Occupy Oakland

Oakland celebrates Older Americans Month with dance and a public gathering

By: Yirmeyah Beckles | May 17, 2012 – 1:53 pm

Senior citizens from Oakland performed in front of nearly 100 people at Frank H.Ogawa Plaza on Wednesday for the city’s 8th annual Older Americans Month...

Video project examines Occupy Oakland from different viewpoints

By: Ryan Phillips | May 14, 2012 – 10:17 am

The inspiration for a web project that contains interviews with 16 people “involved or impacted” by Occupy Oakland came from an exhibit at the Oakland...

Occupy Oakland’s May Day in photos

By: Oakland North Staff | May 2, 2012 – 12:04 pm

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Oakland on Tuesday as part of Occupy Oakland’s May Day protest. Oakland North reporters were on the...

As night falls, Occupy May Day protesters in downtown Oakland face off with police

By: Megan Molteni, Spencer Whitney, Byrhonda Lyons, Thomas Kleinveld, Anne-Sophie Braendlin, Adam Grossberg, Byron Wilkes | May 1, 2012 – 9:40 pm

After an afternoon of largely peaceful protests, confrontation erupted between police and protesters in downtown Oakland after nightfall.

Protesters gather in East Oakland park for planned evening march downtown

By: Ryan Phillips, Wendi Jonassen, Anne-Sophie Braendlin, Byrhonda Lyons, Spencer Whitney, Thomas Kleinveld | May 1, 2012 – 5:50 pm

More than 1,000 people congregated in San Antonio Park in East Oakland on 5:30 pm Tuesday, waiting to march back to Frank Ogawa Plaza in...

Photos of the early morning May Day protest at Child Protective Services

By: Alexis Kenyon | May 1, 2012 – 3:58 pm

Early this morning at the start of day-long series of marches planned for May Day, a group of more than 100 protestors gathered to protest...

Protesters briefly clash with police as May Day marches continue through Oakland

By: Ryan Phillips, Wendi Jonassen, Thomas Kleinveld | May 1, 2012 – 2:13 pm

Oakland Police officers and protesters faced off in the downtown street Tuesday afternoon, as police fired tear gas canisters and using flash bang grenades to...

Occupy Oakland activists kick off May Day general strike and protests

By: Karmah Elmusa, Thomas Kleinveld, Wendi Jonassen | May 1, 2012 – 11:18 am

Early Tuesday morning Occupy Oakland activists kicked off a May Day general strike and protest to challenge what they see as a destructive capitalist system....

OPD changing its crowd control policy

By: Ryan Phillips | April 23, 2012 – 3:44 pm

Nearly six months after the first clashes between police officers and Occupy Oakland protesters in the middle of downtown Oakland garnered national attention, the Oakland...

Occupy Oakland marks six-month anniversary with barbeque, workshops

By: Anne-Sophie Braendlin | March 18, 2012 – 12:15 pm

Occupy Oakland protesters marked Occupy’s six-month anniversary on Saturday by hosting the first of what organizers intend to be a series of weekly neighborhood barbeques.

Crowd control at Oakland protests: A visual explainer

By: John C. Osborn | March 1, 2012 – 10:49 am

Click on the slide above to start slideshow. Use arrows on sides to move between slides. As the Occupy Oakland protests continued this winter, so...

Citizen’s Police Review Board discusses postponement of forum on Occupy Oakland

By: Ryan Phillips | February 17, 2012 – 11:05 am

The City of Oakland’s Citizen’s Police Review Board met Thursday night for the first time since postponing a forum that was scheduled for Feb. 9...

A church helps members transfer money from big banks to a minority-owned credit union

By: Byrhonda Lyons | February 15, 2012 – 10:44 am

On Tuesday, members of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in North Oakland participated in a bank “transfer day” in conjunction with Occupy the Dream,...