OaktownLive

CITIZEN JOURNALISM LIVE AND DIRECT FROM OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA (AND BEYOND). Team OaktownLive consists of Pirate (Camera-Monkey, Raconteur) and Lexica (Base Control, Social Stream Mod, Voice-of-Reason). This work by Team Oaktown Live is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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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

-What is Idle No More?

-Why does Chief Theresa Spence's  hunger strike matter?

-"Hunger strike by Chief Theresa Spence against new government legislation and long term denial of indigenous rights sparks nation wide movement"

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Live & Direct from Oakland, Ca w/ Dr. Bernard Lafayette

This Thuirsday Sep 20th Team Oaktown Live will be livestreaming An Evening With Dr. Lafayette, co-author of the Kingian Nonviolence Curriculum and Chair of the Positive Peace Warrior Network:

An Evening w/ Dr. Lafayette

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Celebrating the International Day of Peace

An Evening with Dr. Bernard Lafayette

Thursday, September 20th 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Humanist Hall 390 27th St., Oakland CA

Recently, there have been growing interest in the Bay Area around Kingian Nonviolence.  Since January of this year, we have held 13 two-day workshops for well over 350 people in the Bay Area alone!

This includes five workshops inside the San Bruno County Jail and workshops for Oakland youth.  We have partnered with many important Bay Area communities, including theEast Bay Meditation Center, theOakland Peace Center,BAY-Peace,Youth Spirit Artworks,Youth Alive, various Occupy communities and more.

We are honored to continue to work to fulfill our mission, and help Dr. Bernard Lafayette help fulfill his promise to Coretta Scott King: to continue to spread Dr. King’s philosophy with the highest integrity.

We are also excited to announce that Dr. Lafayette will finally be coming to the Bay Area!!!  Please join us on the eve of the International Day of Peace for this exciting event.

UPDATE: Program will also feature performances from local youth who have attended a Kingian Nonviolence workshop, and a video presentation of PPWN’s national work with youth.

Co-Sponsors of this event include: YES!, Youth Spirit Artworks, BAY-Peace, PeaceWorkers US, the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, and EndBigBanks.org.  If your organization is interested in becoming a co-sponsor ($50 fee), please send an email to [email protected].

Dr. Lafayette will also be leading a two-day introductory workshop in Kingian Nonviolence that weekend, the 22nd and 23rd.  CLICK HEREfor more information and to register.

Please help us spread the word about these two events!!!  Hope to see you all there!!!

Go to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oaktownlive# for the stream

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TOL Standing Down for May to Regroup & Process

Just wanted to let people know that for the rest of the month of May, Team Oaktown Live will not be streaming much if at all.

Partially it's because Pirate will be on the road working & just plain won't be available. On top of that, TOL also has a WHOLE LOT OF FOOTAGE from the last several months that we've hardly had time to process, in particular from May Day. We've got a lot of editing to do of a lot of looong footage from which we want to make highlight clips that people can actually go back and watch.

Regarding livestreaming: the ability to connect live video of newsworthy events to the world is a powerful tool. When somebody tells Pirate that they were watching the stream earlier and came out to participate in person, or when a commenter on the social stream says they've learned things about Oakland they didn't know before, it feels like we're making a difference, even if it's a small one.

But streaming is also quite an expensive tool right now. Part of TOL's downtime will be to spend some time considering how we want to continue with this "Oakland-based citizen journalism" project that we feel called to, and how to do it without letting it eat up such a huge chunk of the TOL household budget.

One of the new tools TOL is looking to add to the CJ toolkit is Signal. It's being called "The Instagram for Citizen Journalists" and looks like it's got a lot of potential. We've signed up as beta testers and look forward to its roll out.

Love, peace, justice, compassion, meaningful life pursuits, and generally all good things to everyone everywhere, nobody excluded…

Pirate & Lexica

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Livestream cops, give us all your May Day movies

Oakland cops were livestreaming on May Day! Too bad we couldn’t watch!

So, the other day I filed a Public Records Act with request with the cops asking for their footage. Here’s their response:

Dear Mr. Beck: This is in response to your public records request #9559, dated May 7, 2012, submitted to the Oakland Police Department asking for all archived livestream video footage recorded by the Oakland Police Department on May 1, 2012. The Department is in the process of reviewing all video related to the Occupy Oakland activities, including May 1, 2012.  Video must be reviewed and in some cases redacted.  Some video may be exempt pursuant to California Government Code 6254(f) as investigation records or investigatory files related to an open and ongoing investigation.  To the extent possible, the Department is working to process the video in date order.   Due to the Department’s limited staffing resources, the numerous public records requests related to Occupy Oakland, and the hundreds of hours of Occupy video to review for numerous occupy operations, it will take several months for the Department to complete your request.  Video that is not exempt will be provided on or before December 31, 2012. Sincerely, Kristin Burgess-Medeiros Oakland Police Department Office of Inspector General 455 7th Street, 9th Floor Oakland, CA 94607

[phone] [email protected]

I’ll post again as soon as I hear more! -Justin

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Stop. Arresting. Photographers.

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Oakland May Day, 2012: OPD "Snatch Team" Arrest

After the crowd had been dispersed from 14th & Broadway, fellow livestreamer CourtneyOccupy & Pirate encountered what seems to be one of an undetermined number of roving OPD "snatch teams" prowling the streets of the 510. This may or may not be part of the "new tactics" Chief Jordan planned to roll out for May Day

It's not strictly illegal to have rocks in your pocket, and the two men standing on the corner didn't seem to be doing anything more suspicious that dressing in all-black on May Day in Oakland. That seems like sketchy probable cause at face-value.

If OPD had some specific intelligence that they were arresting a specific person for a specific crime, that's one thing.

But just rolling up on people dressed in all-black, that's kinda fucked up.

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May Day 2012, Oakland, CA (RAW VIDEO)

Here are the raw video segments from the TOL May Day 2012 Broadcast.

All Team Oaktown Live videos are Creative Commons licensed (reuse,remix/non-$/attribution). Any booshwa from YouTube about "Matched Third Party Content" is in dispute as these were all captured at public, newsworthy events and come under "Fair Use".

Highlight clips to follow.

Oakland May Day 2012 Pt 1/7

Oakland May Day 2012 pt 2/7

Oakland May Day 2012 pt 3/7

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Oakland May Day 2012, pt 4/7

Oakland May Day 2012 pt 5/7

Oakland May Day 2012, pt 6/7

Oakland May Day 2012, pt 7/7

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A protester yells at Oakland Police as they arrest a May Day protestor at the corner of Broadway and 14th streets.

Pirate seems to have his power cable (?) between his teeth.

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Pirate (2nd from right) filming May Day.

Protesters lock arms as they yell at the police on Broadway and 14th st. Occupy Oakland called for a general strike in downtown Oakland, with numerous marches and actions planned for May Day, a traditional labor and workers day. Oakland, CA. Tuesday May 1st, 2012.

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Pirate (again, far left) filming during the May Day events in Oakland.

A protester is detained by police during a rally for International Worker's Day outside the Alameda County Court House on May 1, 2012 in Oakland, California. Demonstrators have called for nation-wide May Day strikes to protest economic inequality and political corruption.

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Pirate (far left, with Mighty Bamboo Pole of Transparency) live from May Day 2012.

Protesters celebrate after one was released by police after writing with chalk on a Wells Fargo Bank.

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May 1—Report arrests of journalists: #journarrest

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May Day 2012, TOL will be Live & Direct from Oakland, Ca. Plan is to start early, go as long as the batteries hold out. Won't be live streaming constantly all day, but both Pirate and Lexica will be tweeting all day long.

Watch this space for further updates.

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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...

Http://www.Ustream.tv/channel/OaktownLive

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Really support the coverage you presented on the Oaksterdam raids, that speech by Andrew DeAngelo was really inspiring. Great job guys.

Thanks a lot. We're planning on being live & direct from Oaksterdam University at 11am on 4/20 for the protest rally.

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GoPro’s Wifi BacPac, the winner of the Well-liked Mechanics 2012 CES Editors Option Award, will be available for sale at Pointofviewcameras.com when it is released. The wifi BacPac attaches to the back of GoPro HD Hero 2 cameras enabling your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to live stream through it is built in wifi network. With the GoPro App users can see the live video output of the camera as nicely as control camera settings. Moreover, the wireless accessory can manage up to 50 separate cameras with the Wifi Remote kit for extraordinarily sharp circular sweeping shots.

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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.