Yesterday, Occupy Oakland moved to convert a vacant building into a community center
to provide education, medical, and housing services for the 99%. Police responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, beanbag rounds and mass arrests. The State has compounded its policy of callous indifference with a ruthless display of violent repression.
The Occupy movement will respond, as we have always responded: With an overwhelming show of collective resistance.
Today, we take to the streets.
Across the country, we will demonstrate our resolve to overcome repression and to continue to build a better world grounded in love and solidarity for one another.
All eyes on all Occupies.
SOLIDARITY SUNDAY
Sunday, January 29th – 7:00 PM EST, Meet at Copley Square
Be there.
BOSTON
Copley Square 7PM
NEW YORK
Washington Square Park 7PM
PHILADELPHIA
Love Park 7PM
WASHINGTON D.C.
McPherson Square 7PM
CHICAGO
HQ – Jackson & LaSalle 7PM
LOS ANGELES
Macarthur Park 5PM PST
DALLAS, TX
JFK Memorial 6PM CT
PORTLAND, OR
Justice Center 4PM PST
TAMPA
Voice of Freedom Park 7PM
INDIANAPOLIS
Superbowl Village 6PM
NEW HAVEN, CT
Joining NYC march via train. Washington Square Park 7PM
ORLANDO, FL
City Hall 7PM
Organizing initiatives are underway in
HOUSTON
PITTSBURGH
ALBANY, NY
BUFFALO, NY
BALTIMORE, MD
AMARILLO, TX
If your city would like to organize & join in this call to action, email directaction@nycga.net
12 Responses to “ACTION: Solidarity with Oakland”
Yesterday, Occupy Oakland moved to convert a vacant building into a community center to provide education, medical, and housing services for the 99%.
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Face it… Oakland is a violent and destructive force in the Occupy Movement. They are incapable of producing anything but chaos. Occupy is equal to any far left party that is largely incapable of self-criticism… Oh, except when it comes to whether or not banishing sex offenders is good or bad for the movement…
I’m confused. Did anyone own the vacant building? Just because it was vacant doesn’t mean people can “move” to take it over, then do so. The OPD are fascisti but someone at Occupy should know this and do what it takes to “acquire” the building — so people who put their lives on the line for the movement don’t expose themselves to needless villainy. Have they no legal counsel or financial support?
If you really want to help Occupy Oakland send in the ACLU, lawyers and financial support. The Mayor and the OPD are criminals!!!
on January 29th, 2012 at 12:35 pm #
[…] Anyway, if you want to stand against this kind of deadly force being used against peaceful marchers, including folks with kids in strollers, and have the inclination to stand up, be counted, and let Oakland know you don’t buy the official spin, come on down to Copley Square and be there by 7:00 PM. Here is the detailed information: https://www.occupyboston.org/2012/01/29/action-solidarity-sunday-occupy-oakland/ […]
Two comments containing reason!? Finally! Provoking police, trying to “create a community center” out of a building that is or isn’t abandoned (why the construction?). This country is a democracy, it isn’t Egypt or Syria, but the protesters provoke to get tear gassed, to get media attention and to get recognized. Have they no other way? This was a riot, complete with masks, shields, rock throwing, spray painting and most of all, law breaking.
Really Blue Mass? They brought their children there, that was the stupidest decision of the parents.
Burnimg flags, using babies as human shields seems more in line with Hamas. I am ashamed at what the occupy movemt has become. Do you know where this is heading? It is not peaceful , there no plausible solutions anymore , just anarchist attacks. Good people don’t act this way
Occupy Oakland has attacked and closed the ports. The camp was controlled by violent intimidation to prevent us from learning what is actually going on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpNRuTx19RE
Occupy Oakland was lost to fascism. They are in bed with the unions and police to use violence to take over the streets. Here one police infiltrator speaks about how he actually likes and feels a part of the Occupy Movement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEUVA9WhIgY
What’s left of the movement I once supported needs to repudiate Occupy Oakland in no uncertain terms. Pure thuggery.
The revolution will not only be not televised it will not be written about in the newpapers.
There is — it seems — a conspiracy to blackout all news coverage of the Occupy Movement.
Why isn’t Occupy Oakland in your blogroll?
Yeah – sorry, but Occupy Oakland should NOT be supported by the other Occupy groups. Tearing down fences to get to this building, breaking store windows, throwing bottles and other objects with intent to injure the cops? They’re not protesting – they’re rioting. Big difference. And that’s just THIS skirmish. They’ve been incredibly violent compared to other groups, and yet you want to be in SOLIDARITY with them?
It just shows that Occupy is losing any sense of being a movement for change. They’re in it purely to cause havok and destruction.
If you are supporting Occupy Oakland and their actions in any way, my support and many of my friends’ support will disappear.