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Feb10Fri
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Carrboro Art Walk6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
We will be occupying the second Friday Carrboro Art Walk on February 10th! At the present moment, we are wide open as far as artists/displays and are currently exploring several venues, as well as working with other artistic groups in our larger community. We need art and people who want to show off their art! We will be having music, courtesy of Jil and Beat Report, but we’d love to have other musicians or performance art as well. Several people have mentioned having friends or art collectives set up “installations.” If any of this sounds like fun to you, or you have other ideas, please contact David Maliken.
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Muhammad Ali: the Photographs of Sonia Katchian @ Focal Point Gallery7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
OCHC’s Sonia Katchian has been asked to give a Gallery Talk this Friday evening at Focal Point Gallery (next to Caffé Driade) on her current exhibition, Muhammad Ali: the Photographs of Sonia Katchian. Sonia will answer questions, discuss the pictures, and talk about how she gained the position of being around Muhammad Ali for weeks on end, over a period of two decades. 10% of photo sales will be donated to OCHC. It would be great to see some of you there!
Gallery hours for Sonia’s show are 12-6pm, Thursday-Sunday through February 26.
7:00 pmMuhammad Ali: the Photographs of Sonia Katchian @ Focal Point Gallery
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Feb11Sat
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HK on J6: 6th Annual Historic Thousands on Jones Street @ Assemble for march at Shaw Univ9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Occupy Health and Wellness NC, started by the Triangle’s own Occupy Chapel Hill/Carrboro and Occupy Durham, will march in solidarity with thousands of other North Carolinians representing a wide spectrum of organizations seeking social justice. Occupy Health and Wellness NC will proudly carry our banner and signs showing Occupy’s support for the social justice movement.We invite all Occupiers to join us in Raleigh. Carpools will be leaving Chapel Hill from the Willow Drive end of University Mall beside Dillard’s from 8:00 am until 9:00am. Please reply to bertgurg@gmail.com if you can drive on Saturday or if you need a ride.
9:30 amHK on J6: 6th Annual Historic Thousands on Jones Street @ Assemble for march at Shaw Univ
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Feb12Sun
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Occupy Durham/DNC Working Group @ Durham Solidarity Center Basement Conference Room11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Occupy Durham has begun a working group to plan actions at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte and has opened it to other Occupy participation. Be advised, while the group will be discussing different types of action, it is on track for planning definite actions rather than debating whether or not they should happen.
11:00 amOccupy Durham/DNC Working Group @ Durham Solidarity Center Basement Conference Room
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Feb13Mon
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Chapel Hill Town Council Business Meeting: Town Assembly and Free Speech Ordinances @ Town Hall, Council Chamber7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
OCHC will be bringing a petition before the Council concerning the town’s assembly and free speech ordinances. We are also planning to participate in the public discussion section of these items on the agenda.
Link to: CH Town Council Business Meeting post for 2.13.2012
Link to: CH Town Council Business Meeting agenda for 2.13.1012
Link to: CH Town Council Calendar
7:00 pmChapel Hill Town Council Business Meeting: Town Assembly and Free Speech Ordinances @ Town Hall, Council Chamber
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Feb14Tue
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Jon Paul’s TruthQuest Radio Show WCOM LPFM Carrboro (103.5FM)11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Jon Paul is an Occupy Supporter and has attended a few GAs and Teach-Ins. He is interviewing different occupiers about their views and experiences with the movement on his show, Tuesdays from 11am-12noon!
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OCHC and Community Lunch Time! @ Weaver Street Market12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Come together for awesome food, conversation, and camaraderie! For the moment, our lunch venue is Weaver Street Market. There are inside and outside tables, and the option to bring your own food if sitting outside.
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General Assembly @ Peace and Justice Plaza6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pmGeneral Assembly @ Peace and Justice Plaza
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Feb15Wed
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Chapel Hill Community Police Advisory Committee @ Hargraves Center7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Meeting at the Hargraves Center.
This is the committee that has been discussing the possibility of an Independent Review of the November Yates Building incident, and that requested funds from the Town Council for an independent investigator.7:00 pmChapel Hill Community Police Advisory Committee @ Hargraves Center -
February Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night @ Internationalist Books & Community Center7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: Internationalist Books & Community Center (405 W. Franklin St.)
Come send a birthday card to political prisoners with February birthdays. It’s an easy way to let these people know they aren’t forgotten. These men and women fought for many of the freedoms we take for granted today. For more information check out www.prisonbooks.infoSponsored by Internationalist Prison Books Collective.
7:00 pmFebruary Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night @ Internationalist Books & Community Center
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Feb16Thu
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Facilitation Work Group Meeting @ Peace & Justice Plaza7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Facilitation Work Group reboot meeting after GA!
7:30 pmFacilitation Work Group Meeting @ Peace & Justice Plaza
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Feb17Fri
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Arab Springs: Revolution and Repression Conference @ Duke University Bryan Center, Von Canon Rooms B & C9:00 am – 5:30 pm
Arab Springs: Revolution and Repression Conference
Three Panels in Von Canon Rooms B & C, at the Bryan Center on Duke University’s West Campus. Open to non-registrants. See the Conference Program.
Panel 1. Revolutions and Repression
Panel 2. Languages, Technologies, and Spectacles of Revolution
Panel 3. New Subjects of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship
Parking at the Bryan Center.
Presented by Duke University Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC), in collaboration with the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations at UNC-Chapel Hill (CCSMEMC).
9:00 amArab Springs: Revolution and Repression Conference @ Duke University Bryan Center, Von Canon Rooms B & C -
Vigil for Peace and Justice with the Society of Friends @ Corner of Elliot Road and E Franklin Street4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
The Chapel Hill Quaker Society meets every Friday at the corner of Elliot and Franklin to hold a vigil for peace and justice. Occupiers can see this as a literal occupation of a usually unremarkable corner space at busy roads, turning it suddenly into a space occupied with both spiritual and political significance. They welcome our presence at this weekly event.
4:30 pmVigil for Peace and Justice with the Society of Friends @ Corner of Elliot Road and E Franklin Street
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Feb19Sun
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Teach-In: Climate Change and How North Carolina Can Respond @ UNC Campus Y1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
350.org organizers Jenny Marienau and Karen Bearden will join Occupy Chapel Hill to discuss the science and repercussions of Global Climate Change, and foster discussion about how North Carolina can respond.Welcome, Intros and Walk through the AgendaClimate Science 101: A brief explanation of Climate ChangeAn overview of 350.org and its recent work in North CarolinaCurrent Climate Issues in NC – discussionBrainstorm: How to react!Action Planning session and next steps sign-up1:00 pmTeach-In: Climate Change and How North Carolina Can Respond @ UNC Campus Y
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Poetic Portraits of a Revolution: The Sacrificial Poets on the Arab Spring @ Vimala's Curry Blosson Cafe6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Empowerment Project is sponsoring this fantastic event!
Poetic Portraits of a Revolution is a poetry-driven, multimedia theatrical event on Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt as witnessed by the spoken-word poets who went there last summer. They will do a preview of their play tomorrow night, plus show footage from their sojourn! Catch it if you can at Vimala’s, 6pm!
6:00 pmPoetic Portraits of a Revolution: The Sacrificial Poets on the Arab Spring @ Vimala's Curry Blosson Cafe
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Feb20Mon
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Teach-In: Bring Our War Dollars Home: Restore Our Communities @ Legislative Building11:00 am – 12:30 pm
NC Peace Action and American Friends Service Committee are sponsoring a Town Hall Meeting featuring the following speakers:
Matthew Hoh, former Marine and State Dept. official in Afghanistan:
“Wars of choice and the trade offs for a democratic society”
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Congressman Walter Jone, NC 3rd District:
“Afghanistan: Where is the Outrage?”
See Durham and Chapel Hill bus information or call 919.381.5969
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Occupy 4 Prisoners National Day of Action! @ Durham County Jail5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Please come join us to show solidarity with North Carolina prisoners & others protesting a broken, unjust, and inequitable prison system!
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Noise Demonstration and Community Speak Out
In front of Durham County Jail (219 South Mangum Street, Durham, NC 27701)
6:30 pm – 9 pm Food and Fellowship : Continuing the Conversation
At the Stanford L. Warren Library (1201 Fayetteville Street Durham, North Carolina 27707)We support the following points of unity from the call to action from Occupy Oakland:
1. Abolishing unjust sentences, such as the Death Penalty, Life Without the Possibility of Parole, Three Strikes, Juvenile Life Without Parole, and the practice of trying children as adults.2. Standing in solidarity with movements initiated by prisoners and taking action to support prisoner demands, including the Georgia Prison Strike and the Pelican Bay/California Prisoners Hunger Strikes.
3. Freeing political prisoners, such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Lynne Stewart, Bradley Manning and Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald, a Black Panther Party member incarcerated since 1969.
4. Demanding an end to the repression of activists, specifically the targeting of African Americans and those with histories of incarceration, such as Khali in Occupy Oakland, who could now face a life sentence on trumped-up charges, and many others falsely charged after exercising their First Amendment rights.
5. Demanding an end to the brutality of the current system, including the torture of those who have lived for many years in Secured Housing Units (SHUs) or in solitary confinement.
6. Demanding that our tax money spent on isolating, harming and killing prisoners, instead be invested in improving the quality of life for all and be spent on education, housing, health care, mental health care and other human services which contribute to the public good.
More information: Occupy4Prisoners.org and OWS National Support Prisoners Day statement
Check out the Facebook Event!
In addition, there are ongoing struggles in North Carolina both from inside and out of jails, prisons, and detention centers; like the current prisoners’ hunger strike at Foothills Prison in Morganton (http://tiny.cc/morganton) and the battle against deportations and criminalization of undocumented youth (http://tiny.cc/yanelli).
5:30 pmOccupy 4 Prisoners National Day of Action! @ Durham County Jail
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Feb21Tue
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Jon Paul’s TruthQuest Radio Show WCOM LPFM Carrboro (103.5FM)11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Jon Paul is an Occupy Supporter and has attended a few GAs and Teach-Ins. He is interviewing different occupiers about their views and experiences with the movement on his show, Tuesdays from 11am-12noon!
11:00 amJon Paul’s TruthQuest Radio Show WCOM LPFM Carrboro (103.5FM) -
OCHC and Community Lunch Time! @ Weaver Street Market12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Come together for awesome food, conversation, and camaraderie! For the moment, our lunch venue is Weaver Street Market. There are inside and outside tables, and the option to bring your own food if sitting outside.
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General Assembly @ Peace and Justice Plaza6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pmGeneral Assembly @ Peace and Justice Plaza
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Bob Sheldon Day 2012 & Bob Sheldon Award Ceremony @ Internationalist Books & Community Center7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Old friends and new will be gathering at Internationalist Books to celebrate the life of the man, Bob Sheldon, who continues to inspire countless people, even 21 years after his murder.
This event is all about Bob and his legacy, so the more people who come out to share, the better! Festivities will begin around 7pm. Speakers will share their Bob Sheldon stories with us, and this year’s Bob Sheldon award will be presented to the Human Rights Center. Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe will be providing food.
Check out the Facebook Event!
If you have a story that you would like to share with everyone, please let us know! (email us at ibooks@internationalistbooks.org)
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Orange County Board of Commissioners Meeting: Move to Amend Resolution @ Social Services Center7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Orange County Board of Commissioners will vote on a resolution to support Move to Amend’s effort to bring about a Constitutional Amendment making it clear that ‘corporations are not people’ and that ‘money is not speech.’ A copy of the resolution is attached.
We hope that many Occupy participants join us in showing support for the resolution’s approval to hasten the day when corporate power and money will no longer dominate our political landscape.7:00 pmOrange County Board of Commissioners Meeting: Move to Amend Resolution @ Social Services Center -
Teach-In: Occupy Corporate Power @ 709 Manning, UNC-Chapel Hill7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join Brigid Flaherty, director of the Pushback Network, for a teach-in connecting the dots on how the banks “too big to fail” are underlying causes of the great social, economic, and environmental injustices of our time. Activist Audre Lorde once said that “there is no single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”Visit the Facebook Event!
Learn more about the Pushback Network.
Learn more about the actions of UNC Students for A Democratic Society, who are sponsoring the event.7:00 pmTeach-In: Occupy Corporate Power @ 709 Manning, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Feb23Thu
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Durham People’s Alliance Rally & Fundraiser to Defeat Amendment One @ Full Steam Brewery5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
The Durham People’s Alliance is holding a fundraiser and rally to defeat Amendment One, the NC Anti-Gay Marriage Act. It is being held at the Full Steam Brewery in Durham from 5:30 to 7:30.
Fullsteam Fundraiser Against the Amendment. Come to Fullsteam Brewery on Thursday Feb. 23rd from 5:30 – 7:30 to drink a brew and contribute to Durham’s fight against the amendment. You can pick up a yard sign and bumper sticker while you’re there listening to good music, drinking good beer, and learning how you can help defeat the amendment. RSVP here, and spread the word!
5:30 pmDurham People’s Alliance Rally & Fundraiser to Defeat Amendment One @ Full Steam Brewery
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Feb24Fri
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Vigil for Peace and Justice with the Society of Friends @ Corner of Elliot Road and E Franklin Street4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
The Chapel Hill Quaker Society meets every Friday at the corner of Elliot and Franklin to hold a vigil for peace and justice. Occupiers can see this as a literal occupation of a usually unremarkable corner space at busy roads, turning it suddenly into a space occupied with both spiritual and political significance. They welcome our presence at this weekly event.
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Collective Sun: Reshape the Mo(u)rning7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
“Rebellious kisses wake
we children of the sun dancing fire
freedom blooming red.”
Spirit House NC presents Collective Sun: Reshape the Mo(u)rning, part performance, part art exhibit, and part audio installation. Collective Sun is an intergenerational body of work exploring the impact prison and policing has on our bodies, our families and our communities. It shares stories of resilience and hope, and reminds us to love one another until we can all be whole. Through Collective Sun, families of color gain a voice to proactively address the impact of the prison industrial complex, creating a platform where art and culture become the means for solution-oriented, civic engagement in local/regional political actions.
You can pick up your beautifully handmade tickets the day of the event at the Will Call table for $10. or buy them online for a small fee at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2774481549/efblike.
7:00 pmCollective Sun: Reshape the Mo(u)rning
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Feb25Sat
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Statewide General Assembly for All North Carolina Occupations (all-day) @ Old State Capitol GroundsFeb 25
Intrigued by the possibilities presented by meeting with Occupy activists from all over North Carolina, Occupy Raleigh officially invites all North Carolina Occupations to join us at the Capitol for an unprecedented statewide rally and General Assembly. Events begin on Thursday and run through Sunday. 8 AM- 10PM, Sat, Feb 25, Old State Capitol Grounds, 1 E Edenton St, and/or Noon – 4 PM, Legislative Auditorium, 16 W. Jones St., Raleigh. Teach-ins start at 1 PM; 4 PM, statewide GA.
Check out the excellent Official Event Site! Schedule of Events for the weekend has been posted!
Check out the Facebook Event!
Email us at occupiedncga@gmail.com!
Join the Occupy Raleigh Forum for Statewide GA Planning!
Statewide General Assembly for All North Carolina Occupations @ Old State Capitol Grounds (all-day)
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Feb26Sun
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Occupy Democratic National Convention Coalition Meeting @ The Solidarity Center11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Occupy Durham continues to host a working Group on Occupying the Democratic National Convention Coalition and other direct actions. Join them in Durham at the Solidarity Center!There will be a report back on the Coalition Meeting in Charlotte this past week.11:00 amOccupy Democratic National Convention Coalition Meeting @ The Solidarity Center
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Prison Books Collective Workday1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The prison books collective meets weekly, every Sunday at 1pm, in order to process letters and send out books to prisoners.
Contact prisonbooks@gmail.com for more details if you want to help out.
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Capture the Flag! @ The People's Plaza6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Occupy Durham invites one and all to THE CAPTURE THE FLAG GAME OF YOUR LIFE! at the People’s Plaza!
Are you burnt out from Occupy? Are the GA’s and all of your working-group commitments choking every last second of free time you have out of your week? Are you asking yourself, “How much longer can I do this”?
Instead of pulling your hair out, deleting all of the email threads from your inbox, leaving Occupy, or any combination of the above- why not take a little time to have * FUN * with your fellow
Occupiers and play a game of capture the flag?! ☺Capture the flag is the perfect game for us! Here are some reasons why:
1. We are going to visibly use Durham’s downtown public space for the first time since the last rainy Really, Really Free Market.
2. You will be randomly assigned to teams so you can actually meet NEW people!
3. We will be inviting occupiers from Raleigh AND Chapel Hill, so we will be meeting MORE occupiers from right around the way.
4. We have war paint. This will be intense. No child’s play here.
5. We will go out for dinner/drinks/merry-making afterwards.In conclusion- You should come play capture the flag. You really, really should. If you’re on the fence, you should watch the inspirational music video below
:6:00 pmCapture the Flag! @ The People's Plaza
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