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I'm currently reading that the call for the port shutdowns on the 12th are not being promoted as a strike action.
They're calling for the ports to be blockaded, not for the ILWU to declare a strike.
Put capitalism in a bag of rice.
I'm hearing that the home OO occupied was successfully defended from riot cops last night, and that Oscar Grant plaza has been reoccupied.
Put capitalism in a bag of rice.
I doubt that it will work.
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
"Face the world like a roaring blaze, before all the tears begin to turn silent. Burn down everything that stands in our way. Bang the drum."
Because the authorities know it will happen and have sufficient resources to prevent blockades?
Perhaps not when you're dealing with a considerably large crowd such as the one in Oakland on November 2nd, but I very much doubt that they'll be able to muster those kind of numbers at ports all along the western seaboard.
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
Like I said earlier, my Oakland-based friend and I discussed the reality of the port shutdown, and we agreed no ports outside of places capable of mobilizing large groups (SF, LA, Portland, Oakland) will probably be shutdown.
Put capitalism in a bag of rice.
Aka the most important ones financially...
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
Are the ports in the seattle area still used for trade or have they been shut down? Besides the one where the wildcat strike took action.
FKA Vacant
"snook up behind him and took his koran, he said sumthin about burnin the koran. i was like DUDE YOU HAVE NO KORAN and ran off." - Jacob Isom, Amarillo Resident.
"secret satellite" camping being raided NOW!
http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland
Today:
A great photo essay about radical actions in the bay area
http://www.bayofrage.com/from-the-bay/2011-in-photos/
FYI: A RL admin who isn't me is pictured in one of these.
From a July 4th Homes not Jails building occupation.
Seattle did one of those photo montages too http://greycoast.wordpress.com/2012/...le-social-war/
"whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"
http://youtu.be/g-PwIDYbDqI
Apparently, OPD is doing lots of snatch and grab arrests, pulling people into cars, etc.
Scary shit...
Something BIG is planned in Oakland for 1/28/2012. Nobody that I have talked to knows anything about it but if the buzz is any indicator, it should be good.
Heard about the police abolition march in Oakland last night. It ended with 6 arrests- apparently one of the people arrested had a quarter stick of dynamite (lol fireworks most likely).
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8070R620120108
And I think this
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19700501
"whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"
http://youtu.be/g-PwIDYbDqI
does anyone know more about this?
"Face the world like a roaring blaze, before all the tears begin to turn silent. Burn down everything that stands in our way. Bang the drum."
I wasn't there, but reading the article, it seems pretty routine Oakland protesting to me. what would you like to know?
it wouldn't put it past OPD to plant that "explosive" on the person.
are the numbers in the article accurate
"Face the world like a roaring blaze, before all the tears begin to turn silent. Burn down everything that stands in our way. Bang the drum."
People are being arrested in large numbers in oakland. OPD's current strategy is to target key activists and put large numbers of protesters in jail for long periods of time. It seems like people are having trouble even determining who was arrested and where they are, etc.
this is the event notice for event in question.
The City of Oakland is a war zone. The politicians, chamber of commerce, large scale property owners and Oakland Police Department daily work together to make our lives a living hell. Between the inflated rents, unemployment and consistent indiscriminate police violence there is not a day where the social forces that surround us do not attack the very foundations of our lives. Recently over the past weeks those who have actively participated in Occupy Oakland have been the targets of the OPD. At the vigil in Oscar Grant Plaza as well as in new occupations across the city, the OPD has coordinated a brutal campaign of repression and intimidation using counterinsurgency tactics such as targeted hit and run snatch squads. This is clearly an attempt to undermine the resurgence of the Oakland Commune in the new year. Dozens have been arrested these past weeks and many of them are still sitting in Santa Rita facing daily harassment and brutality at the hands of the Alameda Sheriffs.
This is a direct assault on comrades trying to change this hell we live in. This is a direct attack on people self organizing to take our city back into our own hands. This is coordinated police activity to destroy the Oakland Commune.
This is war.
This Saturday January 7th a 8pm meet at Oscar Grant Plaza at 14th and Broadway. We will march on the police and show them that we are capable of defending the commune and that we will not rest until all our comrades are once again running with us in the streets.
FREE ALL OCCUPY OAKLAND POLITICAL PRISONERS!
LONG LIVE THE OAKLAND COMMUNE!
FUCK THE OPD.
