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In reply to the discussion: ALL HOLY HELL HAS BROKEN OUT IN OAKLAND. This Is What It Has Come To... [View all]T S Justly
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ALL HOLY HELL HAS BROKEN OUT IN OAKLAND. This Is What It Has Come To... [View all]
kpete
Jan 2012
OP
I agree BeHereNow, All this brutality because Occupy wanted to occupy an abandoned building.
fasttense
Jan 2012
#58
Police brutality is systematically killing everything we supposedly stand for,
99th_Monkey
Jan 2012
#133
It's a class thing. That's the best advice IVE ever got, but it doesn't work for the rich.
saras
Jan 2012
#114
Yep... K & R !!! - And They're Calling In Police Officers From All Over The Bay Area...
WillyT
Jan 2012
#3
I hope the Occupy Marines who have pledged to protect the protesters are calling up a response-
BeHereNow
Jan 2012
#9
The other cities in the area need to revisit their "mutual aid" policies pronto
KamaAina
Jan 2012
#110
Look again. True, many of the beating victims are not that young. But some are children.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2012
#29
What democracy makes it necessary for a mother to have to buy a gas mask for her children
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#104
+1. I wonder if knowing the feds are going to take over OPD had anything to do with this?
freshwest
Jan 2012
#126
No, I was referrring to a thread here about the Feds taking over OPD because of violence.
freshwest
Jan 2012
#131
I have nothing against peaceful protests and including children when safely possible
nobodyspecial
Jan 2012
#80
"Safe" is subjective. The first black students to integrate white enclaves were in dire jeopardy
riderinthestorm
Jan 2012
#103
I know right? Sometimes it just is what life hands us, and brave kids step up. I love that pic
riderinthestorm
Jan 2012
#129
Call a news conference and use his bully pulpit to denounce these blue shirts actions and call
Hestia
Jan 2012
#96
The Stream Reporter Is Saying That People Are So Pissed, They'll Just Keep On Reforming And Marching
WillyT
Jan 2012
#14
100 people arrested in Oakland, and I have NO WAY of know if my daughter was one of them.
Raksha
Jan 2012
#38
There would've been no attempt to take the Civic Center, an illegal act, without those people.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#68
Well, for some marching in the streets and intending to take over a building...
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#73
Is it rational and reasonable if you want to create a game changing national movement?
hack89
Jan 2012
#76
When I first saw the picture that looks like it was taken with a night vision lense
Jazzgirl
Jan 2012
#90
Looks like we need to help and donate gas masks. The cops will have to wake up when everyone
Hestia
Jan 2012
#99
The Rite of Spring-it is the nature of evolution, as unstoppable as state repression nt
HarryPowell
Jan 2012
#121