Media Roots: Occupy Oakland Historic Strike & Port Shutdown (Video)

By on November 11, 2011 in News 1

Abby Martin of Media Roots captures some great energy and epic highlights from the day of the historic general strike in Oakland on 11-2-11. Footage includes the strike, the shutdown of the banks around town, the march to the port and the shutdown of the Port of Oakland:

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  • Camron Wiltshire

    I applaud these activists for getting together in the streets. I am still waiting to understand what the goals of the occupy movement are exactly.  The idea that this may be a controlled burn, preventing the larger wild fire of populist revolt by and large by redirecting that potentially transformative energy into a form of managed/controlled opposition is my intuitive reaction. 

    “Occupying” various locales as a means to begin a greater process of dialog and cross pollination of ideas, such as say the reality of state crimes against humanity being deployed as a means to enforce the shock doctrine and overhaul public policy towards draconian control and abuse by governments,  (911, OKC, 7/7, etc) realizing the dictatorial control of the Federal Reserve system over our money supply  and it’s agency in blowing and bursting financial bubbles as a means of massive wealth redistribution for the “elite” corporatocracy, as well as a return to constitutional sovereignty and state power are core issues that once understood set the stage for addressing the roots of our discontent and not wasting valuable energy and effort tangling with the various branches of the blighted tree. 

    Becoming the media and utilizing the backbone of the internet as a mean to shift memes from the spin of the corporate media and yet with the savvy to not be suckered by astroturf orgs like DemocracyNow (Ford foundation funded, believes without question in AGW, will not touch 9/11 or the FED) or other Coopted organs such as the Tea Party which effectively have in a large part come under control of vested interests opposed to covering 9/11, The Fed or any other aspects of truth which would cause any immediate reconsideration of the false Left/Right control paradigm.Thank you Abby for covering this.  I hope your voice and those you inspire will continue to seek Truth first rather than a tribal/political identity primarily.  This is the most essential understanding we must collectively arrive at in order to have a real chance for authentic change, knowledge of how the masses have been and continue to be corralled at the level of ideas into controlled “opposing” groups will enable a real dialog between all who suffer who at the machinations of the so called “elite”. 

    I’m curious what success you may have had in discussing the reality of false flag terror, the fed, or of the false left/right control system with those passionate enough to march and “occupy”. 

    Best wishes.