OaktownLive
Team OaktownLive consists of Pirate (Camera-Monkey, Raconteur) and Lexica (Base Control, Social Stream Mod, Voice-of-Reason).
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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
Oaksterdam Raid - Arrest of Jose Gutierrez (beginning to end).
On Monday, April 2, 2012, agents from the DEA, IRS, and U.S. Marshals Service raided Oaksterdam University and several other businesses associated with Oakland cannabis activist Richard Lee. The Oakland Police Department was not notified in advance of the raids and did not participate in them, but did provide crowd control as the morning progressed and increasing numbers of angry locals opposed to the raid arrived at 19th and Broadway.
In this clip, several federal agents come to evacuate other DEA agents who have locked themselves inside Coffeshop BlueSky when confronted with an angry crowd of Oakland cannabis supporters.
A shoving match, instigated by a Fed making his way to the door, resulted in KPFA correspondent Jose Gutierrez at the bottom of a Federal dog-pile and under arrest. In the scuffle, a US Marshall is accused of hitting Oakland livestreamer Bela Eiko in the face.
Transparency statement: Clipped from the longer raw video; captions, title, and end text added; otherwise unedited.
Apologies for the way the video freezes at times; downtown Oakland is something of a concrete canyon and signal quality can be irregular. We’re working toward upgrading our equipment.
Oaksterdam Raid - DEA Agents break the window from INSIDE Coffeeshop Blue Sky.
On Monday, April 2, 2012, agents from the DEA, IRS, and U.S. Marshals Service raided Oaksterdam University and several other businesses associated with Oakland cannabis activist Richard Lee. The Oakland Police Department was not notified in advance of the raids and did not participate in them, but did provide crowd control as the morning progressed and increasing numbers of angry locals opposed to the raid arrived at 19th and Broadway.
In this clip, OPD clears a path for DEA vehicles leaving with confiscated Oaksterdam University records as Oaklanders, including one in a wheelchair, attempt to block the way. We also see officer J. Low with his baton out, pushing protesters out of the way of the DEA vehicles, but his personal camera is off. When it’s on (see in passing on Officer Nguyen) the green is exposed.
Transparency statement: Clipped from the longer raw video; captions, title, and end text added; otherwise unedited.
Apologies for the way the video freezes at times; downtown Oakland is something of a concrete canyon and signal quality can be irregular. We’re working toward upgrading our equipment.
Oaksterdam Raid - Protester in a wheelchair blocks DEA vehicles
On Monday, April 2, 2012, agents from the DEA, IRS, and U.S. Marshals Service raided Oaksterdam University and several other businesses associated with Oakland cannabis activist Richard Lee. The Oakland Police Department was not notified in advance of the raids and did not participate in them, but did provide crowd control as the morning progressed and increasing numbers of angry locals opposed to the raid arrived at 19th and Broadway.
In this clip, OPD clears a path for DEA vehicles leaving with confiscated Oaksterdam University records as Oaklanders, including one in a wheelchair, attempt to block the way. We also see officer J. Low with his baton out, pushing protesters out of the way of the DEA vehicles, but his personal camera is off. When it’s on (see in passing on Officer Nguyen) the green is exposed.
Transparency statement: Clipped from the longer raw video; captions, title, and end text added; otherwise unedited.
Apologies for the way the video freezes at times; downtown Oakland is something of a concrete canyon and signal quality can be irregular. We’re working toward upgrading our equipment.
The Interfaith Tent at Occupy Oakland is holding a 3-day Occupy Faith conference in the Bay Area. As part of that conference, the I.T. will be holding a 6pm interfaith service at Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland tonight, march 21st.
The tent will be declared a “Legal Sanctuary” for anyone given a stay-away/”no loitering” order by the city who wishes to attend the interfaith service at the Plaza and the General Assembly afterwards. Clergy members will be on hand to offer escort to/from the tent to the edge of the 300yd exclusion zone if necessary.
Many attendees of to tonight’s event are expected to be wearing masks events so as to offer camouflage of numbers for possible stay-aways who plan to come.
Team Oaktown Live expects to be live and direct from approximately 5:15. Not expecting to stay for the entire GA. But one never knows.
BIAS NOTICE: Team Oaktown Live believe that the Oakland stay-away orders are bullshit and fundamental violations of the rights to peaceably assemble. The Plaza has, from the very beginning, been a place of gather and organizing for Occupy Oakland. It also directly abuts Oakland City Hall.
The orders, given to people with misdemeanor charges that occurred blocks and blocks away from the Plaza, are specifically designed to target political activism/free speech/lawful assembly, including attending Oakland City Council meetings. The boundary is also ill-defined, leading to a somewhat subjective risk.
TOL fully supports Interfaith Tent’s Sanctuary action and the tactic of a “Mask Bloc” in nonviolent defiance of this abuse of official power trying to squelch free speech. TOL does not consider hunting for possibly masked stay-aways in the crowd to be newsworthy.
On the other hand, if any of the Stay-Away Club openly accept the offer of escort/sanctuary and defy the OPD to arrest them, Sunshine Bloc would consider filming that to a gesture of solidarity/publicity, to show the world, live and direct, just what the fuck Oakland is trying to deal with regarding free speech.
And of course, if OPD wish to make a big deal of things…
Live and Direct from Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza, ~5:15 PDT.
TOL will be #LiveAndDirect from tonight’s #OccupyOakland’s #FTP march ~8:15pm PST #OCAM #OO #SunshineBloc http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oaktownlive
The epic rain of the last few days seems to be backing off. Unfortunately, the stabilizer Pirate ordered arrived without an essential part, and the company we ordered it from hasn’t called back like they said they would. Gotta write a “shocked, appalled, and dismayed” email. So Pirate’s Mighty Bamboo Pole of Transparency is still on duty.
Happy St Patrick’s Day, everyone.
Pirate & Lexica
Team Oaktown Live
#Nonviolence #LittleBrother #Gandhi #MLK #FilmThePolice #SunshineBloc #Occupy “Nonviolent & Proud”
If Gandhi had had an iPhone the British would have left India two years sooner.
Little Brother is Watching You Big Brother.
Keep that in mind Majors and Police Chiefs,
As you decide how to react to concerned citizens freely assembling.
Occupy Love. Occupy Truth. Occupy the Streets.
As mobile-phone CJs who are also students of Kingian Nonviolence, this cartoon gets massive respect from Team Oaktown Live. Great work, Jay!
