MEDIA ROOTS — On Monday, November 14, 2011, Abby Martin of Media Roots went to Occupy Oakland (OO) at 4 am to cover the second police state raid on the peaceful OO encampment. Under direct orders from Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, over 500 riot cops in another coordinated, increasingly fascistic, multi-police agency operation stormed the peaceful OO encampment at Oscar … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — In a predawn raid this morning, under direct orders from Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, riot police stormed the Occupy Oakland encampment at Oscar Grant Plaza in another coordinated multi-agency “mutual aid” operation costing the City of Oakland upwards of half a million dollars in an attempt to crush the peaceful Occupy Oakland (OO) movement once and for … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – On Wednesday, November 2, 2011, the Media Roots team was on the ground in the streets of Oakland witnessing some great energy and bringing you first-hand coverage of the historic Occupy Oakland General Strike. Although the corporate media tried to shift the focus from the crimes of the ruling-class to petty vandalism by unrelated opportunists, for the … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS– Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored, speaks at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, CA on May 19, 2011. He discusses different concepts of censorship and how the top down corporate media censors and manages news in the US. Mickey also speaks about the evolution and organizational mission of Project Censored and goes over some of the top stories from … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- Recently, a man walking by my car inquired about my anti-war bumper sticker. After a short conversation, I learned that this 81 year-old peace activist, Chuck, spends every Friday evening on a high school street intersection protesting the wars. With a solid handshake and fist bump, he was on his way.Weeks later, I spotted Chuck at an anti-war … Read More
