Quan to Occupy Oakland: Shape up or ship out

Source: SF Chronicle

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan says the Occupy Oakland protesters camped outside City Hall need to move to a "less disruptive" location if they can't learn to behave themselves.

"They have to take some responsibility, they have to step up," she told KCBS-AM in an interview. "If they can't abide by not camping at night and they can't control the violence, they need to work with the city to move the camp to a place that will be less disruptive."

Quan told KCBS she didn't know where that new location could be, but jokingly suggested San Francisco.

Quan's administration has gone back and forth on what to do with the camp in Frank Ogawa Plaza at 14th Street and Broadway, where there are now about 165 tents. First she supported protesters, then approved a police sweep to clear the encampment Oct. 25, then allowed the tents to return.

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NGU.

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Surrender, Jean.

Who started the violence first?

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of he 99% in front of the money and power elites.

Quan is part of the power elite. She should understand that she is part of that 1% that the 99% in the Occupy movement are protesting.

piss off, quan.

social skills of a gorilla, she walks away in video with a big smile on her face, while there is extreme strife within her city. What a loser!

:mad: - Disruption is the point!!!

K&R

that she resigns before still more citizens are injured by her goon squads.

...I'm sick of the 1% telling the 99% what to do.

As far as I know, as far as and posted video shows, its been exclusively cops injuring folk

There is terrible amount of police violence, but people are not kneeling down.

Greek politicians can't go anywhere public. When they are seen in public, people gather around them, call them thieves and other true words, and throw yoghurt at them. Also eggs and sometimes even stones. It's only logical - politicians order police to ristrict freedom of ordinary people and violently hurt them, so people tell politicians they are not welcome to public places and that they should just go away.

As to the recall campaign against her, Quan fired back Monday saying that
"the last thing we need is a divisive and expensive recall campaign".

"It was sort of remarkable that she was able to alienate both sides," said University of San Francisco political scientist Corey Cook of Quan's relationship with protesters and police. "She has no friends at this point."

Huffington Post, 11/02/11

"Jean Quan, Oakland Mayor, Under Fire Over Occupy Protests"

Huffington Post, November 2, 2011

"Jean Quan, Oakland Mayor, Under Fire Over Occupy Protests"


"It was sort of remarkable that she was able to alienate both sides", said University of San Francisco political scientist Corey Cook of Quan's relationship with protesters and police.
"She has no friends at all at this point."

RESIGN NOW.