I felt this was a very
important development in the Occupy movement.-សតិវ អតុ
From the Kasama
Project;
Dear Mayor Jean Quan, Oakland Police Department, and Oakland City Council,
As you probably know, Occupy Oakland is planning the occupation of a
building on January 28th that will serve as a social center, convergence
center, headquarters, free kitchen, and place of housing for Occupy Oakland.
Like so many other people, Occupy Oakland is homeless while buildings remain
vacant and unused. For Occupy this is in large part because of yourselves,
having evicted us twice from public space that was rightfully ours. For others
it is because of the housing bubble, predatory lending, the perpetual crises of
capitalism, and far reaching histories of imperialism and systemic violence.Our families, friends, and communities built the buildings that sit empty in post-industrial Oakland. Now these buildings outnumber the homeless and represent the theft of our collective labor as the class of the unpropertied and dispossessed. Allowing this building to remain vacant while so many are in need is injurious theft, injustice; its extralegal occupancy is not.
When Occupy Oakland was first evicted on October 25, we organized a General Strike on November 2nd with only a week to plan. November 2nd proved our strength and relevancy. Conservative estimates said twenty thousand took the streets, but for those of us who marched on the ports it could have been a hundred thousand. November 2nd was an inspiration for the Occupy Movement and public condemnation of your violent repression. Read the rest of this entry »
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