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— In 1946, Oakland was the last city in the U.S. to have a general strike. Now, 65 years later, the people are going to shut the city down again in another historic strike taking place tomorrow, November 2, 2011. Tomorrow’s strike was voted on last week at the Occupy Oakland General Assembly, where over 1,600 people voted in favor … 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
