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12
Dec
2011
12:03pm, EST
Occupy Oakland protesters attempt port shutdown
By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com
Hundreds of protesters are expected to impact ports on the West Coast on Monday as Occupy movements in Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Tacoma, Wash. have joined the Occupy Wall Street demonstration.
The demonstrators' presence at ports comes a little over a month after a general strike coordinated by Occupy Oakland shut down the port in early November. Read more in our full story...
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Demonstrators gather at a gate to the Port of Oakland during the Occupy movement's attempts to shut down west coast ports on Dec. 12.
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Protesters attempt to block an entrance to the Port of Oakland on Dec. 12.
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A protester sits in a street in front of police in riot gear as protesters attempt to block an entrance to the Port of Oakland on Monday, Dec. 12.

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An Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the Ports We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day. We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Lo …
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14
Nov
2011
9:49am, EST
Police flatten Occupy Oakland camp
At least 20 people were arrested after hundreds of police officers in Oakland, Calif., cleared the Occupy Oakland encampment in an early morning raid. Msnbc's Thomas Roberts reports.
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Occupy Oakland's encampment is flattened after authorities evicted its occupants in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, Nov. 14.
By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com
Hundreds of law enforcement officers near City Hall in Oakland moved in to clear out Occupy Oakland protesters who set up camp.
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Occupy Oakland demonstrator Maurice Porter, who is homeless, sits in defiance in front of a line of police at an encampment in Oakland, Calif., early Monday, Nov. 14.
Beck Diefenbach / Reuters
Webb Mealy, an Occupy Oakland camper, draws a symbol for "universal solidarity" at the Occupy Oakland campsite in Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California Monday, Nov. 14.
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So much for the myth of freedom in America.
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11
Nov
2011
6:55am, EST
Occupy Oakland demonstrators mourn man shot, killed near protest camp
Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP
Two demonstrators embrace at a street corner where a man was shot and killed after an altercation outside a make-shift camp site for Occupy Wall Street protesters at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, Calif., on Nov. 10.
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Demonstrators light candles at the shooting scene in Oakland on Nov. 10.
The AP reports from OAKLAND, Calif.:

Police are investigating a fatal shooting just outside the Occupy Oakland encampment that is further straining relations between local officials and anti-Wall Street protesters.

A preliminary investigation into the gunfire Thursday that left a man dead suggests it resulted from a fight between two groups of men at or near the camp on a plaza in front of Oakland's City Hall, police Chief Howard Jordan said.

Investigators do not yet know if the men in the fight were associated with Occupy Oakland, but they are looking into reports that some protest participants tried to break up the altercation, Jordan said. Continue reading.

Just hours after a man was shot and killed within steps from the "Occupy Oakland" encampment, the city's mayor, Jean Quan, called on protesters to pack up and leave voluntarily. Quan did not say what would happen if protesters did not leave on their own. KNTV reports.
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I wonder when the family will sue the OWS Oakland camp - they clearly didn't have control of the few people they had at the camp - yet they are railing against corporations that have thousands of employee's? How can they expect to be seen as having an answer when they cannot even control a few of …
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2
Nov
2011
9:21pm, EDT
Occupy protesters shut down Oakland port operations
Robert Galbraith / Reuters
Demonstrators converge on the Port of Oakland in Calif. on Nov. 2, 2011 during a general strike called by the Occupy Oakland movement.
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Demonstrators from the "Occupy Oakland" movement climb aboard trucks at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif. Nov. 2, 2011.
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Occupy Oakland protesters march through the Port of Oakland on Nov. 2, 2011.
msnbc.com reports:

OAKLAND, California — Thousands of Wall Street protesters shut down Oakland, Calif., port operations Wednesday evening after a day of picketing banks and marching throughout the city's downtown.

Read the full story here.
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Perfect caption: "I don't have a job and neither should you"
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2
Nov
2011
7:11pm, EDT
Occupy protesters target downtown Oakland bank branches
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An Occupy Oakland protester places an anti-violence message to the broken window of a Chase Bank branch in downtown Oakland, Calif. on Nov. 2, 2011
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The Occupy Oakland protesters shout outside of a Wells Fargo bank branch in Oakland, Calif. in an attempt to shut down the bank as they call for a citywide general strike on Nov. 2, 2011.
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A man shouts as he marches in an Occupy Oakland march on Nov. 2, 2011, in Oakland, Calif.
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A small group of Occupy Oakland protesters smash windows at a Wells Fargo bank branch on Nov. 2, 2011, in Oakland, Calif.
msnbc.com reports:

OAKLAND, California — Thousands of Wall Street protesters marched in the streets of Oakland and picketed banks on Wednesday as they geared up to disrupt operations at the nation's fifth-busiest port.

Demonstrators in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia held solidarity actions Wednesday.

Read the full story here.
The "Occupy" movement is now in its sixth week, and Wednesday the epicenter was back in Oakland, Calif., where people flooded the streets again in what they called a day-long strike to shut the city down. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
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Some of those guys in black are police provocateurs. Google search Police Infiltrators and Agent Provocateurs At Occupy Oakland, Documented Fact.
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28
Oct
2011
8:37am, EDT
Noah Berger / AP
Yaminah, who declined to give her last name, holds a candle during a vigil for Scott Olsen on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. During an Occupy Oakland protest Tuesday night, a projectile apparently fired by police struck the Iraq veteran in the head leaving him in critical condition with a fractured skull.
Candlelight vigil held for protester and Iraq war vet Scott Olsen
By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News
The injured vet was working during the day and protesting at night. Full story.
Olsen got a visit from Oakland Mayor Jean Quan who also posted a video apology on Facebook and a statement to protesters on the city's website.
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Cops and Sheriffs are tools for rich, politicans, and powerful people. We whoheartedly support Occupy Wall Street. Unite and be strong. We are proud of you. From California with Love.
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13
Oct
2011
6:23am, EDT
Head-on Amtrak train crash injures 16 in Oakland, California
Noah Berger / AP
Two Amtrak trains rest against each other after colliding at an Oakland, Calif., station on Oct. 12. A fire official said one train was unloading passengers when the second train ran into it at an estimated speed of 15 to 20 miles per hour.
Noah Berger / AP
Amtrak passenger James Ferguson, 90, speaks with emergency responders following the collision. Ferguson, who lives in Los Angeles and has congestive heart failure, was uninjured.
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Paramedics transport an Amtrak passenger to a hospital after two trains collided at an Oakland, Calif., station on Oct. 12.
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Stranded Amtrak passengers gather early on Oct. 13 after two trains collided.
The AP reports from SAN FRANCISCO:

An Amtrak train crashed into another train unloading passengers at a station in California, leaving 16 people with mainly minor injuries, authorities said.

The crash occurred late Wednesday as the passenger train, traveling at a speed of up to about 20 mph (32 kph), struck the stationary Amtrak train at the station in Oakland, city Fire Department battalion chief Emon Usher said. Read the full story.

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How did they manage to do this?
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30
Sep
2011
6:35pm, EDT
Fugitive murder suspect eludes capture in California
Mendocino County Sheriff via AP
This Feb. 2011 photo provided by the Mendocino County (Calif.) Sheriff shows Aaron Bassler.
By Rich Shulman
This is really dangerous work, and you can see it in the faces of the deputies.
AP reports:

OAKLAND, Calif — An opium-growing recluse wanted in connection with two murders exchanged gunfire with police in northern California but slipped back away into dense woods where he has hidden out for five weeks, authorities said on Friday.

No one was hurt in Thursday's shootout with Aaron Bassler, 35, near the town of Northspur, located about 150 miles north of San Francisco in the rugged coastal mountains of Mendocino County, said sheriff's department Captain Kurt Smallcomb.

But Bassler, described by his father as mentally ill and living like a virtual hermit, managed to avoid capture again in what was his closest brush with arrest since he went on the run last month.

Eric Risberg / AP
Sheriff's deputies searching for murder suspect Aaron Bassler stand on the front of the Skunk train as it pulls into Northspur, Calif., Friday, Sept. 30. Authorities say they are closing in on the murder suspect who has been the subject of the largest local manhunt in decades, as they reported he shot at a group of sheriff's deputies Thursday. Bassler, 35, is suspected of killing a city councilman on Aug. 27 and one other person several weeks before. Bassler is thought to be hiding out in the redwoods outside of Fort Bragg and is believed to have broken into several cabins to steal food and at least two other weapons.

Kent Porter / AP
An Alameda County Sheriff's deputy lets out a nervous sigh near the Northspur area of Mendocino County, Thursday Sept. 29, 2011 between Fort Bragg and Willits, Ca.
Eric Risberg / AP
Mendocino County sheriff's deputy Joey DeMarco stands watch with his patrol dog Barry alongside railroad tracks as the search for murder suspect Aaron Bassler continues in Northspur, Calif., Friday, Sept. 30.

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2
Sep
2011
9:40am, EDT
Catwalks set the stage for installation of suspension cables on new Bay Bridge
By Rich Shulman
I can't help but think of Rachel Maddow's "big things" spot when I look at these images of the new Bay Bridge. This is pretty darned big.
Ironworkers will climb a 35-degree slope on the 1060-foot catwalks to install four suspension cables in 2012, according to a San Francisco Chronicle story. The bridge has been under construction since 2002 with an estimated price tag of $6.3 billion and will have the world's tallest self-anchored suspension (SAS) tower once completed.
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Members of the media walk on the deck of the newly constructed eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during a media tour of the self-anchored suspension span tower on August 29 in Oakland, California. Construction crews have erected twelve foot wide catwalks that connect to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge self-anchored suspension span's tower and crews will begin to lay the nearly one mile of main cable beginning in early 2012. The bridge has been under construction since 2002 with an estimated price tag of $6.3 billion and will have the world's tallest self-anchored suspension (SAS) tower once completed.
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Catwalks hang over a section of the newly constructed eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during a media tour of the self-anchored suspension span tower on August 29 in Oakland, California.
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A worker stands on the bottom of a 1,060-foot catwalk that hangs over the newly constructed eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during a media tour of the self-anchored suspension span tower on August 29 in Oakland, California.

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A model of the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge self-anchored suspension span tower is on display inside the CalTrans public information office on August 29 in Oakland, California.
Check out a previous post on the Bay Bridge.
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no david seaman you don't get it: this is a federally funded project, payed for by taxing people and then redistributing the money , or wealth as you might like to say, your hard earned tax dollars, to be spent on public infrastructure. this is your federal tax dollars at work. if we waited for the …
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4
Jan
2011
4:27pm, EST
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Construction work continues on the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Jan. 4, 2011, seen from Treasure Island in San Francisco.
Construction work continues on the San Francisco Bay Bridge
By Robert Hood
Engineers and San Francisco Bay area politicians learned the lessons of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The 7.1-magnitude quake caused a 250-ton section of the Bay Bridge to collapse. The bridge reopened within a month, but the quake made it clear that the Bay Bridge required major repair or replacement in order to withstand the next major earthquake. Construction on a replacement for the eastern span began on January 29, 2002. The project is expected to be completed by 2013.
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