Dec 12
A major public relations campaign by the Port of Oakland and its allies in the Chamber of Commerce and in Oakland’s political establishment either had no effect or backfired, as the size of the crowd that marched on the port on Monday December 12 easily topped the initial effort November 2. Although there was some …
Dec 10
As part of a nationwide series of demonstrations aimed at stopping and rolling back home foreclosures, more than 100 people gathered in Oakland’s historic DeFremery Park on Dec. 6, and then walked half a block to the home of Gayla Newsom and her family, who have re-occupied their home that was taken away by Chase …
Nov 21
A video collage from four different cameras showing the UC campus police pepper spraying nonviolent student protesters.
Nov 17
Students from several area colleges held a rally outside the California State Building on Wednesday Nov. 16 at 4 pm. After a brief opening presentation, the mike was opened to anyone who wanted to speak. I edited short clips from a number of the speakers into a 5-min video that’s up on YouTube, or here:
Nov 02
[View photos and videos large size] By ten a.m., when I arrived by bicycle at Oscar Grant Square (formerly Frank Ogawa Square) the crowd had already taken over the intersection of 14th and Broadway, probably the busiest crossing in the City. For a brief moment I spotted an Oakland Police Department patrol car blocking off …
Sep 15
These are snapshots I took in the winter of 1964-65 in some of our Jackson Mississippi Freedom School sessions, at churches and in our 852 Short Street library, and a few portraits of some of our “regulars” in nearby settings. The class leader and storyteller is Viki Ortiz. [embpicasa id=”5652773885165276929″] This was the house at …
Sep 15
1208 Trinity Jackson, Miss Feb. 19, 1965 Dear Friends, We enclose this time a flyer which we wrote for distribution to Jackson students, but which we thought you would find interesting. Last Tuesday we travelled to Issaquena county to get first-hand information — the press has blacked it out completely — and came away very …
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