Hundreds of defenders of Occupy Oakland, from grandmothers to young children, massed at the main library and marched back to the cleared civic center plaza Monday evening, determined to keep their movement alive by reestablishing a visible presence and branching out.
"We need to take back our village in the plaza because it was a very special place to many people," said Maxine Holz, 55, of Alameda, who has been active at the twice-razed camp for the past month. "It was our base."
Her comments met with uproarious cheers from a crowd that soon flooded onto the muddy lawn where 150 tents had been hauled away hours earlier.
Others spoke of the need to diversify, occupying homes foreclosed by banks and "many city parks, many buildings," and taking the message into the workplace.
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