New Occupy Camp Pops Up in Oakland, Calif.

Dec. 28, 2011

The new camp is located in a vacant lot on the 2000 block of Peralta Street near Mandela Parkway and is being called the Cypress Triangle.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A new Occupy Oakland encampment sprang up in West Oakland on Tuesday and already there are more than a dozen tents.

The new camp is located in a vacant lot on the 2000 block of Peralta Street near Mandela Parkway and is being called the Cypress Triangle, according to the Occupy California website.

Oakland has been without an Occupy encampment for more than a five weeks. The last camp, also in West Oakland, was cleared out by police late Nov. 22. Protesters had taken over a vacant lot at 18th and Linden streets a day earlier but left when police directed them to clear out.

That encampment came after police cleared out an encampment at Snow Park near Lake Merritt on Nov. 20, and the raid on the Occupy Oakland camp at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Nov. 14. A camp in a lot at 19th Street and Telegraph Avenue was up for one day before it was quickly and peacefully broken up by police on Nov. 10.

Branches of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which started in mid-September in New York City, were initially protesting widespread unemployment and corporate greed, but the movement has spread to encompass a wide variety of social causes and issues.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service