2012年6月5日星期二
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futbol club barcelona tienda, I should start by staying that most of what you are seeing in the news about the police brutality is, in fact, true. What you are NOT seeing on the news is the actual reason that police force is having to be so forcefully used to keep control of the rioting Occupy Oakland encampment that started on Frank Ogden Square three weeks ago. I am a resident of Oakland, one that lives a relatively "normal" day-to-day life. My account of these things is unbiased, and a factual representation of the life that I now live due to the OCCUPY movement, and how that movement has affected my futbol club barcelona tienda life negatively and in doing so has lost it's core purpose.I work in San Francisco, and commute to work everyday on the already pretty expensive BART transit system, and I return everyday to the cozy, quiet studio that I use as both a living and working space in downtown Oakland. My apartment is just a few blocks from Frank Ogden square, so it goes without saying that over the course of the last month I have seen the square transform with the moving in of the OCCUPY movement, which began setting up it's tent city on the square on October 4th. At it's onset, the Occupy movement was permitted by the city goverment and police officials to exercise their First Amendment right to protest openly in the square that is right in the heart of downtown Oakland. As the weeks went on, the encampment grew very quickly and began to claim not only just the square, but also the surrounding sidewalks and blocks bordering it. The tent city grew quickly to be the closest thing to a "hooverville" that I had ever envisioned that I'd be anywhere near, much less being forced to live on the border of. The three-week old encampment smelled disgusting and gave off an aroma that lingered all the way through downtown. Our neighborhoods quickly became OCCUPIED by these people who have, over the last few months, become the forefront of the OCCUPY cause. This cause is great- I can't say that enough- but the movement itself and it's encroachment upon our lives and the sustainability of local small businesses is unfair and highly visible in many regards. Many of the coffee shops and even drug stores and bodegas on my three-block walk to the transit system are already open for very limited hours on the days that they can afford to keep their doors open, and many of them have lots of blame to put upon the people that have forcefully OCCUPIED our city. Every night there are more and more helicopters circling the building, and the weapons being used by police to keep crowd control are loud and disruptive. The vandalism and looting that comes along with this movement is also hurting an already visibly struggling city, both economically and socially. The people downtown making this chaos are not the ones who are having to use the train to get to work everyday. They are not the ones that rely upon a job to sustain their living space and sustain themselves in many other fundamental ways. They are not the ones working hard to make ends meet. They are the ones that are jaded by the fact that times are tough, and have created a now very violent, disruptive, and unsanitary movement that is a slap in the face to both the citizens of our city, as well as the efforts that have been ongoing for several years to make it better. Much of the movements to re-develop and revive an already struggling Oakland are now hampered by the disruptions created by these "concerned citizens", and the fact that hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars are being used to stop this resistance is not only counter-productive, but wasteful and a bountiful addition to our already growing state (and country) government funding deficit. At points we can't even tiendas de futbol barcelona leave our houses, and there are city-wide strikes that are being called for to put a chokehold on both the city and all of it's struggling small business owners. Events at local venues are being cancelled, and our streets are becoming more and more vacant, as the growing OCCUPY encampment and agenda of violence grows stronger and stronger, effectively squeezing out the little bit of life that each of these small neighborhoods has been clinging onto for a long time. I am personally offended to be considered to be a part of this movement, and assure you of one thing: many in my age group are, as well. We are NOT the very small percentage of people creating problems of epic social and financial proportion in these cities by forcefully OCCPYing the grazing fields of sustenance for small businesses. We may be the 99% of people under the re-defined "poverty line", and camisetas del barcelona baratas there may, very well, be a middle class no more. However, those who have been given the media spotlight as the forefront of our cause are NOT the 99%.
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