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Smart Alec East Bay Express Writer Attacks Books Not Bombs, Ron Dellums, Indybay, and More
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>Suffer the Little Children
>Dellums puts prison reformer in charge of public safety
> By Anneli Rufus
>This month, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums had to replace his outgoing public safety director, Victor Ochoa, who is considering a City Council run. So the old socialist appointed UC Berkeley alum Lenore Anderson, a public-interest lawyer and activist who won a Soros Justice Fellowship for giving "advocacy training to parents whose sons and daughters face incarceration," which, in turn, "is expected to reduce the likelihood of incarceration ... among Bay Area youth." Ah. Feel safe yet?
>Anderson seems to prioritize quelling punishment over quelling crime, as if the former might spawn the latter. She formerly headed the prison-reform nonprofit Books not Bars...
>Suffer the Little Children
>Dellums puts prison reformer in charge of public safety
> By Anneli Rufus
>This month, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums had to replace his outgoing public safety director, Victor Ochoa, who is considering a City Council run. So the old socialist appointed UC Berkeley alum Lenore Anderson, a public-interest lawyer and activist who won a Soros Justice Fellowship for giving "advocacy training to parents whose sons and daughters face incarceration," which, in turn, "is expected to reduce the likelihood of incarceration ... among Bay Area youth." Ah. Feel safe yet?
>Anderson seems to prioritize quelling punishment over quelling crime, as if the former might spawn the latter. She formerly headed the prison-reform nonprofit Books not Bars...
and there's more:
>BNB is one of three projects run by Oakland's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Another is Bay Area Police Watch, devoted to "supporting victims and survivors." What, of crime? No, silly: of police abuse. Photos on its home page depict protesters whose placards read "Stop Killer Cops." ...
>Unsurprisingly, Infoshop, Indybay, and anarchist groups link to Anderson's BNB memos, as does PrisonActivist.com, which also links helpfully to BoycottIsraeliGoods.com, Mumia.org, and IraqIntifada.com. (Indybay files an Anderson piece under "California: Police State.") Granted, prison conditions are draconian...
Got that? "Granted, prison conditions are draconian," but this writer has no interest, in fact completely poo-poos, police brutality issues, obviously going no further than web surfing to explore the non-police perspective. Conversely, there are indications throughout the piece that this writer actually spoke to people associated with the OPD. This writer obviously has little clue about the historic issues with police brutality in Oakland. The police generally have done a poor job with building trust with the community and hence their low solve-rate for murders that number in the dozens and dozens yearly. This writer fails to make that connection and therefore misses the forest for the trees in a quest to set up a false black and white dichotomy of pro-police and anti-police, feigning the role of protector of Oakland's children.
see for yourself:
>BNB is one of three projects run by Oakland's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Another is Bay Area Police Watch, devoted to "supporting victims and survivors." What, of crime? No, silly: of police abuse. Photos on its home page depict protesters whose placards read "Stop Killer Cops." ...
>Unsurprisingly, Infoshop, Indybay, and anarchist groups link to Anderson's BNB memos, as does PrisonActivist.com, which also links helpfully to BoycottIsraeliGoods.com, Mumia.org, and IraqIntifada.com. (Indybay files an Anderson piece under "California: Police State.") Granted, prison conditions are draconian...
Got that? "Granted, prison conditions are draconian," but this writer has no interest, in fact completely poo-poos, police brutality issues, obviously going no further than web surfing to explore the non-police perspective. Conversely, there are indications throughout the piece that this writer actually spoke to people associated with the OPD. This writer obviously has little clue about the historic issues with police brutality in Oakland. The police generally have done a poor job with building trust with the community and hence their low solve-rate for murders that number in the dozens and dozens yearly. This writer fails to make that connection and therefore misses the forest for the trees in a quest to set up a false black and white dichotomy of pro-police and anti-police, feigning the role of protector of Oakland's children.
see for yourself:
For more information:
http://eastbayexpress.com/2007-09-19/news/...
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"I am currently literary editor of the East Bay Express, where I mastermind which new books will be reviewed each month and which will simply slip into oblivion." (hardy har har, Anneli)
http://www.annelirufus.com/ about page
do ya suppose anneli wishes the power to make ron dellums, books not bombs, anti-police brutality activists, socialists, public-interest lawyers, anarchists and indybay slip into oblivion? and what does that say about the express' ability to tell truth to power nowadays?
http://www.annelirufus.com/ about page
do ya suppose anneli wishes the power to make ron dellums, books not bombs, anti-police brutality activists, socialists, public-interest lawyers, anarchists and indybay slip into oblivion? and what does that say about the express' ability to tell truth to power nowadays?
well - here is a really crappy article from Anneli Rufus about UC Berkeley. A few regional israel-conflict wingnuts were seen outside the Daniel Pipes talk (where Pipes said some quite rude and vicious things about muslims as a group) and she is blaming both the student body and the university environment in general for the signs these people were holding. There is very little logic here. If you wanted to capture the culture or sentiments of the student body, you would honestly have to talk about the huge apolitical segment of campus. But I guess if you want to do anecdote based reporting, by retrieving a few quotes matching your favored ideas, you can express pretty much anything you set out to:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2004-05-19/news/berkeley-intifada/
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2004-05-19/news/berkeley-intifada/
Dellums was elected over 15 months ago and he has refused to tell the public what kind of leadership he's going to offer until very recently, on the current homicidal bloodbath in Oakland. People in Oakland are souring on Dellums pretty quick. Ochoa the dumbell that Dellums appointed to head public safety didn't even know what parts of the city are having violence problems. West Oakland residents were pissed and baffled by his cluelessness when he embarrassed Dellums at a community meeting to address crime, which is why he got canned. Oakland doesn't need a bunch of feckless ideologues. We need real talk on the violence issue and obviously Mr. oaklander is pretty out of touch with average Oakland residents who can't walk around their own block without fear of violence.
I don't dislike Anderson, she probably could play a role in reforming prisons however I doubt that she has what it takes to play a positive role in Oakland political leadership. I hope she and Dellums prove me wrong. So far it's not looking like it.
I don't dislike Anderson, she probably could play a role in reforming prisons however I doubt that she has what it takes to play a positive role in Oakland political leadership. I hope she and Dellums prove me wrong. So far it's not looking like it.
Dellums' first chief of staff was a guy from Clorox's board of directors, pulling in $500,000 a year from holding seats on this and other corporate boards and from his cushy City job. So much for a progressive mayor. See http://www.orpn.org/Boggan1.htm
"One of the things I like least about our New Age Of Information Overload is that it seems to have birthed a sort of mix and mismatch trend in journalism in which a reporter—or columnist—does an online Google search of a subject of which they appear to know little, comes across two disparate bits of information that have some tenuous connection, slaps them together, and thereafter loudly announces that they have uncovered a 'trend.'" - J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
For more information:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/2...
East Bay Express article on UC Berkeley anti-vivisection campaign
by rj
Thursday Jan 10th, 2008 10:27 PM
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/10/18471617.php
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