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A pivotal week for Bay Area Pro-Palestine action, on the streets and in the courtroom began last Wednesday with an hours-long protest that shut down the San Leandro location of weapons manufacturer L3Harris. The action, organized by healthcare workers and activists opposing the US supported Israeli genocide of Gaza, temporarily

OPD and DVP Admins Outline Failures within Previous OPD and DVP Administrations as Departments Vow to Implement Ceasefire Recommendations On Tuesday, Council members received a Ceasefire audit report and testimony from principals of the California Partnership for Safe Communities [CPSC], the organization that conducted an audit of Oakland’s Ceasefire

Independent Ceasefire Audit Finds Failures in Schaaf Direction and Armstrong Strategy Decisions An independent audit completed last month finds critical failures in the City’s Ceasefire program. The timeline of the program’s worst failures parallel with increases in Oakland’s gun violence that began in 2019. Completing the audit

Oakland Observer will be on winter break for the remainder of December; OO will still have important breaking news as warranted, with Twitter-live reporting for important events as always, but the OO publication will be mostly offline until early January.

Leaked DA Recall Document Reveals Mega-Donor Committee “Reviving the Bay Area” is Subordinate “Team” of SAFE Recall Campaign A leaked SAFE campaign strategy document was made public Friday by “Protect the Win”, the campaign opposing the recall of District Attorney Pamela Price. Brenda Grisham, the ostensible principal officer of the

Schaaf-Era 9-1-1 Hiring Fail Revealed Months After Resolution A Schaaf administration hiring failure with serious repercussions for Oakland’s 9-1-1 staffing was the focus of a report initially requested by Janani Ramachandran at a December 5th City Council meeting. Ramachandran had requested the report as early as September. The report

Also: Fixed Wing Aircraft Surveillance Cams; Safe Work Zone Ordinance at Council; 1st Q Projections Show Oakland Under Water, Lower Revenue, OPD-Driven Expenditure Overage; OPD Has Same Number of Cops After Academy Graduation as Before it Started