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Oakland Council Votes for Port-Only DAC, March 5, 2014: Full Video & City Resolution

For the history books, here's the full 5-hour video of ...

For the history books, here's the full 5-hour video of the Oakland City Council discussion on Phase II development of the Domain Awareness Center from March 4, 2014. One hundred and forty-nine public speaker's cards were turned in prior to the meeting. Public comment was unanimous against a city-wide DAC. Council members, after having revealed on February 18 an interest in reigning in the expansive surveillance system that city staffers have pushed, followed through by passing a resolution at about 1am on March 5 to proceed with a scaled-down Port-only version of the DAC. The final vote was 4 Ayes - Brooks, Kalb, Reid, Kernighan - and 4 Noes - Gallo, Gibson McElhaney, Kaplan, Schaaf. Mayor Quan's Aye vote broke the tie. (Text of the passed Port-only DAC resolution is below.)

S.F. Rally in Solidarity with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Process

Excerpts from a rally held on February 17, 2014, in ...

Excerpts from a rally held on February 17, 2014, in San Francisco, CA. It features excerpted comments by Mazda Majidi, of International ANSWER Coalition, and Carolina Morales, of the Center for Political Education.

Malachi Muncy

Meike Capps-Schubert

Lori Hurlebaus

Panel Discussion at Pop-Up GI Coffeehouse 2/22/14

Panel discussion from Saturday night. Video highlights: Alex Bacon (5:35); ...

Panel discussion from Saturday night. Video highlights: Alex Bacon (5:35); Malachi Muncy (5:59); Meike Capps-Schubert (6:12); Lori Hurlebaus (5:42); (almost) complete audio (1:06:04) Alex Bacon

At UCSC Rally, Students Continue to Seek Napolitano's Resignation and Justice for Workers

Students rallied at UC Santa Cruz on February 26 to ...

Students rallied at UC Santa Cruz on February 26 to continue to protest the hiring of Janet Napolitano as president of the University of California system. "We say no to Napolitano, yes to worker demands," organizers stated in an announcement for the event where students also expressed solidarity with UC Service Workers represented by AFSCME 3299, who will be striking statewide on March 3-7. [Top video: Demonstration at Kerr Hall]

UC Could Try to Remove Redwood Grove in March

UC Berkeley is planning to cut down a grove of ...

UC Berkeley is planning to cut down a grove of 16 redwood trees as soon as March. The redwood trees behind Soda Hall, on Ridge Road and Le Roy Avenue are going to be replaced with the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, a privately funded tech design lab paid for by the CEO and Chairperson of the Board of Qualcomm Paul Jacobs. Qualcomm has representation on the UC Regents, through Sherry Lansing, who is both a regent and on the Qualcomm board of directors.

Pop-Up GI Coffeehouse

Brief report of Fri/Sat event welcoming GI/veterans' rights activists on ...

Brief report of Fri/Sat event welcoming GI/veterans' rights activists on West Coast tour. Interviews: Meike Capps-Schubert (2:53); Malachi Muncy (2:41)

Oakland City Council and 76 Members of Public Debate the DAC, February 18, 2014

For the history books, here's the full 4-hour video of ...

For the history books, here's the full 4-hour video of the Oakland City Council discussion on the Domain Awareness Center from Feb 18, 2014. In the end, the Council did not vote on the City Resolution before them, which was to approve Schneider Electric as the contractor to build out Phase 2 of the DAC, or to give City Administrator Deanna Santana the authority to select a contractor on her own. Instead, after listening to seventy-six speaker's cards worth of public comment -- intelligent, passionate, and unanimous against the DAC -- the Council did an about face from previous related votes in support of the DAC. A majority of council members indicated an interest in reigning in the expansive, privacy-invading surveillance system that city staffers have pushed, seeming to want to limit the scope of the DAC to covering the Port of Oakland only. The next City Council vote on the Domain Awareness Center is scheduled for March 4, 2014.