Since a few weeks after it got going, I have been a passionate supporter and part-time participant of the Occupy Movement throughout the country and here in Oakland. My experiences with Occupy affected me deeply, and I wrote about it a fair amount. I am very proud of most of my writings on the subject, which, for lack of a better term and for spatial considerations, I’ll categorize under ‘Occupy.’ These posts are mostly narrative and observational — basically I wanted to keep a record of my own feelings and experiences and observations as I engaged in the movement. I also wrote a couple more lengthy personal essays on the subject, which I included but you can also find on my ‘Essays’ page.
I am not sure what my relation to the movement will be going forward. As of right now I feel a bit estranged from its iteration here in Oakland, but I do not see myself pulling away from the struggle completely. When I find my niche, I’ll surely find some way to work with it and write about it. I will organize the posts below chronologically, with eldest first:
- Occupy Oakland: an Honest to God Uprising (essay)
- Occupy Oakland and Foreclosure Defense: Canvassing West Oakland
- Obama’s Latest Campaign, a Tentative Sign that Occupy is Working
- Occupy Oakland Update: Foreclosure Defense, Occupy the Courts, and Move-In Day
- Occupy Oakland vs. the OPD, and Move-In Day/Oakland Rise Up Festival
- Occupy Oakland Rises Up (essay in three parts)
- Occupy Oakland’s Shifting Winds, and My Transition from Attendee to Organizer — Coming Soon: the Occupy Oakland Brooms Collective
- Occupy Brooms Collective’s First Action, and the Upcoming Block Party Speak-Outs
- Oakland’s Occupy Brooms Collective, Week Three: Community Organizing 101
- OOBrooms and the Market Street Community Garden Coming Soon
- Occupy Oakland’s Brooms Collective Meets City Politics: Maybe It Was Inevitable
- Thinking Global, Acting Local: Occupy the Farm Takes Gill Tract
- Impressions from May Day, Part 1: A Problematic Spring
- Impressions from May Day, Part 2: Brooms Collective Goes to the Mission District
- Searching for Occupy 2.0: Here’s to the Fights Worth Fighting
- Can Occupy Oakland Save Lakeview Elementary?
- The Lakeview Elementary Sit-In: They’ve Done It Right
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