By jackiews On March 5, 2013 · In the matter of The People V. Wells Fargo the jury has found us, the 12 Occupy Philly protesters arrested in November 2011 for a sit-in against the banks’ predatory lending practices and mafia-like policies, NOT GUILTY. We would all ask for you to please share this story with your networks and local press. Free speech just triumphed over property rights, even as [...]
In the police version of events, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Sandy protestor Michael Premo charged the police like a linebacker, taking out a lieutenant and resisting arrest so forcefully that he fractured an officer’s bone. That’s the story prosecutors told in Premo’s trial, and it’s the general story his arresting officer testified to under oath as well. But Premo, facing felony charges of assaulting an officer, maintained his innocence. [...]
One year ago, we gathered at Oscar Grant Plaza to welcome the birth of a movement. We, the editors of this anthology, met through Occupy Oakland. In the beginning, we were strangers to each other, unsure of each others’ intentions, unsure of each others’ capabilities, and unsure of our own places in the worldwide movement that is Occupy. Like the editors ourselves, each of the contributors to the anthology comes [...]
The Occupy Oakland Media Collective (OOMedia) invites you to join members of Occupy Oakland at a press conference tomorrow morning Thursday October 25, 2012 at Oakland City Hall 10:00am. In remembering the 1-year anniversary of the violent early morning raid on the Occupy Oakland tent camp, community members will be speaking and you are invited to join us. OOMedia member Samsarah Morgan, who has been involved in various Occupy Oakland [...]
OCCUPY OAKLAND MEDIA COLLECTIVE STATEMENT ON THE OAKLAND COMMUNE Occupy Oakland began on October 10, 2011. Since then it has become clear that a rigid distinction needs to be made between Occupy Oakland and the self-described Oakland Commune. The Media Collective is making this statement to provide clarity by describing this dysfunctional relationship, including links to documents created by the Oakland Commune. While the general purpose of a press release [...]
Officers film their own crimes, the truth always comes out. On November 15, 2011 the NYPD entered Occupy Wall Street’s camp at Zuccotti park with the intent to violently disrupt a national movement for equality and peace. Police officers in riot gear arrested more than 100 protesters before destroying most of their belongings. The day was widely known as one of the worst days for journalist arrests with cops making [...]
Yesterday, following speeches from Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace, 100 protesters marched to the location of President Obama’s Official San Francisco Democratic Acceptance Speech Watch Party. In a room full of local Democratic officials, Obama activists and donors, they delivered a message demanding that the President free accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower and Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning. Several of those attending the party stopped to [...]
By William West As the family of Alan Blueford continues to struggle for justice after he was killed by police on May 6, new information is coming to light about Oakland, Calif., police officer Miguel Masso, who pulled the trigger that ended Blueford’s life. While pursuing Blueford, Masso passed a Cinco de Mayo party at a house where children were playing in the yard. It was in this yard that [...]
Occupy the Alibi La Lucha, Unida Mexican peace movement crosses the border By Andrew Beale Featured Image by: sarijuella / CC BY-SA 2.0 Javier Sicilia will not write a poem about his visit to Albuquerque. The poet will not write a poem about the caravan that brings him here: around 70 victims of violence in Mexico traveling from West to East Coast of the U.S. He will not write a [...]
Occupy Nukes demonstrations were held in towns and cities across the United States on Monday, marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Approximately 140,000 civilians were killed by the bomb, code-named Little Boy, while hundreds of thousands died later of cancer, and thousands more inherited birth defects. Nothing before or since has approached the instantaneous and horrific carnage reaped by Little Boy except, perhaps, [...]
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