Whatever else you might think about #OccupyOakland, you can't accuse them of having less-than-awesome artwork...
... Or of thinking small....
CALL TO ACTION
The following is the call for a coordinated West Coast Port Blockade to be carried out by the Occupy movement...
On December 12, the occupy movements in different cities will stage mass mobilizations to march on the ports, create community pickets, and effectively shutdown the hubs of commerce, in the same fashion that Occupy Oakland shut down the Port of Oakland on November 2nd, the day of our general strike.
... Or of not mobilizing support:
Press Release: Support Grows for West Coast Port Shut Down
As of November 27, 2011, the Occupy movement in every major West Coast port city: Occupy LA, Occupy San Diego, Occupy Portland, Occupy Tacoma, Occupy Seattle have joined Occupy Oakland in calling for and organizing a coordinated West Coast Port Blockade and Shutdown on December 12, 2011. Other West Coast Occupies, including Occupy Anchorage and Vancouver, Canada are planning to join the economic blockade and disruption of the 1% on that date, according to organizers.
"We're shutting down these ports because of the union busting and attacks on the working class by the 1%: the firing of Port truckers organizing at SSA terminals in LA; the attempt to rupture ILWU union jurisdiction in Longview, WA by EGT. EGT includes Bunge LTD, a company which reported 2.5 billion dollars in profit last year and has economically devastated poor people in Argentina and Brazil. SSA is responsible for inhumane working conditions and gross exploitation of port truckers and is owned by Goldman Sachs. EGT and Goldman Sachs is Wallstreet on the Waterfront" stated Barucha Peller of the West Coast Port Blockade Assembly of Occupy Oakland.
"We are also striking back against the nationally' coordinated attack on the Occupy movement. In response to the police violence and camp evictions against the Occupy movement- This is our coordinated response against the 1%. On December 12th we will show are collective power through pinpointed economic blockade of the 1%..."
Speaking of artwork, here's a poster/silkscreen from the November 2nd General Strike that as far as I know, has never been imaged. I certainly haven't seen it anywhere, and I've been looking around. I got the poster from the inkscreeners on the Plaza some days before the event and hung in my front window.
Hella Occupy.
8:59 PM PT: Interview with Longshoreman's Union Local 21 (Longview) President re: EGT and the fight for the port