The night before, I had looked at the thing, held by a magnet on the refrigerator in my tiny studio apartment which I call “The Writer’s Cave” on the Oakland/Berkeley border. It was the ten by six inch flyer calling for a general strike in downtown Oakland in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, which had already spread to over sixty cities across the U.S. and had grown into [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From Emily Loftis’ article on Salon: As Occupy Wall Street groups stretching from San Diego to Anchorage mobilize for a multi-port shutdown of the North American West Coast, union members are finding the mobilization offers more than just support against union busting and unfair contracts. Activists and rank-and-file workers say the movement is teaching them what the bureaucratic infrastructure of organized labor has made them forget: collective power. (Read more)
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