Joanna
----- Original Message ----- It will be a while before a trustworthy empirical account of what happened in the Oakland General Strike. Until more is known about it "criticism" of it seems mere blowing off.
Carrol
-----Original Message----- From: pen-l-bounces at lists.csuchico.edu [mailto:pen-l-bounces at lists.csuchico.edu] On Behalf Of jmp Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 9:52 AM To: Progressive Economics Subject: [Pen-l] Fwd: [anarchist.academics] black block tactics in Oakland
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [anarchist.academics] black block tactics in Oakland Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:00:59 +0000 From: Dana Ward <dana_ward at pitzer.edu> To: <anarchist.academics at lists.mutualaid.org> <anarchist.academics at lists.mutualaid.org>
One of my students was in the Black Block in Oakland. The Whole Food store told employees that if they participated in the general strike they would lose their jobs and the black block decided to surround the store, armed with shields. Suddenly another black block emerged and started attacking the other black block with staffs. Later my student talked with a local former black panther who said that he recognized people in the second black block as neo-nazis. I just heard a report on the radio that a black protestor was shot and would not be surprised if this also turns out to be the work of white supremecist.
Dana Ward, Ph.D. Political Studies Pitzer College 1050 N. Mills Claremont, CA 91711
Homepage: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/dward/
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