Occupy Oakland - May Day Strike To Shut Down Ferry Service

Aerianne · Nov 2, 2011

Here is the Oakland news chopper live coverage
It's estimated that 10,000 are marching.

edit: The police estimate that there were 7,000 marchers.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8416255

Aerianne · Nov 2, 2011

(11-02) 20:37 PDT OAKLAND -- A car struck two Occupy Oakland protesters tonight as they marched with a crowd along Broadway, and an angry mob surrounded the car as emergency workers tended to the injured.

The driver, who was not identified, sat in his silver Mercedes-Benz sedan after the 7:30 p.m. incident while hundreds of people screamed at him through his closed windows.

Police arrived, questioned the driver and several witnesses, then let the driver leave the scene at 11th and Broadway in his car.

The two people who were injured, a man and a woman, were taken to a hospital. They both appeared to be conscious.

As the driver left, many in the crowd yelled at him and at police, saying he should have stayed at the scene or been arrested.

The incident happened when the driver was heading south on 11th and was blocked by streams of marchers walking along Broadway, witnesses said. He had a green light, but could not get through.

The driver "got frustrated and hit the gas," said Nick Lucas, 25, of Berkeley. "He was getting pissed."
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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/02/BA5G1LQ06S.DTL#ixzz1cbz7EEfv

RooRshack · Nov 2, 2011

Aerianne said:

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/02/BA5G1LQ06S.DTL#ixzz1cbz7EEfv
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Guy in new benz runs down the protesting 99% in a case of childish roadrage, is allowed to leave.

Move along, folks.

Aerianne · Nov 2, 2011

Port Of Oakland Nov.2, 2011

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/gallery?section=news/local/east_bay&id=8416291&photo=10

Aerianne · Nov 2, 2011

Here it is on film:

Protesters Hit By Car at End of Occupy March
Two protesters were injured when a car trying to make its way through an intersection hit them.
Wednesday, Nov 2, 2011 | Updated 10:33 PM PDT
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http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Raw-Videorotesters-Hit-by-Car/133133578

A massive protest on the Port of Oakland was mostly peaceful Wednesday as the Occupy movement held a one day general strike.

As the protest was winding down, two participants were injured when a car hit them in what would have been an open intersection.

The crash happened 11th Street and Broadway, as protesters marched across the street.

Cell phone video from the scene shows a car hesitantly going through an intersection. As it approaches a man in a white t-shirt, the man tries to stop the vehicle and pounds on its hood.

The car then speeds forward into the protester. There are reports that man was injured and a second woman was hurt when the driver attempted to back up following the initial collision.

KCBS radio said the driver was questioned by police but allowed to leave the scene.

Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said the injuries were not life threatening.
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http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Protesters-Hit-By-Car-at-End-of-Occupy-March-133133588.html

zombiewolf · Nov 2, 2011

Oakland peeps have reclaimed a closed building that used to be a branch of the travelers aid society...cops are reportedly 8 blocks away!

Oakland live stream
http://www.dockh.com/occupy-missoula/

ZW

RooRshack · Nov 3, 2011

Aerianne said:

Here it is on film:

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Raw-Videorotesters-Hit-by-Car/133133578

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Protesters-Hit-By-Car-at-End-of-Occupy-March-133133588.html
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Ahh well I was hasty. That's understandable, he defended his car when some fucker touched it.

skip · Nov 3, 2011

UPDATE: Oakland General Strike a Success! Port of Oakland shut down by thousands of protesters! Late night violence mars otherwise peaceful protest. Estimates put crowd at 7,000 people!

Pix from the Occupy Oakland General Strike yesterday...

skip · Nov 3, 2011

Hundreds marched to Citibank where they stood outside and sang songs and spoke against the bank.

Former Black Panther, Angela Davis addresses the crowd in the morning.

The scene at the Port of Oakland where thousands came to force the facility to close in compliance with the General Strike. Many longshoremen joined the strike.

skip · Nov 3, 2011

Here's a good pix of the THOUSANDS who shutdown the port!

zombiewolf · Nov 3, 2011

Skip said:

.... THOUSANDS who shutdown the port!
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's what I'm talkin' 'bout, beautiful! :afro:

I need to find out what happened last nite. when I left the stream, occupyers were surrounded downtown as 400 some police had blocked them in from four streets...it was reporten that the officers had tape over thier name tags and no numbers were visible. There seemed to be no Oakland police but apparently Alameda sheriff vehicles were spotted along with some other unidentified LEOs...

I don't know if this video has been posted but I think its important

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QqNOPZLw03Q

ZW

Aerianne · Nov 3, 2011

Police arrest protesters who refused to disperse near City Hall in Oakland, California early November 3, 2011. A general strike called by Occupy Oakland shut down the port 11/2.

http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/News/The-latest-from-Occupy-Oakland/5846/4/?ref=l#ixzz1cfEBSRIo

RooRshack · Nov 3, 2011

Check out the certified badass with the shotgun. He knows he's cool.

primalflow · Nov 3, 2011

RooRshack said:

Check out the certified badass with the shotgun. He knows he's cool.
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This makes up for the fact that everybody he bullied in school had friends...and thoughts.

zombiewolf · Nov 3, 2011

A rubber bullet at that range?...

primalflow · Nov 3, 2011

this Official Bully(wtf?) has been brought to you by...
your taxes

skip · Nov 3, 2011

zombiewolf said:

's what I'm talkin' 'bout, beautiful! :afro:

I need to find out what happened last nite. when I left the stream, occupyers were surrounded downtown as 400 some police had blocked them in from four streets...it was reporten that the officers had tape over thier name tags and no numbers were visible. There seemed to be no Oakland police but apparently Alameda sheriff vehicles were spotted along with some other unidentified LEOs...

I don't know if this video has been posted but I think its important

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QqNOPZLw03Q

ZW
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In theory, police from other jurisdictions should not have any authority to do anything in the city of Oakland. Someone on the state level would have to authorize it, I would think. I don't know why all these police from other jurisdictions aren't being sued or at least protested.

zombiewolf · Nov 3, 2011

Skip said:

In theory, police from other jurisdictions should not have any authority to do anything in the city of Oakland. Someone on the state level would have to authorize it, I would think. I don't know why all these police from other jurisdictions aren't being sued or at least protested.
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Perhaps the Mayor didn't want city police involved...thereby limiting bad PR?

ZW

Aerianne · Nov 3, 2011

Provocateurs Circulate Anti-nonviolence Flyers At Occupy Oakland Protests

As general strike looms, shady group promises to “go beyond” peaceful protest
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
November 1, 2011
A crudely worded flyer handed out among Occupy Oakland Protesters has raised concerns that provocateurs are attempting to instigate violence in an attempt to de-rail plans for a general strike this week.
The flyer, pictured below, presents a rambling argument suggesting that anyone who engages in or supports nonviolent protest is “unwittingly complicit with the constelation of power that wages a daily war against freedom and peace”.
The flyer, signed off by an anonymous group calling itself ‘The Oakland Liberation Front’, suggests that engaging in non violent protest classifies as acting as “an auxiliary of the police force”.
“How dare you even ask for non-violence”, the flyer states, referring to the fact that police have already used violence against protesters. Last week’s confrontation culminated in Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen being seriously injured as “non-lethal” explosives, tear gas and rubber bullets were employed in an attempt to disperse protesters.
Promising to “go beyond” the pursuit of economic justice, the creators of the flyer vow to “seek a total transformation of society.”
“We seek the complete annihilation of capitalism”, the note reads, adding that this process will begin on Wednesday.
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Wednesday is the day that demonstrators plan to engage in a general strike and to converge on Oakland’s port, one of the biggest commercial landmarks in the city.
By a vote of 1,484 to 46, the General Assembly of Occupy Oakland voted last week to call a citywide general strike for Wednesday.

“[W]e invite all students to walk out of school. Instead of workers going to work and students going to school, the people will converge on downtown Oakland to shut down the city,” the Occupy Oakland’s manifesto read. “We liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%.”
Commentators have suggested that the stage is being set in Oakland for a violent confrontation with police, which will be used as justification to crack down on Occupy protests all over the U.S.
As Madison Ruppert of Activist Post has noted, a strong crackdown on Occupations across America has begun in full force over the past few days.
“It is worth noting that the crackdown in Oakland directly violates a 2004 agreement made by the Oakland Police Department to refrain from using the exact types of tactics they utilized…” Ruppert adds.
There have also been reports out of Oakland of activists being deliberately targeted by police when trying to assist other injured protesters.
Video has also emerged of police in Oakland actively infiltrating the protests, raising yet more questions over their role in the violence witnessed so far in the city.
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As the video highlights, Oakland’s acting Police Chief, Howard Jordan, previously muted the possibility of police provocateuring, stating:
”You don’t need to have some special skill to be able to infiltrate these groups. If you put people in there from the beginning, I think we’ll be able to gather the information. And maybe direct them to do something that we want them to do.”
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Aerianne · Nov 3, 2011

Black Bloc Anarchist Provocateurs Turn ‘Occupy Oakland’ Violent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWm2ZJbATHc"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWm2ZJbATHc

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