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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad
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#1 As far as the "how" - On the 2nd and 3rd, when we shut down the Port of Oakland for 24 hours, we did it by building a barricade with stolen chain link fences, stolen dumpsters turned on their sides, pallets, and people. This was accomplished at thoroughfare intersections distal to the border of the port. The march actually went in, but our barricades were not inside the border of the port.
#2 This is all very much illegal. It's called "civil disobedience." Jesus (basically) invented it, and people like Thomas Jefferson, Henry D. Thoreau, the BOSTON Tea Party (1773), and Mohandas Ghandi refined it before Gene Sharp got ahold of it and gave us the keys to our own salvation with his lectures - but more importantly his book From Dictatorship To Democracy. You might want to look it up. |
So from what you are saying, they've done this to a port in Oakland and was successful. I take it that the "port master" (or whatever) allowed this and didn't press the issue with police or some city official decided to try and keep it peaceful so that they wouldn't be remembered as the person that lit the fuse and made the police stand down.
Color me surprised, I'd like to know more details about the port in a way, but I suppose it doesn't matter because not much was really accomplished.
However, I also imagine that the occupy crowd didn't press the issue much either. I suppose if the ports the are planning to mess with come the 12th are less worried about the media impact they will involve the feds and their will be a much different result. All will be revealed in due time i suppose.