surveillance Oakland passes groundbreaking municipal law requiring citizen oversight of local surveillance Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Dynamicland: a collaborative programming environment inside a whole building that you modify by doodling on paper Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Oakland elementary school students resist Caltrans' insistence on taking copyright to their mural Cory Doctorow
music Oakland Ghost Ship benefit concert 12/14 with Primus, Rogue Wave, Dan Deacon, Tycho, more David Pescovitz
police Though crime happens everywhere, predictive policing tools send cops to poor/black neighborhoods Cory Doctorow
corruption Oakland mayor denies firing police chief over officers who statutorily raped teen sex-worker Cory Doctorow
corruption Man gasps dying words into officer's bodycam: "They're killing me right now… I can't breathe." Cory Doctorow
racism Undercover agent pulls gun on protesters and photographer during Oakland protest of police killings Xeni Jardin
corruption Comic explains problems with Oakland's Domain Awareness Center surveillance plan Cory Doctorow
corruption Oakland PD's surveillance center's primary purpose is fighting protesters, not crime Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Heather Gold's "I Look like An Egg, but I Identify as a Cookie" interactive baking comedy comes to the East Bay (free tix!) Cory Doctorow
law Oakland's chief of police blackholed all emails mentioning "Occupy," trashed official condemnations and sanctions unread Cory Doctorow