Latest News and Comment from Education

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Occupy Oakland: Unions provide food for thousands of protesters - latimes.com #ows

Occupy Oakland: Unions provide food for thousands of protesters - latimes.com:

Occupy Oakland: Unions provide food for thousands of protesters

Civic centerEven protesters have to eat.

A festive atmosphere reigned in Oakland's Civic Center Plaza late Wednesday afternoon as workers from the United Food and Commercial Workers union carried tray after steaming tray of burgers, beans and rice in for a mass feast.

The union was one of many under the Alameda Labor Council umbrella that staged the giant foodfest for thousands of Occupy Oakland demonstrators, who called for a citywide "general strike"