Longtime Berkeley activist Joseph Anderson weighs in on the ongoing debate around Occupy Oakland on the issue of diversity of tactics and the use of BlackBloc style tactics. He weighs in on the recent debate between Chris Hedges and Occupy oakland organizer Kristof Lopaur Well, by now everyone in the Occupy movement is hotly debating [...]

Last night’s  City Council where they were scheduled to debate giving the police power to crack down on anyone trying to shut down the Ports of Oakland  was beyond contentious to say the least…There was a lot of frustration a lot of anger and a lot of finger-pointing. On 3 different occasions an angry, bellowing [...]

Glad to see all the troops coming home, now that the war in Iraq is officially over.. However in a world with No Jobs, Increased Foreclosures & lawmakers pushing to make even more cuts while telling those who’ve fallen on economic hard times to ‘blame themselves‘, do these returning men and women who did 4 [...]

This has been a good week for music, especially on the video tip as we’ve had three stellar offerings to raise your awareness and peak your conscience.  Two of the videos deal directly with police brutality and I’m hoping folks will pay close attention, being that much that is shown happened over the past couple [...]

Today is Monday December 12th 2011 about 4am Oakland California where folks are now gearing up to head on down to the Port of Oakland. Everyone is scheduled to meet 5:30 am at West Oakland BART to begin the early morning march… The plan of action today is to shut down all the ports up [...]

Here’s some thoughts to the debate around the use of term Occupy vs Decolonize that’s been taking place at some of the Occupy sites Most recently here in Oakland. The term ‘Occupy‘ is a loaded word that has long been problematic in many communities of color. To put it simply many have long felt they [...]

Yesterday the city of Oakland was on fire as Occupy Oakland and other organizations went in on banks foreclosing on homes…It was a day of activity which including shutting down a foreclosed Housing auction at the Alameda County Courthouse and reclaiming a couple of houses the banks had foreclosed on and moving families back in..The [...]

Last night hundreds of San Francisco police showed up at Justin Herman Plaza in riot gear to forcibly remove a hundred or so people at the encampment of OccupySF… Occupiers described it as a sneak attack as police swarmed in from all directions including cops on motorbikes.. 70 people were arrested as police stood guard [...]