• Corporate bosses worry that citizens will reclaim their rights during Occupy protests, says an arrested activist.

• Yes, We Have a Permit to Occupy

• Police raids and violence against activists

• Oakland Protesters Shut Down Port, Clash With Police

Naomi Wolf, OPEdNews.com

Submitted by David Culver

Police fired rubber bullets into a crowd of protesters associated with the Occupy Oakland movement [Reuters]

America’s politicians, it seems, have had their fill of democracy. Across the country, police, acting under orders from local officials, are breaking up protest encampments set up by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement — sometimes with shocking and utterly gratuitous violence. In the worst incident so far, hundreds of police, dressed in riot gear, surrounded Occupy Oakland’s encampment and fired rubber bullets (which can be fatal), flash grenades and tear-gas canisters — with some officers taking aim directly at demonstrators. The Occupy Oakland Twitter feed read like a report from Cairo’s Tahrir Square: “they are surrounding us”; “hundreds and hundreds of police”; “there are armoured vehicles and Hummers.” There were 170 arrests. More… Related: Yes, We Have a Permit to Occupy, Roots Action

• Our permit to occupy is the First Amendment.

• U.S. Hypocrisy about Occupations

Police raids and violence against activists, Gerald Ganann, Evergreene Digest

• The First Amendment reads (in part), “Congress shall make no law  . . .  abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

• Yes, We Have a Permit to Occupy

Oakland Protesters Shut Down Port, Clash With Police, Allison Kilkenny, In These Times

• Hundreds of demonstrators shut down a local Citibank chapter and the city’s port.

• Occupy Oakland general strike – as it happened