Longshore Workers in Oakland Call for a General Strike

At Occupy Wall Street on Friday, 10/28/11, Jack Heyman announces the solidarity of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union with the Occupy Oakland's call for a General Strike on November 2 in response to the police violence against protesters in Oakland.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Occupy Wall Street
• Oakland
• California
• Occupy Oakland
• OWS
• Police Violence
• Injustice
• Union

[nrf91]

@Exmech2 Unfortunately, the US you speak of no longer exists. If it did, our last president would have exited office in the exact same manner. War crimes no longer get you impeached. Elections can be manipulated and stolen without consequence. We're certainly not Iran or Syria (yet), but I must say, seeing the way the police behaved against peaceful protesters in Oakland and Denver suggests we're not as far off as myth suggests.

I would define the US as a Corporatocracy (see "Idiocracy")

[chuck3377]

In America we no longer have a democracy or capitalism. The democracy was bought by corporations, its not democracy now, its corporate fascism. Bailouts for rich corporations on the back of the working class is NOT capitalism, in capitalism they would have gone bankrupt. Therefore we don't have capitalism, but corporate fascism. Protestors want a restoration of democracy and capitalism. Everyone knows now, debate time is over.

[ChestRockwell667]

why are they repeating everything he says?

[usaf317]

@nrf91 the acts are not isolated.

[nrf91]

@usaf317 And we agree that the window smashers should be arrested. But to use the isolated acts a of a few troublemakers to smear an entire movement suggests you are either uninformed, or you are the verbal equivalent of a window smasher -- one who deliberately does damage to the truth in order to manipulate public opinion.

[nrf91]

@usaf317 Do me a favor. Turn off your TV news and your right wing hate radio and look for the truth. It's out there. The OWS protests have been very peaceful. Unprovoked attacks by police against unarmed, non-violent protesters in NY, Denver and Oakland are well documented. The smashing windows that you speak of were the acts of Black Bloc members who are not in any way connected with OWS. In fact, OWS protesters attempted to stop them but were unsuccessful.

[Exmech2]

@anarchiaetpax Umm... yeah... keep thinking that, twit.

[usaf317]

communists bastards

[usaf317]

@nrf91 peacfull? going inside banks and throwing shit around and smashing widows? the police have not done their job...these people should have been arrested.

[anarchiaetpax]

@Exmech2 So once again you ignore what I posit and then just start off on your own tangents. Brilliant! Too bad the scientific method and logic don't work this way, think of the progress we could make with people like you in charge. Zapatistas != Zapata - they took his name as inspiration from his attempts at land reform; if you weren't aware the Zapatistas are a currently active movement in Chiapas, Mexico. You obviously don't have a clue what anarchism means, nor hvu made any attempt to learn.