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Revolution Books Stands Up to the Alt-Right
BTW For the past month, Revolution Books in Berkeley, California, has been attacked by alt-right activists via physical protests, negative reviews online, and harassing phone calls. However, the store is standing strong against efforts to intimidate its … |
Oakland, CA, October 23, 2016… Oakland Zoo has raised over $126,000 for animals in the wild in the past year through ‘Quarters for Conservation,’ an ongoing program where 25¢ of every ticket sold is designated for the Zoo’s conservation partners worldwide. The contribution total is a 20% increase over last year’s efforts.
| Patch.com Berkeley, CA – BREAKING: Keep an eye out for Lala Wallace, 74, who suffers dementia and may be walking streets of Oakland or Berkeley. |
Oakland City Council Passes Resolution Opposing Offshore Fracking, Drilling
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
OAKLAND, Calif.— The Oakland City Council today approved a resolution opposing new fossil fuel drilling off the California coast and fracking in existing offshore oil and gas wells. “Offshore drilling threatens our state’s environment and economy. We …
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Oakland Sharing The Vision: Timeline of Recent Oakland City Administrators Since 1998
Oakland Sharing The Vision (OSV) was an effort to bring 1,000 Oaklanders together to form goals and objectives that were to be a path to civic growth. What Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf calls the ‘secret sauce” of Oakland, what our city is, is in large degree reflected in the work of OSV.
On September 29th, California Governor Jerry Brown put pen to the paper of what he called “15 good bills” designed to respond to the state’s affordable housing crisis. But will they really help Oakland’s affordability problem? They are as follows according to the press release from the Governor’s Office:
[caption id="attachment_12521" align="alignnone" width="277"] Oakland City Council[/caption]OAKLAND, CA (Press release) – Oakland Councilmembers Brooks, Kaplan and Gallo introduces a Resolution supporting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals that was put in place by President Obama to allow immigrant minors who entered the United States illegally, but who had been largely raised in the United States to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.
Libby Schaaf is officially running for re-election as Mayor of Oakland – not new news at all. Let’s take a look at where the 50th Mayor of Oakland, and first white woman to run the City of Oakland, stands in her quest to retain her seat as of this moment in time. Preliminarily, one has to say she looks pretty good, particularly from a fund-raising and competitors standpoint.
