Early in the morning, on July 10, a SWAT team from the Seattle police department raided an apartment where organizers from the Occupy movement have been living. A warrant shown to the four people that were sleeping in the apartment at the time indicated the police were looking for “anarchist materials” and the raid was [...]

Occupy Oakland held their biggest General Assembly yet with as many as ten thousand attending. The crowd, which had come out to help shutdown the Port of Oakland, stayed to decide whether to extend the West Coast port shutdown actions. In the call to action, the occupation had pledged to continue action if any police [...]

All day, actions have been happening mostly up and down the West Coast at ports, where Occupy groups have been trying to shut down the ports. The morning shifts at ports were targeted by Occupy LA, Occupy Long Beach, Occupy San Diego, Occupy Oakland and Occupy Portland. Now a wave of actions have been underway [...]

Dorli Rainey, 84, was on her way to what she calls a “boring” Transportation Meeting when she saw helicopters flying around. She thought they were out for a nearby Occupy Seattle action and headed to the scene. Rainey joined Occupy Seattle for a demonstration and ended up being pepper-sprayed. She appeared on “Countdown” with Keith [...]