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 Occupy Oakland Defies Mayor, Pitches CampPosted on Oct 28, 2011
Do the mayors of, say, Oakland, Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles have each other on speed dial this week? That’s kind of what it looked like, with tensions between those city leaders, aided by creative interpretations of public property regulations, and their respective Occupy movements ratcheting up this week. Of course, Oakland was the most troubling example of this apparent trend of push-back from on high against the occupiers. But by Friday, as news circulated about injured Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen’s improved condition, Occupy Oakland protesters had reasserted their presence near City Hall—a collective gesture that won’t be lost on Mayor Jean Quan. —KA Update: Let’s add Nashville and San Diego to the above list, shall we?
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By IMax, October 29, 2011 at 5:15 am Link to this comment
“Occupy Oakland Defies Mayor, Pitches Camp”
These types of actions, by OWS protesters, will be the cause of dwindling support for Occupy protests.
What are Americans seeing? Americans are hearing and seeing rats, vandalism, rapes and fights attached to OWS crowds. They’re seeing refusals to move or bend for others. Others who have every right to open their bakery in the morning across the street - without a propane canister through the door - or refusals to keep protesters within bounds, as millions of protesters have before them. This all-out defiance, wide-spread destruction, will not help in raising real ‘OWS’ issues and the national dialog.
We should take a lesson from the Tea Movement. 500,000 people turned out across the country in a single day without a single incident of violence or destruction (labeled dangerous). This movement went on to effect the entire 2010 elections from coast to coast. The Tea movement is still effecting the legislative agenda.
I can no longer support OWS. The tactics and direction is not only wrong, it will prove completely ineffective. It will, in very real effect, strengthen the ‘Tea’ vote in 2012.
Report thisBy rumblingspire, October 28, 2011 at 6:44 pm Link to this comment
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long live the camera!
Report thislong live the gawker!
the world can see.
By OzarkMichael, October 28, 2011 at 6:28 pm Link to this comment
“We believe in what we’re doing,” Anderson said. “No one is afraid. If anything, we’re going to show there’s strength in numbers.”
Whatever it is that they are doing, whatever law or city ordinance they are breaking, since they have enough people to do it, why not?
But what if there are many of us who want something different? What if we are also unafraid? What if we believe in our own cause?
The assumption by the Left that they are the only real people in this country is in for a rude awakening if Occupy Anywhere actually leverages change in our society.
Dont bet on inequality. It cant last long.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, October 28, 2011 at 4:37 pm Link to this comment
Looking at the picture one sees a pretty good cross section of Oakland society.
I hope these mayors who are unleashing the para-military police forces upon their own constituents get voted out of office soon. Paper ballots are highly recommended as electronic voting fraud is becomming more evident as encumbents struggle to maintain control.
A smart mayor would welcome these protests, provide the necessary city services these taxpayers need and turn the whole affair into a carnival atmosphere.
Only a fool would provoke a riot against the electorate.
Report thisBy fanzone, October 28, 2011 at 3:59 pm Link to this comment
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It’s a reasonable pipe dream and one I support. Don’t dilute the message with the logistics.
Report thisBy traynorjf, October 28, 2011 at 3:15 pm Link to this comment
The fat cats are getting worried.
Report thisBy Leefeller, October 28, 2011 at 12:39 pm Link to this comment
When I look back at what happened in Wisconsin, the people there did not camp out in tents, it seems to me if the people and the city were on the same page, they could allow for a special group to be present day and night under protection not prosecution by the police and the city with no stinking permits, but instead a sincerity of the 99 percent against the 1 percent. Basically a calling out of the abusive inequality’s which caused this in the first place.
Maybe just a pipe dream?
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