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Staff writers 
  
 OAKLAND -- About 1,000 people gathered peacefully Wednesday in the amphitheater in front of City Hall and spent several hours planning for a meeting Thursday to discuss the mechanics for a general strike next week. 
  
 After Tuesday night's violence, hundreds of Oakland residents appeared to have come out to help transform Occupy Oakland from a relatively disorganized, loose-knit movement to a broad-based community drive to implement a general strike. 
  
 What the protesters are hoping for is the support of unions, teachers, students and workers to shut down the city next Wednesday. 
  
 "I think the police brutality drew a lot of people out of the hills and into the streets," said Josh Chavanne, 29, a freelance Web designer from Oakland. "There is nothing like a little inhumanity to turn on people's humanity." 
  
 At Thursday's meeting, the protesters hope to work out the logistics of the strike, which would involve taking students out of schools, shutting down businesses and mobilizing demonstrators in the city center. 
  
 The Wednesday night meeting was far more organized and sophisticated than any previous Occupy Oakland activity since the movement started Oct. 10. At one point, organizers divided the crowd into small working groups of between 20 and 30 people to discuss the proposal for a general strike. After discussing concerns, they voted overwhelmingly to approve the proposal. 
  
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 "The vitality of Paris in May 1968 and the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe came from general strikes. If we shut down the city, there is no chance (the city leaders) won't hear us," Chavanne said. 
  
 Protesters said the proposed strike is the next step in the global Occupy Wall Street movement. They want to move their anger and dissatisfaction from the tent city encampment to a strike because they believe it will force government and corporate leaders to take them seriously. 
  
 "This is what Occupy Oakland needed to be from the beginning,'' said Adam Groszkiewicz, a student at the College of Alameda and a representative of Save Our Schools. "This is bringing out a more serious side of people, rather than just rage for rage's sake." 
  
 Wednesday's gathering was in stark contrast to the chaos of Tuesday, when the city dismantled the two-week old encampment at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, leading to clashes between hundreds of protesters and police, who used tear gas in attempts to disperse the crowd. 
  
 Protesters on Wednesday night took down a chain-link fence authorities had stationed around the plaza lawn and at one point erected at least one tent. 
  
 Mayor Jean Quan is taking heat for the decision to move on the encampment and the chaos that followed. 
  
 On Quan's Facebook page, at least 8,900 people have commented, many negatively, on a Tuesday morning statement commending police, firefighters and public works crews who "worked over the past week to peacefully close the encampment." Many comments call for Quan's ouster, call her unfit for office and say she should be ashamed of how police acted. 
  
 Quan said she did not know the raid would happen Tuesday morning, when she was on city business at the White House. 
  
 "I don't do the tactical planning," she said. 
  
 Plans to break up the camp began Oct. 20 after reports that campers denied access to medics called in to treat a woman who fell and needed medical attention. The tipping point, Quan said, was a news report that a man was beaten with a piece of lumber. 
  
 Interim police Chief Howard Jordan was told it would take five days to arrange for backup from other police agencies. By Saturday the health and safety conditions inside the camp had "devolved," said City Administrator Deanna Santana. Officials decided to stage the raid in the early morning, when the fewest people would be at the camp. 
  
 Jordan defended his officers, calling their performance "professional" during the protest. 
  
 Jordan said the Oakland Police Department's protocol for nonlethal weapons allows their use in volatile situations. ﻿ 
  
 He said Oakland police used bean bags and tear gas but do not use rubber bullets or wooden dowels. It is possible that other law enforcement agencies did, he said. More than a dozen agencies from across Northern California assisted Oakland police under a mutual aid agreement. 
  
 Meanwhile, the National Lawyers Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday sent a public records request to the Oakland Police Department about use of force. They are calling for a full investigation and a stop to the use of force. 
  
 Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen, 24, of Daly City, was injured in Tuesday's violence, suffering a fractured skull. He was taken to Highland Hospital, where he is in critical condition. Friends say he was hit in the head by a tear-gas canister. 
  
 Quan said she and Jordan are willing to meet with the protesters but must first determine who the leaders are. 
  
 They confirmed six to seven injuries occurred Tuesday night. Quan said the reason the police weren't on scene Wednesday because the dynamics are different. Tuesday night, the plaza was closed and police were charged with keeping protesters out. Wednesday night, the plaza was open and people were meeting peacefully. 
  
 Staff writers Angela Woodall, Thomas Peele, Rick Hurd, Matt Krupnick and Josh Richman contributed to this report. 
  
 To claim personal belongings from the Occupy Oakland encampment, call 510-615-5566 ||||| More disturbing details continue to come out of last night's mayhem in Oakland, where police used tear gas and what sure looks like flash bombs and rubber bullets against protesters. Perhaps the worst so far is the story of Scott Olsen, who completed two tours of duty in Iraq, and joined the Occupy Oakland movement as a member of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War. He is now in stable but critical condition at a California hospital after being hit in the head with what witnesses say was a "police projectile." ||||| An Iraq war veteran has a fractured skull and brain swelling after allegedly being hit by a police projectile. 
  
 Scott Olsen is in a "critical condition" in Highland hospital in Oakland, a hospital spokesman confirmed. 
  
 Olsen, 24, suffered the head injury during protests in Oakland on Tuesday evening. More than 15 people were arrested after a crowd gathered to demonstrate against the police operation to clear two Occupy Oakland camps in the early hours of Tuesday morning. 
  
 Jay Finneburgh, a photographer who was covering the protest, published pictures of Olsen lying on the ground. 
  
 "This poor guy was right behind me when he was hit in the head with a police projectile. He went down hard and did not get up," Finneburgh wrote. 
  
 Olsen was taken to Highland by fellow protesters. 
  
 The Guardian spoke to people with Olsen at the hospital. Adele Carpenter, who knows Olsen through his involvement with anti-war groups, said she arrived at the hospital at 11pm on Tuesday night. 
  
 Carpenter said she was told by a doctor at the hospital that Olsen had a skull fracture and was in a "serious but stable" condition. She said he had been sedated and was unconscious. 
  
 "I'm just absolutely devastated that someone who did two tours of Iraq and came home safely is now lying in a US hospital because of the domestic police force," Carpenter said. 
  
 Olsen had only moved to Oakland in July, Carpenter said. He is a member of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War, and met Carpenter through her work with the civilian soldier alliance. 
  
 Keith Shannon, who served with Olsen in Iraq, arrived at the hospital after protesters contacted him through Facebook. He confirmed Olsen had a fractured skull, and said he had been told by a doctor Olsen also had brain swelling. 
  
 A neurosurgeon was due to assess Olsen to determine if he needed surgery, Shannon said. 
  
 "It's really hard," Shannon said. "I really wish I had gone out with him instead of staying home last night." 
  
 Shannon, who is also 24, said he had seen the video footage showing Olsen lying on the floor as a police officer throws an explosive device near him. 
  
 "It's terrible to go over to Iraq twice and come back injured, and then get injured by the police that are supposed to be protecting us," he said. 
  
 He said Olsen had served two tours of Iraq, in 2006 and 2007. Olsen was in 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines with Shannon before leaving the military in 2010. 
  
 He moved to the San Francisco area in July and works for Opswat, a software company, living with Shannon in Daly City, just south of San Francisco. 
  
 Shannon said Olsen was hit in the head by a tear gas canister or smoke canister shot by a police officer. He said Olsen had a curved scar on his forehead consistent with a canister. 
  
 Protesters who had accompanied Olsen to Highland hospital got in touch with Shannon through Facebook, after Olsen said he lived with someone called "Keith". Shannon said he was told Olsen was unable to say his surname. 
  
 Olsen is originally from Wisconsin and some of his family were planning to fly out to California to be with him, Shannon said. 
  
 Video footage published to YouTube shows Olsen lying prone in front of a line of police. Around 10 people gather around him in an apparent attempt to provide aid, before a police officer throws an explosive device into their midst, scattering the group. 
  
 Footage captured after the explosion, which appears to be from a flash bang grenade, shows Olsen being carried away by a group of people. 
  
 Oakland police confirmed at a press conference that they used tear gas and baton rounds, but said they did not use flash bang grenades. Police could not be immediately reached for comment. |||||
The police raid on Occupy Oakland last night has left one of the demonstrators in serious condition with a fractured skull. He is identified as two-time Iraq war vet Scott Olsen, 24, and he apparently got hit with some kind of police projectile, maybe a tear gas canister, reports the Oakland Tribune. Several people were hit by projectiles and overcome with gas, including members of the media, notes the Tribune. "This poor guy was right behind me when he was hit in the head with a police projectile," a photographer at the scene tells the Guardian. "He went down hard and did not get up." A friend of Olsen's at the hospital tells the newspaper, "I'm just absolutely devastated that someone who did two tours of Iraq and came home safely is now lying in a US hospital because of the domestic police force." A YouTube video of last night's unrest shows protesters carrying an injured man, apparently Olsen, from the scene. Click for more.