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What's Wrong With Occupy Oakland?
Cards on the table: y'all know that the Occupy protests and I don't agree politically.Nonetheless, I've been basically supportive of their right to protest, sympathetic to their frustrations with the...
View ArticleMICHAEL MOORE ON OAKLAND: If You See Someone Inciting Violence Assume They...
From Michael Moore's segment on Rachel Maddow last night. Replace cop with socialist and you'd be forgiven for thinking you are listening to Glenn Beck:[...]There's no turning back. They want that...
View ArticleWatch A Guerilla Artist Hanging A Banker Dummy On A Miami Highway
Last week, a street art installation featuring a banker hanging by a noose appeared on a Miami highway.Now the artist, named Above, has posted a video of how it was done (via Miami NewTimes).It depicts...
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Guess Which Bank Occupy Oakland Is Using After It Destroyed A Wells Fargo...
Remember just last week when the massive crowd of Occupy Oakland protesters smashed windows and vandalized a Wells Fargo branch?Of course you do. Well guess which bank the group is using now.Wells...
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Oakland Police Publicly Plead With Protesters To Give Up Their Camp
Oakland is on it's knees.After the first person in an occupation was critically wounded, escalating the demonstrations; after thousands of protesters blocked the port; after some demonstrators...
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This Picture Was Taken In America...
Lucy Kafanov of RT is covering Occupy Oakland this morning.Protesters there expect a raid from police (as has been seen in Denver and Portland over the last couple of days) and are fearful of getting...
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This Week's Occupy Evictions Were Systematically Plotted By The Nation's Mayors
Conspiracy theorists are going to love this one. In an interview with the BBC, Mayor Quan admitted that she discussed dismantling Occupy Oakland with Mayors from 18 other cities.That explains why the...
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Foreclosed Homeowners Call On Occupy Oakland To Fight Chase Bank
After Occupy Oakland was booted from Oscar Grant Plaza last week, protesters floated to Snow Park at 19th St. and Telegraph until being evicted Sunday morning.Combining their need for a home and the...
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10 Scary Weapons Cops Are Using Against the 'Occupy' Protesters
You've probably seen the video of police at U.C. Davis using orange pepper spray on peaceful protesters, but did you know authorities are also using rubber bullets, assault rifles and tanks -- yes,...
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ERIC SCHMIDT: We Don't Talk About Occupy Wall Street In The Valley Because We...
Google chairman Eric Schmidt says that people in Silicon Valley don't talk about the concerns of the 99% because a lot of them are immune to those concerns.He told Brad Stone at BusinessWeek, "Occupy...
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300 People Were Arrested During Incredibly Violent Oakland Protests Last Night
After weeks of calm, there is again unrest in Oakland.Reuters reports that police have fired tear gas on hundreds of protestors, the Associated Press is reporting they used flash grenades. So far,...
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Oakland Police Fired Tear-Gas On Crowds That Included Children
Police deployed tear gas on Occupy protestors in downtown Oakland, according to Robert Salonga. who tweeted this photo. The crowd included children like the one in the lower-right corner with the...
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Occupy Oakland Got To Meet This Badass Armored Beast
As things were getting a little tense over in Oakland, Alameda Sheriff's Department decided to bring out, what we believe is Blackwater Grizzly MRAP armored vehicle. This is not the first time that the...
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Oakland Settles With Military Veteran Allegedly Beaten And Detained By Police...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The City of Oakland has agreed to pay $645,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a U.S. veteran of the war in Afghanistan who was injured during a confrontation with police at an...
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Iraq War Veteran Injured In 'Occupy' Protests Awarded $4.5 Million Settlement
An Iraq war veteran critically injured in 2011 Occupy protests in California has won $4.5 million in a legal settlement with local authorities, his lawyers said Friday.Scott Olsen, who served two tours...
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Anarchists Picket Digg Founder's House And Demand $3 Billion For...
Anarchists staged a protest outside the San Francisco house of Digg founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose today. Google Ventures is the venture capital arm of Google that has invested millions...
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NOW IT'S PERSONAL: Protesters Are Targeting Tech Execs Individually, By Name
Jack Halprin. Kevin Rose. Greg Gopman. Peter Shih.These names all have one thing in common. Protesters in San Francisco have picked them out personally, blaming them for the gentrification that is...
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This Is What It's Like To Get Tear-Gassed
Last night, police in Ferguson used tear gas on peaceful protesters, and in on particularly dramatic display, turned tear gas on a TV camera crew from Al-Jazeera America.But what is it like to get tear...
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