City of Vallejo Releases Video of Police Murder of Willie McCoy (video/mp4 243.1MB) Responding to pressure from community groups and news outlets to release the tapes, the City of Vallejo today posted a compilation video which includes police body camera footage and other media related to the police killing of Willie McCoy on February 9. While it's obviously packaged as a pro-police propaganda piece, lying about what's in the video, the footage is nonetheless disturbing and view discretion is advised....
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 5:37PM
Day Seven of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Pickets at Central Kitchen, Skyline High, and OUSD Board Meeting (video/mp4 3.7MB) On Day Seven, what turned out to be the final day of the strike, Oakland teachers and allies shut down an a construction site, schools across the district, and another OUSD board meeting....
Posted: Mon Mar 4, 2019 8:05PM
OUSD school board meeting shut down (video/mp4 14.3MB) (video :48)
Picket lines are strong at La Escuelita, where OUSD admins have been crossing. No business as usual until OUSD provides the resources our studen...
Posted: Mon Mar 4, 2019 8:05PM
Empowered: OEA in the state building!! (video/mp4 3.4MB) (video :34)...
Posted: Sat Mar 2, 2019 9:15PM
Teachers and allies won't take "no" for an answer for the schools our students deserve (video/mp4 2.5MB) (video 1:00)...
Posted: Sat Mar 2, 2019 11:29PM
Day Four of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Rain or Shine, Boots Riley, and March for Better Schools (video/mp4 5.9MB) West Oakland Middle School teacher Kamisha describes how the Oakland Unified School District thinks it's fine that 800-1000 students across three campuses have no school nurses. Only through the kindness of a local non-profit do these students receive any medical care....
Posted: Sat Mar 2, 2019 9:15PM
"If your school don't teach you how to fight for what's needed, they teaching you to go through life and get cheated." (video/mp4 3.5MB) (video :54)
"That’s what y'all are doing — teaching the students how to fight. You’re not just teaching them the facts of what happened, you’re teaching them...
Posted: Sat Mar 2, 2019 10:09PM
Get up! Get down! Oakland is a union town! Stand with striking teachers and their students (video/mp4 7.4MB) (video :50)...
Posted: Sat Mar 2, 2019 10:12PM
Day Three of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Lincoln Elementary Teacher and Message from OEA (video/mp4 2.6MB) Stacy, a second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary, says students deserve better support, school nurses and lower class sizes....
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:50PM
Message from OEA on Day Three: Stop Lying OUSD and Bargain in Good Faith (video/mp4 5.1MB) (video 1:32)
The Oakland Unified School District has a history of misinforming our communities and they’re at it again. We’re here to clear things up....
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:50PM
Day Three of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Keith Brown, Minister Perkins, and Oakland High Teacher (video/mp4 99.1MB) At the mid-day rally in Oscar Grant Plaza, Oakland Education Association President Keith Brown reports on bargaining efforts with the Oakland Unified School District, before leading a march to the State Building to support OEA negotiators. "We as educators are winning because we have the power!"...
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 4:48PM
Interview with Pastor Perkins from Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church (video/mp4 20.7MB) (video 1:30)
As the strike continues, Taylor Memorial is supporting the strike by hosting hundreds of children and providing free hot breakfasts and lunches....
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 4:48PM
Isabel Toscano, OEA teacher at Oakland High School on strike (video/mp4 2.0MB) (video 1:30)
"Our students need stability... Many of my colleagues would love to stay in teaching, but the conditions are really not there for them... Mone...
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 4:52PM
Day Two of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Picket Lines, Bargaining Update, Messages of Solidarity (video/mp4 1.2MB) Teachers and allies picketed in front of schools across Oakland again on Day Two. Magdalene Armstrong and her daughter picket in front of their school, Futures Elementary in East Oakland....
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 7:13PM
Day Two bargaining update from OEA president Keith Brown (video/mp4 2.3MB) (video 2:13)
The billionaire privatizers that bought the Oakland School Board want to see 24 of Oaklands 86 public schools closed in the next year and inevit...
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 7:13PM
Rally at Defremery Park, 18th St & Adeline (video/mp4 3.3MB) (video :45)...
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 11:16AM
Pastor Anthony Taylor, Taylor United Methodist Church. (video/mp4 3.1MB) (video :45)
They have offered housing for 3 Oakland teachers. Are housing a Solidary Center for as long as it takes to win the strike....
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 11:16AM
Oakland high school students speaking out! (video/mp4 3.2MB) (video :45)...
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 11:16AM