U.S.: Occupy Oakland devolves into chaos after successful protests
- We put together an ideological principle that the mainstream media wouldn’t talk about two months ago.
- The Coup’s Boots Riley • Discussing Occupy Oakland’s big day yesterday, in which thousands of people showed up and made their voices heard, stopping the operations of Oakland’s major port in the process. It didn’t remain non-violent however, with riot police showing up to arrest dozens of people as windows were shattered and buildings were broken into.
It was something Riley himself, prior to the incident, didn’t want to think about. “If they do that after all this …” he said with a pause, “They’re smarter than that.”(Edit: As Boots Riley himself says below, the quote was taken out of context. More info here.) source