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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has pushed a political agenda with respect to the Howard Terminal Ballpark District Project – one that caused Major League Baseball to more than glance at Las Vegas as a relocation target for the Oakland A’s. But this time, her efforts and those of her staff and consultants, have combined to … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Am2A8pTgHA ONN – Racist Incident At Boys H.S. Basketball Game In San Diego By Joseph Armendariz – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Racist Incident At Boys H.S. Basketball Game In San Diego By Joseph Armendariz. In San Diego County at a boys high school basketball game Coronado High … Read more
Everport Terminal Services Inc. invests in its Oakland operation Oakland, CA – June 21, 2021: Another new, towering ship-to-shore crane (STS) is coming to the Port of Oakland this week. The crane will be delivered to the Everport marine terminal at Oakland run by Everport Terminal Services, Inc. (ETS). This investment in a new, STS … Read more
Oakland, CA – Vice Mayor will join the African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG) and several community leaders, in a celebration of Juneteenth and AASEG proposal to bring a Women’s National Basketball Association (“WNBA”) team to the Oakland Arena. WHEN: 12 noon – Friday, June 18, 2021 WHERE: Everett & Jones BBQ, 126 Broadway, … Read more
There is a big misunderstanding in the media and economics circles in America. The standard reason given for our labor and supply shortage is like this one I saw this morning’s New York Times: Supply, however, is not back. The pandemic disrupted supply chains for many items, including computer chips, paint, lumber and sneakers. It … Read more
The National Football League (NFL) today welcomed Diageo, a global leader in beverage alcohol, as its first ever Official Spirits Sponsor. The multiyear sponsorship is uniquely structured with the NFL fan in mind and will include opportunities for on-site activation and engagement with adult fans, as well as broadcast, digital, and social content from NFL … Read more
On-the-Record Press Call by United States Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai Via Teleconference 11:09 A.M. CEST MODERATOR: Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us today on this briefing with United States Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai. This will be an on-the-record briefing, and it will be embargoed until the conclusion of the … Read more
https://youtu.be/h-u6tUWi1Oo ONN – California Mask Mandate To End June 15 by Eric Pangilinan – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube via IFTTT Note from Zennie62Media’s Zennie62 YouTube and Oakland News Now Today Blog SF Bay Area: this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest updated version of an experimental Zennie62Media , Inc. mobile … Read more
Ahead of the July 20th 2021 Oakland City Council meeting, the African American Sports and Entertainment Group introduces this draft “WNBA at the Oakland Arena Lease Agreement Term Sheet”. It was presented to the WNBA on June 4th, and the prospects for bringing WNBA Basketball to the Oakland Arena are the best they’ve ever looked … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbXEyq6ZMk4 ONN – Downsizing Oakland Howard Terminal Ballpark Without Knowing About It Is Brainless – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Talk and media about “downsizing” The Howard Terminal Ballpark Project is the most ridiculous, stupid, and just plain brainless take on the whole development – let alone anything … Read more
https://youtu.be/jjleI3kBwAc ONN – Philippines Independence Day Saturday June 12th 2021: Eric Pangilinan Philippines Reaction – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Philippines Independence Day Saturday June 12th 2021: Eric Pangilinan Philippines Reaction via IFTTT Note from Zennie62Media’s Zennie62 YouTube and Oakland News Now Today Blog SF Bay Area: this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation … Read more
Zennie Abraham for Zennie62Media’s Oakland News Now, here. The opinion-editorial you’re about to read was sent to me by Oakland Athletics Public Relations Marketing and Communications VP Catherine Aker on behalf of Oakland A’s President Dave Kaval and after he tweeted the following: I received this op-ed from a lifelong Oakland resident after it was … Read more
Oakland – The City of Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Division announced Ms. Ayodele Nzinga has been selected as the inaugural Oakland Poet Laureate. She is a poet, playwright and community advocate. During her two-year term through May 2023, Ms. Nzinga will deliver an inaugural address, partner with the Oakland Public Library’s Oakland Youth Poet Laureate on … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJk-4Ggu5D8 ONN – Oakland Coliseum A’s Game Security Worker YouTube Vlog Shows Typical Day Wonder if Oakland A’s President Dave Kaval or the Oakland Coliseum Joint Powers Authority Board has seen this? Baseball Security Experience (Oakland A’s vs Kansas City Royals) Home Game 35 – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left … Read more
https://youtu.be/UwIusMG9GwA ONN – Oakland Mayor, Oakland Councilmembers Need To Regularly Recognize OUSD Oakland Students – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Oakland Mayor, Oakland Councilmembers Need To Regularly Recognize OUSD Oakland Students What do Myra Estrada, Eleanor Wikstrom, and Leya Mottley have in common? They’re all Oakland Poet Lauretes. And they all have the unfortunate distinction of … Read more
Oakland Unified School District Rising Junior at Oakland High School, Myra Estrada, Named 2021 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Oakland – Myra Estrada has been named the 2021 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate, winning a $5,000 college scholarship after competing with six other Finalists. The award was announced by Mayor Libby Schaaf on Friday evening following performances … Read more
Zennie62Media obtained this Oakland Athletics Howard Terminal Ballpark Project Scheduling letter from a fan of our network. It is dated March 31st 2021 and is from City of Oakland Deputy City Administrator Betsy Lake and to Oakland A’s President David Kaval, and includes a schedule map and a letter from City of Oakland Planner Peterson … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2V25EdaCnQ ONN – Jim Fassel Passes At 71: His NY Giants Teams Marked By Complex Bill Walsh / Sean Payton Offense – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Jim Fassel Passes At 71: His NY Giants Teams Marked By Complex Bill Walsh / Sean Payton Offense via IFTTT Note … Read more
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force to Address Short-Term Supply Chain Discontinuities. 100-Day Review Outlines Steps to Strengthen Critical Supply Chains Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing key findings from the reviews directed under Executive Order (E.O.) 14017 “America’s Supply Chains,” as well as immediate actions the Administration will take to strengthen American … Read more
https://youtu.be/cPSDq7GT5cI ONN – Happy Birthday To The Man Who Brought The Raiders From Oakland To Las Vegas: Napoleon Kaufman – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Happy Birthday To The Man Who Brought The Raiders From Oakland To Las Vegas: Napoleon Kaufman He let Oakland Raiders Owner Mark Davis know about the Las Vegas opportunity in 2014. … Read more
The first time I blogged about “racial gaslighting” it was in the context of an ad hominem attack on me on Facebook for daring to point out a racial issue connected with the planned opening of the Oakland version of the Battery SF Club in the old Bellevue Club at Lake Merritt. After that post, … Read more
On November 11th 2009, I was invited to be one of several YouTube Partners at the YouTube Community Roundtable. The idea was for YouTube Partners who make original video content and are compensated by Google for the traffic those videos generate to meet the staff that helps us. It was a fantastic idea because much … Read more
Why did Maria Ayerdi Kaplan get major perks for leaving TJPA in 2016? Why do some media outlets focus on the “major perks” that Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan received when she resigned from her post heading the organization she created, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, without asking why? This new post sheds light on the truth the … Read more
Events aim to strengthen the coaching and personnel development pipeline across the league In partnership with the Black College Football Hall of Fame, the NFL today announced the inaugural OZZIE NEWSOME GENERAL MANAGER FORUM and the fourth annual QUARTERBACK COACHING SUMMIT. From June 21-23, front office personnel and coaches from the NFL and NCAA will … Read more
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, AND QUEER PRIDE MONTH, 2021 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The uprising at the Stonewall Inn in June, 1969, sparked a liberation movement — a call to action that continues to inspire us to live up to our Nation’s promise of equality, liberty, and justice … Read more
OUSD Honors End of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Tribute To Asian American Leaders Who Have Helped Lead District. Oakland – Memorial Day is the final day of May, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. And while OUSD has been honoring API students, staff and families since the beginning of the month, now … Read more
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Statement: Honor the Service of Veterans by Protecting the Nation They Fought For Oakland, CA – Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13) issued the following statement today honoring the service of our nation’s veterans. “As we begin to build back after a year of tragedy and uncertainty, it is important that we pause and … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTruE0yOTeI ONN – Snoop Dogg Instagram Video Shows What Happens To Racists Who Bother LA Clippers Fans – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Snoop Dogg Instagram Video Shows What Happens To Racists Who Bother LA Clippers Fans via IFTTT Note from Zennie62Media and OaklandNewsNow.com : this video-blog post … Read more
3rd Annual OUSD Celebration of Arab American Student Excellence Held Wednesday, May 26 2021 Oakland – The OUSD Office of Equity, Arab American Achievement Initiative Committee is excited to host the 3rd Annual OUSD Celebration of Arab American Student Excellence for young people across the District. The Arab American Achievement Initiative Committee is in its … Read more
13 Oakland Unified School District Staff Members Receive Numerous Separate Accolades From Outside of District Oakland – Staff members from across Oakland Unified School District are receiving remarkable recognition to finish off the 2020-21 school year. They include teachers, classified employees, football coaches and a social worker / project manager, and they’re being honored by … Read more
Oakland, CA – On Monday, May 31st, Congresswoman Barbara Lee will visit Tulsa, Oklahoma to commemorate the Centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. Congresswoman Lee (CA-13) plans to attend various community events with descendants of the Tulsa Massacre and members of the Black Tulsan community. “In one of the worst acts of racist violence in … Read more
Zennie62Media requested and was exclusively sent the letter and document below which arrived just 30 minutes ago, and for presentation to you. It rests as a follow-up to my interview with Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, where Miley said that the City of Oakland had not shared any revenue numbers from the planned Howard Terminal … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v2-n7twc8w ONN – Oakland Can’t Force Visiting MLB Teams To Use Its Hotels. Sports Leagues Have Hotel Relationships – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Oakland Can’t Force Visiting MLB Teams To Use Its Hotels. Sports Leagues Have Hotel Relationships via IFTTT Note from Zennie62Media and OaklandNewsNow.com : this … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mXNQKK4II ONN – Officials are giving an update about the San Jose railyard shooting that killed 8 people – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Stay with KCRA 3 for the latest via IFTTT Note from Zennie62Media and OaklandNewsNow.com : this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation … Read more
Zennie62Media note: the legendary AC Transit Board Member H. E. Christian (Chris) Peeples sent over the letter you’re about to read to Zennie62Media so his objections to the Howard Terminal Ballpark Site for the Oakland A’s could be seen by the general public. To make sure his words were 100 percent represented, this separate Oakland … Read more
Recording Academy Releases Updated Rules & Guidelines For The 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards; Announces Further Changes For The Upcoming GRAMMY Season Santa Monica, Ca.— The Recording Academy® released today the latest GRAMMY Awards® Rules and Guidelines, which reflect new changes to the process for the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Introduced in June 2020, the annual … Read more
Belarus’s forced diversion of a commercial Ryanair flight, traveling between two member states of the European Union, and subsequent removal and arrest of Raman Pratasevich, a Belarusian journalist traveling abroad, are a direct affront to international norms. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms both the diversion of the plane and the subsequent … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foiKVnriXxM ONN – Oakland A’s President Dave Kaval’s Las Vegas Tweet Pissed Off Fans, Leaves Howard Terminal Question – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Wow! #StanleyCup playoffs! @GoldenKnights pic.twitter.com/qVYYDSJc35 — Dave Kaval (@DaveKaval) May 25, 2021 For reasons best known only to himself, Oakland Athletics President Dave Kaval … Read more
New Designation Allows Eligible Haitians to Apply for TPS and Employment Authorization Washington, D.C. – Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced a new 18-month designation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). This new TPS designation enables Haitian nationals (and individuals without nationality who last resided in Haiti) currently residing in the … Read more
Thomas Public Relations, Inc. www.thomasprsocial.com, the leading PR agency for consumer electronics and high tech, announced today that it has won the PRPLI 2021 PR Campaign of the Year Award for Thomas PR’s campaign for Coldsnap, which resulted in coverage in major national TV shows and technology, consumer, and business publications, such as the Rachel … Read more