Mic-Check Radio Archive Now Available

Mic-Check Radio, the 13-show radio series hosted and produced by Occupy Redlands on KCAA San Bernardino, is now available in the Mic-Check Radio section.

Visit the Mic-Check page for all the past shows.

Festival of Ideas

When: Sunday October 14th from 1pm to 4pm

Where: Ed Hales Park (near the corner of State Street and 5th Street), Redlands, CA

Occupy Redlands is celebrating its one year birthday this upcoming Sunday October 14, 2012 from 1 to 4 pm in Ed Hales park with a Festival of Ideas.  Various local activist groups and charities will be in attendance to discuss their causes with the public.

Participating organizations include:

Citizens Action for Peace

Redlands Area Democratic Club

Common Cause

Redlands Good Neighbor Collation

 

 

The public is invited to attend and get a chance to have a dialog with these various groups.  Snacks will be served.

Additionally, candidates for city, county, state and federal office have been invited to meet with the public.

 

The following candidates have been invited:

 

California State Senate - Melissa O’Donnell & Bill Emmerson

California State Assembly - Mike Morrell & Russ Warner

Redlands City Council - Pete Aguilar, Mike Layne, Mike Saifie, Lane Schneider. Don Wallace and Pat Gilbreath

County Supervisor - James Ramos & Neil Derry

U.S. House of Representatives – Gary Miller & Bob Dutton

The public is encouraged to engage with the candidates so that they can make informed choices this November at the ballot box.

Occupy GeoDesign Presentation at Esri

Back in January we had a visitor to our booth at Market Night, a fellow named Fred Abler from San Luis Obispo. Little did we know he was in town for a conference over at Redlands largest corporation, Esri.

The video below just popped up, and his talk is not only informative and entertaining, but he presents the Occupy Redlands t-shirt and leaves them as a gift to Esri founders Jack and Laura Dangermond:

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Candidate Meet & Greet Hosted by Occupy Redlands

Where:                        Ed Hales Park, the park is located in the downtown central business district at State Street and Fifth Street in Redlands

When:                         Sunday, May 20, 2012 from 2 pm to 5 pm

Occupy Redlands will present a Candidate Meet & Greet on Sunday, May 20.  The Meet & Greet will be held at Ed Hales Park from 2:00 – 5:00 pm.  All candidates running for State Assembly, U.S. Congress, and County Supervisor for Redlands were invited to participate.

Confirmed to attend are:

• Jackie Conaway for Congress
• Renea Wickman for Congress
• Rita Ramirez-Dean for Congress
• Justin Kim for Congress
• Neil Derry for Supervisor
• Jim Bagley for Supervisor
• Russ Warner for Assembly     

Get to know the candidates and how they stand on important issues. This may be your only chance to see these candidates at one time.

City of Redlands Passes Resolution

On May 1st, 2012, the City of Redlands voted 3-2 in favor of supporting the Resolution below.  During public comment, there were comments of opposition and comments of support.  The two major concerns were that this is not the type of Resolution the City Council should be weighing in on and that the Resolution is anti-business.

Our position remains the same.  Corporate and special interest money has no place in the election process of a democratic country.  Without free and fair elections, you cannot have a Democracy and this effects every level of society. This Resolution is not anti-business, it is pro-democracy.  We have no problem with corporations or special interests spending their money and acting within the marketplace to buy, sell and produce goods and services.  However, when a corporation or special interest spends its money through forms of lobbying, campaign donations, they can effectively drown out the voices of real people who can not afford the cost of influence.  Money is not free speech.  We seek a real Democracy and we applaud the members of the Redlands City Council who have taken a stand in the name of Democracy.

Here is the full video of the proceedings:

 

 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDLANDS URGING CONGRESS TO PROPOSE A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ENDING CORPORATE PERSONHOOD

WHEREAS, historically corporations were created as artificial entities subordinate to our democracy, yet the U.S. Supreme Court has granted corporations personhood status, free speech and other protections guaranteed to living humans by the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment, and the Redlands City Council considers it to be its right and duty to assert that corporations are not natural persons with human rights; and

May Day Rally in Redlands - Occupy The 4 Corners

4pm - 6pm | May 1
Corner of Redlands and Orange

Occupy Redlands invites you to celebrate with us this day honoring labor across the world. We will be converging on the four corners of Redlands Blvd. and Orange Street downtown. Come with your banners, signs and noisemakers. We are the 99% and we are going to reclaim this too-long-overlooked and misunderstood important international holiday.

Facebook Event

Photos from event:

 

City of Redlands to Discuss Resolution on Corporate Constitutional Rights

On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled once again that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.

Occupy Redlands has attended and utilized free speech at every City Council meeting since December 20th of last year to encourage Redlands City Councilmembers adopt a resolution on the issue of Corporate Personhood.

The City Council of Redlands will formally address this important issue and may take action on Tuesday May 1st during the Communication portion of the Council Meeting.

Occupy Redlands and the majority of U.S. citizens reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling. A Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 80% of Americans oppose the Citizens United Ruling (Democrats 85%, Republicans 76% and Independents 81%), a Harris Poll found that 87% of Americans think big companies have too much influence in Washington, and a joint American Sustainable Business Council, Main Street Alliance and Small Business Majority poll found that 88% of Small business owners have a negative view of the role money plays in politics overall.

By passing the proposed resolution the City of Redlands will send an urgent message to Congress to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.

Cities across the nation have passed similar resolutions. Large cities like Los Angeles, New York, Portland have all passed resolutions on corporate personhood. In California cities and municipalities like Arcata, Berkeley, Fairfax, Fort Bragg, Humboldt County, Mt. Shasta, Point Arena, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica and West Hollywood also have passed resolutions. Occupy Redlands urges the Redlands City Council bravely take a stand, like these other cities, on amending the Constitution to reclaim Democracy and oppose and abolish corporate Constitutional Rights. Simply put, corporations are not people and money is not speech.

Occupy Redland calls on our fellow citizens to attend the Redlands City Council meeting on Tuesday May 1st to urge our democratically elected city representatives to adopt the resolution on Corporate Personhood.

Habeas Corpus is Like Car Insurance

Habeas Corpus is like car insurance—you don’t worry about it much until you have an accident; or, in the case of habeas corpus, until you get arrested for peaceful protest and hauled before a military tribunal.Sound preposterous?  Isn’t this the United States, the land of the free? Well, no, actually. Not since the Patriot Act, the National Defense Authorization Act 2012, and the Trespass Bills (HR 347, S 1794), AKA the “anti-Occupy bill”.

Now, United States citizens can be indefinitely detained, without charge or trial, for a “belligerent act”.  What is that?  Well, no one quite knows for sure.  Want to stage a protest at the Democratic convention? Question your representative on where your tax dollars are going? Be careful, you could find yourself violating a federal crime that could land you in prison for ten years.

The attacks on our privacy and free speech continue unabated with a barrage of proposed legislation (SOPA, PIPA, and now CISPA), which, if passed, would eviscerate our ability to freely express our opinions and connect with one another on the Internet. A frightening picture of a world dominated by Big Brother’s watchful eyes begins to take shape.

Whatever end of the political spectrum we identify with, there is no doubt that our civil liberties are under assault. We the people need to demand these unconstitutional laws be rescinded before we find ourselves living out an Orwellian nightmare.

Tune into “Mic Check”, the Occupy Redlands radio program on KCAA 1050 AM at 6 PM for a discussion on the erosion of civil liberties, emergence of the police state, and what we can do to protect our rights.

Teach-In: Consume the Local, Hack the Global

Consume the Local, Hack the Global:

Strategies to Transform our Lives and our Communities

Presented by Occupy Redlands, The Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies.

Free and Open to the Public

Monday April 16th

7-830pm

Hall of Letters 100

University of Redlands

Capitalism is in crisis. The time is ripe to embrace alternative strategies rooted in local communities – in the small, the slow, the communal, and in face-to-face relationships.  As consumers, we have the power to choose to support local businesses, to contribute to the local economy and build relationships in our communities. The hacker ethic can aid us in this process, since it is an ethic of networking, connecting and sharing information to solve problems on both the local and global levels. It is an ethic that prizes innovation over profit, creating knowledge to draw upon as a collective resource to share with others who could both benefit from it and contribute to its further development. Come share your ideas about how we can transform our lives and our communities through our choices as consumers. Together we will create new ways to hack global capitalism to create a system that works better for us.

Dr. Sara Schoonmaker is a sociologist specializing in the dynamics of global development in the context of technological change in communications and information technologies. She is particularly interested in creating alternatives to the dominant forms of neoliberal globalization and consumer culture. She has been teaching at the University of Redlands since 1995.

Occupy Redlands Resolution to Reclaim Democracy

Occupy Redlands was informed by Mayor Pete Aguilar that our Resolution would be placed on an upcoming City Council Agenda.  We are waiting to hear back from Mayor Aguilar and Council Member Bob Gardner, who would like to make some suggestions to the text.

In case you missed it, Citizen's Action for Peace endorsed the Resolution during City Council Public Comments yesterday, here is the video from Council:

Teach-In: A Walk on the Wild Side - Neo-liberalism Unbound

Where: University of Redlands, Gregory Hall 161
When: Monday, March 26, 2012 @ 7pm - 830pm

 
Admission is free and open to the public.

Our current economic woes—financial crisis and Great Recession--are not simply the result of recent economic policies “gone bad”. Where we are and why we’re here
result from a change in economic power and theory, our prevailing ideology, and global economic positions that occurred over 40 years ago. In this talk I’ll lay out some of the crucial changes that signaled we were altering our path and explain why and how these changes have been instrumental in producing the Great Recession and our non-existent recovery.


Presenter Bio:


Dorene Isenberg received her Ph.D in Economics from University of California at Riverside. Since then she’s been a faculty member at the University of Maine, Drew University, and the University of Redlands where she currently holds the rank of Professor and has just stepped down from chairing the department. She’s the co-editor of a book, Seeking Shelter on the Pacific Rim: Financial Globalization, Social Justice, and the Housing Market with Prof. Gary Dymski at UCR and has authored many articles on financial instability, financial institutions, housing finance and markets, and the Great Depression. Her research interests include the effects of the operation of financial markets and institutions on the macroeconomy, the generation of financial instability, the effect of financialization, financial aspects of the Great Depression, and the economic effects of income inequality.

City of Redlands - Super Walmart Planning Meeting

AGENDA

GARY MILLER, CHAIRMAN

JOHN JAMES, VICE CHAIRMAN CAROL DYER, COMMISSIONER

CONRAD GUZKOWSKI, COMMISSIONER JAN HUDSON, COMMISSIONER

KEN JESKE, COMMISSIONER JULIE ROCK, COMMISSIONER

CITY OF REDLANDS

PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING

TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012

CIVIC CENTER

35 CAJON STREET, SUITE 2

7:00 P.M.

Anyone desiring to speak at this meeting is encouraged but not required to turn in a “Speaker Sign-up Sheet.” Forms are available prior to the meeting date in the Development Services Department, Redlands Civic Center, 210 E. Citrus Avenue, or in the Council Chambers during the meeting. Speakers are limited to three (3) minutes each.

View the Socio-Economic Report from the City of Redlands: Socio-Economic Evaluation

City of Redlands Hypocrisy by Occupy Redlands

Occupy Redlands once again entered Public Comment at a City Council meeting, while we wait to be placed on a Council agenda.  We ask that our Resolution to Reclaim Democracy (click here for full resolution) be voted on by the City Council.

After reading the resolution in its entirety for the Council and residents in attendance, we proceeded to highlight the hypocrisy and favoritism displayed by the City Council.

We have been told:

Implications of the Great Recession

Occupy Redlands presents:

Implications of the Great Recession - Taking Stock and Some Suggestions

Location: Heritage Hall | 255 E. Olive Ave., Redlands CA  92373

Date: Monday, March 19th

Time: 7pm-830pm

The Great Recession has altered the face of America, both economically as well as politically. The presentation provides a summary of the economic developments in key areas such as housing, employment, industry structure, and oil dependency and how those developments relate to the Inland Empire. It also provides an outlook of some of the key economic variables to watch out for in the future.

Bio:

Johannes Moenius is the director of the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis (ISEA, http://isea.redlands.edu) and holds the William R. and Sue Johnson Endowed Chair of Spatial Economic Analysis and Regional Planning at the University of Redlands, School of Business. Before joining the University of Redlands in 2005, he taught at the Kellogg School of Management. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo. He holds a Master’s in Management Science from Bamberg University, Germany, a Master’s in Economics from Queen’s University, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. His focus on methods has allowed him to span a wide research agenda covering international trade, industrial organization, real estate, and political parties. He recently applied geo-spatial methods to the analysis of the housing market in Southern California. He has presented his work in more than 80 talks at universities, conferences, and government institutions. His work has won two international research awards and appeared in internationally renowned journals.