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Occupy the Prisons in San Quentin, Calif.

On Monday, I was assigned to cover the latest Occupy event in the Bay Area: Occupy the Prisons. I didn’t follow up to find out how the attendance was elsewhere in the nation, but about 300 hundred arrived outside San Quentin Prison in the north bay.
Prison guards were ready, to say the least. I heard [...]

Posted 21 February 2012 † Beck Diefenbach § Freelance Reporting § News ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Occupy Oakland Anti-Police March

Following last week’s scrimmage with the Oakland Police Department, media coverage ramped up for last night’s weekly anti-police march by Occupy Oakland.
Much fewer demonstrators than last week showed up, however this crowd was far less aggressive. Maybe it was because no one was arrested this time. Or because after an initial attempt to quel the [...]

Posted 05 February 2012 † Beck Diefenbach § Freelance Reporting § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Protestors access Oakland City Hall, burn its American flag

Saturday night’s protests in Oakland was possibly the most intense I have covered so far. I hesitate to name this protest because many people would argue branding it an Occupy Oakland event misrepresents what Occupy is about. Others would say Saturday night’s demonstration represents the core interests of the movement. It [...]

Posted 30 January 2012 † Beck Diefenbach § Freelance Reporting § News ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

My Best Photos of 2011 Part 5: Occupy

Best of 2011 Part 1: Technology, Part 2: Boy Scouts. Part 3: Personal, Part 4: Sports
Best of 2010, 2009, and 2008
For me, the story of the year was the localized versions of the Occupy Wall Street protests. I spent days and nights covering OccupySF, Occupy Oakland and Occupy Cal. I pulled several double shifts and [...]

Posted 07 January 2012 † Beck Diefenbach § Freelance Reporting ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Occupy shuts down the Oakland Port for 24hrs

Another early morning to photograph Occupy Oakland. This time, the group of a couple hundred eventually grew to thousands to block trucks form entering most of the port. Even though the trucks were blocked for only a few hours, the longshoremen 8 hour shift was cancelled. The protestors did this three times and thus shut [...]

Posted 14 December 2011 † Beck Diefenbach § Freelance Reporting § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,