Month: November 2011

Activists representing many groups, including Labor, Occupy San Diego, MoveOn and Nurses rallied yesterday afternoon on the Clairemont Drive bridge over Interstate 5 to bring attention to how much maintenance our infrastructure needs and the number of jobs those repairs could create. This bridge has been identified as one needing repair and has a surface rating of 2 out of 10 (any rating 4 or lower is deemed structurally deficient) and needs to be repaired now.

Editor: We are not content to only read what the San Diego U-T says about its pending sale to Doug Manchester, local conservative activist and developer (known affectionately as “Papa Doug”), so here we have three other takes on the sale, the first from the LA Times – always competitive towards San Diego’s daily, the second from Voice of San Diego – and the other is a summary of the San Diego Daily Transcript.

By Dave Lindorff / Nation of Change / November 17, 2011

The ugly hand of the federal government is becoming increasingly suspected behind what appears to be a nationwide attempt to repress and evict the Occupation Movement. Across the country in recent days, ultimatums have been issues to groups occupying Portland, OR, Chicago, IL, San Francisco, Dallas, TX, Atlanta, GA, [editor: don’t forget San Diego] and most recently New York, NY, where the Occupation Movement began on September 17.

Editor: This article from the NY Times is a fairly even-handed account of November 17th actions around the country. Despite any mention of Occupy San Diego activities (see other posts on our website for those), it does cover the other major “Day of Action” events.

Hundreds Arrested in Actions Targeting Wall Street, Banks and Bridges

By Katharine Q. Seelye/ New York Times / November 18, 2011

Protesters across the country demonstrated en masse Thursday, snarling rush-hour traffic in several major cities and taking aim at banks as part of a national “day of action” to mark the two-month milestone of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Immigrants and other supporters say, “Hardworking immigrant families didn’t wreck our economy, the banks did.” San Diego, CA — Led…

3:03 pm -In San Diego at the Federal Building where some tents have been erected by janitors seeking justice, Homeland…

If there was an Occupy Ocean Beach – what would it occupy?  Here is an open thread for OB and…

By Elizabeth Aguilera / SignOnSanDiego / November 17, 2011 The owner of The San Diego Union-Tribune announced Thursday it has…

NEW UPDATE:  Marchers from Occupy Wall Street are converging on the subways. UPDATE: NYC Police have raided Zuccotti Park, have…

Press Release from Occupy San Diego

Today, November 16, 2011, free speech attorneys, LGBT rights group Canvass for a Cause, and members of the National Lawyers Guild representing Occupy San Diego protesters filed a lawsuit against the City of San Diego and the San Diego Police Department in Federal Court seeking the court to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the city and the SDPD.

National Day of Action!

We are the 99%! We want economic justice!

November 17th @ 4:00pm at Mission Bay Park, 2688 East Mission Bay Drive 92109

We Occupy Clairemont Bridge by 4:30 pm