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Oakland Green Party Cadidates Press Conference Thursday, 4 PM, City Hall
2012-02-08 08:50:00 The Oakland Green Party has issued a press release that declared Thursday, February 9th to be GREEN DAY. That day, at 4PM on the Oakland City Hall Steps, the Oakland Green Party will introduce its four candidates for City of Oakland offices. Here’s a preview: Theresa Anderson will run for the Oakland At-Large seat. Donald (Read More...)
Occupy Oakland Arrestees Tortured In Jail; Oakland ?Y? Hosts Protestor Esca
2012-02-02 11:36:00 According to the Daily Kos, and other blogs, a number of the 400 people arrested during last Saturday’s Occupy Oakland protest were sent to Santa Rita Jail, and of those who were not able to make bail set, they’re reportedly being tortured. Yes, you did read that correctly. Here’s what was presented at Daily Kos’ (Read More...)
Gene Hazzard: Greg Harland Using Recall Petitions To Run For Oakland Mayor
2012-02-01 00:33:00 I ran into Oakland Activist and Oakland Post photographer Gene Hazzard while with my colleague on Grand Avenue, and he was gracious enough to give me the opportunity to make the video above. Gene’s new Oakland Mayor Recall news is that, first, Hazzard has a letter from the City of Oakland’s City Clerk’s Office that (Read More...)
Oakland KTOP?s Ashey James Cut; Oakland Firing Staff, Out By Friday
2012-02-01 00:11:00 The City Of Oakland is facing the State of California’s effort to eliminate California Redevelopment with moves that could only be called cold and draconian. This blogger was just informed that long-time Oakland KTOP Station Manager Ashley James was terminated. In addition, James will be joined by three other KTOP employees, which almost – almost (Read More...)
Oakland News: Robberies, Restaurant Week, Occupy Oakland
2012-01-30 21:28:00 You can take this Oakland news in whatever order, but this blogger’ presenting Robberies, Restaurant Week, and Occupy Oakland, and other news. First, let’s start with the other news. Cafe 817 Opens Again 17 years ago, in 1995, I had the pleasure of attending the opening of the then-new Cafe 817, on 817 Washington Street, (Read More...)
Oakland to assess damage after Occupy protests
2012-01-29 22:34:00 Oakland to assess damage after Occupy protests OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Oakland officials assessed damage to City Hall caused by Occupy protesters while leaders of the movement claimed Sunday that police acted illegally in arresting hundreds of demonstrators and could … Continue reading →
By: TexasFred's
Occupy Oakland: Protestors And Police Gather For Viral Video Shoot
2012-01-29 04:50:00 Frankly, this blogger’s not sure what the value of these Occupy Oakland protests are, except as yet another viral video opportunity for protestors armed with cameras, camcorders, and camcorder-equipped smartphones. No, I wasn’t in on the action. Why the hell would I want to stand near police, many of which represent the City Of Oakland (Read More...)
Oakland Restaurant Week Ends Sunday, Video Has Almost No Blacks
2012-01-27 16:52:00 This week is Oakland Restaurant Week, where a number of eateries around out town feature $30 dinner offerings – from reports, the participating places are “slammed.” For a good list of participating places, visit http://visitoakland.org/restaur-antweek2012.cfm? Or just watch this video that someone with Visit Oakland managed to make with almost NO black folks in it. (Read More...)
Joel Young: Judge Grants Oakland?s Jason Overman?s Restraining Order
2012-01-25 17:59:00 Oakland AC Transit Board Member Joel Young is in hot water again, as an Alameda County Superior Court Judge just granted a restraining order filed on Monday against him and by Oakland City Council Aide Jason Overman. All of this stems from an incident at Make Westing Bar at Telegraph and 18th Avenue in Oakland’s (Read More...)
Oakland Mayor Quan Press Conference On Budget And Redevelopment 2012
2012-01-25 08:37:00 The City of Oakland’s in a bad spot, and this blogger’s not sure if many people in Oakland understand exactly what’s going on. That’s why it’s important to look at the entire 31 minute press conference featuring Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, and then the two “sidebar” videos that are posted below. Oakland is faced with (Read More...)
City Of Oakland Budget: No more 4-4 behind closed doors
2012-01-23 22:23:00 No more 4-4 behind closed doors. The last time we discussed our two year Oakland City budget, meaning about six months ago, we heard nothing from our city council members for several weeks after the mayor put her proposal forward. Then 4 came up with one plan, and another 4 came up with another plan. (Read More...)
Oakland News: Richmond Wins LBL Campus Competition, Mayor Recall Update
2012-01-23 18:31:00 Richmond beats Alameda and Oakland for LBL Second Campus After a tough, competitive battle for the right to play host to the long-planned-for second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, it was announced at 8 AM that Richmond was the winner. Richmond, already location of property and facilities owned by the University of California, (Read More...)
AEG Should Not Run The Oakland Coliseum - Oakland And Alameda Should Reject
2012-01-16 20:19:00 The City of Oakland and Alameda County must reject AEG, the Anschutz Entertainment Group, from being even considered as stadium manager for the Oakland Coliseum, and for one reason: AEG does not have the best interest of the Oakland Coliseum in mind. Why would an organization openly court the Oakland Raiders to move to Los (Read More...)
Embattled Mayor, Gritty City or Mayor Fighting for Oakland?
2012-01-16 01:49:00 Mayor Quan with friends at Chabot event It?s an old cliché that almost everyone who writes about Oakland feels they must use. You know, it?s a gritty city. The latest one was the New York Times article that touted our new restaurants, which are great, don?t get me wrong. But the writer still felt he (Read More...)
Jerry Brown Destroys Oakland: City Layoffs, Deficit, After Gov Kills Redeve
2012-01-13 02:41:00 Any doubt about how California Governor Jerry Brown feels about Oakland, where he was Mayor of Oakland from 1999 to 2007, should be erased after his action to eliminate local redevelopment agencies state wide, one that will have a dramatic impact on Oakland, unless it’s blocked. To understand why, consider that the City of Oakland’s (Read More...)
Gold?s Gym Oakland: Kortney Olson FBB Workout
2012-01-07 22:32:00 Ever wonder what a hard-core fitness workout looks like? If so, you?ve come to the right place. In this 21 minute video, you are taken through a fitness workout session with my friend Kortney Olson, a Northern California-based certified personal trainer, model, female bodybuilder, and strong woman who?s changing how people think about women in (Read More...)
Sears Oakland Downtown Store To Remain Open In 2012 And Beyond
2012-01-07 17:32:00 Sears, facing a drop in sales, announced last December it was planning to close 100 to 120 stores. The local media assumed Oakland, Ca would be one of them, and so danced over Oakland’s grave. They were wrong. On Friday, and while at the Sears Oakland Eye Center, this blogger learned that Sears would remain (Read More...)
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Recall Effort Scarred By Voter Fraud Claim - Two Gr
2012-01-06 07:41:00 Oakland Mayor Jean Quan undoubtedly fears the recall effort launched against her, but from what this blogger has learned, it’s currently marred by not two, but three (yes, 3) competing efforts, backbiting, and the appearance of voter fraud. How it all started was that long-time Oakland activist Gene Hazzard (who was instrumental in ‘drafting’ then-former (Read More...)
Sanjiv Handa Memorial Saturday, 11 AM In Fremont, CA - Chapel of the Angels
2011-12-30 09:25:00 East Bay News Service journalist and friend Sanjiv Handa passed away due to causes not yet officially known on Tuesday. His family is holding a memorial service this Saturday morning at 11 AM. Here’s the location: Chapel of the Angels 40842 Fremont Boulevard (just South of Grimmer) Fremont, California 94538 (510) 656-1226 I also understand (Read More...)
Sanjiv Handa: In His Absence, Celebrate Caring About Oakland - Oakland Jour
2011-12-28 21:12:00 Sanjiv Handa, RP? Still can’t believe it. It’s a good idea to blog to get out of my head the idea that in my reality Sanjiv Handa, Oakland’s Gargoyle – head of the East Bay News Service, expert on Oakland Government, gossip about Oakland’s elected officials, and source of intel on the next local government (Read More...)
Is A Recall Of Mayor Quan Divisive And Harmful?
2011-12-28 00:41:00 Re: A Recall is Divisive and Harmful As you may know, the Greens have not yet taken a position on this recall effort. As far as I know, we are the only group to invite both sides to come and speak to one of our meetings. And as many remember, we did advise voting for (Read More...)
is a recall of Oakland Mayor Quan divisive and harmful
2011-12-28 00:41:00 Re: A Recall is Divisive and Harmful As you may know, the Greens have not yet taken a position on this recall effort. As far as I know, we are the only group to invite both sides to come and speak to one of our meetings. And as many remember, we did advise voting for (Read More...)
Occupy Oakland Grand Lake Benefit ? Alan Michaan Interview - Theater Owners
2011-12-27 02:23:00 Alan Michaan, the famed owner of the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, is always controversial and outspoken. Here, in this video, he talks about why he elected to establish the benefit for Occupy Oakland and his view on the Mayoral Recall Effort.
Oakland Should Sue MLB, San Jose, And The Oakland A?s Right Now
2011-12-25 17:30:00 The reports are all over that Major League Baseball’s long-delayed report on the Oakland A’s in Oakland, and if they should be given permission to leave Oakland for San Jose, will be released “soon,” and the verdict is that the A’s will be given permission to move to San Jose. If Oakland Mayor Jean Quan (Read More...)
Oakland designated two the Mets should be interested in...
2011-12-24 19:13:00 After the Gio Gonzalez trade the Oakland A's had to designate two players for assignment, two days before Christmas Laden Powell and Jai Miller found out they are no longer on Oakland's major league roster. Powell is the least interesting of the two to me because of the signing of Rob Johnson, Powell is a 29 y/o right handed catcher who was a first round pick in 2004 by Oakland. After a tremendous NCAA carreer in which he was named to the NCAA College World Series Legends Team, in Oakland he was in the shadow of Kurt Suzuki. Both catchers drafted in the same year. Suzuki got the bulk of the playing time and was therefore, promoted more aggressively. After two years of injury set backs in the minors ( 2007-2008) he became the back-up catcher in 2009 and served in that role since, appearing in about 40 games a season while hitting .207. Powell is another one of those weak hitting defensive catchers, he caught Branden Dallas' perfect game and ...
By: Mets Fever
Oakland City Council?s Tense Occupy Oakland / Port Hearing
2011-12-21 21:10:00 The video below by “dukkhaboy” on YouTube gives some of the flavor of last night’s Oakland City Council Hearing, as Port Of Oakland Executive Director Omar Benjamin talks against the Occupy Oakland Port Shutdown Action of last week, (and in support of a wild resolution to grant extraordinary police powers to prevent future Port shutdown (Read More...)
Morrie Turner, Wee Pals Cartoon Creator, Honored By Oakland City Council -
2011-12-20 22:41:00 Morrie Turner is the symbol of Oakland’s unique way it expresses its diverse culture. The famous cartoonist best known for his Wee Pals cartoon creations, is as much a part of Oakland’s Soul as the Tribune Tower, Lake Merritt, and the Oakland Coliseum. But, even though Turner’s Wee Pals wasn’t ran in many newspapers in (Read More...)
Jasper Bailey Human Beat Box In Downtown Oakland - Jasper The Beatboxer per
2011-12-18 18:59:00 Jasper Bailey (AKA Jasper The Beatboxer) is a person I met in Downtown Oakland when I was on the way to Radio Bar. He literally chased me down, asking if I was a producer because he saw me making a video blog of my evening in Oakland to that point in time. Mr. Bailey explained (Read More...)
Mayor Quan Announces Oakland Parking Holiday - Under Mayor Harris, Oakland
2011-12-17 22:53:00 Oakland Mayor Jean Quan announced that today and next Saturday are “parking holidays” for Oakland. Personally, this is too little too late. When Elihu Harris was Oakland’s Mayor, the office had something called the “Shop Oakland” campaign, which started back in November, before Thanksgiving, and was a major, city-wide marketing event. It featured not just (Read More...)
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Blasted On Facebook Page
2011-12-16 22:08:00 On December 15th, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, or someone working on her behalf, elected to announce to the World that the Mayor’s Facebook Page would be, in their words, “disabled.” Not to be insulting, but frank: that was a great example of how the Mayor and the Mayor’s Office doesn’t know how to use social (Read More...)
Some Questions And Comments About Occupy Oakland
2011-12-15 02:06:00 Some questions and comments about Occupy Oakland Questions: Is it better now? Is the area around city hall safer? Cleaner? Is business back up? Are there less homeless at 14th and B-way? What was the cooperation about? Was it nationwide? Why? If this was a local sanitation and public safety issue, then why did we (Read More...)
Some questions and comments about Occupy Oakland
2011-12-15 02:06:00 Some questions and comments about Occupy Oakland Questions: Is it better now? Is the area around city hall safer? Cleaner? Is business back up? Are there less homeless at 14th and B-way? What was the cooperation about? Was it nationwide? Why? If this was a local sanitation and public safety issue, then why did we (Read More...)
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Recall ? Ken Pratt Rips Quan
2011-12-14 23:18:00 Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is facing two things: a recall signature gathering process and the wrath of Oaklander Ken Pratt. This blogger literally ran into Mr. Pratt at last night’s benefit for Occupy Oakland, and he gave a video interview that can only be called searing. Pratt’s massively pissed off that Mayor Quan’s aide Sue (Read More...)
The Occupy Oakland Port Action: ILWU Union Games The Movement
2011-12-14 05:24:00 The Occupy Oakland Movement certainly has its factions, so it’s hard to say ‘the movement as a whole thinks one way,’ but the bottom line is the current majority is taking actions that are driving people who were supporters away from it, and leaving it the pawns of those with their own political agendas. There’s (Read More...)
Occupy Oakland Wrong On Port Of Oakland Protest
2011-12-13 08:41:00 At first, the Occupy Movement, and it’s offshoots including Occupy Oakland, the best known of them other than Occupy Wall Street, started with a noble purpose, bringing attention to the many people who were being laid off from work, and kicked out of their homes by the “big banks” – the organizations that received bailout (Read More...)
Golden State Warriors Owner Disses Oakland On Channel 5 KPIX
2011-12-12 20:59:00 Last night, Golden State Warriors Co-Owner Joe Lacob was a guest on Dennis O’Donnell’s sports show on KPIX TV, Channel Five in San Francisco. Dennis asked Lacob about the possibility of moving the GS Warriors to San Francisco. Rather than defend Oakland, Lacob did not rule out the possibility, he just said that the Golden (Read More...)
Occupy Oakland Port of Oakland Strike Live Stream, Twitter Stream
2011-12-12 19:38:00 The planned Occupy Movement / Occupy Wall Street / Occupy Oakland protest at the Port of Oakland’s underway and already the City of Oakland has sent out several press releases that will be posted here. The Port of Oakland shutdown effort is a wild one because the people who work at the Port aren’t at (Read More...)
Green Bay Packers Destroy Oakland Raiders, Now 13-0
2011-12-12 18:54:00 Oakland Raiders fans (like this blogger) can erase any dream that the Silver and Black would be able to knock off the Defending Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers and stop the midwestern team’s win streak at 12 games for the 2011 NFL Season. The Raiders were destroyed by the Packers 46 to 16, and (Read More...)
Terrance Candell: 2010 Oakland Mayor?s Race Candidate Supports Quan Recall
2011-12-07 23:04:00 Oakland’s Terrance Candell never stopped running for Mayor of Oakland. His website, Candell For Mayor, is still up, but and unlike the other eight candidates (Joe Tuman’s “Tuman For Mayor Facebook Page” is still named just that), Candell not only maintains a web face that he should be Mayor of Oakland, on November 2nd, and (Read More...)
Jean Quan: Occupy Oakland Makes Mayor YouTube Star
2011-12-05 09:44:00 Say what you will about Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, one thing’s for sure, she’s gone from being called ‘Mayor Quan,’ or ‘Oakland Mayor Jean Quan,’ to just ‘Jean Quan,’ and that means Quan’s become a national and international celebrity and at the same time her name’s a meme. This is one reason why YouTube, and (Read More...)
Guthrie Govan: signs special Oakland Axe Factory guitar
2011-12-03 11:55:00 Jason Becker's "Not Dead Yet" Festival Amsterdam (November 2011) Another special guitar to be auctioned very soon, donated by Loudguitars. This custom one of a kind Oakland Axe Factory EJ 6 is hand made in the USA By Tom Drinkwater as purchased and completed by Loudguitars.com The guitar has been approved (and tried out!) by Mr G himself. ? withOueight Onetoo, Jason Becker, Jason Becker, Levi Clay, Drew Slaney, Kris Claerhout, Laurie Monk and Mike Blackburn. Jason Becker Auction
Joe Tuman Watches As Gene Hazzard Teases Oakland Mayor Quan Recall
2011-12-02 10:39:00 This is a follow-up to this blogger’s earlier blog post on the effort to recall Mayor Quan, and focuses on two well-known Oaklanders. Well, at least to people who are intensely involved in Oakland politics in some way. One is Joe Tuman, who started a rather late but successful run for Mayor of Oakland in (Read More...)
Oakland Busness Community Mixed On Mayor Quan, On Recall Fence
2011-12-01 21:55:00 Is the Oakland Business Community really behind the planned recall effort of Mayor Jean Quan? As one blogger who’s lived in Oakland since 1974, it’s easy to gain the temperature around town because people either call or talk about the matter every day, including today. Let’s say this: the issue of the recall of Mayor (Read More...)
Merchants & Shoppers want free holiday parking in Oakland!
2011-12-01 10:06:00 Oakland Wants Free Holiday Parking!
Vietnamese Restaurant ? Oakland ? Miss Saigon Restaurant
2011-12-01 07:37:00 A Vietnamese Restaurant ? In Oakland? Yes! In Oakland, California it’s hard to top the food offerings at Miss Saigon Restaurant, at 3345 Grand Avenue, just up the street from Interstate 580 and Lake Merritt. Miss Saigon Restaurant has been an Oakland local favorite since 1998, and Timmy Nguyen, its owner, and his staff consistently (Read More...)
Chester McGlockton ? Oakland Raiders Legend Dies At 42
2011-11-30 19:26:00 The news that Oakland Raiders Legend Chester McGlockton passed away this Wednesday morning at the age of 42 of a heart attack reached this blogger via Facebook just a moment ago. The first memory was of meeting Mr. McGlockton when he came to the Oakland Mayor’s Office in 1997, and then Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris (Read More...)
Scott Olsen Out Of Hospital: Interview At Occupy Oakland
2011-11-30 09:31:00 Scott Olsen’s been through a lot. He started with OccupySF, but then became attracted to Occupy Oakland. The day he came back to Occupy Oakland was the day that changed his life. The Iraq War Veteran (2006 – 2008) and Occupy Oakland Protestor had his life almost put to an end when he was struck (Read More...)
Did West Oakland Shooting Start Because Of A Rapper Beef?
2011-11-30 01:49:00 There are reports of a mass shooting in the West Oakland part of Oakland, California that left eight people wounded, including several kids, the youngest a 1-year old that was hit by a bullet and is in a coma as of this writing. Shockingly, no one who did the shooting has been arrested or spotted. (Read More...)
Rebecca Kaplan?s Occupy Oakland Speech Is Worth Hearing, Now
2011-11-26 22:04:00 About three weeks ago November 7th 2011, and on the same Monday that, as it turned out, was the beginning of the 18-city coordinated effort to evict Occupy Movement encampments all over the United States, Jason Overman, representative to Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, shared via email to this blogger a video of his boss’ speech (Read More...)
Occupy Oakland Site Up As Of 2:42 AM PDT
2011-11-25 12:02:00 In a blog post broke exclusively at Zennie62.com, the entire website of the Occupy Oakland movement was down, and for reasons not known to this blogger. Several online tests confirmed the status of the OO website at the time, with all pages appearing as white speace, and the Occupy Oakland movement had not taken note (Read More...) |
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