2024 Political Assessment – A Year of Manufactured Doom and Gloom Polarized by the Ruling Class
In order to know where you are doing and how to plan you need to assess your current political environment. This is the 2024 political assessment.
The Manipulation of Elections: How the Ruling Class Weaponizes “Agents of Chaos”
A similar pattern appears to create a “doom loop” narrative in Bay Area elections and across the country using local networks of Tech Billionaires, Real Estate and Landlord Lobbyists, and Coal industry investment.Using “Agents of Chaos,” social media influencers, and news media, one could call it the Doom Factory.
The Role of Recall Leaders: Unmasking Narratives and Identity Reductionism
With endless streams of doom loop articles and “poverty porn” videos on social media connecting the dispossessed class to crime and business closures that were failing due to changes in consumerism before the pandemic, ridiculous political advocates of the ruling class exhaust the public.
Coalition Demanding Recall Advocates Respect Their Vote Grows
Within a cozy church in deep East Oakland, a diverse anti-recall coalition was forming on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Since then, a movement has matured over the months, countering the recall narrative against Alameda Country District Attorney Pamela Price and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who faced calls for a recall immediately after taking office.
Media Literacy on the Framing Of Mayor Sheng Thao Recall
Support for the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has been strong in media presence, but is it strong among Oakland voters?
Oakland Activist Kenzie Smith Was the Man on the Moon
What We Can Learn from a Community Activist Who Died Young Suffering from PTSD and Mental Health When...
Breaking Chains for Change – One Family’s Fellowship to Empower Communities
Frank Smith was once a man of the streets of Oakland. He had a reputation as "Frank the Bank," but he turned into "Frank the Blessed" when he dedicated his life to his faith, his wife, and his children.
Art Blooms in Oakland After Chaotic Protest Nights End
If silence is violence, the residents of Oakland have an answer for that; art. Throughout Saturday artists of all ages and ethnicities took their paint, paintbrushes and spray paint to claim boarded windows in Downtown Oakland as forms of beautiful expression.
George Floyd Protest in Oakland Reflects Conflicting Intensions
Friday night's Oakland protest of the killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police had a different—pent energy—than any other protest I've ever been to.
Moms4Housing Claims for One Home Taught Housing Organizers Valuable Lessons
The right to housing is a human right. Yet, in Oakland, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person. A group of homeless moms, Moms 4 Housing, organized to take over a vacant home in West Oakland and used this statistic to wedge their way into a vacant home in West Oakland.
