Tag Archive: occupy pasadena

Dec
01
2011

United at Union Station


When: December 3rd at 9am to TBD (based upon # of Occupations participating).

Where: We will meet at Lincoln Park in downtown Long Beach at 9am, and take the Blue Line to downtown LA. Once downtown we’ll assemble at LA Plaza Park across the street from Union Station by 11am. Occupy LA is going to investigate whether or not food is possible to have there. More details to come. At 12 noon we will cross over and enter into Union Station. It is our understanding that you will need a valid ticket to be inside the station.

Who: Currently Occupy Long Beach, Occupy Los Angeles and Occupy Pasadena have confirmed they will be participating. Please forward this information on to anyone you know at other Occupations. We would like as many Occupations participating as possible.

What: Each Occupation will perform a 3 to 5 minute skit. As of today, there are 3 Occupations participating, and the plan is to have each Occupation perform in a row at each half an hour mark. The remaining time in the half hour will be used for what is called Invisible Theater. In the Invisible Theater section, we will break off into small groups (perhaps 5 each) and give voice to how we are part of the 99%. We will do this as though we don’t know one another, planting other team members in key places to stimulate conversation with those 99%ers passing by and not yet participating in the exercise. This is similar to Guerrilla Marketing. The only limit is your team’s creativity. If there are only 3 Occupations participating, we will continue this process 4 times from 12-2pm and then begin Theater of the Oppressed from 2-3. If more Occupations join, we will revise the schedule to accommodate, perhaps staggering different Occupations’ skits into different 30 minute sections (e.g. 1st half hour Occ1, Occ2, Occ3. 2nd half hour Occ4, Occ5, Occ6, etc.). This will be finalized at LA Plaza Park between 11am and noon, unless it’s clear beforehand who exactly will be participating. Immediately following Theater of the Oppressed will be joint committee meetings to plan the next Inter-Occupation action.

Why: This is both an opportunity for networking between Occupations, and an opportunity for Outreach. We can both join forces, and meet people where they are. It is being coordinated for a Saturday in hopes that people will be in less of a rush to get out of the station.

How: Each Occupation is coming up with their own skit and own themes for their skit.
Long Beach is intending to give voice to those 99%ers that cannot actively participate in the movement. We will be meeting on Thursday at 7pm in front of City Hall in LB this week to devise our methods. Sunday the 20th from 10am to 1pm we will begin collecting stories and then the following week we will begin formulating how to best represent them.
Los Angeles will be doing a skit on getting money out of politics and connecting the big issues to the seemingly smaller ones.
Pasadena will be doing a skit on heathcare and gentrification.

[Reposted with edits - MC]

Permanent link to this article: http://occupylb.org/2011/12/01/united-at-union-station-2/

Nov
29
2011

United at Union Station [UPDATE 11/29]

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When: December 3rd at 9am to TBD (based upon # of Occupations participating).

Where: We will meet at Lincoln Park in downtown Long Beach at 9am, and take the Blue Line to downtown LA. Once downtown we’ll assemble at LA Plaza Park across the street from Union Station by 11am. Occupy LA is going to investigate whether or not food is possible to have there. More details to come. At 12 noon we will cross over and enter into Union Station. It is our understanding that you will need a valid ticket to be inside the station.

Who: Currently Occupy Long Beach, Occupy Los Angeles and Occupy Pasadena have confirmed they will be participating. Please forward this information on to anyone you know at other Occupations. We would like as many Occupations participating as possible.

What: Each Occupation will perform a 3 to 5 minute skit. As of today, there are 3 Occupations participating, and the plan is to have each Occupation perform in a row at each half an hour mark. The remaining time in the half hour will be used for what is called Invisible Theater. In the Invisible Theater section, we will break off into small groups (perhaps 5 each) and give voice to how we are part of the 99%. We will do this as though we don’t know one another, planting other team members in key places to stimulate conversation with those 99%ers passing by and not yet participating in the exercise. This is similar to Guerrilla Marketing. The only limit is your team’s creativity. If there are only 3 Occupations participating, we will continue this process 4 times from 12-2pm and then begin Theater of the Oppressed from 2-3. If more Occupations join, we will revise the schedule to accommodate, perhaps staggering different Occupations’ skits into different 30 minute sections (e.g. 1st half hour Occ1, Occ2, Occ3. 2nd half hour Occ4, Occ5, Occ6, etc.). This will be finalized at LA Plaza Park between 11am and noon, unless it’s clear beforehand who exactly will be participating. Immediately following Theater of the Oppressed will be joint committee meetings to plan the next Inter-Occupation action.

Why: This is both an opportunity for networking between Occupations, and an opportunity for Outreach. We can both join forces, and meet people where they are. It is being coordinated for a Saturday in hopes that people will be in less of a rush to get out of the station.

How: Each Occupation is coming up with their own skit and own themes for their skit.
Long Beach is intending to give voice to those 99%ers that cannot actively participate in the movement. We will be meeting on Thursday at 7pm in front of City Hall in LB this week to devise our methods. Sunday the 20th from 10am to 1pm we will begin collecting stories and then the following week we will begin formulating how to best represent them.
Los Angeles will be doing a skit on getting money out of politics and connecting the big issues to the seemingly smaller ones.
Pasadena will be doing a skit on heathcare and gentrification.

[Reposted with edits - MC]

Permanent link to this article: http://occupylb.org/2011/11/29/united-at-union-station-update-1129/

Nov
18
2011

MoveToAmend at Blue Meets Red 11/12 (VIDEO)

Daniel Lee with MoveToAmend.org speaking at at the Blue Meets Red rally in Pershing Square on Saturday, November 12th:

Permanent link to this article: http://occupylb.org/2011/11/18/movetoamend-at-blue-meets-red-1112-video/

Nov
11
2011

Blue Meets Red: End Corporate Personhood

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THE SHORT OF IT:

Meet at the Blue Line station on the Transit Mall Saturday, November 12th at 10am. We will go to downtown LA and do what we do every day, Pinky: Take over the world! We will have the Red Meets Blue rally, teach-ins and the Theater of the Oppressed. Sunday at noon at LA City Hall we will have a General Strike Meeting in conjunction with Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Pasadena and several union chapters.

THE LONG OF IT:

OCCUPY LONG BEACH, OCCUPY LOS ANGELES AND OCCUPY PASADENA
JOINT ACTIONS SATURDAY & SUNDAY:

Blue Meets Red: End Corporate Personhood:

OLA and Occupy Long Beach will be Joining together (also Occupy Pasadena!). Occupy Long Beach will meet at the Transit Mall metro station at 1st and Pacific at 10am and take the Blue Line up to LA (ETA a bit before 11am). Some of OLA will go to 7th & Metro to meet up with members of OLB and OP as they arrive – if it’s not raining too badly, we’ll all march (from there and from City Hall) to Pershing Square for a rally and teach-in from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm. The names of our speakers and entertainers will be announced soon, but Move to Amend will have a speaker. If heavy rain, we will Occupy the top level of the subway.
From 2:00 to 3:00 pm we will have Theater of the Oppressed.
At 3pm we will break out into committee meetings to plan a bigger event one month out.
At 4:30pm we will reconvene for GA to ratify the decisions on the future event.

OLA/OLB General Strike Meeting

WHEN: Sunday, November 12th 12 noon

WHERE: West stairs of LA City Hall

WHO: Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Long Beach.

Contact Toni Kukreja, CSUEU Chapter 315:
tkukreja315@gmail.com, 562-233-9872

Permanent link to this article: http://occupylb.org/2011/11/11/blue-meets-red-end-corporate-personhood/