what no thread about occupy oakland
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butchersapron
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Well, it's still early morning there - the plan was (iirc) to shut it down at 7pm tonight, for the evening shift, so if it's shut down 7 hours ahead of time, before the marches are even due to leave that's some going...claims of early shift wildcats, but we've all seen duff or hyped up info before...
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aye plan was /is to blockade the night shift....
Keys Largo has been shut down and:
jaysus.. im begining to get well optimistic there... there are also squatting actions going on...
Still no word as to whether the BART transport system will prevent folk coming from SF getting there.... BART has already raised the ire of #anon and activists over a recent murder there of a homeless guy...
There is a stream at street level below, its a bit jumpy like. They are planning a march shortly to shut down the banks, re-assembling at 4.00 to then close the dock (if i've heard correctly and that was representative of the mass).
http://www.livestream.com/occupyoakland
http://www.livestream.com/occupyoakland
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From KQED's Peter Shuler: City has advised banks to lock doors and only let in customers one by one... #OccupyOakland #GeneralStrike
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ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
poor confused piggies in the middle
http://www.opoa.org/uncategorized/a...rom-the-oakland-police-officers’-association/
http://www.opoa.org/uncategorized/a...rom-the-oakland-police-officers’-association/
dennisr
the acceptable face
Report from US - Strike Action Organized in Oakland to Defend Occupy Movement
http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/5381
"This general strike call was taken up by many union activists, and began to get a voice in the labor movement, starting with a Carpenter’s local and then spreading to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). However, the union leadership has not shown the same commitment to take decisive action. Given the weakness of US trade unions at the moment and the role of the pro-capitalist leadership of most of the unions, a simple call of the occupiers in most cases will not be enough to prepare the ground for serious industrial action. A concerted drive by union activists in Oakland would be necessary to shift unions with conservative leaderships into action and prepare the ground to re-develop the trade union movement in the US on the basis of militant and democratic principles.
But, the development of this general strike call in response to this brutal attack by the police on the occupy movement could be a turning point for the whole occupy movement. The police brutality, the huge sympathy for the occupy movement and the inspiration a lot of trade union activists get from it – all of this came together to trigger steps towards industrial action."
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"While many on the left believe union leaders must be prepared to defy such anti-union laws, most unions in the Oakland area endorsing this call are not actually organizing a general strike, a necessary step to actually mobilize a real, huge general strike. Instead they are encouraging their members, where possible, to use more limited legal methods such as leaving work and joining the protests.
• International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10
• Carpenters Local 713
• Oakland Education Association
• The Alameda Central Labor Council
• Campaign to End the New Jim Crow
• United Auto Workers 2865
• Berkeley Federation of Teachers"
http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/5381
"This general strike call was taken up by many union activists, and began to get a voice in the labor movement, starting with a Carpenter’s local and then spreading to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). However, the union leadership has not shown the same commitment to take decisive action. Given the weakness of US trade unions at the moment and the role of the pro-capitalist leadership of most of the unions, a simple call of the occupiers in most cases will not be enough to prepare the ground for serious industrial action. A concerted drive by union activists in Oakland would be necessary to shift unions with conservative leaderships into action and prepare the ground to re-develop the trade union movement in the US on the basis of militant and democratic principles.
But, the development of this general strike call in response to this brutal attack by the police on the occupy movement could be a turning point for the whole occupy movement. The police brutality, the huge sympathy for the occupy movement and the inspiration a lot of trade union activists get from it – all of this came together to trigger steps towards industrial action."
...
"While many on the left believe union leaders must be prepared to defy such anti-union laws, most unions in the Oakland area endorsing this call are not actually organizing a general strike, a necessary step to actually mobilize a real, huge general strike. Instead they are encouraging their members, where possible, to use more limited legal methods such as leaving work and joining the protests.
• International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10
• Carpenters Local 713
• Oakland Education Association
• The Alameda Central Labor Council
• Campaign to End the New Jim Crow
• United Auto Workers 2865
• Berkeley Federation of Teachers"
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http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
looks like the police just moved in with teargas again
looks like the police just moved in with teargas again
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Good encouraging start. Need to recall that the Oakland port being shut down is already a pretty regular thing - whether for anti-war protests or dock workers wildcatting over safety or other issues, truckers blockading over fuel prices and so on. There is a different context here today that may allow for different link ups to develop beyond compartmentalised workplace or 'political' issues - there's a central pole to really around and the police actions (again nothing new over the last 10 years in Oakland) are going to drive people towards it.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
they must still be a bit confused the poor lambs
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Early morning folks on livestream. Morning people are the best - so here's a steaming cup of joe.
Red Storm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15568057
BBC reporting, an hour ago, that Oakland Port has been shut down.
BBC reporting, an hour ago, that Oakland Port has been shut down.
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You forgot the gas mask.
Anymore on this report?
https://rt.com/news/occupy-oakland-live-updates-411/
Anymore on this report?
https://rt.com/news/occupy-oakland-live-updates-411/
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
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New York has to feel upstaged right about now.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
it's not about that is it ffs
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You're in a good mood.
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another Iraq vet btw.....
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The police are lucky he didn't die in custody by the sounds of it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/04/occupy-oakland-second-veteran-injured
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Seem to be a lot of #occupymarines, #occupynavy, #Occupyarmy #OccupyVeterans stuff about - hard to tell what's just people unconnected circulating stuff and what's actual serving/ex bods.
Treacle Toes
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If it were a competition, perhaps they might
...however seeing as though it's not, I doubt it....Have seen some amazing footage and direct actions that have taken place in both NYC and Chicago...Nobody is being upstaged. Everything counts!
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Thirteen Hours at the Oakland Strike
At about 9:15 p.m, one of the organizers announces that the Port of Oakland is officially closed. The cheers are deafening. Now all we have to do is walk back to the plaza to celebrate. I'm exhausted, and very tempted to jump on the first BART station I see and head back home, but I want to see everyone at the plaza. On the way back, there's not as much chanting, but there is lots of horn honking and cheering. At one intersection, I see an unmarked police car. A woman next to me shouts out, "I hope Oakland made you proud tonight, officer!"
The cop leans out his window and says, "You did."
And that's who we are. The self-styled "anarchists," the taggers and smashers, they're a minority. The Occupiers are not anarchists. We do not want to destroy our government, because we know how much time and sacrifice it took to create. We like our government, we really do.
That's why we want it back.
At about 9:15 p.m, one of the organizers announces that the Port of Oakland is officially closed. The cheers are deafening. Now all we have to do is walk back to the plaza to celebrate. I'm exhausted, and very tempted to jump on the first BART station I see and head back home, but I want to see everyone at the plaza. On the way back, there's not as much chanting, but there is lots of horn honking and cheering. At one intersection, I see an unmarked police car. A woman next to me shouts out, "I hope Oakland made you proud tonight, officer!"
The cop leans out his window and says, "You did."
And that's who we are. The self-styled "anarchists," the taggers and smashers, they're a minority. The Occupiers are not anarchists. We do not want to destroy our government, because we know how much time and sacrifice it took to create. We like our government, we really do.
That's why we want it back.
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They know do they.
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