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Chaos as Street Artists displaced by Sale of Public Sidewalk to Vendors in Santa Cruz (video/mp4 1920.5MB)
Chaos unfolds as Santa Cruz and Global artists Alex Skelton and Joff Jones are confronted by territorial vendors, police officers, and more new regulations which see large areas of Pacific Avenue made exclusive and privatized by a new permitting system where certain individuals are apparently granted exclusive use of our Public Sidewalk if they pay money to the City.
This is a developing story. . ....
Posted: Sat, Mar 23, 2024 9:37am PDT
Remembering Wire Coat Hangers Before Roe v. Wade (video/mp4 7.4MB)
On a national day of action on April 21, abortion rights activists in Berkeley, California cried out that the constitutional right to abortion is under threat. Interview with woman who says she does not regret two abortions is .mp4 27 seconds long....
Posted: Sat, Apr 23, 2022 5:18am PDT
Dancing in the Street (video/mp4 2.8MB)
Dance of Peace took over the intersection as its stage...
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2022 9:48pm PST
"I owe my soul" (video/mp4 3.2MB)
Dance of Peace
video courtesy Raging Grannies...
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2022 9:48pm PST
"I owe my soul to the company store" (video/mp4 2.6MB)
Sixteen Tons written by Merle Travis (sung here by Tennessee Ernie Ford) is about the plight of coal Kentucky miners
Video Courtesy Raging Grannies...
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2022 9:48pm PST
Manu Koenig Campaign Ad on Television Featuring DeCinzo Cartoon with John Leopold in it (video/mp4 9.3MB)
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Posted: Sat, Oct 17, 2020 9:06pm PDT
Campaign to defend historic, Depression-era “Life of Washington” murals in San Francisco (video/mp4 37.3MB)
Robert Cherny, professor emeritus of history at San Francisco State University explains why controversial frescoes at Washington High School in the Richmond District should not be destroyed or hidden....
Posted: Mon, Jun 24, 2019 10:47am PDT
Oakland Street Photographers on Art and Gentrification (video/mp4 22.0MB)
This 4-minute episode of TalkOakland follows two street photographers in Oakland as they discuss the art of street photography and the changes they've experienced from gentrification....
Posted: Fri, Jan 25, 2019 7:09am PST
Oscar Grant's uncle Cephus Johnson presents a gun to Lead to Life team for melting (video/mp4 46.7MB)
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Cephus hands the gun over for melting with Nellie Jones, the mother of Derrick Jones, who was unarmed and murdered by Oakland police on Novembe...
Posted: Thu, Jan 24, 2019 8:16pm PST
Projection on city hall: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere — MLK (video/mp4 629.9KB)
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Posted: Thu, Jan 24, 2019 8:16pm PST
Sunset singing, drumming, and dancing in the amphitheater (video/mp4 32.4MB)
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Note that the shovels used in the dance were cast from guns previously melted by the same kiln used on this day to melt at least three more han...
Posted: Thu, Jan 24, 2019 8:16pm PST
Children's march returns to plaza: How we gonna get it? People power! (video/mp4 7.2MB)
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Posted: Thu, Jan 24, 2019 8:16pm PST
Morning children's march: Whose streets? Our streets! (video/mp4 3.3MB)
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Posted: Thu, Jan 24, 2019 8:16pm PST
Sights and Sounds from Oakland's 5th Annual Reclaim King's Radical Legacy Events (video/mp4 122.2MB)
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Oakland on January 21, 2019, the Anti Police-Terror Project hosted a powerful and moving day of civil rights speakers, marches, children's activities, drums, music, song, and dance. In tribute to families who have lost loved ones to police violence, guns were melted and cast into into stars, displayed in a pattern recreating the constellations visible in the night sky when Oscar Grant was murdered ten years ago. These video clips capture some of the sights a...
Posted: Thu, Jan 24, 2019 8:16pm PST
Chaga kwa Nia speaks about the eviction (video/mp4 43.9MB)
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Posted: Thu, Jan 10, 2019 9:42pm PST
Video of Oscar Grant's friends (video/mp4 115.0MB)
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Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2019 6:59pm PST
rally to legalize psychedelic medicine august 2018 video (video/x-ms-wmv 412.6MB)
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Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2018 12:29am PDT
Uncolonized Film Teaser - So called “Boarding Schools” for Native Children in the USA (video/mp4 14.6MB)
This is a short clip from the larger film “Uncolonized”. This clip in particular shares some history on so called “Boarding Schools” for native children in the ...
Posted: Sun, Mar 11, 2018 9:27pm PDT