Specifically in Oakland, they are in the middle of ongoing school closures and charterizing -- it is a desperate situation.
And then, honestly, I don't know how many people OO can mobilize. At its height, it's something like 1000. So. I don't know.
But yeah, feeble. Or rather, premature.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 7:28:52 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Report from occupy Oakland
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:17:17 +0000 (UTC) 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> > There's a general strike announced for Wednesday. Unfortunately,
> > the major unions are only marginally supporting it. Here's the
> > teachers' union announcement:
> >
> > "In a unanimous vote tonight, the OEA Executive Board endorsed
> > Occupy Oakland's November 2 "General Strike/Mass Day of Action" and
> > is urging members to participate in a variety of ways, including
> > taking personal leave to join actions at Frank Ogawa Plaza, doing
> > informational picketing at school sites, and holding teach-ins on
> > the history of general strikes and organizing for economic
> > justice."
Ugh. That's pretty feeble, isn't it?
-- --
Michael J. Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://www.cars-suck.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com
"I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President, and I think I will go along with them."
-- Barack Obama
(Okay, okay, it was really Calvin Coolidge.) ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk