Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Opposed to Occupy Oakland's tactics

The Chronicle ran a story leading up to yesterday's blockade of the port of Oakland where it featured several people who are active 99% supporters, but who opposed the tactics of Occupy Oakland for one reason or another.  Here are two of them:

"The effectiveness of civil disobedience is being nonviolent," says Marti Roach, an active member of the 99 percent.  She hasn't decided if she will attend the Oakland port blockade planned for Monday, but feels that if crowds swell, people like herself committed to nonviolence should go to keep the peace.

Ellis Goldberg of Danville, the president of the Tri Valley Democratic Club and an active 99 percenter, disagrees with some of the strategies of Occupy Oakland.  "Basically, we're not as confrontational," he said, "When you go in to the port of Oakland and close it down, you're using a bat, and you're hitting the 99 percenters."
 

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