For several days I have been considering posting on Grand Island Nebraska where Rena Easton was raised. I was going to describe her walking with me on 35th. Avenue in Oakland the day after I saved her. I was watching OPN last night and they did a doc on the first woman sheriff of Portland Oregon, followed by the doc ‘The Force’ and award winning film on the Oakland Police. Libby Schaaf appeared in this film, and I was amazed. She used the term “Toxic macho culture” in regards to the sex scandal involving a seventeen year old prostitute that was passed around in the department. Teenage girls were flocking to Portland to the dance sex scene there. Were these shows addressing the ‘Me Too’?
Libby backs the arts and says she will go to jail protecting the Oakland’s sanctuary. I’m sure Rena voted for Trump, and wants all non-white people out of America. She is a product of where she grew up. I will post on this Tale of Two Cities. How many white folks in Grand Island Nebraska made threats to non-whites and liberals?
Jon Presco
As Northern California braces for a massive impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweep, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf insisted on Wednesday that she was ready to be jailed in order to protect her city’s sanctuary status.
“It is no surprise that the bully in chief is continuing to try to intimidate our most vulnerable residents,” Schaaf told KPIX. “We’re very clear that our values are to protect all of our residents regardless of where we come from. We want to protect families, not tear them apart.”
According to federal court documents obtained by WGCL-TV, Brandon Griesemer, a 19-year-old from a suburb of Detroit, made 22 nuisance phone calls to CNN Center last week. The calls began with Griesemer berating the network as “fake news” and escalated to threats of mass murder.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michigan-man-threatened-gun-down-cnn-employees-report-1077287
https://www.opb.org/programs/oregonexperiencearchive/baldwin/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Schaaf
Schaaf was born in Oakland, California, on November 12, 1965. Growing up in Oakland’s District 4, Schaaf attended Head-Royce School and Skyline High School, both in Oakland. She holds a B.A. in political science from Rollins College and a J.D. from Loyola Law School.[26]
Schaaf is Jewish.[27][28] She lives in Oakland with her husband, Salvatore Fahey, and her children, Dominic and Lena.[29]
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, Mayor Libby Schaaf announced $1.7 million in philanthropic funds to support sustainable, long-term solutions to creating affordable, safe spaces for Oakland’s artists and arts organizations. Though this support has been in development for many months, these funds are especially important and prescient in light of the recent Oakland warehouse fire tragedy.
With funding from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST) — a nonprofit real estate organization — will launch a new financial and technical assistance program to help arts organizations facing displacement. This philanthropic support will seed a capital fund to allow CAST to initiate a real estate acquisition program in Oakland to create permanently affordable, safe spaces for artists and arts organizations. The Mayor also announced additional city staffing to support arts and culture in Oakland.
These investments come at a critical time, as artists and arts organizations are at risk of displacement due to Oakland’s escalating housing and commercial space costs. Today’s announcements represent recommendations of a multi-disciplinary taskforce that Mayor Schaaf convened in 2015 to help stem the displacement of artists and arts organizations from Oakland.
“The arts are at the center of vibrant and diverse communities, and are critical to neighborhood health and well-being, yet artists and cultural organizations are increasingly vulnerable to instability and displacement. This public-private collaboration and investments are aimed at preventing displacement, growing the capacity of the city’s artists and cultural organizations, and enhancing municipal resources for the cultural sector over the long haul,” said Mayor Schaaf.
Oakland is home to hundreds of arts and cultural nonprofit organizations, and a significant population of working artists, with an estimated economic impact of $53 million per year (2010 study by Americans for the Arts).
New Initiatives to Support Long-Term, Affordable Space for Oakland’s Arts Community
The Kenneth Rainin and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation funding will support the expansion of CAST into Oakland.
Libby spent her youth volunteering through countless Girl Scout projects, at Children’s Fairyland, and as a weekly Ranger Station Aide at Joaquin Miller Park. She graduated from Skyline High School.
Her favorite accomplishments include building waterfront parks, championing transit-oriented development, re-landscaping Park Blvd., reducing Port pollution, building affordable housing, banning Walmart Superstores, and promoting Oakland as the greatest place to live, work, play, and do business.
Libby has served on the board of directors or advisory boards of twelve Oakland non-profits and has been appointed to three City of Oakland Commissions — all fueled by her passion for the arts, education, civic engagement, and social justice. Her current volunteer efforts include Make Oakland Better Now!, the Alameda County Democratic Lawyers Club, the Museum of Childrens Art (MOCHA) and the League of Women Voters of Oakland.
She lives in Oakland’s Oakmore neighborhood with her husband Sal Fahey and children Dominic and Lena. Her mother Barbara was Oakland’s 1995 Mother of the Year.
That’s prompting a mixed assessment from arts activists, who’ve been following Schaaf’s administration since the Ghost Ship fire — when 36 people died at a dance party in an Oakland warehouse that was home to many artists, but which had never been fully inspected by fire officials.
Since the tragedy, Schaaf has tried to walk a fine line between tougher safety enforcement and protecting artists from eviction. In announcing her plans for reelection, Schaaf wrote, “I will also fight to protect our small Oakland-grown businesses, artists and non-profit organizations from displacement.”
“Libby has really stepped out on a limb for us,” says Jon Sarriugarte, a commercial artist in West Oakland active in the group We the Artists of the Bay Area. He also serves on a pair of mayoral committees including one on housing retention. “All of us have been grateful, and for her statement in support of balancing art and safety.”
http://www.ktvu.com/news/protesters-gather-outside-of-oakland-mayors-home
http://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/raiders/mayor-schaaf-oakland-has-something-no-other-city-ever-will
https://splinternews.com/oaklands-mayor-says-shes-ready-to-go-to-jail-to-protest-1822189460
As Northern California braces for a massive impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweep, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf insisted on Wednesday that she was ready to be jailed in order to protect her city’s sanctuary status.
“It is no surprise that the bully in chief is continuing to try to intimidate our most vulnerable residents,” Schaaf told KPIX. “We’re very clear that our values are to protect all of our residents regardless of where we come from. We want to protect families, not tear them apart.”
At least 1,500 people are reportedly set to be targeted in the upcoming raids. They are widely believed to be retaliation against California’s recent decision to name itself a “sanctuary state.” Earlier this month, ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan warned that California “better hold on tight,” and criticized state officials for putting “politics ahead of public safety. Oakland has responded aggressively. On Tuesday night, the city council voted unanimously to bar local police from aiding in the immigration dragnet, going so far as to even stop law enforcement officers from offering traffic control assistance during the operation.
“It is not acceptable for the Oakland administration to collude with ICE, as this federal agency is targeting noncriminals, harassing people based on their national origin and undermining our justice system,” city councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan told the San Francisco Chronicle.
In her interview with KPIX, Mayor Schaaf defended Oakland’s decision not to provide aid to ICE. She also insisted that she was not concerned about being held criminally liable for her city’s protections for undocumented immigrants, and when asked if she was was willing to face imprisonment for her stand, she answered unequivocally: “Yes.”
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