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The movement also helped spur the November 2, 2011, Oakland General Strike that shut down the Port of Oakland. Police again cleared the protest encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza on November 14, 2011. Other protest encampments were created and subsequently dismantled by law enforcement. The last encampment at Snow Park was cleared on November 21 ...
The 2011 Oakland general strike was a demonstration held in Oakland, California on November 2, ... moments before being shot by an Oakland Police officer.
One of the marches to the Port of Oakland on November 2, 2011. The following is a timeline of Occupy Oakland (sometimes called OO or #OO) which began on Monday, October 10, 2011, as an occupation of Frank H. Ogawa Plaza located in front of Oakland City Hall in downtown Oakland, and is an ongoing demonstration.
A January 14 demonstration briefly turned violent, and police arrested 18 people after rioters smashed car and store windows in Oakland's City Center district. [166] Another eight were arrested in a January 30 demonstration after Mehserle's bail hearing, in which he said that he had intended to use his Taser rather than to shoot Grant.
Occupy Oakland (Timeline of Occupy Oakland); This Occupy, like many others in urban areas, was victim to a lot of police violence. However, at this Occupy, a protestor, Scott Olsen, was non-fatally shot in the head by police.
(KRON) — The Oakland Police Officers Association (OPOA) has responded to Mayor Sheng Thao’s executive order for city departments to fully remove people living in homeless encampments ...
Voters in Northern California will decide in the Nov. 5 election whether to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County Dist. Atty. Pamela Price. Two recalls on the Oakland ballot show ...
On April 7, 2003, in Oakland, California, United States, an anti-war protest occurred at the Port of Oakland.The non-violent protest was organized by Direct Action to Stop the War, a Bay Area peace group, which was protesting against American President Lines, alleging the company shipped arms and supplies for the U.S. military and was profiting from the war on Iraq.