Occupy Oakland protesters rally in front of the State of California building Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland's citywide general strike, a hastily planned and ambitious action called by Occupy protesters a day after police forcibly removed their City Hall encampment last week, shut down the Port of Oakland. On Wednesday afternoon, as my wife and son and I were walking to Occupy Oakland, we saw a bicycle get hit by a bus. The biker wasn’t hit hard, and he didn’t seem hurt. But we stopped to help him out, in part because the same bus had borne down on ...