Coach Drew @coachdrewglobal@mastodon.social
I’m making moves to social.wxcafe.net ! Please connect me at my new home over there
Fedifolks! If you are interested in youth and community development, I would love to connect with you. Especially if you livein Bay Area! Im still struggling with trying to feel like I belong in this space. I cant draw, cant code, but I swear I’m really cool and we should be friends.
“Oakland mayor moved by ICE spokesman's resignation over claims 800 people eluded arrest in NorCal raids”
“Oakland mayor moved by ICE spokesman's resignation over claims 800 people eluded arrest in NorCal raids”
“Transit-village housing in Oakland’s Fruitvale gets going, after years of delays”
“Washington State Becomes First to Pass Law Protecting Net Neutrality”
“HB2282 bars internet service providers in the state from blocking content, applications, or services, or slowing down traffic on the basis of content or whether they got paid to favor certain traffic.”
“Oakland advocates to offer ‘people’s proposal’ for public land use”
Oakland City Councilperson Dan Kalb picks up big endorsement from the Sierra Club in his bid for California State Assembly seat.
My thoughts:
1. I appreciate living in a #sanctuarycity.
2. If you still refer to undocumented humans as “aliens” in 2018, then you are pretty much an asshole.
“While the vast majority of cities in America do cooperate with ICE, others force ICE to assign additional resources to conduct at-large arrests in the community, putting officers, the general public and the aliens at greater risk and increasing the incidence of collateral arrests."
- quote from #ICE spokesman James Schwab
#goodnews #guncontrol #NRA #divestment Show more
“... masculine ideals of audacious bravado, physical strength, hyperheterosexuality, and conspicuous, over-the-top consumption have become an integral part of the aesthetics of black self-assertion and resistance, often to the detriment of black women and queer communities.”
- Dr. Theresa Runstedtler,
author of
Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line
Protest in Oakland over officer-involved death of Sahleem Tindle
http://abc7news.com/protest-in-oakland-over-officer-involved-death-of-sahleem-tindle/3079114/
#28Stories Day 11
The Hunters Point Shipyards
http://28storiesproject.org/11-/
The #28Stories project pushes beyond by celebrating. commemorating, and teaching the stories that aren't being told. By featuring a different story each day of the month, #28Stories challenges us to think beyond what we already know, and learn more about what we've been missing.
#28Stories Day 9: Charlotte Brown
http://28storiesproject.org/9-charlotte-brown/
The #28Stories project pushes beyond by celebrating. commemorating, and teaching the stories that aren't being told. By featuring a different story each day of the month, #28Stories challenges us to think beyond what we already know, and learn more about what we've been missing.
“Artists At Oakland Cannery Say Cannabis Industry Is Pushing Them Out“
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/02/08/artists-oakland-cannery-cannabis-industry/
#28Stories Day 10
William T. Shorey: "The Black Ahab
http://28storiesproject.org/10-william-t-shorey/
The #28Stories project pushes beyond by celebrating. commemorating, and teaching the stories that aren't being told. By featuring a different story each day of the month, #28Stories challenges us to think beyond what we already know, and learn more about what we've been missing.
“Tax to fund Oakland public libraries heads to June ballot”
https://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tax-to-fund-Oakland-public-libraries-heads-to-12559338.php
“New Data from Stanford University Shows Oakland Police Have Dramatically Reduced the Number of Stops of Black People”
“The City of Oakland – one of eight California governments going big-game hunting by suing the energy industry over climate change”
Please consider following me to get schooled in some #blackhistory this month! We started the #28stories project to tel the untold stories!
DAY 1: The 1968 Student Strike for Ethnic Studies at SF State
Does listening to N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton on the way to work count as observing #bhm2018? I say “yes!”
