MEDIA ROOTS – On Wednesday, November 2, 2011, Abby Martin of Media Roots was on the front lines of the bedlam in the streets of Oakland providing unembedded coverage during the aftermath of the Occupy Oakland general strike and shutdown of the Port of Oakland. Tens of thousands of peaceful protesters successfully shut down the Port of Oakland, the nation’s … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS— On Thursday, November 3, 2011, Abby Martin of Media Roots spoke with Russia Today TV (RT) about the Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, the police-state response, and the historic general strike called by Occupy Oakland, which drew tens of thousands of supporters to shut down banks and the Port of Oakland, the nation’s fifth largest port. Abby Martin, Media … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS— On Friday, October 28, 2011, filmmaker Michael Moore paid a visit to Occupy Oakland. He flew from Occupy Wall Street in New York to join in solidarity with the current epicentre of the Occupy Movement in the wake of the brutal police-state rioting on Tuesday night, which left 24-year-old Marine, Scott Olsen, in critical condition after being shot … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — KPFA’s Dennis Bernstein and Davey D broadcast their analysis of the Occupy Oakland aftermath following the brutal police-state assaults on Tuesday, October 25, 2011. In this edition of KPFA’s “The Morning Mix,” we hear radical commentary of the ongoing Occupy Oakland sit-in and encampment begun on 10/10/11 in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, which … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Felipe Messina of Media Roots speaks with Alexa O’Brien of US Day of Rage and Co-Organiser of Occupy Wall Street to ask her about the origins of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its looming interface with MoveOn and the Democratic Party, our broken U.S. electoral system, the false left/right paradigm of our U.S. two-party dictatorship, and … Read More
