THE OSCAR GRANT PLAZA GAZETTE Monday, October 17 2011 Day 8. “the commons is back” FROM A COMRADE To those who seek a message: There is no message here. How could there be? Messages are for political parties, and how could this be one when it is clear that political parties have failed? Messages are words, and how could we trust words to prevail against the batons that always appear in the end to enforce the present state of things? Messages are for those seek to learn an answer … Continued
THE OSCAR GRANT PLAZA GAZETTE Sunday, October 16 2011 Day 7! “the commons is back” The beauty of a world created in seven days by a collective is that some laborers can rest while others work. Let creation continue! FROM A COMRADE Dear Occupiers, They’re at it again in Washington, the Jobs Bill failed to pass, Obama has raised millions for his reelection, Democrats and Republicans continue to treat millions of unemployed and “discouraged” workers as pawns in their tired game. We should have compassion for them, they are … Continued
THE OSCAR GRANT PLAZA GAZETTE Saturday, October 15 2011 Day 6. “the commons is back” MORNING AT THE PLAZA So cities built by the people go up: fast and designed to meet needs (food, shelter, protection from harm, health care, education, and art), and represent who’s there. The making is so constant – the flow of skilled, inventive, creative work overlapping as folks move in and out of and among the space and spaces of the Occupy Oakland Oscar Grant Plaza Camp. It’s glorious and we should not … Continued
THE OSCAR GRANT PLAZA GAZETTE Friday, October 14 2011 Day 5. “the commons is back” FROM A COMRADE Today, many of those of us who came of age in the past decade are waking ourselves or being awoken from the mire of irony, depression, pity, ignorance, and self-abnegation that characterized being young in America since 9/11. I became an adult in that decade dedicated to war, impoverishment, loneliness, arrogance, mincing cynicism, finicky mockery, class antagonisms sublimated into insipid “culture wars,” the fragmentation of common intellect, the decline of … Continued
OSCARGRANTPLAZAGAZETTE_Day7 The Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette aims to be a voice & record of the historic Occupy Oakland movement, part of a national & international movement of resistance. Please consider writing your thoughts, reflections, opinions, and what you’ve seen — you are part of this movement & we want to get your words out there ! Please send submissions to oscargrantplazagazette@gmail.com or drop a hard copy by the information tent at Oscar Grant Plaza. We will endeavor to publish all materials received. For the purposes of collective self-defense we will … Continued