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#blacklivesmatter This #PEANUTSBBQ t-shirt shows Marcie of 'The Peanuts' gang as the BBQ snitch Rusty Blazenhoff

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surveillance Oakland passes groundbreaking municipal law requiring citizen oversight of local surveillance Cory Doctorow

music Watch 'The Lyft Rapper' co-create music with his passengers Rusty Blazenhoff

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

fire Search of Oakland's burned Ghost Ship warehouse ends: 36 people died David Pescovitz

class war Though crime happens everywhere, predictive policing tools send cops to poor/black neighborhoods Cory Doctorow

picks Oakland, CA launches ‘See Something, Say Something’ sex work snitch website Xeni Jardin

corruption Oakland mayor denies firing police chief over officers who statutorily raped teen sex-worker Cory Doctorow

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