Good take on Occupy Oakland from--surprise!--the SFMOMA blogosphere!

"...There is a reason Occupy Wall Street advocates nonviolence: it works... Black bloc is black bloc, not Occupy Wall Street. Two different groups... So, on one hand we have Cops Gone Wild, and on the other hand we have Black Bloc Gone Wild. Why don’t they get together and do a reality TV show and leave the Occupy movement out of it so Occupy can get some work done?"  --I couldn't agree more, although I don't like the article's title much:

http://blog.sfmoma.org/2012/02/why-is-occupy-oakland-so-crazy-2/

Example: Demands of a People's Movement

Bobby Seale explains the Ten-Point Program:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPP0hiLuxdQ&feature=related

Harvard Business School talks "RUNAWAY CAPITALISM"

Look, I'm only as brilliant and dense as the next fool, but even Harvard's Business School is talking about how American capitalism is wrecking itself:
http://hbr.org/2012/01/runaway-capitalism/ar/1

Michelle Alexander on Colbert

Michelle Alexander (author, The New Jim Crow) was on the Colbert Report May 8--she was ON-POINT, especially her final comments:
http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/tue-may-8-2012-michelle-alexander

May Day March for Dignity and Resistance!

Two strong accounts from a local online "newspaper".

With some slight 'background' discrepancies, this account is accurate from my own perspective as a participant in the march. The comments are a good read, too:
http://oaklandlocal.com/article/how-occupied-oakland-co-opted-citys-historic-immigrant-rights-march-reflection

Here's another report, mainly accentuating the positive:
http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2012/05/oakland-may-day-march-brings-out-thousands-advocate-immigrant-rights-community-voices