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NEWS

• Arrests Update!
  • Fish and Sarah -- out on bail and back at Freedom Plaza
  • Claudia Acevedon -- arrested early Monday morning supposedly for illegal lodging. She is being held in ICE because of her immigration status * To help Claudia contact the following: sdmay1st@googlegroups.com ; BorderAngels@googlegroups.com ; https://www.facebook.com/tracey.odman
• Jury Trial for Randy Wolling, AKA "Sage" -- FREE.
  • Sage is now free.
  • Any more details would be appreciated
• Hunger Strike -- John Kenney continues his hunger strike, now in day 30. He is requesting that the City come to the table and discuss the right of Occupy San Diego to conduct protests in the form of an encampment. John is now sick and I am starting to worry about his health.
  • John now has a wheelchair to help him get around, as at this point as he is feeling weak.
  • Occupiers were at City Council until 7pm at today's last council meeting until 2012.
• Hunger Strike -- Julie begins her hunger strike
  • "My name is Julie and I am an occupier at Occupy San Diego. There have been a slew of human rights violations at Occupy San Diego, and we have videotape evidence. In response to the continued harassment, brutality and abuses of power the SDPD has subjected us to, I am currently on hunger strike pending a public apology from Chief Landsdowne....I started a blog to document the reasons I am on hunger strike: http://occupyfast.wordpress.com/. Here you can see links to video evidence. I will add more videos each day, as we have PLENTY to share ... Please contact me if you can help in any way. Thank you so much."
• University Updates
  • UCSD students have occupied CLICS, which was one of the many libraries closed down due to budget cuts this year at UCSD, so that students now have a 24/7 study space for finals week.
  • USD Professor and Occupier Abe Stoll sends this in: Today the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego passed this resolution: Whereas growing inequality in the United States rooted in a corrupted political process is corroding our democracy and tarnishing the American Dream; Whereas cutbacks in traditional government services, the dismantling of social safety nets and of programs intended to promote fairness and opportunity, and to benefit those who are least well off, are contrary to Catholic Social Teaching; Whereas Occupy San Diego's peaceful demonstration to protest these inequities is an exercise of our First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly; Therefore be it resolved that faculty of the University of San Diego College of Arts and Sciences express their approval and support for Occupy San Diego.

• Get the word out
  • We have several events that we need you to attend as well as help in promoting, including the Candlelight Vigil & Silent March for the Unemployed on December 8, the the West Coast Port Shutdown on December 12, and the Occupy SD benefit concert at The Ruby Room on December 14.
  • Tell your friends either in person, through tweeting a link on Twitter (remember to include #osd, #occupysandiego, and/or #occupysd), confirm you are attending on a Facebook event, reblog on Tumblr, or just print out some flyers and pass them out to your friends, loved-ones, acquaintances, as well as those who will soon fall into one of those categories once you give them a flyer.
  • See Occupy San Diego Events for more details of particular events

Despite what you might hear on the corporate-owned news:

• The occupation continues, around the clock.
• PLEASE COME DOWN when you can and help with numbers. This is your true vote. Stay at home = vote against 99%.
• Tents and almost everything is now being restricted by the police.
• Food is needed -- we no longer have a food table, so you'll have to play it by ear.
• We will not be denied our constitutional right to assemble and speak!
• Many Teach-ins on Sunday!

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Legal Actions
* (Temporary Restraining Order Federal court hearing of the TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) regarding Municipal Code 54.0110. Judge Hayes heard the oral arguments at 2:30pm on Tuesday, Nov 22.

• Decision was reached on Dec 1. Judge DENIED TRO
• Court Documents -- Full Ruling
• Attorney Bryan Pease could not attend in person because he just completed Lasik eye surgery. He attended by telephone but did not participate in the hearing.
• Attorney Todd Cardiff presented the arguments in favor of the restraining order.
  • The primary argument is that the law is vague and overly broad, and therefore subject to abuse. It outlaws anything on public property, even a coffee cup, and even if it is for free speech.
  • We are talking about the civic center plaza here, which is specifically set aside for free speech.
  • Quoted ACLU vs. City of Las Vegas
• Asst City Attorney Kristin Black presented the defense for the City.
  • Said TRO is not required, because there is no imminent harm. She said the protests have been continuing with out disruption since Oct 7 and there is no infringement of freedom of speech. If this was a big concern, then this case should have been brought sooner.
  • She said that the law was only used when the plaza was cleared, because they did not want the protestors setting up their tents and gear while the square was being cleared. Of course we know this statement was far from being accurate.
  • She said they have not "precluded anyone from putting anything down." Maybe, but I know once it is put down, the police will threaten arrest if you don't pick it up.
• Judge said he would consider all the arguments and release a written decision. Normally, these don't take very long.
• If this Temporary Restraining Order is approved, we will return!
• Attorney Todd Cardiff said he will be preparing an additional declaration regarding the impossibility of siting a voter registration table in the public portion of the plaza.
• We STILL need video documentation of police hassling people about setting stuff down. If you have such a video, please contact us at osd-feedback@citizensoversight.org so I can get it to the right people.

• Lutz suing Civic Center Plaza building owners and operators
  • Lutz arrested while engaging in the peaceful political activity of voter registration at Civic Center Plaza.
  • Owner/Operators of Civic Center Office Building include Goldman Sachs, hedge funds and Wall St. Banks -- a who's who of the criminal banking industry 0.1%
  • Ray Lutz has filed a lawsuit against the owners and operators of the Civic Center Plaza building, that invoked the citizens arrest.
    • Press conference held Nov 30 at 5pm to announce the lawsuit.
    • Attorney Michael Aguirre will handle the case on contingency basis, but we still will need to fund-raise for court costs and fees, for war chest and defense fund.
    • Fundraising will be set up shortly separate from OSD funds.
    • I daresay they will be very sorry they stepped over this line.
    • Read the text of the complaint by Lutz against CBRE
  • The ACLU is considering taking up a case to test Pruneyard for the case like what we have in San Diego: The public square where part of it is owned by a private party, and the fact that voters who were registering were not allowed to complete their registrations.

TAKE ACTION

Things YOU can do right now to help.

• Sign the petition to the City Council here: Occupy San Diego
• Sign the petition to call for the resignation of Police Chief William Lansdowne
• http://www.occupylights.org -- If you are near a light switch at 9pm, please flicker it for a full minute in solidarity with occupy wall street. #occupylights #OWS

Opeds Submitted

Have you submitted a letter to the UT or another publication? Send it to osd-feedback@citizensoversight.org and we'll publish it here! They may not print it, but we will.

MEDIA

• All Occupy San Diego Media -- Visit this web page to review all prior media collected for email blasts.

2011 Dec 07

• Occupy Denver: David Lane to use Mayor Michael Hancock's honks against him in court Michael Hancock encourages honks and waves from passing cars in support of his campaign for mayor.

• Santa's Workshop - Inside China's Slave Labour Toy Factories Sometimes we have no choice, we work till dawn. When you work all night you become dizzy and your eyes hurt because you can't take any breaks. SANTA'S WORKSHOP takes you to the real world of China's toy factories.

• Melbourne police strip girl wearing tent

• Tent Protest Costume Violently Stripped from Protester's Body Uploaded on Dec 5, 2011 This morning at 8:45am a peaceful Occupy Melbourne Protester was violently stripped of her protest costume and disgarded on the ground in her bra and panties.

• [[http://www.news.com.au/national/police-criticised-after-tent-dress-torn-off-occupy-protester/story-e6frfkvr-1226215162454][Police criticised after tent dress torn off Occupy protester

• U.S. is among developed economies with highest income inequality Although the gap between the highest and lowest paid is greater in the United States than in most other wealthy countries, income inequality has risen faster in others such as Sweden and Finland, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

• Occupy Los Angeles - City Council Item #17, a resolution by the city to support an end to corporate personhood, has just passed.

• Los Angeles weighs steps to hold its banks more accountable Occupy L.A. activists and others seek ambitious reforms for public scrutiny of lending practices, and the city works on a compromise. A vote is due next month.

• Prosecuting Wall Street Two whistleblowers offer a rare window into the root causes of the subprime mortgage meltdown

• How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street

• Activists show up to 'retake' Congress By plane, train and bus, thousands of activists are converging on Washington, D.C. this week to “Take Back Our Capitol.”

• 60 Minutes Asks: 'Why Aren't We Prosecuting Wall Street?'

• California, Nevada Team Up To Prosecute Mortgage Fraud California and Nevada's attorneys general are expected to announce Tuesday that they are teaming up to prosecute mortgage fraud in their respective states, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

See All Occupy San Diego Announcements to read all previous announcements about

• Where we meet, how to recover confiscated property from the San Diego Police Department, information for people were arrested, etc.

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Unless noted, all events are at "Freedom Square" (the San Diego Civic Center Plaza, 1200 3rd Ave. San Diego, Intersection of 3rd Ave. and B St.)
Unless otherwise noted, we meet daily as follows:

• 4 pm -- Finance Committee Meeting, Downtown Johnny Brown's, Mon. thru Friday
  • Each committee should send a representative to this meeting! Budget is currently being defined.
• 5:30 pm -- Committee meetings -- many meet at the "big circle" (the part of the plaza where there's map of San Diego in a big circle) with very few exceptions.
• 7pm -- General Assembly (Civic Center Plaza)
  • * From December 17, Saturday GA will be at 2pm.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

• Occupy San Diego Calendar 2 -- Month-at-a-glance format with all planned events shown.
• Occupy San Diego Events -- list of all events, past and present, listed in the email blast, with detailed information. (Edit this to add events)
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National Coordination

• Occupy Together
• Interoccupy Group Consensus Proposal -- proposes a mechanism for accepting proposals for processing so as to reach global consensus.
• National Occupy Conference Calls: There are weekly conference calls between Occupy sites. We need reps from appropriate committees to join in the conference call. Unfortunately, it is Monday at 7pm, our GA time.
  • Notes from last national Occupy Conference Call
  • http://bit.ly/vxlckr - Register in advance. Sign up with your name and city.
  • Get added to the National Contact List and register your contact info by writing to:occupycontactlist@gmail.com
  • Questions? Email: movementbuildingNY@gmail.com

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Occupy San Diego & Imperial County (Visit each site and "Like" it)

• Occupy Encinitas
  • Regular Events: Saturdays, Highway 101 & Encinitas Blvd, starting at noon.
  • 12:00 PM - Teach in, orientation and committee meetings
  • 1:00 PM- RALLY
  • 2:00 PM - General Assembly
  • http://www.occupy-encinitas.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/occupyencinitas
• Occupy Oceanside
  • http://www.facebook.com/OccupyOceanside
• Occupy Escondido
  • Organizing & they are talking about occupying soon. They meet twice a week for now, but the days and times change.
  • They want more input on the next meeting on their FB page
• Occupy Mira Mesa
  • Occupy Mira Mesa Facebook Page
• Occupy Mission Bay
  • Occupy Mission Bay Facebook Page
• Occupy Imperial County
  • occupyimperialcounty@gmail.com / 760-540-5088
• Women Occupy San Diego
  • Contact: Masada Disenhouse. 619-335-1265
  • Women Occupy San Diego Facebook Page
  • Signup page
• Occupy Chula Vista
  • Occupy Chula Vista Facebook Page
• Occupy San Diego SDSU
  • Occupy San Diego SDSU Facebook Page
• Occupy Mesa College
  • Occupy Mesa College Facebook Page
• People's Assembly at UCSD (in solidarity with Occupy Wall St.)
  • People's Assembly at UCSD Facebook Page
• Occupy Cal State San Marcos (CSUSM)
  • Facebook

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LINKS AND REFERENCES

Occupy San Diego Links

• http://www.sandiegooccupy.org - Occupy San Diego's official website
• : currently http://occupysandiego.org/ redirects to OSD's website, through arrangements made with the owner of the domain name.

• Best conversation is here: Facebook group page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/OccupySanDiego
• OccupySD Faceboook group page - independent uncensored page
• Web Warriors Occupying The Media!!. This is a group page devoted to Occuping the media, including letters to newpapers, comments sections of various media outlets, and more. Thanks to David Abramson for starting this page, this is something that we may have wanted to do all along.
• #WebWarriors Today and Stop TPP (stoptpp.org, two new daily updates.
• OSD's Statement of Political Autonomy
• -- official "GA Approved" Livestream channel.
• Main Occupy San Diego site in copswiki -- Internal discussions, collaboration, documents, etc.
• http://www.OccupiedSanDiego.com -- great RSS aggregator site
• Excellent OSD photographic archive
• Occupy National Coordination -- National Coordination and Occupy San Diego & Imperial County Occupy Sites
• http://www.stickam.com/group/occupysandiego -- video chatroom.
• Occupy Celly Blaster -- Text Msg alert list, subscribe to get/send instant info
• Links to live streams of many occupy sites: http://www.occupystreams.org/
• Facebook Community Page: http://www.facebook.com/OccupySanDiego
• Occupy San Diego Riders
• Progressive Radio -- http://www.AirProgressive.org -- Listen in whenever you are on your computer.
• Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) has some interesting ideas for Occupy Movement.
• Who's In Jail Inmate Log from the San Diego County Sheriff's Department:

Links to sites/pages below that are no longer actively updated:

• OSD Facilitation -- archived GA agendas, reports, etc. This site is no longer being updated, go to the OSD website above for current updates.
• Deprecated video stream site: http://www.livestream.com/occupysandiegolivefeed
• Education Committee: Archive: Info and schedule of all Teach-Ins; Video/Audio of Teach-Ins; Internet Archive
• OSD Garden Blog
• OSD Art Committee Blog
• Occupy D.C. Roadtrip: Michael Basillas in D.C. Ustream Channel

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BLAST RELATED

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• Occupy San Diego Events -- Events in list format
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