Received at OL from the City of Oakland as a letter from new Chief Jordan:
Peralta Elementary School is currently seeking donations for
its big auction on March 3. Can you help?
Our friends at Peralta write:
At Oakland Local, we stand in strong support of The Newspaper Guild's letter to the city of Oakland condemning the arrest of several journalists during the Occupy Oakland action on Saturday, Jan. 28.
I
spent Sunday outside Santa Rita County Jail, waiting with other Occupy
Oakland people for the 400 people who were arrested the previous day to
be rel
by Irene Florez
The Occupy movement has changed the way Americans view political activism. And there’s a raging debate over what tactics should be used. On Thursday, December 15th, Oaklanders gathered at the First Unitarian Church of Oakland to discuss how best to Bring The Walls Down.
This is not meant to be an open condemnation of everyone who is
organizing under the umbrella of “Occupy Oakland.” That’s a big
umbrella, and there is a lot of work happening under it that I support
(shout-outs to Occupy the Hood, Decolonize, Occupy San Quentin, the East
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Sunday morning I joined a number of other Bay Area food bloggers and writers for a special tasting at Caffe 817 in Old Oakland. I'd been there some years back, but I heard new owners had purchased it and it was definitely worth checking out again.
Sunday morning, Mayor Jean Quan, in cooperation with the Oakland Police Department, hosted a press briefing inside City Hall.
There has been some confusion and misinformation, on this site as well as elsewhere, regarding a supposed requirement for a special election to accommodate the recall, as well as whether instant runoff voting would apply to a recall and the cost of a recall. This is an attempt to provide some...
