Fighting Privatization & Union Busting Charters In Oakland OEA Strike On Day 2 
On the second day of the Oakland Education Association strike, thousands of teachers, service workers, parents and students rallied against charters and privatization. They marched to the office of Go Public charter school operation which is a laundering operation of the billionairs pushing charters and funding pro-privatization candidates....
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:28PM
"When We Fight We Win!" Thousands Of Oakland OEA Teachers With SEIU 1021 Workers Strike 
Thousands of OEA members and SEIU 1021 members struck on February 21, 2019 and were joined by parents and students. They are fighting for living wages, decent conditions and against privatization....
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:56AM
Support Oakland Teachers! For a General Strike to Defend Education! 
The miserable state of public education in California, which is 43rd in the nation in per pupil spending, underscores the need for struggle against capitalism and the horrific levels of social inequality it creates....
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 1:24AM
Powerful Support for Oakland Teachers’ Strike 
The strike is the latest in a wave of walkouts by teachers, which began exactly a year ago in West Virginia. In every case, teachers are fighting over the same issues and facing the same enemies: decades of defunding, falling living standards, punitive evaluation schemes to scapegoat teachers, and a bipartisan drive to close public schools and expand for-profit charter schools....
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 1:17AM
Day One of Oakland Teachers' Strike: School Picket Lines & Message from Keith Brown (video/mp4 1.4MB) Teachers and allies were out by 6:30am on Day One, picketing in front of schools across Oakland. At at Manzanita Community School, teachers chanted: "Get up, get down, Oakland is a union town! Hey, hey, ho, ho, where did all the money go?"...
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:02AM
Day One of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Rally at City Hall (video/mp4 4.8MB) Keith Brown, OEA president: "When we strike, we win!...
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:19PM
Oakland Teachers on Strike: Stakeholder Voices on the Struggle (audio/mpeg 137.3MB) Today, we bring you a full two hours on the Oakland teachers strike....
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:52PM
Join us at the Oakland teacher's picket line! 
Priority Schools (map here):
Ralph J Bunche High School (West Oakland - 1240 18th Street)
Prescott Elementary (West Oakland - 920 Campbell Street)
McClymonds High School (Off San Pablo and 27th - 2608 Myrtle Street)
Hoover Elementary (Off San Pablo & 33rd St - 890 Brockhurst Street)
Piedmont Elementary (Piedmont - 4314 Piedmont Avenue)
Downtown Admin Building (Downtown - 1000 Broadway)
Lakeview Admin Building (Lake Merritt - 746 Grand Ave)
Bella Vista (Lake Merritt - 1025 East 28th ...
Event Date: Thu Feb 21, 2019 6:30AM
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 1:57PM
Urban Shield may end on February 26 .... with your help! Since 2013, the Bay Area has been trying to transform Urban Shield from a highly militarized SWAT competition and weapons expo into a community-focused safety and resilence exercise. And now we are almost there....
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 2:47PM
Rally for U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th and Broadway, Oakland....
Event Date: Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:00PM
Posted: Fri Feb 8, 2019 6:05PM
U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Rally 
Lake Merritt Columns (aka Pergula or Pillars)
599 El Embarcadero
Oakland, CA 94610...
Event Date: Sun Feb 10, 2019 1:00PM
Posted: Fri Feb 8, 2019 9:47AM
Rally to Call on Oakland City Council to Support Oakland Teachers Oscar Grant Plaza (Frank H. Ogawa Plaza) in front of Oakland City Hall 1 Frank H Ogawa Plz, Oakland, CA, 94612...
Event Date: Tue Feb 5, 2019 4:30PM
Posted: Mon Feb 4, 2019 3:04PM
UCPD's malice towards People's Park protesters UC Berkeley displayed malice and cruelty to the People's Park protesters, whose personal belongings were seized during a police raid on the Park back on January 15th.
[This article is not written by a member of the People's Park protest, but by an outside observer.]...
Posted: Sun Feb 3, 2019 11:40AM
Blast from the Past: SF Bay Guardian "Best of the Bay" Awards for Indybay 
"Best of the Bay" awards for the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay) in the early 2000s included "Local Hero" and "Best Way to Find Out If Your Friend's Affinity Group Got Busted."...
Posted: Sat Feb 2, 2019 2:38PM
Oakland Agrees to Name Road in Honor of Oscar Grant, Now Up to BART 
BART to consider naming Fruitvale Station side street "Oscar Grant Way" at Board of Directors meeting on February 14....
Posted: Sat Feb 2, 2019 1:14PM
Urban Shield Fate to be Decided at Alameda County Board of Sups Alameda County Administration Building, 5th Floor
1221 Oak St., Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:00AM
Posted: Fri Feb 1, 2019 3:36PM
Remembering Sahleem Tindle 
Family holds anniversary vigil and protest, shutting down West Oakland BART...
Posted: Fri Feb 1, 2019 3:18PM
Urban Shield Committee approves recs to exclude SWAT, focus on de-escalation and disaster response 
Replacing Urban Shield: County Committee approves recommendations to exclude SWAT, focus on de-escalation and community preparedness in future Bay Area disaster response programs...
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:40PM
Stop OUSD from voting to close "Roots" Middle School! 
The Oakland School Board has just scheduled a special meeting (less than 72 hours notice) for 6pm on Monday with only one item on the agenda, a final vote in the closure of ROOTS Middle School. The school board can not be allowed to displace our students and families from their neighborhood school. We are asking everyone to help, even if you don’t live in Oakland....
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:26AM
AFGE Workers With Airline Workers & Labor Protest At Oakland Airport End The Shutdowns 
AFGE Federal workers including TSA, Coast Guard and EPA rallied at the Oakland airport along with airline workes and labor to protest the government shutdown....
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:33PM