Oakland Thursday 24 May People gathered Wednesday outside the Alameda County District Attorney’s office yesterday to speak out against criminal acts being perpetrated against the people of Oakland by the Oakland Police Department, then on to Acts Full Gospel Church for what was planned as a town hall style meeting in which the police chief Coward Jordan and mayor Jean Quan were to address the family of recent OPD shooting [...]
I’m a 64 year old real estate broker from Marin County. I am happily married, and have a pretty wonderful life. But, I also have a heart and a conscience, and know the difference between right and wrong. I am blessed with two grown children that I adore, and I have become very concerned about the sort of country that they are inheriting. The relentless corporatization of every aspect of [...]
Dear Mayor Quan, I would like to thank both you and the many police officers you summoned from the greater Oakland metro area for their excellent work this difficult weekend. In particular, the calming, measured presence on display by riot police while using urban warfare techniques with guns drawn to stalk me and dozens of other terrified kids at the local YMCA, while innocent civilian gym members looked on, was [...]
Following the events of January 28, Mayor Jean Quan released a statement asking Occupy to ‘stop using Oakland as its playground.’ Well, I can assure Mayor Quan that none of us think we are playing a game. This has been very real for all of us for a long time. It got a little more real on Saturday and the violent tactics of the police, as endorsed by city hall, [...]
@bellaeiko speaks at the Oakaland City Council meeting aginst a proposal to oppose any port shutdowns and to increase enforcement and police presence at future port protests.
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