The following is a comment from @occupiedoaktrib, @hyphy_republic, @devilhasdreads and other activist from Occupy Oakland. This is NOT an official statement from the General Assembly.
It’s been a very eventful number of days with lots of information swirling around. This is a list of some of the things we’ve been hearing from sources with contacts in the city and media and an attempt to clarify them:
–Sources from the City of Oakland say that they have been told that Occupy Oakland has decided to voluntarily relocate to Jefferson Park in another part of the city. Mayor Quan, city officials and police apparently had a meeting with individuals claiming to represent the Occupy Oakland community where they agreed to transition the camp to the new location. The General Assembly has not issued a resolution about moving the camp and moving it is not an official position of Occupy Oakland. If this meeting occurred, then someone is purporting to represent the Occupation without any kind of authorization, most likely as an underhanded way of splitting the movement.
–According to sources, the OPD has issued a press advisory telling news reporters that the camp is not safe to operate in. Our media sources tell us that this is primarily directed at journalists, convincing them that the encampment is not safe for reporters. We believe that the OPD’s advisory is a scare tactic meant to justify the impending raid in advance.
–Friday evening, OPD issued a press release claiming that they have identified the shooter from Thursday as a camp resident and the victim as a non-camper. Given that narrative, police could make an argument to use increased force in a camp raid. However, there remains no clear evidence that either the victim or the suspect were related to Occupy Oakland and OPD has yet to clarify this beyond unconfirmed innuendo.
You are all in my prayers, what you are doing is wonderful. I do worry about you though
It’s done, you’ve made your point…whatever that is. Time to realize you’re now just looking like idiots to the real, voting 99%. Please don’t stop your zeal and enthusiasm, just turn it into votes come November 2012. There is still hope to save the integrity of the message, but it will lose all steam if laws continue to be broken and people continue to get their rights violated by OWS. Continue at the risk of your own self destruction.
Even if you blow me off as some random crazy or whatever you will.. please do look around you and look at the problems that are facing all of us.
I do and I am. I know there are a lot of things that need to be fixed. And we are the generation responsible for fixing them. But the answer starts in the voting booth, not the violation of other’s rights, the very rights we’re fighting for.
there aren’t any laws being broken. by the occupancy, i mean. courts keep reaffirming this. your personal preferences are being disregarded, certainly. and “orders” by the police to “disburse” are being disregarded. but your feelings are not the rule of law. and we’re not yet a police state where they determine specifically where and when constitutional rights exist and do not. so please either get on board or get out of the way.
Hear hear. If voting changed much, they’d make it illegal.
Keep representing! The mere presence of the Occupy movement on the streets of this country and beyond is changing the topics of debate in our politics. Next is changing the policies. Solidarity from Texas!
Occupy Oakland lost the public opinion war after the “general strike” which was once again cover for the Black Block to derail honest peoples critiques of the system. Anarchists are anti-gov’t which means anti-regulation of Wall Street, in short the anarchists should join the libertarians/Tea Party and leave the left alone.
The public opinion war might’ve been lost for you, but not to those of us paying attention to the other 10K+ of all shapes and sizes who were marching peacefully during the general strike. Don’t confuse black bloc with anarchists, either; they’re not synonymous.
If you’re going to hate the Tea Party, the least you could do is be honest about it. Comparing it to Anarchist just makes you look stupid.
at the extremes of the political spectrum the anarchists and libertarians share a hate for the gov’t. locke, hobbs, montesque and hobbs all have proven the need for government. i am not worried about looking stupid amongst smug bay area people, i know the game up here.
Well, when this is all over, and the OWS movement is portrayed as a poor imitation of the 60′s, you can look back on this thread as say, Yeah, I guess that guy was right. But until then, protest away!