9 Minutes of Silence at Occupy Oakland - Saturday Dec 3 at noon

[Dawn Haney]

Hi friends!

I've been so happy to hear updates about the noon sit, and how many of you continue to hold presence at the Occupy Oakland site.

I'm excited that this Saturday we'll hopefully have a bigger crowd of folks as there is a call out for folks to sit across the country again. I hope it's helpful in rejuvenating the group! It was great to have participation in the planning meeting last night from Tim & Ann who have been sitting regularly at noon. We tried to find a good way to incorporate the 9 minutes into the noon sit, but also have a diversity of practices available from 12-1pm to include folks who aren't up for sitting for a full hour. We think we found a good balance for folks to choose to sit for the whole hour as usual, or to participate in other transformative practices like walking meditation & empathic listening dyads.

I'm especially excited that at 1pm, we'll be installing the 1,000 Paper Cranes project! Many thanks to Funie for all your work on this, and it will be beautiful to see it come to fruition! I hope many folks will be able to stay to help us string the cranes and hang them in one of the trees.

Please spread the word among your networks!

Also, it would be great to have the Buddhist Peace Fellowship banner there - could someone bring it, or let me know when/where I could pick it up on Friday?

With much metta -

Dawn

970-903-8611

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As a part of a national call to Nine Minutes of Silence on Sat. Dec. 3rd  (http://on.fb.me/tntrzX), we invite you to join together and offer Nine Minutes of Silence with Occupy Oakland.

The goal for Nine Minutes of Silence is to offer a period of time for both Occupiers and folks from transformative practice communities alike to share a moment of contemplation and group intention setting together. It will take place in three parts:

• Three minutes to contemplate the past—the causes and factors that led us to this point.
• Three minutes to rest in silence.
• Three minutes to aspire to continue in non-violence.

In Oakland we will be sitting with the noon sitting group that will be practicing at Occupy Oakland for its 49th consecutive day. We also will be installing a 1,000 Paper Cranes project (http://www.bpf.org/senbazuru) in the trees at Frank Ogawa / Oscar Grant Plaza, and will be participating in Empathic Listening with each other. See full schedule below & check for updates online at http://www.facebook.com/events/182625948497698/.

If you can't join us, you can participate by practicing in silence wherever you are, reading the dedication (http://bit.ly/uSg6SS) and/or participating in nine minutes of silence at 3pmEST/12pmPST. More info on those options on the national call to action event page: (http://on.fb.me/tntrzX). There's also a flyer for the national call to action for you to circulate.

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9 Minutes of Silence at Occupy Oakland
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Location: Frank Ogawa / Oscar Grant Plaza at 14th & Broadway
Look for signs "Occupy the Present" or "Buddhist Peace Fellowship"

11:45 am - Gather at Plaza Steps
12:00 pm - 9 Minutes of Silence + Chanting of the Dedication
12:10 pm - Continue with silent practice, choice of sitting or walking
12:30 pm - 9 Minutes of Listening + Empathic Listening Circle (with option to continue in silence)
1:00 pm - Installation of 1,000 Paper Cranes

Have an additional offering of transformative practice to add to our schedule? Hope to sit with others at another Bay Area Occupy site? Want to see the latest schedule? The Facebook event page will have the most up to date schedule (visible without a Facebook profile): http://www.facebook.com/events/182625948497698/. You can also contact Jacks (jack...@gmail.com) or Dawn (da...@bpf.org) for more information.

Please share with your networks!

[Tim Andres]

Hi Dawn, here's a nice shot of you. I went into the planning dept. today after the sit to inquire about tree decorations, and met a couple of nice but not too well informed people to discuss who can permit/object to tree decorations in the plaza. Mike and Jillian(?) on the 2nd floor did their best to find me various phone numbers.  Nancy Marcus 510 238 3292 Arturo Sanchez 510 238 7542 Gay Luster 510 615 5934 none of which answered, I did leave 2 messages. I even made a crane for mike and Jillian, they seemed sympathetic but no answers beyond a comment that the Plaza is kind of touchy. I explained the Senbazuru legend of 1000 cranes to grant a wish, that we were a group of meditators and would put them up and take them down after the  holidays. I mentioned that SF City Hall has installed 1000 cranes on their indoor tree for Aids awareness today. So I'll try to call again tomorrow. I mentioned to Funie that the many handrails around the plaza might be a default installation if necessary.  Police and security are unpredictable.  peace tim   --- On Wed, 11/30/11, Dawn Haney <dawn.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

[f h]

Tim,

Thanks so much for looking into this. I appreciate all the efforts you've put into the cranes and trying to make this project happen!

funie