Jobless Occutards Going On Strike In Oakland

I keep thinking the guy in the middle of your avatar is Simon Pegg.
 
Did I misunderstand it, or did they really vote among themselves that other people should strike and join them?

Well, I suppose that's what democracy looks like. In Oakland, that is. Over here, tonight when I walked home, democracy looked like six people, two of whom were so drunk they could hardly stand up.
 
If I lived in Oakland, I'm sure I'd be willing to risk losing my job to support whatever it is they're trying to accomplish.
 
Call it Vichy Oakland; the administration is collaborating with the occupiers:

To add to the confusion, the Administration issued a memo on Friday, October 28th to all City workers in support of the “Stop Work” strike scheduled for Wednesday, giving all employees, except for police officers, permission to take the day off.

That’s hundreds of City workers encouraged to take off work to participate in the protest against “the establishment.” But aren’t the Mayor and her Administration part of the establishment they are paying City employees to protest? Is it the City’s intention to have City employees on both sides of a skirmish line?
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Apparently, Mayor Quan did not give the city workers a paid day off; rather they were encouraged to take a vacation day or sick time.

BTW, you can stream the Oakland General Strike online. The march on the banks is coming up; get your popcorn ready.
 
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This is getting wierder and wierder every day... It's a wierd-a-rama... So, the non-working are striking. How do you do that? Get a job? No, that can't be it. Maybe what they are planning on doing is not living, as that seems to be all they ARE doing, is living, maybe they'll go on strike against living. Maybe.
 
Windows got broken at Wells Fargo; protestors are claiming it was agent provocateurs from the cops. Gonna be a hot time in Oakland tonight!
 
Yeah, funny thing...I've talked to a few of the OWS people in my neighborhood and while I can't speak for the whole - let alone those from Oakland - the ones I've spoken to all mysteriously have jobs. Based on that, the fact that the article linked in the OP doesn't actually reference them being unemployed, and, you know, stuff like this:

According to a survey of Zucotti Park protesters by the Baruch College School of Public Affairs published on October 19, of 1,619 web respondents, 1/3 were older than 35, half were employed full-time, 13% were unemployed and 13% earned over $75,000. 27.3% of the respondents called themselves Democrats, 2.4% called themselves Republicans, while the rest, 70%, called themselves independents.[35]
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Sourcing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
http://www.fastcompany.com/1789018/occupy-wall-street-demographics-statistics#disqus_thread

...my guess is that this entire thread is an attempt at spreading an idiotic fabrication.
 
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applecorped said:
your guess? :rolleyes:
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Guess, estimate, hypothesis. Yes, the term is correct. I've not personally had any contact with the protesters in Oakland...thus the minute possibility exists that they are, contrary to rational appraisal, actually all (or major percentages thereof) unemployed. Perhaps I've even overlooked some section of the article verifying such information. Likewise, rather than deliberately spreading falsehood for whatever ideological purposes, the possibility exists that the OP is merely...lacking in judgment, shall we say :)
 
According to my brother an awful lot of the Occupy protesters were city and BART workers already. Previously they only protested during their off hours.
 
Shadowdweller said:
Yeah, funny thing...I've talked to a few of the OWS people in my neighborhood and while I can't speak for the whole - let alone those from Oakland - the ones I've spoken to all mysteriously have jobs. Based on that, the fact that the article linked in the OP doesn't actually reference them being unemployed, and, you know, stuff like this:


Sourcing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
http://www.fastcompany.com/1789018/occupy-wall-street-demographics-statistics#disqus_thread

...my guess is that this entire thread is an attempt at spreading an idiotic fabrication.
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Yeah, funny thing...I've talked to about 20-30 occutards in 2 different cities. About 90% were unemployed, or at least claimed to be. Sounds like we've had very different experiences.
 
If the top 1% really wants to shut them all up (assuming the Occupy protesters really are mostly jobless) they could start creating all those jobs they promised back when the Bush tax cuts were extended.
 
Two things from Obamaville Oakland:

1. One of the speakers from the podium celebrated the 32nd anniversary of the "liberation" of Assata Shakur (aka Joanne Chesimard) from prison.

In May 1973 Shakur was involved in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike, during which New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster and BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur were killed and Shakur and Trooper James Harper were wounded. Between 1973 and 1977, Shakur was indicted in relation to six other alleged criminal incidents—charged with murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, bank robbery, and kidnapping—resulting in three acquittals and three dismissals. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of Foerster and of seven other felonies related to the shootout.
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She broke out of prison in 1979 and is living in the workers' paradise of Cuba.

The Occutards broke into an office building in Oakland near the plaza. Believe it or not, the idiots filmed themselves breaking into the building and are still filming themselves inside the building.
 
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