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Title: What really happened at Occupy Oakland on Saturday January 28
Source:
Kasama Project
URL Source: http://kasamaproject.org/2012/01/29 ... -oakland-a-first-hand-account/
Published: Jan 30, 2012
Author: baked42
Post Date: 2012-01-30 14:25:01 by lucysmom
Keywords: None
Views: 4188
Comments: 14
For the internet, here’s a first-hand account of Occupy Oakland on 1/28/2012, because the news never tells the full story. I’ll tell you about the street battle, the 300+ arrests, the vandalism, the flag burning, all in the context of my experience today. This is deeper than the headlines. No major news source can do that for you. The stated goal for the day was to “move-in” to a large, abandoned, building to turn it into a social and political center. It is a long vacant convention center – the only people ever near there are the homeless who use the space outside the building as a bed. The building occupation also draws attention to the large number of abandoned and unused buildings in Oakland. The day started with a rally and a march to the proposed building. The police knew which building was the target, surrounded it, and used highly mobile units to try and divert the protest. After avoiding police lines, the group made it to one side of the building. Now, this is a very large building, and we were on a road with construction fences on both sides, and a large ditch separating us from the cops. The police fired smoke grenades into the crowd as the group neared a small path around the ditch, towards the building. They declared an unlawful assembly, and this is when the crowd broke down the construction fence. A few people broke fences to escape the situation, others because they were pissed. A couple more fences were taken down then necessary, but no valuable equipment was destroyed. They only things broken were fences. snip All of this occurred during the day, but it was that street battle that set the tone for the police response later in the evening...Around 5pm, the group took to the street at 14th and Broadway and began a First-amendment sanctioned march around the city. The police response was very aggressive. snip About 15 minutes into the march, the police attempted to kettle the protesters. This march was entirely non-violent; nobody threw shit at the cops and an unlawful assembly was never declared. . This is a very important detail. The march was 1000+ strong, conservatively. The police were very mobile, using 25+ rented 10seater vans to bring the ‘troops’ to the march. For their first attempt at a kettle, the cops charged the group with police lines from the front and back. They ran towards us aggressively. Us being 1000+ peaceful marching protesters. The group was forced to move up a side street. The police moved quickly to surround the entire area; they formed a line on every street that the side street connected to. Police state status: very efficient. They kettled almost the entire protest in the park near the Fox theater. AFTERWARDS, as in after they surrounded everyone, they declared it to be an unlawful assembly BUT OFFERED NO EXIT ROUTE. Gas was used, could of been tear or smoke gas. The crowd then broke down a fence that was on one side of the kettle, and 1000 people ran across a field escaping a police kettle and embarrassing the entire police force. It was literally a massive jailbreak from a kettle. snip If you only remember one detail be it this: Tonight’s mass arrest occurred without a dispersal order. No law was broken. The only order given was: “You are under arrest. Submit to your arrest.” 300 peaceful protesters walking down a street were trapped and arrested unlawfully.
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#1. To: A K A Stone, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, mininggpld, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm (#0)
Edit: Forgot to add this context – The Oakland PD will soon be taken over by the Feds because of their poor conduct and inability to change: www.baycitizen.org/polici...ips-power-oakland-police/ ping
He who knows best knows how little he knows. Thomas Jefferson We probably will see widespread civil disorder in the 1980s, as a direct result of our faltering economic system. Ron Paul
You forgot to ping Badeye.
Oh gosh, how could I forget Badeye.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. Thomas Jefferson We probably will see widespread civil disorder in the 1980s, as a direct result of our faltering economic system. Ron Paul
The old phony ping trick for people you don't really want to hear from! Mayor Jean Quan must be a Newt fan.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
The old phony ping trick for people you don't really want to hear from! No, just the can't type worth a darn thing. Can't proof read either.
Post-Conflict Regime Type: Probability of Being a Democracy Five Years After the Conflict Has Ended; Violent Campaigns - 4%, Nonviolent Campaigns - 46%. Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D., Stanford University,
...and I promise to punch the next flea-bagger I come across. Commie scum.
Thank you for sharing.
Post-Conflict Regime Type: Probability of Being a Democracy Five Years After the Conflict Has Ended; Violent Campaigns - 4%, Nonviolent Campaigns - 46%. Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D., Stanford University,
Can't proof read either. He's saying he 'thinks' we are the same poster. Detecting differences between posters is at least two pay grades above him.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
notbadeye?
Well then, here I am posting to myself again. Detecting differences between posters is at least two pay grades above him. He probably picked up the two-in-one theory from Eric the Brilliant.
Post-Conflict Regime Type: Probability of Being a Democracy Five Years After the Conflict Has Ended; Violent Campaigns - 4%, Nonviolent Campaigns - 46%. Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D., Stanford University,
Is he feeling left out? Should I add him back?
Post-Conflict Regime Type: Probability of Being a Democracy Five Years After the Conflict Has Ended; Violent Campaigns - 4%, Nonviolent Campaigns - 46%. Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D., Stanford University,
Detecting differences between posters is at least two pay grades above him. No I'm saying that your crap gets old real fast, and folks get sick and tired of your BS. Having a grip on reality is at least 3 pay grades above you. You've got clueless dialed-in though.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Darn, those two are just too smart to fool for long.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
My My.... aren't we testy tonight. And all you have to do is show me the error of my ways.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
A lot of the people arrested today were my peers…a lot of young people and students. For us, the occupy movement can’t be diminished or co-opted…it’s bigger than occupy. I will seek the changes I marched for tonight until I win or die. It is the task of my generation, worldwide, to return power to the people. Governments around the world are quickly realizing that our generation will not back down. This is bigger than ‘occupy’, this is bigger than one country, one problem, or one protest. The people want their world back. We are fighting for our future, and we are winning..
#2. To: lucysmom, badeye (#1)
#3. To: Fred Mertz, Badeye (#2)
#4. To: lucysmom, mininggold, *Ron Paul for President* (#1)
, mininggpld,
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#5. To: hondo68, mininggold (#4)
mininggpld,
#6. To: lucysmom (#1)
I will seek the changes I marched for tonight until I win or die.
#7. To: Thunderbird (#6)
Commie scum.
#8. To: lucysmom (#5)
(Edited)
No, just the can't type worth a darn thing.
#9. To: lucysmom (#1)
#10. To: mininggold (#8)
He's saying he 'thinks' we are the same poster.
#11. To: A K A Stone (#9)
notbadeye?
#12. To: mininggold, *Liberal Rehab Staff* (#8)
(Edited)
He's saying he 'thinks' we are the same poster.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#13. To: lucysmom (#10)
He probably picked up the two-in-one theory from Eric the Brilliant.
#14. To: hondo68 (#12)
No I'm saying that your crap gets old real fast, and folks get sick and tired of your BS.
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