OaktownLive
Team OaktownLive consists of Pirate (Camera-Monkey, Raconteur) and Lexica (Base Control, Social Stream Mod, Voice-of-Reason).
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#OO Epic Dance Party in #Solidarity w #OWS: On March 17th 2012, the 6-month anniversary of the founding of Occupy Wall Street was hit with some serious police repression by the NYPD. Occipuers in NYC arrested for “Dancing” were far from the worst police abuses that day.
Sunday 3/18, Occupies all over staged solidarity protests in support of OWS.
Occupy Oakland’s solidarity march involved an EPIC DANCE PARTY on the front door of OPD. And yes, that is your camera-monkey bustin’ a move or two. ;-)
NOTE: Pirate misidentified this as an FTP (“Fuck The Police”) march. That was the night before. This was an OWS Solidarity march. Just sayin.
TOL will be #LiveAndDirect from tonight’s #OccupyOakland’s #FTP march ~8:15pm PST #OCAM #OO #SunshineBloc http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oaktownlive
The epic rain of the last few days seems to be backing off. Unfortunately, the stabilizer Pirate ordered arrived without an essential part, and the company we ordered it from hasn’t called back like they said they would. Gotta write a “shocked, appalled, and dismayed” email. So Pirate’s Mighty Bamboo Pole of Transparency is still on duty.
Happy St Patrick’s Day, everyone.
Pirate & Lexica
Team Oaktown Live
Tony from #OO ARC: Stay-Away orders #PressConference. #Ocam #StayawayCr3w #Occupy
Tony Marks-Block of the Stop The Injunctions Coalition and the Occupy Oakland Anti-Repression Committee speaking after the official press conference about the stay-away orders issued by the City Government against several OO activists. Thu Mar 8, 2012.
Thursday the ACLU filed suit on behalf of several OO activists given stay-away orders.
Team Oaktown Live will be #LiveAndDirect from tonight’s #OccupyOakland FTP march. Team coverage goes live ~8:15pm PST, march slated to start 9pm. Tonight’s theme (aside from fuck the police) is “Superheros”.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/OaktownLive
The world is watching.
I noticed that at appropx 5:40 into my video, when people are saying “OPD arrested her for a broken headlight”, you can hear one of the OPD motorcycle cops saying “Get it right, get it right!”
It wasn’t OPD who pulled the car over and made the arrest, it was the California Highway Patrol. And as Lexi pointed out to me this morning, I think CHP fucked up and suspect some people in OPD share that opinion.
The night’s march(es) had gone totally smoothly. No vandalism, nothing burned but an American Flag (that presumably the protester himself bought), minimal police presence the whole night. Just a few cycle cops running traffic blocks on all four sides of the march (it’s Saturday night in Oakland, there’s only so much traffic one CAN block).
No riot lines deployed, everybody was going home after a non-aggro evening.
Then CHP has to be the asshole, HAS to get some kind of arrest in. On what really seems like bullshit.
At which point the Occupiers get all bent out of shape, start mobbin, and OPD has to come in a stand in to do crowd control. After a perfectly peaceful night that was winding down, suddenly the hornet’s nest is kicked. More occupiers are getting arrested, more people getting pissed off.
Now, CHP are the ones who swooped in and arrested the driver, but it’s OPD that has to deal with the Occupiers on a day-to-day basis, in particular now that they got riled up. Trust me NOTHING riles up Occupy Oakland more than arresting their people. Tear gas and bean-bags are one thing, but you start dragging their friends of to Santa Rita jail and IT’S ON.
I really think that OPD cycle cop saying “Get it right” was trying to drive home the point: it was CHP that chose to be assholes after it had all gone mellowly. But it’s OPD that will get blamed, and it’s OPD that has to pick up the mess.
OPD is fucked-up and bullshit. But they had been hands-off all night, gave the FTP marchers room to do their thing on relatively deserted streets, through some pretty supportive neighborhoods, and it was time for a beer and a bowl.
I blame this one on CHP, I really do. OPD don’t need help to be fucked up. But this hornet’s nest had Ponch and Jon written all over the boot that kicked it.
