Author archives: Shake Anderson

14 days ago

LOCAL FIGHTS AGAINST AUSTERITY ARE GROWING ACROSS THE U.S.

BY MARK VORPAHL Between sequestration, with its damaging impact on workers and the economy, and the billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other necessary social programs that President Obama is pushing, it is evident that the economic policies of both major parties are not intended to promote a recovery for working people. You cannot lift up a nation’s economy while slashing away at its consumers’ pocketbooks. [...]

16 days ago

The US government has been running a quantum Internet for over two years

It’s a perfectly secure Internet that by definition cannot be penetrated by wiretaps and eavesdropping — and the US government has been sitting on it for the last two-and-a-half years. A longtime goal among cryptologists has been to perfect the “quantum Internet” — which, in the most basic way possible, uses the main principle of quantum mechanics to transfer communications from one point to another. Still confused? Technology Review explained [...]

131 days ago

The Experience: First Fridays 01/04/12 ~ Oakland, CA

First Fridays ~ Oakland, CA By Aaris A. Schroeder Editor-In-Chief UBO Magazine Being from Sacramento, CA I have been to several Second Saturdays and enjoyed all that the Downtown area has to offer. Recently I have moved to Oakland, CA and have had the pleasure of enjoying First Fridays full of street vendors, boutiques, live music, dancers, art galleries and an array of individuals running the gamut between college students [...]

161 days ago

PRESS RELEASE Save the Marcus Garvey (U.N.I.A.) Building

For More Information Contact: Shake Anderson 510-478-2316 [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oakland, CA Dec. 12, 2012 National Historic West Oakland Landmark, the Marcus Garvey building/ Liberty Hall, Taken over by Florida Hedge Fund The Marcus Garvey building, also known as Liberty Hall is an A-1+ rated, National Historic Landmark that has fallen victim to the mortgage crisis and has been taken from the community through a foreclosure bulk sale purchase [...]

171 days ago

Bradley Manning, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

Bradley Manning, the US army private first class accused of linking information to WikiLeaks, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the group The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament. Manning is faced with charges that include aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet, theft of public property or records, transmitting defense information and fraud and related activity in connection with computers, CNN reported. [...]

171 days ago

Save the Marcus Garvey (U.N.I.A.) Building

Liberty Hall, also called The Marcus Garvey Building is a National Landmark and Historic Building in West Oakland, CA. Since Liberty Hall’s purchase by a HEDGE FUND (Citi Property Holdings, Inc) Overcomers With Hope (a non-profit organization that trains at risk youth in Television/Digital Arts Media Production) is being forced to leave and relocate their program after they previously signed a 10 year lease with the previous owners of Liberty Hall. [...]

211 days ago

Occupy Oakland Finance Transparency Report

After several efforts to request a meeting with ficomm to discuss issues that were passed along to me. As a member, for several months I’ve seen a complete lack of transparency & accountability. I was able to contact one member, however after attempts to meet over months.I decided, to catalog as many records as I could with the access I had to OO finance commitee andcreate this report to hopefully give anyone [...]

214 days ago

Occupy Oakland's UA signer resigns

After careful consideration I am choosing to formally resign my position on the Occupy Oakland Financial Committee (FiCom) effective immediately. The position I held as the UA signer voted on & passed by the Finance Committee. My responsibility as UA signer was to hold legal liability to the Oakland Association For an Improved Future business account and to carry out proposals passed by the GA. Due to negligence by the current members [...]

231 days ago

COINTELPRO & Occupy: The War Within

by Occupy Savvy via Shake Anderson THE INFILTRATION OF THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND, AND THE WORLD. FOIA responses from the DHS have revealed exactly that which we feared in earlier days of the Occupy movement; the existence of a federally/nationally and likely internationally coordinated (probably through co-operation agreements) attempt to dismantle Occupies from the inside and otherwise infiltrate and sabotage related non-violent democraticgroups. This counter-democratic practice extends to the use of private contracting [...]

257 days ago

Peoples Assembly Proposal/Organizing First Friday's

The Meeting to discuss Organizing First Friday’s is every Wed. 6pm at the Stork Club,it is open to the public,anyone interested is welcome to come. FB invite: http://www.facebook.com/events/465766416789573/ Petition: If u are in support of this proposal pls sign this online petition https://www.change.org/petitions/peoples-assembly-organizing-first-friday-s In light of the enormously successful independently developed & locally operated First Friday/Art Mur Mur monthly event that has been organically grown over the last 9 years. Currently [...]