OSR General Assembly

Hey OSR! We’ve got a lot going on in the coming weeks! And in case you were wondering what all those icons were on the calendar, there is now a legend so you can now figure out what they mean! Yeah, you probably saw some patterns there and could tell what event was what. But , now you know!

Here’s the “special decoder map” on the  calendar page !

Tomorrow morning is the first court appearance for some of our friends who were arrested on January 6th protesting Wells Fargo. Their hearing is at 8:30am in Courtroom 8. Occupy Santa Rosa want to show solidarity with them tomorrow by showing up and demonstrating our support. We will meet at 8 am in the courtyard in the middle of the Courthouse, which is at 600 Administration Drive (next to the jail and the sheriff’s office).

ALSO, today (Wednesday) we will be making T-shirts that have a message of solidarity on them for all of us to wear. We will be making them at the Peace and Justice Center all day. You can come help us out, or let us know what size shirt you would like. If you have an OSR shirt already, feel free to wear that. We can hand out shirts tomorrow morning. We can wear Occupy clothing but cannot carry signs.

Call me if you have any other questions. We hope to see many of you tomorrow morning!                     

In Solidarity,

Carl …707-338-5318

The Spokes Council met Monday Jan 23 at 7pm, and will be meeting again Monday Jan 30 at 7pm as well as every Monday thereafter at 7pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 547 Mendocino Avenue Santa Rosa, CA 95401-5241. (Please come in quietly to respect the space provided by the Center, thanks!)
We would like at least one member of each Working Group to come and represent your WG. The purpose is to help coordinate all of Occupy SR actions between working groups. The Spokes Council is YOU, the Working Groups who attend. We are all about coordinating. There will NOT be a ”leader” telling your group what it should be doing. We want to provide a forum to coordinate and support the work your WG is already doing. Join us! Come ask for help or offer helpful ideas to other WGs. You can contact Sky Nelson, Tomas Hakanson, or others on the SCWG if you have questions, theskyband@gmail.com.
Please choose ONE representative from your WG to be a point person at the meeting, although more than one are encouraged to attend.

Occupy Wall Street West has live feeds of video and Twitter ! Here is a link to all the actions taking place in today in SF! The rain has not dampened our spirits!

Wanna make it to see the flash mob? Yes, you can sing along too, but the dancing rehearsals are over except for a final run-through before the first performance!   One People Flash Mob, SF,  noon and 5 pm

And more documentation/information here: Daylong Nonviolent Mass Occupation

This is going to be amazing! Hella Hella Occupy!

***Please see Shaun Hensley for more detail.

WE STAND FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Wells Fargo received $36.9 billion in bailout funds in 2008.

Earlier this year, according to the Huffington Post, “Federal investigators concluded that senior managers at Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest U.S. bank by assets, broke civil laws.” The Federal Reserve itself said in July that “more than 10,000 Wells Fargo borrowers were inappropriately steered into more expensive subprime mortgages or had their loan documents falsified by bank personnel.”

Wells Fargo continues to be one of the top ten servicers of sub-prime mortgages – with a portfolio in the tens of billions of dollars.

WE STAND FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

Wells Fargo also owns about 4 million shares of GEO Group and about half a million
shares of CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), private prison companies that profit from the detention of undocumented workers in inhumane conditions.

Wells Fargo was one of the first financial institutions to begin accepting Matriculas
(Consular IDs) from Latino customers, in 2001. The bank has opened up approximately 525,000 accounts using Matriculas, comprising about 6% of the bank’s total accounts.

This means that Wells Fargo actively markets banking services to undocumented migrants, then knowingly uses these workers’ savings to invest in and profit from their detention.

Wells Fargo must answer for these illegal and cynical actions!
March with us on January 6 for economic justice and immigrant rights!

For more on Wells Fargo and the prison industry, see this Fact Sheet.

For more on immigration and private prisons, watch “Immigrants for Sale” and read “The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System.”

Your patience has been greatly appreciated! Please continue to use the Calendar Submission Form! So many positive transformative meetings, actions, workshops, teach-ins taking place in the coming weeks and on into 2012! Thank you , everyone, for all your hard work, amazing energy and incredible vision and foresight!

A new and improved GA schedule was approved at GA Thursday, 12/22! Believe it or not, OSR will take a 4-day break from GAs (breathe! celebrate!) and on Tuesday 12/27 we will begin the new schedule.

Occupy Santa Rosa General Assembly will now meet:

• Tuesdays at 12:00 noon
• Saturdays at 2:00pm
• Sundays at 2:00pm

Please enjoy your next four days and we will see you at City Hall on Tuesday at lunchtime – spread the word!

Don’t you love it when someone already has in place what you were wanting to put together? Occupy Educated is a fantastic site for finding great revolutionary reads, catching up with current events and participating in the discussion forums! Also please check our  News and Analysis section on OSR’s site !

Quoted from Occupy Educated’s site : “Unlike the plethora of other calls to “Occupy!” specific locations with your presence, the phrase “Occupy Educated” is not a call to Be Somewhere, it’s a call to Be Something.

Simply put, if you’re going to be Occupying anything, be Educated while doing so. Having a working knowledge of the issues and their root causes is essential to effectively communicating the need for change and formulating practical solutions. Frustration alone is not enough to cause lasting change, it can only come from a place of relevant, collective literacy.”

Greetings, OccuBayTV episode3 is out! OccuBayTV is a collaborative effort across the occupations of the Bay Area. We value your feedback and support.