#Oakland parties

[brettesims]

ART EVENT

A 21+ First Fridays Event:🍷 ✍🏾 Join me & my art mentor for a monthly drink & draw event @Oakstop_ ! Really happy to be back to hosting IRL events! 🔗 Link below to grab tickets👇🏾:

[gregor-samsung]

The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 (Göran Olsson, 2011)

[garadinervi]

George Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971)

(image: George Jackson 1941-1971, w/ 'Song in Blood and Tears' (A People's Poem by Askia Muhammed Toure), San Francisco, CA, 1972. Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), Oakland, CA)

[blackbrownfamily]

Cleo Sol

[obrizzly]

ToonTown

[blackpantherblog]

This is my list posted on TikTok. Please check it out.

[serious2020]

RALLY 2 FREE MUMIA

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

Gene Hackman always played terrible evil bad guys, but he's such a lovely good dude in real life. He was on Richard Nixon's 'enemy list'. That alone makes him a good guy IRL. Lol

Oliver Reed is in this, his first American movie. Playing an American cowboy. His facial scars play well into it.

Characters with mismatched morals. The seemingly well-dressed rich rancher is a sadist and a gleeful angrymurder.

The gruff unkempt working class guy misunderstood as an outlaw, has the morals of an antihero, but a decent man that seems to respect lives of even the worst of his group.

The woman that willfully marries her rich rancher husband but seems to have learned he has no heat, he's secretly mean and sadistic. The outlaw kidnaps her to learn to read, but even in taking her he's more kind and tender than he disgusting husband. To the point that she'd rather be with and die with a man that's got a soul than her cold controlling hellish husband.

Conundrum. I love it when the balance is turned upside down and inside out. Nobody is innocent. But there's definitely someone guiltier and filthier than the other.

[wyn-n-tonic]

I'm obsessed with DOYAM. You'd said Alison went to college in Michigan but not what school. I'm a Michigander so I must know. 🙃

ahhhh, thank you!! did i say Alison went to school in Michigan? i will have to go back and check to make sure that i've got the right thing in there but she's a University of Texas at Austin girly, has a Longhorns jersey and blanket. both her BSN and MSN were granted by UT Austin and she stayed after graduation because she loved the city so much and also the life she had set up. particularly while getting her MSN as it was the first time she was on her own and she was able to feel like she had autonomy in her space.

she is from Massachusetts though and chose UT because it was the furthest away school that had accepted her and she liked that Texas wasn't cold (at least not cold the way she was used to cold).

although i could see her getting rejected by Oakland University and having a little pity party about it tbh.

[gorillacampflow]

LAYY-REALLY Shot By T.BrittVisuals

[imwritesometimes]

also also... as someone whose family is from Oakland I just gotta say let's get the 510 behind the resolute desk baby!!!

[ethn11winter24]

The Black Panther Party

By: Arianna Hatton

The Black Panther Party began in 1966 in Oakland, California. It was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale who were students at Merritt College at the time. One of those highly involved in the group, Fred Hampton, is a well-known person not due to his involvement in the group but more so by how his life was ended. Originally the leaders started the organization to patrol black neighborhoods. As we see now in the 21st century police brutality against people of color is still an extreme issue and the Black Panther party patrolled Black neighborhoods to hold the police force accountable. This made both the city police officers and higher officials more aware of their organization.

Along with the police force they spoke out against the FBI and their efforts to silence the strong Black leaders. The group had ideologies like those of Malcolm X and even stemmed from Martin Luther King Jr’s group the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Both individuals are examples of strong Black leaders who led the movement for voting rights, housing, and in many different areas trying to end discrimination. The Black Panther Party had ideologies of Black nationalism, socialism, and even armed self-defense against the police force, then later evolved into a Marxist organization. Marxist means anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist in which they are fighting against the elite. Dr. Martin Luther King practiced nonviolent protest to secure voting rights and this group took the opposite approach as believing that arming Black individuals for self-defense may cause fewer deaths in their community.

Whilst the concept in the beginning was to protect Black individuals in their neighborhoods, members including mainly women, started to branch out from their previous work and spread social programs for children and families. This often included free breakfast, clothing, and even medical clinics. While doing many good things for their community, the government had to involve themselves.

While doing many good things for their community, the government had to involve themselves. The FBI saw the Black Panther party as a threat due to their role in the Black community and all the work they were doing. The government went on to claim they were “the greatest threat to the internal security.” One of the major events that occurred within the Black Panther Party was the FBI having individuals placed in the group in which they set up Fred Hampton to be ambushed and killed by government officials. This even made media headlines as it was an example of the hate and distaste for Black organizations the government had.

In the 1970’s due to differences many of the higher-up leaders were kicked out of the organization. These differences led to the group dissolving with no clear path. Although the group dissolved it led to inspiring the group that had received a lot of positive and negative attention. The group called Black Lives Matter has infiltrated the media circuit as it carries on the path of Black empowerment and putting an end to police brutality.

More information can be found:

https://www.britannica.com/list/black-panther-party-7-notable-figures

https://bppaln.org/programs

https://www.history.com/news/black-panther-fred-hampton-killing

[garadinervi]

"Fred Hampton Mark Clark Murdered / Panther Offices Raided / 28 Panthers Dead". Benefit – Rally, Oakland and San Francisco, CA, [1969-1970s] [Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA]

[blackbrownfamily]

[etakeh]

I was looking through some 2020 stuff and found a pamphlet published by Vanport Mosaic, and was like, Who's this? So I looked them up, and got a whole-ass education about the city I was born and have spent most of my life in.

I'm sure this is a sanitized version of events, but even sanitized it's kind of. wow.

[uatjonc]