[lbo-talk] Occupy Oakland reports and pics

[Joel Schalit]

Well, the police were doing their job, so to speak. Shops were ransacked all over the Bay Area - Telegraph Avenue, in Berkeley, Market Street and Union Square, in SF. So, they imposed curfews, attacked political demonstrators, etc. Pro-forma, for the region, and in general, I suppose. I'm not nostalgic for that period in time, though reading about the local Occupy scene, especially during this Rodney King anniversary,  does bring me back.

Best, Joel

On May 2, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:


> On 5/2/2012 3:04 AM, Joel Schalit wrote:
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>> The police were awful.
> 
> If you can't find a job, be a cop.
> 
> Trouble is I've been in situations where the only thing to do was call a cop.  Like when an air duct between your apartment and another is telling you for sure that someone is in trouble upstairs.
> 
> This ties in with the prison abolition stuff.  Asking what do we do with criminals is a reasonable question.  But I think we all need to be always wary of how crime fear rhetoric affects us.
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