WELCOME TO THE OAKLAND GENERAL STRIKE
Lifestyle, MediaNov 1, 2011http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/oakland-general-strike.htm
Dear Bay Area Friends,
As most of you probably know, the police raid and destruction of the Occupy
Oakland encampments last Tuesday, followed by the notorious police violence
against protesters later the same day, provoked such an immense expression
of outrage from thousands of people in the Bay Area and around the world
that the Oakland city government was thrown completely on the defensive. The
next day police were scarcely to be seen. The fence surrounding Frank Ogawa
Plaza was still in place, but the occupiers calmly took it down and began
reoccupying the same spot. That evening, by a vote of 1484 to 46 (with 77
