The Occupy Oakland (which suffered a pre-dawn raid by police in riot gear) was one of many cities that have faced violence and arrests in the last few days.  City Mayors of Boston, Atlanta, Chicago and Oakland are not all, Republican, men but Asian, Black, Jewish and Hispanic, male and female, and all members of the Democratic Party . Using the argument of public safety, these rainbow colored face of the State have attacked and pummelled  the peace of these unarmed , non-violent protests with tazers, flash grenades, billy clubs and batons, tear gas and rubber bullets.  Contrast that with police protection of public assembly of armed Tea Partiers openly brandishing weapons.

 

See for yourself.

 

Inspired by protests in Egypt and Tunisia, the Occupy Movement continues. It has not yet reached the level of the protests that have taken place in France, Germany and Greece where workers are occupying factories and other means of production.  The viciousness and escalation of militarism of the police, the war against collective barganing, trillions of dollars in cuts to vital programs for the poor, namely Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security only emphasize the class war that is being waged against the poor and working class. 

 

50 years ago in his message, Martin Luther King, in his writing "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, King proposed an annual wage based on median income. The issues go far beyond mere occupation of a park. Issues of the huge disparities in wealth, lack of health care, eviction and homelessness, education and war and the devaluation of labor are at hand.

 

In the mean time, as King said in the his speech to workers regarding the strike of sanitation workers: