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There’s been a lot of actions that’s been going on and a lot of things we wanna change in the world, not just with Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another camper, who goes by the name of Boston, said he’s spent some time drifting between encampments around the country, but plans to spend the winter in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51532\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 292px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/photoSM.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/photoSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"photoSM\" width=\"292\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51532\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The walls of the abandoned lot, now Occupied. (Caitlin Esch/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think this should be the main site to be quite honest, because I like to see the main site back in front of city hall. I like to see it right in front of Masonic structures right in the middle of downtown so the public has to see us everyday, but this could be used as a safe house or something. I really like the idea because no land should go unused, especially with all the homelessness and people losing their jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbor Bud Cornell said he doesn’t see the point of occupying West Oakland. He’s concerned about the camp’s lack of bathroom facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think everyone was into it, then the homeless took it over and kind of made it their thing and kind of ruined it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>During our coverage of the Oakland port shutdown yesterday, we wrote a little bit about labor's decidedly tepid if not negative response to Occupy Oakland's protest on behalf of Longview, Washington ILWU workers in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/21/us-longshoremen-arrests-idUSTRE78K7TC20110921\">dispute\u003c/a> with the grain exporter EGT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_49982\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/OaklandPort111212forum.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/OaklandPort111212forum.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"OaklandPort111212forum\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49982\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caitlin Esch/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The leadership of the ILWU as well as various locals declared their opposition to the action. From Chronicle columnist Andrew S. Ross this weekend, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-12-08/business/30489379_1_shutdown-international-longshore-warehouse-union\">Union not keen on new Occupy Oakland\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp> (T)he folks [protesters] purport to be in solidarity with don't seem hot on the idea to \"effectively shut down the hubs of commerce\" at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"Any actions organized by outside groups, including the proposed Dec. 12 shutdown of various terminals on the West Coast, have not been vetted by our union's democratically led process,\" the International Longshore and Warehouse Union said. \"Any decisions made by groups outside of the union's democratic process do not hold water, regardless of the intent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> The Occupy movements that make a fetish of applying direct democracy and near absolute consensus to its own decision making might want to take note of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Richard Mead, president of ILWU Local 10, which represents dockworkers at the Port of Oakland, said, \"Our position is in the international's press release. We're not facilitating (Occupy Oakland's strike call) in any way. We just want that clear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Jeff Smith, president of ILWU Local 8 in Portland, Ore., went further, telling the Portland Tribune his union won't honor picket lines. \"This is a third-party strike. We have to go to work,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But the Occupy movement says the union rank and file supported the protest. Occupy Oakland's Barucha Peller, who participated in the organizing of the attempted port shutdowns, said this to KQED's Mina Kim during the planning stages of the port action:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rank and file traditionally will honor community picket lines around social justice issues. I think the longshoremen are not unaware of the aims of the Occupy movement and a lot of those aims speak to them as well. Rank and file are also part of the Occupy movement, not separate. Across the board, rank and file union members as well as non-unionized workers, make up a large part of the Occupy movement.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whether the majority of affected union members actually supported yesterday's action -- or not -- I'm not sure anyone really knows. Here's a comment we received on the blog yesterday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I'm a union worker. I lost a much needed day of pay today. I went to observe the occupiers for hours today. FACT: Most workers were upset with them. FACT: There were only a handful of people that worked there involved in the protest. Most union and non union port workers were upset and negatively affected financially.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, at the protest, KQED News Intern Rebecca Wolfson interviewed a business rep for the machinists union, which represents some port workers. Garry Horrocks had this to say: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>I think a lot of union members are split because philosophically they believe in what's going on but there's contractual issues the unions have to recognize, and they have liabilities and assets to lose if they don't follow the legalities in the contract. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's what they call a fiduciary responsiblity of the members of the union to protect the assets, bc if ther are no assets, there's no funding, there's no revolution, there's no unions. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, on KQED Radio's Forum show, ILWU Communications Director Craig Merrilees expressed support for the Occupy movement while somewhat gingerly reaffirming the union's opposition to the port action: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think almost everyone in the ILWU supports the goals of the 99% and nobody's done more than the Occupy movement to raise that issue. They've done a fabulous job of changing the debate in this country in a positive way so that people begin to have a sense of power. The ILWU has a long history of social justice and that kind of activism is part of the culture of this union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for this particular day, the union is not taking a position supporting this action, but that was really because of the lack of a process to allow the longshore workers – the rank and file, members – to participate in that decision. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are individuals who are exercising their First Amendment rights to take a stand, but the union itself is not in that position today.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When asked if the union was \"ticked off\" that it wasn't consulted in the decision to demonstrate, he said, \"I don't think ticked off is the right word in any way. There's a position of respect here; I think the ILWU is grateful and respectful that people are standing up and raising concerns about the injustice that's taking place in America….there continues to be a lot of good feeling towards the thrust of what folks in the Occupy movement are trying to achieve.\"\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is Mina's Kim's interview with Occupy Oakland's Peller from a couple of weeks ago, in which Peller talks about the Occupy movement's reasons for focusing on the port. The conversation speaks to the question of and perhaps some of the contradictions inherent in an outside group taking on an issue specific to organized labor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edited transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the port action about?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> It's about shutting down Wall Street on the waterfront. Shutting down Goldman Sachs, which owns a part of the SSA terminal, and EGT, a multiational grain exporter rupturing longshoremen jurisdiction in Longview, Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> We've identified the fact that a the 1% makes a great deal of its profit on the ports and on the backs of exploited labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you been working with longshoremen?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> We've been working with rank-and-file longshoremen. Legally, no union can sanction a strike. There are no-strike clauses. But we're not asking for a strike, we're asking for a blockade like on Nov 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Historically, since the anti-apartheid movement, people will go down and create community pickets and shut down the ports. These ports are public, anyone can go down there and protest. We know that the longshoremen rank and file largely support the aims of the Occupy movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> As well, this west coast coordinated port blockade is in solidarity with the longshoremen's struggle against EGT in Longview Washington, which is ruptuing their jurisdition and is a direct threat to the survival of the ILWU. While the ILWU international may not be able to officially say anything about the port blockade, this is a large number of people taking on the issues that we all have with the 1%. EGT is not only a longshoreman issue, but they have economically plundered people from Argentina to Brazil and all around the world… And of course, Goldman Sachs owns a large part of the SSA terminal, and we all know what Goldman Sachs has done to a large part of our communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How would you respond to people who say that shutting down the port would hurt members of the 99% like truckers and other workers who need the shift?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> It's the same thing as in the general strike, where the right wing tried to accuse occupy Oakland of hurting small businesses. But we all have to make a sacrifice here, to strike back against the 1% and take our lives back from the 1%. This is what this movement is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cstrong>Did anyone from the Longview union ask you guys to shut down the port in solidarity with their fight?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> No. The occupation movement doesn't need to take marching orders from anyone. It's a mass of people self-organizing to get their material needs met and to strike back against he 1%. Of course we've been aware of the issue in Longview and applauding the resistance by the longshoremen up in Longview for resisting EGT, but like I said, EGT and other companies operating up there are a concern of everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Nobody from the longshoremen has asked the Occupy movement to do anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cstrong>Are you worried about support from the union's rank and file, or do you think you definitely have their support?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> The rank and file traditionally will honor community picket lines around social justice issues. I think the longshoremen are not unaware of the aims of the Occupy movement and a lot of those aims speak to them as well. Rank and file are also part of the Occupy movement, not separate. Across the board, rank and file union members as well as non-unionized workers, make up a large part of the Occupy movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cstrong>Any plans to coordinate more with the ILWU?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> It's a very sad thing what's happened to the unions in the U.S. because of no-strike clauses and different legal ramifications. It's sad that unions have to distance themselves from things like this for fear of being sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Nobody can speak for the leadership of the ILWU. But working class people understand that EGT and Goldman Sachs are Wall Street on the waterfront, and it's important to shut down Wall Street because of the way these big companies have plundered our lives.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Also released yesterday, \u003ca href=\"http://cleanandsafeports.org/blog/2011/12/12/an-open-letter-from-america%E2%80%99s-port-truck-drivers-on-occupy-the-ports/\">An Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the Ports\u003c/a>, signed by three port drivers and two other truckers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma, New York and New Jersey to tell our collective story. We have accepted the honor to speak up for our brothers and sisters about our working conditions despite the risk of retaliation we face. One of us is a mother, the rest of us fathers. Between the five of us we have 11children and one more baby on the way. We have a combined 46 years of experience driving cargo from our shores for America’s stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> We are inspired that a non-violent democratic movement that insists on basic economic fairness is capturing the hearts and minds of so many working people. Thank you “99 Percenters” for hearing our call for justice. We are humbled and overwhelmed by recent attention. Normally we are invisible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Today’s demonstrations will impact us. While we cannot officially speak for every worker who shares our occupation, we can use this opportunity to reveal what it’s like to walk a day in our shoes for the 110,000 of us in America whose job it is to be a port truck driver. It may be tempting for media to ask questions about whether we support a shutdown, but there are no easy answers. Instead, we ask you, are you willing to listen and learn why a one-word response is impossible? \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The letter goes on to describe poor working conditions and a loss of labor rights in the trucking industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expressing a different viewpoint yesterday were some of the truckers who told our reporter, Caitlin Esch, that they were really angry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the truckers came in from far away,\" Esch said. \"Nevada, Denver, Kansas, and so they're not leaving until they complete their task. 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From Chronicle columnist Andrew S. Ross this weekend, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-12-08/business/30489379_1_shutdown-international-longshore-warehouse-union\">Union not keen on new Occupy Oakland\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp> (T)he folks [protesters] purport to be in solidarity with don't seem hot on the idea to \"effectively shut down the hubs of commerce\" at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"Any actions organized by outside groups, including the proposed Dec. 12 shutdown of various terminals on the West Coast, have not been vetted by our union's democratically led process,\" the International Longshore and Warehouse Union said. \"Any decisions made by groups outside of the union's democratic process do not hold water, regardless of the intent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> The Occupy movements that make a fetish of applying direct democracy and near absolute consensus to its own decision making might want to take note of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Richard Mead, president of ILWU Local 10, which represents dockworkers at the Port of Oakland, said, \"Our position is in the international's press release. We're not facilitating (Occupy Oakland's strike call) in any way. We just want that clear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Jeff Smith, president of ILWU Local 8 in Portland, Ore., went further, telling the Portland Tribune his union won't honor picket lines. \"This is a third-party strike. We have to go to work,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But the Occupy movement says the union rank and file supported the protest. Occupy Oakland's Barucha Peller, who participated in the organizing of the attempted port shutdowns, said this to KQED's Mina Kim during the planning stages of the port action:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rank and file traditionally will honor community picket lines around social justice issues. I think the longshoremen are not unaware of the aims of the Occupy movement and a lot of those aims speak to them as well. Rank and file are also part of the Occupy movement, not separate. Across the board, rank and file union members as well as non-unionized workers, make up a large part of the Occupy movement.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whether the majority of affected union members actually supported yesterday's action -- or not -- I'm not sure anyone really knows. Here's a comment we received on the blog yesterday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I'm a union worker. I lost a much needed day of pay today. I went to observe the occupiers for hours today. FACT: Most workers were upset with them. FACT: There were only a handful of people that worked there involved in the protest. Most union and non union port workers were upset and negatively affected financially.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, at the protest, KQED News Intern Rebecca Wolfson interviewed a business rep for the machinists union, which represents some port workers. Garry Horrocks had this to say: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>I think a lot of union members are split because philosophically they believe in what's going on but there's contractual issues the unions have to recognize, and they have liabilities and assets to lose if they don't follow the legalities in the contract. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's what they call a fiduciary responsiblity of the members of the union to protect the assets, bc if ther are no assets, there's no funding, there's no revolution, there's no unions. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, on KQED Radio's Forum show, ILWU Communications Director Craig Merrilees expressed support for the Occupy movement while somewhat gingerly reaffirming the union's opposition to the port action: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think almost everyone in the ILWU supports the goals of the 99% and nobody's done more than the Occupy movement to raise that issue. They've done a fabulous job of changing the debate in this country in a positive way so that people begin to have a sense of power. The ILWU has a long history of social justice and that kind of activism is part of the culture of this union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for this particular day, the union is not taking a position supporting this action, but that was really because of the lack of a process to allow the longshore workers – the rank and file, members – to participate in that decision. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are individuals who are exercising their First Amendment rights to take a stand, but the union itself is not in that position today.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When asked if the union was \"ticked off\" that it wasn't consulted in the decision to demonstrate, he said, \"I don't think ticked off is the right word in any way. There's a position of respect here; I think the ILWU is grateful and respectful that people are standing up and raising concerns about the injustice that's taking place in America….there continues to be a lot of good feeling towards the thrust of what folks in the Occupy movement are trying to achieve.\"\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is Mina's Kim's interview with Occupy Oakland's Peller from a couple of weeks ago, in which Peller talks about the Occupy movement's reasons for focusing on the port. The conversation speaks to the question of and perhaps some of the contradictions inherent in an outside group taking on an issue specific to organized labor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edited transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the port action about?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> It's about shutting down Wall Street on the waterfront. Shutting down Goldman Sachs, which owns a part of the SSA terminal, and EGT, a multiational grain exporter rupturing longshoremen jurisdiction in Longview, Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> We've identified the fact that a the 1% makes a great deal of its profit on the ports and on the backs of exploited labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you been working with longshoremen?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> We've been working with rank-and-file longshoremen. Legally, no union can sanction a strike. There are no-strike clauses. But we're not asking for a strike, we're asking for a blockade like on Nov 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Historically, since the anti-apartheid movement, people will go down and create community pickets and shut down the ports. These ports are public, anyone can go down there and protest. We know that the longshoremen rank and file largely support the aims of the Occupy movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> As well, this west coast coordinated port blockade is in solidarity with the longshoremen's struggle against EGT in Longview Washington, which is ruptuing their jurisdition and is a direct threat to the survival of the ILWU. While the ILWU international may not be able to officially say anything about the port blockade, this is a large number of people taking on the issues that we all have with the 1%. EGT is not only a longshoreman issue, but they have economically plundered people from Argentina to Brazil and all around the world… And of course, Goldman Sachs owns a large part of the SSA terminal, and we all know what Goldman Sachs has done to a large part of our communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How would you respond to people who say that shutting down the port would hurt members of the 99% like truckers and other workers who need the shift?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> It's the same thing as in the general strike, where the right wing tried to accuse occupy Oakland of hurting small businesses. But we all have to make a sacrifice here, to strike back against the 1% and take our lives back from the 1%. This is what this movement is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cstrong>Did anyone from the Longview union ask you guys to shut down the port in solidarity with their fight?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> No. The occupation movement doesn't need to take marching orders from anyone. It's a mass of people self-organizing to get their material needs met and to strike back against he 1%. Of course we've been aware of the issue in Longview and applauding the resistance by the longshoremen up in Longview for resisting EGT, but like I said, EGT and other companies operating up there are a concern of everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Nobody from the longshoremen has asked the Occupy movement to do anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cstrong>Are you worried about support from the union's rank and file, or do you think you definitely have their support?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> The rank and file traditionally will honor community picket lines around social justice issues. I think the longshoremen are not unaware of the aims of the Occupy movement and a lot of those aims speak to them as well. Rank and file are also part of the Occupy movement, not separate. Across the board, rank and file union members as well as non-unionized workers, make up a large part of the Occupy movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cstrong>Any plans to coordinate more with the ILWU?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> It's a very sad thing what's happened to the unions in the U.S. because of no-strike clauses and different legal ramifications. It's sad that unions have to distance themselves from things like this for fear of being sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Nobody can speak for the leadership of the ILWU. But working class people understand that EGT and Goldman Sachs are Wall Street on the waterfront, and it's important to shut down Wall Street because of the way these big companies have plundered our lives.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Also released yesterday, \u003ca href=\"http://cleanandsafeports.org/blog/2011/12/12/an-open-letter-from-america%E2%80%99s-port-truck-drivers-on-occupy-the-ports/\">An Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the Ports\u003c/a>, signed by three port drivers and two other truckers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma, New York and New Jersey to tell our collective story. We have accepted the honor to speak up for our brothers and sisters about our working conditions despite the risk of retaliation we face. One of us is a mother, the rest of us fathers. Between the five of us we have 11children and one more baby on the way. We have a combined 46 years of experience driving cargo from our shores for America’s stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> We are inspired that a non-violent democratic movement that insists on basic economic fairness is capturing the hearts and minds of so many working people. Thank you “99 Percenters” for hearing our call for justice. We are humbled and overwhelmed by recent attention. Normally we are invisible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Today’s demonstrations will impact us. While we cannot officially speak for every worker who shares our occupation, we can use this opportunity to reveal what it’s like to walk a day in our shoes for the 110,000 of us in America whose job it is to be a port truck driver. It may be tempting for media to ask questions about whether we support a shutdown, but there are no easy answers. Instead, we ask you, are you willing to listen and learn why a one-word response is impossible? \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The letter goes on to describe poor working conditions and a loss of labor rights in the trucking industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expressing a different viewpoint yesterday were some of the truckers who told our reporter, Caitlin Esch, that they were really angry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the truckers came in from far away,\" Esch said. \"Nevada, Denver, Kansas, and so they're not leaving until they complete their task. The truckers say they're going to be living in their trucks until they can complete their assignments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_49693\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/occupyport2.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49693\" title=\"occupyport2\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/occupyport2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officers from the Alameda County Sheriff Department create a line as Occupy protestors gather at berths 55 and 56 at the Port of Oakland. (Caitlin Esch/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/12/12/occupy-port-protest-live-tweets-from-reporters/#update\">Latest updates\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Today protesters are trying to shut down ports along the West Coast. In Oakland, protesters gathered around 5:30 a.m. at the West Oakland BART station. Our reporter Andrew Stelzer estimated about a thousand who then marched through the streets of West Oakland. From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The protesters are targeting the locations because they believe American ports have become “economic engines for the elite.” They are most upset by two West Coast companies — giant West Coast port operator SSA Marine and grain exporter EGT — that they believe epitomize the big corporations that make up the “1 percent.” Goldman Sachs owns a major stake in SSA Marine, and the bank has been a repeated target of Occupy protesters since the movement began. The two port companies have also engaged in high-profile clashes with union workers lately, and the Occupy protesters want to stand up for the workers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>More live coverage online:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_19528961\">Oakland Tribune live blog\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ustream.tv/channel/9636787\">Live video stream\u003c/a> (Spencer Mills)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23occupytheports\">Twitter: #occupytheports\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"update\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Updates:\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>10:30 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Signing Off\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re calling it a day on the blogging Occupy front. We’ll be back tomorrow morning here on News Fix and on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">KQED Radio\u003c/a> with the latest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>7:40 p.m.\u003c/em> Occupy protestors decided to continue the protest during the general assembly, with some protestors staying at the berths until the 3 a.m. shift tomorrow morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>6:10 p.m.\u003c/em> KQED’s Caitlin Esch says that hundreds of protestors are gathered at berths 55 and 56 in Oakland. “It’s a dance party atmosphere, there trucks with huge amps on them and people are just dancing in the street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protestors are holding a general assembly at the port at 7 p.m. to decide whether to extend the blockade until the 3 a.m. shift, since employers did not order any workers for Monday’s evening shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>4:58 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>The story according to the Chron…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/12/BAJK1MBE5E.DTL\">Oakland port workers kept home as protesters march\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No longshore workers will be called in to the Port of Oakland tonight as Occupy protesters renew their efforts to blockade the docks, according to a spokesman for the International Longshore Workers Union. The decision, which could effective close port operations for the evening, came as several hundred protesters gathered outside Oakland City Hall at Frank Ogawa Plaza and began marching toward the waterfront behind a large banner that declared, “Port Closing.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>4:15 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>The story according to the Port of Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters have already declared victory today; looks like the port is trying to do the same. It issued a press release this afternoon called “Myths and Facts About the Port of Oakland Protests”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While news reports today have for the most part accurately described protest activity at the Port of Oakland today, some incorrect information and rumors persist. The Port would like to separate fact from rumor:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: The Port of Oakland is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port is not closed. Operations have continued throughout the day after sporadic interruptions due to the morning protest activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the rest of the day and overnight, the Port anticipates very limited terminal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: The Port of Oakland was shut down today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port remained operational today, even though there were disruptions throughout the morning that affected terminal operations and truck traffic. Trucks were moving cargo into and out of Port facilities as early as 7:00 a.m. and into and out of the majority of facilities by 10:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No ships were loaded or unloaded today. Yard and gate operations at some terminals continued regarding cargo that had already been unloaded. Some terminals could not operate at all because of protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: Shifts were cancelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terminal operators are responsible for ordering and cancelling shifts. No shifts were cancelled today. Some Longshoremen were unable to report to work for health and safety reasons. Some were released due to the inability to fill a labor order. As a result, some terminals were unable to operate normally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: Some or all terminals were closed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All terminals opened today. Some were unable to accept cargo due to protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: Oakland was the only west coast port impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We understand from news reports that operators at the Port of Portland shut two terminals, affecting four ship operations. As a result, 200 Longshoreman were not able to work there. At the Port of LA and Long Beach, there was apparently minor operational impact and protesters were dispersed this morning. At the Port of Seattle, protest activity is expected later today and tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: Customs enforcement personnel were not at all terminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some terminals experienced a delay in Customs personnel arrival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: An arbitrator was called in and sent Longshoremen home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not true. Under the labor agreement between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), an arbitrator may be called to determine if it is safe for workers to report to work. In this case, PMA decided not to call out the arbitrator. It remains possible that the ILWU may still request an arbitration to determine if they should to be paid for the inability to report to work but at no time today was an arbitrator called.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>4:07 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Scott Olsen speaks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.twitvid.com/25KM5\">video interview with Scott Olsen\u003c/a> at today’s demonstration, giving an update on his health. The Iraqi War vet was critically injured by a projectile, ostensibly thrown by police, during a clash with Occupy Oakland protesters in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>3:35 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Occupy Oakland rally\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland\">\u003cstrong>Watch live here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2:55 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Terminal closure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vtnocal.com/default.asp?SiteID=TTI_OAK\">TTI’s announcement\u003c/a> that its Oakland terminal was unable to open for business today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Due to protesters who have congregated in front of the terminal’s main gate TTI will be unable to open for business today. We will resume operations tomorrow at the normal time.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2:05 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Labor union support — or not\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not the affected labor unions support today’s action is a big topic of debate. On one side of the issue: An \u003ca href=\"http://cleanandsafeports.org/blog/2011/12/12/an-open-letter-from-america%E2%80%99s-port-truck-drivers-on-occupy-the-ports/\">Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the Ports\u003c/a>, signed by three port drivers and two other truckers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma, New York and New Jersey to tell our collective story. We have accepted the honor to speak up for our brothers and sisters about our working conditions despite the risk of retaliation we face. One of us is a mother, the rest of us fathers. Between the five of us we have 11children and one more baby on the way. We have a combined 46 years of experience driving cargo from our shores for America’s stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are inspired that a non-violent democratic movement that insists on basic economic fairness is capturing the hearts and minds of so many working people. Thank you “99 Percenters” for hearing our call for justice. We are humbled and overwhelmed by recent attention. Normally we are invisible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s demonstrations will impact us. While we cannot officially speak for every worker who shares our occupation, we can use this opportunity to reveal what it’s like to walk a day in our shoes for the 110,000 of us in America whose job it is to be a port truck driver. It may be tempting for media to ask questions about whether we support a shutdown, but there are no easy answers. Instead, we ask you, are you willing to listen and learn why a one-word response is impossible? \u003ca href=\"http://cleanandsafeports.org/blog/2011/12/12/an-open-letter-from-america%E2%80%99s-port-truck-drivers-on-occupy-the-ports/\">Full letter\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The letter goes on to describe poor working conditions and a loss of labor rights in the trucking industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representing a different view: From Chronicle columnist Andrew S. Ross this weekend, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/08/BUTP1M8VTI.DTL\">Union not keen on new Occupy Oakland\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(T)he folks [protesters] purport to be in solidarity with don’t seem hot on the idea to “effectively shut down the hubs of commerce” at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any actions organized by outside groups, including the proposed Dec. 12 shutdown of various terminals on the West Coast, have not been vetted by our union’s democratically led process,” the International Longshore and Warehouse Union said. “Any decisions made by groups outside of the union’s democratic process do not hold water, regardless of the intent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Occupy movements that make a fetish of applying direct democracy and near absolute consensus to its own decision making might want to take note of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Mead, president of ILWU Local 10, which represents dockworkers at the Port of Oakland, said, “Our position is in the international’s press release. We’re not facilitating (Occupy Oakland’s strike call) in any way. We just want that clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Smith, president of ILWU Local 8 in Portland, Ore., went further, telling the Portland Tribune his union won’t honor picket lines. “This is a third-party strike. We have to go to work,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A couple of weeks ago, KQED’s Mina Kim spoke to Occupy Oakland’s Barucha Peller, who described herself as a member of the Coordinated West Coast Port Blockade Assembly. Peller talks about the Occupy movement’s reasons for focusing on the port. The conversation speaks to the question and perhaps some of the contradictions inherent in an outside group taking on an issue specific to organized labor. Edited transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the port action about? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s about shutting down Wall Street on the waterfront. Shutting down Goldman Sachs, which owns a part of the SSA terminal, and EGT, a multiational grain exporter rupturing \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/21/us-longshoremen-arrests-idUSTRE78K7TC20110921\">longshoremen jurisdiction\u003c/a> in Longview, Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve identified the fact that a the 1% makes a great deal of its profit on the ports and on the backs of exploited labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you been working with longshoremen? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been working with rank-and-file longshoremen. Legally, no union can sanction a strike. There are no-strike clauses. But we’re not asking for a strike, we’re asking for a blockade like on Nov 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, since the anti-apartheid movement, people will go down and create community pickets and shut down the ports. These ports are public, anyone can go down there and protest. We know that the longshoremen rank and file largely support the aims of the Occupy movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As well, this west coast coordinated port blockade is in solidarity with the longshoremen’s struggle against EGT in Longview Washington, which is ruptuing their jurisdition and is a direct threat to the survival of the ILWU. While the ILWU international may not be able to officially say anything about the port blockade, this is a large number of people taking on the issues that we all have with the 1%. EGT is not only a longshoreman issue, but they have economically plundered people from Argentina to Brazil and all around the world… And of course, Goldman Sachs owns a large part of the SSA terminal, and we all know what Goldman Sachs has done to a large part of our communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How would you respond to people who say that shutting down the port would hurt members of the 99% like truckers and other workers who need the shift? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the same thing as in the general strike, where the right wing tried to accuse occupy Oakland of hurting small businesses. But we all have to make a sacrifice here, to strike back against the 1% and take our lives back from the 1%. This is what this movement is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did anyone from the Longview union ask you guys to shut down the port in solidarity with their fight? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. The occupation movement doesn’t need to take marching orders from anyone. It’s a mass of people self-organizing to get their material needs met and to strike back against he 1%. Of course we’ve been aware of the issue in Longview and applauding the resistance by the longshoremen up in Longview for resisting EGT, but like I said, EGT and other companies operating up there are a concern of everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody from the longshoremen has asked the Occupy movement to do anytning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you worried about support from the union’s rank and file, or do you think you definitely have their support? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rank and file traditionally will honor community picket lines around social justice issues. I think the longshoremen are not unaware of the aims of the Occupy movement and a lot of those aims speak to them as well. Rank and file are also part of the Occupy movement, not separate. Across the board, rank and file union members as well as non-unionized workers, make up a large part of the Occupy movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Any plans to coordinate more with the ILWU?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a very sad thing what’s happened to the unions in the U.S. because of no-strike clauses and different legal ramifications. It’s sad that unions have to distance themselves from things like this for fear of being sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody can speak for the leadership of the ILWU. But working class people understand that EGT and Goldman Sachs are Wall Street on the waterfront, and it’s important to shut down Wall Street because of the way these big companies have plundered our lives.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>1 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Workers sent home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://sg.news.yahoo.com/protesters-halt-operations-western-ports-191912986.html\">AP\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In Oakland, shipping companies and the longshoremen’s union agreed to send home about 150 workers, essentially halting operations at two terminals. In Portland, authorities shuttered two terminals after arresting two people who were carrying weapons.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>12:30 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Quan presser\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press conference by Jean Quan and other Oakland officials was short and not particularly informative. Quan thanked police and protesters for keeping things peaceful. She asked the protesters to “respect the rights of the 99%” who are trying to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan also said the Port of Oakland is unique because it’s the “only port in the country” that exports more than imports. She said it’s particularly critical for agricultural shipments, and that 800,000 jobs across the country are linked to port shipments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A reporter asked whether Quan has had a change of heart about actions against the port, as her husband had been out with protesters last month, during the general strike, when the port was shut down for a few hours. Quan said she has never supported any shutdown of the port, and that her husband was a “community monitor” during the first action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan said there have been reports of violence or injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A port official said merely that there have been “impacts” at the terminals, mostly “backups” in terms of the truck traffic. He said he didn’t know if reports from protesters that “no ships were unloaded today” were true or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have calls out to the ILWU and the operator of one of the terminals, TTI, regarding the claim by protesters that the union has sent some workers home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>12:15 p.m.\u003c/em> Live now from KGO, a \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8464068#&cmp=twi-kgo-livenow-8464068\">\u003cstrong>news conference regarding the Port of Oakland situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. Mayor Jean Quan, City Administerator Deanna Santana, Chief of Police Howard Jordan, and port officials will speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>11:53 a.m.\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/kqednews/photos-dec-12-occupy-protests-at-port-of-oakland\">\u003cstrong>Photographic recap\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> put together by KQED’s Ian Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>11:15 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Protesters Declare Victory\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>KQED reporters Caitlin Esch and Andrew Stelzer report that Occupy protesters are leaving the Port of Oakland and declaring their efforts a success. The protesters blocked two terminals that were expecting shipments today. Drivers are starting to turn around their trucks and protesters are making their way back to Oakland. It is unclear whether protesters and workers will report for the Port’s second shift, which begins at 7:00 p.m. However, \u003ca href=\"http://www.hanjin.com/en/terminal/oakland.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hanjin\u003c/a>, the shipping company that operates out of the blocked terminals has posted this notice \u003ca href=\"http://www.vtnocal.com/default.asp?SiteID=TTI_OAK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> online\u003c/a>: “Due to protesters who have congregated in front of the terminal’s main gate TTI will be unable to open for business today. We will resume operations tomorrow at the normal time.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>9:45 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Former Quan Advisor at Port Protest\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Bay City News) – Oakland attorney Dan Siegel, Mayor Jean Quan’s former legal adviser, was among those participating in the march to the port this morning. Siegel resigned as Quan’s unpaid legal adviser on Nov. 14, the morning that police raided the Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall. He was leaving this morning’s protest at about 7:20 a.m., heading to a client’s court hearing.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>9:40 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Truckers Left Waiting\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Bay City News) – As of 9 a.m., hundreds of protesters had blocked off the entrance to Berths 30-32, and Alamed\u003cbr>\na County sheriff’s deputies were keeping an eye on hundreds more who had gathered at the entrance to Berths 55-56.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of trucks were lined up outside both entrances as drivers\u003cbr>\nwaited to get into the port. One truck driver, who declined to give his name, said he had come from Santa Rosa and had been waiting since 5 a.m. He said he anticipates that the port will be closed all day and is awaiting instructions on what to do with his cargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester Shake Anderson, who said he has been involved in the\u003cbr>\nOccupy Oakland movement since the beginning, said the demonstrators’ strategy is to keep a large crowd at the port to make it difficult for police to makearrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all about numbers,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>9:11 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Trucker: ‘They Should Protest at the White House, Not Where I Am Trying to Make a Living’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>8:45 a.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Report: Three Ports Blocked\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caitlin Esch, who is at the port now, says at least three gates at the port are effectively blocked, with nothing moving in or out as protesters clog up the entrances. Trucks are lined up, some trying to drop off, some trying to pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the truckers came in from far away — Nevada, Denver, Kansas, and so they’re not leaving until they complete their task,” Esch says. The truckers say they’re going to be living in their trucks until they can complete their assignments. One trucker whom Esch talked to was trying to drop off beef from Denver; he was extremely angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Occupy Oakland organizer said the group would try to have at least 100 people marching in front of each entrance, but the three that Caitlin Esch has observed so far have had more than that number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>8:06 a.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Protestor’s Live Stream\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Live video stream from Spencer Mills (aka \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/oakfosho\">OakFoSho\u003c/a> on Twitter), who has been live-streaming Occupy Oakland protests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px none transparent\" src=\"http://www.ustream.tv/embed/9636787\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"296\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Occupy Movement Tries to Shut Down West Coast Ports\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(AP) OAKLAND, Calif. — Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation’s busiest docks, with the idea that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters are targeting the locations because they believe American ports have become “economic engines for the elite.” They are most upset by two West Coast companies — giant West Coast port operator SSA Marine and grain exporter EGT — that they believe epitomize the big corporations that make up the “1 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldman Sachs owns a major stake in SSA Marine, and the bank has been a repeated target of Occupy protesters since the movement began. The two port companies have also engaged in high-profile clashes with union workers lately, and the Occupy protesters want to stand up for the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred people began picketing at the Port of Oakland before dawn and blocked some trucks from going inside. Police are monitoring at the scene, but no major clashes have been reported so far. Occupy protesters successfully shut down the port in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, as many as 400 demonstrators gathered in a park and planned to march on the Port of Long Beach. Occupy protesters said they plan to head to a dock facility owned by SSA Marine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 300 people gathered at Kelly Point Park in Portland, Ore., and Kari Koch, organizer with Shut Down the Ports Working Group of Occupy Portland, said she expected hundreds more to picket the nearby terminal. Police arrested three people and seized a gun and sword from people who said they were on the way to the demonstration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occupy groups also planned blockades in Seattle, Tacoma, Wash., and Vancouver, British Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests being billed as action against “Wall Street on the waterfront” are perhaps the Occupy movement’s most dramatic gesture since police raids sent most remaining camps scattering last month. Demonstrators began forming those camps around the country about two months ago to protest what they call corporate greed and economic inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stand for corporate profits at the expense of working people, we will not stand for attacks on workers, and we will not allow our schools to be closed, social services slashed, and families to be impoverished by your greed!” Koch said Monday in statement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://westcoastportshutdown.org/sites/default/files/portmap.pdf\">Map of the Port of Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.occupyoakland.org/\">Occupy Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.occupytheports.com/\">Occupy the Ports web site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>6:10 p.m.\u003c/em> KQED’s Caitlin Esch says that hundreds of protestors are gathered at berths 55 and 56 in Oakland. “It’s a dance party atmosphere, there trucks with huge amps on them and people are just dancing in the street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protestors are holding a general assembly at the port at 7 p.m. to decide whether to extend the blockade until the 3 a.m. shift, since employers did not order any workers for Monday’s evening shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>4:58 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>The story according to the Chron…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/12/BAJK1MBE5E.DTL\">Oakland port workers kept home as protesters march\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No longshore workers will be called in to the Port of Oakland tonight as Occupy protesters renew their efforts to blockade the docks, according to a spokesman for the International Longshore Workers Union. The decision, which could effective close port operations for the evening, came as several hundred protesters gathered outside Oakland City Hall at Frank Ogawa Plaza and began marching toward the waterfront behind a large banner that declared, “Port Closing.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>4:15 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>The story according to the Port of Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters have already declared victory today; looks like the port is trying to do the same. It issued a press release this afternoon called “Myths and Facts About the Port of Oakland Protests”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While news reports today have for the most part accurately described protest activity at the Port of Oakland today, some incorrect information and rumors persist. The Port would like to separate fact from rumor:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: The Port of Oakland is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port is not closed. Operations have continued throughout the day after sporadic interruptions due to the morning protest activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the rest of the day and overnight, the Port anticipates very limited terminal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: The Port of Oakland was shut down today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port remained operational today, even though there were disruptions throughout the morning that affected terminal operations and truck traffic. Trucks were moving cargo into and out of Port facilities as early as 7:00 a.m. and into and out of the majority of facilities by 10:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No ships were loaded or unloaded today. Yard and gate operations at some terminals continued regarding cargo that had already been unloaded. Some terminals could not operate at all because of protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: Shifts were cancelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terminal operators are responsible for ordering and cancelling shifts. No shifts were cancelled today. Some Longshoremen were unable to report to work for health and safety reasons. Some were released due to the inability to fill a labor order. As a result, some terminals were unable to operate normally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: Some or all terminals were closed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All terminals opened today. Some were unable to accept cargo due to protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: Oakland was the only west coast port impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We understand from news reports that operators at the Port of Portland shut two terminals, affecting four ship operations. As a result, 200 Longshoreman were not able to work there. At the Port of LA and Long Beach, there was apparently minor operational impact and protesters were dispersed this morning. At the Port of Seattle, protest activity is expected later today and tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: Customs enforcement personnel were not at all terminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some terminals experienced a delay in Customs personnel arrival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myth: An arbitrator was called in and sent Longshoremen home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not true. Under the labor agreement between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), an arbitrator may be called to determine if it is safe for workers to report to work. In this case, PMA decided not to call out the arbitrator. It remains possible that the ILWU may still request an arbitration to determine if they should to be paid for the inability to report to work but at no time today was an arbitrator called.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>4:07 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Scott Olsen speaks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.twitvid.com/25KM5\">video interview with Scott Olsen\u003c/a> at today’s demonstration, giving an update on his health. The Iraqi War vet was critically injured by a projectile, ostensibly thrown by police, during a clash with Occupy Oakland protesters in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>3:35 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Occupy Oakland rally\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland\">\u003cstrong>Watch live here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2:55 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Terminal closure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vtnocal.com/default.asp?SiteID=TTI_OAK\">TTI’s announcement\u003c/a> that its Oakland terminal was unable to open for business today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Due to protesters who have congregated in front of the terminal’s main gate TTI will be unable to open for business today. We will resume operations tomorrow at the normal time.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2:05 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Labor union support — or not\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not the affected labor unions support today’s action is a big topic of debate. On one side of the issue: An \u003ca href=\"http://cleanandsafeports.org/blog/2011/12/12/an-open-letter-from-america%E2%80%99s-port-truck-drivers-on-occupy-the-ports/\">Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the Ports\u003c/a>, signed by three port drivers and two other truckers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma, New York and New Jersey to tell our collective story. We have accepted the honor to speak up for our brothers and sisters about our working conditions despite the risk of retaliation we face. One of us is a mother, the rest of us fathers. Between the five of us we have 11children and one more baby on the way. We have a combined 46 years of experience driving cargo from our shores for America’s stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are inspired that a non-violent democratic movement that insists on basic economic fairness is capturing the hearts and minds of so many working people. Thank you “99 Percenters” for hearing our call for justice. We are humbled and overwhelmed by recent attention. Normally we are invisible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s demonstrations will impact us. While we cannot officially speak for every worker who shares our occupation, we can use this opportunity to reveal what it’s like to walk a day in our shoes for the 110,000 of us in America whose job it is to be a port truck driver. It may be tempting for media to ask questions about whether we support a shutdown, but there are no easy answers. Instead, we ask you, are you willing to listen and learn why a one-word response is impossible? \u003ca href=\"http://cleanandsafeports.org/blog/2011/12/12/an-open-letter-from-america%E2%80%99s-port-truck-drivers-on-occupy-the-ports/\">Full letter\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The letter goes on to describe poor working conditions and a loss of labor rights in the trucking industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representing a different view: From Chronicle columnist Andrew S. Ross this weekend, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/08/BUTP1M8VTI.DTL\">Union not keen on new Occupy Oakland\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(T)he folks [protesters] purport to be in solidarity with don’t seem hot on the idea to “effectively shut down the hubs of commerce” at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any actions organized by outside groups, including the proposed Dec. 12 shutdown of various terminals on the West Coast, have not been vetted by our union’s democratically led process,” the International Longshore and Warehouse Union said. “Any decisions made by groups outside of the union’s democratic process do not hold water, regardless of the intent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Occupy movements that make a fetish of applying direct democracy and near absolute consensus to its own decision making might want to take note of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Mead, president of ILWU Local 10, which represents dockworkers at the Port of Oakland, said, “Our position is in the international’s press release. We’re not facilitating (Occupy Oakland’s strike call) in any way. We just want that clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Smith, president of ILWU Local 8 in Portland, Ore., went further, telling the Portland Tribune his union won’t honor picket lines. “This is a third-party strike. We have to go to work,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A couple of weeks ago, KQED’s Mina Kim spoke to Occupy Oakland’s Barucha Peller, who described herself as a member of the Coordinated West Coast Port Blockade Assembly. Peller talks about the Occupy movement’s reasons for focusing on the port. The conversation speaks to the question and perhaps some of the contradictions inherent in an outside group taking on an issue specific to organized labor. Edited transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the port action about? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s about shutting down Wall Street on the waterfront. Shutting down Goldman Sachs, which owns a part of the SSA terminal, and EGT, a multiational grain exporter rupturing \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/21/us-longshoremen-arrests-idUSTRE78K7TC20110921\">longshoremen jurisdiction\u003c/a> in Longview, Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve identified the fact that a the 1% makes a great deal of its profit on the ports and on the backs of exploited labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you been working with longshoremen? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been working with rank-and-file longshoremen. Legally, no union can sanction a strike. There are no-strike clauses. But we’re not asking for a strike, we’re asking for a blockade like on Nov 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, since the anti-apartheid movement, people will go down and create community pickets and shut down the ports. These ports are public, anyone can go down there and protest. We know that the longshoremen rank and file largely support the aims of the Occupy movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As well, this west coast coordinated port blockade is in solidarity with the longshoremen’s struggle against EGT in Longview Washington, which is ruptuing their jurisdition and is a direct threat to the survival of the ILWU. While the ILWU international may not be able to officially say anything about the port blockade, this is a large number of people taking on the issues that we all have with the 1%. EGT is not only a longshoreman issue, but they have economically plundered people from Argentina to Brazil and all around the world… And of course, Goldman Sachs owns a large part of the SSA terminal, and we all know what Goldman Sachs has done to a large part of our communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How would you respond to people who say that shutting down the port would hurt members of the 99% like truckers and other workers who need the shift? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the same thing as in the general strike, where the right wing tried to accuse occupy Oakland of hurting small businesses. But we all have to make a sacrifice here, to strike back against the 1% and take our lives back from the 1%. This is what this movement is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did anyone from the Longview union ask you guys to shut down the port in solidarity with their fight? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. The occupation movement doesn’t need to take marching orders from anyone. It’s a mass of people self-organizing to get their material needs met and to strike back against he 1%. Of course we’ve been aware of the issue in Longview and applauding the resistance by the longshoremen up in Longview for resisting EGT, but like I said, EGT and other companies operating up there are a concern of everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody from the longshoremen has asked the Occupy movement to do anytning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you worried about support from the union’s rank and file, or do you think you definitely have their support? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rank and file traditionally will honor community picket lines around social justice issues. I think the longshoremen are not unaware of the aims of the Occupy movement and a lot of those aims speak to them as well. Rank and file are also part of the Occupy movement, not separate. Across the board, rank and file union members as well as non-unionized workers, make up a large part of the Occupy movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Any plans to coordinate more with the ILWU?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a very sad thing what’s happened to the unions in the U.S. because of no-strike clauses and different legal ramifications. It’s sad that unions have to distance themselves from things like this for fear of being sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody can speak for the leadership of the ILWU. But working class people understand that EGT and Goldman Sachs are Wall Street on the waterfront, and it’s important to shut down Wall Street because of the way these big companies have plundered our lives.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>1 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Workers sent home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://sg.news.yahoo.com/protesters-halt-operations-western-ports-191912986.html\">AP\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In Oakland, shipping companies and the longshoremen’s union agreed to send home about 150 workers, essentially halting operations at two terminals. In Portland, authorities shuttered two terminals after arresting two people who were carrying weapons.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>12:30 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Quan presser\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press conference by Jean Quan and other Oakland officials was short and not particularly informative. Quan thanked police and protesters for keeping things peaceful. She asked the protesters to “respect the rights of the 99%” who are trying to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan also said the Port of Oakland is unique because it’s the “only port in the country” that exports more than imports. She said it’s particularly critical for agricultural shipments, and that 800,000 jobs across the country are linked to port shipments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A reporter asked whether Quan has had a change of heart about actions against the port, as her husband had been out with protesters last month, during the general strike, when the port was shut down for a few hours. Quan said she has never supported any shutdown of the port, and that her husband was a “community monitor” during the first action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan said there have been reports of violence or injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A port official said merely that there have been “impacts” at the terminals, mostly “backups” in terms of the truck traffic. He said he didn’t know if reports from protesters that “no ships were unloaded today” were true or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have calls out to the ILWU and the operator of one of the terminals, TTI, regarding the claim by protesters that the union has sent some workers home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>12:15 p.m.\u003c/em> Live now from KGO, a \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8464068#&cmp=twi-kgo-livenow-8464068\">\u003cstrong>news conference regarding the Port of Oakland situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. Mayor Jean Quan, City Administerator Deanna Santana, Chief of Police Howard Jordan, and port officials will speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>11:53 a.m.\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/kqednews/photos-dec-12-occupy-protests-at-port-of-oakland\">\u003cstrong>Photographic recap\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> put together by KQED’s Ian Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>11:15 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Protesters Declare Victory\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>KQED reporters Caitlin Esch and Andrew Stelzer report that Occupy protesters are leaving the Port of Oakland and declaring their efforts a success. The protesters blocked two terminals that were expecting shipments today. Drivers are starting to turn around their trucks and protesters are making their way back to Oakland. It is unclear whether protesters and workers will report for the Port’s second shift, which begins at 7:00 p.m. However, \u003ca href=\"http://www.hanjin.com/en/terminal/oakland.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hanjin\u003c/a>, the shipping company that operates out of the blocked terminals has posted this notice \u003ca href=\"http://www.vtnocal.com/default.asp?SiteID=TTI_OAK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> online\u003c/a>: “Due to protesters who have congregated in front of the terminal’s main gate TTI will be unable to open for business today. We will resume operations tomorrow at the normal time.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>9:45 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Former Quan Advisor at Port Protest\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Bay City News) – Oakland attorney Dan Siegel, Mayor Jean Quan’s former legal adviser, was among those participating in the march to the port this morning. Siegel resigned as Quan’s unpaid legal adviser on Nov. 14, the morning that police raided the Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall. He was leaving this morning’s protest at about 7:20 a.m., heading to a client’s court hearing.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>9:40 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Truckers Left Waiting\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Bay City News) – As of 9 a.m., hundreds of protesters had blocked off the entrance to Berths 30-32, and Alamed\u003cbr>\na County sheriff’s deputies were keeping an eye on hundreds more who had gathered at the entrance to Berths 55-56.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of trucks were lined up outside both entrances as drivers\u003cbr>\nwaited to get into the port. One truck driver, who declined to give his name, said he had come from Santa Rosa and had been waiting since 5 a.m. He said he anticipates that the port will be closed all day and is awaiting instructions on what to do with his cargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester Shake Anderson, who said he has been involved in the\u003cbr>\nOccupy Oakland movement since the beginning, said the demonstrators’ strategy is to keep a large crowd at the port to make it difficult for police to makearrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all about numbers,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>9:11 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Trucker: ‘They Should Protest at the White House, Not Where I Am Trying to Make a Living’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>8:45 a.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Report: Three Ports Blocked\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caitlin Esch, who is at the port now, says at least three gates at the port are effectively blocked, with nothing moving in or out as protesters clog up the entrances. Trucks are lined up, some trying to drop off, some trying to pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the truckers came in from far away — Nevada, Denver, Kansas, and so they’re not leaving until they complete their task,” Esch says. The truckers say they’re going to be living in their trucks until they can complete their assignments. One trucker whom Esch talked to was trying to drop off beef from Denver; he was extremely angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Occupy Oakland organizer said the group would try to have at least 100 people marching in front of each entrance, but the three that Caitlin Esch has observed so far have had more than that number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>8:06 a.m.\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Protestor’s Live Stream\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Live video stream from Spencer Mills (aka \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/oakfosho\">OakFoSho\u003c/a> on Twitter), who has been live-streaming Occupy Oakland protests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px none transparent\" src=\"http://www.ustream.tv/embed/9636787\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"296\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Occupy Movement Tries to Shut Down West Coast Ports\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(AP) OAKLAND, Calif. — Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation’s busiest docks, with the idea that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters are targeting the locations because they believe American ports have become “economic engines for the elite.” They are most upset by two West Coast companies — giant West Coast port operator SSA Marine and grain exporter EGT — that they believe epitomize the big corporations that make up the “1 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldman Sachs owns a major stake in SSA Marine, and the bank has been a repeated target of Occupy protesters since the movement began. The two port companies have also engaged in high-profile clashes with union workers lately, and the Occupy protesters want to stand up for the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred people began picketing at the Port of Oakland before dawn and blocked some trucks from going inside. Police are monitoring at the scene, but no major clashes have been reported so far. Occupy protesters successfully shut down the port in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, as many as 400 demonstrators gathered in a park and planned to march on the Port of Long Beach. Occupy protesters said they plan to head to a dock facility owned by SSA Marine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 300 people gathered at Kelly Point Park in Portland, Ore., and Kari Koch, organizer with Shut Down the Ports Working Group of Occupy Portland, said she expected hundreds more to picket the nearby terminal. Police arrested three people and seized a gun and sword from people who said they were on the way to the demonstration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occupy groups also planned blockades in Seattle, Tacoma, Wash., and Vancouver, British Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests being billed as action against “Wall Street on the waterfront” are perhaps the Occupy movement’s most dramatic gesture since police raids sent most remaining camps scattering last month. Demonstrators began forming those camps around the country about two months ago to protest what they call corporate greed and economic inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stand for corporate profits at the expense of working people, we will not stand for attacks on workers, and we will not allow our schools to be closed, social services slashed, and families to be impoverished by your greed!” Koch said Monday in statement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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No violence, no vandalism, no arrests.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mixed reports on city's willingness to allow camp to continue at Snow Park, near Lake Merritt. Here's the Chron's writeup on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/20/BAN41M0S0C.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">Quan family's involvement in and negotiations with Occupy Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quiet at Justin Herman Plaza. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City apparently has succeeded for now in clearing tents from Market Street between the Federal Reserve and the plaza. 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He talks about the role of nonviolence in large political/social movements and denounced the treatment of Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of leaking U.S. secrets to Wikileaks. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>BART has closed entrances to Embarcadero Station closest to the Federal Reserve.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Oakland\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>Protest at Quan's house seems to have fizzled. @OakFoSho, renowned Twitter diarist of Occupy Oakland, says he was at Quan's place with just a few police and no protesters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>General assembly at Ogawa Plaza is talking at length about a proposal that seeks, in effect, to renounce violence and property destruction as tactics.\" Here's the livestream of the ongoing session: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy Oakland Live\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Protesters attempted to set up a new encampment near Grand and Lakeshore avenues; Twitter reports make it sound like it hasn't gotten far. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City workers removed a \"victory garden\" planted in the plaza yesterday.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Previous update\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Protesters say they'll go to Mayor Quan's house in the Oakland Hills to \"Occupy Quan\" and show they are not afraid of \"the Wrath of Quan\" (I am only quoting tweets here).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At 6 p.m., Occupy Oakland has a general assembly at Frank Ogawa Plaza at 6 p.m. One focus of discussion will be planning for an attempted coastwide port shutdown on December 12.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>Earlier today: Police ordered Occupy Oakland campers out of their \"beautiful new home\" (to quote a tweet) at 19th and Telegraph; according to police account uncontradicted by video or #OO statements, campers departed without incident. No violence, no vandalism, no arrests.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mixed reports on city's willingness to allow camp to continue at Snow Park, near Lake Merritt. Here's the Chron's writeup on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/20/BAN41M0S0C.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">Quan family's involvement in and negotiations with Occupy Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quiet at Justin Herman Plaza. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City apparently has succeeded for now in clearing tents from Market Street between the Federal Reserve and the plaza. Six reported arrests\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Again according to Chron, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/20/BAQS1M1E8A.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Lee is reportedly working on a way\u003c/a> to get camp out of Justin Herman Plaza to some other site (he's already ruled out Civic Center Park).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Two officers involved in Friday's pepper-spray incident placed on indefinite leave.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>UC President Mark Yudof issues \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/Uw2Pezd4\" target=\"_blank\">strongly worded statement\u003c/a> criticizing police response at Davis (and Berkeley) and says he'll convene a meeting of all 10 campus chancellors \"to engage in a full and unfettered discussion about how to ensure proportional law enforcement response to non-violent protest.\"\n\u003cp>Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BjnR7xET7Uo#!\">video\u003c/a> of campus police pepper spraying protesters. This particular iteration has been viewed 1,350,000 times:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/BjnR7xET7Uo\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg issues statement condemning police response.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tomorrow: Davis chancellor Linda Katehi to meet with students during general assembly at noon. Myers will cover.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Rosa, Walnut Creek\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nS.F. Chronicle: '\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/20/MNK41M19OC.DTL&type=newsbayarea\" target=\"_blank\">Mellower Occupy movement grows in the suburbs\u003c/a>' \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Still, Quan is only one year into a four-year term. Crisis communications consultant Chris Lehane — who knows from political low points (think Monica Lewinsky. He helped manage that scandal in the Clinton White House) — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/07/interview-political-consultant-chris-lehane-on-how-big-city-mayors-should-handle-occupy-wall-street-protests/\">told Scott Shafer last week\u003c/a> that Quan can still come back from the Occupy Oakland crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think ultimately people in these positions will be evaluated over the long term,” Lehane said. “She’s apologized, which is important, particularly for politicians, who almost never apologize. This situation is so big, there’s going to be little she can do in the day to day. Politicians have to realize you’re not going to immediately come back, they have to have a long-term strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given her history, that she came up through community activism, she’s someone who can step up with an interesting policy or program and seize the moment in a positive way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, KQED’s Joshua Johnson interviewed Quan fresh off her defeat on Measure I, a $60 million parcel tax that would have been used for a range of services related to public safety, city services, and infrastructure needs. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing in particular I found interesting about the mayor’s answers, as well as those she gave in a recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/09/mayor-quan-on-all-things-considered-weve-got-the-extended-interview/\">national interview with NPR\u003c/a>, is how sympathetic she appears to be to the Occupy movement’s goals and even its internal processes, going so far in the NPR segment as to explain in detail the reasoning behind the Occupy Oakland general assembly’s refusal to let her address the encampment. To which All Things Considered correspondent Martin Kaste said, almost incredulously, “but you’re the mayor!” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is Joshua Johnson’s interview. A transcript follows the audio. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/quanjohnson.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: Jean Quan on Failure of Measure I, Occupy Oakland, and the City’s Economy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/quanjohnson.mp3|titles=quanjohnson]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your thoughts on the outcome of the Measure I election? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not surprising. Even the San Francisco tax measures went down. In Oakland we’ve been a little distracted so the people who normally would have been out there campaigning for this didn’t have much time to work for it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it means we will not be able to restore some of the services we cut. 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Luckily for the first time in many years we have a full reserve and it will mean other things won’t get done in the city unfortunately\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where do you see the opportunity for Oakland to bounce back and keep growing? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is in the center of the Bay Area and we’re an amazing city. Downtown Oakland is one of the most exciting places in the Bay Area. Just six months ago the New York Times said we have some of the best restaurants in the Bay area. We have a thriving art scene. If you come down on First Friday, you’ll see thousands of people visiting our art galleries and enjoying music and nightclubs downtown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland was one of the few cities predicted by the Association of Bay Area Governments to continue to grow in jobs and housing over the next decade. I think that’s going to happen. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately there’s a national stereotype about Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cp>Stop us if you've heard this one before: Oakland police (and a slew of officers from other agencies) descend on Frank Ogawa (Oscar Grant) Plaza outside City Hall to evict the Occupy Oakland encampment. Then, almost before you've gotten used to that, the occupiers are right back in the plaza. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's kind of what we've seen today and tonight, as police swept the encampment (just like they did three weeks ago--though with less resistance from occupiers on one side and less heavy-handed tactics from the police on the other). Then tonight, Occupy Oakland \"reconverged\" at the city's Main Library on 14th Street (just like they did the day after last month's sweep) and marched back to the plaza, where they promptly convened a general assembly to talk about next steps. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's different from last month is the lack of intervening violence. Then, an apparent handful of provocateurs threw rocks and bottles and other items at police and police responded with tear-gas, flash-bang grenades, and fusillades of non-lethal (but quite dangerous) munitions. Both the sweep this morning and the protest this evening were almost uniformly peaceful. But having watched the ebb and flow of the Occupy Oakland camp, the general strike called after the violent police response, and the latest sweep and march, we know better than to call this story over for the night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not: UC-Berkeley's OccupyCal group has called a general strike on campus Tuesday—largely in response to the aggressive police tactics used against students last week—and Occupy Oakland activists agreed tonight to march the length of Telegraph Avenue Tuesday afternoon to join the Berkeley protest. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a rundown on Occupy Oakland, OccupySF and OccupyCal news as we wait for tomorrow's campus general strike:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/occupy-movement/story/quans-deputy-mayor-resigns/\" target=\"_blank\">Another member of Quan’s team quits (Bay Citizen)\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwo of Oakland Mayor Jean Quan's top advisors resigned Monday, after police evicted the Occupy Oakland encampment. Deputy Mayor Sharon Cornu, formerly the Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council, resigned Monday afternoon. In an interview, Cornu said she remained \"a big fan of Jean Quan.\" \"I have supported the mayor’s actions on Occupy Oakland. I think through this very very difficult time, her leadership has been important in showing a way forward that included a balance between first amendment rights and public safety,\" Cornu said.\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/11/14/after-oakland-eviction-occupy-focus-shifts-to-uc-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">OccupyCal, UC Berkeley general strike Tuesday a.m. (Berkeleyside)\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nWith the dismantling by police of the Occupy Oakland camp early this morning, the Occupy focus has shifted to UC Berkeley where students are preparing to hold a general strike on Tuesday. Reports suggest that Occupy Oakland protesters may march to Berkeley to join Occupy Cal demonstrations tomorrow too. But plans by protesters to demonstrate at a Regents’ meeting scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday this week at Mission Bay have been foiled, as the meeting has been rescheduled at the advice of law enforcement officials.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>*\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/11/sfpd-puts-barricades-next-occupy-sf\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD erects barricades near OccupySF camp (San Francisco Examiner)\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco police erected barricades near the Occupy SF encampment less than 12 hours after the Occupy camp in Oakland was raided by police. At about 2 p.m., San Francisco police put barricades on the northwestern and southwestern corners of Justin Herman Plaza.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/14/18699451.php\" target=\"_blank\">ACLU, National Lawyers Guild sue Oakland police over violent tactics during Occupy Oakland incidents (Indybay)\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMonday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and the National Lawyers’ Guild (NLG) filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Oakland Police Department (OPD) for its egregious constitutional violations against Occupy Oakland demonstrators. The lawsuit asks for an emergency temporary restraining order to stop police violence against political protesters. The restraining order is urgent because another police encounter with demonstrators is imminent, after the removal of the Occupy Oakland camp early this morning. The case is currently before United States District Court Judge Richard Seeborg, who immediately issued an order requiring the City to respond by 5pm tomorrow. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/bay-area/2011/11/occupy-cal-protesters-announce-lawsuit-against-uc-berkeley-campus-police\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley protesters announce lawsuit against UC campus police (San Francisco Examiner)\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nA group of University of California at Berkeley students and community protesters who say they were victims of police brutality during a Nov. 9 Occupy Cal demonstration announced Monday their lawsuit against the university and multiple UCPD police officers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/14/chancellor-promises-inquiry-into-police-use-of-force-amnesty-for-some-student-protesters/\" target=\"_blank\">UC-Berkeley chancellor announces amnesty for students arrested during OccupyCal protests (Daily Californian) \u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nUpon his return from East Asia Sunday, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced Monday that he has appointed UC Berkeley School of Law professor Jesse Choper, former dean of the school and current chair of the Police Review Board to review the actions of the police during last week’s Occupy Cal protests.Calling videos of the demonstrations “disturbing,” Birgeneau stated that all students arrested during the protest for blocking police officers will be granted amnesty and will not face charges under the student code of conduct.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Stop us if you've heard this one before: Oakland police (and a slew of officers from other agencies) descend on Frank Ogawa (Oscar Grant) Plaza outside City Hall to evict the Occupy Oakland encampment. Then, almost before you've gotten used to that, the occupiers are right back in the plaza. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's kind of what we've seen today and tonight, as police swept the encampment (just like they did three weeks ago--though with less resistance from occupiers on one side and less heavy-handed tactics from the police on the other). Then tonight, Occupy Oakland \"reconverged\" at the city's Main Library on 14th Street (just like they did the day after last month's sweep) and marched back to the plaza, where they promptly convened a general assembly to talk about next steps. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's different from last month is the lack of intervening violence. Then, an apparent handful of provocateurs threw rocks and bottles and other items at police and police responded with tear-gas, flash-bang grenades, and fusillades of non-lethal (but quite dangerous) munitions. Both the sweep this morning and the protest this evening were almost uniformly peaceful. But having watched the ebb and flow of the Occupy Oakland camp, the general strike called after the violent police response, and the latest sweep and march, we know better than to call this story over for the night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not: UC-Berkeley's OccupyCal group has called a general strike on campus Tuesday—largely in response to the aggressive police tactics used against students last week—and Occupy Oakland activists agreed tonight to march the length of Telegraph Avenue Tuesday afternoon to join the Berkeley protest. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a rundown on Occupy Oakland, OccupySF and OccupyCal news as we wait for tomorrow's campus general strike:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/occupy-movement/story/quans-deputy-mayor-resigns/\" target=\"_blank\">Another member of Quan’s team quits (Bay Citizen)\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwo of Oakland Mayor Jean Quan's top advisors resigned Monday, after police evicted the Occupy Oakland encampment. Deputy Mayor Sharon Cornu, formerly the Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council, resigned Monday afternoon. In an interview, Cornu said she remained \"a big fan of Jean Quan.\" \"I have supported the mayor’s actions on Occupy Oakland. I think through this very very difficult time, her leadership has been important in showing a way forward that included a balance between first amendment rights and public safety,\" Cornu said.\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/11/14/after-oakland-eviction-occupy-focus-shifts-to-uc-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">OccupyCal, UC Berkeley general strike Tuesday a.m. (Berkeleyside)\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nWith the dismantling by police of the Occupy Oakland camp early this morning, the Occupy focus has shifted to UC Berkeley where students are preparing to hold a general strike on Tuesday. Reports suggest that Occupy Oakland protesters may march to Berkeley to join Occupy Cal demonstrations tomorrow too. But plans by protesters to demonstrate at a Regents’ meeting scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday this week at Mission Bay have been foiled, as the meeting has been rescheduled at the advice of law enforcement officials.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>*\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/11/sfpd-puts-barricades-next-occupy-sf\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD erects barricades near OccupySF camp (San Francisco Examiner)\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco police erected barricades near the Occupy SF encampment less than 12 hours after the Occupy camp in Oakland was raided by police. At about 2 p.m., San Francisco police put barricades on the northwestern and southwestern corners of Justin Herman Plaza.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/14/18699451.php\" target=\"_blank\">ACLU, National Lawyers Guild sue Oakland police over violent tactics during Occupy Oakland incidents (Indybay)\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMonday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and the National Lawyers’ Guild (NLG) filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Oakland Police Department (OPD) for its egregious constitutional violations against Occupy Oakland demonstrators. The lawsuit asks for an emergency temporary restraining order to stop police violence against political protesters. The restraining order is urgent because another police encounter with demonstrators is imminent, after the removal of the Occupy Oakland camp early this morning. The case is currently before United States District Court Judge Richard Seeborg, who immediately issued an order requiring the City to respond by 5pm tomorrow. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/bay-area/2011/11/occupy-cal-protesters-announce-lawsuit-against-uc-berkeley-campus-police\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley protesters announce lawsuit against UC campus police (San Francisco Examiner)\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nA group of University of California at Berkeley students and community protesters who say they were victims of police brutality during a Nov. 9 Occupy Cal demonstration announced Monday their lawsuit against the university and multiple UCPD police officers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/14/chancellor-promises-inquiry-into-police-use-of-force-amnesty-for-some-student-protesters/\" target=\"_blank\">UC-Berkeley chancellor announces amnesty for students arrested during OccupyCal protests (Daily Californian) \u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nUpon his return from East Asia Sunday, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced Monday that he has appointed UC Berkeley School of Law professor Jesse Choper, former dean of the school and current chair of the Police Review Board to review the actions of the police during last week’s Occupy Cal protests.Calling videos of the demonstrations “disturbing,” Birgeneau stated that all students arrested during the protest for blocking police officers will be granted amnesty and will not face charges under the student code of conduct.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "Occupy Oakland Regroups After Second Eviction; Deputy Mayor Sharon Cornu Resigns",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_47067\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/OO_GAMainLib111411.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47067 \" title=\"OO_GAMainLib111411\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/OO_GAMainLib111411-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 500 people gathered at the Main Library to regroup and discuss next moves for the Occupy Oakland demonstration.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/14/occupy-oakland-encampment-being-cleared-by-police/#update\">Live blog updates\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedradio/sets/72157627880192794/\">\u003cstrong>Photos from our Flickr Stream\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/14/occupy-oakland-encampment-being-cleared-by-police/#twitter\">\u003cstrong>Live Twitter coverage from Bay Area news organizations\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland\">\u003cstrong>Live Stream from Occupy Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tuesday, 8:32 a.m.\u003c/em> The Bay Citizen \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/occupy-movement/story/quans-deputy-mayor-resigns/\">talked to Sharon Cornu\u003c/a>, now a former Oakland Deputy Mayor after resigning yesterday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In an interview, Cornu said she remained “a big fan of Jean Quan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have supported the mayor’s actions on Occupy Oakland. I think through this very very difficult time, her leadership has been important in showing a way forward that included a balance between first amendment rights and public safety,” Cornu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Quan did not say why Cornu decided to resign, only that she “has been a tremendous asset to my administration. We wish her well and Im [sic] grateful for her contributions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will restructuring my administration and making additional personnel announcements in the coming days,” the mayor wrote.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cornu was the second Quan administration official to bail in one day. Earlier, her legal adviser and longtime friend Dan Siegel \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/14/BAGA1LURQ7.DTL&tsp=1\">resigned\u003c/a>, criticizing the raid of the Occupy Oakland encampment in Frank Ogawa Plaza. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the damned-if-she-does, damned-if-she-doesn’t category: Two weeks ago, communications consultant Nathan Ballard quit because Quan wasn’t tough enough on the protesters. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/12/BAUO1LTV4O.DTL\">Matier & Ross\u003c/a> on Sunday: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It was not the right fit, and I wish her well,” Ballard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line: Ballard – who has lots of law enforcement clients – was frustrated by antipolice voices in the administration and knew the gig was up once the city let the Occupy Oakland camp return to Frank Ogawa Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>8:21 p.m.\u003c/em> Oakland \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/a/StaffBios/index.htm\">Deputy Mayor Sharon Cornu\u003c/a> has resigned. From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/occupy-oakland/ci_19331752\">Merc\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Deputy Mayor Sharon Cornu has resigned, effective immediately, the second member of the mayor’s team to submit her resignation just today. Mayor Jean Quan’s legal adviser and longtime friend, Dan Siegel, also resigned today over the mayor’s handling of the Occupy encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Mayor Jean Quan wrote, “Sharon has been a tremendous asset to my administration. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We wish her well and I’m grateful for her contributions. I will be restructuring my administration and making additional personnel announcements in the coming days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for more details, Quan’s spokeswoman Sue Piper said in an email, “It’s a personnel issue.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>6:46 p.m.\u003c/em> KQED’s Peter Jon Shuler reports that the general assembly is peaceful, and people he spoke to have mixed emotions about bringing tents back to the plaza. He spoke with \u003ca href=\"http://museumca.org/blog/omca-goes-one-one-with-the-coups-boots-riley\">Boots Riley\u003c/a>, local hip hop artist and active organizer in the local Occupy demonstrations, who said he wasn’t aware of any plans to bring tents back tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After welcoming people “home,” the evening’s discussion turned into a bit of a business meeting, Shuler says. Announcers read out emergency numbers for medics and legal assistance, and as Joshua Holland \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/JoshuaHol/status/136270236939857922\">reports\u003c/a>, breaking into smaller “neighborhood assemblies” that meet in different spaces but under the same principles of Occupy Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuler says there is significant police presence on the edge of the plaza, but they are dressed in regular uniforms — no riot gear, no helmets. However, an police incident commander tells Shuler that the Plaza will be closed at 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City and police have stated repeatedly today they would not allow any camping, but would allow people to peacefully assemble throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Shuler’s report from 6:00 p.m. when the group of about 500 began to gather in Frank Ogawa Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>6:15: p.m. \u003c/em>At the general assembly, speakers \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/northoaklandnow/status/136260654943313922\">announced a plan\u003c/a> to meet at 14th Street and Broadway Avenue at 2:30 p.m. to march to UC Berkeley in support of the “Occupy Cal” group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also planned for Saturday, another march will begin at that same intersection at 2:00 p.m., \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/JoshuaHol/status/136263060015947776\">reports\u003c/a> Joshua Holland from AlterNet. Reporter Emily Lofits \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/eloft/status/136264716426280960\">tweets\u003c/a> that a working group to organize that march will be held tomorrow at 6:00 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>5:30 p.m.\u003c/em> The night’s general assembly has begun, reports \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/?photo_id=1#!/Josh_Richman/status/136256772259319808/photo/1\">Josh Richman\u003c/a> from The Oakland Tribune,\u003ca href=\"//ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2011/11/occupyoakland-300x224.jpg%22%20alt=%22%22%20width=%22300%22%20height=%22224%22%20/></a>%5B/caption%5D\"> tweeting a picture\u003c/a> of several hundred gathered on Frank Ogawa Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Peter Jon Shuler is on the scene, and will send us updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>5:10 p.m.\u003c/em> After being evicted for the second time, Occupy Oakland supporters regrouped this afternoon at the Main Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police estimate the crowd is about 500 people, currently on the march toward Frank Ogawa Plaza. Local ABC TV affiliate KGO-7 has a videographer \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8431348\">walking with the crowd\u003c/a>, but hasn’t made the streaming video embeddable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KGO has provided this video of a press conference with Mayor Jean Quan this afternoon, regarding the dissolution of the Occupy Oakland encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Riot-clad law enforcement officers cleared out Oakland’s weeks-old anti-Wall Street encampment just before dawn, arresting Occupy demonstrators and removing tents from a downtown plaza after issuing several warnings over the weekend. Protesters appeared to put up little resistance and officers could be seen calmly leading some demonstrators away in plastic handcuffs. Officers made 32 arrests during Monday’s raid, Police Chief Howard Jordan said, adding that there were no reports of injuries to officers or protesters.\u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/police-clear-downtown-occupy-oakland-camp-141946461.html\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_46930\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/occupyoakland.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46930\" title=\"occupyoakland\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/occupyoakland-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco police stand at 14th and Broadway (Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"update\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2:28 p.m.\u003c/strong> Scott Olsen, the Iraq War vet injured in one of the violent clashes between police and protesters after the first time the encampment was cleared, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/14/BAGA1LURES.DTL\">has been discharged from the hospital\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is \u003ca href=\"https://plus.google.com/101404928335199641114/posts\">Olsen’s Google Plus page\u003c/a>, on which he posted this statement yesterday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m feeling a lot better, with a long road in front of me. After my freedom of speech was quite literally taken from me, my speech is coming back but I’ve got a lot of work to do with rehab. Thank you for all your support, it has meant the world to me. You’ll be hearing more from me in the near future and soon enough we’ll see you in our streets!\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2:25 p.m.\u003c/strong> It was a tough day for Occupy Eureka as well. Thirty-two arrested as police \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/14/BAGA1LUSGK.DTL\">cleared out the encampment\u003c/a> for the second time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> Here’s our reporter Caitlin Esch’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zzx_t0HGX8\">video\u003c/a> of police dismantling the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza early this morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/6zzx_t0HGX8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:10 p.m.\u003c/strong> Jean Quan was on KQED Radio’s Forum show today. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201111140900\">Listen here\u003c/a>, and/or join in on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201111140900#disqus_thread\">online discussion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked why today’s raid appears to have gone so much more smoothly than the one on Oct 25, Quan only said, “You know, Howard Jordan, Deanna Santana, the city administrator, and I are a new administration, and we’ve been working together very closely on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some quotes from the mayor, from the show:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why the raid occurred\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the sanitation issues, it was the violence in the camp—the recent murder, the sexual assault, the open fighting, the drug dealing. That in the middle of the heart of Oakland. I don’t think anybody wants that kind of situation in their community or in their neighborhood. Frank Ogawa Plaza really is a symbol of the whole city where everyone should come, be able to use it peacefully and that’s not what it was anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On violent protesters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has a group of- of people who want to make their political organizing fighting and confronting the police and that’s unfortunate and they hide within the peaceful demonstrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the impact of the protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that’s what Oaklanders are saying now, that we’re tired of this. That these demonstrations have cost us real services, real impact to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the cost to the city\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not alone here, I was on a conference call with 18 other mayors and you know, a city like Oakland, we don’t have the extra taxes that San Francisco has. We are really the 99 percent. We have high percentages of people who are unemployed and – and in poverty. So these expenses are really going to hurt the community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1 p.m.\u003c/strong> Photos from today’s raid in our \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedradio/sets/72157627880192794/\">Occupy Bay Area Flickr pool\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:40 a.m.\u003c/strong> Official statement from Jean Quan today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m very grateful that this morning’s effort went so smoothly and peacefully. We’re here this morning because Occupy Oakland has taken on a different direction from the national movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was no longer about the abuses of the financial institutions, foreclosures and to the unemployed. At the encampment we’ve had repeated violence, we’ve had a murder. I don’t want any more people to die before this comes to an end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encampment has been a tremendous drain on our city. During one of the recent demonstrations, we had 179 public safety calls for service that went unanswered because of the demonstrations downtown. We’ve had increased drug dealing, sexual assaults—all of this was occurring in a one-square block encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not what Occupy Wall Street is about. In addition to the violence at Frank Ogawa Plaza, the city cannot afford for our small businesses and vibrant downtown to lose hundreds of jobs and nearly half of their patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks now we’ve been trying to meet with the organizers of the encampment and there is no clear agenda or demands. We remain one of the only cities that has not had a representative committee to work with. Our community’s already strained resources– our police, our public works and other city services –have been pulled away from serving Oakland residents who ARE the 99%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We took every step we could to resolve this peacefully. We planned the removal as carefully as we could and made repeated attempts to make sure that all campers who wanted to leave voluntarily had the opportunity to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met with multiple groups during the last week. And we are grateful that many took advantage of the opportunity to leave peacefully. I also want to thank the many churches and community groups who stepped up to offer alternative housing and to encourage the camp to close peacefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Mayor of Oakland in this very difficult situation, I’ve tried to do what is right for the City and for the safety of our people at every step. I am asking for people–even those who disagree with this decision–to respect the City’s right to close the encampment and for demonstrators not to engage in destructive acts. It is time for us to work together on the issues that unite us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to thank the Alameda County Mutual Aid police departments and our own police, public works staff and other city staff who have also worked hard to keep this peaceful.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:10 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_46980\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/occupytreeSM.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46980\" title=\"occupytreeSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/occupytreeSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zachary Running Wolf, still protesting, up a tree. (Caitlin Esch/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, Caitlin Esch talked briefly to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=zachary+running+wolf\">Zachary Running Wolf\u003c/a>, a protester who is perched up a tree on 14th Street between Broadway and Franklin, on the edge of the plaza. Esch sent her recorder up to him in a basket. “We have a gas mask, eye protection,” he said. “We have ability to take rubber bullets. We’re ready for this. We have extra food. We have water. We’re able to survive 7-10 days without being resupplied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he says “we,” it’s the royal we, says Caitlin Esch. “He said he thought more tree-sitters would join him, but none did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle is reporting that “Howard Jordan said police were contacting prosecutors for guidance as to whether tree-sitting constituted ‘lodging’.” It’s a No Lodging ordinance that is being enforced on Frank Ogawa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/zacharyrunningwolf1.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: Zachary Running Wolf\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/zacharyrunningwolf1.mp3|titles=zacharyrunningwolf]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:17 a.m.\u003c/strong> Statement from the Oakland Police Officers Association, offering thank yous to Howard Jordan, Deanna Santana, and even the protesters. Conspicuous by her absence on this list: No thank you to Quan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On behalf of the 645 Oakland police officers we represent, Oakland Police Officers’ Association would like to thank our Police Chief Howard Jordan and City Administrator Deanna Santana for their leadership in the peaceful removal of the occupier encampment. We are also appreciative of the mutual aid provided by law enforcement agencies from throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the Occupy Oakland protesters: “Thank you for your peaceful exit from Frank Ogawa Plaza – it was greatly appreciated by all,” said Sgt. Dom Arotzarena. “We respect your right to peaceful protest, and urge your continued willingness to abide by the law.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:00 a.m.\u003c/strong> Caitlin Esch, our reporter on the scene this morning, was at the encampment both pre-raid and post-raid. She said the rain had created a lot of mud, so the protesters had covered it over with hay. The smell was extremely strong, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, she said the scene was “not pretty,” both before and after. “There was stuff strewn everywhere. Garbage and debris, mattresses, water bottles, sleeping bags, food…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esch noted the marked difference between the way police approached this raid as opposed to the first one on Oct 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At 5:22 a.m. police started making a series of dispersal orders. I counted at least 10 in the next 35 to 40 minutes before they moved in and started making arrests. But by that time just about everyone who wanted to leave had left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Oct 25 pre-dawn raid, police gave a five-minute warning, which by some accounts was more like two to three minutes, before they moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esch also talked about the group of 12-13 inter-faith religious protesters who chose to be arrested. “They were gathered in a semi-circle, singing ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘We Shall Overcome,’ surrounded by candles in little plastic cups. They refused to leave, but were peaceful as they were arrested. They had declared their tent a sanctuary, hoping that would save them from arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9:40 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED’s Joshua Johnson \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201111140805\">interviewed Jean Quan \u003c/a> this morning. A transcript follows the audio:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Joshua Johnson: I understand that you were able to walk through the encampment this morning after the police shut it down again. Is that so? And if so, what did you see?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean Quan: You know, what you’ll see is that there has been quite a lot of squalor there. I listened to your morning report and I listen to it every morning. The reality was that the reason we closed the camp was because of the violence and the safety issues. We had a murder earlier this weekend. There had been repeated reports of violence, drug dealing, and sexual assaults. And that’s become a real problem of the movement. And um, over the weekend, many of the peaceful demonstrators had left the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JJ: Has there been any progress investigating that murder?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JQ: You’ll have to talk to the police chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JJ: I imagine it’s been tough navigating supporting the protesters and being the face of the government’s authority. You and a number of city officials including the Oakland police officer’s association have said that you support the 99%. Many of you have said you ARE the 99%. But the reality is that you are also the mayor who has a fiduciary and a legal responsibility to keep the city safe and orderly and on time and on budget. How have you navigated that and do you think it may get easier now going forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JQ: You know, being a mayor is never easy. A lot of people know I have an activist background. On one hand, I support a lot of the movements involved. On the other hand, I’m the mayor of the city and have to guarantee safety and what’s good for the economy in Oakland. So it’s been very tough but I’ve made every decision based on what I’ve thought was best for the safety and the economy of the city. The Occupy Oakland movement has probably cost the city millions of dollars, took away precious police officers out of my tougher neighborhoods. That are facing violence. And we just had to end the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JJ: Some of the chatter on Twitter that we’ve been checking out this morning would suggest that at today’s General Assembly, they’re going to reconnect around 4 o’clock, I believe it is near the Oakland Public Library, and may decide to re-re-Occupy the plaza. How long do you see this going on? Where the squatters show up and you kick them out and they show up again and you kick them out again and they show up again. How do you make an end game to all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JQ: Well first of all, there is a group of the peaceful demonstrators who realize that they were not getting any organizing done who have left and they’re over at Snow Park and are looking for a private space. Similar to Wall Street. Wall Street is actually in a private park and so this is supposed to be about the organizing and not about encampments. That’s a tactic and not a solution. The Plaza is a public space. It belongs to all of Oakland and we’ll allow people to gather there for free speech- they can continue to have their general assemblies, but they’re not going to be allowed to camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JJ: There had been reports this morning from the Chronicle that your legal adviser Dan Siegel hadresigned. He posted on his Facebook page and his twitter feed the same note. It says quote, “No longer Mayor Quan’s legal adviser. Resigned at 2 AM. Support Occupy Oakland, not the 1% and its government facilitators,” unquote. Your reaction to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JQ: Dan and I are old friends from the old days. He was working on one project for me. I thank him for that work. People move on, I’m moving on. Today I’m really focused on some job creation, working with our federal police monitor. I’m doing the work of the city and you know, he and I will have our differences over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JJ: To people who may be looking at Oakland and saying- what is it about this town that seems to be facilitating this? There are plenty of Occupiers in other cities. What do you think it is about Oakland that has made this A) fertile ground for the movement, and B) so intransigent to try and get the Occupiers to leave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JQ: You know, Oakland really is a city of the 99 percent. And we’ve been the birthplace of many movements for peace and justice. I think the problem we have is we have a very large intransigent group of people who were more into fighting the police and making the plaza the issue rather than the issues of the 99 percent movement. And I’m hoping that people are beginning to see that and separating themselves off from people who are sometimes violent and um, continuing with the work of organizing.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>8:55 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/#!/californiabeat/status/136122925731426304\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/#!/californiabeat/status/136122671510470656\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:45 a.m.\u003c/strong> Quan’s chief legal adviser, civil rights attorney Dan Siegel, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/14/BAGA1LURQ7.DTL&tsp=1\">resigned\u003c/a> today over the police action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>8:38 a.m.\u003c/strong> Live now: Oakland City leaders hold press conference. Watch live \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8430809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7:55 a.m.\u003c/strong> At 9. a.m., Mayor Jean Quan is scheduled to appear on KQED’s Radio’s Forum. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">\u003cstrong>Listen live here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> or on-air at 88.5 FM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 7:50 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED reporter Caitlin Esch reports the scene is quiet. Police are blocking off Frank Ogawa Plaza. Fewer than 100 protesters have gathered at 14th and Broadway, and their numbers are dwindling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php/option=com_altcaster/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=6fc946b07c\">\u003cstrong>Live tweets from reporters\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003ca name=\"twitter\">\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php/option=com_altcaster/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=6fc946b07c/height=550/width=470\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"470px\" height=\"550px\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Ian Hill has been pulling from Twitter and the web since the police action began early this morning. He gathered the material below…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://storify.com/kqednews/occupy-oakland-prepares-for-eviction\u003c/p>\n\n",
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However, an police incident commander tells Shuler that the Plaza will be closed at 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City and police have stated repeatedly today they would not allow any camping, but would allow people to peacefully assemble throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Shuler’s report from 6:00 p.m. when the group of about 500 began to gather in Frank Ogawa Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>6:15: p.m. \u003c/em>At the general assembly, speakers \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/northoaklandnow/status/136260654943313922\">announced a plan\u003c/a> to meet at 14th Street and Broadway Avenue at 2:30 p.m. to march to UC Berkeley in support of the “Occupy Cal” group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also planned for Saturday, another march will begin at that same intersection at 2:00 p.m., \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/JoshuaHol/status/136263060015947776\">reports\u003c/a> Joshua Holland from AlterNet. Reporter Emily Lofits \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/eloft/status/136264716426280960\">tweets\u003c/a> that a working group to organize that march will be held tomorrow at 6:00 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>5:30 p.m.\u003c/em> The night’s general assembly has begun, reports \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/?photo_id=1#!/Josh_Richman/status/136256772259319808/photo/1\">Josh Richman\u003c/a> from The Oakland Tribune,\u003ca href=\"//ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2011/11/occupyoakland-300x224.jpg%22%20alt=%22%22%20width=%22300%22%20height=%22224%22%20/></a>%5B/caption%5D\"> tweeting a picture\u003c/a> of several hundred gathered on Frank Ogawa Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Peter Jon Shuler is on the scene, and will send us updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>5:10 p.m.\u003c/em> After being evicted for the second time, Occupy Oakland supporters regrouped this afternoon at the Main Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police estimate the crowd is about 500 people, currently on the march toward Frank Ogawa Plaza. Local ABC TV affiliate KGO-7 has a videographer \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8431348\">walking with the crowd\u003c/a>, but hasn’t made the streaming video embeddable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KGO has provided this video of a press conference with Mayor Jean Quan this afternoon, regarding the dissolution of the Occupy Oakland encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Riot-clad law enforcement officers cleared out Oakland’s weeks-old anti-Wall Street encampment just before dawn, arresting Occupy demonstrators and removing tents from a downtown plaza after issuing several warnings over the weekend. Protesters appeared to put up little resistance and officers could be seen calmly leading some demonstrators away in plastic handcuffs. Officers made 32 arrests during Monday’s raid, Police Chief Howard Jordan said, adding that there were no reports of injuries to officers or protesters.\u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/police-clear-downtown-occupy-oakland-camp-141946461.html\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_46930\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/occupyoakland.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46930\" title=\"occupyoakland\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/occupyoakland-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco police stand at 14th and Broadway (Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"update\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2:28 p.m.\u003c/strong> Scott Olsen, the Iraq War vet injured in one of the violent clashes between police and protesters after the first time the encampment was cleared, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/14/BAGA1LURES.DTL\">has been discharged from the hospital\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is \u003ca href=\"https://plus.google.com/101404928335199641114/posts\">Olsen’s Google Plus page\u003c/a>, on which he posted this statement yesterday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m feeling a lot better, with a long road in front of me. After my freedom of speech was quite literally taken from me, my speech is coming back but I’ve got a lot of work to do with rehab. Thank you for all your support, it has meant the world to me. You’ll be hearing more from me in the near future and soon enough we’ll see you in our streets!\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2:25 p.m.\u003c/strong> It was a tough day for Occupy Eureka as well. Thirty-two arrested as police \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/14/BAGA1LUSGK.DTL\">cleared out the encampment\u003c/a> for the second time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> Here’s our reporter Caitlin Esch’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zzx_t0HGX8\">video\u003c/a> of police dismantling the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza early this morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/6zzx_t0HGX8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:10 p.m.\u003c/strong> Jean Quan was on KQED Radio’s Forum show today. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201111140900\">Listen here\u003c/a>, and/or join in on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201111140900#disqus_thread\">online discussion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked why today’s raid appears to have gone so much more smoothly than the one on Oct 25, Quan only said, “You know, Howard Jordan, Deanna Santana, the city administrator, and I are a new administration, and we’ve been working together very closely on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some quotes from the mayor, from the show:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why the raid occurred\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the sanitation issues, it was the violence in the camp—the recent murder, the sexual assault, the open fighting, the drug dealing. That in the middle of the heart of Oakland. I don’t think anybody wants that kind of situation in their community or in their neighborhood. Frank Ogawa Plaza really is a symbol of the whole city where everyone should come, be able to use it peacefully and that’s not what it was anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On violent protesters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has a group of- of people who want to make their political organizing fighting and confronting the police and that’s unfortunate and they hide within the peaceful demonstrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the impact of the protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that’s what Oaklanders are saying now, that we’re tired of this. That these demonstrations have cost us real services, real impact to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the cost to the city\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not alone here, I was on a conference call with 18 other mayors and you know, a city like Oakland, we don’t have the extra taxes that San Francisco has. We are really the 99 percent. We have high percentages of people who are unemployed and – and in poverty. So these expenses are really going to hurt the community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1 p.m.\u003c/strong> Photos from today’s raid in our \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedradio/sets/72157627880192794/\">Occupy Bay Area Flickr pool\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:40 a.m.\u003c/strong> Official statement from Jean Quan today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m very grateful that this morning’s effort went so smoothly and peacefully. We’re here this morning because Occupy Oakland has taken on a different direction from the national movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was no longer about the abuses of the financial institutions, foreclosures and to the unemployed. At the encampment we’ve had repeated violence, we’ve had a murder. I don’t want any more people to die before this comes to an end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encampment has been a tremendous drain on our city. During one of the recent demonstrations, we had 179 public safety calls for service that went unanswered because of the demonstrations downtown. We’ve had increased drug dealing, sexual assaults—all of this was occurring in a one-square block encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not what Occupy Wall Street is about. In addition to the violence at Frank Ogawa Plaza, the city cannot afford for our small businesses and vibrant downtown to lose hundreds of jobs and nearly half of their patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks now we’ve been trying to meet with the organizers of the encampment and there is no clear agenda or demands. We remain one of the only cities that has not had a representative committee to work with. Our community’s already strained resources– our police, our public works and other city services –have been pulled away from serving Oakland residents who ARE the 99%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We took every step we could to resolve this peacefully. We planned the removal as carefully as we could and made repeated attempts to make sure that all campers who wanted to leave voluntarily had the opportunity to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met with multiple groups during the last week. And we are grateful that many took advantage of the opportunity to leave peacefully. I also want to thank the many churches and community groups who stepped up to offer alternative housing and to encourage the camp to close peacefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Mayor of Oakland in this very difficult situation, I’ve tried to do what is right for the City and for the safety of our people at every step. I am asking for people–even those who disagree with this decision–to respect the City’s right to close the encampment and for demonstrators not to engage in destructive acts. It is time for us to work together on the issues that unite us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to thank the Alameda County Mutual Aid police departments and our own police, public works staff and other city staff who have also worked hard to keep this peaceful.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:10 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_46980\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/occupytreeSM.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46980\" title=\"occupytreeSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/occupytreeSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zachary Running Wolf, still protesting, up a tree. (Caitlin Esch/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, Caitlin Esch talked briefly to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=zachary+running+wolf\">Zachary Running Wolf\u003c/a>, a protester who is perched up a tree on 14th Street between Broadway and Franklin, on the edge of the plaza. Esch sent her recorder up to him in a basket. “We have a gas mask, eye protection,” he said. “We have ability to take rubber bullets. We’re ready for this. We have extra food. We have water. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:17 a.m.\u003c/strong> Statement from the Oakland Police Officers Association, offering thank yous to Howard Jordan, Deanna Santana, and even the protesters. Conspicuous by her absence on this list: No thank you to Quan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On behalf of the 645 Oakland police officers we represent, Oakland Police Officers’ Association would like to thank our Police Chief Howard Jordan and City Administrator Deanna Santana for their leadership in the peaceful removal of the occupier encampment. We are also appreciative of the mutual aid provided by law enforcement agencies from throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the Occupy Oakland protesters: “Thank you for your peaceful exit from Frank Ogawa Plaza – it was greatly appreciated by all,” said Sgt. Dom Arotzarena. “We respect your right to peaceful protest, and urge your continued willingness to abide by the law.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:00 a.m.\u003c/strong> Caitlin Esch, our reporter on the scene this morning, was at the encampment both pre-raid and post-raid. She said the rain had created a lot of mud, so the protesters had covered it over with hay. The smell was extremely strong, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, she said the scene was “not pretty,” both before and after. “There was stuff strewn everywhere. Garbage and debris, mattresses, water bottles, sleeping bags, food…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esch noted the marked difference between the way police approached this raid as opposed to the first one on Oct 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At 5:22 a.m. police started making a series of dispersal orders. I counted at least 10 in the next 35 to 40 minutes before they moved in and started making arrests. But by that time just about everyone who wanted to leave had left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Oct 25 pre-dawn raid, police gave a five-minute warning, which by some accounts was more like two to three minutes, before they moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esch also talked about the group of 12-13 inter-faith religious protesters who chose to be arrested. “They were gathered in a semi-circle, singing ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘We Shall Overcome,’ surrounded by candles in little plastic cups. They refused to leave, but were peaceful as they were arrested. They had declared their tent a sanctuary, hoping that would save them from arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9:40 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED’s Joshua Johnson \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201111140805\">interviewed Jean Quan \u003c/a> this morning. A transcript follows the audio:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Joshua Johnson: I understand that you were able to walk through the encampment this morning after the police shut it down again. Is that so? And if so, what did you see?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean Quan: You know, what you’ll see is that there has been quite a lot of squalor there. I listened to your morning report and I listen to it every morning. The reality was that the reason we closed the camp was because of the violence and the safety issues. We had a murder earlier this weekend. There had been repeated reports of violence, drug dealing, and sexual assaults. And that’s become a real problem of the movement. And um, over the weekend, many of the peaceful demonstrators had left the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JJ: Has there been any progress investigating that murder?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JQ: You’ll have to talk to the police chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JJ: I imagine it’s been tough navigating supporting the protesters and being the face of the government’s authority. You and a number of city officials including the Oakland police officer’s association have said that you support the 99%. Many of you have said you ARE the 99%. But the reality is that you are also the mayor who has a fiduciary and a legal responsibility to keep the city safe and orderly and on time and on budget. How have you navigated that and do you think it may get easier now going forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JQ: You know, being a mayor is never easy. A lot of people know I have an activist background. On one hand, I support a lot of the movements involved. On the other hand, I’m the mayor of the city and have to guarantee safety and what’s good for the economy in Oakland. So it’s been very tough but I’ve made every decision based on what I’ve thought was best for the safety and the economy of the city. The Occupy Oakland movement has probably cost the city millions of dollars, took away precious police officers out of my tougher neighborhoods. That are facing violence. And we just had to end the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JJ: Some of the chatter on Twitter that we’ve been checking out this morning would suggest that at today’s General Assembly, they’re going to reconnect around 4 o’clock, I believe it is near the Oakland Public Library, and may decide to re-re-Occupy the plaza. How long do you see this going on? Where the squatters show up and you kick them out and they show up again and you kick them out again and they show up again. How do you make an end game to all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JQ: Well first of all, there is a group of the peaceful demonstrators who realize that they were not getting any organizing done who have left and they’re over at Snow Park and are looking for a private space. Similar to Wall Street. Wall Street is actually in a private park and so this is supposed to be about the organizing and not about encampments. That’s a tactic and not a solution. The Plaza is a public space. It belongs to all of Oakland and we’ll allow people to gather there for free speech- they can continue to have their general assemblies, but they’re not going to be allowed to camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JJ: There had been reports this morning from the Chronicle that your legal adviser Dan Siegel hadresigned. He posted on his Facebook page and his twitter feed the same note. It says quote, “No longer Mayor Quan’s legal adviser. Resigned at 2 AM. Support Occupy Oakland, not the 1% and its government facilitators,” unquote. Your reaction to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JQ: Dan and I are old friends from the old days. He was working on one project for me. I thank him for that work. People move on, I’m moving on. Today I’m really focused on some job creation, working with our federal police monitor. I’m doing the work of the city and you know, he and I will have our differences over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JJ: To people who may be looking at Oakland and saying- what is it about this town that seems to be facilitating this? There are plenty of Occupiers in other cities. What do you think it is about Oakland that has made this A) fertile ground for the movement, and B) so intransigent to try and get the Occupiers to leave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JQ: You know, Oakland really is a city of the 99 percent. And we’ve been the birthplace of many movements for peace and justice. I think the problem we have is we have a very large intransigent group of people who were more into fighting the police and making the plaza the issue rather than the issues of the 99 percent movement. And I’m hoping that people are beginning to see that and separating themselves off from people who are sometimes violent and um, continuing with the work of organizing.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>8:55 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/#!/californiabeat/status/136122925731426304\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/#!/californiabeat/status/136122671510470656\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:45 a.m.\u003c/strong> Quan’s chief legal adviser, civil rights attorney Dan Siegel, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/14/BAGA1LURQ7.DTL&tsp=1\">resigned\u003c/a> today over the police action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>8:38 a.m.\u003c/strong> Live now: Oakland City leaders hold press conference. Watch live \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8430809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7:55 a.m.\u003c/strong> At 9. a.m., Mayor Jean Quan is scheduled to appear on KQED’s Radio’s Forum. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">\u003cstrong>Listen live here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> or on-air at 88.5 FM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 7:50 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED reporter Caitlin Esch reports the scene is quiet. Police are blocking off Frank Ogawa Plaza. Fewer than 100 protesters have gathered at 14th and Broadway, and their numbers are dwindling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php/option=com_altcaster/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=6fc946b07c\">\u003cstrong>Live tweets from reporters\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003ca name=\"twitter\">\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php/option=com_altcaster/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=6fc946b07c/height=550/width=470\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"470px\" height=\"550px\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Ian Hill has been pulling from Twitter and the web since the police action began early this morning. He gathered the material below…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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