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2012-05-24


As consensed by Occupy San Diego GA on May 23rd:

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NEWS

OSD standing in solidarity with Chicago - photo by Will Johnson

Chris with his favorite sign slogan in Chicago

Surrounded by anarchists, stormtroopers, occupiers and marchers a painter captures the scene. I [Jason] helped this artist protect his easel as the blue helmets pushed into the crowd and created a wave of protesters that eventually engulfed the area. He barely got out of the way in time. Fight for art! NONATO May 2012

NONATO protesters refusing to leave the streets. Chicago spring. May 20, 2012

"Occupy Our Arts", a permitted and family friendly event in Freedom Plaza...more details below
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Occupy Walk
  • Website: http://www.occupywalkusa.org - as of now this page is no longer actively updated
  • Facebook group page
  • Stream Channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupywalkusa or http://www.ustream.com/channel/p91fun
  • Occupy Walkers USA: Danny Johnson (DJ) who joined the walkers in L.A., was arrested on Wednesday the 16th, not released until Tuesday. Latest word from Chris McKay is that Mikey should have been released yesterday, and the walkers were trying to make arrangements with Occupy Chicago to have him stay until his hearing. By now they should be on the road to go back to Albuquerque to resume where they left off. The O-Walkers have a Facebook page which is regularly updated, so keep checking back there or Twitter (@occupywalkusa) for any news.
Shut Down San Onofre
  • Project landing web site: http://ShutDownSanOnofre.org
  • 30-sec TV Spot Catch it on MSNBC. Thank you Friends of the Earth!
  • On April 18th, Southern California Edison (SEC) admitted that Unit 2 had the same unusual wear as Unit 3 (the one the blew a tube) meaning it will be very difficult to turn on Unit 3 before understanding the problem, as had been suggested as one option by NRC Secretary Gregory Jaczko at the press conference.
  • Regarding the press conference -- 20/20 hindsight says our action would have been better not at the San Onofre plant, but in the street outside the Doubletree Hotel where Chairman Jaczko already had all the media, and people could easily see, park, etc.
  • NEW New Facebook page: http://www.Facebook.com/ShutSongs <-- Please like it!
  • Cities of Irvine and Solana Beach voted to shut down San Onofre. This needs to be on the agenda of all local cities.

Occupy activists restoring computers for the underprivileged
  • A group is forming to recycle unwanted computers, wiping the data and installing open source eduacation software to distribute where they are needed. More info at #OpEquip on Freenode IRC, Twitter @OperationEquip, or http://www.opequip.org/.
Legal Hearings, etc.
  • UPDATED Our brother Andrew Fisher (Fish) received a 90-day sentence and very onerous stipulations for his three year probation period upon release. If you have a professional relationship with Fish, i.e. medical professional, minister, etc., you can register to visit him even if he is allowed only two thirty minute social visits/week. We need to coordinate our visits to him through a Facebook "event" page, if you are not on FB, please contact Carlos at carloshsoh@hotmail.com so he can work it in! To email Fish and for more info go to the Sheriff's page for Fish. Once you have been scheduled to see him (via Carlos), you'll need to register here before the visit.
  • Benjamin Gasper's trial: New Trial date has been set for May 29th.
  • Zenyatta's (aka Parsley Zen Tart's) trial in dept 2 of San Diego Superior Court has been postponed until July 17th.
  • Bobby Uribe's trial starts June 11th. Need witnesses to Bobby Uribe's arrest at port protest

Media

This report is generated from an extraction filter which may pick up irrelevant articles sometimes.


UPCOMING EVENTS

. But mark your calendars now for these!

NEXT 10 DAYS

24 May 2012 - Thu

  • (11a-2p) J4J Week of Reckoning continues into its final hours: meet at 11 AM at 4265 Fairmount Avenue, Suite 200 for a bus trip to a location TBD, to return to City Heights around 2 PM. Then later...
  • (7p) at the Kilroy Delvelopment One Paseo Project Community Meeting, Environmental Impact Report Review Meeting at the Carmel Valley Middle School Auditorium, 3800 Mykonos Lane, San Diego, CA 92130. The Kilroy Company is one of the biggest most powerful commercial real estate companies that can decide to give or deny family health care to the janitors that clean their buildings. For details on this last day of J4J, see FB Event page.
  • (2p) Rally for Homeowner Bill of Rights at the home of Africa Bravo, 3086 Clay Ave. San Diego. Homeowners, activists and local families will be joined by staff of area legislators and Congressman Bob Filner in calling upon the California Legislature to stand up to big banks and support the Homeowners’ Bill of Rights, a landmark package of bills to protect families against improper and unfair foreclosure. Please arrive at 2pm. Event will start promptly at 2:30pm.

25 May 2012 - Fri

  • Occu-brother Jason Snyder's court date...details to follow, will update as needed before the public is allowed into the courtroom.
  • (12p) J4J Week of Justice - last day, support march, location TBD. FB page
  • (12p) Protest at the HHS Community Care Licensing Office - STAND UP FOR CHILDREN! Last month, the vice principal of school for children who have suffered trauma or abuse or have mental health issues has been arrested on 25 counts of child molestation. The prosecutor asserts that this had been going on over a four month period. See News story on MSNBC and details at a FB Event page.
  • (6p-8p, try to arrive at 5:45) Informational and planning meeting for a follow-up to the "Opening Space for Occupy" event of May 5th, at the Filter Cafe in North Park. More info on a FB Event page.

26 May 2012 - Sat

  • (1p-7p) Canvass for a Cause and Safe Access IB will spend a day knocking on doors and collecting signatures to ensure that enough signatures are collected to qualify an initiative for the November ballot repealing the Imperial Beach city council's ban on marijuana dispensaries. For more info see FB Event page or http://www.safeaccessib.org/. If interested email safeaccessib@gmail.com to RSVP.
  • (4p) Media Committee meets after GA at Balboa Park
  • (1p-4p) Occupy Encinitas - 1 PM rally at the corner of Encinitas Blvd. and Coast Highway 101 followed by general assembly at 2:30 PM at Cottonwood Creek Park, corner of Encinitas Blvd. and Vulcan Ave. (GA meets at Leucadia Pizzeria if raining) More info: Facebook or Website

28 May 2012 - Mon

30 May 2012 - Wed

  • (2p) Occupy San Diego City College meets Wednesdays at Gorton Quad

31 May 2012 - Thu

  • (7a) Fish released from jail, check FB post or here for the details.
  • (12:30p) - Downtown Strike Sanction & March at Civic Center Plaza - Labor Leaders vote for Strike Sanction in support of Janitors Contract fight. Check Facebook for updates.
  • (6:30p-9p) Screening of "WILD VS WALL" & other shorts at the Peace Resource Center. with guests Sierra Club Borderlands Team and Jim Peugh, Conservation Chair of San Diego Audubon Society, who can attest first hand to the damage that local tactical infrastructure has done to wildlife. Introduction and snacks at 6:30, film at 7, followed by discussion at 8. Details and FB link

01 Jun 2012 - Fri

  • (time TBD) Justice for Janitors will have a march and rally in the UTC area, check Facebook for updates.

02 Jun 2012 - Sat

  • (12:30p) Volunteer Orientation for Occupy Our Arts which is next Saturday, the 9th at Civic Center Plaza, from there transportation will be available to OSD-CP GA in Balboa Park at 2 PM.
  • (2p) NEW OYC (OccupYrCorner) Adds to the Art around Adams: Let's get together and let the Art loving crowds on Adams Ave know about the upcoming Occupy Our Arts festival as well as how the banks, the feds, and the 1% are dimming the horizons for local and national arts, music, dance, and free speech!
  • (4p) NEW OSD media committee meets after GA at or just west of Redwood Circle in Balboa Park.
  • (4p-6p) NEW A talk by Dr. Guy McPherson, who resigned in protest, on sustainability and a film-in-progress by Michael Sosebee, an independent film maker at the Buena Vista Audubon in Oceanside.
  • (1p-4p) Occupy Encinitas - 1 PM rally at the corner of Encinitas Blvd. and Coast Highway 101 followed by general assembly at 2:30 PM at Cottonwood Creek Park, corner of Encinitas Blvd. and Vulcan Ave. (GA meets at Leucadia Pizzeria if raining) More info: Facebook or Website

LOOKING AHEAD

Saturday, 2012-06-09

  • 09 Jun 2012 - (10a -6p) Attention All Artists and Friends of the Arts: "Occupy Our Arts", hosted by Women Occupy San Diego with the help of co-sponsors will be a family friendly, PERMITTED event at Freedom Plaza, with music, dance, theater, chalk drawing, painting, street art, sculpture, photography, a children's garden of creative arts, and more. Visit WOSD's website, and click on the event's link for more info. This will be a major event for WOSD and OSD, over 150 "going" so far.
  • 09 Jun 2012 - (3:30p) OSD Education Committee meets before the special 4 PM GA at Civic Center Plaza

Sunday, 2012-06-10

  • 10 Jun 2012 - (11a-2p) Really Really Free Market in City Heights - Bring useful items (that you no longer need or want) to share freely with other members of your community. Details
  • 10 Jun 2012 - (12p-1p) OSD Free Education Collective Teach-in at the Really Really Free Market in City Heights: "The Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident" - This presentation will explain the range of possibilities and the results of a nuclear accident, considering in particular the ongoing events at the Fukushima Daiichi plant that began in March 2011. This teach-in will be lecture based, with breaks for questions.
  • 10 Jun 2012 - (1p-3p) OSD Free Education Collective Teach-In at the Really Really Free Market in City Heights: "What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and why should I care about a 'NAFTA' for the Pacific Rim?" - Two members of the OSD Free Education Collective will introduce and facilitate a discussion about the TPP, providing an explanation of the background of "free trade agreements" and some of the major points known about the secretive trade negotiations scheduled to continue in San Diego beginning July 2, 2012. This discussion will be presented in a roundtable/panel format, with a brief introduction by the co-facilitators and then time for open discussion and Q & A.
  • 10 Jun 2012 - (9p) F.T.P. March in North Park - See FB Event page. Not as OSD event but endorsed by OSD-CP GA.

Monday, 2012-06-11

  • 11 Jun 2012 - (8:30a) Bobby Uribe's jury trial at San Diego Superior Court: UPDATED Per Adriane Bracciale, Bobby Uribe's attorney: "[8:30 is the] time for trial call. After we get sent out to a trial department, the prosecutor and I will argue motions in limine regarding what evidence is admitted and excluded, and then there's jury selection (when members of the public may not be able to fit in the courtroom with the jury panel). If this happens relatively quickly, opening statements will be some time in the afternoon session, which starts at 1:30 and is usually over by 4:30. I'll keep the group FB Event page updated." Bobby is being charged for the alleged "crime" of stepping out of a crosswalk at the Port Shutdown.

Tuesday, 2012-06-12

Wednesday, 2012-06-13

  • 13 Jun 2012 - (1:30p) Bobby Uribe's jury trial continues at San Diego Superior Court, dept. 54, with jury selection in the morning. Opening statements unlikely before 1:30. Updates at FB Event page.
  • 13 Jun 2012 - (6p) Encinitas City Council Meeting RE: San Onofre Our purpose is to educate them on the risks of nuclear power and ask for their help. We are asking the Encinitas City Council and Mayor to support it's constituents by calling for the permanent decommissioning of San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant. Public comments, 3 minutes each. Look at http://SanOnofreSafety.org for fact sheets. See you there.

Thursday, 2012-06-14

  • 14 Jun 2012 - (5p) De-Colonization Teach In by and at Canvass For A Cause, on the personal side of colonization, how it affects people of color on a personal day to day level. It will also teach how to be a better ally to the people of color community and struggle. FB Event page.

Friday, 2012-06-15

Saturday, 2012-06-16

  • 16 Jun 2012 - (9a) People 4 Social Sustainability (P.S.S.) At the City Heights Farmers Market (map) and interested volunteers will be distributing copies of Resource Based Economy Journal. Come join in with P.S.S. and help us get this important information out to the people. Resource Based Economy Journal is published by P.S.S. and talks about global sustainability and surpassing the monetary system to reach the type of society that will create abundance for all people.
  • 16 Jun 2012 - (10a) "War on Women - Discussion" at the Serra Mesa/Kearny Mesa Branch Library - Details - Lunch afterwards close by.
  • 16 Jun 2012 - (12:30p-2p) OSD Free Education Collective Teach-In at Balboa Park at or near Redwood Circle - A facilitated discussion about the NEWLY LEAKED TPP Investor rights chapter. Let's educate ourselves and each other! - How TPP puts the interests of multinational corporations above those of working people and national governments" - the OSD Free Education Collective will introduce and facilitate this about the TPP, focused on how the currently known provisions of the TPP negotiations would privilege foreign investors ahead of working people and national governments. Bring plain shirt, banner, cardboard to stencil on some art for free!!! FB Event page.

Monday, 2012-06-18

  • 18 Jun 2012 - UPDATED Benjamin Gasper's Jury Trial has been postponed until June 26th.
  • 18 Jun 2012 - UPDATED new time - (12p-3p) A working group has set up a meeting for organizing another highly participatory event in service to Occupy at Industrial Grind Coffee - much like the May 5th event, Occupy: Revisiting and Actualizing Our Core Purpose. To really make the planning flow, we'd really like to see people who can commit to a minimum of 8 hours of planning meetings. It is hard to make good decisions if there isn't significant continuity between meetings. Notes from the planning meetings will be posted both to the Facebook group and to the OSD website.
  • 18 Jun 2012 - (5p-9p) NRC Public Hearing on San Onofre Nuclear Plant Safety at the San Juan Capistrano Community Center on their Augmented Inspection Team (AIT) findings. Event Details... Note: We should try to be there by 5 p.m.; meeting starts at 6 pm. At the last meeting like this, 150 energy company people signed up right away and our speakers didn't all get in because the comment time was used up. We need to get there early to sign up to speak as soon as we can and also to be outside with signs. Press Release
  • 18 Jun 2012 - (6p) Del Mar City Council will have an agenda item on San Onofre at the Del Mar Communications Center. SoCal Edison will be there, those wanting San Onofre decommissioned have a chance to speak up on preventing a potentially deadly nuclear plant incident not far up the coast. (the worst case evacuation scenario involves evacuating 8,000,000 people within a 50 mile radius of the plant). FB Event page.
  • 18 Jun 2012 - NEW (new listing) (7p) Activist San Diego (ASD) will meet at Joyce Beers Center in Hillcrest and hold an annual vote for their Board of Directors. After the vote, there will be a program "Where is the Occupy movement going from here?" Please come and share your ideas, vision, and creativity!

Wednesday, 2012-06-20

  • 20 Jun 2012 - (5:45p) The PRC & Nonviolent Peaceforce invite you to a film: The Interrupters by Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz. During just one weekend in 2008, 37 people were shot in Chicago, seven of them fatally. This film captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for city violence and was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student, whose death was caught on videotape. At the Peace Resource Center.

Friday, 2012-06-22

Saturday, 2012-06-23

  • 23 Jun 2012 - (6p) Defend Cuba, with special guest: Andres Gomez at Canvass For A Cause. The Party for Socialism and Liberation is honored to host respected elder Andres Gomez, founder of the Antonio Maceo Brigade in defense of Cuba. - Details - FB Event
  • 23 Jun 2012 - (7p-9:30p) Movie: Black Power Mixtape Location TBD in City Heights. The film examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. The film combines music, startling 16mm footage and contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars. Check FB Event page for location and updates.

Monday, 2012-06-25

Tuesday, 2012-06-26

  • 26 Jun 2012 - (9a-5p) UPDATED (New date) Jury trial of Benjamin Gasper, a legitimate medical marijuana patient who is unjustly being prosecuted by San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis. Today jury selection should take all day; supporters should come tomorrow (June 27) to see the proceedings at Dept. 50 of the San Diego Superior Court. FB Event
  • 26 Jun 2012 - (7p-9p)

Wednesday, 2012-06-27

  • 27 Jun 2012 - (9a-5p) Jury trial of Benjamin Gasper continues. Jury selection likely will have been finished by today; supporters should come today to see the proceedings at Dept. 50 of the San Diego Superior Court. FB Event
  • 27 Jun 2012 - (4p) Oceanside City Council Meeting RE: San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station - We are going to voice our dissent about San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Public comments, 3 minutes each. Please be there, you don't have to speak, your presence alone speaks volumes. (although if you want to then that's just awesome! We have a support system to help you if you need it) We are powerful because we are many, we will not let the nuclear industry risk everything we love for 12 % of our power supply. We don't need it, we have many other options available to us. Look at http://SanOnofreSafety.org for fact sheets. See you there.
  • 27 Jun 2012 - (6:30p) TPP Planning Meeting at Canvass For A Cause. No GA tonight.

Thursday, 2012-06-28

  • 28 Jun 2012 - (9a) Attend the San Diego Planning Commission at San Diego City Hall, and Say No to re-zoning open space bordering Mission Trails Regional Park to industrial for a SDGE natural gas power plant siting. CPUC says So. Cal. has excess energy, even with SONGS permanent closure. Support local clean energy. Wear orange in solidarity with SaveMissionTrails.org. We're hoping for 100 people in orange! more details

Saturday, 2012-06-30


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Occupy Walk

Occupy Walk has adopted a more practical walking schedule based on walking an average of 15 miles per day, 5 days per week. The additional 2 days off dedicated to outreach activities. FROM: Needles, CA TO:

City Miles Est Time Est. Arrival ActualSorted ascending
Albuquerque, NM 331 mi 4.5 wks to return after Chicago trip  
Amarillo, TX 314 mi 4 weeks June 13, 2012  
Wichita, KS 346 mi 5 weeks July 18, 2012  
Kansas city MO 215 mi 3 weeks Aug 8, 2012  
Fairfield, IA 237 mi 3 weeks Aug 29, 2012  
Chicago, IL 260 mi 3.5 wks Sept 23, 2012  
Gary, IA 28 mi 2 days Sept 25, 2012  
Toledo, OH 204 mi 3 weeks Oct 16, 2012  
Akron, Ohio 121 mi 2 weeks Oct 30, 2012  
Youngstown, OH 46 mi 3 days Nov 3, 2012  
Allentown, PA 317 mi 4.5 wks Dec 6, 2012  
Newark, NJ 76 mi 1 week Dec 14, 2012  
Zuccotti Park, NY 9 mi 1 day Dec 15, 2012  
San Diego, CA       18 Feb 2012
29 Palms       19 Mar 2012
Jason Brock at 29 Palms
Needles, CA       20 Mar 2012
Crossed into AZ       22 Mar 2012
Lake Havasu       25 Mar 2012
Lake Havasu
Oatman, AZ       27 Mar 2012
Oatman Video
Kingman, AZ       30 Mar 2012 - 01 Apr 2012
Video: Occupy Walk in Kingman, AZ
Seligman, AZ       09 Apr 2012
Photos to the tune of Kid Rock "Born Free"
Flagstaff, AZ       12 Apr 2012 - 15 Apr 2012
DJ, who joined the walk in L.A., playing in the snow
        Oatman to Golden Valley

TAKE ACTION

Things YOU can do right now to help.


RECENT GA MINUTES


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.
  • Social Network Moderator Guidelines - OSD guidelines for moderating social network discussions


POLICE COMPLAINTS

Have you been mistreated by the Police? Have your First Amendment rights been violated? Have you been arrested for nothing, only to have the charges "unfiled" but held over your head for up to a year?
  • NEW First read this document: http://www.2momslaw.com/police_misconduct.pdf
  • Make a Complaint: How to Make a Police Complaint
    • Use this form: Complaint Form
    • Forms also available in the lobby of City Hall.
    • Citizen's Review Board member says we do NOT need names & badge numbers. File the complaint & it's up to SDPD to determine who the officer was (But it is better if we have them, of course).
  • ALSO: By telephone or in writing to
    • SDPD Internal Affairs Unit, 1401 Broadway, MS 709, San Diego CA 92101, (619) 531-2801
    • Complaints made to the Citizens Review Board do not necessarily make it into the officers' personnel files
    • Read this: Making Police Complaints That Stick
  • Also, consider making a CLAIM against the city for your BOND money if charges were never filed. They have 45 days to reject the claim, then you file a lawsuit. It costs $400 to file unless you can claim low income.

  • NEW TELL POLICE HOW THEY ARE DOING: Police host monthly meetings in the community to get feedback from community members.

Lutz suing Civic Center Plaza building owners and operators Project Details
  • More on this project... Including collected media, documents, photos, videos, etc.
  • This is a VERY IMPORTANT project because we will directly engage wall street firms who own and operate the Civic Center Plaza office building.

Legal Resources
  • The National Lawyers Guild resources to protesters who have been arrested NEW 619-500-4486 occupylegalsd@gmail.com
  • 1st Circuit Rules Public Has Right to Videotape Police
  • What to say to cops if you're busted. What you say and do can hurt you in court -- This is what I advise my clients to say when confronted by a law enforcement officer: "Officer, please understand I refuse to talk with you until I consult with my attorney. I also refuse to consent to any search of these premises or any other premises under my control, or in which I have a possessory, proprietary, or privacy interest, including my car, my body, or effects. I hereby demand to immediately be allowed the reasonable opportunity to obtain the advice of my attorney by telephone. from: http://layon.net/busted.php
  • To check if someone is in jail check this website: http://apps.sdsheriff.net/wij/wij.aspx
    • It usually takes about 6 hours for someone who has been arrested to pop up here. This site will tell you their charges, bail, etc. Jail's number is (619) 615-2700. The jail won't tell you much if anything that is not on the website. Please check this website before saying someone is in or out of jail to avoid confusion.
  • FYI -- Penal Code 849.5. In any case in which a person is arrested and released and no accusatory pleading is filed charging him with an offense, any record of arrest of the person shall include a record of release. Thereafter, the arrest shall not be deemed an arrest, but a detention only.
  • http://www.constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm -- Your rights when you are being arrested falsely.


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NOTICE TO MEDIA / DISCLAIMER
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  • Chris West (Editor/Events)
  • Ray Lutz (Mentor/Editor/Infrastructure)


  • Occupy San Diego project page in "Common" web: Occupy San Diego
  • New Occupy Project (new web): Occupy Web -- we will be migrating to this new web.

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