{"id":9366,"date":"2011-11-03T15:49:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2011-11-03T15:49:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:49:10","slug":"police-fire-tear-gas-as-occupy-oakland-protesters-close-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2011\/11\/police-fire-tear-gas-as-occupy-oakland-protesters-close-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Fire Tear Gas as Occupy Oakland Protesters Close Port"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) — Police in riot gear fired tear gas and other projectiles and arrested several people after Occupy Oakland protesters closed the city\u2019s port.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOperations are effectively shut down in the maritime area of the Port of Oakland,\u201d according to a port statement issued yesterday. \u201cOperations will resume when it is safe and secure to do so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The clash followed a day of peaceful protest that attracted 7,000 protesters. That group assembled in downtown then marched to close down the port, the nation\u2019s fifth busiest. Later, police in riot gear arrested dozens of protesters who broke into a vacant building, shattered windows, sprayed graffiti and set fires, the Associated Press reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

Occupy Oakland is an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York in September and has spread around the globe. The protesters are trying to call attention to nation\u2019s increasing wealth gap and persistent unemployment. Oakland has become a hotbed for the protest after an Iraq war veteran was seriously injured last week as police faced off with protesters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Occupy Oakland had called for a general strike. The demonstrations prompted hundreds of downtown workers to stay home or leave their jobs early.<\/span><\/p>\n

Burning Barricades<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Protesters declared victory at the port yesterday when authorities confirmed that a 7 p.m. work shift would be canceled, the Los Angeles Times reported. The demonstrators then built a barricade outside a downtown building housing the Traveler\u2019s Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that aids the homeless, the newspaper reported. The protesters lit the barricade on fire, which firefighters extinguished.<\/span><\/p>\n

At least four protesters were hospitalized today with injuries, including one needing stitches after fighting with an officer, AP reported. Several officers were also injured but didn\u2019t need hospitalization.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe go from having a peaceful movement to now just chaos,\u201d protester Monique Agnew, 40, told the wire service today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Protesters also threw concrete chunks, metal pipes, lit roman candles and Molotov cocktails, police said, according to AP.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shifting Goods<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The port\u2019s eight terminals last year moved goods that would fill 2.33 million containers each 20 feet by eight feet, according to an analysis by Citigroup Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n

The port took in 4.4 percent of all imports into the country, according to John Husing, a vice president at Economics and Politics Inc., a Redlands, California, consulting company.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cContainers can easily be shifted to other West Coast ports,\u201d Husing said in a telephone interview. \u201cAll of them are huge operations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf the duration of the port\u2019s closure remains limited as expected, we expect very little impact to inland volume flows,\u201d Citigroup said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday, as the crowd in the downtown Frank Ogawa Plaza assembled, it blocked traffic in all directions and forced the rerouting of buses, according to a media advisory from the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sick Day<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

About 300 of the city\u2019s 2,000 teachers asked for yesterday off or called in sick, according to Troy Flint, a spokesman for the Oakland Unified School District. Schools summoned substitutes, drew workers from other departments and in a small number of cases consolidated classes to make up for the missing teachers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maria Lepe, 26, an algebra teacher at an Oakland middle school who lives in San Francisco, said she was demonstrating for \u201cmore support for teachers\u201d and smaller class sizes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI did not expect thousands and thousands of people,\u201d Lepe said in an interview. \u201cThe crowd keeps growing. I\u2019m glad the word has gotten out. We\u2019re all in this together to get our voice out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Susan George, 56, a holistic health practitioner who lives in West Oakland, carried a sign that read, \u201cThe people are too big to fail.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur politicians have sold out to Wall Street interests,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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