Occupy Oakland Leads the General Strike
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Here's a little something from the Occupy Oakland website. And there's a great deal more to adopt, adapt and deploy anywhere and at any time. Example? The Port of Portland might be added to the list of direct action venues. But here's the rub: In Portland, ("The City that Works" that is out of work) our Mayor, Sam Adams has displayed remarkable restraint. Of course he isn't running for public office this time around so he can afford the magnanimity. Then again this current era that has struck, snatched us up and carried us into the Wild Blue is characterized by a persistent substrate of quixotic irony. Yes. Yes indeed, Shut It Down...alas so many of the very entities the 99 percent are picketing are themselves teetering on the brink of chronic insolvency. When the doors blow off, what's left to shut.
Here's to the General Strikers! Here's from Oakland:
WAYS TO PARTICIPATE ON NOVEMBER 2 GENERAL STRIKE & DAY OF ACTION
Occupy Oakland is calling for no work and no school on November 2 as part of the general strike. We are asking that all workers go on strike, call in sick, take a vacation day or simply walk off the job with their co-workers. We are also asking that all students walk out of school and join workers and community members in downtown Oakland. All banks and large corporations must close down for the day or demonstrators will march on them.
The Occupy Oakland Strike Assembly has vowed to picket and or occupy any business or school which disciplines employees or students in any way for participating in the Nov 2 General Strike. Please email OccupyOaklandLaborSolidarity@gmail.com if you are the subject of any disciplinary action.
Occupy Oakland recognizes that not all workers, students and community members will feel able to strike all day long on November 2, and we welcome any form of participation which they feel is appropriate. We urge them to join us before or after work or during their lunch hours.
- KBOO