Occupy Santa Barbara

12/22 Winter Really Really Free Market

Dash — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:27:09 +0000

Toma Las Calles is Back!

Dmarsh — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:14:59 +0000

Toma Las Calles is back with the summer! There’s going to be an organizing meeting at 4PM this Sunday, May 27th, in front of Saks Fifth Avenue on State Street to figure out where we go from here. We will be focusing on the intersecting issues of criminalization, education, and the general empowerment and mobilization of our community’s youth! Bring a friend. Expect more meetings and actions soon! #tomalascalles

You can follow online at @TomaLasCallesSB

GA notes from saturday May 19th 2012

prozachsb — Sun, 20 May 2012 23:40:18 +0000

GA Saturday 5/19-2012 18 in attendance. Facilitated by Brooke, with Kimmy and Judith supporting.

Report Backs/Announcements

Justin reported he and others met with Casa de La Raza in the hopes of joining forces. They have indoor meeting facility, gardening space and room for a Peoples Library.

Kimi met with Fund for SB about funding events. New website and events are forthcoming from the Occupy Foreclosure working group, encourages all to attend

Judith started a No Nuke’s working group and will possibly start a Saturday Marching Group as well

Jonathon announced the Demurrer of the City of Santa Barbara to First Amended Complaint. Tomorrow, May 21, 9:30am Department 5, SB County Superior Court, 1100 Anacapa Street. Judge Colleeen Sterne. June 29th is Occupy SB’s main day in court for our 1st amendment rights. Robert Landeer has graciously taken that on pro bono.

Lynn would like to get NDAA on SB City Council agenda and encourages writing letters in support

Proposals:

Justin: ”It is proposed that OSB take up Casa de la Razas’ generous offer for space on Wednesday nights from 7 to 9pm and weekdays from 10am to 3pm. It is further proposed that Saturdays’ GA continue at the current 2pm time in de la Guerra Plaza and that these meeting be used for passing proposals and funding requests and that the Wednesday night meetings be known as , “General Working Assemblies” where the primary focus will be organizing, bottom lining, and actually working toward the realization of the proposals passed at Saturday GA’s.” After discussion and concerns were heard, motion passed unanimously taking Joshuas request that Occupiers learn how to invite others to Occupy events in Spanish with positive regard.

Occupiers Guide to Santa Barbara – Spring Awakening

ksoze — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:34:50 +0000

Greetings, the 2012 spring awakening is upon us.

Its time to defrost the engines and get active! Lately, we have seen a great deal of effort put towards unmasking the illegal home foreclosure ring currently being run in Santa Barbara and around the nation. We urge you to check up on our Home Foreclosure Task Force and join us in more exciting actions over the coming days and months.

We continue to encourage all citizens of Santa Barbara who believe their First Amendment rights have been violated by the selective and heavy handed policies of our police department to join the lawsuit.There will be a meeting for everybody who received a citation and/or was arrested in relation to the occupy movement and all plaintiffs currently on the civil suit and those that would like to be added to it.

If your rights were violated during this period join the suit and attend the meeting with Attorney Joseph Allen, 5PM Thursday April 26, 5pm 131 E. Anapamu at Joseph Allen’s Office.

Monitor our notices and show up to support the activists during their court dates.

If you have any video, photographic or documentary evidence gathered during the October 2011 occupation that may help our pending cases please forward it to evidence@occupysb.org

Take Action

Historically, May 1′st is a day of action for workers and citizens alike. We urge you to join us and choose from one or more of the following activities we will be hosting and endorsing in our area. (Location is De la Guerra Plaza unless otherwise specified)

Noon May Day starts in your neighborhood - Meet up with your friends and neighbors and gear up with signs, flags, drums, guitars and march down to the waterfront’s famed Dolphin Fountain, located at State Street and Cabrillo. Be there by 12:30pm.

After our rendezvous, we’ll move as one group to De La Guerra Plaza for a picnic where we’ll collaborate about our shared future goals for social, economic, and environmental justice. There won’t be food waiting, so be sure to pack what you’d like back home and bring it along.

A Vigil for Immigrant Rights (5:30pm) - Speakers from several organizations working on the varying issues will be present to gather support and educate Santa Barbara. Furthermore, this event will serve to demonstrate the power of our local working class and immigrant families by declaring concrete demands of both the local City Council as well as the District Supervisors, SBPD, & Sheriff’s Department. Demands include:

An official city resolution declaring active support for driver’s licenses for undocumented workers.

An end to the deportations of non-Level 1 serious offenders in the Santa Barbara County through the faulty program of S-Comm.

The event will include testimonies from families, students, workers and those unjustly pulled over at driver checkpoints. Music will play throughout the event from the sounds of our drummers and local bands. Elected officials will be invited to speak directly to the demands being asked of them, not as a political platform for their re-election. The people are empowered and they will be heard. Please wear white in solidarity!

Occupy Monsanto - Meanwhile, down in Oxnard, we call on all interested people to rally between 5:30am and 10pm at 2700 Camino del Sol for a demonstration against the Monsanto division responsible for engineering aluminum-resistant seeds. (Aluminum is one of the main ingredients in chemtrails.) Also, there is significant evidence that Monsanto provides the Navy and Air Force with the “aircrap” being sprayed on us everyday. We will not be ignored any more. It is not enough to discuss this solely over the Web. We must take action. No business as usual until we are satisfied that Monsanto & Co. are not the ones who determine whether we live or die!

Tuesday, May 1′st 5:30am until 10:00pm | 2700 Camino del Sol, Oxnard, CA

Ventura Occupy May Day - All over the world, We The People have been asked to take the day off this coming First of May. In Ventura, concerned citizens will meet at the Ventura County Administration Building and Occupy the Board of Supervisors Meeting at 8am sharp. Demands will be read before a public gathering and then those assembled will join with the North Wind Caravan for it’s trek to Occupy Los Angeles for a day of demonstrations.

Tuesday, May 1′st 8:00am | Ventura County Hall of Administration Ventura, CA 93003

ANNOUNCEMENTS

We’ve recently added a ‘Donate‘ button to our website. If you’d like to support the struggle for economic, social, and environmental justice in ‘monetary terms’, please visit our website. These funds have up to this point been used primarily for paying legal fees, domain/website fees and printing costs.

Donations may also be made by check to The Fund for Santa Barbara with attention Occupy Santa Barbara written in the memo line and mailed to: 26 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

As of yesterday, the Ayni Gallery will no longer be available on a weekly basis as a meeting space. So we’d be most appreciative of any venue willing to accommodate us for weekly get-togethers. If anyone is interested in offering assistance to meet this objective, please send an email to communications@occupysb.org and someone will get back to you. Thank you!

So may the desire for Justice, Liberty, Truth and Love be alive and strong in us all as we push bravely forward, together, united, for a better tomorow for ourselves and for those not yet among us. May Humanity Know a Brighter Future.

Occupy Spring Awakening – May 1st

ksoze — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:59:43 +0000

MAY 1, 2012

Join the Facebook Event!

NO WORK – NO SCHOOL – NO BUYING – NO SELLING – NO BANKING – NO TRADING

THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANET WILL TAKE TO THE STREETS

We are calling on all people of the world to start planning NOW for a Global Strike. The goal is to shut down commerce worldwide and show the 1% we will not be taken for granted, we will not be silenced, WE WILL NOT MOVE until our grievances are redressed.

GENERAL STRIKE AND BOYCOTT CALLED!

FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
FOR AN END TO ALL WARS
FOR ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND LABOR RIGHTS
FOR PEACE WITH JUSTICE
FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES AND AN END TO THE POLICE STATE
FOR HOUSING, EDUCATION, AND HEALTH CARE AS HUMAN RIGHTS
FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUITY

Every continent, every country, every state, every city will stand up.

SANTA BARBARA

Starting from your neighborhood, walk with your friends and neighbors with signs, flags, drums, guitars and anything else you might like to bring, converging on the dolphin fountain, located at State Street and Cabrillo, at 1:00pm. We will then walk up to DeLaGuerra Plaza and proceed to have a picnic (everybody is responsible for bringing their own) where we will talk and collaborate regarding future actions and work which further our goals for Social, Economical, and Environmental Justice.

A NEW TRAIN OF THOUGHT – The Financial Crisis

ksoze — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:31:55 +0000

ALL ABOARD! You are invited to an enlightening,
non-partisan, free multi-media event.

PLEASE RSVP TO EVENTBRITE:
http://occupysb-train.eventbrite.com/

Gain insights into the causes and impacts
of the FINANCIAL CRISIS that motivated
the worldwide Occupy movement.

Live Performances . Video Presentations . Refreshments

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
7:00pm – 9:00pm (doors open 6:30pm)
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara

Thank you for your RSVP. We look forward
to seeing you there!

In the interim, please pass along the word
about this event, join our enewsletter for
updates and connect with us on facebook.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT: http://OccupySB.org/
LIKE US: http://facebook.com/occupysb

*Please note that this event will be photographed
and recorded for internet distribution.

General Assembly Notes 03/07/2012

marshall — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:52:20 +0000

Occupy Santa Barbara Minutes 03/07/2012
Anyi Art Gallery 6:00 PM
Facilitator: Frankie
Co-Facilitator: William
Note Taker: Marshall
Stack Taker: Nico
Time Keeper: Ricardo

Report Backs:

Marshall – Occupy the Crime Scene: Occupy Foreclosures event on 03/12/12 at 9:30AM is ready to go. Everyone who can is encouraged to meet across from the Coffee Cat at Anacapa & Anapamu at 9:30AM in front of the SB County Administration building. We are going to deliver evidence of illegal foreclosures here in our own community to the County Recorder, Sheriff, and District Attorney.

Michael W. – Karpeles Library event report back. Speakers lined/are lining up and graphic design going to soon be completed.

Marshall – Media Working Group soon to be designing new website per the design templates that were passed around the General Assembly. Media WG will be meeting at 6:30pm on Monday’s at Jitter’s and anyone is welcomed.

William – Facilitation Working Group is meeting at 11:30AM Saturdays on the steps of City Hall and there will be facilitation training after the Saturday General Assemblies.

Announcements:

Michael M. – Keep an eye out for a civil rights group to soon be trying to work with Occupies across the country against voter ID acts.

Marshall - Encourages everyone to check out the Occupy805 wordpress site for more information regarding events in the area. There were a number of events planned through March from SB to Ventura to Thousand Oaks. Occupy805 also maintains a Facebook Page.

Sharon – Check out Evolve Santa Barbara. Sharon believes that that they have similarities with some of Occupy’s core themes and is going to be meeting with some of their folks on Saturday.

Sharon – Green Party candidate made announcement for MoveToAmend.org 50 state strategy. [Found a video of David Cobb who is a former candidate for the GP talking about corporate person-hood].

Mary – Invisible Children, a non-profit group, made a 29-minute video to further expose the practices of Ugandan guerilla leader Joseph Rao Kony, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The video has since gone viral under the Twitter hashtag #StopKony. [As of today the video (03/09/2012) has over 50 million views]

Matt – Please be aware of HR 347—the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. This act empowers the government to prosecute anyone who knowingly, and without legal permission, enters “(1) the White House or its grounds or the Vice President’s official residence or its grounds, (2) a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting, or (3) a building or grounds so restricted due to a special event of national significance.” It has been termed the Anti-Occupy Act by some.

Proposal #1, by Facilitation & Structure Working Group, Nico presenting. (tabled until 03/10/2012 GA)

Occupy SB will authorize a study to determine the feasibility of creating an affinity group space. Will allow a spokescouncil, increases participation, numbers and democratic participation.

Even though the Occupy Santa Barbara General Assembly has been using a basic Meeting Structure it has never formally consented to a Formal Meeting Structure.

Therefore, the Facilitation & Structure Working Group Proposes that the Occupy Santa Barbara General Assembly authorize the adoption of the attached and distributed Formal Meeting Structure.

The full proposal can be viewed here.

1st Amendment (Accepted): Time should be allotted for clarifying questions during Announcements and Report Backs. The Facilitator would make the determination on the time limit for clarifying questions.

2nd Amendment (Accepted): Schedule open discussion/think tank time prior to Saturday General Assemblies. This open discussion will be informal with the possibility of a stack taker, but not facilitator. The time for this informal discussion/think tank time will be 12:30-2:00PM on Saturdays prior to the General Assemblies in De La Guerra Plaza.

3rd Amendment (Not Accepted): Declare at the beginning of each General Assembly that this is a “Business-only” meeting to discourage distracting discussions. Not accepted due to some people’s dislike of the term “Business” and other suggested “We’re here for the productivity of Occupy”.

4th Amendment (Accepted): When announcements are made the facilitator should reiterate the announcers to use “What, when, where, who, why, & how”.

Suggestions to better work through the amendment consensus process and to reword some of the proposal. Facilitation & Structure Working Group will work on the proposal and return to the GA.

End of GA.

Proposal from Facilitation & Structure Working Group

William — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:19:32 +0000

Proposal

March 7, 2012

From: The Facilitation & Structure Working Group.

To: The Occupy Santa Barbara General Assembly.

Even though the Occupy Santa Barbara General Assembly has been using a basic Meeting Structure it has never formally consented to a Formal Meeting Structure.

Therefore, the Facilitation & Structure Working Group Proposes that the Occupy Santa Barbara General Assembly authorize the adoption of the attached and distributed Formal Meeting Structure.

Thank you.

Occupy Santa Barbara General Assembly Meeting Structure

1. Meeting Begins. (Called On Time by a Member of the Facilitation & Structure Working Group.)

2. Facilitation Team Introduced or Chosen (and/or Completed.)

3. Facilitation Team is Empowered by Assembly.

a. Time Limit for Meeting Is Established.

b. Brief Standardized Welcoming Statement.

c. Brief Description of Consensus Process & Hand Signals.

4. Report Backs for Established Working Groups, Caucus Groups, Committees, Affinity Groups, Thematic Groups, etc.

a. Set Time Limits.

b. Open Stack.

c. Close Stack.

5. General Announcements.

a. Set Time Limits.

b. Open Stack.

c. Close Stack.

6. Written Proposals: (Minimum of 3 Copies: One for Minutes Taker, One for Facilitation and One for Distribution to GA.)

(Quorum of 13 Needed to Consent to Proposals. If No Quorum Present Meeting Becomes a Discussion Group.)

(Proposals Are Announced and Facilitation Establishes Order.)

(etc.)

7. Break (Optional.)

8. Emergency Proposals: (An Emergency Proposal Is an Oral Proposal That Responds to an Immediate External Deadline That Was Unforeseeable or Not Previously Known.)

(etc.)

9. Introductions & Appreciations. (If Time Allows.)

a. Set Time Limits.

b. Open Stack.

c. Close Stack.

10. Close Meeting.

11. Open Mic. (Unfacilitated.)

General Assembly Notes 2/25/12

Alden — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:35:03 +0000

Occupy Santa Barbara Minutes 2/25/12
DLG Park 2:15 PM
Facilitator: William
Note Taker: Mariah
Stack Taker: Kathy
Time Keeper: Alden

Report Backs and Announcements: Lauren/Lorien + Mary are attempting to compile a list of past proposals so we do not “reinvent the wheel”
Mary – announcement from Nico = There is an event “Evolve”
Media Working Group = Tues 3:30 Jitters
Strengthening/Outreach group Tues 1:30 Jitters
Direct Action Group Wed @ Hot Spots 3:30
Ricardo – we need to move stuff, Cameron’s moving
Justin – Occupy on front page Civil Suit
William – Sat 11:30 Facilitation and Structure meetings at DLG
Judith – Wed GA will be held at 217 State St, 6pm
Dennis - 4pm Timebank potluck today
Brian – saw attorney Joe Allen all tickets ave been dismissed!

Proposal #1, by Judith. Occupy SB will authorize a study to determine the feasibility of creating an affinity group space. Will allow a spokescouncil, increases participation, numbers and democratic participation.
Tabled.

Proposal #2, by Erika. In solidarity with other groups, send resumes to the White House between 4/1 and 4/15. Suggest: Fax is better, can convert emails to faxes and add explanatory letter.
1st Amendment: also fax to republican presidential candidates – solution address to speaker of the house
2nd Amendment: Erika will help create a working group and report back specifics.
Consensus reached.

Proposal #3, by Erika. Propose action and encourage others to act in solidarity with workers on May 1st (Tuesday)
1st Amendment: Working group will be established and report back later.
Consensus reached.

Proposal #4, by Matt. Do something about stuff in Cameron’s garage. Justin, Ricardo, Mariah will transport.
1st Amendment: Need a place too. Ramsin volunteered to allow us storage temporarily
2nd Amendment: Ask finance about ongoing $50 payment for storage.
Consensus reached.

Proposal #5, by Zach. News-Press article – show up in force on Monday 8:30 Superior Court Judge Colleen Stern.
1st Amendment: Call lawyers to come too. Joe Allen + call friends
2nd Amendment: Create a text or calling tree. Setup connect me get phone numbers. Post statement from freedcamp on facebook.
Consensus reached.

Occupiers Guide to Santa Barbara – Issue 1

ksoze — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:12:57 +0000

Greetings fellow citizens! It has been an amazing 5 months of local activism in our city of Santa Barbara. Beginning in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests and continuing the tradition of the Greek, Spanish, and Egyptian “indignados (occupy)” movement, we have all worked tirelessly for the International struggle of justice and democracy. That said, our struggle is far from over. We are asking everyone to step up to the plate and become more active within this community and movement.

As you may have seen in the local press recently our suit against the City of Santa Barbara is strong and the arguments compelling. The City Attorney is already relinquishing all citations issued in their illegal selective enforcement rampage during the first weeks of our occupation. We encourage all citizens of Santa Barbara who believe their first amendment rights have been violated by the selective and heavy handed policies of our police department to join the lawsuit. Eight stalwart activists have spearheaded this initiative and now need your support.

If your rights were violated during this period join the suit and attend the meeting with Attorney Joseph Allen, 4PM Thursday March 1^st. Location – 131 E. Anapamu St.
Monitor our notices and show up to support the activists during their court dates.
Donate resources to the general fund by sending a check to The Fund for Santa Barbara with OccupySB clearly marked in the memo line.

For the latest developments and to become part of the process and community everyone is encouraged to attend the General Assemblies. There are two scheduled assemblies a week.

Wednesday – 6PM Ayni Gallery 216 State St. (upcoming Feb. 29^th)
Saturday – 2PM De la Guerra Plaza

Much acknowledgement and appreciation to everyone who has participated and donated so much time and effort to this local grassroots movement.

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions. -Antoine Saint-Just