[lbo-talk] Scenes from Oakland's General Strike

[Chuck Grimes]

The day began with a few thousand people overflowing the newly rechristened 
Oscar Grant Plaza (named after the young African American man shot in cold 
blood by a transit cop in Oakland a few years ago) where the Occupy Oakland 
encampment in front of City Hall was reestablished after the police riot the 
week before. Their numbers completely occupied downtown's main intersection 
at Broadway and 14th Street. But that was just a foreshadowing of the crowds 
that would show later in the day.

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