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11am Rally
Amphitheater of Oscar Grant Plaza (formerly Frank Ogawa Plaza)
14th and Broadway, Downtown Oakland12 noon March
Through Downtown & around the north side of LakeWe live in a world where unemployment and staggering levels of debt are the new normal, where poverty and homelessness are met by police violence and incarceration. The entire global economy is broken, and politicians in the US and elsewhere remain powerless to do anything about it. It’s time to take power into our own hands, to occupy the spaces from which we have been excluded and reclaim everything that has been stolen from us.
Come down and show support for your fellow 99%!
11am Rally
Amphitheater of Oscar Grant Plaza (formerly Frank Ogawa Plaza)
14th and Broadway, Downtown Oakland12 noon March
Through Downtown & around the north side of LakeWe live in a world where unemployment and staggering levels of debt are the new normal, where poverty and homelessness are met by police violence and incarceration. The entire global economy is broken, and politicians in the US and elsewhere remain powerless to do anything about it. It’s time to take power into our own hands, to occupy the spaces from which we have been excluded and reclaim everything that has been stolen from us.
marching from downtown to the farmers market! if you havent come to check out occupy oakland, this is a great chance!
(Source: occupyproject)
The Stone Wolf is gone. She ran away this afternoon and is nowhere in the neighborhood. It’s unlikely for her not to return home. If you see her or hear anything, please call Gloria (510)672-9776 or Ben (510)228-9781. We will ask no questions, offer a large reward, we’ll just do anything to get her back. She is the best friend of my life. Please help me stop sobbing. Pass this along. She did not have her collar on, she answers to Meisha. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE….
This absolute DARLING of a dog disappeared this afternoon from the 5th Avenue Marina neighborhood of Oakland. She belongs to one of my dearest friends and it would mean the world to me if any Bay Area folks would spread the word to try and help find her.
She is the absolute epitome of sweetness and light, and that should mean something coming from my chronically embittered ass. She’s never gone missing before and her family is absolutely devastated.
She answers to Meisha (MEE-sha) and has the sweetest disposition of any dog I’ve ever met. Please help us get our friend back.
Oakland, Chinatown
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Oakland Museum
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Oakland
E. 14th by the I-880
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Oakland, Downtown
(View from the Sather Tower at UCB)
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Is There Really “No There There” in Oakland?
You know how some places have an image that everybody takes as a given, despite never really knowing why?
Well, when you look for notable quotes about Oakland, the one that comes first is the famous one from the even more famous Gertrude Stein: ”There is no there there.”
Whenever I mention that Ask.com’s Headquarter is in Oakland, I hear that phrase. Thanks for that, Gertrude. However, the funny thing is that Stein’s famous quote is actually very misattributed. See what happened was, the aging Stein came back on a lecture tour to Oakland in the 30’s and she looked for the house she grew up in. But when she got there, she couldn’t find the house. Her home was gone. Hence, there was no more there there. Look it up, it’s in her book “Everybody’s Autobiography”.
But whether she meant it or not, the phrase stuck. Nevertheless, even if she had meant it, it’s not true - here is why: Oakland has always been ‘busy’. First came the railroad, which required a port, which quickly became the largest on the West Coast and is still one of the busiest in the country. Shipping magnate Kaiser developed a worker medical system which turned into Kaiser Permanente, still headquartered here today. San Franciscoans fled to Oakland and never returned after the big earthquake in 1906 and worked in the massive Chrysler, Durant and Chevy factories. In fact, they called Oakland the “Detroit of the West” by the 1932.
Impressed? No? Here’s a different quote about Oakland for you: “The best restaurant in San Francisco is in Oakland”, wrote Herb Caen referring to Trader Vic’s which started here in 1932. Which is by the way where they invented the Mai Tai.
Oakland is a liberal and creative place, maybe that’s why artists like MC Hammer, Tupac Shakur and En Vogue, who all grew up here, went on to be huge successes. Need more? How about Clint Eastwood, Bruce Lee, Tom Hanks, Sidney Howard, Jack London and, of course, Gertrude Stein.
If that’s no “there”, then what is?
Robbie Waeschenfelder, Director, Brand Marketing
