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Two of the nineteen demonstrators arrested in SF at the Columbus Day protest received word last week that their Twitter accounts have been subpo…

Bread and Roses Oakland: Call Out Meeting!

BREAD AND ROSES COLLECTIVE OAKLAND
CALL OUT MEETING
NOVEMBER 17th 2-4PM @ THE HOLDOUT
2313 SAN PABLO, OAKLAND CA
The Bread and Roses Collective is an act of mutual aid.
In light of recent state and police repression, and in solidarity with the long h…

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Why Revolutionary Syndicalism?

From Ideas & Action – By Tom Wetzel
1. A Strategy for Workers Liberation
Capitalism is at its heart an oppressive and exploitative economic system. The core is the class structure, in which the majority are dispossessed of the means of production…

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What’s new with Little Black Cart – Fall 2012

From Little Black Cart
The first signs of winter are in the air and morale seems low. This is a perfect time to sit by a fire and read a good book or two. A time to conspire, prepare for future activities, and stay out of the cold. We have some mora…

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DOOM, OOMedia, and the struggle for middle-class respectability and political legitimacy

Different activist factions now compete for a monopoly on the Occupy brand like vultures and hyenas fighting over a rotting carcass. Each tries to outdo the other with their facile demonization of assorted miscreants. The combined message is that …

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In-fighting among factions, identity issues mark Occupy Oakland first anniversary (Analysis)

From Oakland Local
A year ago, when Occupy Oakland began, it seemed like the beginnings of a new grassroots political movement, uniting social, economic and institutional justice movements under one banner.
Twelve months later – on the anniversary o…

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Stay Calm: some tips for keeping safe in times of state repression

From Bay of Rage
pdfs for printing and viewing below
The spectre of state repression has been growing over Bay Area radical milieus. Grand juries in the Pacific Northwest and in Santa Cruz, threats by police of using gang enhancements against activis…

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Oakland is for burning? Beyond a critique of gentrification

From Bay of Rage
I’m not a nihilist, but I wish they would burn every fucking thing down except for the houses. So that people would begin to understand that we don’t need this system.
- Bella Eiko, speaking to the Oakland City Council, during a …

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OOMEDIA Issues Press Release Denouncing Oakland Commune

OCCUPY OAKLAND MEDIA COLLECTIVE STATEMENT ON THE OAKLAND COMMUNE
Occupy Oakland began on October 10, 2011. Since then it has become clear that a rigid distinction needs to be made between Occupy Oakland and the self-described Oakland Commune. The Med…

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Not-you.

[A response to a debate that took place tonight, at Sylvia Federici's talk, at the holdout in Oakland]
‘Not-men’ is a half-assed idea. It takes a problem, and it makes a problem out of it. Let me explain. As was said tonight, this category treads…

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Oakland Anti-Anarchist Vigilante Group Declares War on Black Bloc

From Pastebin – by Occupy the Mob
A GROUP OF OAKLAND RESIDENTS, NATIVES, AND OCCUPY ACTIVISTS IDENTIFY THE “OAKLAND COMMUNE” AS AGENTS OF MASS VANDALISM; DENOUNCED AS RACIST, CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION.
A group of ideological extremists relocated to Oakla…

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Update on San Francisco Repression

Here is a brief outline of actions and associated repression from the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD). This is being written as a way to share the way the escalation of repression has manifested itself here and to then follow it to its logical…

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Decolonize The New World

Modern residents would hardly recognize the Bay Area as it was in the days of the Ohlones. Tall, sometimes shoulder-high strands of native bunch-grasses…covered the vast meadowlands and the tree-dotted savannahs. Marshes that spread out for thousa…

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ALL OUR ANCESTORS KILLED COLONISTS – communique re: 10/6 & 10/7

Compared to the millions in the world at this moment, on their feet fighting and dying daily to decentralize power and uproot imperialism in their communities, struggles in the US are slow or behind the curve even. Comrades in Athens, Cairo, Kabul, T…

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To Dante, with love

This is written in response to this article by SFWeekly, “Meet the Accused Black Bloc Protestors”, and some of the more disgusting comments below:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/10/meet_the_accused_black_block…
My first words are for Dant…

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Knocking the Boots?

From We Want Some Food
A Response to Mr. Riley Regarding the Bay and the Black Bloc
What follows is not an attack on Boots Riley’s recent facebook update, I’ll leave that to the hundreds of others. I’m not from, nor do I live in Oak…

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Individual communiqué from Oakland 10/07/12

The only tears tonight will be for the countless lives that have been stolen.
Comrades when I looked into your eyes this weekend I saw a little bit of your pain fade. Somewhere in between the celebratory feminist vigilante march and the little piece…

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The Oakland Commune – brochure in german and english

There is a broschure with some flyers and articles from and about the actions of the Oakland Commune during the occupy-movement. The tranlation collective Et al. translated them into german but also provides an english variant. Its available online, …

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