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What Chicago can learn from last weekend's Occupy Oakland riots

Jan. 31, 2012
Occupy Wall Street may have started out as a global movement but, in the last few months, as numerous encampments became embroiled in turf wars that were more and more local in nature, it began to look as if some of the movement’s more agglutinating issues were getting diluted.

Update: Ten stories on Occupy Oakland

Nov. 15, 2011
1. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan says the midnight raid on that city’s Occupy camp may have been coordinated with as many as 18 mayors from other cities with Occupy camps.2. Occupy Oakland raided, protesters back, but no camping.3. ACLU sues Oakland police to stop violence against protesters.4.

Occupy Oakland continues; tensions grow within

Nov. 10, 2011
It’s been a little more than a week since Occupy Oakland’s general strike paralyzed the city of Oakland and closed down its port.

Occupy Oakland: General strike update

Nov. 2, 2011
According to various news outlets in the area, Occupy Oakland -- in the midst of its one-day general strike to close down the city of Oakland -- is currently between 5,000 and 7,000 strong, heading down Broadway downtown, making pit stops at banks which haven’t closed.

Students walk out for Occupy Chicago

Nov. 2, 2011
College students around Chicago are expected to walk out of their classes at 5 p.m. on Wednesday in a show of support for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Occupy Oakland: An interview with The Coup's Boots Riley

Nov. 1, 2011
Boots Riley says that when the Occupy movement started, he wasn’t sure what to make it.

Occupy Oakland calls for a general strike this week

Oct. 31, 2011
The weekend brought confrontations with police in Denver, Portland and a handful of Texas cities  -- even a face-off between Chicago police and law enforcement at the Thomson Center -- but nothing as devastating as last week’s full-on riot in Oakland, which has now become the epicenter of the O

Authorities fire tear gas on Oakland protesters

Oct. 26, 2011
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A crowd of protesters in Oakland, Calif.
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