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Reports of police gathering at the Oakland Colosseum. Occupy Oakland people are gathering at 14th and Broadway. I'm at work and will try and update any news I hear.
Livestream below:
http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland
Thanks for all the updates Jimmiekeep us informed when u can.
"[People] act like its some kind of rock solid homogeneous body of masculine oiled men with big hammers and flat caps standing outside factory gates chewing tobacco and muttering 'those damn petit-bourgeois students and their alienating camera-smashing, I sure love me some CCTV! Don't you, comrade stakhnov?'." - Ravachol
https://twitter.com/#!/BootsRiley
He's providing regular updates.
Most recent:
"Labor has a picket line. Helicopters above. Chants. Some folks praying. Hopefully, they're praying to Paul Robeson."
"Every1 still in intersection. OPD here surrounding camp which has ppl in it."
"Getting a job, finding a mate, having a place to live, finding a creative outlet. Life is a war of attrition. You have to stay active on all fronts. It's one thing after another. I've tried to control a chaotic universe. And it's a losing battle. But I can't let go. I've tried, but I can't." - Harvey Pekar
Guess rumors of national guard were false.
Yeah, I'm not really sure what game the police are playing now besides trying to re-hab some of their PR.
There were fences surrounding the plaza the morning after and police blocking even the streets around the plaza. It appeared to be the same thing shortly before the re-convergence rally, but I read in the news that the Police said they would let people back into the plaza at 4pm to 10pm and also remove campers from a 2nd nearby camp. We had a rally at 4 several blocks away and the police and fences were still up. There were about 50 people at 4pm and then more than 500, I'd guess 700, were there by a little after 5pm when we started to march. At the rally people spoke about re-taking the plaza and if we couldn't we'd try and occupy city hall and there was generally a very militant mood and also optimism and solidarity with people arguing to defend UC Berkeley's encampment etc.
Well when the march reached the plaza, the fenses were gone and the police had pulled back. More than 1000 people were at the GA that night though I don't think there were any major attempts to re-camp - most of the campers had actually moved to the 2nd location earlier that day and the city said they would be safe there for one week... again, the police have been effective at catching me a little off-balance with their response, I don't know what they are playing at in the near-term with all this. The plaza was washed down and is incredibly muddy (unlike the 1st time they raided, so I'm sure their intent was just to make the plaza useless for camping).
There is a big march planned for this weekend and spirits are high, but I think everyone's a little confused by the city's response and so we shall see how things develop after tomorrow's GA.
Doesn't the faux "occupation" of a designated protest area (remember when they were called "free speech zones"?) represent a violation of the GA's agreement to not negotiate with the city?
Put capitalism in a bag of rice.
Shout About it!
We need strong opinions and people who aren't afraid to shout them.
http://www.youshouts.com/viewforum.php?f=3
Come check out the shouts in our OWS forum already, and send out a shout of your own. See if you can do better!
Shout it loud, Shout it now!
Well on a practical side, they've been watering the lawn twice a day in a week where it's been raining off and on, so it's just impossible to camp there permanently and the GA isn't getting permitted rallies for their GAs, but yes, the city wants to make it look like, on the one hand they "cleaned up" the more homeless part and then the other parts that they can't physically remove or move at this point, the protest-movement side (GA) they are saying is "OK" with them anyway. So they are just desperately trying to manage this situation do it doesn't look like they are impotenet to stop us.
I'm going to a labor march right, now but when I got to work tonight I'll add some more on votes to move to a second park (and reaction from yuppie NIBY's nearby to the new site) and a vote to shut down the port again.
Get back up Oakland- Portland is reoccupying NOW
"whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"
http://youtu.be/g-PwIDYbDqI
Friend on the ground telling me there is a mass march in Oakland, says there are 2,000+ people, march began at Oscar Grant plaza, and is currently at the new occupation site.
Police choppers circling overhead.
Liberals and yuppie types snatching masks off of demonstrators.
No violence or serious police agression or anything.
Put capitalism in a bag of rice.
The new occupation site is at 19th and Telegraph. I guess there was a fence surrounding the place to keep them out but they tore the fences down and are now occupying the place anyways.
We claim to live and die equal, the way we were born: we want this real equality or death; that’s what we need.
And we’ll have this real equality, at whatever price. Unhappy will be those who stand between it and us! Unhappy will be those who resist a wish so firmly expressed.
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.
-Gracchus Babeuf
Yup, a very large march today and people pretty easily occupied the new park.
So the controversy with this location (aside from the reasons I don't particularly favor a new site - it's giving up the more symbolic spot in front of city hall and is literally "giving up ground") is that it is surrounded by redevelopment codos and so "concerned citizens" and neighbors of the park gathered 200 signatures, caught the eye of the media who are always happy to report conflict (especially ones that favor the local establishment), and then came to the GA on Friday with an emergency resolution to overturn the vote on Wednesday to occupy that new park. Their proposal said to not camp at that park and to form a committee to research new locations and talk to the new neighbors.
On the bright side, they came to the GA to present their case, the bad side was that they were obnoxious and hostile about it. They complained until their resolution could make it onto the agenda and then voted down other emergency proposals because they didn't understand that these other proposals would come AFTER their proposal and they thought it was some attempt to bump their proposal off the agenda. Then their comments were almost parodies of moralistic NIMBY yuppiesms. "Think of the Childrend" they pleaded! We don't want to get "caught in the crossfire between protesters and police" as if protesters had fire to cross. "Won't anyone please think of the children!".
If they had instead drafted a proposal that said, this is a residential spot and not good for a camp, Oscar Grant park has been fought for by the movement, protesters should re-camp there. It probably would have won because of a strong attachment to the original location and the NIMBYs stacking the votes. I was raining and so the GA attendance was low of regulars but the neighbors of the new location brought out probably 100 people.
But the good news is that even though the NIMBYs who thought that an emergency resolution to shut down the port again was an attempt to remove their proposal, other resolutions were withdrawn and we were still able to vote on shutting down the ports as part of a west-coast shut down of all ports. The vote won unanimously.
What's this? Has this been posted?
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2011/11/412498.shtml
"whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"
http://youtu.be/g-PwIDYbDqI
Yeah, my friend texted me about it, but he's not sure if its gonna pan out completely like that.
He's pretty disappointed though cause he has a trip planned out here for that week and he's gonna miss the action.
Put capitalism in a bag of rice.
Breaking
Just got a text, the new occupation site was raided this morning, reports of people returning to Oscar Grant plaza.
Put capitalism in a bag of rice.
Also another camp, don't know what kind has been established.
http://www.occupywallst.org/article/...-port-shutdow/
Occupy Oakland Calls for TOTAL WEST COAST PORT SHUTDOWN ON 12/12
Posted 1 day ago on Nov. 19, 2011, 8:35 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Proposal for a Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown, Passed With Unanimous Consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly 11/18/2012:In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation:-In Oakland: the West Coast Port Shutdown Coordinating Committee will meet on General Assembly days at 5pm before the GA to organize the local shutdown, and to network with other occupations.
Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption of the economic apparatus of the 1% with a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12th. The 1% has disrupted the lives of longshoremen and port truckers and the workers who create their wealth, just as coordinated nationwide police attacks have turned our cities into battlegrounds in an effort to disrupt our Occupy movement.
We call on each West Coast occupation to organize a mass mobilization to shut down its local port. Our eyes are on the continued union-busting and attacks on organized labor, in particular the rupture of Longshoremen jurisdiction in Longview Washington by the EGT. Already, Occupy Los Angeles has passed a resolution to carry out a port action on the Port Of Los Angeles on December 12th, to shut down SSA terminals, which are owned by Goldman Sachs.
Occupy Oakland expands this call to the entire West Coast, and calls for continuing solidarity with the Longshoremen in Longview Washington in their ongoing struggle against the EGT. The EGT is an international grain exporter led by Bunge LTD, a company constituted of 1% bankers whose practices have ruined the lives of the working class all over the world, from Argentina to the West Coast of the US. During the November 2nd General Strike, tens of thousands shutdown the Port Of Oakland as a warning shot to EGT to stop its attacks on Longview. Since the EGT has disregarded this message, and continues to attack the Longshoremen at Longview, we will now shut down ports along the entire West Coast.
Participating occupations are asked to ensure that during the port shutdowns the local arbitrator rules in favor of longshoremen not crossing community picket lines in order to avoid recriminations against them. Should there be any retaliation against any workers as a result of their honoring pickets or supporting our port actions, additional solidarity actions should be prepared. In the event of police repression of any of the mobilizations, shutdown actions may be extended to multiple days.
In Solidarity and Struggle,
Occupy Oakland
pretty ambitious of em.
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BAO61M24MU.DTL
The last existing occupation in Oakland has been evicted without incident, no arrests and no resistance, everybody picked up and left when the cops told them to.
Not seeing any talk about reoccupations yet on twitter.
Put capitalism in a bag of rice.
This is what occupyoakland put on twitter:
"a home that is being foreclosed has been occupied on 18th and linden in #oakland! This is a call for support-bring tents for people camping"
We claim to live and die equal, the way we were born: we want this real equality or death; that’s what we need.
And we’ll have this real equality, at whatever price. Unhappy will be those who stand between it and us! Unhappy will be those who resist a wish so firmly expressed.
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.
