Digital activism and the study of repression which is how private actors try to control protests. Lets start with the digital half of this. What is a tactic that you write about in your book . The book we introduced is cowritten by Katrina Porter and i and what we were trying to do is really highlight the wide variety of ways in which people use Digital Tools for activism. A lot of times we think about digitally enabled social challenges using Digital Media to turn people out to offline events. Inc. About the support that happens for instance for the womens march. That is one popular way of thinking about the impact of digital activism or Digital Media on activism, but in the book katrina and i wanted to look at it a different way that people use tools which is to actually engage in activism online, so think about online petitions, online letterwriting campaigns or we might talk about something bar last contention will like a Service Attack where people use tens of thousands of compute
I was born in east oakland in november 28, 1922. And, my earliest memories are of the family just trying to get by. There were 4 kids, of which i was one. I was the baby of the family and i had older sisters. I got a lot of stories about how mother and father used to be going growing up and how it was different when i was growing up. I can remember my dad coming home with a bunch of grocery bags in the backseat of the car filled with food, and he would say, dont asked me for thing, i just spend five bucks on groceries. Host and this was during the Harding Administration that you were born. What did your father do for a living . Well, he immigrated from russia in about 1900 or so and he made a living like many people of that era did. He had none of the language and he settled in galveston, of all places. He ran a bakery with a horse and wagon delivery. Somehow, he always managed to save a little bit of money and he bought a little bit of property. We had an easy depression years compare
With about 70 around the bay. Mid70s inland. Only 50s at the coast and the winds really kick up tonight, maybe even a a few showers overnight. Katie. Thank you. More than a dozen people abandoned at a Castro Valley assisted living home days after the state ordered it chosed. The owners cleared out, leaving 14 patients behind. We have the details from Castro Valley. Valley springs manor is offlimits and cleared out the Authorities Say the facilities owners left behind once this notice went up thursday. Its a terribly sad situation that people would just abandon them. We are talking about human beings. They are unable to care for themselves. They are bedridden, amputees, wheelchairs. You can see in these photos they lined the streets caring for patience as quickly as possible. Four staffers did stay on the past two days to help. But jean pong is still angry, her 65yearold sister who was mentally ill was abandoned. I think they should be held accountable. You cant just vacate and leave yo