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Liberate Oakland: General Strike and Mass Day of Action
Occupy Oakland / Proposal
Published: Friday 28 October 2011
“1607 people voted. 1484 voted in favor of the resolution, 77 abstained and 46 voted against it, passing the proposal at 96.9%. The General Assembly operates on a modified consensus process that passes proposals with 90% in favor and with abstaining votes removed from the final count.”
Occupy Oakland Editor's Note: Below is the proposal passed by the Occupy Oakland General Assembly on Wednesday October 26, 2011 in reclaimed Oscar Grant Plaza. 1607 people voted. 1484 voted in favor of the resolution, 77 abstained and 46 voted against it, passing the proposal at 96.9%. The General Assembly operates on a modified consensus process that passes proposals with 90% in favor and with abstaining votes removed from the final count.
PROPOSAL:
We as fellow occupiers of Oscar Grant Plaza propose that on Wednesday November 2, 2011, we liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%.
We propose a city wide general strike and we propose we invite all students to walk out of school. Instead of workers going to work and students going to school, the people will converge on downtown Oakland to shut down the city.
All banks and corporations should close down for the day or we will march on them.
While we are calling for a general strike, we are also calling for much more. People who organize out of their neighborhoods, schools, community organizations, affinity groups, workplaces and families are encouraged to self organize in a way that allows them to participate in shutting down the city in whatever manner they are comfortable with and capable of.
The whole world is watching Oakland. Let’s show them what is possible.
The Strike Coordinating Council will begin meeting everyday at 5pm in Oscar Grant Plaza before the daily General Assembly at 7pm. All strike participants are invited.
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13 comments on "Liberate Oakland: General Strike and Mass Day of Action"
October 31, 2011 1:35pm
This is funneeeeeeee! No one is going to care about this. People will go to work as normal. This will be ignored.
October 30, 2011 1:05pm
I'm a little confused here as to the time of the general strike gathering on Wednesday. I've seen a time for a march at 7pm. What is happening during the day? If the strike is for the day, why wait till the evening?
October 29, 2011 10:32am
American's are waking up to the reality that the third world has suffered under the boot of the US. It is time to liberate America from the thiefs and criminals that run it. Work stoppage and consummer stopage through out the country on Nov. 2.
October 29, 2011 3:59am
The chutspah of Paul Ryan. He accuses us of setting Americans against each other while he and his cruel GOP party coddle millionaires and cut the programs for the poor.
October 29, 2011 12:59am
The world watches. The great turning is upon us. It is now a choice between a cancerous culture and life itself. The 99% are chosing life.
October 29, 2011 12:02am
we cheer you with real joy and hope in our heart for our fellow citizens and ourselves, for the first time in forty years for some of us, thank you, you will win,
great tactic with historically a high percentage of success
October 28, 2011 3:47pm
A nationwide general strike and mass day of action isn't a new thing. If memory (and history) serves, in 1932, a series of general strikes and mass days of action affected many Americans cities as workers walked off their jobs, engaged in mass marches to the financial districts of several major cities, and local shop owners closed their businesses in solidarity with the communities they served. Members of the "Bonus Army" took to the streets to demand the benefits they were promised, and those within the 1% of that day were shocked and surprised by the ferocity of the 99%, and this did lead to constructive social action in the wake of the general strike when much of the nation's business, except for emergency services, came to a screeching halt.
Now is the time to shut down the 1% nationwide, and to hit them everywhere, from the monster mega-banks to the entertainment industry (movies, TV, etc..). A general strike against commerce, entertainment and finance will demonstrate that the 99% are getting sick and tired of the 1% constantly consuming the fruits of their labors, neutralizing their innate creativity, transforming them into commodities which can be bought and sold on the cheap, and hollowing out the nation's political, social and spiritual life, and if it means hanging up a sign reading "NO BUSINESS AS USUAL" and walking away from the ugly commercial machine, then perhaps the massive, nationwide general strike and mass day of action will have served a purpose by giving the 1% something it's been needing for a long time ... a major reality check which will be served on them by the 99%.
October 28, 2011 11:59pm
My intuition and your words above convince me this strike is extremely important. We must move forward to show the 1% we are very seriously and urgently in need of democracy in America. Thanks to all attending strike.
October 28, 2011 12:14pm
I will be in Oakland on Nov. 2. While we know that "trickle down" was a lie. We've got a message for the 1% and their wholly owned subsidiaries in Congress that most certainly will trickle UP: Business as usual just won't do.
Keep it peaceful, keep it clean and join me there.
October 28, 2011 11:47am
All journey's start with a step. This is step 1.
October 28, 2011 11:31am
Yes.... lets go national with this!
October 28, 2011 11:27am
SOLIDARITY! Shut down the 1% NATIONWIDE!
October 31, 2011 1:35pm
How?