May Day! General Strike

Originally Posted by PsychonautMIA

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time. Then anarchists work at unmasking and mastering the structures, whether they involve patriarchal families, a Mafia international system or the private tyrannies of the economy, the corporation.

Thanks for that, Psy. Now, any other discussion of anarchy/anarchists needs to be held in the Anarchy section of the forum.

http://www.livestream.com/occupyoakland

Oakland is going crazy, I think. I heard the police brought out a tank.

They just declared it an unlawful assembly. Shit Oakland has BALLS!

Oakland Police are announcing that protesters "Will be removed by use of force if necessary, which may result in serious injury."

http://www.livestream.com/occupyoakland

Originally Posted by Aerianne

These people smashing windows are not part of The Occupy Movement which is based in peaceful protest.

I have no idea what the anarchist's motivations are.

I wouldn't put it past some "agencies" to plant this kind of action just to give Occupy a bad rep. (not saying that's what happened in this case, but it could be) The Media has already said that the guys that were framed by the FBI into planting "explosives" under the bridge here in Ohio were Occupy protesters. They said that Occupy "Later recanted that statement".... I call bullshyt on that report.

Occupy is going to get a major smear campaign loaded onto it now... Occupy rested and regrouped over the winter, while those that oppose Occupy were making plans.

The problem is that people are generally pissed off right now, and may day is labor day in the REST of the world (because of a US atrocity against labor, actually, I think it was haymarket square? That's why we have our own government sanctioned labor day, as a distraction).

So it's a natural anarchist day, anarchist labor activists where framed by an agent provocoteur (who killed 6 cops with a bomb to do it) to make the image of the bomb-chucking anarchist, and they hung a bunch of innocent protest leaders.

So....... It's a good occupy day too, but you can't expect anarchists NOT to seize on it if there's already massive demonstrations on their day....

Originally Posted by Aerianne

http://www.livestream.com/occupyoakland

Oakland is going crazy, I think. I heard the police brought out a tank.

To correct this - It was a Grizzly, armored personnel carrier. They just drove it by on livestream.

An Occupy London protester offers a flower to a police officer to mark May Day.
(Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis / AP via MSNBC)




A NYPD Lieutenant swings his baton at a protestor on May Day.
(Photo: Mary Altaffer / AP via The Wall Street Journal)

Germany:

German clashes: May Day rallies turn violent in Berlin - YouTube

German clashes: May Day rallies turn violent in Berlin - YouTube

Some good photos of May Day in Portland http://photos.oregonlive.com/photo-e...n_photo_e.html