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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): Next, protesters in Oakland changed tactics and gathered for a more active rally today, the plan, disrupt life in the business heart of the city.
NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels has the story.
PROTESTERS: We are the 99 percent!
SPENCER MICHELS: Thousands of protesters joined with the Occupy Oakland movement today in a general strike aimed at shutting down banks, corporations, the city's busy port and schools.
The strike, billed as Oakland's first general strike since 1946, was designed to flex the muscles of the Occupy Oakland movement, which has promoted a campout in a plaza in front of City Hall for more than two weeks. The strike and the movement have targeted the wealthy, the 1 percent of the population that demonstrators say has most of the nation's wealth, the same goals as on Wall Street and elsewhere.
Shon Kae, a musician and one of the organizers, answered criticism that the movement doesn't have concrete goals.
SHON KAE, Occupy Oakland: What we are accomplishing is widening an ever-growing conversation taking place in our generation, and spanning up towards other generations. We have swept out a city block in all these cities across this country to sit down and talk, which is something that our generation has not done a lot of.
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