#Occupy is about problem identification and solution. Oakland has been identified.

Evidently, Oakland has been a long-term problem regarding police brutality and perhaps racial profiling (I do not know personally). The fear and misguidance of their governing body and enforcement units show themselves as obsolete, as something incompatible with a happy, peaceful world. I ask for the Federal governing body who have been investigating the OPD since at least 2003 to immediately seize control, immediately fire everyone noted as a problem of any sort, re-arrange the infrastructure as appropriate, and to hire people with positive track records regarding relations and interactions with their fellows. Install a program teaching service, not violence.

With two peace-seeking US Veterans in the hospital with life-threatening wounds, with three separate attacks by multiple police agencies, with tear gas, rubber bullets, sting rounds, and flash bangs (most of which you have officially publicly denied in spite of physical and video evidence), this is the will of the people.



Crisis: Two mutually exclusive directions coming into conflict.

Conflict is not required. #Occupy can peacefully obsolete the corrupt systems through sheer force of numbers/will. Note how much its presence has stirred up from that many of us having been brought to bear. It is about sheer force of will, combined with numbers. Add your peace, add your will for this to Change, to be better because it has to be, because we are sick of living like this, and we can force peaceful Change for the better. We outnumber them by an incredible amount, by an incredible percentage. You don't have to march, you don't have to camp, but you are asked to add your firm resolve, your determination, that we CAN solve our problems, that we DESERVE to live in a better world, that nothing but this makes any sense, and the issues will run away. You can already see it beginning. We are already winning. We deserve our better world!

are liberals, academics, middle to upper middle class. Since I spent the day at the protest in Oakland on Nov 2nd and marched to through and around the Port of Oakland, my friends asked me, "So, is this movement going anywhere?"

Questions like that always irritate the fuck out of me. I told them: "That depends on you and me. All of us. It isn't about some "movement" that is going to do all the work for you. The whole point is that if we want a better world, we have to create it. ALL OF US.

I mean, what is so difficult to understand about that? It isn't about what "they" do. It is about what WE do.