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I wrote about the genuinely galling Oakland City Council meeting I attended yesterday, where our the councilmembers almost unanimously voted to continue a dangerous countract with FLOCK surveillance.
Thank you to @sarahgailey.bsky.social who helped me parse my anger into something readable.
Thank you to @sarahgailey.bsky.social who helped me parse my anger into something readable.
"He rolled his eyes, pulled faces, refused to make eye contact with those addressing him directly, had numerous side conversations, and simply walked away (at one point with food)." @maggietokudahall.bsky.social reports back from yesterday's Flock debacle: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/whipped-votes/
Whipped Votes
Flock Deliberations, Oakland City Council Meeting, Yesterday
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I wrote about the genuinely galling Oakland City Council meeting I attended yesterday, where our the councilmembers almost unanimously voted to continue a dangerous countract with FLOCK surveillance.
Thank you to @sarahgailey.bsky.social who helped me parse my anger into something readable.
Thank you to @sarahgailey.bsky.social who helped me parse my anger into something readable.
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The People’s Answer to ICE: Crowdsourcing Community Defense. People Over Papers' site map offers a glimpse into the informal media people use to warn neighbors when systems of formal confirmation can't match the need: bayareacurrent.com/the-peoples-...
October 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The People’s Answer to ICE: Crowdsourcing Community Defense. People Over Papers' site map offers a glimpse into the informal media people use to warn neighbors when systems of formal confirmation can't match the need: bayareacurrent.com/the-peoples-...
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The @bayareacurrent.bsky.social launch is even better than expected. Check out this fantastic article on the "abandoned" Greyhound bus station in Oakland. bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
Why Venture Capitalists Are Leaving Oakland’s Iconic Greyhound Station to Decay
Oakland’s downtown Greyhound bus station was a center of working-class life for decades. Now it's owned by the “Uber of buses.”
bayareacurrent.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The @bayareacurrent.bsky.social launch is even better than expected. Check out this fantastic article on the "abandoned" Greyhound bus station in Oakland. bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
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Oakland's historic Greyhound bus station exemplifies how venture capital works: the more our cities decay, the more they profit. The iconic station has been left to rot — like so many other spaces in Oakland — in the gamble for future profits.
bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
Why Venture Capitalists Are Leaving Oakland’s Iconic Greyhound Station to Decay
Oakland’s downtown Greyhound bus station was a center of working-class life for decades. Now it's owned by the “Uber of buses.”
bayareacurrent.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Oakland's historic Greyhound bus station exemplifies how venture capital works: the more our cities decay, the more they profit. The iconic station has been left to rot — like so many other spaces in Oakland — in the gamble for future profits.
bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
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It’s a BAD DAY for the Bay’s tech and real estate oligarchs, and a VERY GOOD DAY for those of us who pay rent, work shifts, jump the turnstile, argue with the CalFresh guy, and wait forever for the god damn bus. Why? Because
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
Why We're Launching Bay Area Current
Because workers deserve everything.
bayareacurrent.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It’s a BAD DAY for the Bay’s tech and real estate oligarchs, and a VERY GOOD DAY for those of us who pay rent, work shifts, jump the turnstile, argue with the CalFresh guy, and wait forever for the god damn bus. Why? Because
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...