Thorn Coyle, noted East Bay activist against police terror and a member of the Interfaith Tent at Occupy Oakland has written a novel.
The book is dedicated to the memory of Alan Blueford, with scenes set in the Oakland of the Occupy encampments at Oscar Grant Plaza, and later Movein Day, January 28th, 2012.
Like Water: a story of love and sudden violence. a story of a ghost and a city. a story for our times. Welcome to the streets of Oakland, CA. Meet Alex and Jonah. Best friends since childhood: one poet, one professor, one black, one white. One dead – killed by police with a Taser to the heart – and one bereft, trying to figure out how to go on living… and how to find justice. “One day he was laughing on a bright summer sidewalk. What seemed liked seconds later, he was gone.”
On Saturday, May 16th, 2015 Thorn had a well-attended book release gathering at the Allan Blueford Center for Justice. She read an excerpt from her novel, and Mollie Costello, who runs the Center, was able to video most of it.
Here is Thorn describing the sights and sounds of an anti-police rally at OGP, true to life as nothing could be if you didn’t know she had been there and you hadn’t had the experience for yourself. Well worth your 13 minutes!
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