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OUSD And Friends Of The Oakland Public School Libraries Create Digital Library

OUSD and “Friends of the Oakland Public School Libraries” Create Digital Library for All Oakland Students Oakland – United For Success Academy 8th grader, Brenda C., uses Sora, an app for accessing the District’s new Digital Library, which has transformed her ability to read whenever she wants. “What I like about Sora is that you […]

City of Oakland Launches Free Employment Training Platform to Help Job Seekers Enhance Skills

Oakland – The City of Oakland’s Workforce Development Board is launching a free, online skills training platform offered by Metrix Learning. Taking courses can help Oaklanders improve a wide variety of skills, earn industry certificates, launch into new careers or advance up the career ladder. Metrix Learning offers more than 5,000 courses leading to over […]

Oakland Public Education Fund And OUSD Provide Millions In Cash Assistance, Food, Computers

Oakland Public Education Fund and OUSD Provide Millions in Cash Assistance, Food, and Computers to Oakland Families; Team Embarks on Additional Fundraising Effort for Families in Need Oakland – Thanks to more than 2,000 individual donors, the COVID-19 Relief Fund for Oakland students and schools has raised more than $2.5 million. The COVID-19 Relief Fund […]

Oakland City Council Passes Resolutions: Coliseum Funds Use, COVID-19 Vaccines Equity

Unanimously Passed! Resolutions to Receive $10 Million to Help Save Vital Oakland City Services and Calling for COVID-19 Vaccines to be Made Equitably Available for Our Community The Oakland City Council unanimously voted to approve two important resolutions introduced by Councilmember Treva Reid and I. The resolutions are; • Approving $10 million in available excess […]

Oakland Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan, Treva Reid, Want COVID-19 Vaccines To Be Equitably Available

Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan Together with Councilmember Treva Reid, Call for COVID-19 Vaccines to Be Made Equitably Available for Our Community Oakland – Tomorrow, February 2, 2021, Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan, along with Councilmember Treva Reid, will be introducing an urgent resolution asking the Oakland City Council to urge the state and federal governments […]

Super Bowl LV: NFL’s Mr. Super Bowl Peter O’Reilly On Entertainment Tonight With Kevin Frazier

Super Bowl LV: NFL’s Mr. Super Bowl Peter O’Reilly Featured On Entertainment Tonight Talking Plans ONN – Super Bowl LV: NFL’s Mr. Super Bowl Peter O’Reilly Featured On Entertainment Tonight Talking Plans – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Super Bowl LV: NFL’s Mr. Super Bowl Peter O’Reilly Featured On Entertainment Tonight Talking Plans With Kevin Frazier. […]

Trump Capitol Rally Points To Plan To Keep Trump As POTUS Even If He Lost 2020 Election

To start, this Trump Rally blog post is, at this point, a purely speculative work, designed to help tie together what is at this point a disparate set of facts that seem to point to one conclusion, but a large set of loose ends stop me from saying the result is absolute fact. The “one […]

OUSD Distributes Technology To Teachers and District Site Staff For Pandemic; Distribution Event Today

OUSD Distributes Technology To Teachers and District Site Staff to Help them get Through Pandemic; Distribution Event Happens Friday, Today Oakland – As distance learning will continue in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) for some untold amount of time, even when students start to return to campus, the District is making sure that teachers and […]

Vloggercon 2006 SF – Interviews With Vloggers Fet Zennie Abraham, Vlogs On WordPress Blog Session

Vloggercon 2006 SF – Interviews With Vloggers Fet Zennie Abraham, Vlogs On WordPress Blog Session From YouTube Channel: November 19, 2020 at 05:53AM ONN – Vloggercon 2006 SF – Interviews With Vloggers Fet Zennie Abraham, Vlogs On WordPress Blog Session This combines two videos from the franciscodaum.blogspot.com Internet Archives collection of files related to the […]

How Zennie Abraham Oakland Vlogger Got Into Vlogging Is A Video From Vloggercon 2006 San Francisco

How Zennie Abraham Oakland Vlogger Got Into Vlogging Is A Video From Vloggercon 2006 San Francisco ONN – How Zennie Abraham Oakland Vlogger Got Into Vlogging Is A Video From Vloggercon 2006 San Francisco – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube The things you find poking around. A random click on an old post from SFist on […]

Oakland Economic Recovery Advisory Council Interim Report Shows Major Problem: Analysis Paralysis

Oakland Economic Recovery Advisory Council Interim Report Shows Major Problem: Analysis Paralysis ONN – Oakland Economic Recovery Advisory Council Interim Report Shows Major Problem: Analysis Paralysis – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube The Oakland Economic Recovery Advisory Council Report was released October 26th and to zero fanfare. No press conference. No major effort to tell Oaklanders. […]

CES 2021 News: Ten Percent of US Broadband Households Had A Video Doorbell Q2 2020

Parks Associates: 10% of US Broadband Households Report Owning a Video Doorbell in Q2 2020, up From 7% in 2017 Research firm announces topics and call for papers for 15th annual CONNECTIONS™ Summit at CES News ahead of CES 2021. Parks Associates today announced the topics and call for papers for the 15th annual CONNECTIONS™ […]

Zenni.com, Zenni Eyewear, CEO Tibor Laczay Use Zennie Abraham Name As Google AdWords Piggyback

Zenni.com, Zenni Eyewear, CEO Tibor Laczay Use Zennie Abraham Name As Google AdWords Piggyback From YouTube Channel: May 27, 2017 at 12:44PM ONN – Zenni.com, Zenni Eyewear, CEO Tibor Laczay Use Zennie Abraham Name As Google AdWords Piggyback Tibor Laczay and Julia Chen of Piedmont, Ca, which is a part of Oakland, started the firm […]

#OaklandUndivided Reaches Half-Way Mark In Providing Computers, Internet To Oakland OUSD Students

#OaklandUndivided Reaches Major Milestone in Effort to Provide 25,000 Oakland Students with Free Computers and Internet Access; Media is Invited to Laptop Distribution Event on Thursday The press release sent from The Oakland Unified School District to Zennie62Media is below: Oakland, CA — Eric Yanez (below), a 4th-grader at Hoover Elementary School, had problems with […]

EPA Boss’ Letter To California Gov Newsom Blasts State, LA And SF Waste From Homeless Problem

Blockbuster Trump EPA Letter To California Gov Gavin Newsom Blasts State, Los Angeles and San Francisco Waste From Homeless Problem A letter sent to Zennie62Media an hour ago is from the Office of United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Director Andrew Wheeler, under President Donald Trump. In it, Mr. Wheeler claims that he “is concerned that […]

Oakland Schools OUSD Successfully Argues To Keep Education Funding In Federal Lawsuit

Oakland – An effort by the U.S. Department of Education to take public education dollars away from Oakland Unified School District and countless other Districts and give it to private schools in Oakland and elsewhere has failed, and leadership from OUSD had a role in defeating it. U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, had created […]

Iowa Derecho Storm Disaster Shown By YouTuber Fé Bean – 600,000 Went Without Power

DERECHO STORM AUG.10.2020 From YouTube Channel: August 24, 2020 at 08:32PM ONN – Iowa Derecho Storm Disaster Shown By YouTuber Fé Bean – 600,000 Went Without Power Think you know about what is happening in America just by mainstream media? Forget it. The devastation of the Iowa Derecho Storm of August 10th, 2020, which caused […]

Oakland Schools News: OUSD Says 23,000 Chromebooks 7,000 Wireless Hotspot Devices Delivered

Oakland – Just one week after handing out a major round of new #OaklandUndivided Chromebooks that students get to keep, Oakland Unified School District is updating the entire community on the overall effort to get 25,000 computers into the hands of Oakland’s public school students.   We have enough computers in our schools to ensure […]

Watch Live: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Hold Campaign Event In Delaware

Watch live: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris hold campaign event in Delaware From YouTube Channel: August 12, 2020 at 04:29PM ONN – Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are appearing together for the first time as a presidential ticket in Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday afternoon. Biden announced he had chosen Harris to be his running mate on […]

Welcome Back To School 2020 Oakland And Complete The Tech Check Survey!

Welcome Back To School 2020 From Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell OUSD Superintendent Dear Oakland Unified School District Community, I am happy to say that the 2020-21 school year begins today, Monday, August 10! I want to welcome all students, staff and families back to teaching and learning in Oakland Unified School District Community, or “OUSD”. Although […]

Ben Bartlett: All Internet enabled Devices Will Have It’s Own Crypto Wallet (Part 8)

Ben Bartlett: All Internet enabled Devices Will Have It’s Own Crypto Wallet (Part 8) From YouTube Channel: February 12, 2019 at 01:31AM ONN – Part 7: https://youtu.be/ZyC2nWfaOr8 Part 1: https://youtu.be/EJ8SsCo3B4I In this clip, we discussed future internet-enabled devices having a crypto wallet, custody services, Embands and future adoption of crypto-currencies. Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland […]

San Francisco Giants vs Oakland Athletics Free Pick 7/20/20 MLB Pick and Prediction

San Francisco Giants vs Oakland Athletics Free Pick 7/20/20 MLB Pick and Prediction ONN – San Francisco Giants vs Oakland Athletics Free Pick 7/20/20 MLB Pick and Prediction The Oakland Athletics host the San Francisco Giants in Monday MLB Summer Camp action. Get Mitch’s Expert Pick and Prediction for this game. #MLB #MLBPick #MLBPredictions #SFGiants […]

Is It Time To Change The Structure Of Oakland Government? – Phil Tagami Files

Oakland, By Phil Tagami – Perhaps the time has come to realize that the experiment of professional career politicians failed Oakland – this cohort has “pooched” it pretty bad. Deficit Municipal budgets after a decade of record revenues year after year and the policies have not made us safer, healthier, or prosperous, solved a housing […]

Ben Bartlett, Berkeley Councilmember: California Blockchain Innovation Zone

Ben Bartlett, Berkeley Councilmember, wrote this on Medium on Dec 4, 2019. He called it a “Framework for an Intrastate Regulatory Safe Harbor / Sandbox”. Councilmember Ben Bartlett: Technology is at its best when used to address fundamental human needs. While the internet represents a technological breakthrough of foundational significance, much of its potential to […]

Oakland Schools News: OUSD Announces Plans For Start Of School, Including Distance Learning

Exactly One Month From First Day of 2020-21 School Year, OUSD Announces Plans for Start of School Which Will Include Students Returning to Class in Phases, Starting with a Period of Distance Learning for all Students Text Of Friday July 10th 2020 OUSD Press Conference At End Of This Post Oakland – As Oakland and […]

Join Steph Curry: Help Save Oakland Warriors House, Lloyd Canamore’s Home For 50 Years

Join Steph Curry: Help Save Oakland Warriors House, Lloyd Canamore’s Home For 50 Years ONN – Join Steph Curry: Help Save Oakland Warriors House, Lloyd Canamore’s Home For 50 Years The latest on this problem is that Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry gave the fund-raising effort a cyber push online. Now, the effort started […]

Oakland A’s Taj Tashombe: A Conversation About Race With Shaylabang And Tiffany Silas

A Conversation About Race: Reflection & Action with Shaylabang and Tiffany Silas ONN – Oakland A’s Taj Tashombe: A Conversation About Race With Shaylabang And Tiffany Silas Join A’s moderator Taj Tashombe and SOOAKLAND’s Shaylabang and Tiffany Silas for our next installment of A Conversation About Race: Reflection and Action Check out http://m.mlb.com/video for our […]

Oakland A’s Tony Kemp And Taj Tashombe Talk About Race: Reflection & Action

A Conversation About Race: Reflection & Action ONN – Oakland A’s Tony Kemp And Taj Tashombe Talk About Race: Reflection & Action Join A’s infielder Tony Kemp and moderator Taj Tashombe for a conversation about the +1 Effect and how baseball can influence change. Check out http://m.mlb.com/video for our full archive of videos, and subscribe […]

Ben Bartlett And Berkeley Bans Tear Gas When Oakland Won’t: The ‘Era Of Militarism Is Over’

Berkeley Councilmember Ben Bartlett turned a phrase that is spreading around the Internet when he said the “era of militarism is over”, after his City of Berkeley, Berkeley City Council voted to ban tear gas for good, and stop police from using pepper spray and smoke during George Floyd Black Lives Matter protests. (And this […]

Rebecca Kaplan: Oakland Council President Calls To Implement Publicly-Accessible WiFi

Oakland, CA – Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan, who serves as Oakland’s Council Member At-Large, calls for publicly accessible WiFi for Oakland’s communities. Kaplan has been working to expand access to internet and related technologies, especially for Oakland’s under-served communities. The COVID-19 emergency has pushed many more to rely on the internet for work, […]

Black Ministers In SF Call For Churches To Stay Closed, COVID-19 Testing, Community Education

Black Ministers in SF Call for Churches to Stay Closed, COVID-19 Testing, Education in African American Community Noon Rally Today, Memorial Day, S.F. City Hall Bay Area Black Preachers Call for Churches and Government Commitment to Protect the Health of Congregations Pastors Should Rely on Science to Guide Church Re-openings; Government Must Provide Testing, Medical […]

Looking Back On Google’s Apparent Mission To Kill Blogs And Uplift Traditional Media

Let’s get this out of the way: I love Google and have literally moved through Adulthood with the search engine. I recall first learning about it in 1998, through a friend, in Oakland. At the time, I was working as Economic Advisor to Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris, and that thing called “The Internet” was still […]

With Zynga’s Mark Pincus $700k Donation Oakland, OUSD Hit $12.5 Million Close Digital Divide Goal

Within Days of Announcing $12.5 Million Campaign to Close the Digital Divide, OUSD and City of Oakland Meet the Goal with Final $700,000 Donation from Zynga Founder, Mark Pincus, as Next Fundraising Phase Ramps Up Oakland, CA – On Wednesday, May 20, OUSD and the City of Oakland are announcing that their six-day old goal […]

Rebecca Kaplan Oakland Council President’s Agenda For A Healthy Transition & Just Recovery Plan

Oakland, CA: (May 18, 2020) – Today, Oakland Council President Rebecca Kaplan, who serves as Oakland’s Council Member At-Large, announced a bold “Agenda for Healthy Transition and a Just Recovery Plan.” The City of Oakland remains in the local State of Emergency that the City Administrator declared on March 9, 2020 due to the COVID-19 […]

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Huge Donation To OUSD, City Of Oakland To Help Close Digital Divide

Jack Dorsey, Twitter Founder And CEO Sends Huge Donation to OUSD and City of Oakland to Help Close Digital Divide Less Than 24-Hours After Press Conference Oakland, CA – Less than 24 hours after OUSD, the City of Oakland, and partner organizations held a news conference to announce an ambitious plan to close the digital […]

Oakland A’s Lofi Hip Hop – Beats to Relax/Study To

Oakland A’s Lofi Hip Hop – Beats to Relax/Study To ONN – These times of uncertainty are difficult, but it’s important to take a moment to breathe and relax. Vibe with KD as you study for that last final, or just need a break from your day. Check out http://m.mlb.com/video for our full archive of […]

City of Oakland And OUSD Have Plan To Close Digital Divide – Press Conference

City of Oakland And OUSD Have Plan To Close Digital Divide – Press Conference ONN – City of Oakland And OUSD Have Plan To Close Digital Divide – Press Conference Leading the virtual press conference were: Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland Kyla Johnson-Trammell, Superintendent of OUSD Jessica Ramos, 11th Grade Student, Skyline High School Ali […]

OUSD, City of Oakland $12.5 Million Plan To Close The Digital Divide Launches Thursday

Press Conference Scheduled: OUSD and City of Oakland Announce Plan to CLOSE the Digital Divide; Bold $12.5 Million Plan Launches on Thursday! Oakland, CA – “It’s time to close the digital divide once and for all,” is the rallying cry of the leaders of a new effort to support students and families in Oakland. The […]

Oakland Eviction Moratorium Information Video By “Public Education Struggle”

Oakland Eviction Moratorium Information ONN – By the YouTube Channel “public education struggle”, which reports: As of early April, 31% of renters in the United States cannot pay rent. No one should have to choose between paying rent to a landlord or feeding their children. We want you to know about some of your rights […]

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