Additionally, Susie Cagle, a reporter who covers Occupy Oakland, shared updates about yesterday's latest GA vote on "non-violence." The latest proposal failed, garnering 30% of the vote. Basically, people are grumbling about repeated attempts to force a committment to non-violence civil disobedience because it won't achieve even 80% of the vote
"There is a lot that people who occupy Oakland — by that name or otherwise — disagree about, in terms of tactics, principles, and goals. But here’s something that seems, to me, utterly impossible to deny: you cannot build a peaceful occupy camp in Oakland. The city will not let you. From the very beginning, the camp at Snow Park was NONE of the things that local media or city government have said about Occupy Oakland. Whatever you might think about any of the militancy or mess or danger or whatever of the original main camp at Frank Ogawa Plaza/Oscar Grant, it is simply and clearly the case that the people at Snow Park bent over backwards to negotiate and conciliate the city in every respect they could, without ceasing to be a camp. They never had open cooking, they allowed police into the camp, they talked with anyone who would talk with them, they made clear that their modus operandi was nonviolence, and they stressed, constantly, that all they wanted was the right to remain. They passed a GA resolution to try to get a camping permit from the city. They kept their shit clean, even by the shifting standards of the city itself. And that wasn’t enough. The one thing the city wanted, above all, was their absence."
http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/occupy-oaklands-peace-camp/
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