Articles Posted by Justin Alan Ryan

Justin Alan Ryan is a software, systems, and network engineer with over 15 years of professional experience. A long-time activist, Justin has played a lifelong role in the Free Software Movement and has been an activist on many other fronts, including the fight against cannabis prohibition. A Native of San Antonio, Texas, Justin has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for nearly ten years.

  • occupy the farm: gill tract, uc berkeley, albany

    #OccupyTheFarm: Disobey with Great Love

    by Justin Alan Ryan on Apr 28, 2012 | No Comments

    With horns playing, banners flying, and traffic briefly stopping, the Earth Day march from Ohlone Park in Berkeley started off with the hallmark signs of a bay area occupy protest, but something was different. There was a bold, if cautious optimism amongst this crowd.

    Posted in Land Use

  • Non-Violent Occupy Oakland Protests Against Police Brutality

    Non-Violent Occupy Oakland Protests
    Against Police Brutality

    by Justin Alan Ryan on Feb 10, 2012 | 1 Comment

    Following Occupy Oakland’s J28 “Move-in Day” action, which resulted in hundreds of arrests and rampant reports of police brutality and human rights violations against mostly peaceful protesters, there has been a great deal of frustration and tension within the broader movement, Oakland, and the SF Bay Area at large. Occupy Oakland held its’ regularly scheduled weekly march against Police Brutality while many of us were still kettled and/or in transport that night, and a number of us who did not normally attend this action discussed within the walls of Glen Dyer and Santa Rita jails that we could no longer abstain from objecting to the brutality of Oakland’s police force

    Posted in Opinion, Politics