collective Visioning welcomes Benjamin Crandall talking about Kindista, the online giving network which his group is about to launch. We’ll be discussing the work of Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics with others working to bring the vision of sacred economics and the gift economy home to Eugene.

When: Saturday, April 28th, 2-4pm

Where: OE V, 1274 W. 7th

Occupy The Trees Reggae Night at OEV

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Occupy The Trees will go inside to celebrate Eco-Feminism with FREE Live Music! We will have Medium Troy, Swag Sensi & The Tip! Join us!

When: Thursday, April 26,  7pm to 10pm.

Where:  Occupy Eugene V, 1274 W. 7th Ave. (7th & Polk)

Annual LCC Peace Symposium featuring Occupy Movement! and Occupy Chautauqua OE Film Festival

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This annual community event will feature keynote speakers and workshops on various topics including a workshop/speaker track about the Occupy Movement. National author and activist David Barsamiam will present on the economic issues that the Occupy Movement has spotlighted. Symposium details…

Following the Friday/Saturday conference at LCC, there will be a sister event on Sunday, April 22. Occupy Eugene’s Zinn Chomsky Library will host a day long film festival at Occupy V featuring everything from OE member-created videos to full length films. The film festival will end with a potluck dinner and discussion hour.

When: April 20-21 (conference) & the 22nd (film fest)

Where: LCC & OE V

Contact person: Jennifer Frenzer-Knowlton,  kokomojo0664@msn.com

Friday General Assembly At 5:15pm

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The GA will happen right after Max Rameau’s media stops at Kesey Square and Bank of America protest. We’ll begin at 5:15 this Friday and end at 6:15 so people can carpool to the LCC Peace Symposium panel on “The State of the National and International Democracy Movements”. Join us!

~2 – 2:30p: Kesey Square Revival, Willamette St. & Broadway
Brief speech and comments to media.

~4:45p – 5:15p: Bank of America Protest , 11th Ave. & Pearl St.
Brief speech and comments to media.

5:15 – 6:15p: General Assembly, Park Blocks, 8th & Oak

 

 

 

Photos of Zombie Bank Protest

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The Zombie Bank protest Occupy Eugene held on Friday the 13th went amazingly well thanks to makeup artists, sign makers, artists, printers, furniture deliveries, medical suppliers, and of course the occupiers themselves.

While we were there, we handed out flyers to engage with people about how Bank of America has been bankrupting America as a Zombie Bank after it was resurrected from the dead by our government in 2008 with a 45 billion bailout.

Now many people are losing their homes to illegal foreclosures and they get $2,000, if any money at all as compensation for wrong doing on the bank’s part.

The protests will continue next week, with a special guest Max Rameau, author of Take Back the Land.

Have a look at some of the photos taken by our talented photographers.

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Tax Day Action- Fund Human Needs-Not War or Wall St.

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Tax Day, April 17th join us for:

1. Rally-Downtown Post Office, 520 Willamette

11-12pm Penny Poll & Literature Distribution

Will provide taxpayers the opportunity to decide where their tax dollars go, by inviting them to participate in a penny poll. The poll participants will be given 10 pennies to put in jars representing a 6-category breakdown of the Federal budget.

12-1pm Rally with Music and Speakers including…

· Taxes for Peace, Occupy Eugene, IWW, CALC, ESSN, SEIU and WAND with tables

· Mark Ross and Scott Fife of IWW singing labor songs

· Plaedo Wellman performing spoken word.

*War tax resisters who object to over half of their federal taxes going to the military, will redirect their “war” taxes to local organizations. Some of these organizations will be on hand to receive their donations.

2-3pm Casket Procession to the New Federal Bldg

There will be a procession mourning the human costs of war from the Post Office to the New Federal Bldg. The center of the procession will be a casket led by a single drumbeat. The mourners in the front of the march will be dressed in black and those in back will be displaying a more proactive message with rainbow peace flags and signs that proclaim “I’d rather pay for________ than war. Either Congressional staff from the offices of Senator Merkley, Wyden and Rep. DeFazio will be asked to come speak to the group and outline what they’re doing to curtail war spending.

2. Stand Up For Tax Fairness Rally

5pm Main Post Office, 3148 Gateway

More information contact SEIU: 541- 342-1055.

3. Whirled Pies for World Peace Benefit

11am-10pm Whirled Pies Pizzeria, 1123 Monroe,

Percent of sales goes to CALC

 

 

Tax Day Sponsors: Community Alliance of Lane County, (CALC), Occupy Eugene, Eugene Springfield Solidarity Network-Jobs With Justice (ESSN), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND), Taxes for Peace Not War, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

For more information contact: Michael Carrigan at calcpeace[at]efn.org

 

 

Occupy Eugene Celebrates Friday the 13th with Zombie Bank Protest

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What’s more scary than a psychopath with a hockey mask and a knife? How about a “Zombie Bank” that keeps rising from the dead to terrorize our community?

Join Occupy Eugene in protest this Friday the 13th at the 11th and Pearl St. Bank of America branch from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. as we “pull the plug” on this Zombie Bank to keep it in the grave where it belongs!

The Zombie Bank (Bank of America) has been mired in problems for years: illegal foreclosures, robo-signing, outrageous executive compensation packages, questionable investment practices, sub-prime mortgage scandals, using the illegal Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS) to avoid paying property title transfer fees and taxes, ridiculous customer charges like $5 a month debit card fees, and more. Without massive taxpayer bailouts, Bank of America would have been dead years ago, but they keep rising up from the grave! It’s not brains they want, but our homes and money!

We’ll outline the horrors of dealing with Bank of America and their frightening practices that threaten the people and businesses in our community. Enjoy lively street theater featuring a Zombie March, a seance to bring back the Glass-Steagall Act that the Banksters murdered in their insatiable quest for more profits, and much more!

Please note the event details have changed. This Friday the 13th we are having a zombie bank themed protest! Dress up as a zombie!

Download signs here:
http://sparkplugcreations.com/documents/zombiebanks/zombie_banksters_1.pdf
http://sparkplugcreations.com/documents/zombiebanks/zombie_banksters_2.pdf
http://sparkplugcreations.com/documents/zombiebanks/zombie_banksters_3.pdf
http://sparkplugcreations.com/documents/zombiebanks/zombie_banksters_4.pdf