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.
When: Sunday, March 18, 10am – 5pm
Where: OE V, 1274 W. 7th, Eugene
Contact person: Mary B. marib.eugene@gmail.com
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
Where: Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette, Eugene
When: Sunday, March 18, 4 – 6 pm.
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)
*the space may not be heated.
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.
When: Saturday, March 10, 2012, 8 – 11pm
Where: WOW Hall, 291 West 8th, Eugene, OR 97401
Contact person: Moon, 541.556.1322, magicmoon458@yahoo.com
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:
Discover economics as if people and nature really mattered….enlightened economics that knows we are all connected…
Visit http://www.unifyingcascadia.net/index.html to learn more.
We are having a march in solidarity with the rest of the world against ACTA – Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement – tonight at 6pm in Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza. We will have a short march to the Federal Courthouse where people will be able to speak out against this tyrannical set of laws. Please join us in this effort, it is of great importance that we stand now before it is to late. ACTA is the greatest threat to international trade and communication that the world has ever seen, and it has already been signed by 31 countries. 6 more and it will become a reality. Thank you!
Contact person: Josh McWhorter
Saturday, February 11
1 pm to 4 pm
1274 W 7th Ave (7th and Polk, next to Cornbread Café)
Come help get our building ready to host the Occupy Oregon Statewide Assembly on February 25th.
We need to get oil for heat. We have money in the building fund to cover cost, but we need to get access to the oil tank. So come help us move stuff away from the oil tank and get our building all spruced up for the big event.
For more information on the work party, contact Mary Broadhurst at 541-285-4614.
For more information on Occupy Oregon Statewide Assembly, see
http://www.facebook.com/events/357972737565201/
Cosponsored by the Lane branch-Industrial Workers of the World,
Occupy Eugene, AFSME 3214 & Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network.
Free admission.
Poverty is no accident. It comes from 20% of the planet’s population using 80% of it’s resources. This exploitation has historical roots, but now is based on unfair debt, trade and tax policies toward the lower classes and the entire “third world.” The film asks if it’s possible to end poverty under capitalism.
When: Tuesday, 7 – 10pm.
Where: Cozmic Pizza, 8th & Charnelton, Eugene
Contact Info
Scott Fife
541-232-2868
iconoclasmo.scott@gmail.co