Jack London's Great-Granddaughter on Oakland Police Riot
Submitted on November 2, 2011
By Tarnel Abbott - Tuesday November 1st, 2011
"I looked at the Jack London oak tree in front of City Hall and felt possessed by the spirit of the great man. I thought of him standing there on his soap box making socialist speeches and getting arrested because he didn’t have a permit...I knew that I too had to resist it. Something came over me so that I was completely unwilling to be bullied into leaving. I felt like a mother protecting her young. I felt calm, but angry."
