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Originally posted by Blahable
Originally posted by Exemplar
Originally posted by Blahable
Oakland is a very ghetto, violent. nasty, dirty place. Basically California's dumpster. Perfect for OWS crowd.
Yeah, it's funny how rich upper-class places never protest. I wonder why that is....
Cause they actually work, they aren't out rioting while demanding $20/hr to flip burgers.edit on 29-1-2012 by Blahable because: (no reason given)
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, but Reddit can. 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.
Originally posted by Xcathdra
reply to post by LittleBlackEagle
If you want I can post video after video of occupy people telling the camera they have no idea why they are there?
Also, if the guy running the live stream wants to make his reporting credible, rule of thumb would be not to pick the felon out of the crowd for the interview.edit on 28-1-2012 by Xcathdra because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Exemplar
Originally posted by Blahable
Oakland is a very ghetto, violent. nasty, dirty place. Basically California's dumpster. Perfect for OWS crowd.
Yeah, it's funny how rich upper-class places never protest. I wonder why that is....
Originally posted by psyop911
reply to post by Vizzle
awesome. the first of may (the intergalactic protest) is approaching. it is time for PR.
to sensitize the overwhelmingly poor and dumbed down herd of sheeple.
"become your own media"?
nice idea.
and that's about it.