Notable protests of 2011

[Leftsolidarity]

I'm writing an article for my school newspaper on notable protests/movements of 2011 (in the USA).

What should I put in?

[Prometeo liberado]

I would suggest that you ask your comrades in the Socialist Party but I never see them at a protest. hmm..

[ellipsis]

OpBart and related anti-police brutality actions in San Francisco.

Madison capital occupation.

Oakland General Strike.

[Leftsolidarity]

I would suggest that you ask your comrades in the Socialist Party but I never see them at a protest. hmm..

Fuck you.

[Qayin]

Wisconsin and the nation wide public employee protests in the beginning of the year

OpBart/Bay of Rage

The Occupy Movement

Anonymous/Lulzsec/Antisec and the rise of hacktivism.



I would suggest that you ask your comrades in the Socialist Party but I never see them at a protest. hmm..
I have.

[ellipsis]

this blog post of mine kinda sums up the protests leading up to opbart as well as the first opbart protest.

http://therevolutionscript.blogspot.com/2011/08/report-back-opbart-shuts-down-four-san.html

[The Douche]

I would suggest that you ask your comrades in the Socialist Party but I never see them at a protest. hmm..

This shit is not cool, and not an appropriate contribution to the thread. Please don't make useless one liners like this again.

[Qayin]

Notable Occupy protests

Oakland General Strike
West Coast Port Shutdown
Occupy Homes
University General Strikes(CAL/UCLA/ect)

[Leftsolidarity]

So right now I'm putting in mostly general things which include:

BART protests
Occupy movement
Oakland’s general strike
Anonymous/ Lulzec – other internet hacktivism
Madison Capital Occupation

Is there anything that was big at the beginning of 2011?

Also, I'm putting in a "looking forward to 2012" part where I'm going to talk about the G8/NATO summit and the future of OWS. Anything coming up in 2012 I should add?

[Leftsolidarity]

Well I just wrote up my rough draft and this is what I have. Any critics are welcome.





Re-Cap of Dissent for 2011

The past year has been one of a rising tide of dissent and protesting. At the end of a year filled with so much action and turmoil it is good to look back and review the major protests and movements that we have lived through.

Starting with the one that most affects us here in Wisconsin; we have the occupation of the Capitol building and the movement to recall Scott Walker. Starting in February, in response to proposed cuts to collective bargaining rights for public employees, protesters gathered at the Capitol building in Madison. The protests received nation-wide attention and the numbers of those occupying the Capitol and protesting on the streets swelled to over 100,000. While the occupation has ended the movement to recall Governor Scott Walker has not. Organizers claim to already be close to having enough signatures to have a recall election.

A new kind of activism, referred to as hacktivism, has been on the rise as well. Hacktivism has been the tool of internet activist groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec. These groups have used their hacking and internet skills to take down websites, release sensitive information, bring to light corruption, protect internet freedom, and organize protests.

There were large protests in California in response to brutality by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police. The BART police have a history of police brutality, in particular against people of color, involving the 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant while he was handcuffed on the ground. On July 3rd, BART police shot and killed Charles Hill on a station platform, sparking massive public outrage. Shortly after this incident, San Francisco police shot and killed teenager Kenneth Harding after he failed to pay his bus fare. These displays of police brutality lead to a series of protests which crippled the transit system in the area and brought to national attention the actions of the police departments.

Probably the largest and most influential movement that we have seen in 2011 has been the Occupy movement. The movement started on September 17th with the start of the occupation of Zuccotti Park as a move to occupy Wall Street. The Occupy movement quickly spread to other major cities and can now be seen across the entire world in over a 1,000 different cities. The causes behind the occupations are anger at wealth inequality and corporate sway in the political system. The movement is still going strong across the nation even after a number of cities have forcefully and brutally evicted protesters from their occupation camps. The future for the Occupy movement is still up in the air, with no one knowing exactly how it will proceed in its hope to fix what it sees as flaws in the current American system.

As 2011 comes to a close, the protests and movements do not. Many, such as the Occupy movement and the effort to recall Scott Walker, are still pushing ahead while new protests are in sight. Coming up in May of 2012 there are going to be large protests against the G8/NATO summit in Chicago. From May 19-21, the leaders of the economic superpowers of the world will be holding conferences in Chicago. Large organizational efforts to mobilize protests against these meetings have already been in full affect and the protests are expected to be very large, as most of these G8 summits have many thousands gathering to protest.

[ellipsis]

This is for high school? I only ask so i can gauge the audience.

[ellipsis]

my notes



Re-Cap of Dissent for 2011


The past year has been one of a rising tide of dissent and protesting. At the end of a year filled with so much action and turmoil it is good to look back and review the major protests and movements that we have lived through.

this is a fragment->Starting with the one that most affects us (don't use I or we or us) here in Wisconsin; we had the occupation of the Capitol building and the movement to recall Scott Walker. Starting in February, in response to proposed cuts to collective bargaining rights for public employees, protesters gathered at the Capitol building in Madison. The protests received nation-wide attention and the numbers of those occupying the Capitol and protesting on the streets swelled to over 100,000. While the occupation has ended, the movement to recall Governor Scott Walker has not. Organizers claim to already be close to having enough signatures to have a recall election.

A new kind of activism, referred to as hacktivism, has been on the rise as well. Hacktivism has been the tool of internet activist groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec. These groups have used their hacking and internet skills to take down websites, release sensitive information, bring to light corruption, protect internet freedom, and organize protests.

There were large protests in California in response to brutality by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police. The BART police have a history of police brutality, in particular against people of color, involving the 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant while he was handcuffed on the ground. On July 3rd, BART police shot and killed Charles Hill on a station platform, sparking massive public outrage. Shortly after this incident, San Francisco police shot and killed teenager Kenneth Harding after he failed to pay his bus fare. These displays of police brutality lead to a series of protests which crippled the transit system in the area and brought to national attention the actions of the police departments.

Probably the largest and most influential movement that we have seen in 2011 has been the Occupy movement. The movement started on September 17th with the start of the occupation of Zuccotti Park as a move to occupy Wall Street. The Occupy movement quickly spread to other major cities and can now be seen across the entire world in over a 1,000 different cities. The causes behind the occupations are anger at wealth inequality and corporate sway in the political system. The movement is still going strong across the nation even after a number of cities have forcefully and brutally evicted protesters from their occupation camps. The future for the Occupy movement is still up in the air, with no one knowing exactly how it will proceed in its hope to fix what it sees as flaws in the current American system.

As 2011 comes to a close, the protests and movements do not. Many, such as the Occupy movement and the effort to recall Scott Walker, are still pushing ahead while new protests are in sight. Coming up in May of 2012 there are going to be large protests against the G8/NATO summit in Chicago. From May 19-21, the leaders of the economic superpowers of the world will be holding conferences in Chicago. Large organizational efforts to mobilize protests against these meetings have already been in full affect and the protests are expected to be very large, as most of these G8 summits have many thousands gathering to protest.

[Qayin]

2012 -> NATO/G8 and the DNC/RNC

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Also, I'm putting in a "looking forward to 2012" part where I'm going to talk about the G8/NATO summit and the future of OWS. Anything coming up in 2012 I should add?
May Day 2012
For a while, there was talks in several cities about a May Day general strike... Some cities/groups/#Occupy's had been setting up committee's and meetings to discuss the idea.

[Qayin]

That is true comrade I have heard talks of May Day being kick ass in 2012.

They will probably be a lot of public forum/candidate disruption for the elections as well, we see some of it already