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 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)
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
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
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
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
Protest against Bank of America’s corruption and blatant disregard for the people of America. They are economic terrorists and criminals. They need to be broken up, if not allowed to fail completely.
These are weekly protests, each Friday from 4:30 to 5:30 to attract the evening traffic BofA customers.
Educate the customers, encourage them to move their money to a credit union. Let Bank of America know what we think about their illegal foreclosures, discriminatory practices against minorities and that they are not respecting the laws that protect active duty service members. Let’s stop the bank that is too corrupt to survive!
Bring signs about foreclosures, robo-signing, MERS, excessive fees, free bailouts, corruption, greed, whatever you want!
Join us directly afterward at the Park Blocks, 8th & Oak, 6pm, for Occupy Eugene’s General Assembly and see what consensus democracy looks like!
When: Today, April 6, 4:30 – 5:30pm
Where: Bank of America, 11th & Pearl, Eugene.
This protest is planned by the Occupy Foreclosure Action Committee
The Eugene Occupy Medical Clinic is moving to the Parks Block at 8th and Oak to better serve our community.
Our clinic time is the same as usual — Sundays 12-4 p.m.
Also available in : Spanish
Come one! Come all!
Be the first to pie an occupier!
Occupiers will be at Kesey Square on Friday waiting to see if your aim is good enough to give them a pie to the face!
Some of your favorite (or least favorite ;)) occupiers will be awating your arrival!
Pies of different sizes for different prices so you’re sure to get your fill!
Friday, 1 – 5pm
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Reclaiming Kesey Square as a place for street artists, entertainers, friends and activists to gather as a community – one Friday at a time.
Join in every Friday, noonish to dusk-ish.
“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”
– Ken Kesey
We will remember our first march and everybody that we are still here and that we haven’t go anywhere..It will be a celebration of our first 6 months and a great opportunity to build a strong community within occupy Portland.
We will have only a gathering now since the weather is not helping and a lot of people want to take a break of marching. We will start at 5:30pm with some keynote speakers and will also have a conversation about all the things we have done during these six months. Then we will have a barbecue at 7pm and after that we will have a local occupy Dj playing some music.
Where: Col Summers city Park at the corner of SE 20 Ave and SE Belmont St
Gathering: 5:30pm
Barbecue party: 7pm
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