In Egypt & In Oakland: Latest Occupy Efforts on Opposite Ends of the Map

Egypt Rising Against Military Rule,
Security Forces Descend on Tahrir Square

Originally published on Nov. 20, 2011, 12:04 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

• live coverage from Al Jazeera
• footage from earlier

151 Comments Occupy Oakland Calls for TOTAL WEST COAST PORT SHUTDOWN ON 12/12 Originally published on Nov. 19, 2011, 8:35 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt Proposal for a Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown, Passed With Unanimous Consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly 11/18/2012: In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation: Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption of the economic apparatus of the 1% with a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12th. The 1% has disrupted the lives of longshoremen and port truckers and the workers who create their wealth, just as coordinated nationwide police attacks have turned our cities into battlegrounds in an effort to disrupt our Occupy movement. Read More... 745 Comments