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
On strike, shut it down, Oakland is a union town (video/mp4 2.1MB) (video :48)
"In California a charter school law from 25 years ago has been used by billionaires to make a charter school industry. Charters show a lack of tran...
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:02AM
Keith Brown, OEA President, speaks out the night before the strike (video/mp4 7.7MB) (video 2:20)
"It's time for OUSD to pick a side. Are you on the side of billionaires who fund our school board races, or the side of teachers, students, par...
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
Teachers and allies take Broadway in march after rally (video/mp4 4.9MB) (video :45)...
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:19PM
Libby Schaaf Roundly Booed Over Handling of Housing Issues at First Oakland Mayoral Debate (video/mp4 4.0MB) The first Oakland mayoral debate of the 2018 election was sponsored by the Alameda County Democratic Party on August 23. Cat Brooks was widely viewed as the winner, with her command of the issues and passionate advocacy for a more just Oakland. Pamela Price and Saied Karamooz made strong showings as well. Libby Schaaf was defensive and tense, as she was in later debates. Schaaf eventually stopped attending candidate forums. (Full debate audio below.)...
Posted: Tue Nov 6, 2018 2:37PM
As event closed, Elihu Harris tried to defend Libby Schaaf as being better than Trump (video/mp4 3.8MB) (video :14)
"Better than Hitler" is hardly a ringing endorsement....
Posted: Tue Nov 6, 2018 2:37PM
Cat Brooks Takes Her Fight for Justice Inside City Hall, Mounts Radical Bid for Oakland Mayor (video/mp4 15.7MB) Time flies. Today is election day already. On August 8, Cat Brooks wasn't speaking through a bullhorn outside of City Hall, or commenting at a City Council meeting. She was filing the official paperwork required to run for Mayor of Oakland. Since then, she and hundreds of campaign volunteers have poured their hearts into the "People's Campaign," reaching out to Oaklanders throughout the city, fighting hard for a just and equitable future Oakland....
Posted: Tue Nov 6, 2018 1:15PM
Supporters speak about their hopes and reasons for backing Cat (video/mp4 90.7MB) (video 5:50)...
Posted: Tue Nov 6, 2018 1:15PM
Cat lays out the road ahead, people power needing to overcome Schaaf money (video/mp4 14.5MB) (video :54)...
Posted: Tue Nov 6, 2018 1:15PM
City Council candidates walk out of UCSC forum when questioned about white supremacy (video/mp4 15.9MB) On October 29 at a city council candidates forum at UC Santa Cruz, all of the white candidates running except for Phil Crawford and Cynthia Hawthorne walked out after being called out by the audience for responding with pro-police and "All Lives Matter" statements to a question about what they would do to combat white supremacy, according to an account published by a student on social media. (Video: Candidate Drew Glover speaks about the prevalence of white supremacy in Santa Cruz, followed b...
Posted: Fri Nov 2, 2018 8:30PM
surrounding the trump supporter in red/white/blue hat (video/quicktime 892.2KB) 10 second video...protesters against Kavanaugh made this trump counter-protester's head spin...
Posted: Fri Oct 5, 2018 1:35AM
Pastor Deborah Avory on MLK's concern that white liberals are bigger roadblocks to justice than the KKK (video/mp4 34.3MB) (video 2:15)...
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:31PM
Resistance SF Projection on Federal Building (video/quicktime 13.5MB) On Friday January 12, Resistance SF projected onto the Federal Building at 7th and Mission streets demands in solidarity with the Anti Police-Terror Project. Photos and video from the event....
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:13AM
President Trump does not appear to be well liked. (video/quicktime 1.3MB) ...
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:13AM
Reclaim MLK 2018: 96 Hours of Non-Compliance with the Trump and Schaaf Regimes (video/mp4 27.7MB) It’s that time again, Bay Area!...
Posted: Tue Jan 2, 2018 1:00PM