OCCUPY WALL STREET

[SoNotHer]

Thank you for the other news version of this and your comments. I appreciate both.

Of some other comments, while I don't condone hurting the American worker or American small business, I define "violence" as something a little larger and more grave than what comes out of a protest like this weekend's.

Let's not forget that a greater violence in the form of a hierarchy at full tilt with more than two-thirds of us under water or barely treading water is being perpetrated. And this violence and lawlessness is clandestine, codified, sanctioned, glorified and as insidious as a cancer.

I assure you the chosen few circling the upright bow of the boat care little for those drowning at the ship's submerged stern. And in fact, their grasp of the air depends on the weight that anchors beneath them that which, given a different thrust and notion, would capsize them.

Originally Posted by Miss Tick

Well, unless I'm mistaken there was a purpose. I'm not in Oakland so I don't know. But Occupy Oakland seems to believe they had a purpose or at least their media is releasing this like it was their purpose to occupy just one vacant building and the purpose for the occupation seems logical and in keeping with the whole idea of occupying in general:


Occupy Oakland Media reacted to the use of force by Oakland police:

Yesterday, the Oakland Police deployed hundreds of officers in riot gear so as to prevent Occupy Oakland from putting a building, vacant for 6 years with no plans for use, from being occupied and “re-purposed” as a community center. The Occupy Oakland GA passed a proposal calling for the space to be turned into a social center, convergence center and headquarters of the Occupy Oakland movement.

The police actions tonight cost the city of Oakland hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they repeatedly violated their own crowd control guidelines and protesters civil rights.

With all the problems in our city, should preventing activists from putting a vacant building to better use be their highest priority? Was it worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars they spent?