Occupy San Diego Events 2012 Jun

Friday, 2012-06-01

• 01 Jun 2012 - (time TBD) Justice for Janitors will have a march and rally in the UTC area, check Facebook for updates.

Saturday, 2012-06-02

• 02 Jun 2012 - (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.
• 02 Jun 2012 - (2p) 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!
• 02 Jun 2012 - (4p) OSD media committee meets after GA at or just west of Redwood Circle in Balboa Park.
• 02 Jun 2012 - (4p-6p) 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.

Monday, 2012-06-04

• 04 Jun 2012 - (12p-8p) - Books for Prisoners at UCSD's 6th annual art show! In return to sending books to prisoners, Books for Prisoners receives artwork donated by inmates. This art show is intended as means to raise funds for continuing our program. Get an insight to prisoner life, and prisoner survival and resistance through their art. Also displayed, will be prisoner testimonies, life stories, art pieces (about prisons) by students, sample letters we receive, and a documentary on the Prison Industrial Complex. Details at http://sandiego.indymedia.org/node/1996. FB Event page
• 04 Jun 2012 - (6p) Education committee meets at Alamilla's Mexican Food, corner of 6th and A - for those that hadn't heard - we are off to a great (re) start!

Wednesday, 2012-06-06

• 06 Jun 2012 - (5:30p) Volunteer Orientation for Occupy Our Arts which takes place Saturday, in Civic Center Plaza

Thursday, 2012-06-07

• 07 Jun 2012 - (6p) "The Pivot to Asia: Obama's New Imperialism...and the wars of the future", a Socialist Worker Forum, sponsored by the San Diego ISO at the City Heights rec. center in City Heights. Complete details at http://www.sandiegoiso.org/event/pivot-asia-obamas-new-imperialism-and-wars-future

Friday, 2012-06-08

• 08 Jun 2012 - (7p) The Barons of Tang at the Free Skool, details on FB Event page or contact Activist San Diego.

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: 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

• 12 Jun 2012 - (1:30p - likely time for opening statements) Bobby Uribe's jury trial continues at San Diego Superior Court. Check for more details as they come at FB Event page.
• 12 Jun 2012 - (6:30p) South SD People 4 Social Sustainability General Meeting at Hao VI Chinese Restaurant, 4451 University Ave, SD. FB Event page. Details: Event Details...
• 12 Jun 2012 - (7p-9p) June Americans for Safe Access (ASA) meeting at La Jolla Brewhouse. FB Event.

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

• 15 Jun 2012 - Bobby Uribe's jury trial continues at San Diego Superior Court. Check for more details as they come at FB Event page.
• 15 Jun 2012 - (2p) Last day to register as a stakeholder for TPP online - deadline is 2 PM
• 15 Jun 2012 (6:30p) Meeting: Stand up against the TPP! at the Peace Resource Center.

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 - Benjamin Gasper's Jury Trial has been postponed until June 26th.
• 18 Jun 2012 - 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 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

• 22 Jun 2012 - (6p-9p), and continues Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 AM - 5 PM. Alternatives to Violence Project/USA and the Peace Resource Center present a three-day workshop, if interested please RSVP as soon as possible to Carroll Boone, J.D., M.S.W. - Complete details
• 22 Jun 2012 - TONIGHT! (6:30p) Coalition to Stop TPP will meet at the Church Of The Brethren (next to the PRC). Following that meeting will be the first rehearsal of the "TPP Street Theater Piece: Please Don't Mind What's Behind the Curtain".

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

• 25 Jun 2012 - (5p-7:45p) FORO COMUNITARIO: Basta a las Detenciones & Deportaciones Injustas | COMMUNITY FORUM: Ending Unjust Detentions & Deportations at the Escondido Public Library. - Event Details... - FB Event page.

Tuesday, 2012-06-26

• 26 Jun 2012 - (9a-5p) (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

• 30 Jun 2012 - (10a-2p) 10,000 March Against Wal-Mart in L.A. in what may well be the largest anti-Wal-Mart demonstration ever held in the U.S., to keep Wal-Mart out of L.A, and send the message that L.A. will not be bought off by Wal-Mart and the way it does business. Event Details - FB Event page.