What We Do and Our Goals
Occupy SF Action Council invites everyone who supports and participates in Occupy SF to spread the movement by self-organizing our own Occupy SF action groups; get together with our friends, neighbors, co-workers, congregations, classmates, or community to form a group to take action for the 99%, both in our own neighborhoods and communities and to coordinate with each other for mass actions and mobilizations.
We will coordinate through an Occupy SF Action Council made up of spokespeople chosen from each group that will meet once a week (or more if needed) to plan, coordinate and mobilize for mass actions. We also invite existing groups who respect our practices in the occupy movement to join us.
The Action Council meets every Sunday at 2pm.
Action Council
Wells Fargo April 23 and 24th Takeover!
Monday, April 23: 4pm to Midnight – in 1 DAY!
Occupy Wells Fargo!!
California at Montgomery St (Montgomery BART), SF
Teach-Ins, Music, Film Screenings, Food and more.
Please come join the Occupation the day before the 99% Take-Over of the Wells Fargo Shareholders’ Meeting. Put a spotlight on issues that affect us all: Foreclosure Fighters, Students, the LGBT Community, Feminists, Anti-War activists, Immigrants, Prison Abolitionists, Environmental/Sustainability Folks, and Workers. Come and share stories of how Wells Fargo/Banks/Wall St has affected you, your organization, or your community.
SCHEDULE:
4-5 pm: Outreach to Financial District workers and other 99%ers
5-8 pm: 99% SPEAK OUT:
Come hear the stories and struggles of people on the front lines of the communities and movements of the 99% — impacted by and fighting Wells Fargo, big banks and Wall St.:
5-5:30: Foreclosure Fighters
5:30-6: Labor
6-6:30: Immigrant rights/Prisons/Detention Centers
6:30-7: Feminists
7-7:30: Students
7:30-8: Environmental Sustainability
6-9 pm: Nonviolent Direct Action Training:
Prepare for the take over of the Shareholder Meeting the next day. Hands-on skills and info about how to engage in effective direct action and occupation, tools for de-escalation (and escalation) and dealing with arrest and legal consequences.
8-9 pm.: Outdoor Film Screenings by Occupy SF Media:
A series of short documentaries on Foreclosure Fighter Victories, Bank Occupations, and Subervtisements.
9pm -Midnight: Silent Movies & Music and Wells Fargo Teach-In hosted by the Occupy SF Ideological Liberation Work Group
This Occupy SF-organized occupation will not risk arrest or stay overnight; we aim to spread the word about why thousands of us will be taking nonviolent direct action and protesting at Wells Fargo Shareholders’ Meeting the next day. Bring banners, food and your friends.
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Flyers Downloads: please print and distribute! We always need help with outreach:
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Check the website for more flyer downloads, nonviolent direct action trainings and action information. Join us!
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Twitter: #WF24 #WFShareholders
Tuesday, April 24th: 10 am
99% Take-Over of the Wells Fargo Shareholders’ Meeting
Mass Nonviolent Protest and Direct Action
10am: Meet at Justin Herman/Bradley Manning Plaza and march to Shareholders’ Meeting at Merchants Exchange Building, 465 California St @ Montgomery St., SF
Wells Fargo profits at the expense of our communities. America’s biggest tax dodger has its tentacles in many different areas of our lives: Wells Fargo leads the country in foreclosures and evictions for profit. Wells Fargo is a predatory mortgage lender and student loan shark. Wells Fargo is a prison & immigrant detention center profiteer. Wells Fargo is corrupting our democracy.
The goals of our action are to:
1) Stop the Shareholder Meeting from occurring and convene a People’s Stakeholder Meeting.
2) Amplify the stories of all of us directly impacted by Wells Fargo’s predatory practices.
The April 24th mobilization is organized by a coalition of homeowners, clergy, immigrant rights advocates, unions, occupy groups, tenant rights groups and residents from some of the hardest hit communities in the Bay Area and across the country. Get your friends, co-workers, occupiers, classmates, neighbors or folks from your group, take the day off and let’s make history together!
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION INFO
We are a coalition of homeowners, clergy, immigrant rights advocates, unions, occupy groups, tenant rights groups and residents from some of the hardest hit communities in the Bay Area and across the country. This action is part of a national series of mobilizations at big bank shareholder meetings. We intend to make history, win positive change for the 99%, and push to end the rule of the 1%.
We hope you will join us.
ACTION GOALS:
1) Stop the Wells Fargo Bank Shareholders’ Meeting from occurring and convene a People’s Stakeholder Meeting.
2) Amplify the stories of all of us directly impacted by Wells Fargo’s predatory practices.
ACTION DEMANDS:
We will demand the redress of the following grievances with Wells Fargo, which is profiting at the cost of our communities:
* America’s Biggest Tax Dodger – Hoarding billions of tax dollars that should be paying for public and community services and putting America back to work
* Foreclosure Leader – Continuing to foreclose on families in an economy it helped to collapse
* Predatory Lender – Targeting those who can least afford it with exploitative mortgages and payday lending, especially the low-income communities of color
* Corruptor of our Democracy – Protecting their own profits by quadrupling spending on self-serving lobbying since the financial crisis began
* Prison Profiteer – Profiting from increased incarceration by investing heavily in for-profit prison corporations and anti-immigrant legislation
WELLS FARGO SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING
Wells Fargo Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting is planned to take place on Tuesday April 24 at 1pm on the 15th Floor of the Merchants Exchange Building, 465 California (at Montgomery) across the street from Wells Fargo Headquarters at 420 Montgomery in San Francisco’s Financial District. If the shareholder meeting does take place, we will have people inside with proxies who are connected to our coalition to attend on our behalf.
ACTION AGREEMENT
We are asking all participants in the April 24 mass mobilization to agree to remain nonviolent and to refrain from damaging property.
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAININGS
We encourage people planning to engage in nonviolent direct action to attend nonviolent direct action training. The trainings will cover: risking arrest, role-playing actions, legal consequences and details of the April 24th action.
Please let us know if you can attend the training (but it is ok to just show up.)
Saturday April 21, 10am to 1pm:
UNITE-HERE Local 2, Golden Gate Ave (between Hyde and Leavenworth, near Civic Center BART/MUNI)
Monday April 23, 6pm to 9pm:
California @ Montgomery, near Montgomery BART (NOTE: this is an outdoor training in conjunction with the Occupy Wells Fargo/Teach-In and there may not be chair seating. Please dress warmly.)
Tuesday April 24, 8am to 10am:
Justin Herman Plaza, North side, near the amphitheater/fountain. This training will take place just before the 10am March.
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION COORDINATION MEETING
Everyone who would like to participate in the nonviolent direct action at Wells Fargo on April 24th is asked to attend this Action Coordination Meeting to receive key updates and legal info and to coordinate with others.
WHEN: Saturday April 21, 2:30-4:30pm
WHERE: Contact <apanarese@calorganize.org> for San Francisco location.
LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION
There are multiple ways to participate;
MARCH, RALLY, PROTEST: you can join the march and rally if you do not intend to risk arrest, and can support folks engaging in nonviolent direct action.
PICKETS: there will be some pickets near entrances to the shareholders’ meeting, which will involve minor risk of arrest, but the intention here is to disperse.
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION: this will involve sitting-in and blockading to shut down the Wells Fargo shareholder meeting and involves risking arrest.
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION SUPPORT: Groups that are risking arrest are also asked to have one or more of their own support people to: have names, birth dates and contacts for everyone in their group risking arrest, keep track of their folks before, during and after the arrest and to be in touch with the Legal Support. A good checklist and related information can be found at OccupyLegal.org
ACTION/AFFINITY GROUPS
We encourage everyone to form or join a group. Your organization, friends, co-workers, occupiers, classmates, congregation, neighbors or folks from your nonviolent direct action training can be an affinity group. Being part of a group allows us to be well organized, effective and take care of each other. Ideally, each group includes one or more folks who will not risk arrest and who can provide support at the action.
We will have a final Nonviolent Direct Action Coordinating Spokes Council meeting for all those participating in nonviolent direct action the weekend before the action (day, time, location tba). Every group participating in nonviolent direct action is asked to send one or more spokespeople.
LEGAL SUPPORT
The National Layers Guild and Occupy Legal will be providing legal support for this action. This includes the presence of legal observers (wearing bright green caps) to: document any problems with the police; provide legal briefings; staff a legal hotline number; and have attorneys on-call for those arrested. More info at OccupyLegal.org
LEGAL HOTLINE 415 285 1011
MORE INFO:
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Twitter: #WF24 #WFShareholders
Occupy Education GA Update
Friends,
Several OSF members attended today’s Occupy Education Northern CA GA in Berkeley today, 3.24.2012. It was a large, energized meeting. Many proposals were consensed, including endorsement of OSF spearheaded Wells Fargo April 24 Stockholder Meeting action, Mayday (both Oakland and SF actions were endorsed) and others.
This isn’t intended as a full report-back, only to note that the Proposal passed by OSF Action Council last Sunday re a NEW MILLIONAIRES TAX was not accepted, however the Occupy Ed GA had no problem with those interested forming a WG around tax initiative issues. We’re having a kickoff meet of the Occupy Ed Tax Initiative WG next Thurs in Berkeley, 2:30pm, Jazz Cafe at 2087 Addison Street if anyone is interested.
Carlos
TONIGHT! Occupy Education Nonviolent Direct Action Training
For March 1 SF Occupation and March 5 Occupation of the Capitol
Tues Feb 28, 6 to 8 pm
Local 2, 209 Golden Gate Avenue (between Hyde and Leaven Worth, Civic Center BART), San Francisco
Two-hour training will cover the basics of the Occupy Education/Occupy the Capitol, including hands-on skills and info about occupying, nonviolent direct action, and disobedience for both those considering participating in or supporting the occupation, or who just want to find out more.
Trainings will include:
o How to engage in effective direct action and occupation
o Tools for de-escalation (and escalation)
o Working in groups
o Dealing with arrest and legal consequences
Please contact us by email if you would like to sign up for the training sessions.
David Solnit, dsolnit@yahoo.com
Elizabeth Terzakis, terzakisem@gmail.com
Protest flash mob at Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf’s House!
NO More Foreclosures and Evictions for profit!
Protest flash mob at Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf’s House!
Saturday, Feb. 25, 1 PM
1090 Chestnut Street (at Larkin)
Despite the $43.7 billion in bail-out money that Wells Fargo has received since the financial crash of 2008, and a whopping $15.9 billion in profits for 2011, the bank continues to foreclose on and evict our neighbors.
While the bank promised to “escalate” its review of seven Bernal Heights neighbors, it has yet to modify their loans, and at least two, Alberto Del Rio and Ross Rhodes, have sale dates on their homes.
We’ve sent Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf hundreds of emails and phone calls asking him to do the right thing, but he refuses to return our calls.
Now it’s time to pay him a visit! Come protest at Stumpf’s house, where we will be conducting a people’s auction of his swanky home. Let’s send him the message that as long as he throws the 99 percent out of our houses, we will continue to protest in front of his.
Demand a fair, affordable deal for ALL of our neighbors, and a stop to all foreclosures and evictions for profit!
Sponsored by Occupy Bernal and Occupy San Francisco-Housing
For more information, visit www.occupybernal.org.
Email: info@occupybernal.org or call 415-483-9138
Occupy Education CA has buses going to Sacramento on March 5. Any SF Occupier who wants a seat on the bus (leaving various locations in SF and returning either on March 5 or March 6) can sign up at http://refundcalifornia.org/ on the March 5 page. Please sign up soon so buses can be hired and organized!
