OaktownLive
Team OaktownLive consists of Pirate (Camera-Monkey, Raconteur) and Lexica (Base Control, Social Stream Mod, Voice-of-Reason).
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TOL will be Live & Direct from the pro-Oaksterdam/anti-Federal-Raids protest in Oakland, CA this 4/20 starting just before 11am:
Galvanized rather than defeated by the recent federal actions in Oakland, California and throughout the state, activists are staging a protest and a film festival in the town known as Oaksterdam this Friday, April 20.
Supporters will gather at 11 AM at the Federal Building in Oakland (1301 Clay St.) to protest the federal attack on Oaksterdam and medical cannabis. At 12 PM we will go on the march to make our views known to the President’s campaign. Participants are invited to drop by the Oaksterdam Student Union, 1915 Broadway for refreshments after 1 PM…
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.
Oaksterdam Raid - Andrew DeAngelo & the OPD Riot Line
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, Andrew DeAngelo of Harborside Health Center addresses the OPD riot line, imploring them to side with the City of Oakland and not to help the Feds.
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 - Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan
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,Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan appears with Dale Sky Jones of Oaksterdam University to speak about Oaksterdam, the legally regulated and taxed dispensaries in Oakland, and and why they are not the sources of the violent crime epidemic the city is seeing.
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 - Steve Deangelo of Harborside Health Center
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, Pirate speaks with Steve DeAngelo of Harborside Health Center about the raids, and what the Feds real target above and beyond Richard Lee is.
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 - Pirate’s Editorial: “THIS IS BULLSHIT”
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, Pirate editorializes about cannabis, Oakland, gun violence, drugs, and the general bullshitstorm that was the Fed raids against Richard Lee and Oaksterdam.
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 - Community Protest Doobie
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, we see one of the MANY community protest doobies openly being smoked and passed around in defiance of the Feds.
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 - Senior Citizen blocks the DEA vehicles with his WALKER!
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, protesters attempt to block the DEA from leaving with University records. AMong them a senior citizen with a MARINES logo on his jacket repeatedly jams hims walker up against the tires opf the DEA vehicle attempting to leave.
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.
