Vineland

The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area by Malcolm Margolin

Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco–Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to

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cozy anarchist social media for the coming days

The roots of justice : crime and punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910 | WorldCat.org

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

A week of poetry, music, dancing, workshops, exhibits, conversations, food and fellowship, rooted in tradition but focused on today’s rural West.

Pokeland Extra - Fresh and Flavorful Comfort Food in Redding, CA

Discover Pokeland Extra, where fresh ingredients meet generous portions in a casual, trendy atmosphere. Enjoy delicious poke bowls and comfort food, perfect for lunch or dinner. With wheelchair-accessible facilities and a welcoming vibe, it’s the ideal sp

RESPONSES TO THE CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY BY CELIA PEARCE

The publication of 'The Californian Ideology' has inspired an impassioned debate over the issues raised by the article. Here is a selection of some of the most interesting responses to the piece:

Creating a Flourishing Digital Public Space for Your Local Area | Notion

A how-to guide for admins and moderators of inclusive, uplifting, and public-spirited local Facebook groups, Discord servers, subreddits, and more...

Download OpenStreetMap for Northern California | Geofabrik Download Server

Download OpenStreetMap data for Northern California for self-hosting or data analysis. OSM PBF and Shapefiles available.

The Edge of Fruitvale — Oakland Public Library

The Edge of Fruitvale — DaCosta, Rohan, — Poetry, prose, and photographs.

Temescal Legacies

Temescal Legacies examines five historically significant changes to the Temescal district and surrounding neighborhoods of North Oakland and the impacts these changes have had on the community. Temescal Legacies features interviews with long-time Oakland residents and includes over 200 previously unpublished photographs.

Oakland is a Vibe: Blackness, Cultural Framings and Emancipations of The Town

Author(s): Heitz, Kaily | Advisor(s): Scott Lewis, Jovan | Abstract: In this dissertation, I examine the ways that developers and Black community organizers in Oakland, California, utilize a situated concept of Black culture to produce value in the city. This value is constituted by a politics of Blackness rooted both in racial capitalism, shifting structures of community care, and their affective articulations. The affective qualities of Black Oakland – which includes a sense of relationality, creativity, and resistance – are understood colloquially as “vibe.” While representations of vibe are mobilized by both developers and community organizations to respectively advance and resist gentrification, I argue that the vibe of the city is constituted by a Black sense of place that cannot be reproduced through capitalist representations of cultural value alone. This study of vibe presents an opportunity to take seriously the invitation of Black geographic scholarship to work at the intersection of poetics and historical materialism by exploring relationality as a site that coproduces racialized space and experience. Where developers leverage notions of vibe to generate value through private investment, Black organizers utilize such representations in order to reclaim the physical space necessary to the very production of vibe. The latter strategy is, I suggest, an enactment of what I call “emancipatory framing,” in which hegemonic framing is mobilized in order to create alternative spaces for liberatory praxes. This dissertation explores vibe and emancipatory framing at three different scales: the Black body, the independent business, and the grassroots collective. I conclude that vibe as a material and metaphorical asset of Blackness, is at the root of contestations over place, and sometimes contradictory imaginaries of freedom.

What If California Is the Most Regressive State in America?

California ranks dead last in cost-of-living-adjusted poverty among all 50 states. A native Californian makes the case that Prop 13, NIMBY housing policy, and stroads make it the most regressive state in America.