Port of Oakland Concepts

Habeas Data: Privacy vs. The Rise of Surveillance Tech

by Cyrus Farivar · 7 May 2018 · 397pp · 110,222 words

law school at the University of San Francisco in 2008. By 2011, he’d graduated, and later joined one of the protest marches to the Port of Oakland as part of the broader Occupy movement. In June 2013, he read in horror about Edward Snowden and revelations of the National Security Agency’s

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’s surveillance tools, including license plate readers (LPR), closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras, gunshot detection microphones, and more—all in the name of protecting the Port of Oakland, the third largest on the West Coast. Had the city council been presented with the perfunctory vote on the DAC even a month before Snowden

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

by Novella Carpenter · 25 May 2010 · 306pp · 94,204 words

Mexico (my mom still insists that it’s not a good idea to meet your life partner while on vacation), they shacked up near the Port of Oakland, about twenty blocks from where I live today. But neither of them could remember much about Oakland back then. My mom had a vague memory

Northern California Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

the Calaveras County Fair in Angels Camp. Jack London was also a restless vagabond. Born in San Francisco, London shipped in and out of the ports of Oakland, which informed seafaring stories and adventure novels such as White Fang, The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf. London’s old neighborhood isn

Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America

by Writers For The 99% · 17 Dec 2011 · 173pp · 54,729 words

down in solidarity with the Occupy movement. Thousands of demonstrators, with tacit solidarity from ILWU dockworkers and independent contractor port truck drivers, shut down the Port of Oakland for the evening. The success of this “General Strike” in Oakland invigorated activists across the country and the world, leading to solidarity actions by the

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, California, with a citywide general strike taking place in response to the serious injury sustained by a protester on October 25. Protesters shut down the Port of Oakland, the nation’s fifth busiest port. November 3—Riot police clashed with Occupy Oakland, firing tear gas and flash bang grenades. Over a hundred protesters

Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement

by Amy Lang and Daniel Lang/levitsky · 11 Jun 2012 · 537pp · 99,778 words

General Strike on 2 November. The Oakland General Strike on 2 November (the first in the city since 1946) was an overwhelming success, blockading the Port of Oakland, with more than 50,000 people participating. Since then, the Occupy Oakland movement continues to resist, alongside related movements throughout the world, and we are

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with violence, like UC Davis’ involvement in agribusiness operations both in the US and in US-occupied Afghanistan. After the successful shut-down of the Port of Oakland during the Oakland General Strike, West Coast Occupy/Decolonize groups called for a Pacific Coast port blockade. The call was in part a response to

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cannot leave the workplace can participate in the evening. The evening plan, as I understand it, is to march south from the plaza to the Port of Oakland and to arrive before the change of shifts that will take place at seven o’clock. They plan to shut down the port, which happens

Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area

by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood · 2 Jan 2009

$SV[ 286 .JTTJPO 4BO+PTF NJMFT 1BMP"MUP4BO+PTF its livelihood from shipping and transportation services, as evidenced by the cranes in the massive Port of Oakland, but Oakland is in the midst of a renaissance as it lobbies to attract businesses and workers from the information technology industry. Oakland spreads north

Frommer's San Francisco 2012

by Matthew Poole, Erika Lenkert and Kristin Luna · 4 Oct 2011

restore the 165-foot presidential yacht Potomac, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s beloved “Floating White House.” Now a proud and permanent memorial berthed at the Port of Oakland’s FDR Pier at Jack London Square, the revitalized Potomac is open to the public for dockside tours, as well as 2-hour History Cruises

How to Do Nothing

by Jenny Odell · 8 Apr 2019 · 243pp · 76,686 words

in World War II was a supply base for the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy. Eventually it ended up in the hands of the Port of Oakland, who turned it into one of the few parks in West Oakland. Like most of the land edging the San Francisco Bay, this was once

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a wetland ecosystem, but building a port also meant dredging the shallows for ships. When the Port of Oakland took ownership of the land in 2002, it used sediment to re-create a lagoon and a beach in the hopes of supporting the local

The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland

by Ali Winston and Darwin Bondgraham · 10 Jan 2023 · 498pp · 184,761 words

organizations.1 Large stretches of the West and East Oakland flatlands, where the drug trade and underground economy flourished for years in symbiosis with the Port of Oakland, military installations, and the growing logistics industry, were now home to open-air bazaars where hustlers sold crack and heroin. Oakland voters had moved significantly

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the reform push. No sooner had Oakland officials signed the settlement agreement than a squad of OPD officers attacked protesters and longshore workers at the Port of Oakland in a vicious display of force. And in 2004 the monitors would learn that cops as well as commanders were willing to “flout” the agreement

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crippled America’s economy in the late 1870s, white workers lashed out against California’s Chinese, whom they blamed for mass unemployment. Embittered by the Port of Oakland’s use of Chinese workers to build roads, Oakland’s white laborers threatened violence. Although the city avoided full-blown race riots like San Francisco

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, drugs, and violence washed over Oakland and other American cities. Factories continued to close, and the few jobs Black Oaklanders managed to secure at the Port of Oakland and adjoining warehousing sector were thinned by the rise of containerized shipping and long-haul trucking. The city’s population dropped from 361,561 in

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increased to meet growing demand in El Norte.20 Along with Los Angeles, Oakland became one of the West Coast hubs for the trade. The Port of Oakland, the fifth biggest in the United States, was the first West Coast port to move from break-bulk shipping—that is, loose cargo loads—to

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trafficking network that moved tons of high-quality “China White” from Thailand, seizing a then-record 1,200 pounds from a Hayward warehouse.21 “The Port of Oakland pretty much goes unchecked; I don’t know of any other large port that doesn’t have a police department,” said Vic Bullock, an Oakland

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thousands responded to Occupy Oakland’s call for a General Strike, with a day of action ending in a gigantic march to shut down the Port of Oakland followed by a fiery nighttime confrontation between police and a fringe group fronted by a UC Davis political theorist attempting an ill-fated takeover of

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. Uu, a firearms instructor who joined the department in the 1990s, was among the cops who’d assaulted antiwar protesters and longshore workers at the Port of Oakland in 2003. Several of the officers on the Tango Teams that gassed and beat Occupy protesters played the same roles at the port protest. * * * The

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major public controversy over surveillance at the same time whistleblowers were exposing disturbing federal spy programs. * * * It started with a security project to harden the Port of Oakland against terrorism and organized crime. In 2009 the Obama administration granted Oakland $10.9 million to install a network of security cameras and sensors to

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Birth of the Prison, the city council voted five to four, with Mayor Quan casting the tie-breaking vote, to limit the DAC to the Port of Oakland and the airport. Although it concerned the powers of the police, the eight-months-long surveillance controversy hardly registered with those who were involved with

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. v. City of Oakland, case no. C-03-2961-TEH, November 3, 2005. 59. Major Incident Review Board case notes, May 22, 2003. 60. OPD, “Port of Oakland Port Protest of April 7, 2003, Board of Review Recommendations,” October 2003, 3. 61. Ali Winston, “OPD Used Violent Cops Against Occupy,” East Bay Express

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–76 Measure Z parcel and parking tax, 314 Occupy movement, see Occupy movement police department, see Oakland Police Department (OPD) Port Chicago disaster (1944), 131 Port of Oakland, see Port of Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission, 311, 382, see also surveillance racial discrimination and segregation, 121–29, 131, 171, 201, 299, 312–13 rise of Black leadership

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Lovelle Mixon, 244–59, 269, 291, 323 Pope, Derrick, 252, 253 Pope, Randy, 298 Port Chicago disaster (1944), 131 Portland, Oregon, federal consent decree, 2 Port of Oakland, 34, 162–63 Domain Awareness Center and, 309–11 history of ethnic conflicts, 101 Occupy movement, 287–88 police riot (2003), 98, 287–91, 377

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Charles Gain and, 148 history of ethnic conflict, 101, 105 illegal arrest of protesters, 263 labor conflicts and, 111–12, 289 Occupy movement, 281, 285 Port of Oakland police riot and, 289, 290 riots of 1979, 2 Zebra murders / Death Angels, 141 Sansen, Mary, 218–19 Sansone, Chris, 192 Santana, Deanna, 284, 292

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson · 1 Jan 2006 · 477pp · 135,607 words

on this subject, and Professor Donovan also pointed me to records on container standards. Marilyn Sandifur, Midori Tabata, Jerome Battle, and Mike Beritzhoff of the Port of Oakland were kind enough to guide me around the port and bring my knowledge of terminal management up to date. I owe a particular debt to

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service called “minibridge,” in which a ship line and railroads would join forces to carry a container from, say, Tokyo to New York via the port of Oakland. The carriers would agree on a single rate for the entire trip, file it with both the Interstate Commerce Commission (the rail regulator) and the

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Containers, p. 309. 31. Jane’s Freight Containers, 1969–70 (New York, 1969), pp. 179–180; Mark Rosenstein, “The Rise of Maritime Containerization in the Port of Oakland, 1950 to 1970” (M.A. thesis, New York University, 2000), p. 95; memo, H. E. Anderson, Traffic Manager, Pacific Command, October 30, 1968, General Records

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4, 1961. 8. Erie, Globalizing L.A., pp. 80–88. 9. Woodruff Minor, Pacific Gateway: An Illustrated History of the Port of Oakland (Oakland, 2000), p. 45; Port of Oakland, “Port of Oakland,” 1957; Ben E. Nutter, “The Port of Oakland: Modernization and Expansion of Shipping, Airport, and Real Estate Operations, 1957–1977,” interview by Ann Lage, 1991 (Berkeley, 1994), pp. 51

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, 84, 139; Rosenstein, “The Rise of Maritime Containerization,” p. 45. 10. George Home, “Intercoastal Trade,” NYT, January 29, 1961; Nutter, “The Port of Oakland,” pp. 78–79. American-Hawaiian never received the government subsidies it sought to finance its ships. 11. Rosenstein, “The Rise of Maritime Containerization,” pp. 47

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, 69; Nutter, “The Port of Oakland,” pp. 79–80; Port of Oakland, “60 Years: A Chronicle of Progress,” 1987, pp. 17–18. 12. Erie, Globalizing L.A., p. 89; Walter Hamshar, “Must U.S. Approve

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All Pier Leases,” Herald Tribune, April 5, 1964. 13. Nutter, “The Port of Oakland,” p. 82; Rosenstein, “The Rise of Maritime Containerization,” pp. 98–104. 14. Ting-Li Cho, “A Conceptual Framework for the Physical Development of the Port

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Case Study (New York, 1966), p. 34. 15. Rosenstein, “The Rise of Maritime Containerization,” pp. 65 and 85–86; Worden, Cargoes, 148; Nutter, “The Port of Oakland,” pp. 112, 120; Port of Oakland, “1957 Revenue Bonds, Series P, $20,000,000,” October 17, 1978, p. 15; Erie, Globalizing L.A., p. 90; Seattle Port Commission, “Container

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., pp. 85–89; Minor, Pacific Gateway, p. 53; Fitzgerald, “A History of Containerization,” pp. 91–93; Niven, American President Lines, pp. 250–251; Nutter, “The Port of Oakland,” p. 84. 17. U.S. Department of Commerce, Marad, “Review of United States Oceanborne Trade 1966” (Washington, DC, 1967), p. 11. 18. Executive Office of

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(Tuscaloosa, 1988), pp. 61–65. On the Oakland dredging saga, see Christopher B. Busch, David L. Kirp, and Daniel F. Schoenholz, “Taming Adversarial Legalism: The Port of Oakland’s Dredging Saga Revisited,” Legislation and Public Policy 2, no. 2 (1999): 179–216; Ronald E. Magden, The Working Longshoreman (Tacoma, 1996), p. 190. 12

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Arthur Donovan and Andrew Gibson, March 27, 1997. Containerization Oral History Project, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Nutter, Ben E. “The Port of Oakland: Modernization and Expansion of Shipping, Airport, and Real Estate Operations, 1957–1977.” Interview by Ann Lage, 1991. Berkeley: Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University

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Network (The Case of the West Coast Ports).” Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California, 2002. Rosenstein, Mark. “The Rise of Maritime Containerization in the Port of Oakland, 1950–1970.” M.A. thesis, New York University, 2000. Wallin, Theodore O. “The Development, Economics, and Impact of Technological Change in Transportation: The Case of

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Be Mayor of New York: Ethnic Politics in the City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Minor, Woodruff. Pacific Gateway: An Illustrated History of the Port of Oakland. Oakland: Port of Oakland, 2000. Mokyr, Joel. Tbe Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Mollenkopf, John, and Manuel Castells, eds