Oakland “On the Waterfront”
Music: The Sounds of Nature?
“…after the mighty advances made by the natural sciences in the present century, we are more than ever in a position to realise, and hence to control, also the more remote natural […]
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 […]
Families speak out: Family members of some of those killed by the cops speak out.
This is part one of a video taken at a protest rally on Sunday, Dec. 7. The rally was for families of some of those killed by the police locally.
Oakland Protests Ferguson, Day 2
“That wasn’t the Grand Jury that found Wilson not guilty; it was the Grand Dragon [of the KKK]!” Day 2 of protests in Oakland, CA
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 […]
More Video from Ferguson
We understand that there is a lawsuit going on in Ferguson challenging the police rule that nobody can stand still at the Ferguson protests. This is, of course, enforced selectively, […]
Sunday 8-17: Tear gas fired on protesters in Ferguson
Here is a scene from the night of Sunday, 7/17. Things were spirited and angry but totally peaceful, until the police shot off their tear gas. They first claimed that molotov cocktails […]