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At least 4,000 are at the gates to the Port of Oakland. Occupy Oakland: General Strike
The Silicon Valley Mercury News ^ | November 2, 2011 | Kristin J. Bender, Cecily Burt and Sean Maher

Posted on 11/02/2011 6:06:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 11/02/2011 6:24:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

OAKLAND -- Protesters have effectively shut down maritime operations at the Port, Director Omar Benjamin said at a media briefing Tuesday, as more than 4,000 people are at the gates.

The crowd stretched several blocks down Middle Harbor Road leading into the port as they begin their attempt to shut down the port for start of the 7 p.m. night shift.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchy; california; economy; occupy; occupywallstreet; quan
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Bolsheviks.
1 posted on 11/02/2011 6:06:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bolsheviks.

I prefer to think of them as "targets"....

2 posted on 11/02/2011 6:09:01 PM PDT by MountainDad (Support your local Militia)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
At least 4,000 are at the gates to the Port of Oakland.

Good. At least we know where they'll be. Do you want a clean kill or do you want to send a message?

3 posted on 11/02/2011 6:09:20 PM PDT by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Would this be that insurrection that Napolitano was talking about following on Twitter???


4 posted on 11/02/2011 6:09:34 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("If You Don't Like What I Say Or Do, Tough, Deal With It")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

grassroots, wouldn’t you say?


5 posted on 11/02/2011 6:10:08 PM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WOW! Just WOW! 4,000 you say??? Just wow. That’s a massive amount for a general strike and almost as large as the number of people in the local High School. Just wow. 4,000!!!!


6 posted on 11/02/2011 6:10:47 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They picked their state wisely. In a lot of states, if you break out the windows of an occupied grocery store, you will be shot.
7 posted on 11/02/2011 6:14:14 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Drango
The MSM has neglected to report this as a communist attack on America.

I will check out my guns, ammo and food this weekend.

8 posted on 11/02/2011 6:15:07 PM PDT by oldtimer (uee)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A man who witnessed the attack but declined to give his name said he was buying an organic orange when the crowd arrived...

LOL!! He had to specify "organic" to maintain some hippy cred in the midst of his citrusticly capitalist activity.

9 posted on 11/02/2011 6:15:43 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s disgusting that the city of Oakland is letting this pack of tattoed freaks and masked goons get away with destroying businesses (even including ones like Whole Foods, which treat their employees with TLC) and terrorizing citizens.

I’m really disgusted. The city has a responsibility to its citizens and its businesses, and it is abandoning this responsibility entirely.


10 posted on 11/02/2011 6:18:29 PM PDT by livius
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OPD just requested mutual aid..

(Help from surrounding PD’s.)


11 posted on 11/02/2011 6:19:44 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: livius

I’ve not been to Oakland in decades, but my perception is that they aspire to be the west coast version of Detroit.


12 posted on 11/02/2011 6:20:14 PM PDT by nascarnation (DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I remember correctly isn’t disrupting the economic activity at the ports of the United States with this type of violence and interference an act of terrorism?


13 posted on 11/02/2011 6:21:03 PM PDT by radpolis (Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama’s people at work trying to destroy this country.


14 posted on 11/02/2011 6:22:58 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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If they block the port, they’re interfering with State & Federal commerce on which OTHER workers jobs depend on.

These people are dumb. Really DUMB.

It’s an act of war on others’ livelihood.

They’re essentially economic terrorists.

I was just watching this bunch of dumb communists:

http://www.occupyoakland.org/

People are going to get hurt. They claim they are “not violent” but they are oppressively obstructive and as such, they are stealing other people’s right to make a living.

Because it’s a declaration of non-violent warfare/theivery on other people, it necessarily requires some form of violence or force to get rid of them.


15 posted on 11/02/2011 6:24:31 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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Aren’t the ports heavily unionized?

Seems they’re biting one of the hands that feeds them.

Just in time for the holidays...


16 posted on 11/02/2011 6:24:51 PM PDT by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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To: radpolis

Yes, if you’re Southern, Christian or a combination of the two.


17 posted on 11/02/2011 6:25:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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At least 4,000 are at the gates to the Port of Oakland.

Why? Are stevedores giving out bogus home loans?

18 posted on 11/02/2011 6:27:49 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: MountainDad

So the barbarians are at the gate. Well, time to get out the boiling oil. I love a good siege gone bad.

Vlad. Calling Vlad. Barbarians at the gate. You know what’s at stake (sorry for the pun - NOT).

Love it when the Left eats its’ own. Mayor Quan is a leftist twerp and she is being outgunned by her own radicals. Love it.

The more they protest, the more conservatives are created from fence-straddling independents. Love it!


19 posted on 11/02/2011 6:27:49 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Black block anarchists / useful idiots for the communists after the revolution they always find themselves standing at the edge of an open mass grave asking the same stupid question “whats going on? why me?” then bang a pistol shot to the back of the head. The booger eating morons never learn.


20 posted on 11/02/2011 6:29:38 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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