Councilmember Larry Reid claimed that ‘It’s almost like we’re being held hostage,’ a strange thing to say while protesters were still in jail.
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3 February 2012
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From the Outside, Trying to Look In: Occupy Oakland’s #J28
It was clear, at this point, that this is what they’d been trying to do all day, what they’d been planning to do earlier: arrest everybody and sort it out later. And it was only at this point that the “assault on City Hall” happened, maybe five blocks away. Once the 400 people who would be arrested that night had been informed that they were under arrest (which you could hear on the livestream as “Attention marchers: you have failed to disperse! You are now under arrest! Submit to the arrest” several minutes after the protesters had been chanting “Let us Disperse”), protesters who had escaped back to Oscar Grant Plaza “occupied” City Hall.
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1 February 2012
The fact that all of these ‘journalists’ repeat the same ridiculous crowd number, march times, etc isn’t just an indication of their tendency to downplay activist mobilization; its an index of their basic and fundamental worthlessness as news sources.
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4 November 2011
Cyclists were front and center… uh oh. (via Occupy Oakland’s Port Action, and After)
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30 October 2011
Oakland General Strike!: I’m tired of this line in the media about how our #Occupy movement...
I’m tired of this line in the media about how our #Occupy movement lacks demands. Our movement is not about demanding, it’s about creating. We’re not interested in demanding that people in power do this or that. We don’t believe in their authority in the first place. Rather, we are getting on with…
Occupiers see their unrepresentative government as damage, and are routing around it.
(Source: difference-is-happy)
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10:37
Hmmm. Is ‘disobedience’ a misdemeanor or a felony here in the land of the free? I forget.
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29 October 2011
This is something the Framers understood quite well: power corrupts but democratic accountability keeps that corruption in check. Good people only stay good if The People are able to make sure they do. So Jean Quan needs to go to make the next mayor aware that there’s a political cost to putting nonviolent protesters in the hospital, to putting police in a position where they can be as violent as they inevitably will be when challenged.
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28 October 2011
It’s terrible to go over to Iraq twice and come back injured, and then get injured by the police that are supposed to be protecting us.
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27 October 2011
14th and Broadway « zunguzungu
Moreover, they just happened to begin firing tear gas into the crowd, the third time, right after the two major media outlets that were covering it with live feeds turned off their cameras (as I can verify because I was watching those feeds from the safety of my living room while following the twitter feeds of people like @garonsen and @susie_c). And that coincidence was quite a coincidence. ABC and CBS later claimed their helicopters had to refuel, and they did show footage from later. But what a coincidence that they happened to both turn off their cameras just before the police attacked? That their helicopters ran out of gas at precisely the same time, that time?
