Oakland General Strike 2011

p I am 10 years old and my name is Day. At 10:00 am my dad and me wentbr / to the Oakland General Strike. During it I saw a bunch of people withbr / bikes and people with disabilities. There span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="wer" data-scaytid="3"wer/span about a frac14; mile of tents!br / A lot, right? Most of the stores were shut down for the day./p p After we went to the government building but they locked us out. Webr / stood there, me, my dad and all the people with their wheelchairs.br / ldquo;Whose building? Our building!rdquo; we all repeated. Then we decided tobr / split up and blockade both entrances of the building. Some lady in thebr / crowd who was able-bodied handed me a bullhorn. I said into it,br / ldquo;2-4-6-8 Who do we appreciate? The 99%!rdquo; I felt proud to do that. Dadbr / even has a video of it./p p We were all tired so we went and got Chinese food. I go to a Chinesebr / school, so dad made me show off to the waiter. I hate showing off.br / When we got out I groaned ldquo;sour span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="stomach.”" data-scaytid="1"stomach.rdquo;/span We took BART back to Sanbr / Francisco and we went to a store and bought some span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="tums" data-scaytid="5"tums/span. It took like anbr / hour to hail a cab. The guy in the taxi hesitated before driving tobr / span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Bayview" data-scaytid="7"Bayview/span. Once I got home I went right to bed immediately. Sweet dreamsbr / and solidarity!br / nbsp;/p