By Laura Kacere There’s a good number of us who question holidays like Mother’s Day in which you spend more time feeding money into a system that exploits our love for our mothers than actually celebrating them. It’s not unlike any other holiday in America in that its complete commercialization has stripped away so much [...]
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
By Janet Weil My husband works in information technology for a large corporation. After a little encouragement from me when I mentioned the upcoming General Strike on May Day, he decided to take a “comp day” and join the action with me on May Day. Here’s why in his own words: “I’m striking because I [...]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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 [...]
Friday, May 11, 2012
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