Website: http://mayday2012.blogspot.com/ What: Bay Area Regional March for Dignity and Resistance When: Tuesday May 1st (May Day), 3:00pm Where: Fruitvale Plaza to San Antonio Park to Downtown Oakland REGIONAL MARCH FOR DIGNITY AND RESISTANCE On May 1, 2012, communities from across the Bay Area will unite in Oakland and join together in a regional march for Dignity and Resistance. We will meet at Fruitvale Plaza/BART at 3pm and march to [...]
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 [...]
Last week I discussed the meaning of the term comrade, and this week’s blog post was supposed to be, and is, about the limits to power. When I was writing the outline for the post, I realized that the only way to talk about limits to power was to use a case study, since talking about these things in the abstract is not as meaningful as pointing to real life [...]
A broad coalition of labor unions, activist organizations such as Causa Justa/ Just Cause and Move On.org, and the Occupy movement took to the streets of San Francisco at 11 a.m. today (4/24/12) to protest at the annual Wells Fargo Bank shareholders meeting. Speakers addressed a diverse and vocal crowd filling the street outside Wells Fargo headquarters for more than three hours. On the sidewalk in front of the historic [...]
4PM – RALLY at 14th and Broadway, Oakland Occupy4Prisoners and supporters will rally at Oscar Grant Plaza, where awareness and understanding regarding the brutality and corruption within the United States INjustice system will begin to rise up. We will be doing educational outreach about the prison system with music,speakers, a “Truth Mob” and amplifying the voices of people inside of prisons. 5PM – MARCH to Federal Building and Obama [...]
By L. Samsarah Morgan, DD Cht On April 21, 2012 a group gathered at Uhuru house in Oakland. We answered the call of the Decolonize pregnancy birth and parenting caucus of Occupy Oakland to attend the first Bay Area Birth Justice Fair. This event had two focuses – the first was to call attention to the heartbreak of infant and maternal death, in this country as well as the [...]
Repression: Keep under; quell. Suppress; prevent from sounding, rioting, or bursting out. 2) Psychology: Actively exclude (an unwelcome thought) from conscious awareness. Subject (a person) to the suppression of his or her thoughts or impulses. Paradox: A seemingly absurd or contradictory statement, even if actually well-founded. A self-contradictory or essentially absurd statement. -Oxford American Dictionary “Hatred is a concept widely underrated. We need to learn to hate the rich. To [...]
The night before, I had looked at the thing, held by a magnet on the refrigerator in my tiny studio apartment which I call “The Writer’s Cave” on the Oakland/Berkeley border. It was the ten by six inch flyer calling for a general strike in downtown Oakland in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, which had already spread to over sixty cities across the U.S. and had grown into [...]
22 April 2012 Albany, California Occupy the Farm, a coalition of local residents, farmers, students, researchers, and activists are planting over 15,000 seedlings at the Gill Tract, the last remaining 10 acres of Class I agricultural soil in the urbanized East Bay area. The Gill Tract is public land administered by the University of California, which plans to sell it to private developers. For decades the UC has thwarted [...]
Photos and reporting by Daniel Tiger This afternoon at 3 p.m., nearly 300 Albany residents entered a piece of property owned by the University of California called the Gill Tract, and took it over as a renegade urban farm. The protesters there are planning to remain at the property, and request donations of tents and other supplies to build their encampment. The plot of land, at the corner of Buchanan [...]
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