OaktownLive

TOL Returns to the streets, #LiveAndDirect, from the Oakland, CA, covering today’s Circle Dance flashmob of Idle No More, and Chief Theresa Spence’s ongoing hunger strike, and her demand for a meeting w/ Canadian PM Stephen Harper.

The Canadian Parliament is ramming through a law (Bill C-45) that will severely alter the laws regarding development of “Indian Land”, removing many protections and rights the First Nations peoples have had up until now. This is what people are protesting.

Live on the web Sat Jan 5, ~1;30PM PST: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oaktownlive

-What is Idle No More?

-Why does Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike matter?

-”Hunger strike by Chief Theresa Spence against new government legislation and long term denial of indigenous rights sparks nation wide movement”

Live & Direct from Oakland, Ca w/ Dr. Bernard Lafayette

This Thuirsday Sep 20th Team Oaktown Live will be livestreaming An Evening With Dr. Lafayette, co-author of the Kingian Nonviolence Curriculum and Chair of the Positive Peace Warrior Network:

An Evening w/ Dr. Lafayette

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Celebrating the International Day of Peace

An Evening with Dr. Bernard Lafayette

Thursday, September 20th
6:30 – 8:30 PM

Humanist Hall
390 27th St., Oakland CA

Recently, there have been growing interest in the Bay Area around Kingian Nonviolence. Since January of this year, we have held 13 two-day workshops for well over 350 people in the Bay Area alone!

This includes five workshops inside the San Bruno County Jail and workshops for Oakland youth. We have partnered with many important Bay Area communities, including theEast Bay Meditation Center, theOakland Peace Center,BAY-Peace,Youth Spirit Artworks,Youth Alive, various Occupy communities and more.

We are honored to continue to work to fulfill our mission, and help Dr. Bernard Lafayette help fulfill his promise to Coretta Scott King: to continue to spread Dr. King’s philosophy with the highest integrity.

We are also excited to announce that Dr. Lafayette will finally be coming to the Bay Area!!! Please join us on the eve of the International Day of Peace for this exciting event.

UPDATE: Program will also feature performances from local youth who have attended a Kingian Nonviolence workshop, and a video presentation of PPWN’s national work with youth.

Co-Sponsors of this event include: YES!, Youth Spirit Artworks, BAY-Peace, PeaceWorkers US, the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, and EndBigBanks.org. If your organization is interested in becoming a co-sponsor ($50 fee), please send an email to emailkazu@gmail.com.

Dr. Lafayette will also be leading a two-day introductory workshop in Kingian Nonviolence that weekend, the 22nd and 23rd. CLICK HEREfor more information and to register.

Please help us spread the word about these two events!!! Hope to see you all there!!!

Go to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oaktownlive# for the stream

TOL Standing Down for May to Regroup & Process

Just wanted to let people know that for the rest of the month of May, Team Oaktown Live will not be streaming much if at all.

Partially it’s because Pirate will be on the road working & just plain won’t be available. On top of that, TOL also has a WHOLE LOT OF FOOTAGE from the last several months that we’ve hardly had time to process, in particular from May Day. We’ve got a lot of editing to do of a lot of looong footage from which we want to make highlight clips that people can actually go back and watch.

Regarding livestreaming: the ability to connect live video of newsworthy events to the world is a powerful tool. When somebody tells Pirate that they were watching the stream earlier and came out to participate in person, or when a commenter on the social stream says they’ve learned things about Oakland they didn’t know before, it feels like we’re making a difference, even if it’s a small one.

But streaming is also quite an expensive tool right now. Part of TOL’s downtime will be to spend some time considering how we want to continue with this “Oakland-based citizen journalism” project that we feel called to, and how to do it without letting it eat up such a huge chunk of the TOL household budget.

One of the new tools TOL is looking to add to the CJ toolkit is Signal. It’s being called “The Instagram for Citizen Journalists” and looks like it’s got a lot of potential. We’ve signed up as beta testers and look forward to its roll out.

Love, peace, justice, compassion, meaningful life pursuits, and generally all good things to everyone everywhere, nobody excluded…

Pirate & Lexica

Livestream cops, give us all your May Day movies

cjs-bay:

Oakland cops were livestreaming on May Day! Too bad we couldn’t watch!

So, the other day I filed a Public Records Act with request with the cops asking for their footage. Here’s their response:

Dear Mr. Beck:

This is in response to your public records request #9559, dated May 7, 2012, submitted to the Oakland Police Department asking for all archived livestream video footage recorded by the Oakland Police Department on May 1, 2012.

The Department is in the process of reviewing all video related to the Occupy Oakland activities, including May 1, 2012. Video must be reviewed and in some cases redacted. Some video may be exempt pursuant to California Government Code 6254(f) as investigation records or investigatory files related to an open and ongoing investigation. To the extent possible, the Department is working to process the video in date order.

Due to the Department’s limited staffing resources, the numerous public records requests related to Occupy Oakland, and the hundreds of hours of Occupy video to review for numerous occupy operations, it will take several months for the Department to complete your request. Video that is not exempt will be provided on or before December 31, 2012.

Sincerely,

Kristin Burgess-Medeiros
Oakland Police Department
Office of Inspector General
455 7th Street, 9th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 238-7097
kburgess@oaklandnet.com

I’ll post again as soon as I hear more! -Justin

jcstearns:

Stop. Arresting. Photographers.

(via digitalnewsgathering)

Oakland May Day, 2012: OPD “Snatch Team” Arrest

After the crowd had been dispersed from 14th & Broadway, fellow livestreamer CourtneyOccupy & Pirate encountered what seems to be one of an undetermined number of roving OPD “snatch teams” prowling the streets of the 510. This may or may not be part of the “new tactics” Chief Jordan planned to roll out for May Day

It’s not strictly illegal to have rocks in your pocket, and the two men standing on the corner didn’t seem to be doing anything more suspicious that dressing in all-black on May Day in Oakland. That seems like sketchy probable cause at face-value.

If OPD had some specific intelligence that they were arresting a specific person for a specific crime, that’s one thing.

But just rolling up on people dressed in all-black, that’s kinda fucked up.

May Day 2012, Oakland, CA (RAW VIDEO)

Here are the raw video segments from the TOL May Day 2012 Broadcast.

All Team Oaktown Live videos are Creative Commons licensed (reuse,remix/non-$/attribution). Any booshwa from YouTube about “Matched Third Party Content” is in dispute as these were all captured at public, newsworthy events and come under “Fair Use”.

Highlight clips to follow.

Oakland May Day 2012 Pt 1/7