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In this video from her YouTube channel, Oakland District Four Councilmember Jean Quan explains how the State of California is "coming after" the tax revenues of the City of Oakland. "For the last four years the state budget has been on a credit card," she says. Now, she says, the state wants to take eight percent of Oakland's property tax revenue. She also explains the State of California wants to take city revenues from the gas tax - a total of a $17 million "hit" to the City of Oakland. She asks Oaklanders to visit oaklandbudgetchallenge.com I'm happy to see Quan use YouTube to get her message out; I only hope she does it more often.

From stephenygupta on YouTube who writes: here is a lakeview elementry school 5th grade promotion. This is a song Lakeview Pride. Special Thanks to Brother Muziki

Summer Solstice concert in Oakland, CA on June 21st, 2009.

More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! According to Roger Gillies of the Associated Press , Polo Molina, the manager of the Black Eyed Peas, turned himself in to the Toronto police and was charged with assault on Perez Hilton .   Polo Molina  Hilton got into a heated, verbally abusive argument first with Fergie, the popular singer with "The Peas" then with Black Eyed Peas' lead rapper Wil.I.Am early Monday morning. According to videos from both Wil.I.Am and Hilton , Hilton's verbal abuse led to his being beaten by what Wil.I.Am called "a fan" while Hilton said the attacker was the band's manager. You can learn more with my initial video on this: And more information's coming as the flow from Twitter is tremendous, but my estimate is it will subside by this time tomorrow unless someone from the Peas makes a new statement, Perez follows up, or another video surfaces. This subject is now the fourth highest h...

From raustean on YouTube who writes: une 20, Raustean hits the streets of oakland to see how the police interact with people in the wake of the oscar grant murder, and Lovelle Mixon's killing of four oakland police officers. On location the public asked at numerous points for a Public information Officer or a shift supervisor to come provide the public with a statement, what you will see in this footage is a large number of OPD and Alameda Sheriffs showing indeed how they feel about the people they serve. Two Oakland police officers are in the hospital this morning after getting involved in a car accident. They were in their patrol car, driving on 73rd Avenue around midnight, when a car made a left turn into their path. The two cars collided. The police officers tried to help the people injured in the other car, but a large crowd had formed. Officer had to call in backup for crowd control. Only when help had arrived were they able to give first aid to the two adults and one child i...

More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! ' On YouTube.com So a few days ago I wrote a blog post with a vlog about the Iran Elections or given what's going on over there the "Iran Revolution" and in preparing for it ran across an article who's take on Twitter , the main event in the Iran uprising, I disagreed with. It was written by Kara Swisher, the semi-well-known Wall Street Journal vlogger who covers "All Things D" or "Digital" as her blog site's called. I wrote: The amount of information communicated through Twitter has been of staggering proportions. While Kara Swisher may write that it's "inane and half-baked", the fact that Iranians can use their cell phones to tweet information and share photos has done more than the mainstream media in telling the World what's happening. Well that sent her into a tizzy. She got on Twitter and publicly blasted me, writing things like: ...