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

[2ndDivisionVet]

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.

[rdcbn]

Don’t you have to have a job before you can strike?

[concerned about politics]

the freedom to trash the city

I hope someone in the right wing media gets all this recorded. The more radical the left becomes, the more turned off the U.S. population will get - and these are Obomas supporters. They're all democrats.

[NormsRevenge]

The Mercury news has a blog running.. a snip ..

Occupy Oakland Live Blog: Police pull back from protesters at the port

http://www.mercurynews.com/occupy-oakland/ci_19247016

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The total crowd at 5 p.m. was estimated at between 4,500 and 5,000 people, interim police Chief Howard Jordan said. About 3,000 were “marching peacefully to the Port,” he added.

“Earlier, we got reports that five businesses have been damaged, mostly banks and Whole Foods. We deeply regret that took place,” Jordan said.

Of the crowd of thousands, Jordan said, a small group of just 60 or 70 people now identified as anarchists were responsible for the vandalism, Jordan said.

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[Recovering Ex-hippie]

No Police Dept can really handle large crowd control at all.

when it gets to that point, they will have to call in the Nat Guard..and THAT is what the protestors want..someone hurt, a big Guard prescence —all for the MSM.

[Vendome]

Gawd.

I’ve been working all day and didn’t hear about these Kommie’s, erh, Kimmies.

Shutting down the port is gonna smart a bit if lasts only a week and these loons are looking more and more like they have the stomach and stamina to sustain them, no matter how much they hurt others.

Dey, Krazies.

Lock and Load...

I missed the Rodney King riots by a mere couple of minutes after having dinner at Scoma’s.

I am keeping a wary eye on this thing.

They are also camped at Saint James Park, in San Jose.

If one or two of these cities goes off then all it’s gonna be on for a good many others.

(now where did I put those claymores....?)

[2ndDivisionVet]

No, that’s the beauty of socialism.

[Rocky]

I think Obama should declare martial law, don’t you? Or is that on next week’s schedule?

[steve86]

A great many of them have gone home (or to Starbuck’s — can sip evil corporate latte and post their protest pics on Facebook) but now that it’s dark expect the more hardcore element to show up and challenge the port police. Did you catch that “pee-line” they had across the boulevard — men urinating in the middle of the street.

[dragnet2]

No Police Dept can really handle large crowd control at all... when it gets to that point, they will have to call in the Nat Guard..

Neither can the guard without shooting people, or gassing them off the streets like OPD did last week.

Some reports earlier had the crowd at 8k BTW.

[headsonpikes]

“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.”

That is the sole consolation of socialism - it will devour its own.

[Chickensoup]

That is the sole consolation of socialism - it will devour its own.

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But it kills the innocent in the meantime.

[patton]

фасад чтобы противник.

[headsonpikes]

“But it kills the innocent in the meantime.”

Socialism kills whatever it touches - that is its nature.

[ExTxMarine]

Great for Obama another excuse for a failing economy.

Uh...the REASON, we are not...uh...PROGRESSING, is due to several headwinds. Like...uh...Japan's EARTHQUAKE and...uh...Europe's financial...uh...PROBLEMS, and...uh...Oakland's blocked ports and...uh...things-like-that.

Does that sound about right? LOL!

[TheOldLady]

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[2ndDivisionVet]

I believe that’s set for Ramadan.

[Jeff Head]

Call in the Guard and have them dispersed.

[Fightin Whitey]

Bull’s-eye-sheviks.

[rdcbn]

So I guess they refuse their food stamps and Section 8 rent subsidies

[Viking2002]

I Googled that. All I got back was stuff like 'Наружная сторона здания, сооружения; фасад I. IV предик.; = фасс Произнесение ... или полевого укрепления, обращенный в сторону противника. ...', and something that roughly translated to, 'You are the spawn of a ferret and an elm tree'. This thread shouldn't be that esoteric.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."