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The Wild Hunt
February 12, 2018
SACREMENTO, Calif. — Activist and witch Andy Conn died unexpectedly Feb. 2. Conn was an active member of the Bay Area Pagan community, involved with the Church of All Worlds and activist movements such as Occupy Sacramento and Earth First!. His son Nick wrote in a memorial, “My father was aÃâà...
Sacramento Bee (blog)
April 26, 2017
What happened to the smart policing under Braziel that prevented Occupy Sacramento from repeating the chaos caused by Occupy groups in Oakland and other strife-torn cities? Meanwhile, the department has lost many seasoned officers in recent years. Some blame that on a lack of compensationÃâà...
Sacramento Bee (blog)
April 23, 2017
Thompson had been part of the Occupy Sacramento movement for some time before he went after Johnson. He had been a fixture at City Council meetings, where advocates for the homeless have been attempting to convince the city to drop its anti-camping ordinance so that it would be legal for anyone toÃâà...
Sacramento News & Review
March 9, 2017
Israel had been living on the frontlines of Occupy Sacramento. In the face of corporate crime obliterating retirements and paralyzing the economy, crowds of demonstrators took to the streets on a scale that hadn't been witnessed in two generations. It seemed like the moment Roddy and Israel had beenÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
January 20, 2017
When newly sworn-in President Donald Trump pledged that “the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,” Sacramentan Lorin Meeks-Harris stood in the crowd and felt as though Trump could have been speaking about her. In the run-up to the November election, she attendedÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
January 20, 2017
After President Donald Trump was inaugurated in Washington, D.C. on Friday, Black Lives Matter, Health Economics Life Liberty for All, Occupy Sacramento and other groups convened at the state Capitol to rally against the new administration, police brutality, homelessness and gentrification. RandyÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
January 20, 2017
Hours after Trump is inaugurated in Washington, D.C., Black Lives Matter, Health Economics Life Liberty for All, Occupy Sacramento and other groups will convene at the state Capitol to rally against the new administration, police brutality, homelessness and gentrification. The protesters will meet at differentÃâà...
Sacramento News & Review
September 29, 2016
They were surrounded by a potent show of local law enforcement including: cops on horseback, dozens of police vehicles and multiple patrol wagons, and more than 70 officers in riot gear-style clothing. Thompson and his fellow Occupy Sacramento activists were arrested and cited for remaining in the parkÃâà...
ABC10.com
September 23, 2016
Thompson has been identified as a former Sacramento City College student body senator and Occupy Sacramento activist. In a 2012 interview with the SacCity Express, the student-run newspaper of Sacramento City College, Thompson talks about his motivations to get involved, police brutality and theÃâà...
Chico News & Review
April 10, 2015
The Occupy Sacramento veteran is also homeless himself. He spends most mornings looking for food, but joined SN&R for breakfast on a recent Tuesday to discuss what it's like trying to impact social change while living on the streets. Are you unfairly harassed as a homeless man in Sacramento?
NBC Bay Area
March 5, 2012
Thousands of high-minded marchers and protesters -- most affiliated with student groups, some with Occupy Sacramento -- made their way into the state Capitol Monday. The "Fund our Future" rally attracted sign-waving rabble-rousers from the California State Student Association and the University ofÃâà...
CBS News
February 28, 2012
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - At least two law enforcement officers were injured Monday during a clash with members of the Occupy movement who were at the state Capitol to counter a rally by a group protesting violence by blacks against whites in South Africa. The clash erupted in the afternoon as CaliforniaÃâà...
