Occupy Oakland is hosting a Forum on Police Actions on February 9, 6:15 pm at the Grand Lake Theater. The Citizens Police Review Board (CPRB) announced yesterday that they had indefinitely postponed a forum which had been in the works for months. This forum had been intended to allow the community to discuss the Oakland Police Department’s handling of Occupy Oakland. Police actions on January 28 show that this forum [...]
Hi everyone, We are having a Christmas event at the plaza on Christmas day, this Sunday. We are asking anyone and everyone to bring food and treats, family and friends. We need breakfast support from 9-noon and then support for the 2pm-7ish Christmas meal. Kitchen folks will be providing tables and serving equipment as well as some cooked foods but we need more support! We are requesting if you can [...]
Occupy Oakland responds to Oakland city council emergency resolution calling for greater repression On Monday, December 12, in response to police attacks on Occupy camps across the nation, the Occupy Movement effectively shut down sea ports up and down the West Coast, including in Oakland, Portland, Seattle, and Longview, with partial shutdowns or support actions at Long Beach, San Diego, Hueneme (Ventura County), and Vancouver, B.C.. The“Wall Street on [...]
Port truck drivers describe work conditions and share thoughts about the December 12 Port Shutdown. We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day. We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle and Tacoma to tell our collective story. We have accepted the honor [...]
Chip Johnson had another OO hatchet job in his column last week, blaming Occupy Oakland for the city’s budget woes and adding the attendant claim that OO hurts the people of the city. It’s been a familiar refrain as the port shutdown—an unprecedented strike against corruption and misplaced priorities—has geared up, and as Oakland has led the way in several regions including the gulf coast. The San Francisco Chronicle has [...]
Check out the amazing new Port Shutdown poster from R. Black!
Workers World interviews ILWU members Clarence Thomas and Leo Robinson: As pressure builds for the Dec. 12 West Coast port shutdown, the capitalist owners and their media began a battle of ideas to blunt this powerful threat to their profits and control — even for a day. Two International Longshore and Warehouse Union members — Clarence Thomas, who is a third-generation longshoreman in Oakland, and Leo Robinson, who is now [...]
Press release from the OEA: Today, I am speaking on behalf of the OEA Representative Council to reiterate our union’s support for the 90 plus % of Oaklanders, predominantly working people, who are seeing their standard of living decline due to the cutbacks in both the public and private sector economies of this city, state, and nation. Our union voted on Monday, December 5, to endorse next week’s “blockade” of [...]
Port truck drivers earn about $8 an hour in real wages while working under dangerous conditions. Tara Lohan reports on AlterNet: It’s the time of year when lights are strung, trees are decorated, and holiday cheer is spread. It’s also the time of year when people pepper-spray fellow shoppers and camp out in front of box stores, and retail clerks risk death by stampede. Savvy shoppers prowl the malls for [...]
The Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Bay Area Chapter announce they will assist in West Coast Port Shutdown. Read the IVAW press release: OAKLAND/SAN FRANSISCO (December 9, 2011)—On December 12th, the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Bay Area Chapter will march with the 99% as Occupy movements along the West Coast stage mass mobilizations to shutdown the hubs of commerce owned by the 1%. (Read more)
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