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Reflections on Occupy

Jan 12, 2012 by Erica Priggen Reflections on Occupy

We had just moved into our new office a few weeks earlier. Downtown Oakland was now our home, and Free Range was nested solidly into the grid of concrete, alive with dozens of restaurants, a BART station, the newly renovated Fox Theater, big bank offices and Frank Ogawa plaza just a few streets south. A small group of us headed out to the first Occupy Oakland protest on a drizzly afternoon, before any tents had even been set up. The crowd was energized, and protest signs still looked fairly fresh, newly penned and lightly handled. The movement was nascent and growing, and Occupy Oakland was about to put itself on the map.

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