By Janet Weil, CODEPINK Love came to the contentious streets of downtown Oakland last night. The evening march of “Occupy Love” started with a few words of solidarity and then a moment of silence for the people of Bahrain, as approximately 100 people gathered at a park at Telegraph and 19th in Oakland. Chants of [...]
Monday, February 6, 2012
by Mary DeCamp A quick update on Occupy Tucson: We are back in our tents! We found a spot of ground that is just outside the city’s DeAnza park along the sidewalk where the police will let us stay without citing us. This is happening partially because this park has been infamous for the drugs, [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Posted by Sharon Miller, CODEPINK San Francisco intern One of the most intense experiences I have ever had at a protest was sitting with hundreds of other Occupy Oakland activists at the General Assembly following a march protesting the brutal police crackdown on Oscar Grant Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall on November 14, [...]
Thursday, December 29, 2011
My name is Kelly Johnson; many in Cloverdale, California know me as a photographer, as a softball coach or as Darrion’s mom. What many don’t know is that I am and have been, for many years, a progressive-political activist. For the past 4 months I have been #Occupying San Francisco with my fellow-Family Occupiers. It’s [...]
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
December 17th, 2011 was a big day for the Occupy Movement: the three month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street; one year since Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation that sparked the Tunisian revolution and in turn the Arab Spring, and the 24th birthday of PFC Bradley Manning, the US army intelligence analyst accused of giving WikiLeaks the information [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
-by Alli McCracken On the morning of Saturday, December 17th, 2011 I arrived at Occupy DC in McPherson Square, bundled up, bracing myself for the cold day ahead. Right away I found Mel, CODEPINK staffer from the NYC office, and we excitedly rejoiced at being reunited. Shortly afterwards we boarded the bus chartered by Occupy [...]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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