Why We (Keep) Fighting: Scott Olsen

Scott Olsen appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show and showed exactly why they can tear down the camps, they can arrest people for peaceful, non-violent protesting, they can broadcast every ugly conservative smear, but they cannot win this war...  Read more:   Crooks and Liars

#Occupy Oakland's General Strike Has Historical Precedence

The history of general strikes has a long and powerful history, as my fellow East Bay home girl, Rachel Maddow, points out:

[LABOR HISTORIAN] GIFFORD HARTMAN: The end of November 1946... women at department stores in Oakland, two department stores, Khan's and Hastings, had been on strike for a month. The city elite decided to break the strike. They brought in 400 police who escorted a professional strike-breaking company on December 1, 1946, and they ran through the city. The cops cleared the streets, beat people off the streets, bullied them and broke the strike, but in breaking the strike...  Read and watch:   Crooks and Liars