Oakland Activists Step Up 'Occupy' Protest with General Strike

November 01, 2011 from Al Jazeera English

Protesters in Oakland, California are planning to try and shut down the city's port -- the fifth-busiest shipping container port in the United States, in what they are calling a general strike on Wednesday. The protesters are part of the 'Occupy' movement sweeping the world in which people are rallying to stop, amongst other things, corporate greed. Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Oakland.

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Occupy Oakland

Occupy Oakland is an ongoing series of demonstrations in Oakland, California. As part of the Occupy movement, protestors have staged occupations, most notably at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall. Occupy Oakland is allied with New York City's Occupy Wall Stree... Explore this topic

Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street was the name given to a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district. The Canadian group and magazine Adbusters initiated the call for protest with assistance from the Manhatta... Explore this topic

Oakland

Oakland, located in the U.S. state of California, is a major West Coast port city and the busiest port for San Francisco Bay and all Northern California. It is the third largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, the eighth-largest city in the state, and the 47th-largest city... Explore this topic

Occupy movement

The "Occupy" protests are an ongoing series of international protests which began in mid-September 2011 and are primarily against social and economic inequality, corporate greed and influence of corporate money and lobbyists on government. The protests take their name from the... Explore this topic

General strike

A general strike is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates. General strikes are characterized by the participation of workers in a multitude of workplaces, and tend to involve entire communities. G... Explore this topic

Container terminal

A container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. The transshipment may be between container ships and land vehicles, for example trains or trucks, in which case the terminal is described... Explore this topic

Protest camp

Protest camps are physical camps that are set up by activists, to either provide a base for protest, or to delay, obstruct or prevent the focus of their protest by physically blocking it with the camp. They began in the 1920s and became famous in 1982 due to the publicity gene... Explore this topic

Scott Olsen

Scott Olsen is a Marine veteran who was seriously injured in downtown Oakland at the Occupy Oakland demonstration on the evening of October 25, 2011. Olsen's skull was fractured in the incident, allegedly after he was hit by a police projectile. He is presently in a stable yet... Explore this topic

Anti-corporate activism

Anti-corporate activism holds that the influence of big business corporations is a detriment to the public good and to the democratic process. Explore this topic

Port of Oakland

The Port of Oakland is the first major port on the Pacific Coast of the United States to build terminals for container ships. It is now the fifth busiest container port in the United States, behind Long Beach, Los Angeles, Newark, and Savannah. Development of an intermodal con... Explore this topic

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