Blockade Port of Oakland During Nov 2 General Strike

REPORTING FROM NYC: At last Friday's General Assembly at Occupy Wall Street I announced Occupy Oakland's call for a general strike on Nov. 2 to a thunderous applause. Undoubtedly, there will be a massive turnout on Nov. 2 in Oakland with support from the occupy movement in other cities, as reported by one longshoreman from Philadelphia. News media in New York and internationally are focused on Oakland. Will it actually be a general strike? Historically unions have called and organized general strikes with adequate time to organize it. None of these conditions exist, nevertheless, the generalized pain felt over the deepening capitalist crisis and the outrage over the bloody police attack on Occupied Oakland, particularly on Iraqi Vet Against the War, Scott Olsen will generate a tremendous outpouring. Mayor Quan and her top labor cop, Sharon Cornu, former head of the Alameda Labor Council, should both be held accountable and removed from office. They're scurrying around unions like longshore, teachers and SEIU city workers trying to find out how workers will respond. Fools! Don't they understand that this is an irrepressible anger from below, not from above? Shut Oakland Down Tight!!