Occupy Oakland Video: The Battle of Oakland

Posted on by

MEDIA ROOTS — On January 28th, 2012, Occupy Oakland moved to take a vacant building to use as a social centre and a new place to continue organising.  This is the story of what really happened that day as told by the participants.  The video features raw footage of police brutality and interviews with Boots Riley, David Graeber, Maria Lewis, along with several other witnesses to the events.

MR

The Battle of Oakland by Brandon Jourdan

***

Photo by Abby Martin

Leave a Reply

RELATED NEWS

  • Abby Martin on the Gary Null Show
  • US Sanctions Shut Down ‘The Empire Files’ with Abby Martin
  • Media Roots Radio: Interview with Kelly Jones on Custody Wars & the Bizarre Transformation of Alex Jones
  • Empire Files: Decentralized Disaster Relief Fills Void

    • ACTIVISM

  • Empire Files: Native Hawaiians Fight US Navy for Polluting Island’s Water
  • Empire Files Podcast: Interview with Red Hill Frontline Fighter: Navy Imperiling Life on O’ahu
  • Empire Files: Hawaii Emergency: Navy Poisons Drinking Water
  • Empire Files Podcast: RED ALERT AT RED HILL: Navy Disaster Poisons Hawaii
  • Media Roots Radio: Fighting Windmills to Canonize Saint Rittenhouse
  • Abby Martin Confronts Nancy Pelosi Over Pentagon Spending at COP26
  • Empire Files: Iraq Vet Disrupts George W. Bush Speech, Sept. 19 2021
  • Media Roots Radio: After the Uprising: The Death of Danyé Dion Jones w/ John Duffy & Ray Nowosielski
  • Media Roots Radio: COG Measures & the War on Terrorism Horseshoe w/ Whitney Webb
  • Empire Files Podcast: Colombia On Fire w/ Student Leader From Protest Epicenter
  • Media Roots Radio: Draconian Police State Overreach Against Left Activist, Starving Yemen, Criminalizing the Poor
  • Empire Files LIVE – Election Special with Abby Martin
  • Media Roots Radio: Black Lives Don’t Matter to Corporations, ‘Cancellations’ & the History of Policing with Eugene Puryear
  • Media Roots Radio: Pandemic Xenophobia, the Decline of US Empire & Normalcy of the Extremist Right
  • Media Roots Radio: Peace Porn, Defunding the Police & the Return of Black Lives Matter w/ Leslie Lee