Aurora Jimenez Cuellar lay panting in the cool darkness, amniotic fluid running down her thighs. Perspiration beaded her forehead, trickling down her face and dripping onto the desert floor. Her green eyes stared at the full moon as she thanked the Blessed Virgin. Her son would be an American. The Humane Borders volunteer heard it again as she finished restocking the water station. The sound of a baby crying. Mouth [...]
Democracy is dead. Corporate campaign contributions are simply legalized bribes, and the most powerful corporations of all are the banks. They foreclose and evict people with no protection from the government and hold the courts in their pockets. Ross Rhodes knows what it’s like, but fortunately for him, he found the super heroes who can bring the banks to their knees. Don’t give up hope! Instead, listen as he tells [...]
Sixty-seven year old Yin Wong has never missed a mortgage payment. In fact, she’s never even been late. But that hasn’t stopped PNC Bank from making 5 attempts to evict her from her San Francisco home. After three years of stress, her doctor has now forbidden her from working due to high blood pressure, but PNC still wants her out on the street. We felt differently, so Occupy Bernal and [...]
Ruby Brown, a North Minneapolis hairdresser and pillar of her church community, won a renegotiated mortgage from Bank of America this week — just days before her home was to be auctioned off in a sheriff’s sale. The settlement represents a fourth victory for Occupy Homes MN, the upstart activist group that has helped homeowners around the Twin Cities remain under their roofs. For the past 17 years, Brown’s home at [...]
People of Color and Women of Color: here are two new opportunities to discuss your experiences in the Occupy Movement. Amber Kelsie is in Oakland until July 31st to make an oral history of our voices in this social movement. If you are not able to contact her before she leaves, or if you live outside of Oakland and you’d like to contribute to the project, be sure to contact [...]
The University of California Board of Regents have found plenty of money for expensive construction projects and have hired so many administrators that they actually now outnumber teachers. But they’ve raised tuition and fees so high that, when factoring the aid available, the average student at U.C. Berkeley now actually pays more for education than the average student at Harvard. And even though they’ve agreed to not discuss fee increases [...]
Exactly one year ago, San Francisco police shot and killed Kenneth Harding, Jr. over a $2 MUNI fare. The city, SFMTA and the SFPD are stonewalling on the investigation and aren’t releasing videos they confiscated. The family of Kenneth need answers. They shot him the back but can’t look us in the eye? Kenneth Harding didn’t have to die. To mark the occasion, activists gathered at key intersections to temporarily [...]
There is citizen journalism and then there is photographic philanthropy, and they each serve a purpose. I have been covering Occupy events in my area by shooting photos and making them available on flickr, as well as tweeting them around. A few publications have asked me to post to their sites as a citizen journalist, but I haven’t taken that step yet. April 26, though, I shot an event that wasn’t about [...]
Three weeks after the Gill Tract Farm’s Earth Day opening, the University of California sent the police to shut it down. While U.C. claimed they were taking care of the plants, in reality, they let some of the produce go bad and allowed weeds to overrun the area. On 7 July 2012, we re-entered the Farm, weeded and harvested the food that was ready. With police looking on, we then [...]
Early Tuesday morning, what would have been the 18th day of the Sit-in and 12th day of the People’s School, the OUSD police, along with other police forces from across Oakland raided the encampment and school. While participants were allowed to remove their items, the police arrested a parent as well as a former student of Lakeview, and subsequently constructed a fence to block entrance to the school. Lakeview Elementary [...]
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