Occupy Oakland - May Day Strike To Shut Down Ferry Service

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  1. Argiope aurantia

    Argiope aurantia Member

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    Orison, once again I need to hug you. I'm stuck on a campus right now where only a dozen or so students even know that there's a protest going on. No one here is interested, unless it affects tonight's episode of Glee, or whatever they're watching these days. It's sickening.

    Those that do know are mostly laughing and asking why the people are being so selfish. One of my classmates actually said this: "Y'know, if SOME people weren't too stuck-up to take certain jobs we wouldn't BE in this situation!" May I note that this chick is in a sorority, and her parents are paying for the whole ride? As word of Scott Olsen spread, the denizens of my city laugh at him, saying "When the cops say to move, and you don't, it's not the cops' fault." I'm a few steps from screaming.

    There are some professors who support us, but most of them are doing so rather quietly to protect their jobs against a very right-wing campus.
     
    Argiope aurantia, Oct 28, 2011
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  3. RooRshack

    RooRshack On Sabbatical

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    Better than where I am.

    There's a few left wing people who CARE on the whole campus. The rest are the typical people who think they're republicans, but smoke weed and take drugs and drink underage and profess to hate everything republicans do (although they think it's all obama) and then there's a few super right wingers who will tell you all about occupy walstreet, and how "they don't even know what they're protesting, it's pathetic, of course they won't get anything!", while implying that if anybody was serious about it they would be buying off politicians like THEIR own interests do when serious about an issue.
     
    RooRshack, Oct 28, 2011
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  5. skip

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    Uh, if you know how these strikes work, they usually include Teach-Ins, but not by professors who are too worried about their tenure track to get involved with protests. Instead the students themselves hold teach-in for other students and the public.

    Believe me, far more is learned thru a strike than from College. It's something they don't teach you in school...
     
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  7. skip

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    Here is the Oakland Mayor's response to the violence at the protests...

     
    skip, Oct 28, 2011
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  9. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    I’m watching Michael Moore right now on CNN from the occupy Oakland encampment and he’s made a few salient points (and i'm guessing while filming his latest documentary) [​IMG]


    Hotwater
     
    hotwater, Oct 28, 2011
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  11. RooRshack

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    I don't like it.

    It acts like both police and protesters where equally under control, with a few bad eggs.

    I haven't followed this, but I don't think any protesters fired rubber bullets at police who posed them no threat, or threw caustic gas grenades at them.... And if nothing was vandalized (I doubt this was ever a threat, except perhaps from undercover cops) then 100% of the protesters kept THEIR cool.

    They realized how disastrous a response a violent repression could cause, especially given oaklands history, and tried to whitewash it.

    About a college strike, nope, I know nothing about it.... but a tenured professor can do anything, and many of them DO anything. It's just toeing the line until tenure, and then they can do whatever the fuck they please.
     
    RooRshack, Oct 28, 2011
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  13. ChronicTom

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    I don't think it should matter if there were a few bad eggs that may have done something...

    If they saw someone smashing windows for example, they could have arrested that person... Even if they had felt it unsafe to do so with the crowd, smashing a window isn't justification for tear gas and other such weapons.

    As it was... the crowds they attacked were not acting in any other manner then peaceful. There were at least three seperate live feeds going on at various times that night. The only violence that happened was from the cops.

    I think the most telling out of all the videos is when the protestors realized that Scott was down and not getting up, they went back to help and were attacked again for it.

    If that video doesn't lead to charges and lawsuits against the cops and their superiors, I don't think the city of oakland is going to have a very happy future for anyone.
     
    ChronicTom, Oct 28, 2011
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  15. Shale

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    Yesterday I became a member of Veterans For Peace.

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    I know it isn't much - but every little drop will add to the torrent.
     
    Shale, Oct 29, 2011
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  17. yellowcab

    yellowcab Fresh baked

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    Thanks for activating yourself in the movement, every person for the people is a in itself a victory.The tide is already turning in our favor thanks too all the people out there fighting for our freedoms and human rights and the more the merrier:sunny:
     
    yellowcab, Oct 29, 2011
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  19. skip

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    Supposedly, some protesters hurled bottles and other objects at the police. Then supposedly the police "feared for their own safety", and that set off the barrage of tear gas.

    The only ppl who witnessed the protesters throwing stuff were a few members of the press. I was watching and the ONLY thing I saw the protesters toss back at the police were the tear gas cannisters that they were shooting at the protesters. I would think that would be fair game, returning what was shot at them.

    It's obvious the police were ordered to disperse the crowd, and they started the violence by shooting the teargas. Up until that point, the protesters had done nothing to deserve such treatment by the police.
     
    skip, Oct 29, 2011
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  21. Argiope aurantia

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    Heh heh. But we HAVE won quite a few things already.
     
    Argiope aurantia, Oct 29, 2011
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  23. skip

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    They're marching in Oakland right now.

    It's a march against Brutality.

    Watch it on http://hippy.com!

    I just heard about a shooting in Denver!
     
    skip, Oct 29, 2011
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  25. Aerianne

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    Aerianne, Oct 29, 2011
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  27. skip

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  29. MuchaGanja

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    Great. the biggest grassroots movement of my generation. Taking place right now in my home town. And I'm stuck in Humbolst county... I can not express how frustrated I am...
     
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  31. Aerianne

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    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700193750/Latest-developments-in-the-global-Occupy-protests.html
     
    Aerianne, Nov 1, 2011
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  33. Aerianne

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    The Oakland police union on Tuesday slammed the city's mayor for her stance on the city's Occupy Wall Street protests

    http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/oakland-mayor-slammed-over-1214774.html
     
    Aerianne, Nov 1, 2011
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  35. chordcat

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    Solidarity movement tomorrow to show your support for Oakland: do something proactive!
    May I suggest if you have a business, shut it down for the day.
    Also: buy LOCAL goods from LOCAL suppliers. support independent and alternative media (news) sources. seek alternative and natural health remedies (pharmaceutical companies are perpetrators too!).
     
    chordcat, Nov 1, 2011
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  37. skip

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    The Oakland strike has begun! I was watching about a hundred protesters block a major downtown intersection, stopping all cars and buses. There are NO POLICE ANYWHERE to stop them. A number of businesses have closed in support of the strike. This is the biggest strike in Oakland since the end of WWII, and may be the biggest protest since the Vietnam war!

    The port of Oakland is SHUTDOWN today!     The longshoremen are honoring the call for a general strike.

    Watch Live Video from Occupy Oakland protest
     
    skip, Nov 2, 2011
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  39. skip

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    Police return medical supplies confiscated from Occupy Oakland encampment.

    http://www.kron.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=2209

    There will be a march to the Port of Oakland soon.

    I hear the occupiers are patrolling the streets around the plaza keeping their eye out for police staging areas.
     
    skip, Nov 2, 2011
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