Occupy Oakland | Occupy Oakland
Nov.03.2011
The nation’s first General Strike in sixty-five years successfully shut down the fifth-busiest port in the country last night in Oakland. Downtown branches of Chase Bank, Wells Fargo, Union Bank, and Bank of America were sites for protest and work...
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Nov.02.2011
It is 8:52AM at 14th Street and Broadway in downtown Oakland, the site of an assault on citizens by police just eight days ago. Occupy Oakland General Assembly responded, by consensus, to the clearing of their camp by calling for a city-wide general strike today, beginning at 9AM. ...
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Oct.29.2011
It’s Friday. I am going down to Occupy Oakland. I’ve got a sign that says “Human Need NOT Corporate Greed” on one side and “Human Need: Compassion is in our genes: Not corporate greed” on the other. I also have a case of oranges. It is 1PM. The evacuated camp is...
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Oct.28.2011
I do not believe in Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is a misnomer. It is our civic responsibility to act out when government no longer treats its citizens with civility. As a youngster I was drawn to movements demonstrated a true spirit of community such as the...
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Oct.27.2011
You have heard of the violent, extreme response to the peaceful march I participated in. Not fifteen minutes after I left a calm standing gathering of Oakland’s community at 7:30PM,...
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Oct.26.2011
Our occupation movement here in Oakland is participating in just the volunteerism that our mayor, Jean Quan, urged in her inaugural speech. At the city plaza, Occupation Oakland has fed, clothed, informed through teach-ins, experienced consensus in a very diverse community, practiced...
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Oct.26.2011
A bit of background first:
When Occupy Wall Street (OWS) started five weeks ago, the police and media's reaction to the demonstration was hostile, with police using pepper spray directly in people's eyes at point blank range, punching out women, attacking a man for the crime of carrying a...
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