[Translate] If we are going to get any serious community policing and divert our young offenders into any kind of restorative justice programs, we need to stop wasting our time with our community-policing-through-regressive-parcel-tax Measure Y. http://www.measurey.org/ We can also do without Measure B that we had to pass later to keep from losing the whole thing...
Author Archives: DonMacleay
[Translate] Friday my friend had her children taken away because she attended a picnic in Mosswood Park in support of the Occupy movement here in Oakland, California. I read the “emergency protective order” myself, minus the actual declaration which they did not include, and she is not allowed to see her children and will not even get a day in court until April...
[Translate] How many cities have a boarded up convention center? I know a lot of cities in the USA are just like Oakland and have boarded up businesses, boarded up homes and abandoned properties in them. The new American Gothic includes the homeless encampment in the freeway landscaping and the mentally ill on the sidewalks. But a whole convention center? How do we...
[Translate] Occupy is a movement, not an organization The “straw man” is one of the mainstays of dishonest argument. It is the art of making your opponent out to be something that he or she is not, and then arguing against that “straw man” depiction instead of arguing against what your opponent is really saying. This is what is being done to the Occupy movement....
[Translate] No more 4-4 behind closed doors. The last time we discussed our two year Oakland City budget, meaning about six months ago, we heard nothing from our city council members for several weeks after the mayor put her proposal forward. Then 4 came up with one plan, and another 4 came up with another plan. Mayor Quan cast the tie breaking vote. She chose the...
[Translate] Re: A Recall is Divisive and Harmful As you may know, the Greens have not yet taken a position on this recall effort. As far as I know, we are the only group to invite both sides to come and speak to one of our meetings. And as many remember, we did advise voting for Quan as second choice because we found her the lesser evil. That thought is no longer...
[Translate] Some questions and comments about Occupy Oakland Questions: Is it better now? Is the area around city hall safer? Cleaner? Is business back up? Are there less homeless at 14th and B-way? What was the cooperation about? Was it nationwide? Why? If this was a local sanitation and public safety issue, then why did we need to coordinate with so many other mayors...
[Translate] Don Macleay Zennie Abraham note: this is special to Zennie62.com from Former Oakland Green Party Candidate For Mayor of Oakland and Zennie62 Blogger Don Macleay. The letter is to Joseph Haraburda, the Director of The Oakland Metropolitan Chamber Of Commerce, and regarding Occupy Oakland. To Joseph Haraburda, I am very sorry to have to do this, but...
