Protesters cling to the back of a van that blares music for the the Occupy protesters. See, protests are fun!
Posted May 24, 2012 at 6:01pm in protests Monopoly signs Occupy Oakland Occupy Oakland Bay Area hugs general strike May Day
Posted May 16, 2012 at 6:02pm in occupy Oakland occupy Oakland North Oakland Temescal East Bay OWS
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Painted hippie camper in support of education reform…hard to see all the awesome details in these photos.
Posted May 15, 2012 at 6:01pm in Occupy Oakland general strike hippies art cars UC education Dr. Seuss Bay Area California May Day May 1st occupy
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Local East Oakland guy raises his fist in support of the May Day General Strike demonstration as it marches past. Another example of how Oakland supports its history and present as a city of social strife.
Posted May 13, 2012 at 6:01pm in East Oakland Fruitvale East Bay Bay Area general strike OWS occupy Oakland Occupy Oakland May Day May first
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Posted May 7, 2012 at 6:01pm in banana banana phone protest signs protest Occupy Oakland general strike march Oakland East Oakland Bay Area Internet memes signs Occupy
Women gathered outside the WIC headquarters in East Oakland to watch the general strike march walk by. WIC stands for “Women Infants and Children,” and it’s basically California’s version of welfare. Many people came out to watch the May Day march, and though too many had no idea what it was about, all of them seemed supportive and open-minded.
Even after all these years, I’m still impressed by what a supportive environment Oakland is for protesters. The march stopped for an hour in a park in East Oakland, and I spent the whole time having a lively debate with two locals. We talked about gentrification as the colonization of neighborhoods. I tried to bring them back around to supporting Occupy, which they had disavowed after the vandalism in the Mission the night before.
It’s so great to be able to talk to total strangers about race and class, and discover that they are engaging, polite and really willing to listen. But I also know that they were a little impressed that a white woman was willing to come into big-old-scary East Oakland (AKA, the ghetto) and have this dialog, while acknowledging that they were cautiously watching to make sure none of these potential “hipsters” fucked up their neighborhood. I didn’t see any of the other protesters venture deeper into the park to talk to the locals, nor did I see any of the locals walk down to see for themselves that the protest was made up almost entirely of local groups, mostly immigrants or indigenous folks.
Posted May 4, 2012 at 6:01pm in Occupy Oakland Occupy Oakland East Oakland East Bay ghetto people culture locals WIC protest
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Posted April 30, 2012 at 2:52pm in general strike protest California San Francisco Bay Area Occupy Delores Park To do
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May Day 2012, TOL will be Live & Direct from Oakland, Ca. Plan is to start early, go as long as the batteries hold out. Won’t be live streaming constantly all day, but both Pirate and Lexica will be tweeting all day long.
Watch this space for further updates.
Posted April 17, 2012 at 6:03pm in Occupy San Francisco Occupy San Francisco wedding bride kiss photography
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Been seeing this tagged all over North Oakland. Here it is under the abandoned mural under an overpass of I-580.
General Strike, May 1st. Which is May Day, better known outside the US as International Workers Day. What better way to teach your boss how valuable you are than to stay home and join the General Strike?
Whether or not you decide to stay home, you can help the cause by reblogging this or spreading the word to all your friends.
Posted April 11, 2012 at 6:02pm in Telegraph Ave Oakland Occupy Oakland OWS May Day General Strike International Worker's Day Occupy
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Occupy SF takes over vacant building
Occupy SF activists put the mostly moribund movement back in the spotlight Sunday, taking over an unoccupied building owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco with plans to establish a “permanent occupation” that would serve as shelter and a center for services for homeless people.
The activists entered the building at 888 Turk St. about 5:45 p.m. Sunday, after a peaceful rally and march from Union Square earlier in the day.
…“There is no reason why any building should be vacant when people have no housing,” Gerould said. “We ask that the archdiocese do the right thing and allow these services in these buildings.”
A banner hung from the building quoted the Lord’s Prayer: “Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses.”
In flyers they handed out, activists announced the “grand opening” of the building as the “San Francisco Commune.” They immediately began organizing the space inside, designating public and sleeping areas, even setting up a smoking room.
Marcher Julia Cheng, 25, of Chicago settled into a spot inside the building, setting up a sleeping bag and hanging a sign reading “Home Sweet Home.”
…Before the occupation, more than 300 people marched through the Tenderloin to the Western Addition, playing music, chanting slogans and carrying signs saying “House Keys Not Handcuffs” as police officers looked on and blocked traffic.…The event, described in a press release as “poor people play April Fool’s prank on Union Square,” was promoted as part of a supposed 12-city April Fool’s Day action designed to “demonstrate poor people’s right to exist in public space.”Speakers protested laws that keep homeless people from sitting, lying down, hanging out “and - perhaps worst of all - sleeping,” organizers said. They said that citations for offenses like these comprised “roughly one-third of all prosecuted offenses in San Francisco at the end of 2011.”
Paul Boden, one of the organizers, told the crowd at Union Square that area businesses “are targeting poor people as being bad for business. If you ain’t shopping, they don’t want you around here.”
Article by Benny Evangelista
(Source: bradw, via ileftmymindinsanfrancisco)
Posted January 15, 2012 at 6:00pm in Hella Occupy Oakland hella occupied Occupy Oakland squatting community takeback
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Building A Better America... 1% of A Time
Oh this is too awesome. The Bank of America in San Francisco got a complementary rework of their logo. This picture is stolen from BoingBoing, they have more at the link. Head over and check it out: part of what makes this culture jam so great is how thorough it is. They even redid the ATMs!
Posted November 19, 2011 at 1:04am in street art political graffiti 1 percent 99 percent Occupy San Francisco San Francisco occupy culture jamming culture jam subversive art
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Posted November 11, 2011 at 6:00pm in Destiny Destiny arts youth dance youth group dancers Oakland general strike Oakland strike Occupy Oakland Occupy Oakland California
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