Posts tagged 99 percent
«Because if it is the right thing to do, then we have every right to do it.” The crowd cheered as the chains on the gates were cut open and hundreds flooded onto the Gill Tract, several acres of University of California (UC) property that have been contested for more than a decade. They brought tools, straw, chickens in portable coops and 15,000 starter plants that had been growing in green houses around Northern California for the past several months before finding their home in this Class I soil in the sleepy bedroom community of Albany, just north of Berkeley.»
— Occupy the Farm Dig In, Dug Up — me for Truthout today (via susie-c)
Besides being on an exceptionally cute dog, I like that this sign doesn’t purport to know this pooch’s political beliefs, as so many of these placard-on-baby-or-dog protest signs do.
Justice is blind.
Decolonization ship at the May Day protest in East Oakland. I wonder how long it took them to build it.
The protest was very focused on immigrants rights and indigenous peoples’ rights, so this boat fit right in.
Hey drummer, nice sign. At the general strike march, Occupy Oakland, May Day.
Fucking beautiful.
Egyptian protesters take over Tahrir Square in Cairo on Nov. 18. (Khaled Elfiqi / EPA)
(Source: theaestheticengineer)
The plan is to march from the old site of Occupy Oakland to the new one by the Fox Theater. A last-minute resolution was voted down tonight that would have canceled the move.
Hey, it’s not til 2pm so even if you go dancing and drinking tonight you can still sleep in and make the rally. Hope to see you there!
(Source: hellaoccupy, via neighborhoodr-oakland)
Video of police officers pepper spraying students who are peacefully sitting, waiting to be arrested. Then the cops realize they will have to push their arrestees through the very crowd that has watched just watched their despicable action. Oops.
The crowd chants to shame them and the police back down!
WE CAN WIN THIS.
If you have any thoughts you want to share with the UC Davis Police Department, they can be reached at (530) 752-1727.
