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"Everybody's Doing Their Job": Wells Fargo Foreclosure Victim Commits Suicide During Lawsuit

Occupy The Wall: How Pink Floyd's Album Became Political Theater in 2012

Hella Occupy the Utica Shale

CNA Can't Stop Occupy Media

What time do we get to Chicago?, or How I Learned to Miss the Bus

Louisiana is the World's Prison Capital

Husband’s Suicide Yesterday, Wells Fargo to Evict Wife Tomorrow Anyway

Taking to the Streets for Alan Blueford

Earth Day Performance

Occupy Farm on Earth Day: Occupy the Tract

Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe 1870

National Gathering FAQ

Students Occupy UC Berkeley Admissions Office

Oakland Police Department Charged With Genocide

Video: May Day March for Dignity & Resistance in Oakland (4:37)

Wells Bank Predators Bus Tour 7 Apr 2012 #OccupySF #Banksters #WFShareholders

Occupy the Auction Dance Party! 27 Apr 2012 #OccupySF #Banksters #OccupyBernal #ACCE

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Occupy The Wall: How Pink Floyd's Album Became Political Theater in 2012

text by Kevin Seal photographs by Jonathan Pirro – “If at first you don’t succeed, call an airstrike.” – projected text from Roger Waters: The Wall at AT&T Park, 5/11/12 Roger Waters, the stadium-rock showman and concept-album auteur who quit the band Pink Floyd nearly thirty years ago, has brought his epic, expensive production of that band’s 1979 album, The Wall, back for another round of performances. This time, however, [...]

 

Alan DeWayne Blueford Murdered by Oakland Police Department

Alan DeWayne Blueford, born December 20,was an 18 year old Senior at Skyline High School, preparing to graduate in June. He was the youngest son of Adam Blueford, Sr. and Jeralynn Brown Blueford. During the early morning hours of May 6, 2012 Alan was murdered by an officer (whose name has yet to be released) with Oakland Police Department. His family is now seeking justice for his death. Here is [...]

 

 
 
 

Students Occupy UC Berkeley Admissions Office

On Friday, May 11, thirty people, including black, Latina/o and other underrepresented minority students who were rejected admission to UC-Berkeley and UCLA, began occupying UC Berkeley’s undergraduate admissions office. They were committed to remaining until there is a concrete change in UC Berkeley’s admissions policy, which admits dramatically low numbers of Latina/o, black, and other underrepresented minority students, who comprise half of California’s high-school graduates but only 21.9% of this [...]

 

Introducing: Occupy Oakland Media Collective

In response to today’s decision by the Occupy Oakland General Assembly to disband the Occupy Oakland media committee and expel all current members, several members of the current Occupy Oakland media committee have decided to reconstitute ourselves as an autonomous collective which will produce media about Oakland and Occupy Wall Street, including Occupy Oakland. We reject any attempt to “seize our assets” as a pantomime of State repression, and will [...]

 

Occupy Oakland, Solidarity, War

Since the beginning of Occupy Oakland six months ago, there has been little reprieve from the constant battle over principles, tactics, and structure. Unfortunately, it seems that too often what could be an illuminating debate devolves into bickering and sniping as we lose sight of our most common, though most vague, goal: making another world possible. At an antiwar rally in Fremont, California, I witnessed a small but epiphanic moment [...]

 

ORGANIZE OAKLAND! Phase Two: From Occupying to Organizing

ORGANIZE OAKLAND From Occupy to Organize Phase Two There is no need to write this as an urgent call to action.  This transition has already begun…we are just naming what we are talking about in meetings, and actions, and booze fueled tirades with our fellow activists, occupiers, and freedom fighters. We have Occupied; we have been pre-occupied with Occupying. We have begun to forget how to spell the word Occupy because [...]

 

Thinking about the Chinese Revolution II: Buildup to Civil War

When we left off last time, Sun Yat-sen had just accepted military aid from the Soviet Union to form the Whampoa Military Academy, which had students not only from the Nationalist Party but also from the Communists.   The military academy had a goal, of creating a cohesive officer corps to lead the Republic of China armed forces.  The then-existing officer corps was composed of men from a variety of [...]

 

My May Day Experience

  I arrived at Oscar Grant Plaza with my dog, Mac, at around 12pm on May Day (May 1st) 2012. As I approached the plaza I was bombarded with the  familiar feelings I grew to love since November of last year. I saw many familiar faces and even more new ones. I thought for a moment how nice it would be if we could get together like this every week. [...]

 

Occupy Language: The [word] is mightier than the sword

Semantics are often dismissed with defensive snarkiness denouncing the “PC police” or accusing the offended of detracting from the “real issues” by quibbling over hurt feelings. We do have to be careful not to lose sight of the bigger picture, and we must stay focused on the goal(s), but we also need to pay attention to the edge on our swords. If we win the battles fought by our movement [...]