We had a wild meeting Saturday, and decided to meet up again this week on Thursday 6-8pm at the Oakland Library Downtown Branch.
Main Library
125 14th St (at Madison)
West Auditorium (in the basement)
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Until then, here you see the results of a collective brainstorm about what an feminist and queer occupation could hold — both big dreamy plans (that would take a lot of people working together) and concrete plans (that individuals present at the meeting could personally execute!)
Dreamy:
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- Neighborhood newspaper from a feminist&anti-racist point of view
- Libraries
- Community kitchen
- Safe-space; skill shares, workshops, reading groups, survivor support, discussion groups
- Feminist press/zine making
- Housing in the space; who would live there? People looking for housing who would contribute to the fixing of the space
- Biking community; meet together to walk people home; buddy system
- A house that combines people and is open to different communities, multi-generational, a large garden, art and music
- A space for queer youth to do their own projects
- Skillshare on construction and plumbing
- build community with women & children in the neighborhood
- Activity centered around events for younger children
- Workshops and reading groups
- Quiet space and study space
- Space for concrete political actions are organized, which are public and publicized
- Produce texts
- Film screenings
- Book binder; make our own books for the library
- Resource list of free services (health care etc.)
- Creating a mutual aid network
- Survivor support group
- Computer classes
- Plumbers
- Discussion groups to deal with emotional stuff and re-education
- Discussion groups that strategize and analyze the current situation
- Heat
- Do a lot of outreach in the street and in the area
Concrete:
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- Craft space/ arts space; workshops; dark room
- Feminist press
- Reading groups
- Women/trans health care on the alternative health side and medic side
- Free Skool Class: DIY Vagina Care; Free Skool Children’s Free Autonomous Education
- Getting internet, electricity, power in the space
- Power tools and building
- Self-defense
- Skill shares on bike repair, fixing stuff, facilitating art stuff
- Massage table
- Duala skills in abortion
- Organic gardening, physical labor, whatever’s needed
- Press work
- Difficult dialog, facilitate conflict discussions
- Helping people figure out how to get things done that they want to get done; can teach drumming ; trained therapist
- Speaks Spanish, translator
- links to Gay Men’s Health Collective, free HIV tests
- Crafty things, radical metal health and trauma support
- Artsy stuff
- Writing stuff
- a literacy-inclusive group
- baby story time
- Film, promotional video, press, train people in shooting and editing
- Librarian, crisis counselor, offset printing press
- Building websites
- Facilitation
- graphic design skillshare
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