I just wanted to thank everybody who was part of the Port Action Committee; I didn’t really have time to attend those meetings as well as the GAs and the LBL meetings and all the other marches I’m doing, but I trusted in your collective wisdom and I wasn’t let down. Here in Oakland it was a huge success, and I think that we also owe a lot of thanks to all the Occupy folk who came out from all over Northern California and from cities across the nation. Everybody … Continued
Hi everybody, I’m Dave, I’m the guy who got up and gave the announcement for the LBL tonight about the movie night at the Grand Lake theater on 12/13. I don’t know the exact time yet, but it’s going to be on 12/13, the night after the Port shut-down, at the Grand Lake Theater and it looks like we’re going to be showing “V For Vendetta.” I’m not the one putting this together, but I’ll try and pass on details as they are known to me. I think it’s safe … Continued
“If you waste your time a-talkin’ to the people who don’t listen, To the things that you are sayin’, who do you think’s gonna hear? And if you should die explainin’ how the things that they complain about, Are things they could be changin’, who do you think’s gonna care?” — Kris Kristofferson Gotta love Kris Kristofferson, he’s like basically my hero. If there’s one thing I love more than any damn thing in the world, it’s our U.S. Veterans like Kris Kristofferson (he flew helicopters in Germany in … Continued
I’ve got to thinking lately…. Occupy Wall St. definitely started as an urban movement, I mean right there in NYC in the shadow of Wall St. itself. And then we started to spring up all over the place; here the SF group came first but then we started up in Oakland soon after, and eventually in San Jose and in Santa Rosa and in Berkeley, and then the really incredible group at UC Berkeley that stood like we did in the face of a riot squad attack. But at this … Continued
OK, those of you who were at the GA tonight or on Sunday are already aware of the language of this proposal. What I would like to have, is a copy of the original proposal that passed the Occupy San Francisco General Assembly. Because I have heard this rumor that the people who brought it to our General Assembly in Oakland had already modified the statement to remove language about non-violence, in hopes that it would actually pass our General Assembly. And after what I saw tonight, I have little … Continued
Why can’t we support local businesses? A bunch of people got up tonight and said this stuff about “Capitalism Sr.” and how we shouldn’t support “Capitalism Jr.” Hello — Maria was right on stage, she is with the Rising Loafer and she supported Occupy Oakland all along. People said, “Oh if we support the local business, someday they’ll just be the big business.” As if that’s likely to happen. The Rising Loafer is going to replace Wal-Mart at about the same time that you well-meaning people on the Western side … Continued
Everybody must wake up immediately to this bill that is in the Senate right now. The oligarchs have been building up a system for resistance against our movement; they have anticipated and feared our eventual emergence just as we have hoped and dreamed of it. Now they are putting one of the last bricks in the wall firmly in place; research Senate Bill 1867, it is due to be voted on this week, that is why is say it is an EMERGENCY, in combination with recent threats against websites that … Continued
Thought I’d put this up here for discussion in case nobody else has yet, pretty good article. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy?newsfeed=true good article, but I think if you polled different Occupy groups you would find some variance on the priority of goals. Citizens United/corporate personhood is a big thing that a lot of people do talk about, and also Glass-Steagall, but I haven’t heard so much about his #3 out here in Oakland. In Oakland I would say we are more concerned about police brutality itself. Because we have seen a lot of … Continued
If you are following the news on Democracynow or other non-corporate news sources, you are hearing like I am all these reports of brutal military attacks on the protestors in Tahrir Square of Cairo. We have exchanged many messages of solidarity with them because they seek the same things we seek, fundamentally: democracy, a voice for themselves and their children in the future, a peaceful resolution to decades of manufactured conflict, the chance for somebody to work hard and improve his/her life. There is a march planned for tomorrow at … Continued
I just want to remember… our struggle is not new… proper respect to the Veterans of U.S. Wars, and the Veterans of the movement who lead the way in D.C. in 1932 and on Alcatraz in 1969 and so many other “Occupy” movements than history has managed to bury. Let’s not let them bury us. Hopefully my link works, but in case not…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Evictbonusarmy.jpg 6657