Come learn how to take accurate, organized, and efficient minutes for Occupy Eugene General Assemblies and Coordinators Meetings. No experience necessary. We need help taking minutes!!
Occupy Eugene warmly invites the community of Eugene/Springfield to an Occupy Eugene Community Conversation.
Who: Occupy Eugene Community Conversations Committee – Occupy Eugene, Eugene City of Peace, Community Alliance of Lane County (CALC), Beyond War, Women’s Actions for New Directions (WAND), Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network/Jobs with Justice. We meet every Tuesday at 3:30 PM in the dome at Occupy Eugene.
What: Occupy Eugene Community Conversation
Where: Harris Hall at 8th and Oak Avenue in the Lane County Public Services Building
When: Monday, December 5th and 12th, 7-9:00 PM
Why: To provide an opportunity to bring our citizens’ best wisdom forth, and to build a democratic consensus for living together in harmony in hopes that Eugene will be a role model for our nation.
The following questions will be addressed:
• Why did you come, what is best possible outcome tonight for you?
• Regardless of how you feel about OE, what helpful or useful things have we learned so far from OE?
• How can we create collaborative partnerships amongst the city, OE, citizens, educational institutions, businesses, non-profits, faith communities, health care providers and others to seek short and long-term community solutions?
We encourage people who disagree with the goals, strategies or tactics of Occupy Eugene to attend this event, as we want ALL sides of the issues expressed in a non-threatening manner. This conversation will be facilitated by a team from Community Mediation Services. They will be modeling and teaching the skill of paraphrasing within the format of an “open fishbowl” that invites audience members to participate. The first facilitated discussion that Occupy Eugene had with the City Manager and Chief of Police brought out 100 percent agreement on the goal of win-win solutions. Let’s build on that.
For more information, contact: David Hazen: innercom [at] peak.org.
There are several events today and tomorrow for a letter writing campaign.
The campaign aims to write letters to City Council, the mayor and other decision makers to encourage them to extend our stay at the Washington Jefferson park. Please bring paper, stationary, envelopes, writing utensils, stamps, clipboards, and any other item that might be of help. Please come down and show your support for Occupy Eugene. Sign the petition asking the Mayor and City Council for continued support!
Occupy Eugene will be distributing literature and educating the Eugene Community about the Occupation and about some of our issues, supporters, etc.
1. Friday December 2nd from 4-6p.m. at Kesey Square (at the corner of Willamette St and Broadway, next to Voodoo Donuts)
2. Saturday December 3rd from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Geodome on site.
(Note: this event will continue at Cozmic Pizza from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.)
3. Saturday December 3rd from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Cozmic Pizza (199 West 8th Avenue Eugene).
CLDC is offering a know your rights training for Occupy activists Wednesday, December 7th, 5:30p at 55 Broadway.
This know your rights training is open to anyone in the community that is interested in helping the defend the OE site, should that be necessary.
We highly recommend that everyone attend a training so you know what your rights are, and what your responsibilities are if you get arrested. Bring notepad and chair/mat to sit on if you’d like.
We invite any members of our community who are interested in Occupy Eugene to come to this Open Assembly. If you are interested in Occupy, and have yet to plug in, we send a special invitation to new faces!
Who: Occupy Eugene
What: Open Assembly, A general assembly that will be held off site and encourages members of the greater community to attend.
When: Saturday, December 3 4:00pm
Where: 1274 W. 7th Ave. (7th & Polk), Eugene, OR (old AAA Appliance Building)
Why: In an effort to bring together members of the greater community to discuss issues and organize with Occupy Eugene.
Occupy Eugene will continue to have open assemblies every Saturday starting December 3rd, inviting all community to come and join in the conversation.
Who: Occupy Eugene Education Alliance, Students and Faculty of the University of Oregon
What: Teach-In on the International Ramifications of the Occupy Movement
Where:115 Lawrence Hall room 115 University of Oregon
When: 7:00pm
There will be speakers who will address the student movements in Chile, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, France, and Germany. It is hoped to follow up this teach-in with others that address movements in Africa, the Middle East, and India. We hope you can attend and contribute to educating our community about a world-wide movement and its implications.
Why Occupy Eugene? A Community Conversation
Members of Occupy Eugene (Lauren Regan, civil rights attorney; Jamil Jonna, UO graduate student and Silver Mogart, Community Alliance of Lane County community organizer) will speak about why they occupy, the historic
significance of occupations as a form of protest, the importance of dissent, the financial crisis, environmental racism, and more.
Featured responders are: Ed Whitelaw from EcoNW and Jean Tate, former teacher and Rick Karr, of Edward Jones
Sponsored by the Eugene City Club
Monday, 11/28
6-8 p.m.
Cozmic Pizza – 8th and Charnelton
Tonight, Occupy LA and Occupy Philly are facing much adversity as their city governments plan to use their citizens’ tax dollars to have their police forces evict the most promising social change movement in decades from their occupation sites.
Occupy Eugene, which faces our own uncertain future this December 15th, stands in solidarity with Occupy LA and Occupy Philly. Stay safe and stay peaceful.
It wasn’t that long ago that NYC’s own Occupy Wall Street was shut down. Now we are seeing OWS aligned occupations being knocked down like dominoes all across the country. The LA Times reported about Occupy LA and the Washingstonpost.com reported on Occupy Philly.
Please visit Occupy LA and Occupy Philly for more information.
CLDC is hosting an event on Saturday in solidarity with Occupy Eugene. The proceeds will help defend the 17 activists arrested on Nov. 17th when they shut down five national banks in Eugene.
No one turned away for lack of funds. Come dance and enjoy great company for a great cause! David Rovics, the Brass Tacks, and Peter Wilde will get your groove on, and we’ll also have poets and speakers to inspire.
As Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution!”
Please spread the word!
Occupy Cozmic
Saturday, Nov. 26
8 – 11:30 p.m.
Cozmic Pizza (8th and Charnelton)
Sliding scale $0-$20
Occupy Eugene is part of this month’s Last Friday Art Walk! So from 6-9 on November 25th (Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving) we will be an Art Walk stop with live music and arts galore at camp in Washington Jefferson Park.
If you would like to contribute art to the cause, please contact Dani: hendrickson.dani [at] gmail.com or Daniel: droque99 [at] gmail.com.
The event will be part of a larger campaign this Black Friday to break the chains of consumerism. The Art Walk stop will take place along with “Buy Nothing Day” and Occupy the Mall on Black Friday.
In line with Buy Nothing Day Occupy Eugene is calling any artist to facilitate play-shops (workshops) during the day to give people an opportunity to make art with their family instead of taking part in mass consumption.
If interested, determine a time and place (either on the occupation site, or off the occupation site) to host a playshop.
We can help promote your play-shop (althoughhttp://occupyeugenemedia.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=7096&action=edit you should also self-promote to your web of family and friends). If you would like help with promoting the event, contact plaedo7 [at] gmail.com.
Check out Occupy Eugene highlighted in Eugene Last Friday ArtWalk
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