The longshoremen’s union – ILWU – Local 10 has voted to shut down the Port of Oakland on May Day (May 1) to protest police racism and murders and brutality. This is […]
Port Shut Down: A Good First Step
Oakland Schools: Pad the Top, Chop from the Bottom
We repost an article by retired Oakland school teacher, Jack Gerson, from his blog, http://schoolsnotbanks.blogspot.com/2015/02/oakland-school-supt-cuts-bottom-feeds.html#comment-form Antwan Wilson’s Idea of Cutting Administration: Pad the Top, Chop From the Bottom by Jack Gerson Have you […]
Greg and SS “I Don’t Know Her Name”
Oakland “On the Waterfront”
Oakland’s New Mayor
Libby Schaaf was sworn in as the newly elected mayor of Oakland today. The entire city council is controlled by the real estate and other corporate interests, as their campaign finance disclosure […]
High School Students Organize in Oakland, CA
Chanting “We need justice” and explaining “we’re tired of that s__t. We’re not going to take it anymore,” hundreds of high school students in Oakland marched and rallied to protest police violence […]
Oakland protests whitewash in Ferguson
The first night after the Ferguson Grand Jury decided to let officer Darren Wilson get away with murder, Oaklanders protested by blocking the freeway.
Black Lives Matter in Oakland, CA
“The momentum that this movement is building is unstoppable.” That was the message of one of the speakers at the rally to to assert that black lives matter and that a new movement […]
Oakland Protests Ferguson Whitewash
The response was immediate. The very afternoon the Persecutor (“misspelling” intended) in St. Louis officially announced what had already been leaked to the corporate media the protest started in Oakland CA. About 1000 […]
Oakland City Council votes for privatizing public land
At their meeting of Nov. 18, the Oakland City Council gave a pass to the corporate run Oakland Zoo to expand onto the beautiful, open space Knowland Park. Here is a video […]
Save Knowland Park
Sitting high up in the Oakland hills, overlooking the entire city and with the best views of practically the entire bay, Oakland’s scenic open space Knowland Park is a real treasure and […]