Please Donate to help us pay for the trip! We want to thank the people who donated money toward our trip back home. But just as important, we want to thank all the people who worked hard to get the word out to everyone about our plight. The Comms team is just one of those groups that works hard to help us all, sometimes cleaning up messes other people made. [...]
Please Donate to help us pay for the trip! I actually got some sleep on the bus last night. Maybe three hours or so. It looks like we'll be getting to Chicago tonight, fingers crossed, so we're gathering all the updates we'll need when we get there. I hope the team will get a good night's sleep tonight lying fully horizontal, but I figure we better be prepared for anything. [...]
Did the California Nurses Association try to block Bay Area Occupiers from going to Chicago? That’s what we’re being told. It seems someone at the top of the organization cancelled our bus, just because they seemed to believe that Oakland is all about violence. If you’re a nurse, you’ve probably noticed that the main stream press often distorts the true picture of what it means to be a nurse. Don’t [...]
Today, Occupy Fights Foreclosures (OFF), an official sub-committee of Occupy Los Angeles, responded to an emergency call about an illegal eviction at a fraudulent foreclosed home. The family has a disabled daughter and had no where else to go. On Friday, members of OFF helped this family get back $4,500.00 that Golden Globe investment had taken from the family saying they would help but they never helped and tried to [...]
The sudden volte-face of famed Liberal destroyer Chris Hedges in his recent demonization of the Black Bloc, sinisterly entitled ‘The Cancer of Occupy’, is a wonderful introduction for North American activists to the field of Postcolonial Theory. Edward Said’s seminal text ‘Orientalism’ examines how Western study of ‘The Orient’ contributes to the functioning of colonial power. Representations of ‘The Orient” in Western texts purporting to offer knowledge and insight into [...]
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 [...]
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