Tagged: Oakland
AN OAKLAND NONPROFIT FOUNDER’S HISTORY OF FAR-RIGHT ALIGNMENT
by MARK MISOSHNIK | March 15, 2024
Profile of Seneca Scott, head of Neighbors Together Oakland, who has a history of transphobic and antisemitic statements and flirtations with the far right.
ANTIVAXXERS DROWNED OUT BY DRUM CIRCLE IN OAKLAND, CROWD STREET CORNERS IN DANVILLE
by JAMES CROXTON | MARK MISOSHNIK | January 24, 2022
This weekend, antivaxxers held “End the Mandate” rallies around the country—the largest of which was in Washington D.C. on Sunday. The D.C. rally only drew a few thousand people despite a large stage and highly organized activist infrastructure and aggressive outreach. The events around the country were notable for their attendees’ antisemitism—both in the classical […]
OAKLAND RAGES OVER SHOOTING OF JACOB BLAKE
by JUNGHO KIM | August 28, 2020
Tensions were high as hundreds of people marched through Oakland on Wednesday evening to protest against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 23. Speakers led the crowd in chanting the names of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Oakland’s own Oscar Grant who was killed by BART police in 2008. Several […]
BMWS ON FIRE OFF THE SHOULDER OF TELEGRAPH AVE
by ABNER HÄUGE | June 13, 2020
I was kind of disappointed the ‘ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD’ meme’s gone a little stale but hey, with the autonomous zone in Seattle and now I guess in Chicago, Ashville and Nashville the mood is less destroy everything bad and more let’s create the new world already. Just so I spell it out now by […]