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#OccupyCal Fights Stay Away Orders

FREE SPEECH IS ON TRIAL at the home of the Free Speech Movement, the University of California at Berkeley. On November 9, 2011, the burgeoning Occupy movement spread to the university  campuses, when thousands of UC-Berkeley students rallied to fight fee hikes and the privatization of public education, and hundreds attempted to erect tents. UC Berkeley police, in concert with other local police agencies, brutalized protesters,and savagely beating people on [...]

 

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Inequalities: #Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant

an Op-Ed piece written by Dr. Samsarah Morgan Just had an interesting thought. I was wondering why it seems that there is this direct clear outpouring of support to Trayvon Martin. I compare this to the killing of Oscar Grant. when Oscar was murdered, the public had at least five different views of the killing via videotape – it was apparent to anyone with eyesight that one cop slaughtered a [...]

 

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Occupy San Francisco’s March Against Police Oppression

By Beth Seligman, J.D. A few hundred people gathered at 101 Market Street, the Federal Reserve Building and the former home base of the Occupy San Francisco encampment Friday evening February 10 for the March Against Police Repression. There was food, music, and camaraderie amongst new and old occupiers. At about 7 pm we began marching up Market Street chanting everything from “We are unstoppable, another world is possible” to [...]

 

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Occupy Los Angeles Open Letter to Mayor Jean Quan

“Occupy Los Angeles has always stood in unwavering solidarity with Occupy Oakland. After Occupy Oakland’s most recent victimization by the illegal and brutal tactics of OPD, Oakland City Council and Mayor Jean Quan, we feel it necessary to restate our unequivocal support for our comrades. We consider every horizontally structured, autonomous group fighting for social and economic justice, and intent on providing services for the community that the government has [...]

 

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STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH OAKLAND FROM OCCUPY TULSA

Official Occupy Tulsa (original OT) (Adapted from Portland Solidarity Statement) To the City of Oakland, Oakland Police, and Mayor Quan, On January 28th, 2012, Occupy Oakland took to the streets and attempted to turn an abandoned building into a social center to converge and organize and to continue to provide the community at large with the services they had been providing before their encampment was disbanded. In response, Oakland Police [...]