{"id":1228,"date":"2011-10-24T23:42:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T06:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2012-08-18T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T22:25:52","slug":"occupy-sf-occupy-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/10\/occupy-sf-occupy-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy SF, Occupy Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everett Hoagland and I went down to the Interfaith Clergy Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street San Francisco today. We walked to various banks where two dancers, labeled &#8220;Equality&#8221; and &#8220;Justice,&#8221; set up a golden calf, representing the idolatry of money, and ritually covered the idol with a cloth:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BlogOct2411a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BlogOct2411a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Blog Oct 24 11 a\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BlogOct2411a.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BlogOct2411a-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 85vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A poem started bubbling up for Everett, so he dropped out of the march to do some writing. I kept walking. There were something on the order of 150 to 200 clergy and other faith leaders marching; I counted ten Unitarian Universalist ministers, and half a dozen of our seminarians. TV news coverage of today&#8217;s event: Rev. Jeremiah Kalendae of the Unitarian Unviersalist church in San Francisco is quoted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2011\/10\/24\/religious-leaders-join-\u2018occupy-san-francisco\u2019-rally\/\">text portion of Channel 5&#8217;s (CBS) coverage<\/a>. Link to <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/video?id=8403665\">ABC&#8217;s live coverage<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/a\/kqednews\/RN201110241304\">Radio coverage on KQED<\/a> (story begins 0:37).<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, Everett and I went over to Occupy Oakland, and spent an hour or two there, talking to some people, and just trying to lend our support. I was impressed that the occupiers have a children&#8217;s program during the day, a library, classes and committee meetings, and they have started a garden:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BlogOct2411b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BlogOct2411b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BlogOct2411b\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BlogOct2411b.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BlogOct2411b-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 85vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city of Oakland keeps threatening to arrest all the occupiers &#8212; nevertheless, with accommodations for children, and a garden, they are planning for the long term. More on the Oakland occupation: From KALW today, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/kalw\/2011\/10\/24\/a-day-in-the-life-of-occupy-oakland\/\">A Day in the Life of Occupy Oakland<\/a>&#8221; (audio with transcript).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everett Hoagland and I went down to the Interfaith Clergy Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street San Francisco today. We walked to various banks where two dancers, labeled &#8220;Equality&#8221; and &#8220;Justice,&#8221; set up a golden calf, representing the idolatry of money, and ritually covered the idol with a cloth: A poem started bubbling up for Everett, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/10\/occupy-sf-occupy-oakland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Occupy SF, Occupy Oakland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,102],"tags":[263,209,133,38],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-culture","category-social-justice","tag-everett-hoagland","tag-oakland","tag-occupy-movement","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}