SHOWDOWN
Occupy Oakland Calls For Citywide General Strike Nov. 2
ABOVE IS AN AWESOME POSTER FROM OCCUPY WALL STREET PROMOTING a citywide strike by students and workers in Oakland, Calif. for Wednesday, November 2.
“Instead of workers going to work and students going to school, the people will converge on downtown Oakland to shut down the city,” organizers say on the movement’s website. “All banks and corporations should close down for the day or we will march on them….The whole world is watching Oakland. Let’s show them what is possible.”
Marches are planned for 9 a.m., noon and 5 p.m.
Oakland has been scene of Occupy protesters’ most violent confrontations with police who used tear gas to disband demonstrators last Tuesday. More than 100 people were arrested.
One protester, former Iraq veteran Scott Olsen, 24, remains hospitalized after being hit in the head with a tear-gas canister fired by police.
ABC reports that Olson, along with Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas who was caught on video making an impassioned plea for restrain by to New York police, have become “rallying figures in the Occupy Wall Street movement.”
Stay tuned for more news from the frontlines on the war against economic injustice.
